Ian Jukes
Key Note Address: Windows on the Future / Living on the Future Edge

Canadian Ian Jukes is an educator first and foremost. He is director of the InfoSavvy Group, an International consulting group that provides leadership and programme development, and the Committed Sardine website. His focus is consistently on the compelling need to restructure our institutions so they are relevant to the current and future needs of children. This presentation profoundly challenges your fundamental assumptions about new technologies and the impact they will have on our lives. It then asks you to stand back from the technologies and consider how these powerful new devices will change our learning institutions, the classroom, the curriculum, learning, instruction and even our fundamental definition of intelligence. This is truly a twelve aspirin presentation.

Mason Durie
Key Note Address: Maori Education Aspirations and Goals

Professor Mason Durie is from Rangitane, Ngati Kauwata and Ngati Raukawa. He is currently Vice Chancellor (Maori) at Massey University and is also professor of Maori Research and Development. Mason's broader focus is Maori development be it through constitutional recognition, social policy, health issues, education or whanau capacity building. He is vitally interested in what schools can do to lift student achievement and will share with us insights into how we can make a difference for our Maori students.

Kate Myers
Key Note Address: Leading the Intelligent School

Kate Myers is a Senior Associate of the Leadership for Learning Network at Cambridge University and Emeritus Professor University of Keele. She is well known for her work in her promotion of intelligent schools, effective school leadership and interesting perspectives on schools in difficulty. Kate will share her vision of an intelligent school and how we can realise this in our own schools.

Celia Lashlie
Key Note Address: "The Journey to Prison': Who goes and why: What impact can I have?

Celia Lashlie was the first woman in New Zealand to work in a custodial role in a male prison. She has been Manager of Christchurch Women's Prison, an Area Manager - Special Education Services and author. She is currently working on the 'Good Man' project; a project commissioned to facilitate discussion within and between boys' schools in New Zealand with the aim of creating a working definition of what makes a "Good Man" in the 21st century, a definition which can then shape the direction taken by schools in the education of their students. She is vitally concerned with developing interventions to keep young children from following a path to prison. Celia will make the connection for us between the work of prisons and the work of principals. She is encouraging questions and interactive discussion from conferees.

Bob Lingard
Key Note Address: Aligning the Message System of Schooling - The New Basics Reforms in Queensland.

Australian Bob Lingard is Head of Education at the University of Queensland and Chair of the Queensland schools. His particular focus is in policy issues in the areas of school and system reform, social justice, inclusion, gender, equity, and teacher development. Bob will provide insight into the curriculum development and changes in curriculum delivery that have been implemented in Queensland. In so doing he will draw upon the Queensland School Reforms Longitudinal Study research which he directed for the Queensland State Department of Education.

Kevin Roberts

Unfortunately Kevin Roberts has had to cancel his appearance at the conference but his partner Brian Sweeney will give the presentation in his place.

Brian Sweeney
Key Note Address: The New Zealand Edge

Brian Sweeney is Director of Sweeney Vesty Limited: a wholly New Zealand owned communications and ideas consultancy. Brian Sweeney is co-founder (with Kevin Roberts) of the New Zealand Edge project, an ever-growing contemporary mirror for looking both backwards and forwards to the world-class achievements of New Zealanders and the places they occupy on the international map. Brian will share the vision both he and Kevin Roberts have for New Zealand students and youth wherever their future takes them.