Amber Mac began her career in San Francisco and Boston during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. As a strategist for Razorfish agency and Director of Marketing for an e-procurement software company, she spent four years in the technology start-up trenches. During this time, she was also a judge for The Webby Awards, an international organization that recognizes the best of the web.

Amber Mac left the start-up world to join Microsoft to build one of the first female-focused lifestyle portals. While continuing to work for the software giant, Amber Mac spent two years coaching people on television about building their businesses online with G4TechTV titan, Leo Laporte. In 2006, with her brother, she started her own agency called Konnekt. The company’s first client was world-renowned business coach, Tony Robbins, who has this to say about Amber Mac work: “Amber Mac understands how important it is for all of us, both as individuals and as businesses, to be able to use social media to connect with people. I think she is a leader in this space.”

Her company’s clients include Microsoft Xbox, Ford Motor Company, Tony Robbins, Canada Goose, Fast Company, PayPal, Canadian Blood Services, and many more leading organizations. In 2010, Amber Mac wrote the national bestselling business book Power Friending (Portfolio: New York). Her new book, released in May 2016 and co-authored with Michael Bazzell, is Outsmarting Your Kids Online: A Safety Handbook for Overwhelmed Parents.

Amber Mac has keynoted more than 300 events across the USA and Canada, and as far away as Australia, in which she addresses the topic of business innovation and what it takes for companies to adapt and grow. She is a regular business host and expert for Fast Company, CNN, CBS, BNN, The Marilyn Denis Show, and Sirius Radio. In December 2015, she served as an entrepreneur advisor on new reality TV series Dream Funded: Let the Crowd Decide, created by Mark Burnett. She also hosted a one-hour holiday special of Bloomberg Brink for Bloomberg TV.

While building her own business brand as President of Konnekt, she has amassed more than 100,000 followers on Twitter, 450,000 fans on Facebook, 1.6M friends on Google+, and 10,000 followers on Instagram. “With few equals,” writes YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, “Amber Mac continues to demonstrate a keen insight towards the continually evolving fabric of the social web.” As a child, Amber Mac went to a one-room country schoolhouse and shared a party telephone line. She is now recognized internationally as an innovation and technology leader.

Standardized testing, MOOCs, automated systems, complex pedagogies, and adoption of all manner of trendy technologies into every classroom situation are currently presented as the “solutions” to current educational challenges. Nonsense. 21st century students certainly interact and engage in entirely new ways, but great teacher/student communication is still at the core of building great learning environments, be they live lectures or entirely digital online courses. There are tons of great new tools out there to facilitate great communication but they should not all be automatically ignored by older generations, nor immediately embraced as a solution in and of themselves. Professor Boyer will share his two decades of experience with new technologies and evolving student mindset in creating both record-breaking super-large live courses, as well as the transition to fully digital courses that actually increase student engagement and flexibility, while serving 3500-4000 students each academic year. The time has come to totally disrupt the standard operating procedure of the classic college classroom by encouraging educators to find their voice (amplified by selective use of technologies suited to them and their subject matter), to focus on bringing passion and inspiration back to the forefront of their profession.

Vice President for Research and Cyber Security, Michigan Cyber Range/Merit Network

In his role, Joe places an emphasis on understanding the inherent risks associated with IoT devices and ways that users can safeguard their privacy and information. Joe joined Merit Network after retiring from a 26-year career in the United States Army where he achieved the rank of Colonel. Adams was previously CIO of the National Defense University. He has also served as a Professor and research scientist at West Point, and Network Engineer for the Supreme HQ, Allied Powers Europe.

Academic Technologist, Saint Peter’s University

In his role at Saint Peter’s University, Rob serves as the Blackboard Administrator and Instructional Technology trainer. He supports students, staff and faculty, educating them on the functions and features of Blackboard, Google tools, Smartboards, and other instructional technologies. Additionally, he addresses questions, conducts workshops and training sessions and constantly explores new ways to bring better technology to University community.

Director Public Sector Engineering at Skyhigh Networks

Mike Ainsworth has been serving US Defense, Federal/State/Local Gov’t and large enterprise customers for over a decade and a half in the ever-changing and rapidly evolving task of securing and managing cloud, datacenter and mobile infrastructures.  He has dedicated his career to helping industry understand the unique requirements of public sector and bringing the best of breed technology to bare.  Mike has published several papers on defending cloud and critical infrastructure networks on FDCC, CIPv5 and FedRAMP.

Director, Product Management

With over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology, Tom has managed servers, networks, customers and colleagues in numerous different roles and efforts. Tom’s primary focus today is in product management at Commvault where he strives to deliver products to market that solve for the increasingly difficult data and information management challenges created by modern computing systems.

