EdTech 2017
With the world’s most important education and training industry stakeholders convening in one location, these particular sessions are all about new technologies, solutions and tools - and those creating them!
EDT06
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time – RoomKöpenick
Discovery Demos
Discovery demos show off ‘next-rev’ tools, next generation materials and pre-release products, giving you the chance to interact on an informal basis with developers and creators.
Carmen Molina
Instructional Designer, IE Business School, Spain
The Wow Room: Using Video Wall Technology to Revolutionise the Classroom
I work for the Learning Innovation department at IE Business School. There, I have had the opportunity to use my knowledge, from working as both, an Instructional Designer and a Professor, to guide the institution in implementing and creating innovative technology to drive their educational plan. Currently, I work as Project Manager in the development and improvement of the WowRoom.
I hold BA from the University of Miami, with a Double Major in Criminology and Psychology as well as a Minor in Art. Later, I received my MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University Complutense of Madrid. During my career in psychology, I have had the opportunity to work in such fields as: adult psychology, child psychology and forensics among others. My role as a therapist covered everything from psychological assessment to treatment.
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Griset Roger
Innovation Project Manager, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
NIU: an Aggregator of Learning Resources Based on the Performance Learning Activity (PLA) Educational Model
Roger Griset is graduate in Library and Information Sciences at the University of Barcelona; in his time in the UOC he has worked as a project manager at the Audiovisual department, the Digital Library, the Learning Resources Technology department and the eLearnCenter in the same university, where he's working now. He's got experience in the design and maintaining of open institutional repositories, design of metadata profiles and digital content management.
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http://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/index.html
Pablo Achard
Senior advisor, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Integrating Teaching and Research Online
With a background in particle physics and computational neurosciences, I work at the University of Geneva’s Rectorate where I am in charge, among others, of strategic planning and foresight. In this position, I developed the university MOOC program in 2013. I authored "Les MOOCs, cours en lignes et transformation des universités" (PUM).
I am currently Senior advisor to the rector, as well as co-founder of the start-up Ayaru.
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Olivier Heidmann
Software Engineer & Game Developer, Institute for Research and Technology Thessaly - Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Serious Games for Understanding and Practicing Agile Design in Engineering Higher Education
Olivier Heidmann is lead developer and designer in serious games projects, responsible for designing and creating virtual experiment demonstrators. He has a Master Degree in Parallel Computing from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France. He also taught computer science, mathematics and management to students ranging from 14 years old to adults for 7 years. Since 2004, he participated in more than a dozen different EC-funded projects, using ICT and web-based solutions to enhance the teaching and learning methodologies and tools. He has published several papers at international conferences over the past 8 years.
Hariklia Tsalapatas
Instructor, University of Thessaly, Greece
Building Digital Skills for Work
Hariklia Tsalapatas is a software engineer at the University of Thessaly, Greece since 2000. She has a Diploma in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece (1990), an MSc Degree in Computer Science from Rice University, Houston, TX (1994), and an MBA from London Business School (2005). She has been working on ICT in education since 2000 focusing on combining technology with emerging learning methodologies including active, experiential, explorative, and collaborative learning. Over the past 6 years she has been active on serious games in education, mobile learning, and community-based learning. She has participated in 20 EU funded projects since 2000 several of which she has coordinated. She has published approximately 40 publications in the same timeframe. Earlier engagements inlcude working as a researcher at the Foundation for Research and Technology in Heraklion Crete (1998-2000) and as a network engineer for Oracle corporation, SF, California (1993-1997).
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Daniel R. Schneider
Project Leader and Lead Developer, ETH Zurich Educational Development and Technology (LET), Switzerland
Design Approaches For Secure E-Assessment
Daniel R. Schneider is currently project leader and lead developer for Safe Exam Browser (SEB) at the Center for Educational Development and Technology at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In this position, Daniel is coordinating technical aspects, public relations and contacts to other institutions using the open source application SEB. As software developer he is also responsible for design, implementation and further development of SEB. Safe Exam Browser is an open source software application used to secure Windows and Mac OS computers in the context of online examinations. The SEB project raised the awareness that e-assessments and online examinations can be conducted without expensive commercial products; download numbers are constantly growing and SEB is used by numerous universities and other institutions all around the world, including the USA, Australia, India, Israel, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands and various other European countries.
