Atlanta

Confirmed Speakers

• Gever Tulley
  Gever believes that we need to stop thinking about education as something that we do to people. Tinkering School can be seen as one alternative, but there’s something deeper that needs to be considered, and it may need to start earlier.
• Michael Levine
  Dr. Michael H. Levine is leading breakthrough learning in a digital age. As executive director for The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Michael is currently exploring intergenerational learning through videogames, the phenomenon of “multi-media multi-tasking” and an analysis of children’s search behavior.
• Anya Kamenetz
  Anya Kamenetz covers technology, design, sustainability and social entrepreneurship as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. In 2005, when she was 24, the Village Voice nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize for her contributions to the feature series Generation Debt, which became a book in 2006.
• Billy McLaughlin
  Billy McLaughlin is one of the great musical comeback stories of all time. For years, he pursued a singular vision: to make the acoustic guitar sound as big as a grand piano but play as fluidly as a violin.
• Melody Moore Jackson
  Dr. Melody Moore Jackson directs the Georgia Tech BrainLab. Working with students and faculty from both Georgia Tech and Georgia State University, the BrainLab is focused on enabling people with “locked in syndrome” (completely paralyzed and unable to speak) the ability to control computers and devices using their own brain signals.
• Aron Solomon
  Aron is CEO and Head of School of THINK Global School, the world’s first global high school, where students study in a different international city every quarter.
• Aron Solomon
  Aron is CEO and Head of School of THINK Global School, the world’s first global high school, where students study in a different international city every quarter.
• David Fincher
  Dr. David Fincher is headmaster of Greater Atlanta Christian (GAC), and has been with GAC since 1972, as teacher, principal, vice president and president. GAC has recently become the largest Apple partner school in the U.S. As a result of this partnership, every student has a MacBook and the campus is a tighter technological community with new possibilities for how and what they learn.
• Bo Adams
  Bo Adams is the head of the Junior High School at Westminster (one of Atlanta’s top private schools). His focus is transforming the traditional “egg crate” model of teacher-student relationship into more of a collective workshop, where students and teachers walk hand-in-hand as learners. This requires the skills of finding new questions, rather than the skills of giving answers.
• Ricardo Bailey
  Father Bailey serves as a teacher and chaplain at Blessed Trinity, an Atlanta-area Catholic High School. He has strived to impact the lives of young adults by “meeting them where they are”, even if it means through a Top 40 radio station. He has become widely known for his alter ego, “Father Crunk”, who makes occasional appearances on Q100 (WWWQ-FM).
• Vanessa Gallegos
  Vanessa Gallegos is a graduating senior at Central Gwinnett High School. Her early acceptance and full scholarship to Stanford University provides only a small, if impressive, clue about why she has been asked to speak.