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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