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http://www.let.ethz.ch/index_EN
Pratik Ghosh
Founder and CEO, Justori, France
JUSTORI® - A Social Media Audio Platform on Smartphone for Storytelling, Archiving, and Listening
Pratik (1963) is the Founder & CEO of Add Value Technology Ltd, the developer of Justori, a unique free smartphone audio app to tell, archive and listen to stories. Using narrow bandwidth, Justori couples flexible voice recording, exhaustive archiving and instantaneous disseminating of stories with comprehensive social media features. Justori creates novel opportunities around storytelling to harness informal knowledge networks, revive oral traditions, hone literary and voice talent, preserve cultures, learn new languages and skills, record biography etc.
Pratik holds a MSc. in Operational Research from the London School of Economics. Starting his career in London as an OR Analyst at British Airways and IT Consultant with Financial Systems Software, Pratik had been Adviser at the Ministry of Finance (Mauritius), Partner in-charge of business consulting in Africa for DCDM Consulting and Head of Global Business Banking and member of the management of the Mauritius Commercial Bank.
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Martin Riemer
Lecturer, computer engineer, member of faculty and eLearning team, IT Advisor to Med. Faculty, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany
How to Convince Initially Hesitating Students and Lecturers to Use New E-Learning Methods and Technologies in Medicine?
For over 25 years Martin Riemer has been involved in medical 3D-image processing research. This work resulted in a prototype of the subsequently published VOXEL-MAN 3D-Navigator anatomical interactive medical atlases; which helped to introduce 3D virtual body models, made from tomographic data, to medical teaching. In the development group he was mainly responsible for the prototype, the user interface and the MS-Windows implementation of the 3D-Navigator.
Since 2003 he has concentrated on teaching Medical Computer Science and helped groups setting up eLearning at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU).
His special interest is the creation and use of Virtual Patients. He has been awarded the “Hamburger Lehrpreis 2017“ for the Medical Faculty. Being involved in teaching medical students in both real and virtual environments and software engineering he is familiar with pedagogical as well as technical aspects of eLearning.
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Xavier Mas
Researcher, Digital Education Specialist, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
NIU: an Aggregator of Learning Resources Based on the Performance Learning Activity (PLA) Educational Model
PhD in Education and Society by the Universitat de Barcelona. Specialist and researcher on digital education at the eLearn Center of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has worked as a pedagogical adviser, learning designer and manager of educational innovation in this same university since 1997 and has published several papers and articles related to these areas. He is currently the director of the Outer EDU collection (Editorial UOC) and his interest focus are the phenomenon of learning on the net, the impact of the digital society on education and the emergence of new training modalities.
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EDT12
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time – RoomChess
EdTech: Innovation in Uncertainty
How are start-ups in the ever changing and dynamic education market successfully entering their market, addressing legal requirements around data privacy and protection, finding investors who understand the market, entering relevant partnerships and providing future thinking products, whilst still being relevant for their current users? In this session, we will look into some of the unique solutions these start-ups offer, in terms of the market needs they address and the uncertainties with which they are faced.
Norbert Morawetz
Founder & CEO, Potentially Ltd, UK
Creating and Managing Skills and Competency Development Online with the Potential.ly Platform
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.
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http://www.henley.ac.ukhttp://www.potential.ly/
Kjartan Ólafsson
CEO, ErkiTónlist sf, Iceland
CalmusComposer - a Software for Music Creation and Modern Education in Composition
Kjartan Ólafsson (1958) graduated in 1984 from the Reykjavík College of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition. He continued his studiesin Holland at the Institute of Sonology and later at the Sibelius Academy in Finland. Kjartan received his Licentia doctorand (PhD) from the Sibelius Academy in 1995.
Since 1988, Kjartan has been developing a composing system based on Artificial Intelligence technique called CALMUS (Calculated Music), which is a computer program especially designed for music composition.
Among works composed by Kjartan are pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, electronic music, orchestral works, concertos and music for various theatre productions. His Viola Concerto received the Icelandic Music Award in 2002 as the composition of the year.
From 2005- 2014 Kjartan was Professor of Composition and Theory at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Now he is the CEO and head of research at ErkiTónlist sf and teacher at the University of Iceland.
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Bruno Koninckx
Founder, KnowledgeFlow, Belgium
How to Make Knowledge Usable on the Workfloor
Prior to co-founding KnowledgeFlow, Bruno Koninckx (°1968) worked as a researcher, free-lance project manager and trainer. His main focus in all of these activities is on digital & mobile media and innovation.
