Breakout Session Theme 1: Creating reflection through experiential game-playing for Cognitive & SEL

Duration: 45 Minutes
Venue: Coral
Presenter: Ashutosh
About the presenter: Ashutosh pioneered the concept of Games-Based Learning in Indian schools. His innovation has been adopted as pedagogy for developing Higher Order Thinking Skills among children of age 4-14 years, giving focus on 'Thinking & Learning Ability' development an equal space as Math & Language. He is recipient of several prestigious national and international awards. He has 10 patents to his name in India. Six of his board games have received approval from US PTO under PCT for global patent filing.

Breakout Session Theme 1: Empowering Indian youth to craft fulfilling futures, with Life Skills and Career Conquest

Duration: 45 Minutes
Venue: Coral
Presenter: Nikita Bengani
About the presenter: Nikita Bengani has 12+ yrs of experience in the domain of youth development with a focus on creating empowering learning experiences for learners & educators. She leads the product team, Quest Experience Lab at Quest Alliance, and works at the intersection of technology, research and design. Being part of Quest since its inception, she comes with strong understanding of young people and their learning needs. Nikita has completed her Masters in Economic Development & Policy Analysis from Univ of Nottingham. She has done BA in Economics, from SRCC, DU. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitabengani/

Breakout Session Theme 2: Games for Peace

Duration: 30 min
Venue: V2
Presenter: Uri Mishol
About the Presenter:
Uri is the founder of Games for Peace, an Israeli NGO that explores the use of video games as a platform for trust building in conflict zones. Prior to forming Games for Peace, Mishol co-founded Israeli software firm IncrediBuild, where he served as CEO and chairman. Mishol is still active in the Israeli high-tech entrepreneurial scene.

Breakout session Theme 2: Shaping future societies through culture of lawfulness: Innovative educational tools fostering GCED

Duration: 30minutes
Venue: V2
Presenter: Yane Frenski
About the Presenter: Yane is an international consultant who has worked for the past decade as an expert on innovation and EdTech for various United Nations offices around the globe. Lately, Yane has supported the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna in designing innovative education tools for school students on crime prevention and the rule of law. He is also a founder of vizl.ai (a startup using AI for visual learning content); a member of The Adwisers (global consultancy group); and a jury member at "Computer Space" (arts and innovation festival in Southeast Europe).

Breakout Session Theme 2: Games for a better democratic society: Playing SIM-Democracy in South-East Asia.

Duration: 30 minutes
Venue: V2
Presenter: Natasha Gomes
About the presenter:
A ‘Teach For India’ alumnus and educator, Natasha has close to a decade of teaching experience both in India and in France. She is passionate about educational equity, incorporating democratic ideals in instructional content and the use of innovative pedagogical tools to improve learning outcomes. She is currently teaching at the Department of French and Francophone Studies of Goa University.

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Breakout session Theme 3: Gamification & AI in Cognitive Assessment and Training

Duration: 45 Minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Raja Sekhar Vasa
About the presenter: Raja Sekhar is a co-founder & COO of Happy Adda Studios, a mobile gaming company based in Bangalore, India which uses gamification techniques to solve real world problems.

Breakout session Theme 3: Open Schools Kenya Project

Duration: 45minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Joshua Ogure
About the presenter: Joshua Ogure, is the project manager for Map Kibera Trust,. He is also the team leader for Kibera News Network a citizen journalism program in Kibera Slum. As a project coordinator and Community journalist, he led the Open Schools Kenya (www.openschoolskenya.org) project that mapped all schools from Kibera, Mathare and Kangemi regions on the map giving each school Its profile page containing important information about the school. His efforts have created a sense of transparency and supported informed decision making by parents and schools alike. In 2016 he won Open Data award with Map Kibera under the Social Impact category.

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Breakout Session Theme1: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning Through Technology

Duration:45 minutes
Venue: Coral
Presenter:
Oluwabusola Majekodunmi

About the presenter: Oluwabusola is an enabler who is passionate about deploying innovation and design thinking as problem solving tools to harness economic potential of individuals and companies. She places a lot of emphasis on the need to start from an empathy standpoint in solving grand challenges. She has experience interfacing with startups, education stakeholders and constantly shares the need for innovation and design thinking.

Breakout Session Theme 1: Games and SEL

Duration 30 minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Divya Menon

About the presenter: Divya Menon is an independent researcher and writer who is equally passionate about playing and designing educational games. Divya has completed her MSc. in Education Technology from Université Côte d'Azur, France and holds a Masters as well as Bachelors Degree in English Literature. In the past, Divya has worked as an independent learning experience design consultant for global clients. Recently, Divya worked on a project with Université Côte d'Azur, France and INRIA, France to design and develop a tabletop escape game that will help in developing and assessing computational thinking skills among children between the ages of 8 to 14 years. Her current published works include a chapter on Game Mechanics Supporting a Learning and Playful Experience in Educational Escape Games (in a book titled Global Perspectives on Gameful and Playful Teaching and Learning) by IGI Global, a paper on Computational Thinking Development and Assessment Through Tabletop Escape Games by the International Journal for Serious Games, and a chapter on Going Beyond Digital Literacy to Develop Computational Thinking in K-12 Education (currently in press with Taylor & Francis). Her current research focuses on the use of a digital game to improve social and critical life skills among children aged between 7 to 15 years.

