29 سبتمبر - 1 اكتوبر 2026
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مركز ذي أرينا الرياض للمعارض والفعاليات| المملكة العربية السعودية.
Rana Tamim
Professor - University of Toronto
Prof. Tamim is the Founder and CEO of edubridges. She is a Professor of Educational Technology and the former Dean of the College of Education at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, where she also served as Advisor to the Provost. Currently, Dr. Tamim offers graduate courses at OISE, University of Toronto, and the Faculty of Education, Wilfred Laurier University.
Her teaching experience spans more than 30 years and includes university instruction and supervision; adult in-service training, and K-12 teaching and coordination in different countries. She has a rich educational leadership experience in different institutions and at different academic levels with extensive skills in national and international program accreditation.
Dr. Tamim has an established publication record in top tier peer reviewed journals with a growing outreach as reflected by her more than 9,800 google scholar citations. Her research interests and expertise include knowledge synthesis through systematic reviews for the purpose of informing policies and improving educational practice; with a focus on educational leadership and the impact and role played by digital technologies in enhancing student learning and designing student-centered learning environments.
Speaker Sessions
EdTech In Action
1526
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Responsible AI in Education: What It Actually Means in Practice
Session Summary:
Schools, universities, and learning organisations are adopting AI faster than they can decide what responsible use of it actually means. Most have a policy. Far fewer have a clear practical answer to the questions practitioners are navigating every day: When is it acceptable to use AI to plan a lesson? Generate feedback? Assess student work? Where does support end and substitution begin? What are educators expected to disclose, and to whom? A growing patchwork of guidance, from UNESCO, the US Department of Education, the European Commission, and others, offers principles, but principles do not tell a teacher what to do on Monday morning. The gap between high-level policy and lived practice is where most of the real ethical work in education now sits. This session looks at what responsible AI use actually requires of educators in day-to-day practice. It draws on existing frameworks and policies as reference points rather than blueprints, and turns the conversation toward the practitioner: what counts as appropriate use, what crosses a line, and how do we develop the professional judgment to tell the difference?
The Human Edge: What Teachers Need to Strengthen in the Age of AI
Session Summary:
AI is taking on more and more of what used to fill teachers’ days: generating practice problems, drafting personalised content, giving instant feedback, and pulling insights from student data. For many teachers, that feels like a threat. The more useful question is what AI now frees teachers to focus on, and which skills matter most to strengthen as routine tasks fall away. AI is not replacing teachers; it is redirecting where their professional value lies. The work AI cannot do is the work that defines great teaching: reading the room, knowing students as people, making judgment calls in the moment, navigating ethical grey areas, and adapting when a lesson is not landing. These are the dimensions of teaching that no system, however intelligent, can take over. This session is intended to open that conversation. It puts the question directly to educators: where do we focus now, what can we comfortably hand off to AI, and what must we deliberately strengthen so that teaching remains a fundamentally human practice in an AI-mediated classroom?