Within KnowledgeFlow team Bruno is responsible for business development, project management of the KnowledgeFlow implementation at our first customers and taking the lead in the marketing & communications activities for KnowledgeFlow.
Since 2003, Bruno has worked part-time as a researcher at Thomas More University College, focusing on applied research projects in the fields of e-government, digital & mobile media and innovation.
From within his own company, DigitArte bvba, he helped companies and organisations with digital innovation regarding knowledge sharing and collaboration. Out of these activities, he has developed the knowledge sharing and e-learning system, KnowledgeFlow, together with Wouter Van den Bosch.
Prior to these activities, Bruno has worked as a digital media and technology journalist for over 20 years. He worked for national media as De Tijd, De Standaard, Radio 1, Studio Brussel, Focus & Weekend Knack, Kanaal Z and Canal+ television, Data News, Business ICT and HR Magazine. At the beginning of his career, Bruno worked a few years as a free-lance tester for Didascalia, one of the first e-learning companies in Belgium.
For more information, see http://be.linkedin.com/in/brunokoninckx
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David Kofoed Wind
CEO, Peergrade, Denmark
Scaffolding Peer Feedback with Feedback Rubrics
Co-founder and CEO of Peergrade. PhD-student within machine learning, data science, deep learning and learning analytics at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU). I started Peergrade when my class Computational Tools for Big Data at DTU grew from 20 to 150 students.
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Vilborg Einarsdottir
Co-founder & VP of Business Development, InfoMentor, Iceland
Why School Needs to Transform to Competence-based Learning
Vilborg Einarsdóttir, Co-founder of InfoMentor & VP of Business development
Vilborg holds a BEd in Education from the University of Teaching in Iceland and an MSc in Strategy and Management from the University of Iceland and the University of Business Administration in Aarhus, Denmark. She worked as a lecturer in Management and Strategy at the University of Iceland from 2006-2009. She is a regular lecturer in universities in Iceland sharing her experience with business students and she is also a common speaker in the educational sector in Europe. Besides, she was at the board of Promote Iceland from 2010 to 2013 and the chairman of the board from 2013-2016 and member at the board of Federation of Industries in Iceland from 2009 to 2015.
Honours
- Top-list in Brightest Business Minds (Nordic Business Forum) in 2016,
- The Order of the Falcon awarded by the President of Iceland in January 2012,
- Business woman of the year in 2010 awarded by the Icelandic Association of Women Entrepreneurs,
- Female Entrepreneurship Ambassador, October 2009 in Stockholm in Sweden, received from the Swedish crown princess Victoria.
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Adalheidur Hreinsdottir
CTO, Costner, Iceland
Navigating the Sea of Innovations to Connect your Classroom to the Latest Learning Apps
Moderator
Beth Havinga
Connect EdTech, Germany
Beth Havinga is passionate about supporting a lead in the change, development and growth of positive tools and strategies that enable a stronger, more interoperable education experience. She believes in the need for a more networked education environment and is excited to connect industry leaders in technology, global publishers, startups and governments through her work to build robust and innovative solutions. With over 15 years in the education industry, she is dedicated to improving the education space.
Originally a high school teacher, Beth has managed publishing houses and education software companies in Europe, founded her own startups, and continues to support a wide variety of education organisations through her company, Connect EdTech. Beth works with large tech corporations, education publishers, governments, ministries of education and education startups globally, supporting them in education policy, digital implementation, and development and market strategies. As a specialist in the digitisation and interoperability of education systems, Beth is currently on the expert committee of the Austrian Ministry of Economy, Research and Science, and is also the executive director of the German Alliance for Education. Additionally, Beth is a stakeholder in EDUvation, a business angel company supporting education startups based in Germany, complementing her work with StartEdTech.
EDT28
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time – RoomChess
EdTech: Innovation in Uncertainty (2)
How are start-ups in the ever changing and dynamic education market successfully entering their market, addressing legal requirements around data privacy and protection, finding investors who understand the market, entering relevant partnerships and providing future thinking products, whilst still being relevant for their current users? In this session, we will look into some of the unique solutions these start-ups offer, in terms of the market needs they address and the uncertainties with which they are faced.
