HEDx

Anthony Finkelstein as VC and President of City University of London explores issues of disruption and transformation facing global universities due to technology ahead of his merger with St George's University of London on August 1st. He says"if we are able to fulfil the potential of technology we will deliver improved quality of hyper personalised education for lifelong learning and the opportunity is immense and for the good. We just need to do something about it."

Linda Brown CEO and Alwyn Louw tell the story of Torrens University Australia 1.0 on stage at the HEDx conference in Melbourne in March. They tell of its incredible growth as a private American-owned Corp to become Australia's fastest growing university. They are followed by Nora Koslowski, Will Stubley, Kat Page, Omar de Silva and David Yip. These innovators explorie how the nature of work and skills needs have changed. They call for new business models of lifelong learning provision to emerge alongside our public and private universities in global lifelong learning markets. What will the more diverse future world of lifelong learning look like?

Joshua Nester as MD of SEEK Investments gives a global overview of investments being made in private universities, EdTech companies, and in OPMs and content aggregators. He outlines how this is changing the competitive landscape of global higher Ed. He is then followed by Sue Kokonis as Chief Academic Officer of OES leading a panel at the recent HEDx conference that includes David Linke the CEO of Edugrowth, Manuela Franceschini Pedagogical Evangelist of Adobe, Sherman Young DVC of RMIT and Eric Knight, Dean of the Macquarie Business School. How will technology change higher education for good?

President Michael Crow of Arizona State University shares his vision of a university accelerating towards social justice through excellence rather than seeking status through exclusivity. He is followed by Paul Harpur of UQ, Marcia Devlin of VATL, Joel di Trapani of Vygo, Cate Gilpin of Welcoming Universities and Mohamed Omer of Melbourne University all dissecting issues of equity, diversity and inclusion. An episode that makes clear a call for action and the need for us all to be the change we want to see in higher education. "The university" is us, and we can all change it for good, and now.

David Lloyd as Chair of UA and VC of UniSA gives this keynote presentation to the first session of the HEDx conference calling for action now from the sector ahead of finalisation of a government response to the Accord. A message echoed in a panel made up of VCs Andrew Parfitt and Helen Bartlett of UTS and UniSC and DVCs Jessica Vanderlelie and Kent Anderson of La Trobe and Newcastle. Hear the keynote and the leaders' panel at the March 21st HEDx conference as the most comprehensive considered reactions to our landmark policy report are aired at a sector-wide event in Melbourne.

Mike Ilczynski as Managing Director Education at SEEK Investment shares experiences of a global investor in EdTech and Higher Ed. He describes opportunities for lifelong learning to offer significant growth to providers willing to be techno optimists like him and his company.

Shamit Saggar Director of the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success and Professor Paul Harpur of UQ and Universities Enable were two of the most significant leaders of equity groups at the heart of the Accord and its Ministerial Reference Group.  Their reflections on the Accord final report and prospects for its funding and implementation in the months and years ahead is the most important conversation about equity in the Accord available at this point in time and available to all in the most equitable way here.

Deborah L. Wince-Smith the President and CEO of the US Council on Competitiveness draws on historical analogy to illustrate the compelling need for technological innovation in all economies. In leading the Universities Research Leadership Forum of the Global Forum for Competitiveness Councils she is spearheading global efforts towards technological transformation in global universities if we are to serve future skills needs of productive and competitive economies. One of many great analogies is to say we have moved from the Little House on the Prairie to the Cyber House on the Prairie and she should know. Details at https://www.thegfcc.org/universities-innovation

Live from the foyer of the UA Solutions Summit in Canberra, this special episode shares immediate reactions from the nation's leaders about what is in the final report of the Accord. Hear reactions from Vice Chancellors Deb Terry, Renee Leon, Chris Moran, Clare Pollock, Simon Biggs, Theo Farrell, and Alex Zelinsky from UQ, CSU, UNE, WSU, JCU, La Trobe and Newcastle. And hear views from other sector leaders including Luke Sheehy CEO of UA, its former chair John Dewar, commentator Andrew Norton, and sector experts Nicola Kresp, Ben Hallett, Nadine Zacharias, and Ant Bagshaw from OES, Vygo, Equity by Design and L.E.K. Consulting in a comprehensive download of instand reactions within two days of the report's release live from Canberra. There will be many reactions shared over the days and weeks ahead but this is the first and most comprehensive overview of what the sector thinks of the Accord.

Professor Ghassan Aouad is a Lebanese man from a mountain village who has established an academic career rising to PVC Research and Professional Institution President as a muslim leader of a family finding its way in universities of technology in northern English cities. He is now the Chancellor of one of the fastest developing universities in one of the most complex, multi-cultural and diverse environments in UAE in the middle east. This is his story of leadership of innovation and growth in a complex multi-cultural setting addressing issues of social change using multiple forms of intelligence.