Associate Vice President of the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC), Rutgers University

James provides strategic leadership in advancing Rutgers University’s research and scholarly achievements through next generation computing, networking, and data science infrastructure. His interests are in high performance computing, high throughput computing, data science, cybersecurity, smart cities, internet of things, mathematical modeling, parallel programming, campus level distributed cloud environments and hardware architecture.

Executive Director, Northeast Big Data Hub

René has over 20 years of experience in innovation, alliance building, public/private collaborations, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and commercialization. René has served in roles in academia, industry, and non-profits at Columbia, Ernst & Young, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the City University of New York. He has created a broad range of public/private partnerships and has founded three startups based on the transfer of university, NIH, and NIST technologies.

Network Support Engineer, Edge

Adam Bathiard brings his extensive knowledge of systems integration on the network side to enhance Edge’s network management and support. His experience with big data analytics, cloud computing, automation and open source software aligns with the organization’s vision for network infrastructure. Adam was working for the past 10 years with Edge as a systems administrator before transitioning to the role of network support engineer. He received a Master’s degree in Information Systems and a BS degree in Management Information Systems from NJIT.

CEO, Janeiro Digital

Jonathan is CEO and co-founder of Janeiro Digital, a digital business consultancy solving mission-critical business objectives with creative technology solutions. Having spent over fifteen years as part of the technology ecosystem, Jonathan’s vision fostered Janeiro Digital’s groundbreaking approach, rooted in the scientific method, using Rapid Alignment, Design, and Development (RADD) to ensure alignment with its clients’ objectives at every stage. Through this unique transformative approach and its XFORM platform, Janeiro Digital provides service offerings that drive the products, processes, performance and success of its clients.

Senior Instructor, Virginia Tech

John Boyer is an award-winning Senior Instructor in the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech where he has taught ever-expanding courses on World Regional Geography and the Geography of Wine: in last decade, enrollments have grown from average class size of 50-60 to 550-600, and at one time taught World Regions to a record-breaking 2850 students for multiple years. Most of his courses have now gone entirely online, where routine enrollments are 3500 to 4000 students each academic year. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Geography and has been teaching since 1998. He has published textbooks on world geography and wine, developed a graphic novel series, produces podcasts and an educational website for his classes, and actively incorporates all manner of technologies into the classroom in order to increase interaction and learning for the students, and the world.

Associate Vice President for Economic Development at Rutgers University and Associate Director of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Co-founder and President, New Jersey Big Data Alliance

Margaret is also the Associate Director of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. She is responsible for the development and implementation of new economic growth initiatives at Rutgers. She is also the President and Co-Founder of the New Jersey Big Data Alliance.

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Center for Higher Ed CIO Studies (CHECS).

Assistant Professor in History at Passaic County Community College

Martha is an Assistant Professor in History at Passaic County Community College where she teaches courses in Western Civilization, U.S. and Latin American History.  She holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of Southern California.

Director, Security & Risk Management Practice, SHI

With over 26 years of experience, Darren is a risk management and information security leader with diverse experience in operational, technical, management and architecture roles. Recently, Darren has been focusing on applicability of actionable threat intelligence against clients’ environments. Gathered from numerous disparate intel sources, he has worked to align these datasets to potentially vulnerable IT assets. His experience in this arena includes numerous open-source humint and signint sources, NCIC and other platform-specific intel data.

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Edge

In his role, Ed is committed to active collaboration with industry partners, peer organizations and higher education institutions. Working closely with illumira users, he guides Edge’s team to ensure features and user experiences most relevant to higher education institutions.

Digital Learning Consultant

Laurence Cocco is a digital learning evangelist whose goal is to actively promote and facilitate the transformation of educational practices through the design and implementation of 21st-century teaching strategies and learning environments. Formerly the Director of Educational Technology for the New Jersey Department of Education, he served on the Board of Directors for the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and was recognized in 2014 as the State Leader of the Year. A proponent of Game-Based Learning, Laurence co-founded Games4Ed to assist educators who want to incorporate gaming strategies into teaching and learning.

President and CEO, Edge

Samuel brings a history of fostering the advancement of technology across several areas including information technology management, administrative and educational technologies, e-Learning networks, and enterprise transformation. By harnessing the potential of digital networks to advance teaching, learning and research, he maintains Edge’s commitment to push the boundaries of innovation and achievement as a national model of excellence for purpose-built research and education networks.

