2010 PDS Technology Conference

Speakers

Andy Andrews
Author of the New York Time's bestselling The Traveler's Gift and The Noticer

Andy Andrews has impacted millions with his creative writing and speaking. An international sensation, Andy's challenging personal message contains truths for those in all walks of life.

What call to action can possibly challenge four US Presidents, the Commander of the Allied Air Forces, General Schwarzkopf and Hall of Fame golfer Nancy Lopez? Could this same message cause every senior leader of the United States Air Force in Europe and the Middle East to assemble in one room - at one time - to listen? What life-changing thoughts could cause ninety-one year old Bob Hope to summon a writer to chat by the backyard swimming pool?

For 17 weeks, The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success, remained on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 20 languages, featured as ABC's Good Morning America's book of the month and sold millions of copies. The author, Andy Andrews, was hailed as a "modern day Will Rogers who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America" by the New York Times.

DR. Mark Blatt
Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation

Dr. Blatt joined Intel in the summer of 2000 working in the New Business Group. He is currently the Director for Healthcare Industry Solutions, in the Digital Health Group. In this role he is concentrating on how Personal Health IT systems might assist with care delivery outside the hospital. Dr. Blatt is working with care delivery systems in many countries, including the UK, China, Mexico, Australia and the USA to enable cost effective, sustainable systems that will allow Clinicians to provide "virtual care" to patients in settings as diverse as rural remote clinics or the patient's home.

Phil McKinney
VP & CTO, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard

Phil McKinney is responsible for long-range strategic planning and research and development (R&D) for all of the company's PC product lines, including displays, mobile devices, notebooks, desktops and workstations. Previously, McKinney served as vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) for the Communication, Media and Entertainment business at HP, where he was responsible for executive CTO relationships with customers, long-range strategy and R&D for HP's largest industry-vertical business segment. A leading authority on innovation and its impact on business, the economy and culture, McKinney speaks to worldwide audiences at conferences and through his blog (www.philmckinney.com) and weekly podcast (www.killerinnovations.com). Dubbed "chief seer" by the The San Jose Mercury News, McKinney is a contributing columnist for Forbes and writes the column "The Objective" for Forbes.com.

David A. Buchholz
IT Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Dave is responsible for investigation of future client technology adoption and engineering for approximately 100,000 clients. With over 17 years of experience, Dave specializes in client OS, applications, imaging and virtualization/streaming technologies. In addition, Dave is a client side virtualization technologies and alternative platform technologies specialist, including: alternative Operating Systems and usage models, Consumerization, Generation Y & BYOC use cases. Dave is also the founder and current President of the I2I Emerging Technology Forum, which focuses on the forward looking and emerging engineering spaces of the IT world.

Elliott Levine
Education Strategist, HP Personal Systems Group – Americas

Elliott Levine drives thought leadership and solution partners across education including K-12, higher education and student segments. In his K-12 role, Elliott and his team collaborates with school systems across the Americas on comprehensive educational technology initiatives that foster 21st century skills. He chairs HP's K-12 Advisory Council, hosts their semi-annual K-12 academic forums, and is a sought-after speaker to discuss the future of, and innovation to, the learning paradigm. A former K-12 administrator and adjunct professor of communication, Elliott holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hofstra University in New York. He has won over 60 state and national awards in school public relations, delivers speeches on technology and communication in education nationwide, is a past columnist for Electronic School, School Administrator and American School Boards Journal, and has been interviewed for many leading educational publications over his career. In addition to his education career, Elliott is also a published playwright. His graduate work into the study of online grieving was transformed into a play called The Remembered, which tells the story of loss from the Vietnam War through thousands of actual letters left at the Memorial. The play had its world premiere in New York in 2007.