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28 - 30 September 2027 |

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

Categories

  • 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

Categories

  • AI and EdTech
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Reconnecting a Disconnected Generation Why Nature Belongs at the Heart of Education

Session Summary:

As young people spend more of their lives indoors and online, what happens to their connection with the natural world? Drawing on outdoor education experience, Dirk explores the role of nature in supporting wellbeing, confidence and meaningful learning—and why reconnecting students with the outdoors deserves a place at the heart of education.

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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

Categories

  • 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.

Speakers

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    Gavin Maher | Principal Educational Consultant - Renaissance Learning

Categories

  • AI and EdTech
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How to Create & Deliver Complete Outdoor Learning Environments

Session Summary:

Outdoor spaces have become an essential extension of the modern classroom, playing a critical role in education, wellbeing, physical development, and student engagement. However, creating a truly successful outdoor learning environment requires much more than simply adding play equipment or sports facilities.

In this session, Gebal Group will explore how schools, designers, developers, and education operators can create integrated outdoor environments that support learning, recreation, sport, social interaction, creativity, and student wellbeing. Drawing upon regional and international project experience, the presentation will examine the key elements that contribute to successful educational outdoor spaces, including play, sports infrastructure, outdoor classrooms, shade and thermal comfort, landscaping, sensory experiences, inclusivity, accessibility, safety, and long-term maintenance.

Attendees will gain practical insight into how these components can be brought together through a cohesive design and delivery approach to maximise educational outcomes and create spaces that students actively want to use. The session will also demonstrate how high-quality outdoor environments can strengthen school identity, support academic achievement, enhance sporting performance, improve wellbeing, and provide lasting value for both students and educational institutions.

Key Learning Outcomes:

  • Understanding the components of a successful outdoor learning environment.
  • Balancing recreation, play, sport, education, and wellbeing within a single masterplan.
  • Designing for thermal comfort and year-round usability in the GCC climate.
  • Creating inclusive and accessible environments for all students.
  • Delivering outdoor spaces that support academic, physical, and social development.
  • Maximising return on investment through integrated design, delivery, and lifecycle planning.

Categories

  • 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

Dirk Moseley

Outdoor Education Manager - Husaak

Zeinab Jarir

Head of Partnerships - BOOKR Class

Tania Al Jaroudy

Director of Innovation - Makers Learning School International

Paulina Perez

Academic Consultant - OBELAS

Amena Allouch

Founder - MIRA, powered by Schlierix

Jamiylah Jones

Founder & CEO - Creative Transformations, LLC

Devrim Özdemir

Partner Manager - BOOKR Class

Gavin Maher

Principal Educational Consultant - Renaissance Learning

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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