The event features top-level plenary presentations, open fora, a full-day workshop, a series of other workshops, special interest group meetings and parallel presentations. Keynote speakers include: Stephen Downes, National Research Council, Canada, Darren Cambridge, George Mason University, USA, Barbara Cambridge, National Council of Teachers of English, USA, Erik Driessen, University of Maastricht (to be confirmed). A special plenary session devoted to the ePortfolio for regions and territories will feature presentations by Paul Wasko, eFolio Minnesota and Paul Messer, Careers Wales, Jangui Le Carpentier, Région Basse-Normandie and Rens de Groot, the Netherlands. Helen Barrett, international ePortfolio consultant will be running a one-day interactive workshop on 22 October on Building a Personal Learning Environment in the Web 2.0 Cloud.