AImpowerED- A Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education

Donald Clark is a Learning Tech Entrepreneur, CEO, Author, Researcher, Blogger and Speaker. An expert in AI for Learning, he literally wrote the book on the subject. He has spent 38 years in delivering learning through technology. 
 
As the CEO of Epic Group plc, he established it as the leading company in the UK online learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. He has been involved at all levels of investment – angel, VC, growth, PE and IPO. As well as being the CEO of Wildfire an AI learning company, he also invests in, and advises, EdTech companies. 

An investor and board member of learning companies such as Cogbooks (sold in 2021 to Cambridge University) and Learning Pool (sold 2021 for $200 million), he was also on the Boards of City & Guilds, Learn Direct, University for Industry and the Brighton Dome and Festival.

He has published 4 books on AI for Learning (2 Editions), Learning Experience Design, Learning Technology and Learning in the Metaverse. His fifth book on Generative AI will be published in the first half of 2024. Alongside these he has completed a series of articles on over 260 learning theorists from the Greeks to the Geeks and over 30 podcasts (Great Minds in Learning) derived from these articles. 

Donald has over 37 years’ experience in online learning, video, games, simulations, adaptive, chatbot, social media, mobile learning, virtual reality and AI projects. He has designed, delivered and advised on online learning for many global, public and private organisations.  

His interest in AI started at Dartmouth College in the US, continued in Expert Systems in the 1990s and in adaptive learning company CogBooks in 2013, also Learning Pool. He founded the world’s first AI content generation company ‘Wildfire’ in 2014 and has been involved in several major AI for Learning companies and projects, delivering real product. 

An evangelist for the use of technology in learning, he has won many awards, including the first ‘Outstanding Achievement in E-learning Award’ and ‘Best AIM Stock Market Company’, ‘Most Innovative Online Product’, ‘Best Online Learning Project and ‘JISC EdTech Award’. 

An award winning speaker at national and international conferences, he has delivered keynotes in the UK, Europe, US, Africa, Australia, Middle and Far East. Last year he spoke in Singapore, Senegal, South Africa, US, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Spain and Portugal. 

He is also a regular blogger (15 years+) on learning technology.

A man of two (or more) hats, 30 years in the #EdTech sector alongside 25 working in education. Al is a MAT chair, SEND board chair, DfE advisory board member for the East of England, education author and speaker.

He is the Group CEO of NetSupport Limited, a global provider of evidence-informed solutions for education and corporate settings. With over 30 years of development, NetSupport has secured over 300 industry awards and has a broad portfolio of products, including IT Asset Management, Remote Control, Classroom Management, Notification, eSafety, Servicedesk, and assessment software. I am chairing of the Cambs & Peterborough business board supporting economic and regional growth.

He is also hugely passionate about education on a wider scale, at all stages of life, and actively support others across the education and technology sectors wherever he can. He is an active EdTech advisor, mentor, author, and speaker, with multiple publications and recognitions, including the 2023 Edufuturist of the Year, the 2023 BESA "Inspirational Leader" Winner, ERA Outstanding Achievement Winner 2023 and the Forbes Technology Council Member. Al also serves as the Chair of Hampton Academies Trust, a community-focused Multi-Academy Trust, the DfE Advisory board for the East of England and the Chair of BESA EdTech Special Interest Group. His mission is to help give a voice to others and to support and embrace innovation, economic growth and skills.

Mark is a successful former teacher, middle and senior leader who also happens to be an award-winning author, blogger, keynote speaker and strategic EdTech consultant who provides training and consultancy support for schools around the world.  
 
Renowned for his pedagogically effective practices with EdTech, his best-selling book ‘Perfect ICT’ topped the Amazon education book charts, and his blog has won numerous awards, including the UK Education blog of the year award. His recent book “The EdTech Playbook” has recently been released to popular acclaim.  
 