Breakout Session Theme 1: Fostering SEL Competencies using ISELF and Whole School Quality Circle Time approach

Duration:30 minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Misbah Shahid

About the Presenter: Misbah has rich experience of over 10 years in the field of education contributing significantly in areas of social emotional learning and teaching-learning practices. She currently leads the School Well Being Team at The Teacher Foundation which looks at implementation of SEL based whole school programmes to help schools foster a safe and sensitive culture. She has led the nation wide research study carried out by TTF, which culminated in the development of ISELF. She is also a certified parent coach in 'Common Sense Parenting' developed by the Boys' Town, Nebraska, USA.

Breakout Session Theme1: Compassion Games

Duration:30 minutes
Venue: Coral
Presenter:
Jon Ramer
About the presenter: Jon Eliot Ramer is an entrepreneur, civic leader, inventor, and musician. He is a co-founder of several collaborative technology companies including ELF Technologies, Inc., whose main solution, Serengeti, connects over 7000 law firms with their clients and was purchased by Thomson Reuters. The designer, author, and co-founder of several Deep Social Networks, he launched the International Campaign for Compassionate Cities, that led the effort to make Seattle the first city in the world to affirm Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion. As a result, there are over 450 similar Compassionate Community Campaigns around the world.

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Breakout Session Theme 2: Using Technology Tools to Help Understand Complex Phenomena for Global Citizenship

Duration: 30 minutes
Venue: V2
Presenter: Vishnuteerth Agnihotri
About the presenter: Vishnu is the Co-founder of Genwise (www.genwise.in), an organization that offers programs that try to bridge the gap between the formal curriculum and the needs of the world of the future. He has worked in the areas of assessment, personalized learning, teacher development and gifted education with both private and government school systems, for nearly 15 years. Vishnu has a BTech degree from IIT Madras.

Breakout Session Theme 2: The handbook to implement ESD in a digital world

Duration: 30 minutes
Venue: V2
Presenter: Lorenz Denks
About the presenter: Denks is a Project Manager at Engagement Global, an agency working on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development working in the field of ESD and embedding of ESD in Germany. He is specialized on the field of ESD in digital environments. Before his current position, he worked as an editor and creator of digital learning material in the digital department of a well-known German educational publishing company.

Breakout Session Theme 2: Redesigning classrooms for digital age students

Duration: 30 minutes
Venue: V2
Presenter: Oluwaseyi Ajala
About the presenter: With over 3 years of experience in training and development, Oluwaseyi’s passion for developing and delivering learning opportunities stays at the center of his work. He has a depth of experience in providing learning solutions with many non-profit organizations covering education and environment. Coming from Nigeria, Oluwaseyi is the grassroots organizer and co-founder of Rethink Education Initiative (www.rethinkeducationinitiative.com) a non-profit initiative that provides learning opportunities to disadvantaged children in Nigeria.

Breakout Session Theme 1: A digital production design experience of Integrated Socio Emotional Learning ecosystems

Duration: 45 Minutes
Venue: Coral
Presenter: Chris Meintjes

About the Presenter: Chris Meintjes is a CEO in the development of ACTIVATE! Change Drivers, an incubator for Leadership for Public Innovation, inspiring and connecting young leaders to become catalysts for systemic change and public innovation in South Africa. Chris has had the opportunity to work in a very diverse landscape where his skills and experience have been brought to bear on a number of exciting initiatives, including birthing the ACTIVATE! Network.

Breakout Session Theme 1: Slam Out Loud: using the transformational power of art-based pedagogy to build SEL

Duration: 45 Minutes
Venue: Coral
Presenter: Jigyasa Labroo

About the presenter: Jigyasa taught for two years in the Teach For India Fellowship and then worked in their national team.
She currently leads Slam Out Loud, which uses art forms to help children from disadvantaged communities find their voice through creative expression. After working with 100 artists across India, they’ve now created e-learning programs and subsequent Art melas to reach out to 50,000 children in 950 villages.
A spoken-word poet and passionate about people development, she is a recipient of the Gold International Award for Young People, and ‘Arts for Good’ fellow at Singapore Int’l Foundation

Breakout Session Theme 2: Innovative ways to Teach SDGs

Duration: 1.5hours
Venue: Nautika
Speakers: Neha Sharma and Chiteisri Devi
The year 2015 was a landmark year for sustainable development. The United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030; and it marked the end of The United Nations' Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2015). This workshop will explore the innovative ways to probe, understand and develop knowledge on how to teach the SDGs. It will engage with two key questions:

1. Exploring the complexities of the SDG interlinkages, and why is learning and teaching them a challenge?
2. What is the role of technology in learning, teaching and enabling innovation in SDG education?

