Keynote Speaker
Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His latest book, “Here Comes Everybody,” explores the patterns and connections that lead to the emergence of new trends in the era of social media.

He has written and been interviewed extensively about the Internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired.

He teaches new media as an adjunct professor at New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how networks shape culture and vice versa.

His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, Web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client-server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation and the BBC.

Shirky frequently speaks on emerging technologies at a variety of forums and organizations, including PC Forum, the Internet Society, the Department of Defense, the BBC, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Highlands Forum, the Economist Group, Storewidth, the World Technology Network, and several O'Reilly conferences on Peer-to-Peer, Open Source and Emerging Technology.

Shirky's writings are archived at shirky.com, and he currently runs the N.E.C. mailing list for his writings on networks, economics and culture.

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Mike Richwalsky
Mike Richwalsky is Assistant Director of Public Affairs at Allegheny College, a national liberal arts college located in Meadville, PA. Since 2002, he has led Allegheny into the forefront of colleges and universities using new technologies including RSS, podcasts, MySpace and more. Richwalsky received his B.A. from Duquesne University. He also served as webmaster and academic technology consultant at Duquesne.

Richwalsky has presented at several conferences, including  HighEdWebDev, CNI Task Force and the Carnegie-Mellon University Digital Library Colloquium Series. He has won several local and national awards, including a 2003 Erie Ad Club award for Allegheny's Centerstage Series e-mail campaign. His awards also include a Macromedia national site of the day award, a Yahoo! Pick of the Day award and the best poster session award at HighEdWebDev '05. His blog deals with the "tech-ier side of Web development in higher education."


Will Richardson
Will Richardson is the author of the edublog Weblogg-ed and the book “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.” Formerly a teacher at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, N.J, he was recognized for his use of blogs in the classroom as a "trendsetter in education" by the New York Times.

Richardson is now an independent presenter and owner of Connective Learning, LLC. He promotes the implementation of read/write technologies in K-12 classrooms. He is also an advocate for school reform, encouraging the integration of technology in learning. He was recently named to the National Advisory Board for the George Lucas Education Foundation. Along with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, he is co-owner of Powerful Learning Practice, a company that delivers job-embedded, yearlong professional development to schools worldwide around the pedagogies of Web 2.0 tools.


Andrew Shaindlin
Andrew Shaindlin is the author of Alumni Futures, an independent blog for alumni professionals. He has worked in alumni relations since 1989, at Brown University (his alma mater), the University of Michigan and the California Institute of Technology, where he has been executive director of the Caltech Alumni Association since 1999. He is also acting assistant vice president for development and alumni relations at Caltech.

Shaindlin has presented at dozens of conferences, and has written numerous articles, white papers and book chapters on topics in advancement, with emphasis on appropriate uses for technology. He is the chair of the CASE Commission on Alumni Relations and a CASE Trustee, and received the CASE Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a member of the CASE Web Advisory Committee. He is also completing a master's degree in education.