Alongside this, Mark is also a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, an Independent Thinking Associate and works part-time as the Head of Education at NetSupport. 
 
Learn more about Mark via his website: https://ictevangelist.com 

You can also find his book at: https://edtechplaybook.com

Co-author of the best selling book 'From EdTech to PedTech. Changing the way we think about digital technology.'

Dr Fiona Aubrey-Smith is an award-winning teacher, leader and academic with a passion for supporting those who work with children and young people. As Founder of PedTech and Director of One Life Learning, she works closely with schools and trusts, professional learning providers and EdTech companies. She is also an Associate Lecturer and Consultant Researcher at a number of universities and sits on the board of a number of multi academy and charitable trusts. 
  
She was a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, and has been awarded Fellowships by RSA, NAACE and the HEA. She was awarded the TPEA Research & Development Award in 2021 and in 2022 was named by Education Business as one of the 50 most influential people in education. In 2023, she was granted Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Educators, City of London, and in 2024 was named one of the Top 5 Visionary Women in Education by The Knowledge Review. 
   
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionaaubreysmith/ 
https://twitter.com/FionaAS 
  
https://routledge.pub/From-EdTech-to-PedTech 
  
www.onelifelearning.co.uk 

Contact email: fiona@onelifelearning.co.uk 
 

Faye has worked in education for 15 years, leading digital education programmes and STEAM strategy at the British Museum and in London schools, including as part of a Senior Leadership Team for five years.

She is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Innovator and has led technology workshops for educators across Europe, spoken at education and museum conferences and have run children's workshops at UK museums and festivals.

In 2021, she moved back to London after living and working in New York City for two years, and she is currently working part time as a Digital Learning Coach and doing an MBA in Educational Leadership (International) at UCL. She also teaches MYP Design and is particularly interested in edtech, STEAM, neurodivergence, AI and museum education.

Mark is a successful former teacher, middle and senior leader who also happens to be an award-winning author, blogger, keynote speaker and strategic EdTech consultant who provides training and consultancy support for schools around the world.  
 
Renowned for his pedagogically effective practices with EdTech, his best-selling book ‘Perfect ICT’ topped the Amazon education book charts, and his blog has won numerous awards, including the UK Education blog of the year award. His recent book “The EdTech Playbook” has recently been released to popular acclaim.  
 
Alongside this, Mark is also a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, an Independent Thinking Associate and works part-time as the Head of Education at NetSupport. 
 
Learn more about Mark via his website: https://ictevangelist.com 

You can also find his book at: https://edtechplaybook.com

Co-author of the best selling book 'From EdTech to PedTech. Changing the way we think about digital technology.'

Dr Fiona Aubrey-Smith is an award-winning teacher, leader and academic with a passion for supporting those who work with children and young people. As Founder of PedTech and Director of One Life Learning, she works closely with schools and trusts, professional learning providers and EdTech companies. She is also an Associate Lecturer and Consultant Researcher at a number of universities and sits on the board of a number of multi academy and charitable trusts. 
  
She was a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, and has been awarded Fellowships by RSA, NAACE and the HEA. She was awarded the TPEA Research & Development Award in 2021 and in 2022 was named by Education Business as one of the 50 most influential people in education. In 2023, she was granted Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Educators, City of London, and in 2024 was named one of the Top 5 Visionary Women in Education by The Knowledge Review. 
   
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionaaubreysmith/ 
https://twitter.com/FionaAS 
  
https://routledge.pub/From-EdTech-to-PedTech 
  
www.onelifelearning.co.uk 

Contact email: fiona@onelifelearning.co.uk 

As the founder of a stealth startup in the EdTech space, Georgina is passionate about leveraging AI and product management skills to create innovative solutions for the education sector. She has over a decade of experience as a senior education leader, supporting school transformation, digital strategy, and student-centric learning across EMEA and beyond.

