Bookseller's EdTech Conference keynotes revealed

Two experts in education, artificial intelligence and new technologies will give keynote speeches for The Bookseller's EdTech Conference, held as part of FutureBook Live 2018 (30th November): Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the university of Buckingham and author of AI study The Fourth Education Revolution, and Rose Luckin, professor of learner-centred design at the UCL Knowledge Lab and director of start-up support programme EDUCATE.

Seldon is a long-time champion of digital learning, and his latest book is a call to educators everywhere to grapple with the challenges of AI, which has immense capacity to spread education across the globe, but must be properly shaped to achieve that end. Meanwhile Luckin, whose own research involves the design and evaluation of educational technology using theories from the learning sciences and techniques from AI, will explore the real impact of the new technologies, including those she is seeing coming out of EDUCATE.

Also speaking will be Niels Peter Thomas, chief book strategist at Springer Nature, talking about the impact of technologies - including virtual reality - on the process of reading. Meanwhile, Joseph Noble, head of partnerships & innovation at Oxford University Press, and Yaz El Hakim, director of Learner Experience for Kortext & vice-chair of SEDA, will talk about the opportunities for using digital resources in overseas markets.

Benedicte Page, deputy editor of The Bookseller and programmer of the EdTech Conference, said: "Once again, the popular EdTech Conference will bring together cutting-edge technologies with perspectives rooted in the realities of publishing experience, for an inspiring and invigorating day - join us!"

Programmed in association with the EdTech Exchange, now part of BESA, the British Educational Suppliers Association, the Conference will conclude with popular session PitchEd competion, at which start-ups operating in the EdTech field will showcase their ideas to a panel of judges, including EdTech Exchange founder and entrepreneur George Burgess.

Past attendees of the EdTEch for Publishers Conferences in 2017 and 2016 have until the end of this week to register for FutureBook Live at last year's EdTech prices, to do so please contact Briony Morgan (briony.morgan@theBookseller.com) for your discount code. Bookings can be made here with early-bird rates available until 5th October.