We are delighted to welcome back Tamara Sullivan who spoke at our inaugural event in 2018 when she was Head of Academics and Innovation at Ormiston College, QLD. Tamara has since moved from the private sector to public, and is the Deputy Principal at Brisbane South State Secondary College. This move has been hailed as a positive disruption as she continues to breakdown barriers and challenge the status quo.

As an educator with 20 years' experience in both the state and independent sector, she has extensive industry knowledge, leadership and staff mentoring, as well as the experience of delivering curriculum programs that improve outcomes for students in 21st century environments.
Tamara understands the new and changing demands of the teaching profession and believes that building capacity is the cornerstone of a contemporary school. She leads E-Learning, STEM, 21st century curriculum development, learning spaces, and the meaningful use of technology across the profession.

Tamara's Talk: What happens when you keep books off the booklist?

Brisbane South State Secondary College is Queensland's newest vertical state high school. In collaboration with one of the world's top universities, The University of Queensland, the College is setting the new standard in education - readying students to not only keep pace in the new world, but move forward in it with confidence and fulfilment.

Opening in 2021, the College is strategically located within the Brisbane Knowledge Corridor – which is an integral part of this leading education, health and research network. The campus consists of `vertical’ learning hubs of STEM(M-medical), Creativity, and Health and Wellbeing.

The College’s technology choices and digital delivery have been carefully considered to support the future focussed learning facilities – Brisbane South SSC is one of Australia’s first truly digital schools, with all teaching and learning occurring on a device to advance the teaching of future ready skills.

Core to the school’s digital strategy is ensuring that multiple workstreams are intelligently integrated into every aspect of the school – their environment is interconnected, with every subject delivered via Teams and OneNote, wirelessly connected to digital screens throughout the campus.

Come and hear from Tamara as she shares the College’s strategic technology plan, learning journey, and practical strategies of `what happens when you leave books off the booklist?’ The session will also focus on sharing the College’s unique digital design framework to promote student agency and digital fluency in a way that better reflects the changing needs of society and the workforce.

David Kellermann is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He is principally interested in human-centered A.I. to enhance the student experience in higher education. With a PhD in Computational Mechanics, David’s decade-plus experience in advanced computational modelling provided him with a more mechanistic view towards artificial intelligence: i.e. building structured frameworks around the classical universal-function approximation underpinning most AI. David has focused on educational technology for six years now, leading pioneering projects including human-centered conversational agents (bots) that function to connect people rather than replace them. He has implemented large scale machine-learning models for the prediction of student performance to enable the algorithmic generation of tailored learning content. David’s engineering classes have also broken new ground in collaborative decentralized examination, eliminating many forms of normative cheating in favor of cooperation-by-design. He has used ML and feature extraction to pre-grade hand drawn diagrammatic solutions. David’s most recent work includes more connected digital class experiences, with self and auto produced teaching studios, augmented by enhance student participation and immersive technologies including augmented reality and the metaverse.
David's talk: Post-pandemic, post LMS: The new expectations of education

Matt Fryer is an experienced Deputy Principal from NSW specialising in PDHPE. He has held a number of leadership and wellbeing roles within schools and is extremely passionate about creativity and engagement and the ways in which technology can be leveraged to unlock this for students.

Matt and Linda's Talk: How do we empower our learners today, and prepare them for tomorrow?

Technology is transforming the way we live, work and learn. More and more, problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, communication and adapting to change are the necessary skills students need for both work and everyday life.
Join Apple as we explore how to help our students learn today to prepare them for tomorrow. Here’s some of what you’ll experience:
- Apple’s vision for how we can ensure every young person is equipped for a lifetime of learning and diverse ways of working,
- Hear stories about industry and how Apple technology is transforming the way people work and the unique opportunities this has in education,
- Learn about four design principles for creating technology-rich learning environments based on best practices from secondary schools across Australia.

Linda Pitt currently leads the Leadership and Learning team across Australia and New Zealand. More recently she was in the Leadership and Learning team focused on QLD and Northern Territory. Linda focused on leading the strategic development of schools and implementation of pedagogical change projects, developed education programs and events and supported teams in the areas of curriculum, transformational learning, school change management, professional development, educational research and strategic planning

Linda has worked previously as the Executive Manager, Learning and Participation at State Library of Queensland, delivering events, exhibitions and learning programs around Queensland.

In previous roles, she was the Transformational Learning Manager for the Queensland Department of Education and Training and was charged with steering schools across the state towards transformational and contemporary learning practices. She started her career as a Secondary school teacher and leader in Education Queensland.

Matthew Fryer & Linda Pitt's Talk: How do we empower our learners today, and prepare them for tomorrow?

Technology is transforming the way we live, work and learn. More and more, problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, communication and adapting to change are the necessary skills students need for both work and everyday life.

Join Apple as we explore how to help our students learn today to prepare them for tomorrow. Here’s some of what you’ll experience:

- Apple’s vision for how we can ensure every young person is equipped for a lifetime of learning and diverse ways of working,
- Hear stories about industry and how Apple technology is transforming the way people work and the unique opportunities this has in education,
- Learn about four design principles for creating technology-rich learning environments based on best practices from secondary schools across Australia.