With the emergence of generative AI in late 2022, she seized the opportunity to pursue my vision of reshaping the education landscape and preparing the next generation for the future. She is currently working on a product that addresses some of the key challenges she has observed in the education field, while learning from the entrepreneurial journey and the end-to-end tech product development process. She is motivated by the possibility of scaling her impact and building sustainable futures through her stealth startup.

Gemma Gwilliam BA (Hons) Primary Education and Teaching with QTS, Global Masters in Business Administration 
Head of Digital Learning, Education and Innovation (Portsmouth Education Partnership).

Gemma is a distinguished technology educator and leader with extensive experience spanning private and state schools globally. Specialising in reducing teacher workload and fostering 21st-century skills in students, she champions accessible technology integration, drawing from her own experience with Dyslexia.

Gemma's career includes roles from classroom teaching to leadership, exemplifying her passion for enhancing teaching and learning through technology. In 2021, she joined United Learning's Central Team, supporting schools in the South Coast with digital strategy development and participation in the national EdTech Demonstrator Programme.

Now serving as Portsmouth's Strategic Lead for Digital and Head of Digital Learning, Education, and Innovation, Gemma aims to drive the city towards national recognition as a "digital city." Her focus remains on inclusive technology adoption for all citizens, collaborating with educational institutions, businesses, and the community to achieve collective digital advancement. 

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Lyndsey has been an international educator for over 18 years with a focus on digital integration, and has a master's degree in Early Childhood Education.

In her four years as a Digital Teaching and Learning Specialist at Cobham, her impact has been one of great change and positivity. Teaching staff have grown in confidence when teaching with iPads, helping to expand the 1:1 iPad programme on offer. Lyndsey focuses on making learning through Augmented Reality more accessible for all students and teachers, viewing AR as another tool in the creative toolbox. Students now view their use of tech as a way to connect with their learning and share their understanding. Through her initiatives, Lyndsey has transformed teaching and learning beyond metrics and statistics. Students now think digital first.

Lyndsey is also an Apple Distinguished Educator, Apple Learning Leader, Google Level 1 Educator and Apple Regional Training Centre Manager. She founded 'Create for a Cause', to unite Distinguished Educators from around the world to write books on how students can raise awareness of global causes through digital creativity. Recently Lyndsey was awarded the Pearson National Teaching Award for Digital Innovation (silver winner) as well as being named one of the Top 100 Women in Tech in the UK.

Christina will be leading a workshop on 'AI in HR: Getting It Right the First Time'. The focus of the workshop will explore strategies that support good, safe and successful AI implementation within the HR process - taking into account successful use cases, the shifting landscape and data compliance requirements.

About Christina

As a People focussed, Privacy professional with a passion for enabling AI and transformative change within Local Authorities, the education sector, and schools, Christina works closely with HR and education professionals to support safe, ethical, and responsible AI implementation. She is hugely respectful of the role of HR professionals in facilitating this innovative organisational change journey.

Christina is also an award-winning and commercially focused Founder of a small boutique, data strategy consultancy and is committed to diversity, creativity, and strategic innovation within the tech industry – representing some strong brands and spearheading change management initiatives on a global scale.

She has been leading innovation and business transformation programmes for over 15 years with experience of accelerating cybersecurity resilience, data protection compliance and safe AI implementation.

Sharing her commercial experience with Academy Trusts and public sector clients highlights her commitment to facilitate cross-sector learning to develop skills and support HR functions in schools. Christina's vision is to enable HR professionals in schools to build an education workforce that has the skills and confidence to implement AI safely – in ways that benefit entire school communities.

The focus of her privacy-focussed and pragmatic AI work centres on using existing resources to drive transformative and sustainable change efficiently and effectively, while achieving remarkable results with AI readiness and adoption.

AI provides HR and senior leaders within education with some amazing opportunities to attract, retain and develop talent that nurtures a forward-thinking future workforce that can adapt quickly in our evolving and fast-paced world.

