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Andrew Pinder CBE, Chairman, Becta
Before becoming E-envoy, Andrew had a long career in both the public and private sector. He was a civil servant in the Inland Revenue for 18 years, working in a wide range of senior jobs, including Director of IT. He then moved to Prudential, where he ran operations and technology for almost five years, before having a stint at Citibank, initially as European Director of Operations and technology, before moving to the US to take up a global role with the Bank. He left Citibank in 1999, and became involved with venture capital, as well as carrying out some consultancy assignments within Government, including leading the first ever 'Gateway Review'. During this period, he was also Chairman of the Shropshire Learning and Skills Council, during its set up period. Andrew left the E-Envoy role in August 2004. He now runs a small management consultancy, and has advised a number of other Governments in Asia, North America and Eastern Europe on how to develop the use of technology in their countries. Andrew is a non executive director of United Utilities plc, and Spring Group plc, and Senior Vice President, Global Solutions, Entrust, a Dallas based software company. He is a member of Intel's Global Advisory Board, and a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars here and abroad. He was awarded the CBE in the 2004 new year's Honours list.
Steven has also co-created three influential web sites: the pioneering online magazine FEED, the Webby-Award-winning community site, Plastic.com, and most recently the hyperlocal media site outside.in. Both social critic and technologist, Steven has a genius for mapping the future—for predicting and explaining the real-world impact of cutting-edge developments in science, technology and media. Steven is a contributing editor to Wired magazine and a Distinguished Writer In Residence at the New York University Department of Journalism. Named by Newsweek as one of the “Fifty People Who Matter Most on the Internet,” Steven has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and many other periodicals. He blogs at stevenberlinjohnson.com.
JSB received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences He has also received four honorary doctorate degrees from universities in USA and UK. He is an avid reader, traveler and motorcyclist. Part scientist, part artist and part strategist, JSB’s views are unique and distinguished by a broad view of the human contexts in which technologies operate and a healthy skepticism about whether or not change always represents genuine progress.
danah boyd is an internationally recognized authority on the ways people use networked social media as a context for social interaction—who inhabits the world of online social networks, what they do there, and why. danah has advised a wide range of companies on social media, including Yahoo!, Google, Tribe.net, and Intel. She has studied how people develop online identities and how they use them to socialize on the internet, and she’s designed tools for enhancing online identity presentation. Danah’s blog (Apophenia: www.zephoria.org/thoughts) is a valuable resource for anyone interested in social media. Much of her current work focuses on how youth and those under 25 use social media to socialize. danah boyd is a Ph.D candidate in the School of Information (SIMS) at the University of California-Berkeley and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Prior to taking a leave from MIT to join OLPC, Cavallo was a Research Scientist, Principal Investigator and co-director of the Future of Learning Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. His work focuses on human learning, designing technology to facilitate learning, and large-scale reform of educational systems. He designs, implements and helps deploy new technologies for learning through design, expression, and construction. Through his work on “models of growth,” he has focused on comprehensive approaches to large-scale change, including content development, educational methodology, teacher development and organizational change. His recent project work has focused on educational reform in urban areas in the United States, as well as in Brasil, Costa Rica, and other Latin American countries. Prior to MIT, Cavallo led the design and implementation of medical informatics as part of a reform of health care delivery and management at the Harvard University Health Services. He was also the founder of the Advanced Technology group for Digital's Latin American and Caribbean Region. Dr. Cavallo holds a Ph.D and Master of Science degree from the MIT Media Laboratory where Prof. Seymour Papert was his advisor, and did his undergraduate work in Computer Science at Rutgers University. He has published widely on these issues, and has served as an advisor to governments and international agencies national efforts of educational change catalyzed by technology.
Mike's research interests include human-centred design of new technologies for learning, mobile and contextual learning, and the application of studies of human cognition and social interation to the design of novel interactive systems. He inaugurated the mLearn international conference series. He is Deputy Scientific Manager of the Kaleidoscope European Network of Excellence in Technology Enabled Learning and leads the Kaleidoscope SIG on mobile learning. He is co-Investigator of the PI: Personal Inquiry project to support inquiry learning of 21st century science topics between formal and informal settings. As a member of the MOBIlearn European 5th Framework project he led the design and evaluation of its context awareness subsystem. His previous projects include L-Mo with Sharp Labs Europe to develop mobile technology for language learning, the design of a Writer's Assistant, an exploration of writing as creative design, computer implementations of story generation, and the development of a knowledge-based tutoring system for neuroradiology.