Principal Architect, DynTek Services

As a DynTek veteran, Rob Costanza has been with the company for over 10 years serving as a senior consultant and now principal architect. He architects and designs solutions for clients centered on Enterprise Networking, Data Center, Security, Wireless and Collaboration.

Chief Information Officer, Drew University

Chris Darrell is a Partner in the Philadelphia office of Fortium Partners. He brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in technology and business operations. Darrell has worked at and consulted with dynamic, demanding organizations in a variety of industries including higher education, managed healthcare, software, nonprofit, legal, manufacturing, retail, and professional services.

CEO, Full Measure Education

Greg founded Full Measure Education™ based on his passion for combining student success initiatives and student outcomes with scalable technologies and predictive data analytics. Full Measure Education helps reimagine and redefine how institutions interact with their students. By developing a flexible and purposeful platform that redesigns the student experience, Full Measure Education enables students to achieve success through comprehensive Guided Pathways Management. Greg’s mission is to improve outcomes for students and enable student success, which ultimately contributes to workforce development initiatives nationwide.

Provost and Senior Executive Vice President, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Fadi P. Deek is Provost and Senior Executive Vice President at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) where he began his academic career as student in the early 1980s. He received his B.S. Computer Science, 1985; M.S. Computer Science, 1986; and Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, 1997, all from NJIT. Dr. Deek’s faculty appointment is in two departments: Information Systems (in the College of Computing Sciences) and Mathematical Sciences (in the College of Science and Liberal Arts). He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty – Rutgers University Business School. Dr. Deek maintains an active funded-research program. His research interests include software engineering and open source software development, with applications to learning/collaborative/decision-support technologies and computer science education.

Professor, English Department, Passaic County Community College

Senior Research Fellow, Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Belanger is primarily involved in the M.S. program in Business Intelligence and Analytics, and Data Science offerings. He is also Chair of IEEE’s Big Data Initiative (bigdata.ieee.org), which includes conferences, standards, publications and social networking related to Big Data.

Associate Vice President for Marketing, Communications and Member Engagement, Edge

In her role, Brynn brings a new level of insight and expertise to Edge with her extensive background in the areas of program marketing strategy, communications, relationship management and social media promotion. Combined with her collaborative and outcome-based leadership style, she is uniquely qualified to bring Edge’s mission and vision to life through a combination of fully integrated traditional and non-traditional communication, member engagement and marketing mediums.

Music and Media Librarian, The College of New Jersey

Linda Dempf is the Music & Media Librarian at The College of New Jersey, where she oversees the Media Access Services department and develops and maintains TCNJ Library’s media collections. She is the subject librarian for Music and for Women’s and Gender Studies, performing collection development, library instruction and liaison duties in these areas.

Jonida has over ten years experience in academic affairs, managing student recruitment, admissions, advisement, and retention, and also serves as the Project Manager for the Online MBA Program.

Assistant Professor and Director of the Educational Technology and Secondary Education Programs, Fairfield University

Joshua’s research and teaching goal is to help teachers improve their ability to incorporate technology into their teaching for optimal student learning. As a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences, he also conducts professional development workshops structured to provide teachers with strategies for effective technology integration.

District Instructional Technology Coach, Elizabeth Public Schools

In her role, Tracy coordinates district-wide technology initiatives and professional development on the pedagogy and integration of technology in instruction.

Technology Trainer, Montclair State University

Pam is a Technology Instructor within the Information Technology Division of Montclair State University. Pam has 25+ years experience in the technology training field. As a Technology Instructor as MSU, Pam creates, promotes and delivers training solutions that support the university community. She enjoys working with faculty and staff supporting them with instructional technology.

Associate Dean of Learning Resources, Passaic County Community College

In his role, Greg provides leadership in the library, in distance education, and in the writing center, as well as serving as project manager for major federal grant-funded initiatives at the College, the most recent involving general education course redesign.

CIO and Vice President for Information Technology, Montclair State University

Candace C. Fleming is the CIO and Vice President for Information Technology at Montclair State University, a public research institution with 21,000 students and over 300 programs. Previously, Ms. Fleming has held CIO and other executive IT roles at Columbia University, Cadbury-Schweppes, Pfizer, Inc., Warner-Lambert Company, Schering-Plough Corporation, and PSE&G. Ms. Fleming is a member of the Board of Trustees for Edge. She received her BSE degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and her MBA in Finance from New York University.

Superintendent of Schools, Denville Board of Education

Steven was Superintendent of the Verona Public Schools prior to taking on that role at the Denville Board of Education. During his time in Verona, he was successful in passing a $16.5 Million referendum for badly needed upgrades/repairs district-wide and developing relationships with several colleges and universities and offering college credit courses on the campus of Verona High School.