Clément Régnier
CMO, TestWe, France
Shaping the Future of e-Evaluation
Clément is Chief Executive Officer at TestWe. TestWe develops digital exam/assessment solutions in a secure and offline environment.
In a past life, Clement was attorney at law in New-York. Knowing both French and American educational system, he realized that even thought digital is widely used by students in their every day life - and in their futur professional life - digital is still not a standard to take an exam.
At TestWe we strongly believe that digital tools can enhance the learning experience and the testing experience. Indeed, digital allows to create exercices and tests as close to reality as possible by using videos, sounds, and pictures. The only limit is then imagination.
Clement focuses on thinking on what will be the exam of tomorrow and how exams will be taken.
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Kaloian Kirilov
CEO, Tutorland.de, Bulgaria
The School of the Future - the Virtual School
An entrepreneur with over 15 years of entrepreneurial experience. The last project is in the Edtech and together with my team created something unique for Europe. A complete virtual school.
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Mikkel Lauritzen
Director of Partnerships, Aula, UK
Navigating the Post-LMS Landscape - Conversational Interfaces as “Frictionless Adoption Paths” to Institution-wide Technology-enhanced Teaching
Mikkel Lauritzen is the Director of Partnerships at Aula - a UK-based start-up that provides a ‘conversational’ alternative to learning management systems.
At Aula, Mikkel has both strategic and operational responsibility for institutional partnerships. In addition to being responsible for strategic solutions for Aula’s partner institutions, the operational side of his role allows him to combine his keen interests in cognitive psychology and change management.
Prior to joining Aula, Mikkel led an educational non-profit with 2000+ members and gained experience with public sector consulting and digital transformations at McKinsey & Company. Originally from Denmark, Mikkel’s academic background is from the University of Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
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Dwayne Iserief
Co-Fondateur - Sales & marketing, Uptale.io, France
Why Immersive Learning is the next Big Thing in Corporate training
Elzbieta Szczepaniak
Trainer, Lecturer, Project manager, Revas sp. z o.o, Poland
Passionate entrepreneurship trainer, business simulations author, entrepreneur. I have been teaching young people (students, high school students) entrepreneurship for 10 years. I am always looking for innovative approaches and tools such as board games, simulations, LEGO etc. In my business I create tools for teachers - business simulations that allow teaching entrepreneurship in an industry-specific way (students in IT fields manage virtual IT services company, future hairdressers - Hair salon etc).
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Harie Pot
Product Owner, Boonlearning, The Netherlands
Technology: Enabler or Inhibitor of Innovation
Moderator
Beth Havinga
Connect EdTech, Germany
Beth Havinga is passionate about supporting a lead in the change, development and growth of positive tools and strategies that enable a stronger, more interoperable education experience. She believes in the need for a more networked education environment and is excited to connect industry leaders in technology, global publishers, startups and governments through her work to build robust and innovative solutions. With over 15 years in the education industry, she is dedicated to improving the education space.
Originally a high school teacher, Beth has managed publishing houses and education software companies in Europe, founded her own startups, and continues to support a wide variety of education organisations through her company, Connect EdTech. Beth works with large tech corporations, education publishers, governments, ministries of education and education startups globally, supporting them in education policy, digital implementation, and development and market strategies. As a specialist in the digitisation and interoperability of education systems, Beth is currently on the expert committee of the Austrian Ministry of Economy, Research and Science, and is also the executive director of the German Alliance for Education. Additionally, Beth is a stakeholder in EDUvation, a business angel company supporting education startups based in Germany, complementing her work with StartEdTech.
EDT44
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time – RoomChess
Opportunities and Challenges for Education Start-ups in the European Market: Understanding Your Customers' Needs
The customer development process is key for every entrepreneur. Before you sell and scale you have to understand who your customers are, what they want to buy and how you can sell it best. In this interactive session we will explore different customer development methods, exchange sales knowledge, have a deeper look at acquisition tools & sales funnel strategies tailored to the education industry.
Vincent Zimmer
Co-founder & Managing Director, Kiron University, Germany
Vincent Zimmer is a Co-Founder of Kiron Open Higher Education, a blended learning educational platform for refugees. He completed two master’s degree study programmes, “International Economics” at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and “Public Policy and Administration” at the London School of Economics. Vincent Zimmer has a lot of experience in the startup area, and has been already involved in several foundings. Furthermore he worked in a consultancy (Rambøll Management Consulting) and with students in crisis during his time at “Study without borders”. His experiences in the refugees area and a research stay in Istanbul, moved him to found Kiron together with Markus Kressler in 2015.