Linda's Workshop: Planning a Successful Technology Program to Accelerate Learning and Teaching

Join us to explore the transformation of teaching and learning through a technology-rich learning environment. In this workshop designed for school leadership teams, we will discuss ideas on how to successfully implement technology throughout your school.
Here’s what you’ll experience:
• Examine essential elements for creating a technology-rich learning environment based on best practices from schools around the world.
• Be introduced and supported through the exploration of key considerations and freely available resources to build the capacity of your teachers, students and community.
• Be presented with an opportunity to join a community network of like minded schools seeking to embark on a similar journey.
You’ll leave this session with the beginnings of a vision for a more relevant and personal learning environment.

Trent has over 15 years experience working as a primary and secondary teacher & leader in Victorian Schools. More recently Trent’s roles include Co-Founder of the Cyber Safety Project, Director of Collective Education Australia, working in partnership with the Education team at Microsoft Australia. Trent’s natural talent for engaging people of all ages has seen him work with schools nationally to support digital technology integration through ICT Strategic Planning, curriculum coaching and conference workshops. He is passionate about helping young people develop future ready skills and now dedicates his time designing and delivering whole community approaches to cyber safety and digital wellbeing education programs across Australia.

Trent's Talk: Leading a Safe Digital School

Stephen is a member of your local Apple Education Team. He is part of the Leadership and Learning Team across Australia and New Zealand. Stephen had been an educator for 35 years with extensive classroom teaching and leadership experience across a large number of CEWA and independent schools.
Stephen’s main role with Apple is supporting educational communities and systems implement successful technology programs to increase learning outcomes.
He is passionate about exceptional pedagogy and transformative learning with Apple technologies.
Stephen’s whole family live and breath education with his wife, father, mother in law and both children being school teachers or pre-service teachers.

Stephen's Teaching & Learning workshop: Bring Augmented Reality to Your Classroom with iPad
First hand experience is one of the most powerful ways to learn. With Augmented Reality (AR), students can experience just about anything they can imagine. Join us to explore how AR on iPad is helping transform what is possible in the classroom.
During this workshop you will:
• Explore AR apps on iPad that are helping students connect their learning to the world in new ways.
• Learn how AR creates immersive and engaging learning experiences in contexts such as storytelling, mathematics and science.

A former teacher, Steven Payne now works with Microsoft as a Learning Delivery Specialist, supporting school leaders, teachers, and students to make the most of technology. Over the past five years he has worked with schools and universities to help implement Microsoft Teams for learning, teaching, and administration, demonstrating his deep understanding and experience of school transformation and digital strategy.

Steven's Workshop: Teach forward | strategies for learning with Microsoft
In this session, Steven will share exciting new features available to all schools as part of the Microsoft Education suite. We will explore engagement and interactivity tools, and new ways to assess, reflect and provide feedback to students. You will take away quality tips that you can implement straight away as you embrace the opportunity to reimagine learning!

Nicole is a passionate educator, pedagogist, speaker and leader. She has a varied experience in education which started with a country posting before moving to single-sex education at Trinity College and Hale School. She then gained international experience at the Australian International School in Singapore before returning to Perth to take on system-wide pedagogy and technology work with Catholic Education Western Australia. It was during her time at CEWA that Nicole was able to collaborate with Microsoft to support the development of the 0365 tools for education; an experience she has found invaluable.
A mum to two young boys, Nicole has taken time during the last 3 years to work for her company TalentIn as a learning and teaching consultant. There she tackled system-wide work with Alta-1 by transforming the delivery of Maths across the schools. While originally engaging in consulting work for St Hilda’s Anglican School during her maternity leave, she has since been appointed to the executive role of Director of Learning Re-Imagined, where she is leading the school in their digital, pedagogical and learning transformation.

From Paper to Ink
Nicole will share how St Hilda’s has moved from a paper-based school, to a 1;1, digitally transformational education environment. She will share how they utilise the suit of O365 tools to Re-Imagine teaching and learning, daily workflows, and streamline processes. Nicole will provide specific examples of how the tools are used, the change management and implementation process and lessons learned along the way.

Roberta Westlund is the Enterprise Sales Specialist for Cisco Meraki based out of Perth, Western Australia. Roberta has 10 years’ experience
working in the ICT industry across various verticals including Education, Mining, Financial Services & Health/Aged Care focusing on networks and transformation.

Roberta’s talk: Fireside Chat with Kingsway Christian College
An interview with Kingsway Christian College discussing the challenges faced by schools today, and how they found success with Meraki

Greg is the Director of Learning Technologies at All Saints’ College and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. In his work with integrating technology in a K - 12 school for the past few years he has been working with Microsoft technologies and has developed capacity and purpose across the staff in embracing the change inherent when technology is used to redefine learning.

His background includes developing complete blended courses for mathematics, rolling out 1:1 devices across a school, plus implementing Seqta and other software on a whole-school level. As an educator passionate about students, he has always sought for better ways to support every student in his class. This quest led him to flipped learning and he has presented at a number of national conferences on ideas centred on this pedagogy.

