Thomas Homer-Dixon: Living, Learning, and Communicating in a ‘Globalized’ World
Thomas Homer-Dixon is the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Homer-Dixon’s books include The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Knopf, Island Press, 2006), which was recently awarded the National Business Book Award for 2006; The Ingenuity Gap (Knopf, 2000), which won the 2001 Governor General's Non-fiction Award; and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton University Press, 1999), which won the Caldwell Prize of the American Political Science Association.
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Nikos Theodosakis: Living, Learning, Communicating in a Connected World
Nikos Theodosakis is the author of The Director in the Classroom: How Filmmaking Inspires Learning. Nikos believes that our greatest responsibilities are to inspire, to connect and to matter. This philosophy flows through all of his work, whether as a filmmaker, photographer, educator, author or through his actions as a father, husband and citizen of this world.
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George Siemens: Living, Learning, Communicating in an Immediate World
George Siemens is Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., a learning lab focused on assisting organizations to develop integrated learning structures to meet the needs of global strategy execution. George recently authored a book - Knowing Knowledge - an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed, and what it means to organizations today. He is actively involved in research as the Associate Director, Research
and Development of the Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba.
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Michael Furdyk: Living, Learning and Contributing as a Life Long Journey
Michael Furdyk is the Co-founder and Director of Technology for TakingITGlobal.org, a global online community for young people, engaging hundreds of thousands of youth in over 200 countries and territories. Along with managing the technology team at TakingITGlobal, Michael is involved with the TIGed education program, and has spoken to over 50,000 educators about the importance of engaging students and integrating technology and global perspectives into the classroom.
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Jutta Treviranus: Living, Learning and Communicating in a Diverse World
Jutta Treviranus established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at the University of Toronto, an internationally recognized centre of expertise on barrier-free access to information technology. She has more than 25 years of experience in the field of access technology and inclusive design. Jutta has lead a large number of national and international multi-partner research networks (including The Inclusive Learning Exchange (TILE), the Canadian Network for Inclusive Cultural Exchange, the Network for Inclusive Distance Education, CulturAll, Stretch, Fluid and the Barrierfree project), that have led to a range of broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has helped to develop pivotal accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally (including W3C Web Accessibility Initiative ATAG, IMS Global Learning Consortium AccessForAll and ISO 24751). She is also a member of a number of key advisory panels and task forces (e.g., Accessibility for Ontarions with Disabilities Act, Pan-Canadian E-learning Strategy, JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility). Among the many awards received by the ATRC is the American Foundation for the Blind Access Award (1998), the Trophee de Libre for Open Source Development, and the Dr. Dayton M. Forman Memorial Award. Jutta holds faculty appointments in the Faculty of Information Studies, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Knowledge Media Design Institute, at the University of Toronto.
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