Save The Date
International CES
Jan. 8-11, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada
Today’s kids have digital power like no generation before.
How can we make sure that they grow into creative, responsible digital citizens,
and not just button pushers? Join us at CES Kids@Play
for this important dialog. See the tools that today’s kids will use to build tomorrow’s
digital world.
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Conference
2009 Speakers
Warren Buckleitner
Warren is an expert on the relationship between children and technology. A former preschool and elementary teacher, he now teaches at NYU, Rutgers and Michigan State University, and writes for a several publications, including The New York Times, Scholastic Parent & Child, Parents and Children's Technology Review. He has two daughters.
Alice Cahn
Alice is VP of Social Responsibility for Cartoon Network US. She previously headed the Interactive Media for Children Program at the Markle Foundation and was the president of the Television, Film and Video group at Sesame Workshop. Alice also served as Director of Children's Programming at PBS. She and her partner live in Maplewood, NJ and have three children.
George Cigale
George has served as Tutor.com's Chairman and CEO since founding the Company in 1998. Under George’s leadership, Tutor.com has become the #1 online homework help and tutoring service with a network of thousands of tutors completing over 5,000 one-to-one sessions every school night. Professional tutors are available 24/7 to assist students the minute they need academic help. His blog can be found at ceotutor.blogspot.com.During his tenure, he has raised over $30 million in venture capital and secured strategic partnerships with top education and media companies.
Linda Criddle
Internet safety and technology expert Linda Criddle is the president of LOOKBOTHWAYS Inc. an Internet safety company focusing on technical, educational and policy-based solutions designed to improve the online experience for consumers of all ages. She is author of the award-winning book, Look Both Ways: Help protect your family on the Internet, has written the online credited course Internet Safety for Educators, consults, trains, and presents extensively for governments, law enforcement, universities and companies, and designs internet safety products. LOOKBOTHWAYS, Inc. also provides the Web site, Look-both-ways.com. Criddle, who has investigated predatory behavior for nearly 30 years, spent 13 years at Microsoft where she was a pioneer in online safety, co-authored over 30 patents in internet safety and emerging technologies, and advised the company on internet policies. Linda is currently working on a book for seniors to complement her Internet Safety for Seniors course; is developing a fully integrated K-12 Internet Safety Curriculum that will be available to schools and the public free of charge; and developing software to help consumers online.
John Davison
As president and co-founder of What They Like, Inc., John jointly manages the company’s daily operations and directs all brand content generation. He brings over 17 years of experience in the interactive entertainment media industry to this job. Prior to What They Like, John was Sr. VP, editorial director of the Ziff Davis Game Group. There, he shaped and directed all 1UP Network editorial products, including 1UP.com, MyCheats.com, GameVideos.com, FileFront.com, GameTab.com, a suite of podcasts, the 1UP Show video podcast, EGM, Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, and special issues. Before moving from his native England and joining Ziff Davis, John was the publisher of Dennis Publishing’s market-leading UK PC gaming magazine PC Zone.
Rachel Dretzin
An award-winning journalist, Rachel Dretzin has been producing and directing documentaries for FRONTLINE since the mid-1990s. In 2008 she produced Growing Up Online, a series of vignettes highlighting the pervasiveness of digital technology in the lives of teens. She first came to FRONTLINE in 1990 to work with renowned producer Ofra Bikel on the epic series Innocence Lost. Dretzin and her husband, filmmaker Barak Goodman, are joint partners in Ark Media, a documentary production company based in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Robert Franek
As Vice President, Publishing for The Princeton Review, Robert oversees more than 200 titles, including test-prep guides to college and graduate school, and career and reference books. The company's chief expert on higher education issues, he directs the yearly surveys of college, business school, and law school students upon which the rankings are based. As lead author of the annual "Best 366 Colleges" guide, he visits more than 50 colleges a year and is a frequent speaker on the college admissions process. Prior to joining The Princeton Review, Robert was Associate Director of Admissions at Wagner College, in Staten Island, NY.
