The future of schools
12-16 July 2021
Jason Tan
Project Lead
GPEX Central
Raya Bidshahri
Founder & CEO
School of Humanity
Teocah Arieal Ainka Dove
Social Innovator and Development Strategist
Bryan Teow
Managing Director
GPEX Malaysia and GPEX Hong Kong
Nik Peachey
Director of Pedagogy
PeacheyPublications Ltd
Silvana Richardson
Head of Education
Bell
Mauro F. Guillen
Incoming Dean
Cambridge Judge Business School
Heather E. McGowan
Future-of-work strategist,
Co-author of The Adaptation Advantage
Conrad Hughes
Campus and Secondary Principal
International School of Geneva
Mario Barosevcic
Principal
Emerge Education
Mike Solly
Principal consultant/Head or research and insight, English for Education Systems
The British Council
Neil Gibb
Business consultant and social innovator Author of the “Participation Revolution”
Gisella Langé
Senior Adviser, Foreign Languages Inspector
Ministry of Education, Italy
Glen Leadbetter
Head of ESL
KLAS Switzerland
Matt Finch
Associate Fellow
Saïd Business School
What is blocking real change in education?
April 2021
Mohit Midha
Co-Founder
Mangahigh
Dr Alison Wood
Academic Director
Homerton Changemakers, University of Cambridge
Jon Smith
Co-founder and CEO
Pobble
Valerie Hannon
Board Director
Innovation Unit
Joysy John
CEO
01Founders
Andreas Schleicher
Director for Education and Skills
OECD
SHAPE UAE
August 2020
Her Excellency Jameela Al Muhairi
Minister of State for General Education
UAE Government
Dr. Neelam Parmar
Director of Educational Technology, Digital Learning and Innovation
Department of Education EdTech Leadership
Geoffrey Alphonso
Chief Executive Officer
Alef Education
Hanan Khalifa
Director, Education Transformation and Impact
Cambridge Assessment English
Geoff Stead
Chief Product Officer
Babbel
Evelina Galaczi
Head of Research Strategy
Cambridge Assessment English
Ralph Tabberer
Owner and Chief Executive
BBD Education
SHAPE Online
May 2020
Maria Spies
Co-CEO
HolonIQ
Seb Murray
Freelance Journalist
The Guardian, Financial Times, Evening Standard
“The coronavirus crisis promises to reshape the sector, with big changes coming for teaching, admissions and revenue.”
Rupert Wegerif
Professor of Education
University of Cambridge
“We need to think more seriously about the ways in which new technology might transform education.”
Martin Dougiamas
Founder and CEO
Moodle
“Education is a basic human right, and no-one would say it’s perfect yet, so any opportunity to help shape the future of it together is a good one.”
Laura Hay
Young Changemakers and
Empathy Education
Ashoka
“SHAPE creates the space for critical conversations and creative collaborations that offer possible ways forward.”
Zubair Junjunia
Founder
ZNotes
“The energy and people at a SHAPE conference is remarkable - everyone is here to make a change and ready to join forces to make it happen!”
SHAPE Cambridge
September 2019
Jaideep Prabhu
Professor of Marketing
Cambridge Judge Business School
“There’s a demand to change how we design and deliver education”
Priya Lakhani OBE
Founder CEO
CENTURY Tech
“It’s vital education continues to meet the needs of young people”
Neil Gibb
Business consultant and social innovator Author of the “Participation Revolution”
“Education is at the heart of the seismic changes that are transforming our society”
Colleen McLaughlin
Director of Education Innovation
Faculty of Education in Cambridge
“Giving serious consideration to the future needs and shape of education are the most important things to do right now”
Tim Oates
Director of Assessment Research and Development
Cambridge Assessment
“Our actions today will play a major part in forming the future of education”
Jim Knight
Chief Education and External Officer
TES Global Ltd
“The debate about the future of our schooling is raging from employers to educators. SHAPE is a very important part of that big conversation”
Dan Sandhu
Chief Executive Officer
Sparx
“We need events like SHAPE”
Rae Snape
Headteacher
The Spinney School Cambridge
“SHAPE is a call to action!”
Richard Teversham
Director: Education Mobility and Content
Apple
Wayne Holmes
Lecturer in Learning Sciences and Innovation
The Open University