Our partners offer innovative products and services to improve the educational experience of students and address the challenges facing school districts. Learn more about the sponsors, and be sure to visit their pods at your next CoSN event.
ClassLink is a global education provider of access and analytics products that create more time for learning and help schools better understand digital engagement. As leading advocates for open data standards, we offer instant access to apps and files with single sign-on, streamline class rostering, automate account provisioning, and provide actionable analytics. ClassLink empowers 18 million students and staff in over 2,400 school systems.
Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. More than 100,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. And, with Clever’s layered security solutions, K-12 schools can protect district access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere.
Linewize serves schools with a complete cyber-safety eco-system, providing ONE Platform for Hybrid Content Filtering, Classroom Management, 24/7 Student Safety Monitoring, and complete Community Engagement.
Zayo's mission is to provide reliable and innovative connectivity solutions to empower businesses and communities around the world. They aim to accelerate their customers' capabilities to communicate, collaborate, and innovate by providing high-quality bandwidth. Zayo designs and builds solutions with business goals in mind, disrupting outdated networks and technologies. They value diverse perspectives and foster a culture of inclusivity. Since 2007, Zayo has been acquiring and optimizing a global network of networks.
Spectrum Enterprise, a part of Charter Communications, Inc., is a national provider of scalable, fiber technology solutions serving America’s largest businesses and communications service providers. The broad-Spectrum Enterprise portfolio includes networking and managed services solutions: Internet access, Ethernet access and networks, Voice, and TV solutions. Spectrum Enterprise’s industry-leading team of experts works closely with clients to achieve greater business success by providing solutions designed to meet their evolving needs.
Lenovo is a global technology powerhouse, ranked at 217 in the Fortune Global 500, and a $62 billion revenue company that employs 77,000 people worldwide focused on delivering “smarter technology for all”. Building on our success as the world’s number one PC maker, Lenovo is expanding its research into growth areas to advance “New IT” technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence).
At Identity Automation, we understand the unique challenges that educators, faculty, students, and even parents face. That’s why we created Rapid Identity, an identity and access management (IAM) platform, used by hundreds of school districts, colleges, and universities to provide secure and agile online access that digitally connects students to their learning environment. By putting the unique identities of both educators and students at the heart of the learning process, Rapid Identity helps academic institutions unlock their potential and provide a safer, more personalized learning experience.
Lightspeed Systems® provides time-saving solutions and empowering districts to focus where it matters most—students and learning. Lightspeed provides one integrated platform of cloud-managed solutions: Security & Compliance, Safety & Wellness, and Engagement & Impact, purpose-built for school networks and devices. Lightspeed solutions are designed to surface insights and facilitate workflows needed to ensure a safe, secure, and compliant learning environment that works on any device, anywhere learning takes place. As a committed partner in privacy and security for more than 20 years, Lightspeed ensures secure student data with technical and administrative safeguards in place. And with a keen understanding of the staff and resource shortages in primary education, Lightspeed has focused resources on client success to provide implementation guidance, support, and an easy procurement process. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Lightspeed serves more than 20 million students using 11 million devices in 28,000 schools throughout 41 countries.
Juniper Networks delivers innovation across routing, switching, and security. From the district’s network core down to teacher and student devices, Juniper Networks' innovations in software, silicon, and systems transform the experience and economics of networking. Our solutions for education provide a network foundation that creates a learning environment that is more engaging for students, helping advance student learning and improve student achievement. We help schools and school districts build the very best education networks so that they are ready to integrate their technology-powered learning initiatives, conduct critical online assessments, and perform important day-to-day administrative functions. As a trusted partner to education, Juniper Networks provides a full routing portfolio for WAN and Internet connections, campus and data center networking, best-in-class wireless LAN solution, network security, and integrated management.
CDWG is a leading provider of technology and solutions to schools, with a mission of delivering engaging, collaborative, and interactive learning environments, while securing networks and optimizing data centers. Our team of dedicated account managers and solution architects can help with assessment and pre-configuration to implementation and ongoing support. CDW•G solution areas include classroom technology, cloud computing, data center optimization, networking, power and cooling, printers, security, software, storage, total mobility management, unified communications, and virtualization. For details, call 800.808.4239 or visit CDWG.com/k12.
