IACEE 2021
Plenary sessions
Sustainability plenary (Opening plenary)
Wednesday 26 May
Introduction
Ragna Ann Berge
NTNU
Formal Welcome
State Secretary Aase Marthe Johansen Horrigmo
Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research
Anne Borg
Rector of NTNU
Keynotes
Keynote: SERINA
Tony Smith
IACEE & University of Tasmania
Keynote: Sustainability
Dr. Carol O’Donnel
Smithsonian Institute
Panel: Sustainability and SERINA
Moderator: Warren Kennard, ConnectEd
Panelists:
Dr. Carol O’Donnell, Smithsonian Inst.
Tony Smith, IACEE & University of Tasmania
Geir Graff, Asker Municipality, Norway
Dan Vigdor, HackerU
Global Times:
San Francisco: 04:00 – 05:00
Mexico City: 06:00 – 07:00
New York City: 07:00 – 08:00
London: 12:00 – 13:00
Paris/Oslo: 13:00 – 14:00
Beijing: 19:00 – 20:00
Sydney: 21:00 – 22:00
Sustainability plenary bios
Tony Smith
University of Tasmania/IACEE
Keynote speaker/panelist
Sustainability plenary (Opening plenary)
Wednesday 26 May
Tony Smith has over many years gained extensive practical, research and theoretical experience: High School mathematics and science teaching and lecturing in adult education, researching at UTAS; knowledge management research with Hydro Tasmania;, social services management delivery and systems with Anglicare Tasmania from an individual to a collective social psychology levels; leadership research; organisational learning; community development and education programming, systems and processes. Tony is actively involved in Tasmania at the University of Tasmania and in the wider Tasmanian primary and secondary education community concerning active practice mitigating against Climate Change.
Tony has played a pivotal role in developing and supporting SERINA for the IACEE since its inception.
IACEE Porto Declaration
In a similar manner to the IFEES 2020 Peace Engineering and Sustainability Declaration, at its World Conference in Portugal on 20 May 2016, the IACEE pledged its commitment to developing global education initiatives to address the 21st century challenges threatening the survival of humanity.
SERINA
SERINA, Sustainable Education and Research in Action, is a global sustainability initiative born out of the Porto Declaration that highlights over 400 (and growing) incredible examples of active practices of sustainability initiatives throughout the world. These initiatives are being mapped against the 17 UNSDGs and where applicable, their relevance to engineering.
To be viewed on Face Book , LinkedIn and on the web, www.iacee.serina.org these initiatives provide real and inspiring case studies as to what may be possible and provide a sense of hope for the future well-being of our planet and all of its inhabitants. So too does this provide a mechanism around which to develop conversations and collaborations.
Dr. Carol O’Donnell
Smithsonian Science Education Center
Keynote speaker/panelist
Sustainability plenary (Opening plenary)
Wednesday 26 May
Carol O’Donnell is Executive Director of the Smithsonian Science Education Center dedicated to transforming K-12 Education through Science™ in collaboration with communities across the globe. In this role, Carol serves as the US representative on the InterAcademy Partnership Science Education Global Council, and on the UN Broadband Commission Working Group on School Connectivity. Formerly, Carol was a leader at the US Department of Education; curriculum developer; and K-12 teacher. Dr. O’Donnell is still in the classroom today, serving on the part-time faculty of the Physics Department at The George Washington University, where she earned her doctorate.
Warren Kennard
ConnectEd
Panel moderator
Sustainability plenary (Opening plenary)
Wednesday 26 May
Warren is a globally connected HEd professional and reformer with extensive leadership experience across EdTech, strategy, marketing, business development and partnerships, principally in last-mile learning institutions positioned to scale.
An educated, results-orientated leader, he focuses on opportunities that leverage robust expertise in university-industry-government relationships, institutional and academic innovation, and university-led economic development including the future of work, scale, and value based engagement.
Geir Graff
Asker Municipality
Panelist
Sustainability plenary (Opening plenary)
Wednesday 26 May
Geir Graff has worked in Asker municipality for more than 20 years, with pedagogy, digitization, management and innovation. For the past three years, he has been the program coordinator in the municipal reform, where three municipalities were to become one completely new municipality, built on the UN’s sustainability goals. On a daily basis, he works with innovation, development and management at the Center for Innovation and Learning. Geir has a simple development philosophy – (norwegian puns:) development is short and sweet to do the opposite of entanglement, then things get a little easier and better for most people.
