Keynotes that define the agenda.
I deliver keynotes that shift perspectives and provide clear pathways for institutions navigating AI integration. My presentations are firmly grounded in policy and best practice, helping leaders design for augmentation, not replacement. Available in-person or virtually.
For fees and booking, see Services page.
Pictured: UNESCO International Conference on Digital Lifelong Learning, Shanghai, October 2025.
Executive dialogue & expert panels.
In panels and fireside conversations, I engage in critical dialogue on AI's impact on professional expertise and human authority, bringing candid, conversational authority on global policy developments affecting institutional realities.
Pictured: Fireside chat with Craig Mundie on Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope and the human spirit (Little Brown and Company, 2024), co-authored with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the late Henry Kissinger.
selected KeynoteS
Upcoming in 2026
February, Keynote, The New Hybrid: Teaching Practice as Design. Association of Independent Schools and Colleges of Alberta (AISCA) Teachers’ Convention. Calgary, Canada.
May, Keynote, From Context Engineering to World Models: Designing Pedagogical Systems for Computer-Supported Education. CSEDU 2026: 18th International Conference on Computer Supported Education. Benidorm, Spain.
June, Ponente invitado, El nuevo híbrido: de la disrupción a la convivencia. JUTE 2026: XXXIII Jornadas Universitarias de Tecnología Educativa. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, España.
July, Keynote, Medical Educators as System Designers: Building Learning Systems for the Agentic Era. Japan Medical Education Foundation (JMEF) International Forum for Medical Education Leaders and Administrators. Tokyo, Japan.
2025
20 November, Keynote, The New Context: The Pedagogical Imperative in the Shift from AI Tools to Systems. AI for Education Singapore: Learning About, With and Beyond AI. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
18 November, Keynote, Agentic AI in Education: Possibility, Peril and Practice. Taejae Future Education Forum, Taejae University, Seoul, South Korea.
7 November, Keynote, Strategic Alignment of AI and Higher Education: A Roadmap for Readiness. Latvian Council of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia, sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission TSI Project. Riga, Latvia.
18 October 2025, Plenary speech, Learning for Life with Intelligent Machines. UNESCO Conference on Digital Lifelong Learning, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning & IITE, Shanghai Open University, China.
23/24 August 2025, Keynote, AI Symposium, Association of Medical Educators Conference, Barcelona International Convention Centre, Spain.
2 July 2025, Keynote, Generative Learning for the Age of Experience. Open edX Conference, Télécom Paris, France.
25 April 2025, Keynote, Generative AI and Education: creating intelligent communities. Brazilian College of Higher Studies (CBAE), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
3 April 2025, Keynote, Living, learning and working with intelligent machines. Global Approaches to AI. Peking University & London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
14 February 2025, Keynote, Generative AI and Education: Digital Pedagogies, Teaching Innovation and Learning Design. Inauguration of the Government of Portugal’s National Council for Pedagogical Innovation in Higher Education (CNIPES). Lisbon, Portugal.
30 January 2025, Co-discussant, Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit. Fireside chat with Craig Mundie. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
2024
12 December 2024 – Speaker, Global MOOC and Online Education Conference Opening Ceremony, co-hosted by UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), the Global MOOC and Education Alliance (GMA) and Queen Mary University of London, UK.
16-17 October 2024 – Opening keynote, The New Hybrid. Cambridge Generative AI in Education Conference, University of Cambridge, UK.
3 October 2024 – Keynote, Onboarding AI in Education. Learnovation 2024 Global Learning Summit, Trinity College Dublin & Learnovate. Dublin, Ireland.
17-19 September 2024 – Opening keynote, Generative Intelligence: Redefining Learning for the Age of AI. TechLearn Conference 2024. Austin TX, USA.
18 January 2024 – Opening Keynote, The New Hybrid is AI + Human. Adult Learning Xchange (ALX) 2024. Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) & Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore.