Applied Practice SOL36
Edtech Solutions for All
Date Thursday, Dec 3 Time – RoomTegel
Harnessing the power of technology to provide new opportunities for learners, the professionals in this session are making waves in the international tech scene. Learn about their solutions and thinking.
Chris Kwekowe
CEO/MD, Slatecube, Nigeria
Chris is an innovative teenage entrepreneur and technology consultant that believes that the African youth is the driving force for global impact and sees ICT as the propellant on which this goal is dependent on.
With a massive interest and substantial knowledge in computers and technology spanning well over a decade (nearly all his life) he has an unflinching desire to impact his immediate world, most importantly, teenagers and young adults with this knowledge, and also demonstrate to them the path to societal and global relevance.
He has spoken in a number of events organized by notable companies and organisations such as the Nigeria Book Foundation, MTN Nigeria, Tech 360, among others on topics addressing young adults on technology and positive impact.
Over the years he has designed and developed innovation-driven apps such as the award-winning StudyHub EduSuite Pro and Slatecube.
He believes that every good success comes from God and that there really is a lot to learn about life.
Links
http://www.microbold.nethttp://www.slatecube.com
Norbert Morawetz
Founder & CEO, Henley Business School, UK
Dr Norbert Morawetz is a creative business academic and digital entrepreneur. Prior to joining Henley Business School, Norbert built up and ran the largest entrepreneurship programme in the UK at the University of Hertfordshire, for which he received the National Enterprise Educator Award from the UK Higher Education Academy.
He is the founder of ed-tech startup potential.ly, where he fuses psychology and technology to enhance personal development, collaborative learning and employability.
Norbert's research focuses on technology entrepreneurship, psychometrics, team analytics, online education and economics of creative industries, especially the film industry.
As a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Henley Business School, he teaches undergrads and MBAs and looks after the BA Entrepreneurship as UG Programme Director for Entrepreneurship.
Links
http://www.henley.ac.ukhttp://www.potential.ly/
Andrew Chaifetz
Founder & CEO, NoteBowl, USA
Andrew Chaifetz is the founder and CEO of NoteBowl. Andrew has previously managed developers for Microsoft and served as the chairman of Innovate UA, a program to help student startups grow and leverage institutional resources at the University of Arizona. As a recent student himself, Andrew is intimately familiar with how education technology currently falls short and what can be done to fix it.
Links
David Guevara
Altus Forge GmbH, Switzerland
David Guevara is digital entrepreneur and educator that is convinced everyone is a gamer inside.
David is the founder and CEO of Altus Forge, previously a software architect at IBM and Microsoft. Heavily involved in independent game development in various countries and companies.
David currently consults with universities and companies over the world to implement gamified solutions that work for their communities.
Links
Moderator
Harry McCarney
Tech Mentor and Managing Director, Tech Mentor and Managing Director at Hack&Craft, Germany
Harry is the founder and Managing Director of Hack and Craft GmbH. Hack and Craft has built a wide range of innovative products for startups and aspirational fortune 500s. Through lean methodology and Hyper agile software development Hack and Craft has driven iterative change and innovation in companies like Axel Springer, Azko Nobel and Red Bull.
Prior to founding Hack & Craft Harry consulted with some of the largest financial corporations in the world where he built algorithms for the London Stock Exchange and the UK government. In the digital space Harry has architecteced web apis, big data solutions and anti-fraud systems for companies like Zanox, Rocket internet and edarling.
Alongside corporate work he has also founded and invested in several startups including the first EU community crowd funding site friendfund.com. Harry has degrees in Philosophy and Artificial intelligence and has mentored at Google for Entrepreneurs and the Microsoft Tech accelerator. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.