ELIG Conference 2017 Aarhus - your personal invitation

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Dear Reader,

if you have not yet ensured your place for ELIG 2017, we encourage you to do so soon. And join us end of the month in Aarhus – Europe‘s Capital of Culture – for two creative and inspiring days (September 28 + 29) to Hack the Educational Future". Places are limited.
The event will again be conducted in an exclusive atmosphere ensuring close personal interaction and networking. Workshops on the first day will follow a design thinking approach and allow for hands-on experimentation and interaction with innovative learning approaches. Also involving children and education students. Be surprised.

The ELIG Team and Members are looking forward to welcome you in Aarhus.

Don‘t miss it
We have brought together an exciting community including education initiatives such as Mehackit, Coding Pirates or HundrED.org. Leading cases of innovative schools and universities. And insights into the work environments of the future from organizations such as Adidas Group or Stora Enso. This will be combined with latest trends from edtech startups and global learning firms alike including Samsung, LinkedIN, Pearson and IBM.

Hack the Educational Future Workshops at Godsbanen
Moderator: Charlotte Sundåker (former CEO, co-owner Hyper Island)

Exploring challenges and opportunities (group work)
Enriching promising ideas, assessing resources (group work)
Sharing outcomes, thinking forward (all)

Enabling children to innovate – using design thinking
Creating maker-centered learning experiences and learning to code
Personalising learning with artificial intelligence and social computing
Training and engaging teachers for innovative digital pedagogies
Integrating real-life issues into the learning experience
Leveraging data of learners while preserving privacy

With facilitators from:
Innoki, Mehackit, Coding Pirates, Aarhus Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Vifin / Community of Vejle, IBM

also involving: local school children and Education Master students of Aarhus University

Dinner
invited by the ELIG Board Chair

Plenary Debates & Keynotes at Dokk1
Moderator: Svenia Busson (Edtech Worldtour)

Speakers and Chairs
Markku Markkula (1st Vice President, EU Committee of the Regions)
Elmar Husmann (ELIG Secretary General)
Fadi A. Khalek (Pearson, ELIG Board Chair)
Alan Kjaer Andersen (Rektor Ørestad Gymnasium)
Sanna Reponen (CTO, Mehackit)
Diana Knodel (CEO & Founder, AppCamps)
Kate Robinson (Head of Strategic Operations, HundrED)
Micha Pallesche (Rektor, Ernst Reuter Schule Karlsruhe)
Elin Wallberg (Nordic Corporate Citizenship Manager, Samsung)
Lars Reng (Aalborg University)
Klaus Thestrup & Sarah Robinson (Professors at Aarhus University – Center for Teaching Development & Digital Media)
Svetlana Meyer (Board Member BeyondLab)
Blair Stevenson (Founding Manager, Oulu EduLab)
Lars Häggström (former SVP People & Organization, Stora Enso Group; IMD Business School)
Christian Kuhna (Director HR Trends & Innovation, adidas Group)
Armin Hopp (Founder & CEO, Speexx)
Mick Slivecko (Head of Global Market Development, IBM Education)
Gustav Borgefalk (Founder & CBDO, Sqore)
Per-Fredrik Hagermark (Head of Enterprise Sales Northern Europe, LinkedIn Learning, Lynda.com)

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