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Absolute provides persistent endpoint security and data risk management solutions for computers, tablets, and smartphones. Our customers rely on us to provide them with a unique and trusted layer of security so they can manage mobility while remaining firmly in control. Our Persistence technology is embedded into the core of most devices at the factory. Once activated, it provides you with comprehensive visibility into all of your devices enabling you to confidently manage mobility, investigate potential threats, and take action if a security incident occurs. No other technology can do this.
For 32 years, Dell has played a leading role in transforming the computing industry, making advanced technology more accessible and affordable to people and organizations around the globe. Our purpose is to deliver technology solutions that enable people everywhere to grow, thrive, and reach their potential. Our approach is fundamentally different - we simplify the complex, drive out inefficiency everywhere, and deliver a superior long-term value. Simply put, we give customers the power to do more. Today our enterprise portfolio addresses the entire IT ecosystem, enabling us to help customers deploy future-ready solutions for the data center and the workforce.
KBS has been partnering with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for more than 25 years. Schools choose KBS to install their technology products such as desktop, notebook and tablet devices. We also deploy multi-function printers (MFP’s) as well as audio/visual solutions such as Interactive Whiteboards, projectors and sound systems. KBS has installed more than 620,000 devices into schools just like yours. Our dedicated team works with schools each and every day to help design custom solutions to help them support and ultimately achieve their educational goals. We understand school face budget constraints, reduced staff, longer school days and still have the most important job in the world, preparing our students to be educated, productive citizens. This is why we are flexible in our scheduling, effective in our service delivery and price conscious. What good is technology if it is not installed correctly and maintained and supported efficiently? Our customers want the best tools they can obtain to help them enhance the learning process and to illustrate important lessons. Most teachers are not technology gurus, but we are. Let us take care of the “tech” so you can teach. Call KBS for more information at 708.820.5981 or visit us at www.kbs.us.com.
Core to our mission is creating immersive and inclusive experiences that inspire lifelong learning, stimulating development of essential life skills and supporting educators in guiding and nurturing student passions. We empower students and educators to create and share in entirely new ways, to teach and learn through exploration, to adapt to individual learning needs, so they can make, design, invent and build with technology.
Ricoh company combines world-class expertise and industry-leading technology to deliver value-added solutions:
Ricoh delivers solutions that are designed to address your specific business situation. From full-color scanning to 150 ppm high-quality, professionally finished output, and all the document management applications in between — Ricoh is your single source for production workflow solutions.
Broad Technology Portfolio
With Ricoh's consultative approach, we seek to first understand your needs, then apply and integrate the hardware, software and services that will best address your document management requirements.
Customer Service
Highly trained analysts from Ricoh’s Professional Services team focus on understanding your organization, then design and implement a solution to streamline your processes and help maximize the utilization of your hardware and software. Then, locally based Ricoh service technicians are assigned to support your account, and partner with you in maintaining your installation.
- Solutions focused on your business
- Workflow applications customized to your needs
- Broad technology portfolio
- Cost-effective implementation
- Efficient operation
- Professional Services expertise
- Superior technical service and support
- Willingness to work with you to achieve your objectives
Ricoh delivers solutions that are designed to address your specific business situation. From full-color scanning to 150 ppm high-quality, professionally finished output, and all the document management applications in between — Ricoh is your single source for production workflow solutions.
Broad Technology Portfolio
With Ricoh's consultative approach, we seek to first understand your needs, then apply and integrate the hardware, software and services that will best address your document management requirements.
Customer Service
Highly trained analysts from Ricoh’s Professional Services team focus on understanding your organization, then design and implement a solution to streamline your processes and help maximize the utilization of your hardware and software. Then, locally based Ricoh service technicians are assigned to support your account, and partner with you in maintaining your installation.
Anchor Sponsors
Achieve3000® is the leader in online differentiated literacy instruction, serving over two million students worldwide. Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000’s cloud-based solutions for grades PreK-12 reach students at their individual reading levels to deliver significant learning gains – often double to triple the expected gains in a single school year. From English language learner to Response to Intervention programs, and from foundational literacy to workforce readiness and higher education, Achieve3000’s solutions – Smarty Ants® (for grades PreK-1), KidBiz3000® (for grades 2-5), TeenBiz3000® (for grades 6-8), Empower3000™ (for grades 9-12), Spark3000® (for adult learners), and eScience3000® (for grades 6-8) – accelerate reading growth and empower students to succeed across the entire curriculum, including science and social studies. Plus, with comprehensive Spanish language support and robust scaffolding for struggling readers, Achieve3000’s Illinois Edition helps students of every age and ability meet the Illinois Standards and prepare for the PARCC. Learn more about how Achieve3000 can get your students on track for college and career success by visiting www.achieve3000.com.
LEAP Innovations bridges the gap between education and innovation for teachers and students from pre-K through college. We help educators develop and implement personalized learning environments enabled by technology to tailor instruction to each student’s skills, interests and goals. Headquartered at 1871, Chicago’s incubator for digital startups, LEAP also helps companies address unmet needs in education.
Truenorthlogic is a national provider of professional growth software for educators and K-12 education agencies striving to improve student achievement by increasing educator effectiveness. The system provides administrators with the online tools to prepare, grow, support and retain an effective faculty and staff. Certified and classified staff benefit from an aligned, continuous and personalized approach to professional growth. Developed in collaboration with leading education agencies, Truenorthlogic’s solution is the only technology platform that brings the processes, workflows, and data for all aspects of talent management together in a unified system to drive increased accountability and transparency. For more information, visit www.truenorthlogic.com.
Exhibitor Sponsors
CDW•G 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
As the world’s leading learning company, we can help make a difference. But we also know that the challenges are too immense to tackle alone. So we're fostering a global community of teachers, parents, students, governments, institutions and businesses, who can help us find the answers and deploy the solutions.
Together we aim to achieve our Efficacy Growth & Impact Goals, empowering the lives of 200 million learners by 2025 in critical ways including:
Together we aim to achieve our Efficacy Growth & Impact Goals, empowering the lives of 200 million learners by 2025 in critical ways including:
- Access to high quality primary, secondary & postsecondary education.
- Success in education through enhanced literacy, numeracy, knowledge & skills.
- Progress as a result of education into a first career or advancement in career.
Promethean is a global, education technology company that offer solutions for the modern classroom designed to improve the impact of instruction and learning by increasing student engagement and teacher effectiveness, both inside the classroom and beyond.
- Enable the flow of dynamic, interactive content across multiple connected devices
- Measure the comprehension level of every student in the moment of learning
- Extend learning beyond the classroom
- Provide differentiated instruction to groups and individual students
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies that redefine the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, cameras, digital appliances, printers, medical equipment, network systems, and semiconductor and LED solutions. We are also leading in the Internet of Things space with the open platform SmartThings, our broad range of smart devices, and through proactive cross-industry collaboration. We employ 319,000 people across 84 countries with annual sales of US $196 billion.
Troxell Communications has provided schools, businesses, and government agencies with affordably priced, quality AV products for over 60 years. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona with more than 70 offices nationwide, Troxell offers a vast selection of products from the nation’s leading AV manufacturers like Hitachi, Califone, Lumens, Crestron, ELMO and more.