Schedule

Monday, 8th November

7:45 – 9:00      Registration

9:00 – 9:20      Conference opening

  • Art performance (Secondary Preschool Education, Grammar School and Performing Arts Grammar School Ljubljana)

9:20 – 9:30       Opening speeches

  • Simona Kustec, Minister of the Republic of Slovenia for Education, Science and Sport
  • Margaritis Schinas, European Commission Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life

9:30 – 9:40      Visionary speech on digital education and AI,

  • Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-president, European Commission

Session 1: Didactics for Digital Education

Find out more about the sub-sessions here.

9:40 – 10:10         Key speaker of Session 1

  • Riina Vuorikari, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

10:10 – 10:40       Coffee break

10:40 – 13:10      Parallel sessions

13:10 – 14:15       Lunch break


Session 2: School in Digital Society

Find out more about the sub-sessions here.

14:15 – 14:45       Positive education and positive psychology

  • Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania, USA

14:45 – 16:00       Panel discussion:

  • Kristijan Musek Lešnik (Council of Experts of the Republic of Slovenia for General Education),
  • Dan Podjed (ZRC SAZU),
  • Riina Vourikari (Joint Research Centre),
  • Margaret Sutherland (Glasgow University) and
  • Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck (Lie detectors)
  • Ahmet Murat Kiliç (Council of Europe)

16:00 – 16:15     Break

16:15 – 17:30     Parallel sessions

19:30 – 21:30    Dinner

Tuesday, 9th November

Session 3: Artificial Intelligence in and for Education

Plenary speeches of Session 3

9:00 – 10:00   

  • (EDUCATION ABOUT AI) Can (and should) everyone be thought about AI?
    Invited speaker: Blaž Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science

10:00 – 10:30  

  • (AI IN EDUCATION) How can AI support teachers in their teaching?
    Invited speaker: Wayne Holmes, University College London, UCL Knowledge Lab; UNESCO Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Education; IRCAI, International Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

10:30 – 11:15  Coffee break

11:15 – 11:20

  • (ETHICAL ISSUES OF AI IN EDUCATION) What are the moral challenges in the use of modern learning systems and environments supported by the AI?
    Invited speaker: Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO, Assistant Director General for Social and Human Sciences

11:20 – 13:00  Group Discussions – brainstorming on AI challenges

13:00 – 14:30   Lunch break

14:30 – 15:30  Challenges ahead: navigating Education towards future horizons

  • Plenary discussion with Ministers, Commissioner Ms. Gabriel (TBC), young people
    (Moderator: Kristijan Musek Lešnik)

15:30 – 15:45

  • The power of hackathons to strengthen co-creation and innovation in education
    Cristine Reisen, Founder of Educreators Foundation, Switzerland and Steering Board Member of the DigiEduHack.

15:45 – 16:00

Wrap-up of the conference