Breakout Session Theme 2: Makerspaces

Duration: 1.5 hours Venue: V2 Presenter: Mark Barnett About the presenter: With over a decade of experience in STEAM and maker education, Mark is passionate about project-based learning and teaching students to create with technology. He has worked with teachers and administrators all over the world to set up and design impactful learning experiences with makerspaces and related topics. One of his greatest accomplishments was through serving almost 30,000 US students with the high-tech makerspace on wheels called the Geekbus, which was recognized by the US White House (Obama Administration) for educational excellence in 2016.

Breakout Session Theme 3: Using Large Scale Achievement Survey to monitor SDG 4.0

Duration: 30 Minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Indrani Bhaduri
About the presenter: Dr. Indrani Bhaduri is working as a Professor and Head of the Division in the Educational Survey Division, NCERT. She has over 27 years of experience in educational assessment and psychometrics, test designing and analysis, and reporting of Large Scale Achievement Survey and school-based assessment to improve the learning outcomes.

Breakout Session Theme 3: Learning Analytics and Learner Privacy

Duration: 30 Minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Valli Kumari Vatsavayi
About the presenter: Dr Valli Kumari Vatsavayi is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Andhra University with over 25 years of teaching and research experience. She researches in Data Privacy / Security, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Threat Intelligence. She has nine of her students awarded with a PhD in Data Privacy/AI/ML. She has received a Gold Medal for best research from AU and has published over 150 papers in conferences and Journals of international repute. She is a member of IEEE and a fellow of IETE.

Breakout Session Theme 2: Panel Discussion ‘Humanity-centred Education as Pedagogy for a Sustainable Society’

Duration: 1.5hours
Venue: V2
Speakers: Prof. Maria Guajardo; Deepti Singh; Alesse Nunes and Dr Tessa Watanabe

About the session: Expanding the global discourse on critical issues such as sustainable development, equity of education, the environment, human rights, gender, and peace building is crucial to developing global citizenship education; with a focus on ‘humanizing’ human development. The rationale and practical application of humanity-centred education as a pedagogical concept merits exploration. This panel will present this educational approach from a multidimensional perspective, moving from practical application to theory to framework to policy reform, with an emphasis on dialogue as a pedagogical strategy central to global citizenship education.

Breakout Session Theme 3: Association between Socio-emotional skills and academic achievement in rural girls in India

Duration: 45Minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Ananya Tiwari

About the presenter: Ananya uses human centered design for at-scale interventions around pedagogy and socio-emotional skills. An alum of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Cambridge University and Ashoka University she transitioned to Education from Neuroscience. She is currently heading SwaTaleem Foundation which works on socio-emotional skills of rural girls and pursuing a PhD from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in Educational Psychology. She has designed at scale interventions on intrinsic motivation for more than 100,000 teachers and 3 million children, with entities like the World Bank.

Breakout Session Theme 2: Challenging Thanos - Urban Lifestyle

Duration: 45 minutes
Venue: V3
Presenter: Pournima Agarkar

About the presenter: A Sustainability Consultant, working in Pune, Maharashtra, Pournima is working on a project titled making Pune Sustainably SMART by 2030. She undertakes secondary research, coordinates and undertakes workshops focused on climate change, consumptive lifestyle and showcasing sustainable lifestyles under the guidance of Dr Priyadarshini Karve, the project incharge of the project. Exploring the social media and apps for enabling the citizens to go Sustainable is the one of the objectives of the project. She is an Environmental Scientist by qualification and has overall 10+ years of experience.

Breakout Session Theme 1: Using tech to promote engagement and participation, and facilitate social interaction in the class

Duration: 45 minutes

Venue: Coral

Presenter: Manika Khanna

About the Presenter: Manika has been working at The Gateway School of Mumbai for the past 6-years. She is currently the Vice Principal and works closely with the SEL team. She has earned her Master’s (MA) in Clinical Psychology from the University of Indianapolis (USA). Currently, she supports the counseling team with planning and conducting individual and group sessions with students related to their social-emotional development and supports teachers at Gateway and inclusive mainstreams schools with identifying and implementing behaviour support structures.

Breakout Session Theme 1: Power of Dialogue

Duration: 45 Minutes

Venue: Coral

Presenter: Aarti Chabaria
About the presenter: Aarti has more than 13 years of experience in the learning industry.
She is the Founder of three educational companies: City Sproutz, Club Sproutz & Clap Global Across 30+ Cities in India she has worked closely with children, teachers, schools, parenting communities and brands targeting young families.