Stephen's founded Ultralab in the 1980s, moving there from the UK Government's groundbreaking Microelectronics Education Programme. Over a score of years Ultralab grew to become Europe's leading learning technology research centre with projects that pioneered multimedia CD ROMs and on-line communities in the 1980s - before the web! "Ultralab is Europe's leading leading research institute pioneering leading edge applications in support of proven educational precepts." - Oracle Corporation 1999 "One of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world" - Financial Times 2001 In recognition of this work, Stephen became an Apple Master in the 1990s. Stephen was the guiding "father" of a number of social networking projects including *ESW in the 1980s, Schools OnLine for the Department of Trade and `industry in 1995/6, Tesco Schoolnet 2000 from 1999, Think.com from 1999. Stephen is a board member of Teachers.TV - a Uk public service TV and broadband channel for professional development of teachers. Stephen sits on BAFTA's Film Committee guiding the BAFTA Film Awards and other cinema related work. In June 2006 Stephen was awarded the Royal Television Society's Judges Award for Lifelong Services to Educational Broadcasting.Stephen is retained by a number of organisations to help with future policy and direction, including the BBC, is an Associate of KPMG, and is retained by UK government in Horizon Scanning work to advise of future directions for educational policy. "The most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education" - Department for Education and Skills (DfES), UK, 2006
Steve’s particular areas of interest are education, innovation, media, technology, the Internet, entrepreneurship and increasing the study of well being and happiness. Over the course of the last two years Steve has brought thousands of people together online and face-to-face to explore these issues in novel and rewarding ways. |
Between October 2000 and August 2004, Andrew was the UK's E-Envoy, responsible directly to the Prime Minister for co-ordinating the development of the knowledge economy in the UK. During that period, the UK moved to the top of world league tables for the use of digital technology. His responsibilities included helping to ensure internet access for everyone in the UK, and working with business and the public sector to make services accessible online. During that time Andrew had significant involvement with the education sector, especially in relation to the large investment that has been made over the last few years in technology.
Steven Johnson is the best-selling author of five books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. His writings have influenced everything from the way political campaigns use the Internet, to cutting-edge ideas in urban planning, to the battle against 21st-century terrorism. 
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar at USC and advisor to the Provost. He is also the independent co-chair of Deloitte’s new Center for Edge Innovation. Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a position he held for nearly two decades. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include digital youth culture, new forms of communication and learning in the network age and new models/modes of innovation for the 21st Century. 
“One of the chief thinkers of the MySpace age” – Financial Times
Dr. David Cavallo is the Chief Learning Architect at One Laptop per Child (OLPC). He also was OLPC’s coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean region. As Chief Learning Architect Cavallo is responsible for helping countries develop a vision, local teams, and an operational framework to create a large-scale, high-impact change in the learning environment of their countries; for the development of materials to support learning projects; for coordinating efforts to instantiate initial sites of 1-to-1 learning with connected laptops; for coordination of a new international network of 1-to-1 educators; for conception and development of all electronic support materials; and creating and writing the philosophical basis for the learning effort. 
Donald was CEO (and one of the original founders) of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market. He is now a board member of Ufi (learndirect), Brighton Festival and Caspian Learning, and a school governor. Donald has produced over 40 papers, dozens of book reviews and many articles on e-learning, and has been involved in games, simulations, mobile learning and informal learning. He has also won many awards for the design and implementation of e-learning, including the "Outstanding Achievement in e-learning Award" at the World Open Learning Conference. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and a regular blogger: 
Keri Facer is a leading researcher in children’s digital cultures and education and works across creative media, policy, technology and education fields to explore radical and transformative approaches to education. She is Research Director at Futurelab, the not-for-profit 'think lab' for innovation in education, where she leads the R&D team responsible for developing experimental technology enhanced learning environments and practical interventions to model the future of education. These include projects such as Create A Scape, which allow teachers and learners to create their own mediascapes to overlay onto school playing fields and communities, and Enquiring Minds, a three year investigation of what is required to really develop negotiated curricula in schools through learner-led enquiry based learning in schools. She also leads Futurelab’s partnership with Department for Children Schools and Families on a long term strategic Futures programme for education, and acts as an advisor in a range of research and policy contexts. In previous roles at Bristol University’s Graduate School of Education, she has worked on a range of research projects, including ESRC projects Screen Play, InterActive Education and the DFES Evaluation of the National Grid for Learning. She has published widely in the field of children's digital cultures including the book ‘ScreenPlay: Children’s use of computers in the home’ (2003) and papers on issues from digital divides, to mobile learning. Keri’s personal interests relate to questions of social justice, sustainability and children’s rights.
Mike Sharples is Professor of Learning Sciences and Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham. The focus of the LSRI is to explore theories and practices of learning and to design and evaluate novel learning technologies and environments.
"Europe's leading online education expert" - Microsoft 2006
Steve is in the business of connecting people, generating new conversations, promoting creative collaboration and creating the conditions where innovation can flourish. He has been doing this throughout his career as a Director of a PLC in his 20's, as a Director of the UK's largest public body in his 30's and as founder of his own companies and as an strategic consultant to Channel 4 over the past four years. Supported By
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