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Diana Stepner, Head of Future Technologies, Pearson

Diana_Stepner_-_Pearson Diana joined Pearson in January 2011 and is the Head of Future Technologies. She is a Silicon Valley native with extensive product experience running digital teams in both the US and Europe. Diana, and the Future Technologies team, are working with business units across Pearson to look into the future and identify consumer technologies which will impact the business in six to 12 months time. She ensures insights, partners, code, and best practises are shared among teams, drives innovation projects across the group (including Pearson Plug & Play @ developer.pearson.com) and helps build effective relationships with key development communities, including start-ups in the Android and Apple OS ecosystems. Diana was a Senior Strategist for Emerging Media at Razorfish and worked at Salesforce.com in the User Experience team. Most recently, she was responsible for the European operations of career destination Monster Worldwide and for product development at travel company Cheapflights. She has a Master of Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley with a concentration in human-computer interaction and an MBA from Boston University.