Dan Vigdor
HackerU
Panelist
Sustainability plenary (Opening plenary)
Wednesday 26 May
continuing education designed to solve the digital skills shortage. HackerU partners with top-tier colleges and universities around the world to offer a turnkey solution (including all the investment needed) for advanced, professional development programs in the most in-demand digital technology fields such as cybersecurity, digital marketing, coding, data analytics and more.
Dan is a serial entrepreneur and business leader. For the past 30 years he’s focused on the growth and development of purpose driven organizations. He and HackerU have an exciting and ambitious mission: to transform lives by educating global learners for the digital careers of tomorrow
Ragna Ann Berge
NTNU
Introduction
Sustainability plenary (Opening plenary)
Wednesday 26 May
Ragna Ann Berge has been Head of Section at the Centre for Continuing Education and Professional Development since 2011 and has a long career at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
She was a project manager for the successful annual conference NOKIOS, an annual Norwegian conference for eGovernment, for several years. Berge now serves as a member of the Project Management Program steering committee and “KOMPiS”, a program for Continuing education/ professional development for teachers K-12 at NTNU. She is also part of the management team at the Division of Education and Quality at the University.
The Centre for Continuing and Professional Development administers over 350 ECTS courses at bachelor and masters level, with over 9000 student annually. The center also administers 40 to 50 conferences every year, the last year only delivered as digital conferences, a huge transition for the employers and conference owners.
Berge received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies at Telemark University College and her master’s degree in Human Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Berge has been a member of IACEE since 2014 and has served on the IACEE Executive Committee both as Vice President of Member Engagement and Communication and the last years as World Conference Chair.
Innovation plenary
Thursday 27 May
Introduction
Paul Marca
IACEE
Keynotes
Berit Svendsen
VIPPS
Patrick Brothers
Holon IQ
Panel: Innovation
Moderator:
Nelson C. Baker, Ph.D.
Dean, Professional Education, Georgia Institute of Technology
Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Panelists:
Berit Svendsen
VIPPS
Patrick Brothers
Holon IQ
Geir Egil Øien
NTNU
Global Times:
San Francisco: 00:00 – 01:00
Mexico City: 02:00 – 03:00
New York City: 03:00 – 04:00
London: 08:00 – 09:00
Paris/Oslo: 09:00 – 10:00
Beijing: 15:00 – 16:00
Sydney: 17:00 – 18:00
Innovation plenary bios
Berit Svendsen
VIPPS
Keynote speaker/panelist
Innovation plenary: “What does it take to keep up in the global fintech industry regarding competence?”
Thursday 27 May
Berit started as a scientist at the research institute of Televerket (later Telenor) in 1988. She had several roles in the company, EVP and CEO for Telenor Norway and from March 2017 to September 2018 she was responsible for all Telenor’s activities in Scandinavia. She has the heart of a true tech enthusiast and curious about innovation and development. In 2016, Berit was named one of Europe’s fifty most inspiring women in the technology world by Inspiring Fifty. In 2017 and 2018, she was named the most powerful woman in Norwegian business by Kapital, the largest business magazine in Norway.
Berit started in Vipps in November 2018 to lead the international expansion of Vipps. Her focus is to create more digitised and cashless societies worldwide.
Berit is also Adjunct Executive in Residence at Norwegian Business School and heads the “Svendsen Committee” on behalf of the Ministry of Defense to assess the future need for competence and diversity in the Armed Forces based on a changed threat picture.
Patrick Brothers
Holon IQ
Keynote speaker/panelist
Innovation plenary: “Micro-credentials and Digital Transformation in Higher Education”
Thursday 27 May
Patrick Brothers is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of HolonIQ, a global market intelligence platform for education. Patrick is a longstanding member of the World Economic Forum and B20 Education and Employment Task Force and is passionate about transforming the way the world learns.
Prior to co-founding HolonIQ, Patrick held a variety of senior appointments working in mission focused public-private sectors including Education, Infrastructure and Defence across Asia, Europe and North America. Patrick was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Navitas Ventures, Chief Development Officer at both Navitas and CIMIC responsible for major international public-private partnerships, a Director at Deloitte in corporate strategy and advisory working across the tech, media and telco sectors and served as an Officer in the Australian Army.
