Symposium
San Francisco, March 2016
Attendees

Michael Bush
Associate Professor of French and Instructional Psychology & Technology
Brigham Young University

Sally Carter
Chief, Curriculum Development
Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC)

William J. Comer
Associate Professor; Director of Russian Flagship
Portland State University

Gabrielle Cristelli
Student, Chinese Flagship
Arizona State University

Rachel Critelli
Graduate, Chinese Flagship
San Francisco State University

Rob de Picciotto
Assistant Director, China Learning Initiatives
Asia Society

Charles Egan
Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
San Francisco State University

Michael Freed
Program Director
Artificial Intelligence Center

Jamie Gao
World Languages Lead; Mandarin
AltSchool

Jon David Hague
Director of Client Services and Partnerships
Cerego

Amy Heaton
Managing Director
Linchpin International

Trude Heift
Professor of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University

Samuel Helmey
Student; Portuguese Flagship
University of Georgia

Ava Jamerson
Student; Chinese Flagship
University of Oregon

Lewis Johnson
Co-Founder
Alelo

Olga Kagan
Director, Center for World Languages, NHLRC, and Russian Flagship Program
UCLA

Mark Kaiser
Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center
University of California, Berkeley

Deborah R. Lemon
Professor, Instructional and Project Designer, Speaker, Advisor
Ohlone College, @ONE, DeborahRLemon

Andrew Smith Lewis
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Cerego

Jianling Liao
Assistant Professor, Director of the Chinese Language Flagship Program
Arizona State University

Jiang Liu
Assoc. Education Specialist, Chinese Associate Director Chinese Flagship
University of Minnesota

Chris Livaccari
Elementary School Principal and Chinese Program Director
International School of the Peninsula

Cherice Montgomery
Assistant Professor, Spanish; Collaborator, Project-based Language Learning Initiative
Brigham Young University

Robert Moser
Associate Professor of Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African Literature and Culture; Director of Portuguese Flagship Program
University of Georgia

Yelena Muratova
Student, Russian Flagship
UCLA

Michael Nugent
Director
National Security Education Program (NSEP)

Scott Payne
Director of Academic Technology Services
McGraw-Hill Education

Ken Petersen
Technical Director
American Councils for International Education

Milica Petranovic
Product Marketing Manager
Mango Languages

Patti Price
Principal
PPRICE Speech and Language Technology

Ravi Purushotma
Game Curriculum Manager
Kidaptive, Inc.

Michael Quinlan
Founder and CEO
Transparent Language, Inc.

Daniel Ryan
Business Development
Cerego

Julio Rodriguez
Director, Center for Language & Technology, and National Foreign Language Resource Center
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Branka Sarac
Director of Technology Integration
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)

Sonia Shiri
Assistant Professor; Middle East Language Program Coordinator; Director of Arabic Flagship
University of Arizona

Alfred Solis
Director of Special Projects
Buck Institute for Education

Madeline K. Spring
Director, Chinese Flagship Program
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Ben Strauber
Student
Centre for Neuroscience, Stanford

Julie M. Sykes
Director, Center for Applied Second Language Studies
University of Oregon

Steven Thorne
Associate Professor
Portland State University

Vu Van
Co-founder and CEO
ELSA, Corp

Carol Van Ess-Dykema
Senior Research Scientist
DoD

Hannah Verbruggen
Student, Russian Flagship
Portland State University

Jeff Wang
Director
China Learning Initiative, Asia Society

Tom Welch
Owner
Tom Welch Consulting

Catherine Witt
Student; Arabic Flagship
University of Arizona

Yang Xiao-Desai
Assistant Professor
Foreign Languages & LitCollege of Liberal and Creative Arts