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Dr. Stuart Grant Colesky
Principal
Rundle College
South Africa

Dr. Stuart leading Rundle College South Africa as Principal, Stuart is based in South Africa. Rundle College is a private K-12 registered school following Cambridge Assessment offering. The school has a unique academic and sports focus with several top academic and sporting awards.

Previously, Stuart was Senior Education Manager for Managed Schools with GEMS Education Solutions based in Dubai. Stuart’s focus was across the Middle East but specialized in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Stuart joined GEMS as a Management Adviser in 2009 on the PPP project with the Abu Dhabi Education Council, prior to spending 9 years in Kuwait working as a Head Teacher for a private school and in the computer training skills sector, with New Horizons.

He has in-depth knowledge and understanding of school improvement, training and auditing. He holds a doctorate in Education focusing on educational trends in the Middle East.

Currently, Stuart provides professional consulting support to investors and schools in the Gulf and Middle East region. This includes supporting schools in preparing for inspection and school improvement.

Stuart qualifications include Doctorate in Education, MA TESOL, Diploma TESOL, Bachelor Degree in Education, Diploma Marketing Management, Diploma in Professional Salesmanship & Diploma in Personnel Management.

Ralph Valenzisi
Chief of Digital Learning and Development
Norwalk Public Schools, Connecticut
United States

Ralph Valenzisi is the Chief of Digital Learning and Development for Norwalk Public Schools in Connecticut, United States. His responsibilities include areas such as Educational Technology, supervision and the development of new initiatives. Ralph currently is the co-chair of the Connecticut Educational Technology Leaders (CTETL), the state affiliate for the Consortium of School Networking (COSN). He is currently a member of the K-12 Advisory Group for Microsoft.

Ralph was formerly the Vice President responsible for Information Technology at Global Partnership Schools. Ralph’s experience in K-12 Educational and Instructional Technology has spanned over 15 years. Prior to Norwalk and Global Partnership Schools, Ralph was the Educational Technology Coordinator for the New Haven Public Schools.

Ralph also has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Haven and currently teaches at Fairfield University. He was an Educational Technology Consultant for Imperial Software in New York for two years, and first and foremost, he was a classroom teacher for 9 years in Stamford, CT. Ralph’s degrees include a B.A form DePaul University, M.S from the University of Bridgeport and 6th year in Educational Administration from Southern CT State University.

 

Stephen Cox
Chief Education Officer
New Nordic School
Finland

After a highly successful career in both medicine and education in the UK, for the last ten years, Stephen has worked at a senior/board level for 3 of the largest K-12 organizations in the Middle East region in all aspects of school improvement, professional development, business development, technology, and school start-up.

More recently, as a consultant, Stephen has supported the government and private sector on projects related to corporate and school leadership, education consultancy, change management, school start-up, IT digital strategy, future of learning and innovation in the MENA region and Internationally.

He has led year on year education improvement both in and across schools through a strong vision, culture and ethos, International Leadership, Coaching, Teacher Training, Digital Technology, drawing upon best practice internationally. He also introduced and delivered self-evaluation and performance management frameworks into and across schools for effective school improvement and accreditation.

Stephen has significant experience in business development, HR, marketing and the financial side of education and is commercially savvy. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator having led on many future learning innovating technology initiatives which have led to sustainable change across the region and internationally.

Stephen has recently been working with the Finnish government and Ministry of Education who are ranked one of the best education systems in the world. As Regional Director, he designed a ‘Best of Finland International K-12 Concept School’ to bring to the Gulf.

Stephen is also working in the future of learning space designing blended solutions in education and has recently started working with New Nordic School as Chief Education Officer.

Specialities: Leadership, Education, Innovation, Professional Development, Future Learning, Technology, Business Development, Coaching, eLearning, mLearning, Change Management, Haematology, Medicine.

DR. KHYATI SHETTY
Ph.D (Marketing)., SFHEA (UK), MBA (Marketing), PGHRM, BA (Marketing & Economics)

A recipient of the GCC Education Leaders Award-2019, Top 100 Global Training and Development Minds-2018, Global Training and Leadership Award-2017, GCC Women Leaders Award-2017 and the former Dean of Curtin University, Dr.Khyati Shetty comes with 15+ years of experience working in the corporate and academia. She is also an Executive Coach and Innovation Facilitator and is currently based out of Canada and serves as the campus Director of Focus College. She started her career in the area of Corporate Strategy, market potential estimation, product development and branding. Her passion for transforming individuals led her to flourish by working with high potential leaders, executives and entrepreneurs and has conducted over 300+ workshops in 10+ countries. She has also been working as a talent and leadership consultant for Government bodies in Nigeria, Ghana, Dubai and Mauritius. Khyati is a Certified Co-Active coach (CPCC) from CTI, USA, A Professional Co-active coach from the Coach Training Institute, USA, and a certified Psychometric Test Professional (CPTP) accredited assessor by CAMI and SFHEA (UK). She holds a degree in MBA (Marketing), Post Graduate Degree in Human Resource Management and a Doctorate in Brand Personality Congruence. Her research interests are in the areas of Strategic Marketing, Brand Personality and Women’s Entrepreneurship and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and delivered conference papers in leading higher education journals. She also regularly contributes to Forbes and CNBC.

Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic,
Academic Director, Institute for Contemporary Education, LINK Educational Alliance,
Serbia

An educational thought leader, Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic has been inspiring teachers to experiment with new teaching approaches for more than 20 years. With a digital growth mindset and creativity, Svetlana has shaped educational trends in the region and ideated innovation at many levels.

Her creative ideas have been greatly appreciated in the wider academic community, putting her forward as a finalist for the Global Teacher of the Year Award, recipient of John Haycraft Scholarship for Classroom Exploration and author of many educational projects with deliverables at the state level.

Svetlana is an Academic Director at LINK Educational Alliance, where she shares her learning enthusiasm and professional expertise with educators from across the world. She is also a Cambridge Assessment Specialist and an accredited Cambridge PDQ Programme Leader, who advocates for the values of intercultural competence in international education.

Dr. Venus M. Alboruto, PhD
Master Teacher, Researcher, Innovator, Trainer

Dr. Venus is an innovative science teacher from Surigao City National High School. She finished Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in General Science, at St. Paul University Surigao as Magna cum Laude. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Science Teaching and Doctorate Degree in Educational Management from the same university. She has been teaching for 17 years and her innovative approach to teaching has been recognized by several regional, national, and international education authorities.

She has won a number of awards for her work, including DOST-SEI Most Innovative Practice in Managing Large Classes, Finalist, Ki Hajar Dewantara Award for Best Science Teacher in Southeast Asia, 2016, one of the top 50 Finalists in Varkey Foundation’s Global teacher Prize 2019, and honoree of Bato Balani’s The Many Faces of the Teacher 2019. Her work is influencing teaching across the region. She has been invited to share her materials and expertise to train other teachers in their use both in the Philippines and further afield. Alboruto also presents at conferences and provides training to equip others in her field to achieve similar success.

Zeljana Radojicic Lukic
Exceptional Educator from Serbia,
Founder of Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia,
Founder of Magical Intercultural Friendship Network,
Founder of Creative Magic – Children’s International Festival,
Founder of Magic Village,
Serbia

Zeljana is a Western Balkans education leader, who has come a long way from her teacher role to her country’s assistant education minister and later return to her student’s world again.

She has an amazing power of motivation and inspiration, both for students and teachers, various target groups within the non-governmental sector also been benefited with her initiatives on these for decades.

She is a multi-award winning educator from Serbia with an incredible passion for everything she does on teaching and learning.

Zeljana is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. One of the most prestigious among those was she become one among the 50 finalists of Global Teacher Prize award in 2018, an annual US $1 million award.  She is also one of the recipients of the AKS Global Teacher Awards 2019.

She was given the greatest national award in education, Svetosavska Prize, awarded by the government sector, and she has a title of “The Best educators of Serbia” which is the greatest achievement in education awarded by the non-government sector in the country.