Patrick holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales and is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon
Nelson C. Baker
ConnectEd
Panel moderator
Innovation plenary
Thursday 27 May
Nelson C. Baker, Ph.D., is the dean of Professional Education at the Georgia Institute of Technology and professor in the university’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As dean, Dr. Baker leads a multifaceted operation including the Global Learning Center, Georgia Tech-Savannah, the Language Institute, and Georgia Tech’s extensive professional education programs in STEM- and business-related subjects.
Dr. Baker also oversees educational outreach programs and serves as the interface between Georgia Tech’s professional education activities and the industries, corporations, government agencies and professional societies that benefit from them. Under Dr. Baker’s leadership, Georgia Tech Professional Education has steadily expanded, now serving more than 36,000 learners worldwide and 2,600 organizations each year.
Currently, Dr. Baker serves as the Secretary General of the International Association of Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) and is also the President of the University Professional Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). He is the Past-Chair of the Georgia Board of Regents Administrative Committee on Public Service and Continuing Education, and he is an active member of ASEE and ASCE.
Geir Egil Øien
NTNU
Panelist
Innovation plenary
Thursday 27 May
Geir Egil Dahle Øien is Pro-Rector Education, at NTNU and project manager for NTNU’s central education development project “Technology studies of the future” in the period 1 August 2019 – 31 December 2021.
Øien became a professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications in May 2001 and belong to the Signal Processing Research Group. He was head of the Department of Telecommunications in the period 2002-2004. He was Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering between 1 August 2009 and 31 July 2019.
Background
Geir Egil Dahle Øien (born 1965) has an MSc (sivilingeniør) degree from the Department of Telecommunications at NTH (1989) and a PhD from the same department (1993).
He is author/co-author of around 150 publications in international journals and conference proceedings with referee. He has managed and participated in several large research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway and the EU Commission. He has supervised more than 20 PhD candidates and has been an opponent at a long list of disputations, in Norway and abroad.
Paul Marca
ConnectEd
Introduction
Innovation plenary
Thursday 27 May
Advisor and consultant to companies, organizations and governments seeking to develop a portfolio of education offerings integrating market interest, pedagogy and technology. Former Associate Vice Provost at Stanford, with experience as an operational executive with success at creating product/market fit for a portfolio of education offerings.
Inclusion plenary
Friday 28 May
Introduction
Ellen Sjoer
The Hague University
Keynote
Michael Fors
Boeing
Panel: Innovation
Moderator:
Dr. Patricia Caratozzolo
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Panelists:
Michael Fors
Boeing
Valeria Csepe
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Jennifer Henry
2U/Trilogy
Roberto Romero
RECLA
Global Times:
San Francisco: 06:00 – 07:00
Mexico City: 08:00 – 09:00
New York City: 09:00 – 10:00
London: 14:00 – 15:00
Paris/Oslo: 15:00 – 16:00
Beijing: 21:00 – 22:00
Sydney: 23:00 – 00:00
Inclusion plenary bios
Michael Fors
Boeing
Keynote speaker/panelist
Inclusion plenary
Friday 28 May
Michael A. Fors, Ph.D., is an Executive Leader of Corporate Division Development in Boeing’s Leadership, Learning & Organizational Capability (LLOC) Team, driving transformation toward the 2025 corporate vision. His team provides learning and development to 12 major divisions, including Engineering, Supply Chain, IT, HR, Finance, and Program Management. He is deploying role-based, data driven workforce development systems that are tied to business strategic plans, and upskill employees for the 4th Industrial Revolution. He is also driving cross-enterprise development initiatives, technical leadership development, and new aircraft program development initiatives.
Before Boeing, he was Executive Leader of Learning at Microsoft, transforming Microsoft’s sales, consulting services, and other divisions to achieve Microsoft’s Digital Transformation. Prior, Michael led a P&L comprised of 450 ex-CIO consultants who digitally transformed Microsoft Fortune 50 customers. Michael also led business strategy teams in the Microsoft Windows Division and other product groups. Before Microsoft, Michael was Chief Learning Officer of Intel University, where he led all learning & internal consulting, including leadership, management, engineering, manufacturing, and employee development.
Michael is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and the University of Washington, where he teaches on innovation and entrepreneurism in the Engineering & Business Schools. Michael is a member and representative of the World Economic Forum, the Global Engineering Deans’ Council, ReWork America, & the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies. As a Senior UN Fellow for 22 years, Michael leads United Nations post-conflict strategy, leadership, and frontier technology development programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, and other parts of Africa. Michael has a Ph.D. that focused on Education, Leadership, and Business.
