.KEY3 Stephen Heppell

CEO Heppell.net and Visiting Professor, Bournemouth University

 Professor Bournemouth University, Chair in New Media Environments, Emeritus Professor Anglia Ruskin University Visiting Professor University of Wales, Newport. Executive chairman LP+
"Europe's leading online education expert" Microsoft 2006
"Stephen has a vast portfolio of successful, large scale, learning projects behind him". JISC 2006Stephen was the guiding "father" of a number of social networking projects including *ESW in the 1980s, Schools OnLine for the Department of Trade and `industry in 1995/6, Tesco Schoolnet 2000 from 1999, Think.com from 1999.

Stephen's founded Ultralab in the 1980s, moving there from the UK Government's groundbreaking Microelectronics Education Programme. Over a score of years Ultralab grew to become Europe's leading learning technology research centre with projects that pioneered multimedia CD ROMs and on-line communities in the 1980s - before the web!

"Ultralab is Europe's leading leading research institute pioneering leading edge applications in support of proven educational precepts." Oracle Corporation 1999
"one of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world" Financial Times 2001

In recognition of this work, along with others including Damien Hirst, Jarvis Cocker, Harrison Ford, Lauren Bacall, Muhammad Ali; Stephen became an Apple Master in the 1990s.

Stephen left Ultralab to found his own flourishing policy and learning consultancy Heppell.net which now has a portfolio of international projects including:
Learnometer and HorizonTAL.

Stephen was a founder board member for Teachers.TV - a UK public service TV and broadband channel for professional development of teachers.

Stephen sits on BAFTA's Film Committee guiding the BAFTA Film Awards and other cinema related work.

In June 2006 Stephen was awarded the Royal Television Society's Judges Award for Lifelong Services to Educational Broadcasting.Stephen is retained by a number of organisations to help with future policy and direction, including the BBC, is an Associate of KPMG, and is retained by UK government in Horizon Scanning work to advise of future directions for educational policy.

"The most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education" Department for Education and Skills (DfES), UK, 2006
Stephen is executive chairman of LP+ who are currently developing a Chinese language learning community for 20 million Chinese school students, in partnership with China's Sun New Media corporation.

"Money alone won't make the Internet fly. Ultimately, it's success lies with kids and other folk who don't follow dot-com stocks. That's where Stephen Heppell comes in. He's a digital do-gooder, helping to bring ordinary people into the Internet age.... looking about as threatening as Santa Claus with his twinkling blue eyes and bushy beard" Wall Street Journal 2000

"He could clearly be a very wealthy man because of his unique foresight, but he's decided that he wants to help children and parents get the most out of IT and Education" European Wall Street Journal 2000