Zeljana joined hand with a fellow Global Teacher Prize finalist from Macedonia and founded an “Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia”, a network of Balkan teachers for networking, sharing resources and ideas.

She is recognized by “Creative Magic”, the largest educational festival in the Western Balkans, this project reflects everything Zeljana has been creating for 30 years in and out of the classroom.

Zeljan’s popular project “The Magical Village” is a concept of learning under the open sky is based on innovative teaching resources close to children’s interests and their culture of learning. Children learn under the open sky in creative workshops taught by teachers dressed as fairies from Slavic mythology. The fairy tale setting motivates the children to acquire applicable knowledge easily. Across the Magical Village, resources also include ambient classrooms like a crafting centre, magical gardens, weather station, solar dryers, sundial, orchards, vegetable farms, fields, and forests.

Children can see the big picture of the world and this can be used as a method of reforming the existing formal education. In the Magical Village, she has tried to create a symbiosis of the things she experienced through her teaching practice, but also by removing factors that made the learning of her students difficult.

Magical village project was funded by UNICEF within the joint UN programme “Sustainable Tourism for Rural Development “. The programme is designed for children 5-12 years’ old who actively learn about real-life situations through integrated educational activities and acquire functional knowledge.

She is currently working on two revolutionary projects. One is the “Magical Intercultural Friendship Network”, which she co-founded. This network has nearly 1,000 creative teachers and 35,000 of their students from 1,000 schools, from 57 countries around the world. Another important project she is working on now is the “Association of the Best Formers of the Former Yugoslavia”. This project is focusing on professional development and support for educators and parents. Her desire is to create a Balkans Resource Center to professionally train teachers and education leaders from the Western Balkans for providing a better learning opportunity for the future generation.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Zeljana Radojicic Lukic
Exceptional Educator from Serbia,
Founder of Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia,
Founder of Magical Intercultural Friendship Network,
Founder of Creative Magic – Children’s International Festival,
Founder of Magic Village,
Serbia

Zeljana is a Western Balkans education leader, who has come a long way from her teacher role to her country’s assistant education minister and later return to her student’s world again.

She has an amazing power of motivation and inspiration, both for students and teachers, various target groups within the non-governmental sector also been benefited with her initiatives on these for decades.

She is a multi-award winning educator from Serbia with an incredible passion for everything she does on teaching and learning.

Zeljana is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. One of the most prestigious among those was she become one among the 50 finalists of Global Teacher Prize award in 2018, an annual US $1 million award.  She is also one of the recipients of the AKS Global Teacher Awards 2019.

She was given the greatest national award in education, Svetosavska Prize, awarded by the government sector, and she has a title of “The Best educators of Serbia” which is the greatest achievement in education awarded by the non-government sector in the country.

Zeljana joined hand with a fellow Global Teacher Prize finalist from Macedonia and founded an “Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia”, a network of Balkan teachers for networking, sharing resources and ideas.

She is recognized by “Creative Magic”, the largest educational festival in the Western Balkans, this project reflects everything Zeljana has been creating for 30 years in and out of the classroom.

Zeljan’s popular project “The Magical Village” is a concept of learning under the open sky is based on innovative teaching resources close to children’s interests and their culture of learning. Children learn under the open sky in creative workshops taught by teachers dressed as fairies from Slavic mythology. The fairy tale setting motivates the children to acquire applicable knowledge easily. Across the Magical Village, resources also include ambient classrooms like a crafting centre, magical gardens, weather station, solar dryers, sundial, orchards, vegetable farms, fields, and forests.

Children can see the big picture of the world and this can be used as a method of reforming the existing formal education. In the Magical Village, she has tried to create a symbiosis of the things she experienced through her teaching practice, but also by removing factors that made the learning of her students difficult.

Magical village project was funded by UNICEF within the joint UN programme “Sustainable Tourism for Rural Development “. The programme is designed for children 5-12 years’ old who actively learn about real-life situations through integrated educational activities and acquire functional knowledge.

She is currently working on two revolutionary projects. One is the “Magical Intercultural Friendship Network”, which she co-founded. This network has nearly 1,000 creative teachers and 35,000 of their students from 1,000 schools, from 57 countries around the world. Another important project she is working on now is the “Association of the Best Formers of the Former Yugoslavia”. This project is focusing on professional development and support for educators and parents. Her desire is to create a Balkans Resource Center to professionally train teachers and education leaders from the Western Balkans for providing a better learning opportunity for the future generation.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Dr. Venus M. Alboruto, PhD
Master Teacher, Researcher, Innovator, Trainer

Dr. Venus is an innovative science teacher from Surigao City National High School. She finished Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in General Science, at St. Paul University Surigao as Magna cum Laude. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Science Teaching and Doctorate Degree in Educational Management from the same university. She has been teaching for 17 years and her innovative approach to teaching has been recognized by several regional, national, and international education authorities.

She has won a number of awards for her work, including DOST-SEI Most Innovative Practice in Managing Large Classes, Finalist, Ki Hajar Dewantara Award for Best Science Teacher in Southeast Asia, 2016, one of the top 50 Finalists in Varkey Foundation’s Global teacher Prize 2019, and honoree of Bato Balani’s The Many Faces of the Teacher 2019. Her work is influencing teaching across the region. She has been invited to share her materials and expertise to train other teachers in their use both in the Philippines and further afield. Alboruto also presents at conferences and provides training to equip others in her field to achieve similar success.

Zeljana Radojicic Lukic
Exceptional Educator from Serbia,
Founder of Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia,
Founder of Magical Intercultural Friendship Network,
Founder of Creative Magic – Children’s International Festival,
Founder of Magic Village,
Serbia

Zeljana is a Western Balkans education leader, who has come a long way from her teacher role to her country’s assistant education minister and later return to her student’s world again.

She has an amazing power of motivation and inspiration, both for students and teachers, various target groups within the non-governmental sector also been benefited with her initiatives on these for decades.

She is a multi-award winning educator from Serbia with an incredible passion for everything she does on teaching and learning.

Zeljana is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. One of the most prestigious among those was she become one among the 50 finalists of Global Teacher Prize award in 2018, an annual US $1 million award.  She is also one of the recipients of the AKS Global Teacher Awards 2019.

She was given the greatest national award in education, Svetosavska Prize, awarded by the government sector, and she has a title of “The Best educators of Serbia” which is the greatest achievement in education awarded by the non-government sector in the country.

Zeljana joined hand with a fellow Global Teacher Prize finalist from Macedonia and founded an “Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia”, a network of Balkan teachers for networking, sharing resources and ideas.

She is recognized by “Creative Magic”, the largest educational festival in the Western Balkans, this project reflects everything Zeljana has been creating for 30 years in and out of the classroom.

Zeljan’s popular project “The Magical Village” is a concept of learning under the open sky is based on innovative teaching resources close to children’s interests and their culture of learning. Children learn under the open sky in creative workshops taught by teachers dressed as fairies from Slavic mythology. The fairy tale setting motivates the children to acquire applicable knowledge easily. Across the Magical Village, resources also include ambient classrooms like a crafting centre, magical gardens, weather station, solar dryers, sundial, orchards, vegetable farms, fields, and forests.

Children can see the big picture of the world and this can be used as a method of reforming the existing formal education. In the Magical Village, she has tried to create a symbiosis of the things she experienced through her teaching practice, but also by removing factors that made the learning of her students difficult.

Magical village project was funded by UNICEF within the joint UN programme “Sustainable Tourism for Rural Development “. The programme is designed for children 5-12 years’ old who actively learn about real-life situations through integrated educational activities and acquire functional knowledge.

She is currently working on two revolutionary projects. One is the “Magical Intercultural Friendship Network”, which she co-founded. This network has nearly 1,000 creative teachers and 35,000 of their students from 1,000 schools, from 57 countries around the world. Another important project she is working on now is the “Association of the Best Formers of the Former Yugoslavia”. This project is focusing on professional development and support for educators and parents. Her desire is to create a Balkans Resource Center to professionally train teachers and education leaders from the Western Balkans for providing a better learning opportunity for the future generation.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic,
Academic Director, Institute for Contemporary Education, LINK Educational Alliance,
Serbia

An educational thought leader, Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic has been inspiring teachers to experiment with new teaching approaches for more than 20 years. With a digital growth mindset and creativity, Svetlana has shaped educational trends in the region and ideated innovation at many levels.