The growth of AI now provides Academy Trusts and schools with a great opportunity to rethink strategic leadership, organisational performance, and AI-enabled leaners’ journeys.

Adam is an experienced senior leader who has significant experience developing the effective use of technology in schools. This includes curriculum design, staff and pupil training, as well as developing the relationship between traditional science based-subjects and the creative arts.

Beyond this, he spends significant time researching and discussing the curriculum offerings in schools to encourage them to be forward looking and address the changing needs arising by the ‘future of work’ discussions which are occurring across the world.

His work is often at the cutting edge of educational technology and curriculum design, meaning that he has launched a variety of new initiatives based upon research, which push the debate about education and the ways in which it is delivered, and its core purpose, into new directions.

He also has experience in safeguarding and in particular utilising and responding to the use of technology in helping young people and parents deal with a range of pastoral concerns.

He is a regular writer and speaker on the use of technology in schools. He has delivered a TEDx talk on the importance of disruption and change in the education system to meet the changing demands of the future workplace.

Daren is a highly experienced teacher and Senior Leader with a passion for integrating technology into education.

With over 20 years of experience in teaching and over 10 years in leadership roles, he is now Academic Technologies Lead for one of the UK's largest Multi-Academy Trusts. A Google Certified Trainer, Innovator, and Coach, Daren co-leads GEG UK. Additionally, he is a Microsoft Innovative Educator and an Apple Teacher. Daren was recognized as a 2021/22 #Edtech50 award-winner and in 2023 proudly won the Skills Development Champion Award at The Edufuturists Awards and is a Silver Award Winner for Digital Innovator in the 2023 National Teaching Awards.  
  
Daren is an experienced presenter who has led training, workshops & presentations for both in the UK and internationally. He has presented numerous times at BETT UK and co-organised events focused on embracing AI in Education. He is dedicated to helping teachers integrate effective pedagogy with the help of technology in the classroom and removing barriers to learning. Daren has also published his own book, "What’s Their Why? Exploring motivation and engagement in learning". 

Faye has worked in education for 15 years, leading digital education programmes and STEAM strategy at the British Museum and in London schools, including as part of a Senior Leadership Team for five years.

She is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Innovator and has led technology workshops for educators across Europe, spoken at education and museum conferences and have run children's workshops at UK museums and festivals.

In 2021, she moved back to London after living and working in New York City for two years, and she is currently working part time as a Digital Learning Coach and doing an MBA in Educational Leadership (International) at UCL. She also teaches MYP Design and is particularly interested in edtech, STEAM, neurodivergence, AI and museum education.

Fusing HR services and software – Fusion Education People Solutions
 
Who are we – our DNA?
We are education people specialists that provide impactful products and services to help you manage your people and deliver the best outcomes for children.
 
Our vision – we have a strong belief in our purpose which is….
To create better futures for our children through innovative people solutions
 
Our Heartbeat – what makes us tick?
Our clients tell us that ‘we just get it’. We are quite unconventional compared with traditional HR service providers; we exist to help you to drive impactful school improvement through a range of intervention tools and techniques. Our people advice and people software are outcome and results driven as we always put children’s education and futures at the heart of our solutions.

https://www.feps.co.uk/

Sync is a technology experience with a purpose-built space for people and businesses to shop, learn, share, create and collaborate.

https://www.wearesync.co.uk/

Goodnotes is the leading AI digital paper used by 24m monthly active users. Goodnotes introduces the ability to take and search handwritten digital notes, and organize everything into a digital library. Goodnotes is pioneering the world’s first generative AI for handwritten text. 

As Apple’s 2022 iPad App of the Year, Goodnotes makes learning and teaching more efficient and enjoyable. We’re a team of education enthusiasts who are passionate about activating the next generation of great thinkers. 

https://www.goodnotes.com/

The Standard in Managing and Securing Apple at Work.
More than 75,300 global customers rely on Jamf to manage 32.3 million devices as of 12/31/23.

https://www.jamf.com/

TeachMateAI is the leading education AI assistant, trusted by over 147,000 educators worldwide. To date, we've saved teachers 44,951 days of time with our AI powered tools.

