Lyall Lukey - Co-ordinator, SmartNet workshops-Forum convenor and organiser

Lyall Lukey is the Managing Director of Lukey Resources Ltd, the co-ordinator of SmartNet and the convenor of the Education Leaders Forum. Since 1987 Lukey Resources has worked with client organisations to enhance their intangible assets - especially what their people know and do - through knowledge sharing, management training and coaching. The company also designs multimedia learning resources and runs conferences.

Lyall's MA Honours thesis was entitled Industrial Conflict in New Zealand. He is a former secondary school teacher and Visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of Canterbury. The SmartNet initiative, which he started in 1997, helps foster innovation and create new global opportunities for New Zealand enterprises. SmartNet has an extensive database of New Zealand based and international consultants and experts.

Lyall is a former National President and a Life Member of Round Table New Zealand (the service club-not the other one!) and is a member of the Rotary Club of Christchurch Sunrise. He was on the Board of Cholmondeley Children's Home from 1987-2007 and President from 2001 to 2005. He is now on the Board of the Cholmondeley Children's Foundation. Lyall blogs at http://lukeytraining.wordpress.com/

Frances Nelson - National President, NZEI

Frances Nelson has been granted leave from her role as principal of Fairburn School - a large decile 2 primary school in Otahuhu South Auckland - to undertake the role of NZEI National President in 2008 and 2009.

Frances has over 20 years experience as a primary school principal and almost as many as an adult educator within the education sector. Eleven years as an NZEI National Executive member has involved working on both professional and industrial issues within the primary and early childhood sectors.

As an educator, professional issues including the strengthening of quality public education are the "driving passion" underpinning the work Frances has done as a union member. It is clear that in order to promote quality education, the industrial issues that support the sector in implementing this are critical to success.

Frances has been closely involved in the development of a range of initiatives promoting quality teaching within the Long Term Primary Workplan involving a strong partnership approach between the union, the Ministry of Education and the School Trustees Association.

Dr Pim Borren - Chief Executive, Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua

Previously, he worked as Deputy Chief Executive at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology CPIT), a tertiary education provider with over 2000 staff. Prior to this role Pim was the Dean of Commerce at CPIT. Pim holds a PhD in Economics and has also worked as the Director of Business at Christchurch College of Education before joining CPIT. He has also previously operated his own economics consulting company where he managed numerous policy-related projects involving multi-disciplinary teams and a variety of sponsors. He built up a specialization in the health sector and, as one of New Zealand's leading authorities on health economics, continues to be called upon to commentate on health reform.

Pim has been a Lecturer in Economics, Professional Economist and Economics Research Fellow and has worked at several New Zealand universities as well as in the UK. Pim has had a high profile academic career, with many publications and co-authorship of a book to his name. Pim is also a trained teacher and began his career in education as a secondary teacher.

Trevor McIntyre - Principal, Christchurch Boys High School

Having graduated from Lincoln University with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science
and Christchurch Teachers' College with a Diploma in Teaching I began by
education career at Waimate High School.

Being brought up on a sheep and cattle farm at Clinton, South Otago, coupled with involvement in the early days of live deer capture, took me back to mustering, farm managing and eventually ownership of a sheep and deer unit in Northern Southland.

The demise of Muldoon in 1984 and its associated interest rate rise and agricultural price falls saw me return to teaching in Queenstown, Waimate and then Timaru Boys' High School as Deputy Principal. October 2003 saw the beginning of the Headmaster's position at Christchurch Boys' High School. Over the years my main extra curricular involvement has been Rugby from club to National level.

I currently sit on the University of Canterbury Council, Young Designers Awards Trust and the CPIT Trades Innovation Institute Advisory Board.

Derek Wenmoth - Director, e-learning

Derek has been involved with CORE since it’s inception in 2003. Derek, Nick Billowes, and Vince Ham set up Ultralab South (now CORE) – which was to embody their vision of an e-learning research and development centre.

Following the various educational roles of teacher, principal, and lecturer in educational technology Derek took up his role as director of e-learning in April 2003. The role allows him to be involved in a wide range of e-learning activities from exploring innovative use of the latest technologies and researching e-learning practices, to helping establish policy and strategies to guide the implemenation of e-learning, both nationally and overseas.

Derek’s role at CORE perfectly combines his passion for teaching and learning along with his long held fascination with the use of technologies in education. After convincing his wife he needed a computer – as that was where the future of education would lie - Derek bought his first one shortly after getting married. This was back in the days when you had to use tapes to load programmes and when mobile phones were the size and weight of a brick.

Married to Jane, Derek keeps himself busy on the home front with five children ranging in age from 7 to 23. When not busy with family, blogging, and CORE, Derek enjoys getting outdoors – especially tramping. He boasts that he has tramped in all of the national parks and covered most of the major tracks and walkways in New Zealand.

