2024 GSE Speaker Lineup (Updated Regularly)

date:2024-07-12 09:59author:adminsource:Smart Learning Instituteviews:

Ms. Tone Lisbeth Mork, Chair of the Commission on Education of Rehabilitation International (RI). She is a Specialist consultant in the field of Welfare in Norway and an active member in a number of regional and global organizations supporting persons with disabilities. She was the formal Director of Statped, a State Special Education Service in Norway.

Sources: https://iite.unesco.org/governing-board/tone-lisbeth-mork/




Ms. Dorothy Gordon is a Board member of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE). She has worked in the field of international development and technology for over thirty years and is recognised as a leading technology activist and specialist concentrating on policy, education, technology, gender and society in Africa. Her work as a leader, manager, consultant and speaker has taken her to over 100 countries. She is a strong advocate of the ROAM principles (internet universality), building on her work with the Open Movement and Creative Commons. Her current work centers on responsible AI that respects equal rights for the global majority with a special focus on the rights of children.

Sources: https://iite.unesco.org/governing-board/dorothy-gordon/



Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is the executive president of the Moroccan International Center for Artificial Intelligence known as the Ai movement, within Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P). She is also an outstanding Full Professor at Sorbonne University, Faculty
She holds a PhD in Computer Science and an habilitation to supervise research (HDR) in the field of Artificial Intelligence. 
Researcher at LIP6 – UMR CNRS 7606, one of the largest computer science laboratories in France, she founded the SMA team, which she has been leading since 2006.  Within Sorbonne University, Prof. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is a member of the executive committee of SCAI (Sorbonne Center of Artificial Intelligence) and holds the industrial chair of excellence funded by Thales at SCAI-Abu-Dhabi. 

Sources: https://aim.um6p.ma/en/biography/



Marc Prensky (born March 15, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American writer and speaker on education. He is best known as the creator of the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrant" which he described in a 2001 article in On the Horizon.
Prensky’s professional focus is on K-12 education reform. His books address tools (Digital Game-Based Learning), pedagogy (Teaching Digital Natives), curriculum (The World Needs a New Curriculum) and the entire k-12 system (Education to Better Their World.)

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Prensky#Books


 
Global Smart Education Conference 2024 (GSE 2024) will be held in Beijing from August 18 to 20th.

More Info:  https://gse.bnu.edu.cn/

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