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Tobias Himmerich
Geschäftsführer, EDUvation & MeinSchulprojekt, Germany
Kati Clements
Postdoctoral Researcher, IMAILE Project, Finland
IMAILE PCP - A Collaboration Business Model that Crosses Borders and Sectors for Global Competition
Moderator
Annemieke Frank
EDUvation, Germany
EDT89
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time – RoomZille
Collaborative Interdisciplinary Support for University/Industry Projects
Professional educational institutions and their learners need to keep up with rapid developments in industry and the best way to do this is in interdisciplinary collaboration! Join this interactive session and walk away with tools (a digital matrix and a MOOC) that link curricula to industry projects.
Elisabeth Agerbaek
Associated Professor, Lillebaelt Academy, University of Applied Science, Denmark
Elisabeth (Lise) Agerbaek is an Associated Professor at Lillebaelt Academy, University of Applied Science in Odense, Denmark. She has published articles and books on the use of e-portfolios as a learning tool and how to design for web and online media. She teaches Philosophy of Science and Digital Design at the BA in Digital Concept Development.
She is educated MA in Philosophy and Design and is CEO of own Graphical Design company. Current area of research is acknowledging informal learning through digital badges. Another field of interest is how to scaffold interdisciplinary teaching in higher education. She enjoys winter bathing and art museums.
TedX talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__YvKrxmA6I&t=1s
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Ellen Houmøller
Associate Professor, Lillebaelt Academy, University of Applied Science, Denmark
Elena Vilabrille
Coordinación Moda Online, IED Madrid, Spain
Elena Vilabrille Paz is a fashion designer that has focused her career as a teacher and academic coordinator in the online education. She is the head of eFashion, a tailor-made fashion course created by IED Madrid for INDITEX employees. Apart from leading the didactic department and being deeply involved in the instructional design and course production, she also coordinates the main action characters: the lectures, the students and the client-company.
Her experience in fashion image, working as a stylist and costume designer [Vogue, Citizen K, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid City Council, Telefónica,…] and creating and coordinating a face to face international One Year Fashion Communication course at IED Madrid, has given her the required knowledge to take on the challenge of online projects. IED Madrid is increasing its already existing online area and Elena Vilabrille is in charge of every fashion related course.
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EMP04
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time – RoomTegel
Provocations for Innovation: Are We Ready to Educate Creative Makers and Shapers?
To support strong civil societies and the development of a future-ready, changeable and creative workforce our education systems require an urgent rethink and reimagining. As we move rapidly towards the second half of the 21st Century creative, collaborative and ‘transversal’ themes need to be introduced to our education systems. Innovations in teaching and learning, supporting the development of new thinking - and additions to the current set of higher-order skills will form the new ‘essential skills’. Conservative interest groups in government, administration, trade unions and commercial organisations continue to put up obstacles to change that has been in discussion since the early 1990’s.
Within this setting it is essential and urgent to prepare creative 'makers and shapers' who will thrive in a rapidly changing and highly creative environment. This presentation will bring together a panel of experts to instigate a thought-provoking discussion and drive breakthrough thinking.
Peter Hamilton
Founder and Principal Consultant, EdTech Ventures, Ireland
What Van Gogh Had to Say About Change and Transformation
Peter Hamilton has over 30 years’ experience in the IT Industry in Ireland and the USA with Digital Equipment Corporation and Intel. Peter was a Founder of Intel Performance Learning Solutions where he led the business and technology development of skoool.com, a major digital learning initiative which helped Intel build its education technology business in over 40 countries worldwide. Peter is currently the Founder and Principal Consultant with EdTech Ventures, a leadership digital education consultancy group with associates in the US, Europe and Asia.
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http://www.edtech-ventures.com/
Niels-Peder Osmundsen Hjøllund
Assistent Professor, University College Copenhagen, Denmark
From 21st Century Skills to 21st Century Human Beings
Dr. Niels-Peder Osmundsen Hjøllund, assistant professor at the University College of Copenhagen
In his work, he researches the role of pedagogues and pedagogy in schools. He has taught media & digital culture and pedagogical theory. He holds a PhD in information studies from the University of Copenhagen, where his thesis "Subject position and Information Literacy - a reinstallation of the subject" discussed information literacy and cases of prohibitional versus laissez faire use of social media in Danish high school.