Systems Administrator, Institute for Advanced Study

Dan is a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) who specializes in VMware, PowerShell and other Microsoft-based technologies. In addition, he is a public freelance technical author.

Superintendent of the Harrington Park District

Adam is an effective and dynamic school leader with an expertise in the development of Digital Education and Curriculum, with a focus on community involvement.  During his tenure as Superintendent of the Harrington Park District (NJ) he has overseen the successful implementation of numerous sustainable change initiatives that radically transformed the learning culture of the district while increasing student achievement and staff engagement.  Currently, Adam is a pedagogical leader of staff through a research based evaluation model, which has been recognized as a best practice for the NJ Department of Education.

Director of Educational and Emerging Technologies in the Division of Information Technology Services, SUNY Empire State College

In this role, Joshua helps research and develop tools to support learning development and service management, implement and support new technologies to find new and innovative ways to deliver instruction. In collaboration with ITS and other leaders across the college, he finds ways to utilize educational technology to push the college-wide strategic mission to become a leader in learning space design, online/hybrid education and varied modes of instruction.

Human Services Instructor, Passaic County Community College

In her role, Jennifer teaches courses in Mental Health, Gerontology, and Substance Abuse Counseling. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and recently developed the Honors capstone course in Leadership.

Associate Vice President for Enterprise Technology Services, Enterprise Technology Services, Montclair University

Jeff is responsible for the operation of all centrally managed underlying technology infrastructure at the University including the campus wired and wireless network, telephone services, data storage and backup, and server equipment running ERP, email, web services, file and print services, databases, and web applications. Mr. Giacobbe is also responsible for information security within Information Technology and for developing security policies and best practices to safeguard University data.

Network Engineer, Montclair State University

Dan is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance and daily support of the wired and wireless infrastructure for Montclair State University and has his Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional certification. Additionally, he is the liaison for the Facilities IT operations and actively supports the Fire & Safety Alarm, Access Control, and Industrial Control System networks.

Regional Sales Director, Varonis

In his role at Varonis, Steve coves the company’s State, Local & Education (SLED) vertical. Steve’s focus on data security and experience with SLED processes (budgetary constraints, security initiatives, shared services) informs organizations how to protect their largest investment of sensitive information…their unstructured data.

Coordinator of Assessment Technology and Data, New Jersey Department of Education

Gilbert coordinates the technology and data related aspects of New Jersey’s statewide assessment program within the New Jersey Department of Education’s Office of Assessments. He supports the administration of computer-based standardized assessments, such as PARCC, DLM, and NJSLA-S, across approximately 650 school districts throughout the State of New Jersey. In his role as a member of several data governance committees within the Department, Gilbert also collaborates with stakeholders across various internal program offices to inform how the Department’s information assets are managed. Additionally, Gilbert serves as an Adjunct Professor within Rowan University’s Computer Science Department, where he develops and teaches courses in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics.

Program Coordinator, The Quilt

Jennifer Griffin is the Program Coordinator of The Quilt, a national coalition of advanced regional networks for research and education representing 36 networks across the country with the goal of promoting consistent, reliable, interoperable and efficient advanced networking services that extend to the broadest possible community; and to represent common interests in the development and delivery of advanced network services. In this role, she provides program and project coordination and works closely with the President and CEO, Quilt members, Board of Directors, Executive Committee and technology vendors.

Solution Marketing Senior Manager, Enterprise Vertical Marketing, Equinix

Rob has a 30+ years across a variety of technology roles and industries with skills developed in real-time embedded computing processing, Electronic Warfare, system test and integration, product management, solution delivery, and service operations improvement. His experience spans the military defense industry where he served in product engineering, test and integration as well as in commercial industries as a pre-sales engineer. Rob comes to Equinix from a Wall St bank where he served as Vice President in such roles as hardware engineer in their Computing Platforms Engineering product team, Manager of their Enterprise Test Center and as a Senior Technical Analyst in the bank’s Global Data Center team designing service requirements to plan and build compute capacity across data centers worldwide.

Chairperson, Art & Design Department and Associate Professor, County College Morris

Nieves has been an educator for seventeen years, teaching traditional, hybrid and online courses. As a visual artist, her areas of interest include technology and visual perception.

Director, Institute for Faculty Development, Stockton University

In his role at Stockton, Douglas uses screencasts for “flipping” the classroom as well as in his online courses to provide lectures and tutorials. He also has students create their own tutorials on technology tools, reflect on their learning experiences, and present and share their course portfolios.

