A.Prof At ANU (School of Engineering), Founder and Executive Director World of Drones and Robotics Global as well as Scientific Futurist and International Advisor.

We are very excited to welcome Associate Professor, Dr Catherine Ball as our first keynote speaker. Dr Ball is a scientific futurist working across global projects where emerging technologies meet humanitarian, educational and environmental needs. Dr Ball will discuss the future of education, the impact of the internet and social media on our minds and how ‘the age of the never graduating student’ is becoming more of a reality in the current world where new content is constantly at our fingertips.

Get ready to be invigorated by the thought-provoking insights of multi award-winning speaker Michael McQueen.

Michael’s session ‘Teaching for Tomorrow’ identifies that the world today’s students are entering is a very different one from that of their parents and teachers before them. Michael will discuss why and how education practices and paradigms must evolve as well as the skills and competencies young people will need to be future-fit. The session will equip you with practical strategies that have been proven to make classroom learning relevant for the next generation.

From his beginnings at Gymea High School, Glenn was previously the Lead Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services where he was responsible for architectural best practices and technology thought leadership. Now Glenn leads Affinidi at the forefront of enabling the creation and sharing of trusted digital identities and credentials. 

Glenn’s session will explore his perspective on the next big wave of disruption through a technical presentation about decentralised identity solutions, as well as how his motivation to continually discover how technology can change the way we live, learn, work and play established his story of self-determined education.