Her creative ideas have been greatly appreciated in the wider academic community, putting her forward as a finalist for the Global Teacher of the Year Award, recipient of John Haycraft Scholarship for Classroom Exploration and author of many educational projects with deliverables at the state level.

Svetlana is an Academic Director at LINK Educational Alliance, where she shares her learning enthusiasm and professional expertise with educators from across the world. She is also a Cambridge Assessment Specialist and an accredited Cambridge PDQ Programme Leader, who advocates for the values of intercultural competence in international education.

Dr. Venus M. Alboruto, PhD
Master Teacher, Researcher, Innovator, Trainer

Dr. Venus is an innovative science teacher from Surigao City National High School. She finished Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in General Science, at St. Paul University Surigao as Magna cum Laude. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Science Teaching and Doctorate Degree in Educational Management from the same university. She has been teaching for 17 years and her innovative approach to teaching has been recognized by several regional, national, and international education authorities.

She has won a number of awards for her work, including DOST-SEI Most Innovative Practice in Managing Large Classes, Finalist, Ki Hajar Dewantara Award for Best Science Teacher in Southeast Asia, 2016, one of the top 50 Finalists in Varkey Foundation’s Global teacher Prize 2019, and honoree of Bato Balani’s The Many Faces of the Teacher 2019. Her work is influencing teaching across the region. She has been invited to share her materials and expertise to train other teachers in their use both in the Philippines and further afield. Alboruto also presents at conferences and provides training to equip others in her field to achieve similar success.

Zeljana Radojicic Lukic
Exceptional Educator from Serbia,
Founder of Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia,
Founder of Magical Intercultural Friendship Network,
Founder of Creative Magic – Children’s International Festival,
Founder of Magic Village,
Serbia

Zeljana is a Western Balkans education leader, who has come a long way from her teacher role to her country’s assistant education minister and later return to her student’s world again.

She has an amazing power of motivation and inspiration, both for students and teachers, various target groups within the non-governmental sector also been benefited with her initiatives on these for decades.

She is a multi-award winning educator from Serbia with an incredible passion for everything she does on teaching and learning.

Zeljana is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. One of the most prestigious among those was she become one among the 50 finalists of Global Teacher Prize award in 2018, an annual US $1 million award.  She is also one of the recipients of the AKS Global Teacher Awards 2019.

She was given the greatest national award in education, Svetosavska Prize, awarded by the government sector, and she has a title of “The Best educators of Serbia” which is the greatest achievement in education awarded by the non-government sector in the country.

Zeljana joined hand with a fellow Global Teacher Prize finalist from Macedonia and founded an “Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia”, a network of Balkan teachers for networking, sharing resources and ideas.

She is recognized by “Creative Magic”, the largest educational festival in the Western Balkans, this project reflects everything Zeljana has been creating for 30 years in and out of the classroom.

Zeljan’s popular project “The Magical Village” is a concept of learning under the open sky is based on innovative teaching resources close to children’s interests and their culture of learning. Children learn under the open sky in creative workshops taught by teachers dressed as fairies from Slavic mythology. The fairy tale setting motivates the children to acquire applicable knowledge easily. Across the Magical Village, resources also include ambient classrooms like a crafting centre, magical gardens, weather station, solar dryers, sundial, orchards, vegetable farms, fields, and forests.

Children can see the big picture of the world and this can be used as a method of reforming the existing formal education. In the Magical Village, she has tried to create a symbiosis of the things she experienced through her teaching practice, but also by removing factors that made the learning of her students difficult.

Magical village project was funded by UNICEF within the joint UN programme “Sustainable Tourism for Rural Development “. The programme is designed for children 5-12 years’ old who actively learn about real-life situations through integrated educational activities and acquire functional knowledge.

She is currently working on two revolutionary projects. One is the “Magical Intercultural Friendship Network”, which she co-founded. This network has nearly 1,000 creative teachers and 35,000 of their students from 1,000 schools, from 57 countries around the world. Another important project she is working on now is the “Association of the Best Formers of the Former Yugoslavia”. This project is focusing on professional development and support for educators and parents. Her desire is to create a Balkans Resource Center to professionally train teachers and education leaders from the Western Balkans for providing a better learning opportunity for the future generation.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

DR. KHYATI SHETTY
Ph.D (Marketing)., SFHEA (UK), MBA (Marketing), PGHRM, BA (Marketing & Economics)

A recipient of the GCC Education Leaders Award-2019, Top 100 Global Training and Development Minds-2018, Global Training and Leadership Award-2017, GCC Women Leaders Award-2017 and the former Dean of Curtin University, Dr.Khyati Shetty comes with 15+ years of experience working in the corporate and academia. She is also an Executive Coach and Innovation Facilitator and is currently based out of Canada and serves as the campus Director of Focus College. She started her career in the area of Corporate Strategy, market potential estimation, product development and branding. Her passion for transforming individuals led her to flourish by working with high potential leaders, executives and entrepreneurs and has conducted over 300+ workshops in 10+ countries. She has also been working as a talent and leadership consultant for Government bodies in Nigeria, Ghana, Dubai and Mauritius. Khyati is a Certified Co-Active coach (CPCC) from CTI, USA, A Professional Co-active coach from the Coach Training Institute, USA, and a certified Psychometric Test Professional (CPTP) accredited assessor by CAMI and SFHEA (UK). She holds a degree in MBA (Marketing), Post Graduate Degree in Human Resource Management and a Doctorate in Brand Personality Congruence. Her research interests are in the areas of Strategic Marketing, Brand Personality and Women’s Entrepreneurship and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and delivered conference papers in leading higher education journals. She also regularly contributes to Forbes and CNBC.

Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic,
Academic Director, Institute for Contemporary Education, LINK Educational Alliance,
Serbia

An educational thought leader, Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic has been inspiring teachers to experiment with new teaching approaches for more than 20 years. With a digital growth mindset and creativity, Svetlana has shaped educational trends in the region and ideated innovation at many levels.

Her creative ideas have been greatly appreciated in the wider academic community, putting her forward as a finalist for the Global Teacher of the Year Award, recipient of John Haycraft Scholarship for Classroom Exploration and author of many educational projects with deliverables at the state level.

Svetlana is an Academic Director at LINK Educational Alliance, where she shares her learning enthusiasm and professional expertise with educators from across the world. She is also a Cambridge Assessment Specialist and an accredited Cambridge PDQ Programme Leader, who advocates for the values of intercultural competence in international education.

Dr. Venus M. Alboruto, PhD
Master Teacher, Researcher, Innovator, Trainer

Dr. Venus is an innovative science teacher from Surigao City National High School. She finished Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in General Science, at St. Paul University Surigao as Magna cum Laude. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Science Teaching and Doctorate Degree in Educational Management from the same university. She has been teaching for 17 years and her innovative approach to teaching has been recognized by several regional, national, and international education authorities.

She has won a number of awards for her work, including DOST-SEI Most Innovative Practice in Managing Large Classes, Finalist, Ki Hajar Dewantara Award for Best Science Teacher in Southeast Asia, 2016, one of the top 50 Finalists in Varkey Foundation’s Global teacher Prize 2019, and honoree of Bato Balani’s The Many Faces of the Teacher 2019. Her work is influencing teaching across the region. She has been invited to share her materials and expertise to train other teachers in their use both in the Philippines and further afield. Alboruto also presents at conferences and provides training to equip others in her field to achieve similar success.

Zeljana Radojicic Lukic
Exceptional Educator from Serbia,
Founder of Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia,
Founder of Magical Intercultural Friendship Network,
Founder of Creative Magic – Children’s International Festival,
Founder of Magic Village,
Serbia

Zeljana is a Western Balkans education leader, who has come a long way from her teacher role to her country’s assistant education minister and later return to her student’s world again.

