EDVentures 2013

Dallas Fairmont Hotel, July 25-27

Connect-Discover-Create-Grow!

Early Bird Discounts Through June 15th

For twenty-three years, EDVentures has been the conference that forecasts industry trends, exposes participants to new business opportunities and builds meaningful connections between participants--it is the conference that helps entrepreneurs revive their spirits, work better and smarter. 

To view the conference schedule and line-up of speakers and topics, click here.



Enhanced Discussions with Actionable Objectives

EDVentures 2013, with the theme, Connect-Discover-Create-Grow , features dozens of sessions that will help you better navigate the challenges affecting the PreK-12 education industry, leverage your existing infrastructure to enter new lines of  business, and improve your selling to schools and private pay customers.

Our Keynote Presentations and Breakout Sessions include:

  • The Role of For-Profits in Public Education
  • Selling to Districts: Panel with District Buyers and Vendors
  • Evidence Based Sales and Marketing
  • Accessing Private Capital
  • Disrupting Classroom Instruction: Blended Learning
  • Education Reform through Transformative Leadership
  • Selling to Principals: Panel with Buyers and Vendors
  • Engaging Your K-12 Audience:  Driving Sales in an Internet World  
  • Meeting the Challenge:K-12 Business Drivers
  • Transforming Learning Environments with Gaming
  • Common Core State Standards As Drivers of Chanege and Business
  • Using National Purchasing Cooperatives to Expedite Local Sales
  • From Pilot to Adoption
  • Strategic Planning for Education Businesses
  • One to One Personalized Learning
  • Investment Priorities of School Districts
  • Reinventing Yourself in a Post-SES world:
  • Parent Engagement: Best Practices and Business Opportunities
  • Maximizing Your Web Presence-SEO and Other Techniques

Look Who’s Talking at EDVentures 2013

EDVentures 2013 includes many of the premier presenters and panelists in the PreK-12 education industry today. Our Presentation Team includes:

Michael Horn, introduces his new book: Private Enterprise and Public Education

Chris Minnich, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers

Kerri Briggs, Bush Institute for Education Reform

Paul Hill,  Center on Reinventing Public Education

Steve Ross, Johns Hopkins University School of Education

Luke Glasner, Glasner Consulting

Jane Swift, Middlebury Interactive

Christopher Nyren, Clement Erbman,Susan Wolford, Bill Bavin (Invited), Finance, Acquisition, and Merger Experts

Charlene Blohm, Farimah Schuerman, Education Marketing and Public Relations Leaders

Scott Drossos, Pearson

Isaak Aronson, Jim Popp, Jim Giovannini,Tom Schnabel, Denise Gallucci, Chuck Young, Entrepreneurial Growth Experts

Sarah Shapiro, (Invited), League of Innovative Schools

Buyers from Public School, Superintendents, Principals, Title I Managers


"Ask me" Sessions with Education and Marketing Experts

We’ve added “Smart Tops” with subject-matter experts who will answer your questions about best practices, curriculum, management, marketing, tech-innovations, and growth opportunities.

Don't miss the “CEO Roundtables” in sectors such as Tutoring Services, Private Schools, Online Learning and Technology, School/Student Interventions, and Texas Education Service Providers.

And, we’ve expanded the networking breaks so that you have more time for you to ask the questions and get the answers that are important for your success.

Special Pre Conference Seminar on Starting a Test Prep Business

Begin your EDVentures experience with a hands-on pre-conference seminar that will provide you with all the tools needed for success to build a new line of business for your learning center and school contract business.  The Launching a Test Prep seminar is scheduled for Thursday, July 25, 2013, 8am to 12pm. Click here for more info on pre-conference and to register.

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