TeachMateAI is your AI-powered digital assistant, designed by teachers and tech experts to help you take control of your valuable time. Try our library of AI tools with FREE access to our Report Writer, Activity Ideas Generator, and Maths Starter Questions — to improve learning experiences while drastically reducing your workload

https://teachmateai.com/

Fusing HR services and software – Fusion Education People Solutions
 
Who are we – our DNA?
We are education people specialists that provide impactful products and services to help you manage your people and deliver the best outcomes for children.
 
Our vision – we have a strong belief in our purpose which is….
To create better futures for our children through innovative people solutions
 
Our Heartbeat – what makes us tick?
Our clients tell us that ‘we just get it’. We are quite unconventional compared with traditional HR service providers; we exist to help you to drive impactful school improvement through a range of intervention tools and techniques. Our people advice and people software are outcome and results driven as we always put children’s education and futures at the heart of our solutions.

https://www.feps.co.uk/

Our mission is to connect schools and candidates directly via a fully compliant standardised application process.

MyNewTerm helps employers to increase candidate attraction and save on the cost to recruit, while also making it so much easier for all candidates to apply online, from any device.

https://mynewterm.com/

With 35 years’ development expertise and 21 million users worldwide, NetSupport is a leading producer of educational and corporate software solutions.

From IT management and remote control solutions to classroom management and online safety, we help organisations across a range of sectors to manage and maximise their technology.

https://www.netsupportsoftware.com/

We’re the UK’s sole provider of the award-winning reading programme, Reading Plus.

At Reading Solutions UK, we provide exceptional educational technology solutions that improve outcomes for schools, educators, and young learners.

Together, we are a thriving, supportive team where everyone takes responsibility and can achieve personal growth. We are collaborative, we have integrity, and we make a difference.

As we grow, we want to be recognised as the leading partner to the educational sector, delivering programmes that enable every child to achieve their full potential.

https://www.readingsolutionsuk.co.uk/

SchoolOnline is the Award Winning UK EdTech platform empowering students and teachers to break through barriers. Transform the way you teach with cutting-edge edtech tools. 

Our English & Maths learning platform is tailored to reduce your marking and preparation workload and cut through the red tape, giving you the freedom to focus on what truly matters – nurturing the minds of the next generation.

https://schoolonline.ai/

At Skriva, our core belief is that every student, regardless of their background or circumstances, should have equal access to technology. This access is not a privilege but a necessity to level the educational playing field and ensure that no one is left behind. We believe in the transformative power of technology to enhance learning for all. 

We're not just a technology company; we're a catalyst for positive change in the educational landscape. Join us on this journey to make learning more inclusive, innovative, and environmentally responsible, shaping a brighter future for educators, students, and the planet.

https://www.skrivastylus.com/

We are building the future of education with our AI-powered platforms, CHIP and RileyBot. In very different ways, they are harnessing the incredible power of AI to help your students learn better and stay safer all whilst helping you better understand the students in your school.

CHIP is an AI-powered platform which helps you monitor, record and analyse almost everything that goes on with your students. From teacher observations, through to student reflections, CHIP has the power to connect the data you already collect to better understand how your students are performing, how they are feeling and how you might be able to support them more effectively.

https://sphinxai.education/

The maths platform to advance pupil learning.

Magma Math is a maths platform for pupils in years 1 to 9, designed to support teachers in making more informed instructional decisions in the classroom and create opportunities for more profound student-driven discourse and collaboration.

Magma are global team of educators, tech innovators, life-long learners, and self-proclaimed math mavericks. They believe in mathematics as a creative subject that serves as both a window and a mirror for students across the world.

Their mission is to enable educators to create dynamic, student-centered classrooms where all students are challenged and supported appropriately.