She has an amazing power of motivation and inspiration, both for students and teachers, various target groups within the non-governmental sector also been benefited with her initiatives on these for decades.

She is a multi-award winning educator from Serbia with an incredible passion for everything she does on teaching and learning.

Zeljana is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. One of the most prestigious among those was she become one among the 50 finalists of Global Teacher Prize award in 2018, an annual US $1 million award.  She is also one of the recipients of the AKS Global Teacher Awards 2019.

She was given the greatest national award in education, Svetosavska Prize, awarded by the government sector, and she has a title of “The Best educators of Serbia” which is the greatest achievement in education awarded by the non-government sector in the country.

Zeljana joined hand with a fellow Global Teacher Prize finalist from Macedonia and founded an “Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia”, a network of Balkan teachers for networking, sharing resources and ideas.

She is recognized by “Creative Magic”, the largest educational festival in the Western Balkans, this project reflects everything Zeljana has been creating for 30 years in and out of the classroom.

Zeljan’s popular project “The Magical Village” is a concept of learning under the open sky is based on innovative teaching resources close to children’s interests and their culture of learning. Children learn under the open sky in creative workshops taught by teachers dressed as fairies from Slavic mythology. The fairy tale setting motivates the children to acquire applicable knowledge easily. Across the Magical Village, resources also include ambient classrooms like a crafting centre, magical gardens, weather station, solar dryers, sundial, orchards, vegetable farms, fields, and forests.

Children can see the big picture of the world and this can be used as a method of reforming the existing formal education. In the Magical Village, she has tried to create a symbiosis of the things she experienced through her teaching practice, but also by removing factors that made the learning of her students difficult.

Magical village project was funded by UNICEF within the joint UN programme “Sustainable Tourism for Rural Development “. The programme is designed for children 5-12 years’ old who actively learn about real-life situations through integrated educational activities and acquire functional knowledge.

She is currently working on two revolutionary projects. One is the “Magical Intercultural Friendship Network”, which she co-founded. This network has nearly 1,000 creative teachers and 35,000 of their students from 1,000 schools, from 57 countries around the world. Another important project she is working on now is the “Association of the Best Formers of the Former Yugoslavia”. This project is focusing on professional development and support for educators and parents. Her desire is to create a Balkans Resource Center to professionally train teachers and education leaders from the Western Balkans for providing a better learning opportunity for the future generation.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Stephen Cox
Chief Education Officer
New Nordic School
Finland

After a highly successful career in both medicine and education in the UK, for the last ten years, Stephen has worked at a senior/board level for 3 of the largest K-12 organizations in the Middle East region in all aspects of school improvement, professional development, business development, technology, and school start-up.

More recently, as a consultant, Stephen has supported the government and private sector on projects related to corporate and school leadership, education consultancy, change management, school start-up, IT digital strategy, future of learning and innovation in the MENA region and Internationally.

He has led year on year education improvement both in and across schools through a strong vision, culture and ethos, International Leadership, Coaching, Teacher Training, Digital Technology, drawing upon best practice internationally. He also introduced and delivered self-evaluation and performance management frameworks into and across schools for effective school improvement and accreditation.

Stephen has significant experience in business development, HR, marketing and the financial side of education and is commercially savvy. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator having led on many future learning innovating technology initiatives which have led to sustainable change across the region and internationally.

Stephen has recently been working with the Finnish government and Ministry of Education who are ranked one of the best education systems in the world. As Regional Director, he designed a ‘Best of Finland International K-12 Concept School’ to bring to the Gulf.

Stephen is also working in the future of learning space designing blended solutions in education and has recently started working with New Nordic School as Chief Education Officer.

Specialities: Leadership, Education, Innovation, Professional Development, Future Learning, Technology, Business Development, Coaching, eLearning, mLearning, Change Management, Haematology, Medicine.

DR. KHYATI SHETTY
Ph.D (Marketing)., SFHEA (UK), MBA (Marketing), PGHRM, BA (Marketing & Economics)

A recipient of the GCC Education Leaders Award-2019, Top 100 Global Training and Development Minds-2018, Global Training and Leadership Award-2017, GCC Women Leaders Award-2017 and the former Dean of Curtin University, Dr.Khyati Shetty comes with 15+ years of experience working in the corporate and academia. She is also an Executive Coach and Innovation Facilitator and is currently based out of Canada and serves as the campus Director of Focus College. She started her career in the area of Corporate Strategy, market potential estimation, product development and branding. Her passion for transforming individuals led her to flourish by working with high potential leaders, executives and entrepreneurs and has conducted over 300+ workshops in 10+ countries. She has also been working as a talent and leadership consultant for Government bodies in Nigeria, Ghana, Dubai and Mauritius. Khyati is a Certified Co-Active coach (CPCC) from CTI, USA, A Professional Co-active coach from the Coach Training Institute, USA, and a certified Psychometric Test Professional (CPTP) accredited assessor by CAMI and SFHEA (UK). She holds a degree in MBA (Marketing), Post Graduate Degree in Human Resource Management and a Doctorate in Brand Personality Congruence. Her research interests are in the areas of Strategic Marketing, Brand Personality and Women’s Entrepreneurship and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and delivered conference papers in leading higher education journals. She also regularly contributes to Forbes and CNBC.

Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic,
Academic Director, Institute for Contemporary Education, LINK Educational Alliance,
Serbia

An educational thought leader, Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic has been inspiring teachers to experiment with new teaching approaches for more than 20 years. With a digital growth mindset and creativity, Svetlana has shaped educational trends in the region and ideated innovation at many levels.

Her creative ideas have been greatly appreciated in the wider academic community, putting her forward as a finalist for the Global Teacher of the Year Award, recipient of John Haycraft Scholarship for Classroom Exploration and author of many educational projects with deliverables at the state level.

Svetlana is an Academic Director at LINK Educational Alliance, where she shares her learning enthusiasm and professional expertise with educators from across the world. She is also a Cambridge Assessment Specialist and an accredited Cambridge PDQ Programme Leader, who advocates for the values of intercultural competence in international education.

Dr. Venus M. Alboruto, PhD
Master Teacher, Researcher, Innovator, Trainer

Dr. Venus is an innovative science teacher from Surigao City National High School. She finished Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in General Science, at St. Paul University Surigao as Magna cum Laude. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Science Teaching and Doctorate Degree in Educational Management from the same university. She has been teaching for 17 years and her innovative approach to teaching has been recognized by several regional, national, and international education authorities.

She has won a number of awards for her work, including DOST-SEI Most Innovative Practice in Managing Large Classes, Finalist, Ki Hajar Dewantara Award for Best Science Teacher in Southeast Asia, 2016, one of the top 50 Finalists in Varkey Foundation’s Global teacher Prize 2019, and honoree of Bato Balani’s The Many Faces of the Teacher 2019. Her work is influencing teaching across the region. She has been invited to share her materials and expertise to train other teachers in their use both in the Philippines and further afield. Alboruto also presents at conferences and provides training to equip others in her field to achieve similar success.

Zeljana Radojicic Lukic
Exceptional Educator from Serbia,
Founder of Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia,
Founder of Magical Intercultural Friendship Network,
Founder of Creative Magic – Children’s International Festival,
Founder of Magic Village,
Serbia

Zeljana is a Western Balkans education leader, who has come a long way from her teacher role to her country’s assistant education minister and later return to her student’s world again.

She has an amazing power of motivation and inspiration, both for students and teachers, various target groups within the non-governmental sector also been benefited with her initiatives on these for decades.

She is a multi-award winning educator from Serbia with an incredible passion for everything she does on teaching and learning.

Zeljana is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. One of the most prestigious among those was she become one among the 50 finalists of Global Teacher Prize award in 2018, an annual US $1 million award.  She is also one of the recipients of the AKS Global Teacher Awards 2019.

She was given the greatest national award in education, Svetosavska Prize, awarded by the government sector, and she has a title of “The Best educators of Serbia” which is the greatest achievement in education awarded by the non-government sector in the country.

