5 to 7 June 2019, Waterfront Hotel, London

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Christopher Usih

Chief Superintendent of Schools, Calgary Board of Education

Dr. Tracey Burns

Chief Research Officer, Senior Analyst, OECD (Seconded) , National Center on Education and the Economy

Dr. Mario Chiasson

Director of Research, Innovations and Change Management at District scolaire francophone Sud

Dr. Mario Chiasson

Director of Research, Innovations and Change Management at District scolaire francophone Sud

Dr. Mario Chiasson is known for his practical insights on learning innovation. He is experienced and equipped to make big things happen. As the founder of My Learning My Space, Mario has helped countless organizations and institutions (schools, districts, ministries, colleges, universities, business and communities) to navigate through disruptive change, develop innovation capabilities and drive continuous improvement. From startups and small projects to educational and community reform.
Mario is a researcher that focuses on the design of spaces that influence the learning and the teaching process of new skills aligned with the innovative society. He holds a Bachelors degree in Physical Education with two concentration (Math and Science), a Masters in school administration with a focus on ICT and a Ph.D in Education at Université de Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada. He is a Microsoft Innovative Teacher, a Cisco IT Essential Teacher, an Apple Distinguished Educator, an Apple Certified Trainer.

Dr. Rumeet Billan

Award-winning, internationally recognized entrepreneur, learning architect, speaker, author, humanitarian, and Canada’s top 10 power women 2020.

Maxim Jean-Louis

Chief Executive Officer of Contact North | Contact Nord

Maxim Jean-Louis

Chief Executive Officer of Contact North | Contact Nord

Maxim Jean-Louis is President – Chief Executive Officer of Contact North | Contact Nord, Ontario’s Distance Education and Training Network, headquartered in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Maxim worked in senior management roles for over 15 years at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada’s open university.
He is also a member of the Comité consultatif en matière d’éducation postsecondaire en langue française dans les régions du Centre et du Sud-ouest.
Maxim is a former Chair of the Board of Directors of the World University Service of Canada and of the Optical Regional Advanced Network of Ontario, as well as a past member of Ontario’s Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board, and he served as a member of the Canadian Advisory Mission to support the implementation of the South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF) by the South African Qualifications Authority. He also served as President of Collège des Grands Lacs, one of Ontario’s three French-language community colleges.
In 2011, Maxim was appointed Special Advisor to Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities for an Ontario Online Institute, producing a 125-page report and recommendations to the Minister on opportunities for online learning in the province.

Steve Brown

President & Chief Executive Officer, NELSON

Steve Brown

President & Chief Executive Officer, NELSON

Steve Brown has made his mark in Canada and Internationally by leading organizations through digital transformation. His career spans a diverse mix of industry and technology experience from multi-media entertainment, logistics services, automotive, and now to learning solutions.
Since joining NELSON in September 2016, Steve has transformed the vision for this 104-year-old company by reimagining the role and purpose of a publisher in 2017 and beyond. Introducing a matrix driven view to the management culture, and unifying a K20 student-centric business division is at the core of this shift to a cohesive customer focused structure. He has reframed the organization’s digital competency by instituting a technology department comprised of some the world’s best and brightest talent based in Silicon Beach California. Additionally, over the past 12 months the company has engaged in various M&A activities, including the acquisition of one of its largest competitors, as well as signing numerous agency and partnership deals to ensure NELSON offers a world class portfolio of learning solution and for all its markets.
Steve’s passion and commitment to transforming education, and the student learning experience, continues to fuel the innovation pipeline at NELSON.

Robert Martellacci

Founder & Conference Chair

Robert Martellacci

Founder & Conference Chair

Robert Martellacci (MA EdTech) is president of MindShare Learning Technology, Canada’s leading EdTech strategy, news & events company he founded in 2001. Mr. Martellacci is also president & co-founder of C21 Canada—Canadians for 21st Century Learning & Innovation.

Mr. Martellacci is a lifelong learner who is committed to connecting business and education to transform learning in the 21st century to support student success. He completed a transformational learning journey as a mature student earning a master’s in educational technology from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California which inspired the creation of the MindShare Learning Report—Canada’s Learning & Technology eMagazine.

Mr. Martellacci has over 25 years of expertise and thought leadership in education as a former university administrator at York University; he also launched The Learning Company School Division for Kevin O’Leary which was the catalyst to forming his start-up MindShare Learning following the Mattel acquisition.

One of Martellacci’s signature slogans, “until next time, keep the learning curve steep.”

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8:00 - 8:30 AM

REGISTRATION, LIGHT BREAKFAST, & EXHIBITS OPEN

8:30 - 8:45 AM

WELCOME, FIRST NATIONS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND OFFICIAL GREETINGS

Robert Martellacci, Founder & Conference Co-Chair

Dr. Dilson Rassier, Co-Chair, Dean of the Faculty of Education

Dr. Fabrice Labeau, Co-Acting Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic), McGill University

McGill University Land Acknowledgement

Master of Ceremonies, Michael Chechile, Pedagogical Consultant & Former Director General of the Lester B. Pearson School Board

8:45 - 9:30 AM

OPENING KEYNOTE

Topic: Global Perspective on the State of EdTech

Dr. Tracey Burns,Chief Research Officer, Senior Analyst, OECD (Seconded) , National Center on Education and the Economy

Topic: Leading change in a crisis context - Sustaining learning from education in emergencies, survival, well being and impacting over a hundred thousand of children in need.

Rahmatullah Arman, Founder & President, Teach For Afghanistan

9:30 - 10:30 AM

CROSS CANADA CHECK UP PANEL: The State of EdTech

Gain Valuable Insights From Canadian and Global Experts on The State of EdTech in Canada

Peter Singh, Executive Officer – IT Services, TDSB
Dilson Rassier, Co-Chair, Dean of the Faculty of Education
Steve Brown, President & Chief Executive Officer, NELSON
Amanda Rose, Educator, Tomken Road Middle School - Peel District School Board, Canada's Schools of the Future Challenge Winner 2022
Sophia Mendoza, Director, Instructional Technology Initiative L.A. Unified & International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) Board Member
Shawn Young, CEO and co-founder, Classcraft, President, Edteq

10:30 - 11:00 AM

HEALTH/ NETWORKING BREAK & NEW RENOVATION FACULTY TOUR / EXPLORE EXHIBITS

11:00 - 11:25 AM

FUTURE-PROOF LEARNING DESIGN THINKING SESSION

Exploring strategies to prevent the 'Great Snapback' through an open forum roundtable conversation

This design thinking large group exercise will focus on reflecting on how leaders would tackle future crisis based on innovations that occurred during the pandemic.

What technology innovations did you introduce successfully that you will continue to incorporate for the future?
What did you learn from failures in attempting to innovate?
Lessons Learnt: How will you prepare differently for the next pandemic or crisis?

11:25 - 11:30 AM

HONOURING INDIGENOUS CULTURES & LANGUAGES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

Peter Skillen, Project & Curriculum Lead at CodeToLearn.ca

Michael Quinn, President, LCSI

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Dr. Peter Balyta

LUNCH TIME KEYNOTE, NETWORKING & EXHIBITS OPEN

Texas Instruments, President, Worldwide Education Business, Corporate VP, University Research & Corporate Citizenship

Topic: Engineering the future through STEM education – a corporate perspective

12:30 - 1:00 PM

DRAGON'S DEN STARTUP CHALLENGE

Startups Pitching:

Blue Guardian
Teameo.io
Vireo Education
Oplan
RedBird Circle

Judges Panel :

Diego Magalhaes – Chief Technologist, Education & Partners, AWS
Aman Sahota – Co-Founder at Ei Amplified, Canadian EdTech Startup Challenge 2021 Winner
Ron Sedran – Managing Director, Canaccord Capital
Phil Cutler – CEO, Paper
Kathy Hurley – Former EVP Pearson Foundation and Industry Consultant, Author, Innovate HERs
Barbara “Bobbi” Kurshan – Public/Private Company Board Director, C-Suite Executive, Audit, CEO, Author, Innovate HERs
Joe Simms – Sales Director, Public Sector and SWO, Compugen
Andy Singh – Founder & CEO, Teqfocus

1:00 - 1:30 PM

PRESENTING The 7th CANADIAN EDTECH AWARDS

We are thrilled to announce our 7th Annual Canadian EdTech Awards Honouring Excellence in Innovation in Education.

1:30 - 3:00 PM

ROUNDTABLE POWER PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Supporting Indigenous students with Digital Skills & Learning Resources Hosted by Dr. Stephen Peters, Faculty Lecturer Assistant Director, & Office of First Nations and Inuit Education, McGill University
Female entrepreneurs: Discussing the inspiration behind InnovateHERs, leveraging an entrepreneurial mindset to advance your professional career Hosted by Kathy Hurley,
Former EVP Pearson Foundation and Industry Consultant, Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” Kurshan
Public/Private Company Board Director, C-Suite Executive, Audit, CEO, Author & Lisa Schmucki, Founder & CEO, edWeb.net, and Jennifer Ferrari, CEO & President of Education Research & Development Institute, ERDI US
The future of school design beyond covid, supporting districts in designing transformational models for student-centered learning Hosted by Dr. Mario Chiasson, Director of Research, Innovations and Change Management, District scolaire francophone Sud and Katina Papulkas
Senior Education Strategist, Dell Technologies & Jeremiah Okal-Frink Senior Education Strategist, Dell Technologies
How EdTechs are accelerating their growth with the AWS Cloud, learn how EdTech companies are developing scalable and secure technology solutions with AWS to accelerate their go-to-market strategies. With dedicated resources and programs, AWS supports EdTechs to start, expand, and optimize their business and transform education globally. Hosted by AWS, Barrett Newman, Sr. Solutions Architect – EdTech & Robyn Reekie, Canada Education Business Dev Manager
Technology in Public Education a Conversation on Cybersecurity and Data Privacy in K12 Education and School beyond COVID-19 priorities: wellbeing for learning and living, equity and inclusion now & Technology integration Hosted by C21 Canada, CIO Alliance Members: Peter Singh, Executive Officer – IT Services/CIO Alliance Chair
Toronto District School Board, Kurt Binnie, Director Innovation & Technology
Lester B. Pearson School Board & Marc Lijour, VP Capacity Building and Innovation, ICTC
Well-being using technology; promoting mental health in the school community Hosted by Dr. Nancy Heath, Professor Educational & Counseling Psychology, McGill University
The importance of how to drive innovation through effective partnerships & driving successful uptake of technology in the classroom Hosted by Dr. Susanne Lajoie, Educational & Counselling Psychology, McGill University
Cancode; Inspiring Stem, coding and robotics through an equity, inclusion and diversity lens Hosted by Peter Skillen, Project & Curriculum Lead, CodeToLearn and Michael Quinn, President, LCSI
The Future of Online Learning Models, What's Working? Hosted by: Maxim Jean-Louis, President - Chief Executive Officer, Contact North & Dr. Ron Owston, University Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, York University
Canadian EdTech Alliance: Issues, Challenges & Opportunities for growth in the US. market. Hosted by: Robert Martellacci
Founder & CEO, MindShare Learning, Canadian EdTech Alliance & Founder & Conference Chair, Canadian Edtech Leadership Summit , Julia Fallon,
Executive Director, State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) & Eileen Belastock, CETL, EdTech Consultant, Belastock Consulting

3:00 - 3:30 PM

HEALTH / NETWORKING BREAK / EXPLORE EXHIBITS

3:30 - 4:15 PM

Philip Cutler

CLOSING KEYNOTE

Paper, CEO

4:15 - 4:30 PM

WRAP UP & CLOSING REFLECTIONS

4:30 - 6:00 PM

POST CONFERENCE CLOSING NETWORKING RECEPTION

Hosted by McGill University, Faculty of Ed

3:00-5:00 PM

WELCOME/REGISTRATION/BUILDING DESIGN THINKING TOURS/EXPLORE EXHIBITS/NETWORKING

Newly Redesigned State of Art Learning Commons & Classroom Tours

5:00 - 6:00 PM

WELCOME/ McGill University Land Acknowledgement/FIRESIDE CHAT

The State of EdTech in Canada: 'Driving Innovation Through Evidence-based Research’

Moderator

Robert Martellacci – President, MindShare Learning Technology

The Panel Includes:

Maxim Jean-Louis – Chief Executive Officer of Contact North | Contact Nord
Karen Yamada – Chief Learning Office & CFO, C21 Canada
Dr. Mario Chiasson – Director of Research, Innovations and Change Management at District scolaire francophone Sud
Dr. Adam Dubé – Associate Professor and Director of the Technology Learning and Cognition Lab, McGill University
Artur Rodrigues, Cloud Innovation Center Tech Lead, AWS
Geoff Edwards, Superintendent of Learning Technologies, Ottawa Catholic School Board

6:00 - 7:30 PM

NETWORKING RECEPTION

Sponsored by our valued platinum sponsor ,

Announcing Amazon AWS EdStart Accelerator Program now Available to Canadians & the Official Launch of the Canadian EdTech Alliance

Hosted by Ottawa Catholic School Board at St. Paul High School

St. Paul High School

2675 Draper Ave, Ottawa, ON K2H 7A1

8:00 - 8:30 AM

REGISTRATION, LIGHT BREAKFAST & EXPLORE EDTECH SHOWCASE

8:30 - 8:45 AM