Senior Solutions Architect, Integration Partners

Perry has spent the past five years designing business-critical fabric networks for customers, enabling them to extend their existing server and storage over a virtualize enterprise networks.   Perry’s focus has been on removing fifteen years of industry-driven complexity while enhancing secure segmentation, supportability and the inclusion of hybrid Cloud-based computing over a virtualized network. His current efforts include showing customers and consulting professionals how easy it is to build the next generation networks using the Extreme Fabric Connect/Fabric Extend/Fabric Attach technologies; these are networks with more features, functionality, resiliency and manageability with less complexity.  

Administrative Supervisor, Office of Attorney Ethics, NJ Supreme Court

In his role, Terry oversees major technology initiatives, electronic case and document management practices, e-filing, cyber-forensics and other key areas of information processing. He has extensive experience with forensic software tools and the preservation and production of electronically stored information (“ESI”) in both evidentiary and discovery capacities. He has conducted cyber-forensic examinations and provided investigative and litigation support in dozens of ethics cases, and has designed curricula and presented on cyber-forensics at both the State and National levels.

Blackboard System Administrator, Madonna University

In her role, Beth provides all levels of LMS training and support for faculty, staff and students. She also provides support for a variety of software related to classroom instruction including illumira®, polling response units, video capture and synchronous communication.

Sales Manager, Eastern DataComm

Paul Jenne provides communication and network solutions to clients that increase productivity while saving them money. By understanding the goals of the organization and how their school or municipality operates, he utilizes the expertise and experience of his team along with “best in class” technologies to deploy customized solutions that streamline business processes for customers, maximizes investments in school safety technology and improves communication.

Chief Operating Officer, NYSERNet

Steve’s present responsibilities include providing executive leadership for NYSERNet’s technical operations (data center, dark fiber and network), product and service development, education services, project management and information technology. NYSERNet, the New York State Research and Education Network, is one of the original NSFNET regional networks and is in the midst of its largest network expansion since its founding in 1986.

Technology Resource Specialist

In addition to his role as Technology Resource Specialist, Ken also teaches Comparative Religion as an Adjunct Instructor, is a Librarian as well as Instructional Designer.

Associate Director, IT Support Services, Montclair State University

Karen is responsible for client (Faculty, Staff and Students) facing operations which includes: Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Desktop Support, Tier 1 Application Support Services and the University IT Call Center at Montclair State University.

President, Stockton University

Harvey Kesselman is the fifth President of Stockton University. He has more than 35 years of experience in higher education and is a tenured Professor in Stockton’s School of Education. As Stockton’s fifth President, Dr. Kesselman is responsible for the executive management and conduct of the University’s administrative divisions, academic schools, supervisory departments, and instructional sites. President Kesselman oversees a $228 million budget which serves 1,200 faculty and staff and supports more than 9,200 students enrolled in more than 50 undergraduate and graduate programs.

Chief Innovation Officer, New Jersey Department of Education (NJ DOE)

Joshua Koen is Chief Innovation Officer with the New Jersey Department of Education (NJ DOE) who leads the statewide efforts to provide guidance, resources and technical assistance to schools and districts on how to leverage technology to enhance effective classroom practices and promising school-wide efforts to re-envision schools. Prior to joining the NJ DOE, he served as the Executive Director for Data, Assessment and Education Technology with the Newark Public Schools and led the PARCC implementation deploying over 10,000 devices to students, data driven instruction, and leadership on the design and implementation of the district-wide educational technology strategic initiatives.

Dean, Virtual Campus, County College of Morris

Shelley has been an educator for almost twenty  years and involved with distance education for over ten years.  Her areas of expertise and interests are in active learning, faculty learning, and use of digital technologies with pedagogical considerations.

Director, Rowan Virtual Reality Center, South Jersey Technology Park at Rowan University

As Director, George’s responsibilities include managing the Virtual Reality Center and numerous sponsored research projects along with cultivating students to become familiar with VR and AR. George and the Rowan VR Center have appeared on Michio Kaku’s Physics of the Impossible television show.

Associate Vice President, Network Services for Internet2

George is responsible for business development and implementation services for customers of the Network Services division. Loftus is currently engaged in developing the Cloud Connect and DDoS Mitigation Services for Internet2 members. Prior to joining Internet2, Loftus served as the President and CEO of OSHEAN, Rhode Island’s non-profit research and education network from its founding in 2000 until 2012. He was the Director of Network Services at Brown University from 1991 -2000.

Associate Professor of Education, Director of Distance Learning, Saint Peter’s University

In her role, Nicole teaches a blend of online and face-to-face graduate and undergraduate courses.