Zeljana joined hand with a fellow Global Teacher Prize finalist from Macedonia and founded an “Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia”, a network of Balkan teachers for networking, sharing resources and ideas.

She is recognized by “Creative Magic”, the largest educational festival in the Western Balkans, this project reflects everything Zeljana has been creating for 30 years in and out of the classroom.

Zeljan’s popular project “The Magical Village” is a concept of learning under the open sky is based on innovative teaching resources close to children’s interests and their culture of learning. Children learn under the open sky in creative workshops taught by teachers dressed as fairies from Slavic mythology. The fairy tale setting motivates the children to acquire applicable knowledge easily. Across the Magical Village, resources also include ambient classrooms like a crafting centre, magical gardens, weather station, solar dryers, sundial, orchards, vegetable farms, fields, and forests.

Children can see the big picture of the world and this can be used as a method of reforming the existing formal education. In the Magical Village, she has tried to create a symbiosis of the things she experienced through her teaching practice, but also by removing factors that made the learning of her students difficult.

Magical village project was funded by UNICEF within the joint UN programme “Sustainable Tourism for Rural Development “. The programme is designed for children 5-12 years’ old who actively learn about real-life situations through integrated educational activities and acquire functional knowledge.

She is currently working on two revolutionary projects. One is the “Magical Intercultural Friendship Network”, which she co-founded. This network has nearly 1,000 creative teachers and 35,000 of their students from 1,000 schools, from 57 countries around the world. Another important project she is working on now is the “Association of the Best Formers of the Former Yugoslavia”. This project is focusing on professional development and support for educators and parents. Her desire is to create a Balkans Resource Center to professionally train teachers and education leaders from the Western Balkans for providing a better learning opportunity for the future generation.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.

Ralph Valenzisi
Chief of Digital Learning and Development
Norwalk Public Schools, Connecticut
United States

Ralph Valenzisi is the Chief of Digital Learning and Development for Norwalk Public Schools in Connecticut, United States. His responsibilities include areas such as Educational Technology, supervision and the development of new initiatives. Ralph currently is the co-chair of the Connecticut Educational Technology Leaders (CTETL), the state affiliate for the Consortium of School Networking (COSN). He is currently a member of the K-12 Advisory Group for Microsoft.

Ralph was formerly the Vice President responsible for Information Technology at Global Partnership Schools. Ralph’s experience in K-12 Educational and Instructional Technology has spanned over 15 years. Prior to Norwalk and Global Partnership Schools, Ralph was the Educational Technology Coordinator for the New Haven Public Schools.

Ralph also has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Haven and currently teaches at Fairfield University. He was an Educational Technology Consultant for Imperial Software in New York for two years, and first and foremost, he was a classroom teacher for 9 years in Stamford, CT. Ralph’s degrees include a B.A form DePaul University, M.S from the University of Bridgeport and 6th year in Educational Administration from Southern CT State University.

 

Stephen Cox
Chief Education Officer
New Nordic School
Finland

After a highly successful career in both medicine and education in the UK, for the last ten years, Stephen has worked at a senior/board level for 3 of the largest K-12 organizations in the Middle East region in all aspects of school improvement, professional development, business development, technology, and school start-up.

More recently, as a consultant, Stephen has supported the government and private sector on projects related to corporate and school leadership, education consultancy, change management, school start-up, IT digital strategy, future of learning and innovation in the MENA region and Internationally.

He has led year on year education improvement both in and across schools through a strong vision, culture and ethos, International Leadership, Coaching, Teacher Training, Digital Technology, drawing upon best practice internationally. He also introduced and delivered self-evaluation and performance management frameworks into and across schools for effective school improvement and accreditation.

Stephen has significant experience in business development, HR, marketing and the financial side of education and is commercially savvy. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator having led on many future learning innovating technology initiatives which have led to sustainable change across the region and internationally.

Stephen has recently been working with the Finnish government and Ministry of Education who are ranked one of the best education systems in the world. As Regional Director, he designed a ‘Best of Finland International K-12 Concept School’ to bring to the Gulf.

Stephen is also working in the future of learning space designing blended solutions in education and has recently started working with New Nordic School as Chief Education Officer.

Specialities: Leadership, Education, Innovation, Professional Development, Future Learning, Technology, Business Development, Coaching, eLearning, mLearning, Change Management, Haematology, Medicine.

DR. KHYATI SHETTY
Ph.D (Marketing)., SFHEA (UK), MBA (Marketing), PGHRM, BA (Marketing & Economics)

A recipient of the GCC Education Leaders Award-2019, Top 100 Global Training and Development Minds-2018, Global Training and Leadership Award-2017, GCC Women Leaders Award-2017 and the former Dean of Curtin University, Dr.Khyati Shetty comes with 15+ years of experience working in the corporate and academia. She is also an Executive Coach and Innovation Facilitator and is currently based out of Canada and serves as the campus Director of Focus College. She started her career in the area of Corporate Strategy, market potential estimation, product development and branding. Her passion for transforming individuals led her to flourish by working with high potential leaders, executives and entrepreneurs and has conducted over 300+ workshops in 10+ countries. She has also been working as a talent and leadership consultant for Government bodies in Nigeria, Ghana, Dubai and Mauritius. Khyati is a Certified Co-Active coach (CPCC) from CTI, USA, A Professional Co-active coach from the Coach Training Institute, USA, and a certified Psychometric Test Professional (CPTP) accredited assessor by CAMI and SFHEA (UK). She holds a degree in MBA (Marketing), Post Graduate Degree in Human Resource Management and a Doctorate in Brand Personality Congruence. Her research interests are in the areas of Strategic Marketing, Brand Personality and Women’s Entrepreneurship and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and delivered conference papers in leading higher education journals. She also regularly contributes to Forbes and CNBC.

Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic,
Academic Director, Institute for Contemporary Education, LINK Educational Alliance,
Serbia

An educational thought leader, Dr Svetlana Belic Malinic has been inspiring teachers to experiment with new teaching approaches for more than 20 years. With a digital growth mindset and creativity, Svetlana has shaped educational trends in the region and ideated innovation at many levels.

Her creative ideas have been greatly appreciated in the wider academic community, putting her forward as a finalist for the Global Teacher of the Year Award, recipient of John Haycraft Scholarship for Classroom Exploration and author of many educational projects with deliverables at the state level.

Svetlana is an Academic Director at LINK Educational Alliance, where she shares her learning enthusiasm and professional expertise with educators from across the world. She is also a Cambridge Assessment Specialist and an accredited Cambridge PDQ Programme Leader, who advocates for the values of intercultural competence in international education.

Dr. Venus M. Alboruto, PhD
Master Teacher, Researcher, Innovator, Trainer

Dr. Venus is an innovative science teacher from Surigao City National High School. She finished Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in General Science, at St. Paul University Surigao as Magna cum Laude. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Science Teaching and Doctorate Degree in Educational Management from the same university. She has been teaching for 17 years and her innovative approach to teaching has been recognized by several regional, national, and international education authorities.

She has won a number of awards for her work, including DOST-SEI Most Innovative Practice in Managing Large Classes, Finalist, Ki Hajar Dewantara Award for Best Science Teacher in Southeast Asia, 2016, one of the top 50 Finalists in Varkey Foundation’s Global teacher Prize 2019, and honoree of Bato Balani’s The Many Faces of the Teacher 2019. Her work is influencing teaching across the region. She has been invited to share her materials and expertise to train other teachers in their use both in the Philippines and further afield. Alboruto also presents at conferences and provides training to equip others in her field to achieve similar success.

Zeljana Radojicic Lukic
Exceptional Educator from Serbia,
Founder of Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia,
Founder of Magical Intercultural Friendship Network,
Founder of Creative Magic – Children’s International Festival,
Founder of Magic Village,
Serbia

Zeljana is a Western Balkans education leader, who has come a long way from her teacher role to her country’s assistant education minister and later return to her student’s world again.

She has an amazing power of motivation and inspiration, both for students and teachers, various target groups within the non-governmental sector also been benefited with her initiatives on these for decades.

She is a multi-award winning educator from Serbia with an incredible passion for everything she does on teaching and learning.

Zeljana is the recipient of many national and international awards and prizes. One of the most prestigious among those was she become one among the 50 finalists of Global Teacher Prize award in 2018, an annual US $1 million award.  She is also one of the recipients of the AKS Global Teacher Awards 2019.

She was given the greatest national award in education, Svetosavska Prize, awarded by the government sector, and she has a title of “The Best educators of Serbia” which is the greatest achievement in education awarded by the non-government sector in the country.

Zeljana joined hand with a fellow Global Teacher Prize finalist from Macedonia and founded an “Association of the Best Teachers of the Former Yugoslavia”, a network of Balkan teachers for networking, sharing resources and ideas.

She is recognized by “Creative Magic”, the largest educational festival in the Western Balkans, this project reflects everything Zeljana has been creating for 30 years in and out of the classroom.

Zeljan’s popular project “The Magical Village” is a concept of learning under the open sky is based on innovative teaching resources close to children’s interests and their culture of learning. Children learn under the open sky in creative workshops taught by teachers dressed as fairies from Slavic mythology. The fairy tale setting motivates the children to acquire applicable knowledge easily. Across the Magical Village, resources also include ambient classrooms like a crafting centre, magical gardens, weather station, solar dryers, sundial, orchards, vegetable farms, fields, and forests.

Children can see the big picture of the world and this can be used as a method of reforming the existing formal education. In the Magical Village, she has tried to create a symbiosis of the things she experienced through her teaching practice, but also by removing factors that made the learning of her students difficult.

Magical village project was funded by UNICEF within the joint UN programme “Sustainable Tourism for Rural Development “. The programme is designed for children 5-12 years’ old who actively learn about real-life situations through integrated educational activities and acquire functional knowledge.

She is currently working on two revolutionary projects. One is the “Magical Intercultural Friendship Network”, which she co-founded. This network has nearly 1,000 creative teachers and 35,000 of their students from 1,000 schools, from 57 countries around the world. Another important project she is working on now is the “Association of the Best Formers of the Former Yugoslavia”. This project is focusing on professional development and support for educators and parents. Her desire is to create a Balkans Resource Center to professionally train teachers and education leaders from the Western Balkans for providing a better learning opportunity for the future generation.

Rania Lampou, Global Teacher Prize Finalist 2019, 15 International Awards on STEM, STEM Instructor, Greek Neuroscience Researcher, Educator, Trainer & Author

Awarded many national and international prizes, Rania Lampou is a Global Teacher Prize finalist 2019. She is the founder of four international projects that focus on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals described in the 2030 Agenda. She promotes STEM vision by introducing STEM in astronomy and physics projects and combines STEM with Language Teaching. She has a Postgraduate Degree in Language Teaching related to cognitive neurosciences. She is a passionate researcher on cognitive psychology and cognitive neurosciences. She strongly believes that brain-based learning and teaching could lead to important breakthroughs in learning because recent findings of neuroeducation provide valuable insights into how students learn and how to engage them in the classroom.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Assistant Professor in Education,
Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher,
Thailand

Asst. Prof. Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan has over two decades of research experience in e-Learning, m-Learning, Phygital Learning and Blended Learning. She is a Ph.D. Supervisor and Researcher in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology and Innovation. Her responsibility is to supervise Ph.D. candidate in the development of research in Technology-Enhanced Learning, eLearning technology. She has guided and supervised more than 15 doctoral candidates to obtain their degree and more Ph.D. students are in the process.

Her specialist covers in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligent in Education, Augmented reality in Education, Game-based Education, Gamification, Social Learning, Social Network Disorder, Research and Development, Mixed method research, Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan has achieved many recognitions, awards and scholarships in education.

She was the presenter of “Empowering Education by Artificial Intelligence” in The Belt and Road Shanghai Autumn 2019 Study Project: Policy and Practice: Teacher Professional Development at International and Comparative Education Research Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Teacher Education Center, UNESCO during 5-19 October 2019.

She was the member in the panel discussion of Pedagogical Innovation in Education ICT Forum 2019 hosted by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand on April 25-26, 2019 at Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre, Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok

Dr. Poonsri was a guest Speaker of Thailand Education 4.0: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education, on behalf of ONESQA (Thailand) at 2018 ASEAN Quality Assurance Network (AQAN) Seminar 27 Sept 2018 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

In 2011, she earned a Research Grant for development of an Augmented Reality Book in English for elementary school students, awarded by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration School Board, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2007, she was a Guest Speaker for Trends in Mobile Learning: Major Challenges, University of Regina, Faculty of Education, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In 2002, she was a Visiting International Scholar, the Communications and Information Technology Group Laboratory, Brock University, Faculty of Applied Health Science, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

She was invited to translate Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability written by Steve Krug into Thai, published by SE-ED.

Currently, Asst. Prof. Dr. Vate-U-Lan is a Full-time Lecturer for Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology Program (English Program) which soon will be Ph.D. in Technology, Education, and Management at Graduate School of Advanced Technology Management, Assumption University of Thailand.

Maarit Rossi
Founder & CEO – Paths to Math Ltd,
Former Mathematics Teacher and Principal,
Global Teacher Prize Finalist,
Finland

Ms. Maarit Rossi is the Founder & CEO of Paths to Math Ltd. Her broad experience in the education field is grounded based on her career and expertise in the world popular Finnish education system.

She is a former Mathematics teacher and Principal. She is an author of nine Mathematics textbooks, several pedagogic articles and publications. Ms. Maarit has done an e-Learning Math material also for the grades 6 to 9. She has been running many international projects in co-operation with the Finnish industry and also in her school. She was one of the top 10 finalists in Global Teacher Prize 2016 and she was one of the judges of the Global Teacher Prize Academy 2017.

She has contributed articles related to Mathematics in many national and international publications. Ms. Maarit is one of the Top Teacher Bloggers in The Global Search for Education authored by C M Rubin, which was reported in the famous Huffington Post news media.

She is a seasoned keynote speaker in international conferences and conducted many successful teachers’ workshops globally.

Shanthi Rajan (MSHRM, FHEA, AMCILT)
Director, Institution Development, University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

Shanthi RAJAN is a senior HR professional with 17 years of HR corporate experience and has worked predominantly in MNCs handling senior HR roles. Shanthi is the Director – Institution Development of University of Stirling, RAK campus and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) Diplomas. She moved to academia in 2009 and has taught in many reputed international universities namely University of Wollongong, London School of Economics, Middlesex and University of Bolton’s campuses in Ras Al Khaimah, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

During the years she has developed her communication skills and ability to build effective relationships across the board and with various stakeholders and have a strong ability to lead teams as well as highly developed skills in detailed analysis and problem-solving situations. Apart from teaching, Shanthi facilitates, design, and deliver need based trainings and workshops in India, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Sudan which include in house and public programs as part of Management Development programs for senior executives in areas such as OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She translates her 17 years of Corporate experience into classroom knowledge through her teaching and communication skills. She uses the edifice of emotional intelligence based education system as the core concept in classroom teaching. She is a good team player with her colleagues and her students – an emotional intelligence approach that reflects in her disposition in workplace and beyond.

She holds a Master’s degree with specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management from the University of Wollongong, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education Leadership (USA). Her core areas of specialization and research interest includes Strategic HRM, OB, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. She is an affiliate member of CILT (UK) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a certified S+EI coach from the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI), Denver, Colorado and also certified in using Positive Psychology for coaching S+EI. She is an Advisory Board Member for Higher Education Digest, an independent information portal with a digital and print-on-demand and also an Academic Advisory Board member of DMTIMS, Navi Mumbai. She has completed her Postgraduate certification (PGCert) in teaching and learning from University of Bolton (UK) and her Higher Education Teaching Certification from Harvard, Derek Bok Centre of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.