Dr. Hjøllund has done research within digitization of children, youth, and education as well as notions of identity and how the 21st century can and do restructure both the individual and the social sphere.
He is member of the board in the research network BIN - Barnekultur i Norden (Children's culture in the Nordic countries). He is also a member of the Danish Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis.
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Donna Eiby
Creative Director, 4th Industrial Revolution.org, Australia
Winning as a Human: Unlocking Your Potential for the Workplace of the Future
My passion is education and my life is teaching and learning, learning and teaching. I spend my days with interesting people who have an interest in people. Scientists, academics, designers, artists, ethicists, algoritmists, inventors, architects...And we talk about the Future of Work.
I'm on the winning human side. Which doesn't mean I don't appreciate the value of technology; but I am confident it will find its way. People, humans, us, we...well that's up for debate. So myself and a global, diverse group of fabulous humans have created a faculty that offers scaffolding from today to tomorrow. Short, online training videos designed to shift mindsets and enhance skill sets for the workplace of the future. Which is here now really.
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https://www.the4thindustrialrevolution…
Danny Gooris
Senior Manager, Oracle Academy, Belgium
Oracle Academy: Your Gateway to the Future
Danny joined Oracle in January 2013 with more than 15 years of experience managing vendor-led technology education programs. He was formerly the EMEA program leader at Learning@Cisco. He has worked with Ministries of Education around the world from Russia to Africa. Danny’s global experience contributes to his passion for ensuring that young people develop the skills to become the leaders and entrepreneurs of the future. Danny looks after the Oracle Academy EMEA, as Senior Manager, is responsible for strategic initiatives & private-public partnerships, works closely with the European Union Grand Coalition, and is board member of the European e-Skills Association, and is involved the ICT Foundation Body of Knowledge.
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Moderator
Michelle Selinger
CEO, EdTech Ventures, UK
Dr Michelle Selinger is a Principal Consultant with the consultancy practice EdTech Ventures. She has extensive experience helping governments and educational institutions around the world in both developed and emerging economies to create and evaluate strategies for technology enhanced education reform. She has an academic background in digital education in both campus-based and distance education. She was responsible for technology across the curriculum in the Open University’s distance taught initial teacher education programme where led pioneering work on teacher collaboration in1994. She later established and led the Centre for New Technology Research in Education at the University of Warwick, and then took the role of lead education consultant for Cisco Systems Corporate Affairs and then Cisco’s Consultancy Services.
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EMP22
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time – RoomCheck
MatchED? Discuss Inspirational Solutions with Today’s Learners
High school students are concerned about global economic, political, social and environmental problems. They are taking responsibility for the pressing challenges of today and tomorrow and making their voices heard. In this session, you will hear their ideas and are invited to join an inspiring intergenerational dialogue on “Skills for the New Digital Age” with ambassadors of the YES! - Young Economic Summit. Let’s enter into a conversation with today’s learners, looking at the future of education.
Stephanie Hellmayr
Richard-Hallmann-Schule, Germany
Chantal Pasternack
Richard-Hallmann-Schule, Germany
Shante Pasternack
Richard-Hallmann-Schule, Germany
Emma Karstens
Richard-Hallmann-Schule, Germany
The matchED-Team
Sarah Zühlke, Pauline Karstens, Emma Karstens, Chantal Pasternack and Shante Pasternack are students at the Richard-Hallmann-School in Trappenkamp and are visting the socio-scientific and economic profiles in the 12th grade.
Together they decided to join the national school-competition "Young Economic Summit" (shortly YES!). This competition opens doors and sets a stage for new and creative ideas of the next generation. High School students concern themselves with global problems in the realm of economy, policy, society and environment. They aim to find innovative solutions in order to create the world, the youth wants to live in.
In this context the students from the Richard-Hallmann-School dealed with the topic "skills for the new digital age" and developed their idea of a web-based platform under the name "matchED"- Matching Education and Digitalization. MatchED combines a web-based learning module for students with detailed qualification profiles of employers. In that way, the lack of digital competences can be decreased as graduates can gain qualification matching their aspired career.
Pauline Karstens
Richard-Hallmann-Schule, Germany
Sarah Zühlke
Richard-Hallmann-Schule, Germany