CANCELLED: EdTech Group
Hologram technology & new tech advances

The EdTech Group committee are currently collaborating with Imperial on another event which we hope will take place early next year.

This is a joint event with Imperial College Business School

The keynote presentation and panel debate will feature a demonstration of the use of and future of holograms in teaching. In 2018, the Imperial College Business School’s Ed Tech Lab debuted their hologram technology, which enables lecturers and visiting speakers to appear as 3D, life-size entities within a lecture theatre. The technology allows users to host lectures, discussion panels and round-table events in multiple classes and locations simultaneously, with a mixture of both in-person and virtual speakers present. This provides further opportunities for enhancing the learning experience, providing greater flexibility for the delivery of lectures and more opportunities for hosting world-class industry speakers.

We are excited to be co-hosting a knowledge gathering and networking opportunity for investment professionals, corporate leaders, technologists and entrepreneurs from multinationals to corporates in the EdTech space together with Imperial College Business School’s Ed Tech Lab. The lab applies cutting-edge research to create transformational online learning experiences.

Our speakers include:

Dr David Lefevre is director of the Edtech Lab at Imperial College Business School. David has a long-standing interest in the use of technology in education and started teaching his classes online in 2003. His team launched Imperial’s first online degree programme, the Global Online MBA, in 2015. Awards include a Gold award at the IMS Learning Impact Awards in 2010, an Effective Practice Award at the Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference in 2011 and a silver award for Business Education at the 2018 QS Reimagine Education conference. David was co-founder and president of the Imperial College spin-out Epigeum (Oxford University Press) which publishes high quality online courseware used by 250 universities globally. In 2018 he co-founded Insendi, also a spin-out from the Edtech Lab focused on online learning platforms.

Daniel Appleby is COO of Summatic, an interactive maths platform with a mission to solve educational challenges from school to university by supporting students and departments through high quality tailored learning and assessment. Daniel graduated with a mathematics degree from York before pursuing a career in finance. He is experienced within the start-up space, having successfully founded a tuition business and worked as a manager at Monzo whilst completing his university studies. He cares passionately about education, having completed numerous projects within this field for the United Nations.