Juan Manuel Pico
Education Soul Co-founder & HundrED Country Lead Colombia,
Colombia

Juan Manuel is an International business executive with 30 years of experience in consulting services of technology and education, with a special focus on public & private alliances for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Motorola and Unisys in the United States and Latin America. He has worked in more than 30 countries and speaks five languages.

Since 2007, he has been a serial entrepreneur in different business sectors such as food, IT services and EdTech. He has created seed money funds, developed entrepreneurship public policy projects, and fostered acceleration programs. He is frequently invited as an entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation speaker in Latin America.

As Education Soul Co-founder, his most recent startup, he has been devoted for the last 5 years, to close the digital gap at underserved areas, reaching +20,000 students in Colombia, in 12 cities and 59 low-income public schools, in terms of reading comprehension and open-source code programming that creates music, art and robotics. Using EdTech platforms based on adaptive learning, his company has helped students to develop their own skills in a personalized way and at their own rhythm and speed, assuring follow up and concrete results, to make social impact possible.

Since 2021, Juan Manuel is a member of the 21 st Century Skills Coalition led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC that supports the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and promotes the development and strengthening of transversal skills in the region.

He serves as HundrED Country Lead Colombia, a Finnish not-for-profit organization which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education around the globe.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Los Andes University – Colombia) and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Associate Professor Dr.Varughese K.John, PhD, MBA, MPhil, MCom, LLB.
Program Director, MS in Management Program, GSATM – AU.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varughese K. John, has got more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in the domain of commerce and management.  Currently, he is a full-time faculty member of the Graduate School of eLearning (MS Program in Management and Ph.D. Program in eLM), Assumption University of Thailand. Also, he is a visiting professor of another university in Vietnam and also an adjudicator of Ph.D. dissertations of many other Universities. His specializations are financial management, banking, and managerial accounting. He did his Ph. D. on ‘Non-performing Assets of Indian commercial banks’. He has got a number of publications in world class journals and used to publish research articles in the daily ‘Bangkok Post’. He has contributed many research papers in the international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and India – has been honored with the best paper presentation award in IPN Conferences, 2018 at Perth, Australia. He started his teaching career in the year 1983 in the colleges under the management of Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges in Kerala, India and eventually became the Principal of Pazhassiraja College, Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala during the period 2011 to 2015. He served as a member of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Kerala for three years (2004-2007). He got industrial experience by serving in different companies in the middle-east. His educational qualifications include – Ph.D., MBA, M.Phil., M.Com. and LL.B.

Shady Elkassas
Director of Innovation
Al Ittihad National Private School – Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the education of young people.

He believes that the capstone of education is to give every student equal opportunities to learn and for this reason, a true educator according to his is the one who acknowledges, respects, and appreciates students’ diverse backgrounds, learning styles, intelligence, and abilities. Following this perspective, he has centred his teaching repertoire around the concept of searching for the best way to meeting students’ individual needs. As a school leader, he communicated the same message to his team members.

Shady is a popular STEM advocate and speaker in the Middle East region. He has taken initiatives to adopt project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodologies to create a new foundation of STEM learning in school.

He strongly believes that leadership has a strong influence on education reform and he takes initiatives to communicate is vision not only inside his school but also outside.

Shady had been selected to be a speaker in three international education conferences in the region – GESS-Dubai 2016, 2017, and Fatih Educational Summit in Turkey 2016.

He was awared the prestegiouse Khalifa Presidency Award for Education (2017) and Middle East Education influencer Award (2018). He was also a GESS education award finalist for two years (2016 & 17).

For the past few years, Shady has been associated with Sharjah American International School.

With Robotics being of particular interest to him, Shady led the School Robotics team and helped them win many awards at international events. He has also been invited to speak at events like TEDx and GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions Exhibition).

He is Microsoft Innovative educator and Google Certified Educator and Apple Teacher.

Shady qualifications include Masters of Science in Education, Executive Management Diploma and Bachelor of Science.

Mr. Ngô Thành Nam
Teacher, Technology Academy Manager, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Global Trainer,
Vietnam

Mr. Nam is a primary school teacher and manager of technology academy department in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has authored multiple articles and been nationally and internationally recognized for the implementation of creativity and the integration of technology into his teaching. In 2016, he was presented with the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert Award. Then, he represented Vietnam at the Microsoft Global Forum and to become a winner there. Now, he is a Skype Master Teacher, MIE Master Trainer, MIE Fellow and Microsoft Learning Consultant. Besides that, he is also the Global Math Ambassador, Lifeliqe ambassador and ClassDojo Ambassador. During his career, he obtains many national and international achievements: Winner of The ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Award (2017, 2018), selected to attend the 2017 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama (2017), Winner of Hack the classroom competition (2016), MIE Expert of the Year (2016), featured by NNSTOY (2017), the Winner of Asia Educator of the year (2017), Top 50 Global Teacher Prize (2018) etc.

Mr. Nam works passionately to develop creative approaches to delivering quality education to his students in ways that inspire them to learn. He not only equip his students with knowledge but also works to develop their life skills such as critical thinking, information technology, group work, etc.with that his students can get adapted to various cultures throughout the world. Nam is interested in applying technology to teaching since he believes that high tech helps his students’ creativity and passion for learning more. Moreover, he knows that technology bridges the gap between the classroom and real life. His vision is learning is not limited to the classroom but also to extend to the outside world. Therefore, he loves doing global collaboration much. During his teaching, he has done many of global projects, such as, We are little volunteer (Safe Traffic), I am future Environmental Science (Protect Environment), Wai Water (Protect Water), Women in history on tour, Global school play, Capturing Christmas across the Globe, Global Cooking etc., Nam makes a great change in his student’s life and himself since they have been able to go outside of the boundaries of our school building to learn. Nam has taken his students to new places and allowed them to use the 4C of 21st-century learning (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity) such as they have global learning. Nam loves working with his students and is inspired by them every day.

He has implemented a global project on child sexual abuse called Five Safe Fingers. The project attracted the participation of more than 100 teachers from 38 countries across the globe. Nam believes this project will bring tremendous impact not only to children in Viet Nam but also to children around the world in helping them have the skills to protect themselves against invasive problems: Child sexual abuse. He also realizes that the project is also targeting 16th goal of the UN’s sustainable development goals: Peace, Good health and Well-being. Mr. Nam is one of the pioneer teachers in addressing sensitive issues of human rights and child rights. This year, he is working on the Kindness Everyday project. By using technology, he has deployed projects to 12 000 students in Vietnam and around the world.

Mr Nam also moderates an online teachers group with more than 27000 members. He has inspired the transformation of teaching and learning for both teachers in Vietnam and around the world. Today, Nam trains teachers all over Vietnam (non-profit), raising the profession as a whole. He’s constantly searching for new approaches and helps colleagues use technology to make teaching and learning more effective. He’s inspired lots of teachers in Vietnam, changed them from someone who knows nothing about technology to someone who has become interested in it and knows how to apply it effectively and suitably. At night, he spends time for poor children to teach them after they finish working.

Hatem Slimane
Founder & National President – ATAST,
General director of IFEST² the international projects competition in Tunisia,
General secretary of MILSET Africa,
BRISECC member,
Tunisia.

Hatem is a multiple medal- and award-winning individual at the national and the international level. An innovative and passionate Tunisian Educator, he started many initiatives in the field of education. Hatem’s qualifications include a Masters degree in GPPM field. He believes that an educator is much more than a teacher. He has been invited at many big events in the national and international level to share his vision.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi,Ph.D,MBA,BSc.

Program Director of Ph.D, Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award & Dan Evans Award for Excellence and Writer columnist.

Assistant Professor Dr. Kuldeep Nagi is the Program Director of Ph.D in eLearning Methodology for Graduate School of eLearning (GSeL) at Assumption University, Thailand. He was born and educated in India but matured and flourished in Seattle, WA, USA. He is an American citizen and recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award-2006 in USA to work at Assumption University, Thailand. While working in Seattle Community College District (SCCD) in USA, he also received Dan Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching. He spent the prime of his life working at various institutions of Higher Education based in Seattle, WA, USA. After joining Assumption University in Thailand in 2006 he has written more than 3 dozen papers for international conferences, proceedings and journals. In addition to working as a Director of the Ph.D. program, he is also working as Managing Editor of Monthly eNewsletter called eLearning@AU, Managing Editor of AU-eJournal of Interdisciplinary Research http://www.ejir.au.edu/, Member-Editorial Board- ABAC Journal. Dr. Kuldeep is a writer columnist for the NATION and BANGKOKPOST, daily newspapers published in Bangkok.