 Cheryl Petty Garnette Cheryl Petty Garnette is Director of the Technology in Education Programs Division in the Office of Innovation and Improvement at the US Department of Education where she manages discretionary grant programs focusing on television, telecommunications and emerging technologies. Ms. Garnette has been involved in educational technology for more than 25 years, beginning in the mid seventies at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, where she was instrumental in establishing computer assisted instruction for hearing impaired adolescents. She later studied the impact of television viewership on learning and the use of television in higher education institutions through two separate federally funded grants. She served as the Communications Director at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology where she introduced electronic networking and videoconferencing to state education agencies across the country. Ms. Garnette received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Master of Arts degree in Measurement and Statistics, both from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Anastasia Goodstein
Anastasia is an award-winning blogger and expert on tweens, teens and early twentysomethings. Her blog, YPULSE.COM, reaches influential agency, brand and media executives as well as social marketers. Her new book, Totally Wired, (St. Martin's Press, 2007) is about teens and technology.
Alexandra Kennedy
Alix is Vice-President, Editorial Director for FamilyFun and Wondertime magazines, part of Disney Publishing Worldwide. She was on the launch of FamilyFun in 1991, and has overseen its editorial throughout its growth. She also conceptualized and developed Wondertime, a learning-focused magazine for parents with young children; it launched in 2005. In addition to the magazines, Alix manages brand extensions including book publishing, online publications, and broadcast efforts. She has a B.A. from Colgate University and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Massachusetts. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.
Larry Magid
Larry is known as both a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate. A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid contributes to CBS News, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and other media outlets. He served for 18 years as a technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times. An Internet safety advocate, Larry is founder of SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com and is co-director of ConnectSafely.org, Larry's newest book is MySpace Unraveled: A parents guide to teen social networkng, coauthored with Anne Collier. Larry has a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor's degree from University of California at Berkeley.
Marian Merrit
Marian brings a decade of Internet security product development to her role as Internet Safety Advocate at Symantec Corporation. As a mother of three school-age children, she began championing on behalf of cyber safety after realizing her community was divided between parents who tended to lag behind in technology, and their children who embraced it. Marian meets regularly with teachers, parents and children to discuss Internet issues. She is also consulting with the Norton product teams to ensure that meaningful parental controls are integrated into Norton software products.
Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie is the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Since December 1999, the Washington D.C. research center has examined how people’s internet use affects their families, communities, health care, education, civic and political life, and work places.
The Project has issued more than 120 reports based on its surveys that monitor people’s online activities and the internet’s role in their lives. All of its reports and datasets are available online for free at: http://www.pewinternet.org
Michelle Slatalla
Michelle, who has written extensively about big questions people ask in small towns, writes a column for The New York Times. A former reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist at Newsday, she has also written for Time, Rosie and Lifetime magazines. She co-authored with her husband, Josh Quittner, three mysteries and two nonfiction books. Her latest book, The Town on Beaver Creek (Random House: 2006) is about her family's hometown in Kentucky. She now lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband and three daughters.
Andrea is an award-winning news and technology producer for ABC News Radio. Her daily network broadcast, Cybershake, has been heard on radio stations across the country for over 10 years. She has appeared repeatedly as a guest expert in technology segments on WABC-TV and Good Morning America Now. Andrea has been writing about kids and technology since 1995, when she began writing a monthly column focusing on children's software for various parenting magazines, and for Family PC magazine. She lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with her husband, teen-aged son and an office full of tech toys.
Scott Traylor
Scott graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with degrees in Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Photographic Illustration. As president of 360KID, Scott is known for his ability to bring extraordinary design and engineering talent to each project the company undertakes, and for his deep knowledge of the education and entertainment industries. He speaks at national conferences and is an instructor at the Harvard University Extension School.
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