Steve Hargadon is the founder and director of the Learning Revolution Project, the host of the Future of Education interview series, and the founder and chair (or co-chair) of a number of annual worldwide virtual events, including the Global Education Conference and the Library 2.0 series of mini-conferences. Steve built one of the first modern social networks for teachers in 2007 (Classroom 2.0) and pioneered the use of live, virtual, and peer-to-peer education conferences. He popularized the idea of "unconferences" for educators with his long-running Hack Education annual event.