Microsoft Education is more than students sitting in a classroom. The expansion in Internet connectivity and the use of mobile devices has transformed learning and schools. The right technology is essential to support today’s challenging learning environment. Microsoft’s solutions for teaching and e-learning with Windows 8, Office 365, Lync, and SharePoint are fueling innovation and the future of learning.
At PowerSchool, we believe in the simple truth that every student deserves the best opportunities in life. That’s why our mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their potential, in their way.
From the front office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool helps schools and districts efficiently manage instruction, learning, grading, attendance, assessment, analytics, state reporting, special education, student registration, talent, finance, and HR. Today, we’re proud to be the leading provider of K-12 education application technology supporting over 45 million students in over 80 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn more.
Ativion is a leading provider of educational software, specializing in classroom management, content filtering, and student well-being. We empower students and educators with innovative technology and exceptional service, prioritizing student safety, success, and welfare. Our StudentKeeper Powered by ContentKeeper solution provides a comprehensive platform for monitoring, engaging, and protecting students in today’s digital learning environment. Trusted by over 2 million devices across 80 countries, Ativion is your partner for navigating the evolving landscape of educational technology and cybersecurity. Join us in shaping the future of education.
Claro Enterprise Solutions' suite of AI-powered security tools, including AI Video Analytics, Zero Trust Endpoint Security, Penetration Testing, CyberSOC, and Vulnerability Management, provides K-12 and higher education institutions with essential capabilities like unauthorized intruder alerts, visible weapons detection, facial search and recognition, and smoke and fire detection, helping administrators to stay ahead of constantly evolving security situations.
Claro Enterprise Solutions is a single-source IT solutions provider for growing organizations. Backed by our vast Latin American success, our US team is experienced in cloud, IoT, AI, cyber security, and many other business-enabling innovations. Our work is part of a grander mission to build smarter, safer communities, one customer at a time.
Google for Education: Better learning. Brighter futures.
Google for Education tools work together to transform teaching and learning so every student and educator can pursue their personal potential.
In the past, learning was constrained by time and place. Today, digital transformation is opening a new world of educational opportunities—to learn in new ways, in new places, with new connections to resources around the globe. Cisco is leading this digital transformation in education with the Cisco Digital Education Platform, which supports blended learning opportunities, worldwide collaboration, and rich online media experiences. With this completely integrated digital environment, schools have the technology in place to ensure that buildings are connected, educators are empowered, administrators are informed, and students can learn without limits. For more information, visit www.cisco.com/go/education
At MagicSchool, we believe teachers are irreplaceable so weʼve designed our tools with the realities of teaching in mind. There are some things teachers donʼt need technology to help with — which is why weʼve focused on creating AI tools to streamline tedious tasks only teachers might recognize. Led by founder Adeel Khan, a former teacher, founding principal of the top-performing public high school in Denver, and school systems leader with a passion for technology. Adeel developed MagicSchool AI with a mission to bring an AI assistant to every teacher in the world and help tackle the crisis of teacher burnout and bring responsible AI to students to prepare them for the future. MagicSchool AI is the leading AI platform in education and with over 3.5 million educators signed up in a year, the fastest growing technology platform for schools ever.
Funds For Learning's mission is transforming student lives through government funding for Internet access. We are a leading E-rate compliance and consulting firm serving 4.67 million K-12 students nationwide. Our free E-rate Manager tool helps schools and libraries navigate their E-rate data easily.
Amazon (AWS) Primary and secondary schools are making a difference for teachers and students with cost-effective, scalable, secure, and flexible Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud infrastructure. With AWS, schools and districts can lower costs, personalize student learning experiences, improve access and digital equity, and increase security.
Fortinet understands challenges educators face in delivering engaging, relevant, and meaningful learning opportunities to students while maintaining a high level of network security to protect data and meet compliance standards.
Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government and education organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud and to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 550,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.
