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29 September - 1 October 2026 | The Arena, Riyadh | Saudi Arabia.

Product Showcase

  • Product Showcase

    29 September 2026 - 1 October 2026

    Discover cutting-edge products and solutions revolutionising education. live demos and expert talks will highlight the latest tools for teach, learning, and school operations.


     

Conference (Conference Session)

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AI Admissions: Your Next 100 Enrolments Are Already in Your Pipeline | How CRM, marketing and an AI agent nurture the families you already have into enrolments

Session Summary:


Independent and British international schools don't have an enquiry problem. They have a conversion problem. Families enquire, then slip through the gaps between first contact and first day. This session shows how AI Admissions, a unified CRM, marketing platform and AI agent, works as a single engine. Every enquiry gets a fast follow up that feels personal, not automated. Every lead in the pipeline is nurtured with the right message at the right moment, at scale. And your team is freed from chasing to focus on the conversations that actually enrol. Real workflows, real numbers, and a practical picture of what AI-assisted admissions looks like across every time zone.

 

Speakers

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  • AI and EdTech
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The Future Starts with a Sentence: Why foundational knowledge matters more than ever in the age of AI

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Session aim:


Explore why strong foundations in language and sentence construction are essential for developing confident, creative and future-ready writers - and how this aligns with the emerging direction of England's new English curriculum.
Participants will explore:
• How executive function and cognitive load affect young writers.
• Why sentence mastery and automaticity free children to think and create.
• What emerging curriculum thinking means for writing in an AI-enabled world.
 


 

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  • AI and EdTech
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Beyond the Textbook: The OBELAS Integrated Education Ecosystem

Session Summary:

Discover how OBELAS brings together academic publishing, EdTech platforms, assessment, teacher training, academic support, and quality standards to create a connected learning ecosystem. This showcase will demonstrate how OBELAS supports schools from curriculum design and classroom delivery to assessment and continuous improvement, while highlighting how AI-powered adaptive learning, assessment analytics, and integrated curriculum solutions can help improve learner outcomes and provide teachers and school leaders with actionable insights to drive success.

Speakers

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  • AI and EdTech
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Reading Comprehension: The Foundation of AI Readiness

Session Summary:

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in education and everyday life, one critical question emerges: Are our students truly ready to work with AI — or are they simply using it?

In this session, we explore why reading comprehension is the essential foundation of AI readiness. While AI tools can generate answers instantly, students still need strong comprehension skills to interpret prompts, evaluate outputs, detect bias, and think critically about information.

This talk introduces BOOKR Class as a story-driven, research-based digital reading platform that strengthens comprehension through interactive texts, scaffolded vocabulary support, and adaptive assessment. By combining structured literacy development with engaging technology, BOOKR Class helps students build the deep reading skills necessary to navigate AI responsibly and effectively.

Participants will discover:

Why comprehension skills are more important than ever in the age of AI
How story-based learning enhances critical thinking and information evaluation
How AI-powered tools can support — rather than replace — cognitive development
Practical classroom strategies to develop AI-ready readers

This session is ideal for educators and school leaders seeking to prepare students not only for exams, but for a future where understanding, questioning, and evaluating information is more valuable than ever.

Speakers

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  • AI and EdTech
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Shaping the Future of Teaching & Learning with Nearpod

Session Summary:

Discover how Nearpod is helping schools prepare for the future of education through AI, real-time assessment, and interactive learning. This session will explore practical strategies to increase student engagement, empower teachers with actionable insights, and create more consistent, impactful teaching and learning across the whole school.

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    Gavin Maher | Principal Educational Consultant - Renaissance Learning

Categories

  • AI and EdTech
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LEGO®️ Education Solution Showcase

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  • AI and EdTech
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The Responsible AI Program For Schools

Session Summary:

Across global school systems, AI adoption is accelerating faster than policy development, leadership preparation, and instructional redesign. The result is predictable: academic integrity weakens, expectations vary from classroom to classroom, and leaders at every level are left to govern AI without a clear framework.

The real risk is not AI itself. The real risk is fragmented implementation without governance.
This presentation introduces a disciplined, five-phase system for building institutional capacity for responsible AI integration in K–12 education: Assess, Align, Implement, Govern, and Sustain. At the center of this model is the Responsible AI Readiness Index, a structured diagnostic that measures governance clarity, instructional consistency, leadership confidence, student AI literacy, and system sustainability across five domains.

Whether you oversee a national education strategy or lead a single school building, the challenge is the same: how do you move from unstructured AI adoption to governed?

Speakers

Categories

  • AI and EdTech

Tania Al Jaroudy

Director of Innovation - Makers Learning School International

Gareth Davies

CEO - Literacy Counts Ltd.

Paulina Perez

Academic Consultant - OBELAS

Tania Mackie

Director, International Safeguarding & Digital Transformation - Lightspeed Systems

Jamiylah Jones

Founder & CEO - Creative Transformations, LLC

Devrim Özdemir

Partner Manager - BOOKR Clas

Stuart Swann

Consultant - LEGO Education

Gavin Maher

Principal Educational Consultant - Renaissance Learning

Michael Sheehan

Senior Manager, EMEA - Toddle

Antony Wambua

Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer - Applicaa

Dr. Heba Sabry Al-Sharif

Academic Director - Al-Forsan International School – Al-Nuzha

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