The mix of millennials, gen-x’ers, and baby boomers teaching and learning together make the provision of modern education a complex process. In addition, blended learning, mobile devices, gaming, social networking, high-impact presentation technologies, and analytics are bringing new twists and quick turns to our on-ground, online, credit and non-credit learning environments. What else is ahead? How much more can we take? How do we retain the human touch? How do we make these learning environments sustainable? Come join the conversation about how this new generation of learning is taking shape.

Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning education leader, author, speaker, and consultant known for exploring leadership development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of technology change. Mark works with K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, corporations, associations, community groups, and government agencies across the country and around the world. He serves as President and CEO of the private consulting and service group, Catalyze Learning International (CLI). He also sits on numerous education, nonprofit, and corporate boards, including serving as Chair of the Board for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and as a Trustee for Western Governors University. In addition, he is a guest lecturer at educational institutions nationally and internationally and author and moderator of the Catalytic Conversations Blog.

Mark brings to this work broad experience, having previously served as an Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Director of the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin; Vice President for Education and Medical Practice with SAS, the world's largest private software company; President and CEO of the League for Innovation, an international association of more than 850 education institutions and 160 corporate partners; and as Vice President for Academic and Student Services at Mayland Community College (NC). While teaching at Arizona State, Mark received the International Communication Association's Teaching Excellence Award. More recently, the University of Texas at Austin's College of Education honored Mark as a Distinguished Graduate for his service to the education field. He was also named one of the top Shapers of the Future by Converge Magazine in August 2000. In 2005, PBS Adult Learning Service named Mark the recipient of its annual O'Banion Prize for transformational work in support of teaching and learning. And in 2007, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented Mark with its National Leadership Award for his outstanding accomplishments, contributions, and leadership.

Regardless of all of these activities and accomplishments, he will quickly tell you that the most important job and the greatest blessing in his life is serving as Julia's husband, and as father to Alexandra, Richard and Marcus.

Cem Erdem (pronounced Gem) is founder, President and CEO of Augusoft, Inc., the first software company to establish web-based lifelong learning systems for the higher educational community. Augusoft today celebrates over 14 years of innovation under his leadership. Erdem, a Turkish born native left Hilton Corporation in 1994 for the United States with the fascination of the Internet and the learning possibilities it could bring to people and businesses. Erdem's foresight and vision to advance and improve the delivery of Lifelong Learning for everyone have been central to the success of Augusoft's products and services.

John Garamendi was elected as California’s 46th Lieutenant Governor in November 2006. Garamendi served in the State Assembly from 1974-1976 and in the State Senate from 1976- 1990, including a term as Senate Majority Leader. He became California’s fi rst elected Insurance Commissioner, serving from 1991-1995, then was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1995-1998. He returned to the California Department of Insurance in 2003, after his reelection as Insurance Commissioner.

The Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State Senate, a Regent of the University of California, a Trustee of the California State University system, a member of the California State Lands Commission, and the Chairman of the California Commission for Economic Development. In addition, he also serves as Acting Governor whenever the Governor leaves the state or is unable to serve.

Garamendi is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he was an all-conference and academic All-American football player, and a champion wrestler. Prior to receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he and his wife, Patti, were Peace Corps volunteers in Ethiopia. They have six children and nine grandchildren. They live near Sacramento and operate a cattle ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Dr. Pamela Cox-Otto has worked with two-year colleges for the past 22 years, first in California Community Colleges, and then in the Wisconsin Technical College System. For the last 10 years she has been the principal partner and CEO of Interact Communications, a communications company that serves two-year colleges nationally. Most recently Interact has conducted state level research and marketing in Mississippi and Washington, as well as Wisconsin.