Keynote Speakers

The Library Technology Conference planning committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for our 2012 conference:

	ANDREW McLAUGHLIN Vice President at Tumblr and a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society Andrew McLaughlin is Vice Present at Tumblr and teaches at Stanford University where he is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society.  He also serves as a member of the board of director for Code for America and for Public Knowledge.  Until December 2011, Andrew was the start up Executive Director of Civic Commons, a  non-profit that helps cities and other governments share and implement low-cost technologies to improve public services, management, accountability, transparency, and citizen engagement. From 2009 until 2011, Andrew served on President Obama's White House staff as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, focusing on Internet, technology, and innovation policy. He has also previously served as head of global public policy at Google, Vice President and Chief Policy Officer at ICANN, and a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. Andrew was as a member of the litigation team that successfully challenged the Communications Decency Act before the Supreme Court in 1997. In 2000, Time Magazine named Andrew one of its Digital Dozen. In 2001, he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.
	LARRY JOHNSON CEO of the New Media Consortium; Founder and visionary leader of the Horizon Project Larry Johnson, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Its hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded universities, museums, and research centers in the world, as well as some of the world's most forward-thinking companies. Larry is an acknowledged expert on emerging technology and its impacts on society and education, and the topics of creativity, innovation, and how to think about the future. In his position at the NMC, he routinely brings visionaries and thought leaders from across the globe together to define and explore new ways of thinking about and using technology, and to examine emerging trends and issues. The NMC’s annual Horizon Report, now published in six languages, has become one of the leading tools used by universities, museums, schools and other learning organizations to set priorities for technology planning. NMC summits and large-scale projects have helped set the agenda for topics such as visual literacy, learning objects, educational gaming, immersive learning, the future of scholarship, and social networking.
	CHAD MAIRN Information Services Librarian/Adjunct Professor, St. Petersburg College;  Chief Technology Officer, Novare Library Services Chad Mairn is a librarian, teacher, author and 'technofile' who frequently shares his enthusiasm for 'all-things technology' as a speaker at library and technology conferences. He is an Information Services Librarian and adjunct professor at St. Petersburg College in Florida and is also the Chief Technology Officer at Novare Library Services, a company he co-founded, whose goal is "to create custom underlying tools to help libraries interact with users, stay true to their goals and to thrive in the 21st century." While an undergraduate studying Humanities at the University of South Florida (USF), Chad was awarded a Library of Congress Fellowship archiving Leonard Bernstein's personal papers. During his Library and Information Science (LIS) graduate work, also at USF, Chad became a technology liaison between the Bill Gates Learning Foundation and Florida public libraries. Much of Chad's recent library technology interests have focused around mobile techologies and building mobile apps for libraries and e-book developments. Chad authored the chapter 'Acquiring, Promoting, and Using Mobile-Optimized Library Resources and Services' in the recently published book edited by Sue Polanka entitled "E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts".