Open Edge 2009

Confirmed presenters and facilitators helping to frame the Open Edge forum:

Senator Kate Lundy

Labor Senator for the Australian Capital Territory

Senator Kate Lundy has represented the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate in the Australian Federal Parliament as a member of the Australian Labor Party since 1996. Senator Lundy has participated in every Senate Inquiry relating to telecommunications and Information Technology over the last fourteen years, and spearheaded Gov 2.0 initiatives such as her Public Sphere events which facilitate online public collaboration on policy development. Senator Kate Lundy

Bryant Patten

Director, National Center for Open Source in Education (NCOSE, USA)

Bryant Patten has spent the last 20 years developing educational software for a variety of clients. He has managed the engineering departments for several companies, including his own, and has won several awards for software design. He is currently bringing Open Source software solutions to schools to help maximize their technology dollars and close the digital divide between students of diverse economic backgrounds. Bryant Patten

Delia Browne

National Copyright Director of the Copyright Advisory Group,
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs.

Delia Browne is an extremely experienced intellectual property lawyer. Prior to her role as the National Copyright Director of the Copyright Advisory Group, Delia worked at Minter Ellison providing specialist copyright advice to the education sector.  Delia has considerable experience in law reform and lobbying. Delia Browne

Greg Black

Chief Executive Officer, education.au

At the beginning of 2007 Greg Black became the Chief Executive Officer of education.au limited, a ministerial company that provides leadership and direction in the development, enhancement, standards and use of online distributed and managed national education network services. His current work involves oversight of a number of major national education and business projects. Greg Black

Liam Wyatt

Vice President, Wikimedia Australia

Liam is a Sydney free-culture advocate, blogger and leader in the Wikimedia community for greater sustainable collaboration with the cultural and education sectors both within Australia and globally. When not volunteering for the Wikimedia movement he works at AustLII and formerly at the Dictionary of Sydney managing copyright. Liam Wyatt 

Leslie Hawthorn

Program Manager, Open Source Programs Office, Google Inc.

Leslie Hawthorn is a Program Manager for Google's Open Source Programs Office, where she's the Community Manager for the Google Summer of Code community. She recently conceived, launched and managed the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the world's first global initiative to get pre-university students involved in all aspects of Open Source software development. Leslie Hawthorn

Kathryn Moyle (phd)

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Canberra and Director, Secretariat of the Australian ICT in Education Committee

Dr Kathryn Moyle is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Canberra where she is the Director of the Learning Communities Research Area at that University. She also holds a national role as the Director of the Secretariat for the Australian Information and Communications Technology Education Committee (AICTEC). Her primary roles include undertaking research into education issues in Australia and overseas and teaching post-graduate students both in Australia and in China. Kathryn Moyle

Stuart Rushton

Educational Administrator and IT Strategist

Following his first career as a RAAF pilot (1964 to 1984), Stuart has taught physics, maths and computing in Rudolf Steiner schools for the past 25 years. He has a deep interest in all aspects of technology in education. Stuart Rushton

James Dalziel

Professor of Learning Technology & Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University

James Dalziel is Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. James leads the open source "LAMS" project. James Dalziel

Julian Ridden

Consulting Evangelist, Moodle.com.au

Julian Ridden is also known as the Moodleman in local edutech circles and is now working as a Consultant and Evangelist for Moodle.com.au, Australia’s premier Moodle partner. Julian has more than 12 years experience in education (specifically in online e-learning) with a wide range of both corporate clients and educational institutions as well as experience in project management, systems implementation, networking, support and training. Julian Ridden

Ian Ralph

Manager Information Technology. SCEGGS, Darlinghurst.

Ian Ralph has been in his current role as IT Manager at SCEGGS Darlinghurst since 1992. Most of his time is taken up with the day to day management of the School’s large network with the aim of achieving the best educational use of the resources he manages. Ian’s interests in open education started in the mid 1990s when he built his school's first web server on Linux based server - a journey that has continued to the present day where a significant proportion of the schools systems run on Linux servers with numerous open source applications meeting the School's educational needs. In Ian's work with teachers and students he takes every opportunity to spread the word on the concept and benefits of Open Education. Ian Ralph

Gerard Roberts

National Practice Manager, Cloud Computing, SMS Management & Technology

Gerard has been working in technology for over 15 years and is currently the National Practice Manager, Cloud Computing at SMS Management and Technology, Australia's larges business and technology consulting firm.  Gerard has been working alongside Google as an Enterprise Partner for 2 years.  In 2008, Gerard lead the implementation of the NSW DET GMail migration program where the state's 1.2 million students were migrated over to Google's GMail. Gerard Roberts

Russ Blackie

Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

Following 22 years as a Secondary education classroom teacher, resource manager and ICT co ordinator Russ moved to DEECD Melbourne to work as resource manager for what has become Connect and with the eLearning team under Lynn Davie. His current prjects include Netbooks, Software for Victorian Schools, eduSTAR and Kahootz. Russ Blackie

Roshan Sathe

Certification Trainer, Red Hat

Roshan has over 12 years experience in the Information Technology industry. He has been at Red Hat for the last 6.5 yrs, most recently as the lead trainer in the Melbourne office. On top of his expertise in Open Source operating systems and training, Roshan has also specialised in Microsoft, Cisco, solaris and Unix systems. Roshan Sathe

Randy Orwin

Educational Technology Consultant, EdTech Ninja

Randy is currently an independent consultant and owner of  k12opensourcehelp.com where he specializes in open source software and content for schools, technology integration, eLearning and web 2.0 tools.  Prior to being a consultant, Randy spent nine years as a district level technology director for the Bainbridge Island School District in the Seattle area. Randy Orwin

Walter Bender

Founder, Sugar Labs

Walter Bender is the founder of Sugar Labs, a non-profit foundation that serves as a support base for the community of educators and software developers who are extending the Sugar user interface. Sugar is designed to enhance the primary educational experience by emphasizing collaboration and expression. Prior to that, Bender was president for software and content of the One Laptop per Child association, where he developed and deployed technologies that are revolutionizing how the world's children engage in learning. Walter Bender

Steve Hargadon

Social Learning Consultant, Elluminate

Steve is Elluminate's Social Learning Consultant, the director of the K12 Open Technologies Initiative at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and the founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network. He writes, speaks, and consults on educational technology, and is particularly passionate about Web 2.0, social networking, Free and Open Source Software, computer reuse, and computing for low-income populations. Steve Hargadon

Jim Klein

Director, Information Services and Technology, Saugus Union School District, USA

Jim Klein is the Director of Information Services and Technology for the Saugus Union School District in southern California, USA, and is the chair of the Consortium of School Networking K12 Open Technologies Initiative. Through over two decades of IT experience, Mr. Klein has become widely renowned as an aggressive technology leader, particularly in the areas of open source and social media. Jim Klein

Mike Huffman

Consultant, Education Technology

Mike Huffman has worked in the Indiana Department of Education for over 30 years and has spent over 26 years involved in technology. He served as IT director for nine years, moving the Department's data systems from COBOL to relational data base and web-based applications. Moving on to instructional technology Mike has worked with teachers, administrators and students throughout Indiana to devise ways that technology can have maximum impact on achievement. Mike Huffman