Derek maintains a blog on matters relating to e-learning and other aspects of interest to educators, this can be found at http://blog.core-ed.net/derek or see latest entry links below.

Geoff Pearman - Director, Partners in Change

Geoff has spent the past 12 years in the University sector managing the delivery of adult and community education, bridging education, professional short courses and international education programmes.

This period was one of significant growth and innovation with Geoff providing leadership in new programme initiatives, curriculum development and business development. Prior to this he worked for Child, Youth and Family for 15 years, first as a social worker, then for 10 years as a Regional Training Manager with responsibility for training and development across the South Island.

Geoff was a member of the TEC ACE Reference Group up until early 2007 and has extensive linkages internationally in the field of continuing education. A Fellowship in 2004 saw him visit the USA to look at how research intensive universities were engaging with their communities. Effective stakeholder engagement remains an area of research interest.

He has university qualifications in social work, adult education and sociology and a trade qualification from his early days as a carpenter and joiner. Based in Christchurch, Geoff is responsible for Marlborough, Nelson and the West Coast. Nationally he will be working with stakeholders in the social services, education and community sectors.

He will continue to maintain a brief for adult and community education and the language, literacy and numeracy areas.

Neil Lancaster - International Manager, University of Canterbury

I taught History, English, Geography and Social Studies at Hillmorton High School from 1971 to 1985. In 1985 I was appointed Assistant Principal at Lincoln High School, and in 1987, Deputy Principal. In 1995 I was appointed Principal of Mairehau High School until my appointment as Director of the School of Secondary Teacher Education at the Christchurch College of Education, a position I held until the 2007 merger with the University of Canterbury.

As Associate Dean I am responsible for secondary initial teacher education qualifications at UC and liaison with the secondary teaching community. I am also responsible for international initiatives within the College of Education.

My major area of research interest is in redesigning initial teacher education to better meet the needs of students and schools in the 21st century. Presentations on this topic have been made at Pacific Circle Consortium Conferences in Sydney in 2005 and at Hawaii in 2007,

I am currently a member of the New Zealand Education Administration and Leadership Society (NZARE); the Canterbury Education Forum; the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) and the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER). I was Chairperson of the Canterbury West Coast Secondary Principals’ Association from 2002 to 2005. I was also a board member of the Education New Zealand Trust from 2000 to 2004.

Russ Skinner -Principal, Skinner & Associates Limited

I practised what I preach - I got strategic. From Director of Marketing and Development at CPIT until 2003, I then chose self- employment.

I decided where I wanted things to go; designing the steps; then made it happen. I help you and your business do the same. I have a wide network of professional friends and colleagues in NZ and internationally. This formed over 35 years in education at teacher, trainer, manager, director and consultant levels. In much of what I do, my colleagues are involved as associates.

My experience spans secondary and tertiary education at home and abroad; in Asia, North & South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. My field is change - in development, strategic thinking, marketing and planning; in facilitation, international export education and domestic change initiatives which will broaden experience, increase quality and strengthen capability.

My business is home-based with some administrative support, yet highly connected in a way that today's technology can deliver.

Deb Gilbertson - Director, Te Kaihau - the windeaters

Work
Educator, Social Researcher, Innovator, Economist
Senior Associate, Institute of Policy Studies, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington www.vuw.ac.nz/ips/
Project Leader, Global Enterprise Experience www.geebiz.org
Principal, e-gov.co www.e-gov.co.nz
Formerly:
Senior Lecturer, Victoria University
Director, VicLink Ltd (Victoria University’s commercial arm)
Corporate Marketing and Innovation Manager, DSIR
Lecturer, Lincoln College
University Teaching
Innovation (MMSTech, MBA, BCA)
Management (BCA)
Economics (MBA, DBA, B Agr Com, B Agr Sci, Adv Dip Farm Mgmt)
Financial Management (Arts, Culture and Heritage Directors’ Programme)
Marketing (B Sci Tech)
Technology Management (MMSTech)
Other
During Industry New Zealand’s pioneering stage, Deb worked with 80 of their business clients to rapidly expand their ventures.
Researched and wrote papers and developed proposals for Industry New Zealand for developing an enterprise economy.
Member of Innovative Technologies Programme Board, a government funded, seed venture capital fund. Developed criteria and policy for the fund, and promoted it.
FRST contract to measure current and future state of science and technology in New Zealand, and recommended performance indicators.
Member of the Victoria University Research Ltd board.
Established, and on the board of, the Wellington Venture Capital Association.
PhD thesis topic: ‘collaboration between crown science providers and science users in New Zealand’
Co-author of nine academic books on management and innovation.

Present and recent users of the education and training system will be invited to some sessions to provide generational insights. Representatives of busineess, industry, unions and community groups will bring different perspectives from the world of work and the broader community.