Fethy Letaief
Distinguished Senior EFL Teacher,
ISA Coordinator with the British Council,
Motivational Speaker,
Tunisia

Fethy Letaief is working as a Senior English & ICT Teacher with Pioneer Prep School of Sousse Tunisia. He has been working on implementing the global inclusive dimension in the curriculum for many years.

He involves learners and educators in developing their soft skills and succeeded to make sponsors and the community invest in education mainly school’s infrastructure in modernizing classrooms. This led to an up-to-date learning environment and help to build modern school culture.

He is coaching other educators and leading by sharing good practices namely the good use of digital tools and the network.

He was awarded twice with International school award for education and now serving as an ambassador with British Council Tunisia. He was awarded National Motivational Speaker award in 2011.

He is an experienced tour leader of “Students Linguistic Trips Abroad” organizing students trips to other countries.

His voluntary experiences include President of “Books and Libraries Lovers” association, Vice president of JCI, Chair of the committee “Communication and Media Tunisia TEFL” and also the active member in “School our Home” association.

He is an official translator and media conferences responsible contact person of a popular football team in the county Etoile du Sahel.

Fethy is also an English short stories writer. Involvement in a wide range of activities helped him to be influential and leader in “call for change” in the educational strategies in Tunisia.

Kihyun Park
Innovative Educator of Online Classroom,
Pungsaeng Middle School,
South Korea

Kihyun Park is an innovative English teacher in charge of International Students Exchange program in Pungsaeng Middle School, South Korea, designated as ‘Innovation School’ where new educational & experimental programs have been implemented and he is leading it.

This year he works in the Office of Education of Gyeonggi-do (South Korean Government) as a committee member of the consulting board for International Exchange Project.

With the motto, ‘The World is My Classroom’, he has helped his students to be equipped with the good communicative competence, to raise awareness of different cultures, and to develop the global citizenship by connecting classrooms face-to-face in different manners.

He created and practising new models of the online class, which is revolutionary and work effectively, and through which his students are able to think out of the box to achieve the goals; Culture Sensitivity, Creativity, Communicative Skill, and Global Citizenship.

His class is open to any educators filled with challenging spirits. Park undertake the role as a changemaker in his classroom.

Park majored in Pedagogy and English education and he graduated from Hongik University.

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, MBA, B.Com

Former Senior General Manager: Panasonic Middle East & Africa, Thought Leader, Speaker & Author of ‘Moment of Signal’ (Amazon’s International Bestseller)

Mr. Sreedhar Bevara, Senior GM, Panasonic is a business leader and has over 25 years of experience the FGCG & Consumer Electronics industry.

Sreedhar, an alumna of IIM Ahmedabad also held key positions in LG Electronics, Dometic, The Hindu and the Tata Group. Sreedhar also runs a charity through BMR Trust to offer “Bright Morning Rise” to the needy and suffering.

He is also the author of Amazon Bestselling book “Moment of Signal”.

Mr. Sreedhar was recently invited to speak in IIT Delhi & IIM Ahmedabad.

An inspiring story, in true slum dog millionaire style: from street vendor to waiter, milk delivery boy to door-to-door salesman, and eventually General Manager at Panasonic Corporation, Sreedhar Bevara is a life study on how embracing your moments of signals can help you realize your full leadership potential.

He grew from the bottom to find himself at the top. Learn his secrets and become the leader you truly are. He emphasizes, ‘the best way to excel is not to follow the signals, but to find them for yourself’.

He is passionate about the “leadership within us” and has spoken on the topic to world-class names in the region. Living currently in the vibrant city of Dubai, Sreedhar travels extensively and is obsessed with fitness.

Herwin Hamid
EdTech Specialist, Speaker and Teacher Trainer,
Innovative ICT Educator,
ICT learning multimedia developer,
Indonesia

Herwin Hamid is a science teacher in a Middle School in Indonesia. He is active in providing training for teachers in improving their pedagogic skills, especially using and developing ICT in the learning process and to use ICT effectively in order to solve learning problems that exist in the classroom. He has given training for more than 2000 teachers directly.

He was a speaker at several national and regional seminars in which he provided motivation and inspiration to teachers and prospective teachers.

For more than a decade, he has been teaching in a school with inadequate infrastructure including the technological facilities. However, it does not prevent him from chasing his dream to be a good influencer in improving the quality of education not only in his classroom but also for other educators in Indonesia through the use of ICT in learning.

He has received many national and international awards for his dedication to education and for all his teaching and learning innovations that he has created. This led him to indirectly become a role model for other teachers of his country to do innovative initiatives.

He won many championships in Indonesia organized by Ministry of Educational and Culture of Indonesia such as National Teacher Symposium 2016, National Competition of Teacher Creativity 2014 and National Competition of Developing Mobile Learning for Education 2013. Herwin Hamid was awarded Anugerah Ki Hajar Award 2012, 2013 and 2014, 3 years in a row. He also received the National Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia.

In 2015, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia selected him from Indonesia for the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award for outstanding teachers in the ASEAN region. This award was presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand. He was also the finalist of The Best Science Teachers Award in Southeast Asia organized by SEAMEO Qitep In Science

He was chosen among 72 Indonesians to received special recognition from President as part of “72 Indonesian icons of Achievement Festival” in 2017 and become the only teacher to receive that recognition.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics Education from Halu Oleo University – Kendari and a master degree in Educational Technology from Surabaya State University.

Dr. Manoj Varghese,Ph.D, MS, MBA, BE.

Senior Director – Global Partnerships, Advisory & Consulting – Connecta® | Head of Advisory Board – Higher Education Digest® & K12 Digest® | Adjunct Faculty – Assumption University | Former CIO – Athena Education | Former Global Director Technology – GEMS Education

Dr. Manoj is a Senior Technology, Innovation, Education & Risk Management leader with over two decades of unmatched international experience and expertise. He is an EdTech researcher with strong knowledge of BYOD, STEM Education & 21st Century Learning skills

As Senior Director at Connecta®, he leads partnerships, advisory, consulting, strategy & publishing. Connecta® is a global innovation brand specialised in providing advisory, consulting and publishing services in Technology, Education & Management

As Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Athena Education, Manoj led Technology & Digital Strategy which comprises of Leadership, Strategy, New Technology Initiatives, IT Policy and Procedures, IT Enhancement, IT Budgets, IT Procurement, IT Operations, IT Security & Data Integrity, Enterprise IT Systems (ERP, SIS, VLE), Risk Management, IT Human Resource Management, Software Licensing, Web, Email, Portal Services, Vendor Relationships, User Feedback & Committees

He was the Global Director – Technology & Risk Management at GEMS Education led the Technology Strategy, Execution of Strategic Plans, Technology Budget, Technology Governance, Compliance, Security, Risk & Audit for over 250+ GEMS’ Global and Partner Schools, and related businesses in 10 countries. As a Project Director at GEMS, he led all aspects of Technology for over 45 International School projects in North America, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia & China, and two prestigious Higher Education projects in Dubai. He was the Project Director of GEMS’ SAP ERP project, where SAP was implemented over 180 schools. He was the Architect of GEMS’ proprietary ERP & VLE

He was a Former Regional Committee Member of Varkey Foundation which organizes world-famous Global Teacher Prize, an annual US $1 million award

Manoj is a world traveler and he loves nature photography. He had been to over 42 countries and keeps exploring more every year. Cross country drive through villages are his favorite. He also explored a wide range of K12 and Higher Education systems during his travel

He is an IT Engineering Graduate, has completed MBA program in Systems and has MS and PhD in E-Learning Methodology.