Accelerating Digital Transformation in Higher Education will run from 10am-5pm on Tuesday March 7 at Senate House, London.
ADT Speaker Programme
10:00 Welcome by Cosector MD Mark Newton
10:05 Intro by Compere Fiona Harvey (Education Development Manager University of Southampton)
10:15 Headliner
Name: Jeremy Waite @jeremywaite
Title/Organisation: Evangelist at IBM
Title: WTF (What’s the Future)– Student Experience
10:40
Name: Dr Michele W Milner
Title/Organisation: Head of Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at University of East London
Topic: Exploring new modes of digital delivery: Developing competency-based learning at UEL.
11:05 Refreshments
11:20
Name: Carla Aerts
Title/Organisation: Director of Futures, Institute of Education – UCL
Topic: ‘Moving to a world of strategic partnership to support HE transformation for 21st century’
11:45
Name: Andrew Ward @banathe
Title/Organisation: Global Head of Digital Transformation at the University of Nottingham
Topic: “Creating personalized experiences using big data”
12:10
Expert Panel: ‘Digital Universities: rising to the challenge.’ Edtech UK’s TY Goddard, panel chair, will be joined by Ian Fordham, Microsoft; John de Pury, Universities UK; Martin Hamilton, Jisc and Stephanie Taylor, CoSector, to discuss Simplifying the Digitalization Process in HE
12:35 Lunch
13:35 Compere Fiona Harvey’s welcome back
13:40
Name: Elliott King @elliott_king
Title/Organisation: Co-founder of MintTwist
Topic: Marketing for Gen Z: Reach, Engage and Inspire; including a case study of City, University of London
14:05
Name: Ian Yorston @IanYorston
Title/Organisation: Director of Digital Strategy Radley College
Topic: Why ICT should be Invisible
14:30
Name: Gavin Newman Events Director @iventhq
Title/Organization: Ivent-HQ
Topic: Digitalizing Student Recruitment – Virtual Open Days
14:55 Refreshments
15:10
Name: Gi Fernando @gifernando @freeformers_uk
Title/Organisation: Founder of Freeformers
Topic: "How do we educate for the post-AI world".
15:35
Name: Nigel Smith @nigelcsmith
Title/Organisation: Head of Content at Future Learn
Topic: The Digital Transformation of HE
16:05
Industry Insight Panel: Q + A session with our headline sponsor Cosector and co-sponsors Sony, Guidebook & I-vent
16:30
Key Notes Close: Cosector + Fiona Harvey close event
16:30 Networking drinks