Mark your calendars!
We are delighted to announce that the 2009 conference will be held next year in April on these dates:

Pre-Conference Sessions
April 21, 2009
Main Conference
April 22 – 23, 2009

The 2009 conference will be held in the same hotel as the 2008 conference:

Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites
1763 Comox Street, Vancouver, BC
V6G 1P6

We’re also pleased to announce two of our keynote speakers who will be headlining the 2009 VSS Annual Spring Conference.


Ellen Wagner 

Ellen D. Wagner has worked for Worldwide eLearning Solutions, Adobe Systems, Inc. where she helped set the strategic direction for eLearning solutions for specialized markets, including education. She previously served as Sr. Director of Global Education Solutions at Macromedia Inc. Dr. Wagner’s prior career as a tenured university professor and administrator featured positions as Chair of the Educational Technology Program at the University of Northern Colorado, Academic Affairs Coordinator of Instructional and Research Technologies and Director of the Western Institute for Distance Education. She was also Visiting Scholar and Project Director at the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder.


Tod Maffin

According to the Globe and Mail, Tod Maffin is "one of Canada's most influential futurists". He is widely recognized as a leading international authority on new technologies, the strategic use of social media, the world of blogs and podcasts as well as online video and user-generated content. Maffin is one of the country's go-to commentators on the impact of accelerated technological change and innovation on the business and economic environment and can speak to every aspect of technology and resulting implications for the world we live in.