Parchment believes credentials matter in the lifelong journey of a learner. Our comprehensive credential management platform helps learners, academic institutions, and employers request, verify, and share transcripts and other credentials as well as support course sharing, transfer articulation, and dual enrollment by facilitating the translation of credentials into credits.
The powerful network created — millions of learners, over 13K districts, university registrar offices, institutions in 5 non-U.S. countries, state education agencies, and receivers (including university admissions and employers) — has enabled the seamless exchange and transfer of transcripts, diplomas, certificates, comprehensive learner records (CLRs), and other credentials globally.
Verizon is a global technology leader with more than two decades of experience in the education marketplace. We help K-12 schools inspire learners, empowering them with a deeper understanding of today’s world—and the ability to thrive in it long after they graduate. Verizon and our thousands of K-12 customers across the U.S. work closely together to achieve this critical goal.
Verizon serves as a trusted partner for K-12 districts. Our ongoing collaboration with schools of all sizes across the U.S. gives us a unique perspective on how K-12 schools operate, as well as the evolving role of technology at all levels—from the district to the classroom. And it enables Verizon to create effective solutions that meet the significant challenges faced by K-12 schools—from hybrid learning to cybersecurity.
We help K-12 schools:
- Reduce the digital divide by empowering all students with reliable, readily available access to remote learning.
- Deliver interactive, immersive, and engaging experiences that today’s students require.
- Provide accessible, safe, and reliable digital experiences that expand learning with new capabilities.
- Leverage the power of 5G to open new learning possibilities, from virtual reality to “gamified” collaboration and learning.
- Keep students and learning networks safe with advanced security solutions.
To find out more about Verizon’s K-12 education solutions, go to our website.
Integrated, user-friendly solutions that simplify challenges and create more time and insights, offering a seamless and intuitive experience that drives student success.
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.
For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
BrainFreeze by Airia is a leader in educational technology, providing a powerful AI platform that transforms learning for students, teachers, parents, and administrators. With extensive out-of-the-box tool libraries, personalized learning spaces, and AI assistants, BrainFreeze empowers schools to rapidly adopt AI to revolutionize educational experiences. BrainFreeze prioritizes data security and student privacy while seamlessly integrating with existing systems to create a safe educational environment.
Innive is focused on providing transformative solutions and services utilizing data and data relationships in Education. With advanced techniques for data aggregation, integration, and visualization, Innive provides meaningful insights impacting district and classroom improvements and outcomes. Our approach is through collaboration and partnership, solving complex business challenges and delivering true transformation.
ClassDojo is a global community of more than 50 million teachers and families who come together to share kids’ most important learning moments, in school and at home—through photos, videos, messages, and more.
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. Over 300,000 of our people work to amplify human potential and create the next opportunity for people, businesses and communities. We enable clients in more than 56 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer clients, as they navigate their digital transformation powered by cloud and AI. We enable them with an AI-first core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
Logitech designs products that have an everyday place in people's lives, connecting them to the digital experiences they care about in ways that matter. In education, our tools and solutions make it easier for students to focus, support their creativity, and give them choices in how best to learn and interact with materials and apps. We empower educators to create and deliver dynamic lessons that engage and inspire their students. Founded in 1981 in Switzerland, Logitech started connecting people through innovative computer peripherals, and is now a multi-brand company designing products that bring people together through video, audio, gaming, creating and more. Brands of Logitech include Logitech, Logitech G, ASTRO Gaming, Streamlabs, Blue Microphones, Ultimate Ears and Jaybird. Learn more at www.logitech.com.
Apptegy builds products and provides services that empower you to run better schools. Our products make it easy for administrators and educators to reach and interact with your parents, students, staff, and your community at large. Our services support district marketing teams better manage and execute marketing. In combination, Apptegy simplifies and improves schools' communications and helps you change how the public thinks and feels about your schools.
Providing smarter, more versatile ways to charge and secure ever-evolving technologies. We work closely with our clients to develop products that support and streamline how mobile technology is used for learning and working in real-world environments. Our focus is on being a leader in innovative charging solutions and designing efficient products that will work dependably for many years down the road.
