Fall 2026 Conference Featured Speakers
Eric Curts
Eric has been in education for 34 years, and currently serves as a Technology Integration Specialist for SPARCC in North Canton, Ohio. He also provides keynotes, professional development, and consulting for schools, organizations, and conferences around the world. Eric’s areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, Google tools, assistive tech, and creative ways to use technology in teaching and learning. He is an authorized Google Education Trainer and Innovator, and co-leads the Ohio Google Educator Group. Eric runs the websites ControlAltAchieve.com and EduGems.ai where all of his edtech resources can be found, and is the author of the book “Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects”.
Social Media Handles:
Facebook – facebook.com/ericcurts
Threads – threads.net/@ericcurts
Instagram –instagram.com/ericcurts
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/ericcurts
Matthew Winters
Matthew Winters is the AI Education Specialist at Utah State Board of Education (USBE). He was also the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) President for 2022-2024, our Utah ISTE affiliate. He was one of the International Society for Technology in Education’s 20 to Watch in 2023, Tech & Learning’s Best Example of Professional Development, and District Administrator magazine’s Top 100 Innovative Educators in 2025. He is a former English Language Arts teacher at the secondary and college level. He has been a podcaster for six years, first with Edtrex Rewind and The UCET Podcast and then with UEN Homeroom and ISTE’s The Edge. He loves stories, creativity, and technology, and the intersections where all three topics grow together.
I only use LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/teacherwinters/ and my website teacherwinters.net
Rob Carr
Rob Carr is the Director of Strategy and Practice at WebAIM and a Digital Accessibility Specialist at NCADEMI, the Office for Special Education Programs technical assistance center dedicated to assisting pre-K-12 state and local education agencies to provide more accessible educational materials and instruction. Rob has been in the digital accessibility space since 2010. He has spent loads of time training, consulting, and learning about digital accessibility topics, large and small. Rob has worked with hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations on everything from making a single PDF accessible to integrating accessibility into organizations’ digital strategies. At WebAIM, he leads strategic training and consultation, supports technical training and consultation, and works on its renowned accessibility evaluation team. Rob presents at national conferences, organizes WebAIM’s annual online conference, and tries to be more active on LinkedIn.
Social Media Handles:
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/robcarra11y
Cynthia Curry
Cynthia is an Associate Director in the Technical Assistance Division of Utah State University’s Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice and Director of the OSEP-funded National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction (NCADEMI). A former secondary science teacher, she has spent her career advancing accessible learning in PreK–12 and higher education. Her leadership includes a decade supporting accessible 1:1 technology implementation across Maine, directing an OSEP-funded teacher preparation initiative at the University of Southern Maine, and founding the Maine Teacher Preparation Collaborative to strengthen educator preparation in assistive technology and accessible educational materials. At CAST, she provided leadership to two national OSEP-funded technical assistance centers: the National AEM Center and CITES. Her work brings together special education, assistive technology, accessible educational materials, digital accessibility, and technical assistance to improve educational systems for students with disabilities.
Social Media Handles:
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/cynthialcurry