Associate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Empire State College/SUNY
Christopher has nearly two decades of combined higher education, corporate and U.S. military experience. At SUNY Empire, Markham serves as the senior executive of the college’s Information Technology Services division, a member of the president’s cabinet, and his responsibilities encompass strategic IT planning, co-sponsored initiatives, and maintaining technology related to the support and education of the college’s nearly 20,000 students.

Coordinator, Computer & Network Services, Elizabeth Public Schools

Media Librarian, Bergen Community College

In addition to serving as the Media Librarian, Kate also provides reference and instruction services for the college. She holds a Library Science Masters degree from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and a Liberal Studies Master’s degree from Thomas Edison University. She is currently a doctoral student in the Community College Leadership program through National American University.

Senior Director, D2L Higher Education

Stephan has been working in the Education industry for over 20 years, and with D2L for 13 years. He is an Engineer by training, and currently manages new business for D2L Higher Education. He brings wealth of experience working with hundreds of institutions across North America. He has been a strategic enabler for D2L, solving educational challenges with D2L technology. He brings unique passion for solving challenges related to retention and student success, and how data should and can play critical role.

Director of Allied Health, Raritan Valley Community College.

In her current role, Kathleen successfully designs, plans, implements and administers Allied Health courses and curriculum.

Editor and Director, Jane Addams Papers Project, Ramapo College of New Jersey

In her current role, Cathy teaches an undergraduate course at Ramapo College and co-teaches a one-week institute on digital editions at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and the Institute for Editing Historical Documents.

President, County College of Morris

Dr. Anthony J. Iacono, a community college graduate, became the third president of County College of Morris (CCM) on September 1, 2016. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Academic Affairs at Indian River State College (IRSC) in Fort Pierce, FL, where he was a core member of the team that helped IRSC earn recognition by the Aspen Award Committee as one of the top three community colleges in the nation. He began his career in education as a professor of history.

Adjunct Professor, New Jersey City University and Gratz College (Philadelphia, PA).

Deborah Nagler is a veteran educator, administrator, teacher trainer and lecturer. She teaches Educational Technology to graduate students at New Jersey City University and at Gratz College in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to her work as an online Instructional Designer for Hebrew Union College, she is an educational technology consultant at the Alexander D. Sullivan School in Jersey City. She is completing doctoral research in Makerspaces.

Managing Director, Rowan Innovations, South Jersey Technology Park at Rowan University

Jeanne as Managing Director of Rowan Innovations, a technology development and economic development arm of Rowan University, works with faculty, staff, students and entrepreneurs in the University community and beyond to provide the services and resources that foster business incubation and startup companies in partnership with Rowan’s Offices of Sponsored Programs and Technology Commercialization. Among her responsibilities are building relationships with industry, economic development organizations and government agencies seeking technology expertise, as well as coordinating the development of the Technology Park.

Professor of Education, Saint Peter’s University

In her role, Sara trains educators on the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also teaches courses in African and Multicultural Literature and is currently learning how to teach online under the mentorship of Dr. Nicole Luongo.

Instructional Design Specialist, Rutgers School Nursing and team member of the Rutgers School of Nursing IT Department

Natalie has been an educator throughout her career, as a K-12 classroom teacher, technology coordinator and Adjunct Professor.

Director, Consulting Services Cylance

Thomas ensures best-in-class services delivery as well as technical expertise throughout the entire service offering lifecycle and has extensive experience in deployment of multiple security tools and services in complex environments. This includes intrusion detection and prevention systems, enterprise detection and response systems, as well as customer incident response offerings.

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers University

Manish is the founding Director of the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2). His research interests are in the broad areas of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering. Manish is also the founding chair of the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC).

Senior Instructional Designer for Teaching and Learning with Technology, Rutgers University

In her current role, Emily is the Office of Instructional Design’s team lead for faculty training and development and also supports Rutgers faculty in developing hybrid, online courses and face-to-face courses. Working with both front- and back-end design has given her considerable experience in how users interact with online material, and how to create effective information architecture.

Director of Network and Security Operations, Edge

Michael is Edge’s subject matter expert who actively manages the organization’s network and security operations. His responsibility includes the programmatic implementation of policies and procedures to conform to NIST security controls, while obtaining operational efficiency and rapid deployment control of new network additions and network integration.

Chief Financial Officer, Edge

In his role as CFO, Joe takes an active collaboration approach across all facets of Edge’s strategic efforts and disciplines. In addition to managing and monitoring the year’s budget, objectives and deliverables, Joe is the liaison between Edge’s corporate partners and members. As such, he keeps a sharp eye on everything from licensing agreements to service agreements to federal funding opportunities for the Edge consortium.

Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success, Vice Provost, and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University

Timothy  is Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success, Vice Provost, and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University.  He has served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Honors Program.  Since 2008, he has directed the student success and enrollment efforts of the university, overseeing among the fastest improving graduation rates in the nation and the elimination of all achievement gaps based on students’ race, ethnicity or income level.  Dr. Renick has testified on strategies for helping university students succeed before the U.S. Senate and has twice been invited to speak at the White House.  He currently is principal investigator for a $9 million U.S. Department of Education grant to study the impact of proactive, predictive-analytics-based advisement on ten-thousand low-income and first-generation students nationally.

Senior Associate Provost and Dean of Libraries, Rider University

Prior his role at Rider University, Richard was the Associate Vice President for institutional effectiveness at Southern Connecticut State University, overseeing institutional research and assessment and planning. He served Southern as a Systems Analyst, Assistant Dean for Special Activities and the Summer School, Banner Student Team Leader, Assistant Vice President for Banner Project Implementation, and Director of the Office of Management Information and Research, an office created for him to be the “one-stop-shop” for campus informational needs. He also served on an interim basis as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management and Library Director.

Learning Experience Designer, Passaic County Community College

Ken has worked in higher education since 2000, as the Manager of Instructional Technology at NJIT and Director of the Writing Initiative at PCCC. Ken has taught at PCCC, Montclair State University and at NJIT.

Director of Academic Computing & Director of Learning Technologies, Fairfield University

Jay Rozgonyi the Director of Academic Computing & Director of Learning Technologies at Fairfield University, as well as a faculty member in the Educational Technology program.  Prof. Rozgonyi was  named one of 2015’s Top 30 Technologists, Transformers, & Trailblazers by the Center for Digital Education.

President, Passaic County Community College

Steven M. Rose has served as President of Passaic County Community College since 1996. During that time the College opened three new campuses in Wanaque, Wayne and Passaic and renovated and expanded its main Paterson Campus. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Education from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, a Master’s Degree in Higher Education from the University of Vermont, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Muhlenberg College.

Assistant Director of Information System & Security Administrator, Stockton University

Demetrios supports his role at the university with certifications as AMX Certified Expert, AMX Certified Designer, AMX Certified Installer, AMX Certified Programmer combined with extensive programming experience ranging from C/C++/C#, to ASP.NET/PHP, to MS/MY-SQL, to Java and The Web.

Senior Director – Government, Education, & Healthcare – Networking and Security, VMware

Matthew leads VMware’s Networking and Security (NSX) Business Unit for the Government, Education, and Healthcare markets. Matthew and his team of sales and engineering specialists support Federal, State, Local, Education, and Healthcare customers to leverage VMware’s software defined networking (SDN) and virtualization technologies. With 20 years of working with customers in networking and security Matthew and his team help address the unique customer mission challenges around security, compliance, operations, and resiliency.

Instructional Designer, Montclair State University

Patrick works within the Instructional Technology and Design Services (ITDS) group at Montclair State University and his responsibilities include instructional design, managing Montclair State’s illumira streaming media repository, LMS management, and support. In addition to his role in ITDS, he is also an adjunct instructor for the First-Year Writing department. Patrick earned his MA in Instructional Technology and Media from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Director for Integrated Academic Support Programs, Rutgers University

Alice Seneres is the Director for Integrated Academic Support Programs. She has taught mathematics full-time at the college level.  She  received a Fulbright to conduct research in Mathematics Education in Germany for the 2015-2016 academic year.

University Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Gillian joined FDU in 2016, where, as the chief academic officer, she oversees academic policies and activities university-wide. She leads efforts at the University to support student retention and success and also leads new initiatives including expanding the University’s online programming.

CIO/Executive Director – Ellucian, Yeshiva University

Camille Shelley is an Ellucian Chief Information Officer currently serving as Executive Director for Information Technology Services at Yeshiva University, in which she oversees the day-to-day operations related to networks, user services, system admin, and programming, among other functions. She provides leadership of strategic and tactical activities in support of the university’s technology strategic goals, promoting operational excellence supporting student success. Camille is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and EDUCAUSE, and she has served as President of the New Jersey Regional Users Group. Camille received her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Faulkner University (AL) and an MBA with an Information Systems concentration from Troy University (AL).

Systems Engineer, PKA Tech

Patrick Shelley is a Systems Engineer that has been with PKA Technologies for over seven years. His main responsibility at PKA Tech is using his technical expertise to develop and refine datacenter infrastructure concepts. By holding the highest level Hewlett-Packard Enterprise certifications (Master ASE), Patrick is able to provide pre and post sales support related to both hardware and software, to test the recommended concepts and assure the best solution is implemented. His knowledge related to VDI has helped him with both large and small deployments across multiple education and commercial environments.

