Keynote Speakers

Brent A. Anders, Ph.D. has a Doctorates degree in Education (focusing on online learning, educational technology, and instructional methodologies) and currently works as the Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, and the Center for Teaching and Learning at the American University of Armenia.

He also serves as a lecturer on the topic of professional communication. His research interests are, AI in education, student motivation, and educational professional development.

Anders has done multiple public speaking events throughout the US and other parts of the world to include Australia, Tunisia, Germany, and Armenia. He has authored multiple books, research articles, and blog posts dealing with educational methodologies, online learning, and educational technology.

His second book on AI, “The AI Literacy Imperative: Empowering Instructors & Students” is now available on Amazon and focuses on the important need for everyone in academia to develop AI literacy skills in order to better develop students to be able to succeed in this fully integrated AI world.

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Simon Brown is Chief Learning Officer for Novartis, a leading global medicine company based in Switzerland that is reimaging medicine. He is also author of the Amazon-bestselling book ‘The Curious Advantage’ and co-host of the popular podcast series.
Simon is leading the strategy for Novartis to ‘Go Big on Learning’ in support of the company-wide culture transformation to become ‘Inspired, Curious, and Unbossed’.

In 2020, Simon and the Novartis team received recognition by being awarded with the Chief Learning Officer Gold Award for Learning Strategy, building on Simon’s previous Silver Award for his learning transformation work at Lloyds Banking Group. In 2021, Novartis’ commitment to learning was recognised in the ATD BEST Awards as the #3 company globally, for success in talent development.

Before Novartis and Lloyds, he led the UK Learning Strategy offering at Accenture, and co-founded one of the UK's leading e-Learning companies, BrightWave. He has worked with leading global organizations including Microsoft, HSBC, Barclays, BP, Canon and PwC.

Simon is also Vice-Chair of Hult EF Advisory Council, and a Member of World Economic Forum Chief Learning Officer Community, Cornerstone Executive Advisory Council, NIIT Customer Advisory Board, Gartner’s L&D Leadership Board and a Venture Partner for Emerge Education.

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Margaret Korosec is an innovative strategic leader bringing creativity, intentionality, and systems perspective to her leadership in scaling online and digital education. She is the Dean of Online and Digital Education at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom leading on establishing a design ecosystem to support and scale online education and a digitally-enabled student experience.

As part of her role, she has academic oversight of the Digital Education Service. The service provides specialist learning design, development, production, media, creative and learning systems management for online and digital education. She led the development of a digital learning accelerator, Helix; a creative space to encourage experimentation, iteration, and exploration fostering sense making of emergent technology and enabling radical internal and external collaboration.

Prior to joining Leeds, she led the growth of the credit and non-credit bearing online portfolio at the University of Derby Online Learning. She had strategic leadership of the design, development, and production of the portfolio with specific remit to launch over a dozen new online degrees fulfilling an ambitious strategic investment bid in less than two years. Her prior contribution at Western Governors University in the US, a fully online, competency-based educational model, significantly informed her commitment to online and flexible learning after witnessing the transformative impact education had on the professional trajectory and lives of graduates.

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Helen Lee Bouygues is the founder of the Reboot Foundation, an organisation that aims to better integrate critical thinking into the daily lives of people around the world. She is also an experienced corporate director and senior executive with expertise in digital transformation, innovation, and turnarounds. She has intervened in over 25 companies as interim CEO, CFO, or as advisor.

Helen is a former investment banker, private equity investor, and Partner at McKinsey & Company. She is known for her deep business transformation expertise and was named by leading French journals including Le Point, Express, La Tribune, and Les Echos as one of the top five leading turnaround experts in France. She has given courses at INSEAD Business School, is a contributor to Forbes, and has been featured in books and podcasts by the Harvard Business Review.

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Eric works with schools throughout the world, helping educators meet and exceed their potential to improve outcomes for learners. Prior to this, he was a teacher and an award-winning principal. Under his leadership, his school became a globally recognized model for innovative practices. Eric oversaw the successful implementation of several sustainable change initiatives that radically transformed the learning culture at his school while increasing achievement. Through his work with thousands of schools, Eric has emerged as an innovative leader, best-selling author, and sought-after speaker. His focus is on using research and evidence-based practices to empower learners and educators.

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