Dr. Patricia Caratozzolo
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Panel moderator
Inclusion plenary
Friday 28 May
Patricia Caratozzolo is a professor-researcher in the Department of Sustainable Development and Mechatronics of the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, specialized in Power Transmission, Sustainability and Energy Efficiency.
Her expertise in the sector of Sustainable Engineering:
- Technological Innovation in the energy sector (Optimization, design and efficiency in generation systems, transmission and distribution of electrical energy, management of reactive power, incorporation of renewable sources)
- Development of Competencies and Disciplinary Skills in Collaborative Groups
- Development of Critical Thinking and Case Analysis
- Problem Solving through Lateral Thinking and Design Thinking
Patricia also lead research projects in Educational Innovation: Design of didactic strategies to enhance the lexical corpus of students (2015); Transversal laboratory for the development of critical thinking (2017); Storytelling and Podcast Lab for the development of soft skills in engineering (2019).
Valeria Csépe
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Panelist
Inclusion plenary
Friday 28 May
Valeria Csépe Ph.D. is a research Professor at the Researh Centre of Natural Sciences (RCNS) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience (Technical University of Budapest, University of Pannonia), and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europea. Her research focuses on the behavioral and brain correlates of typical and atypical cognitive development from infancy to adulthood. The research group of Neurocognitive Development was founded by her at the Brain Imaging Centre of RCNS HAS. She served as deputy secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, elected for two terms (2008-2014), being the first female in such a high position there. She is president, appointed in 2016 and 2018, of the Hungarian High Education Accreditation Committee. As of 2017 she is principal investigator of the national curriculum redesign and implementation EU project in Hungary, member of the Education 2030 focus group as well as invited expert of The Research Precariat Scoping Group of the OECD.
Dr. Roberto Romero Llop
RECLA
Panelist
Inclusion plenary
Friday 28 May
Dr. Roberto Romero Llop is Head of Section of the Lifelong Learning Center (Centro de Formación Permanente, CFP) at the Technical University of Valencia (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, UPV). He has been working 22 years in roles related to lifelong learning/postgraduate at UPV. At the moment coordinates the group that manages UPV lifelong learning that is organized by UPV Professors.
MSc in Telecommunication Engineering since 1999 and PhD. since 2008 (semantic web for education). His professional interests are Management in Continuing Engineering Education and the use of new technologies in adult education. He has been involved in different research projects related to these themes since 1998.
He has participated in different Networks as SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) working group for Continuing Engineering Education, EUCEN (European University Continuing Education Network), and the Latin-American network RECLA . At the moment is member of the Steering Committee of the National University Lifelong Learning Association (Red Universitaria de Estudios de Postgrado y Educación Permanente, RUEPEP) as Secretary.
Jennifer Henry
2U/Trilogy
Panelist
Inclusion plenary
Friday 28 May
Jennifer Henry is senior vice president of career services at 2U, Inc. She held the same title at Trilogy Education before the company was acquired by 2U. Prior to joining Trilogy, Jennifer was a co-founder and senior vice president of coaching and academics at OneUni, an international edtech start-up that works to enable people to earn degrees from their smartphones.
Jennifer also served as a senior fellow at Pahara Institute, an affiliate of the Aspen Institute and dedicated eight years to New Leaders as chief program and cities officer.
Jennifer holds a BA from Georgetown University and a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Outside of 2U, Jennifer is on the Board of Directors of the National Equity Project. She is a fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Ellen Sjoer
The Hague University
Introduction
Inclusion plenary
Friday 28 May
Dr. Ellen Sjoer is Professor Sustainable Talent Development at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She is heading a research group of fifteen researchers, who all combine their research with teaching activities or providing educational advise at the university. The aim of our research is to create rich learning and working environments in new contexts that fit in with work in transition. Learning is becoming less constrained and (online) networks that transcend organizational and disciplinary boundaries are becoming essential. The Sustainable Talent Development research group aims to identify new forms of learning and talent development, that benefit students and professionals most. Ellen has a track record as principal and co-investigator in (inter)national education research projects. She participates in various networks such as Labor Platform, theme: Life Long Development , 21st century skills (Studio21), and she serves at the board of IACEE.