ParentSquare is relied upon by millions of educators and families for unified, effective school communications. ParentSquare provides parent engagement tools that work from the district office to the individual classroom, supported by powerful metrics and reporting. ParentSquare's technology platform features extensive integrations with student information and other critical administrative systems, translation to more than 100 languages, and app, email, text, voice, and web portal access for equitable communication. ParentSquare, founded in 2011, is at http://www.parentsquare.com.
MediaTek provides stress-free learning & teaching experiences through its Kompanio line of processors that power Acer, Asus, HP, and Lenovo Chromebooks. Experience technology that delivers superior all-day battery life making classroom & remote education more engaged, collaborative, secure, & safe.
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SolarWinds was founded by IT professionals solving complex problems in the simplest way, and we have carried that spirit forward since 1999. We take pride in relentlessly listening to our customers to develop a deeper understanding of the challenges they face. Our digital agility solutions are built to help companies of any size accelerate business transformation today and into the future.
Five Star has been partnering with K12 schools since 2005 to support transformative learning experiences through technology. Our experienced leaders, training specialists, engineers, & developers help school leaders make data-driven decisions and provide technical support & training for educators.
Secured Tech Solutions was founded to alleviate the stress of implementing a 1:1 student device program for K-12 schools. We achieve this by providing high-quality products and services with exceptional attention to detail and an unwavering commitment to providing extraordinary customer service.
Our extensive experience in the industry equips us with valuable knowledge of industry trends and new product offerings, while our industry connections provide us with extremely competitive pricing. A partnership with Secured Tech Solutions provides schools with the answer key to all their device challenges.
For over 40 years, MicroK12 has been the Pacific Northwest’s trusted partner in K-12 education technology, providing schools with top-tier products like interactive displays, networking devices, laptops, and more. Beyond offering a focused product line, we deliver comprehensive services, including White Glove deployment, Break-Fix repairs, and networking solutions to ensure seamless technology integration. We’re dedicated to supporting districts with expert guidance and reliable service every step of the way!
Global Grid for Learning (GG4L) offers a secure, private data exchange for the education ecosystem. GG4L, through its School Passport, exchanges any data with any edtech product, eliminates the need to share student PII and is easy to implement for schools and vendors. GG4L serves 30,000+ schools, 15 million students, and hundreds of EdTech vendors.
ErateSync helps schools know everything about their E-rate. Manage every aspect in one platform—from tracking funding health and writing RFPs to handling the red tape. From the moment you submit your form 470 to the final deadline, ErateSync keeps you aware and covered, cutting the complexity so you can focus on what matters most.
CyberNut is a security awareness training solution built exclusively for K-12 schools. We train school district employees and students to recognize and report phishing attacks, while also providing IT with the ability to take immediate action on real-threats Our product suite includes an AI-powered phishing simulator, a cybersecurity compliance training platform, and a threat reporting tool.
60% of schools in the US experienced a data breach or ransomware attack in the past 12 months. 90% of the time this is caused by school employees clicking on phishing links. CyberNut is an ai powered cyber security training solution to help schools stop this from happening.
Built for teachers by teachers, Toddle is an AI-powered teaching & learning platform for progressive K-12 schools. Going beyond a typical LMS, Toddle helps you streamline all your work - from curriculum planning and assessments to progress reports and school-home communication. 2,000+ leading schools around the world run on Toddle. https://www.toddleapp.com/
Droplet is a low-code / no-code form builder with dynamic approval workflow routing, purpose built for school IT teams. Often described as a combination of Google Forms, DocuSign, and Power Automate, all in one platform. Supercharge electronic forms with auto-fill from SSO & Active Directory and integrate outputs into your systems of record. Digitize travel requests, timesheets, reimbursements, field trip requests, personnel actions, mileage claims, and hundreds more projects, all with Droplet.
Brisk is an easy-to-use Chrome extension that brings time-saving AI into the tool's teachers use every day, handling tasks like feedback, differentiation, and lesson creation with just a few clicks.