Post-Doctoral Associate, Rutgers University

Anthony received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lyon at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France) in 2015. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institude (RDI²) of Rutgers University. His current and past research span over multiple domains including distributed data management, models and middleware for hybrid distributed computing infrastructures and energy.

Associate Professor of Nursing and Chairperson of the Health Science Education Department, Raritan Valley Community College

As a registered nurse for 44 years and a nurse educator for 26 years, Ms Beryl Stetson’s experience includes teaching and development of face-to-face- and online credit, noncredit and continuing education courses and curriculum development and revision.

Principal Network Architect, Edge

Jim leads the technical management team with a future-forward approach that embraces a long-term vision of an integrated K-20 portal for the New Jersey educational community. With responsibility for the Edge network infrastructure, Jim guides his team through complex engineering project activities that drive customer performance, utilization, problem resolution and the overall effectiveness of the Edge network.

Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and CIO, County College of Morris

Rob Stirton, with 25 years of experience in leading change and embedding effectiveness in institutions’ core internal operations, became Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness / CIO at County College of Morris in August 2017. He has served in institutional research, institutional effectiveness and business intelligence roles at Research I universities, private religiously-affiliated universities, as well as community colleges across the nation.

Practice Director – Smart Process Applications, Optima Global Solutions, Inc.

In his role, he develops digital transformation marketing strategy, conducts regular webinars and develops Proof of Concepts for clients and prospects. Additionally, Kris drive organizational adoption of Digital Transformation technology, contributes and promotes delivery methodology and best practices to clients and prospects.

President/Co-Founder, TalentFleX Solutions

Matthew is the President and a co-founder of TalentFleX Solutions (TFX), a business and technology consulting firm offering recruiting solutions in the Information Technology, Data Science & Analytics, Finance & Accounting and Human Resource fields. As President, Matthew is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the firm. He leads the acquisition of new business and works with clients to find and hire the best talent for their organizations. Matthew has nearly 20 years of experience as a talent acquisition professional and is a trusted business advisor to executives regarding their talent acquisition solutions and strategies to enhance their companies’ human capital advantage.

Member Relations Manager, CEN

Paul Tarsa brings an extensive background to CEN with over 25 years experience in engineering and operations management focusing on business development and customer service. At CEN, Paul serves as Member Relations Manager leading the team in developing strategies and programs for business growth through improved sales, service, brand positioning, member engagement and digital marketing.

Business Analyst & DevOps Manager, Edge – illumira

In her role, Purva closely works with the faculty, instructional designers, librarians and administrators to design requirements and finding solutions with the illumira platform. She manages illumira platform integration on the client side with existing solutions and services on their campus. She is also responsible for website design and software development teams, testing and monitoring progress and handling client transition after updates and new releases.

Founder, CEO and President of MRA International

Bruno is responsible for the success of MRA International. MRA International has 50+ employees and offers hundreds of products and services to the public sector.

Heather has over fifteen years of experience in program and project management, as well as considerable experience in network services, member outreach, and contract/proposal writing, primarily gained through work in higher education and research-related endeavors.

Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Saint Peter’s University

Milos has 20 years of experience in leadership, innovation strategies, technology implementation and business development while his formal education is a blend of science, technology and business. His journey in the Information Technology (IT) profession started in 1997 and over the past 20+ years he has worked on nearly all aspects of IT. He got underway with networking/cabling installs; tech support to programming in C++, C#, Java; web development; system/network security/administration to his most recent positions of leading teams of amazing people providing technology solutions and services while supporting a multitude of organizational needs.

Senior Director, Programs and Services

In his role, Bruce’s roots with Higher Education, State Government, K-12, local and county government IT environments have served as a foundation for defined solutions and transformative engagement experience for all Edge members. With a keen emphasis on realizing the strategic goals of the consortium, his member-focused approach continues to drive maximum benefit for all Edge constituents.

University Librarian, Monmouth University

In addition to his role as University Librarian, Kurt is a member of the Executive Committee of VALE, New Jersey’s academic library consortium and serves on the editorial board of the Atlantic Journal of Communication.

Partner, Fortium Partners
Jerry Waldron is currently a partner with Fortium Partners LP where he provides strategic consulting and interim CIO leadership. He was previously the Chief Information Officer at Arcadia University (PA), The College of New Jersey (NJ), and Salisbury University (MD) for a total of 16 years. While at TCNJ he served on the Board of Directors of the Oracle/Peoplesoft Higher Education Users Group.