Live Panel Event Series

Future Proof your School District

How to Modernize your School District's Financial and Human Capital Management Technology Platform.

About the Panel Event Series

We have asked our customers to do a live panel event series to discuss all the elements involved in supporting our school boards and districts. We will have the education lead for Microsoft Canada join us to discuss how Microsoft is ensuring that education organizations can harness technology and future-proof their districts.

On-Demand Videos

Part I: Future Proof Your School District’s Technology

Part II: How to Solve Your K-12 Administrative Needs

Part III: Sparkrock 365 – A Partner in the Success of Canadian School Districts

About our Speakers

Jennifer Hume, Director of Finance | Louis Riel School Division

Jennifer is an innovative Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with ten years Senior Management experience at a large non-profit organization. She is a proven effective leader that inspires creative problem solving within a team. Jennifer has two years public sector experience at a management level, and over fifteen years of manufacturing experience with small and large manufacturers.

Jon Rever, Assistant Superintendent | Central Okanagan School District

Jon’s work is focused on strategic collaborations with educators that improves learning for each student. His team is deeply engaged in the creation of high value, high yield systems which result in constant improvements. Jon is working to increase coherence and alignment of his current systems such as the Instructional Leadership Team, the Instructional Leadership Network, District Assessment Policy Working Group, and the Early Learning Team.

Wanda Muirhead, CFO (Retired) | York Region District School Board

A now retired Chief Financial Officer at the York Region District School Board, Wanda led the business division, which includes Finance, Accounting, Payroll, Purchasing and Administrative Services as well as Information Technology Services. Wanda has held various positions of increasing responsibility in her 36-year career with the York Region District School Board.

John Myers, Chief Executive Officer | Edsby

John began his career at Nortel Networks including serving 6 years as the Vice-president and General Manager of Nortel’s global messaging business unit. John moved to Centrinity in 2001 and helped shepherd the FirstClass business to a successful sale to Open Text and ran that business unit there for 8 years.

In 2010 John and his co-founders left Open Text and created Edsby, an award-winning K-12 learning and data analytics platform. John serves as the CEO at Edsby.

Mark Laurie, President | ApplyToEducation

Mark co-founded ApplyToEducation with his brother Nathan. Their vision is to build a company that makes a difference in K-12 education for both students and administrators. Their theory was that if every teacher knew of every job then the quality of applicants would improve, and hard to fill positions would become routine hires. After eight years, they know they were correct in that assumption: 65% of Canadian School Districts and 280+ private schools in 27 countries around the world now use their technology.

Simon Blyth, Director of Sales, Education | Fujitsu Consulting (Canada)

Simon is an experienced business professional with a strong track record in sales, business development, strategy, planning, operations and financing. Simon has had a career of over 20 years, in senior sales and leadership roles ranging from small start-ups to large multinationals. He is a team player who breaks down barriers, creates win:win situations and builds long-term relationships with all business stakeholders – colleagues, customers, partners and investors.

Nancy Teodoro, Education Partner Lead | Microsoft Canada

As Education Partner Lead for Microsoft Canada, Nancy leads the Partner Sales and Solution Strategy to help educational organizations across Canada digitally transform and maximize student success. With more than 20 years of experience in the IT Industry, she is passionate about transforming education and developed the world’s first Master’s Certificate program in the discipline of alliance management in 2008.

Nicola Dickinson, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer | Sparkrock

Nicola strongly believes that you are a vital component of creating a better world and it’s our responsibility to enable you to soar. Nicola founded Sparkrock in 2003 with her co-founder James, to provide Nonprofit, K-12 and Social Impact Organizations with access to quality software.

James Faw, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Sparkrock

As an enterprise software expert with over 25 years of experience in the IT and Services industry, James Faw is passionate about understanding and delivering the technological requirements that our customers need in order to transform their organizations through today’s digital era.

Brenda Neveu, Power BI Solution Architect | Sparkrock

Brenda is a computer programmer with over 16 years experience working in the k-12 environment. For the last 4 years, Brenda was responsible to build, support and manage the processes, systems and outputs that supported the publication of data visualizations as a means to tell the story of schools and educational systems leveraging the Power BI Platform.

Don’t take our word for it, see what other School Districts have to say:

Not quite ready for live content? No problem, take a look through our Sparkrock 365 Guide specifically tailored for the K-12 community.