Greg was a part of the InnovatED team at All Saints’ which has focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and student agency and have continued to find ways technology can enhance these essential capabilities in students of all ages. His YouTube channel has over 1400 subscribers and over 170000 views. He is the author of a series of books published by Hodder in the UK which he continues to develop.

See Greg’s website http://gport66.wixsite.com which contains numerous articles and posts.

Presentation

Modern learning through student agency and innovation
Any educators interested in modern approaches to learning that disrupt the tradition model know that in a globalised, rapidly changing world our kids need a new experience of learning in schools.

In this presentation I will
- Discuss the principles that underpin modern learning and the role technology can play in enhancing student agency
- Engage in some rich discussion and interaction around beliefs and practices
- Show how we approach student agency

Reg leads the education and industry development for Cisco Australia and New Zealand (ANZ)
and is a member of Cisco’s World-Wide Education (WW-EDX) team. Reg has over 20 years’
experience in the ICT industry in professional sales and marketing management and business
and industry development. Reg was appointed in 2017 as an Adjunct Professor at Victoria
University Business School and is also serves on the Mitchell Institute Advisory Board. Reg has
a deep understanding of the drivers and challenges for education system and institution
executives, and the role of technology in enabling digital transformation. He is regularly called
upon to advise and speak about the role of digital in transforming all aspects of education;
teaching, research and administration.
Reg’s responsibilities include:
• Responsibility for Cisco industry investment programs in ANZ
• Strategy for Higher Education & Research, Vocational Education and Training and K-12
in Australia and NZ
• Oversight of all education and industry programs and strategic initiatives
• Executive engagement and thought leadership related to the digital education
• Partner and sales enablement.
Recent / ongoing initiatives that Reg has led include:
• Creation of thought leadership publications/presentations across all education sectors
• Design and management of Cisco’s senior executive study tours, most recently to North
America, Scandinavia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea
• Cisco’s Strategic Industries Investment Program
• Cisco’s partnership program for universities
• Establishment of the National Industries Innovation Network

Francesco has worked with Apple Technologies in Education for the past 12 years as Teacher, System Engineer, Trainer, and Account Executive. During his time at Jamf, Francesco’s love of learning and teaching combined with his technical knowledge contribute to our goal of helping organisations succeed with Apple.
Description: It doesn’t matter what type of Apple hardware you are deploying. Mac, iPad, Apple TV, iPod Touch or iPhone, we’ve got you covered. Learn how Jamf can save you valuable time with our Zero Touch deployment workflows. From the box to the use case, it’s as easy as ABC.

Francesco and Aaron's talk: Zero Touch Deployment with Apple and Jamf: as easy as ABC
It doesn’t matter what type of Apple hardware you are deploying. Mac, iPad, Apple TV, iPod Touch or iPhone, we’ve got you covered. Learn how Jamf can save you valuable time with our Zero Touch deployment workflows. From the box to the use case, it’s as easy as ABC.

James Dwyer is a teacher with a passion for coding and robotics, who loves to share his knowledge and excite other teachers! James is a Certified LEGO Education Academy Teacher Trainer and has substantial experience as a facilitator of robotics workshops, from beginning to advanced. He is heavily involved in RoboCupJunior Australia competitions and has mentored numerous teams to success at the highest levels. James has a warm and engaging presentation style and his supportive approach to learning makes him a great workshop presenter.

James' Workshop: Having fun learning coding with LEGO Education’s SPIKE Prime platform.

Join this fun and hands-on workshop. See how the SPIKE Prime coding kits have been designed from the very outset to instil confidence in both teachers and students in all things STEAM. From the fun and engaging curriculum-aligned lesson plans to the highly intuitive coding language based on Scratch (and Python). See how LEGO Education’s SPIKE Prime can be used in the classroom to engage students in creative design, problem solving and computational thinking in fun and engaging ways. Used correctly teacher’s literally have to push the students out of the class at the end of the lesson. It is that engaging!

Jason Clarke has over 24 years experience working in a variety of verticals including Education, Transportation, FSI, Service Provider and Local Government. Jason is a Cisco Meraki Consulting Systems Engineer and has been working for Cisco for the last 7.5 years, assisting customers to maximise their IT investments, enabling them to transition their business into the Digitised World.

Jason's Talk: Fireside Chat with Kingsway Christian College
An interview with Kingsway Christian College discussing the challenges faced by schools today, and how they found success with Meraki

Jeff has more than 20 years’ experience in IT Security, and during that time has worked for international software vendors, boutique consulting firms and national system integrators, working with customers across the Public & Private sectors around Australia to use technology more effectively to address business challenges, and make the most of opportunities, whilst keeping themselves safe from threats.

Jeff enjoys working with customers in both back office and customer facing roles, and in his current role with Microsoft he helps customers adopt a Zero Trust philosophy to deliver safe and secure distributed work environments for their users, whether they work from home or the office. One of Jeff’s passions is ensuring that the fundamentals are in place, and to help customers get current and stay current, so that customers can take advantage of the more advanced offerings available today, without being inhibited by legacy platforms.