Past Speakers

Founder & CEO at Simbi

Teacher/Author/Speaker - Founder Reading Power Gear, ltd. - Simbi Literacy Expert

Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Educator Success at Simbi

Co-founder and CEO onebillion

Global Education Editor, Financial Times

Founder and CEO - World Literacy Foundation

Plastic Surgeon by profession

Co-author and trainer Let’s visit Numberland

Lecturer at Federation University, Gippsland.

CEO at the Luminos Fund

Director - Tmrw Institute

Dutch Reading Foundation and EURead

Co-founder of MIT Center for Future Storytelling, President of Paramount Pictures, Production Chief of Walt Disney Studios, optimist, author and teacher.

Author, Principal, Global Innovator, Adjunct Professor/Action Researcher - Academy of the Arts

Director Community Initiatives, Dollar General

Chair World Literacy Foundation

Founder, Right for Education

Lead consultant of the School Resource Center (SRC)

Executive Director of Innovations for Learning UK

Founder of Dilectae

Executive Director Little Free Library

Deputy Director Training - : Impact(Ed) International (Formerly Discovery Learning Alliance)

Senior Education Specialist at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB)

Lead Project Manager, BBC

Principal and co-Founder, The Education Outcomes Fund

Associate professor - University of Pretoria

Development Manager of the World Literacy Foundation

CEO National Literacy Trust

Technical Advisor & Director Supplementary Resource Development for the Pakistan Reading Project - International Rescue Committee

Professor of Economics, University of Munich / Director, ifo Centre for the Economics of Education

Junior Student Majoring in Literature and Creative Writing

Program Manager Sun Books - World Literacy Foundation

COO, SoapBox Labs

Founder and Director of NEST-USA

UNESCO Chair on Adult Education, Vrije University Brussel

Minister of Education, Finland

Senior Analyst, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Directorate for Education and Skills (OECD)

Founder of ClassTechTips.com

Associate Professor at Hashemite University

Co-Founder - Madarek-books.com

Lecturer and speech-language therapist - University of Pretoria: Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Development Manager - Worldreader

Director, BRAC Education Programme (BEP)

Director & Co-Founder at Limited Space

Assistant Professor in the Media and Creative Industries Department at the UAEU.

Director, General Studies Strategy - Western Governors University, General Education

Student at the University of South Africa

Journalist

Child Author

Principal, Sacred Heart School

Chief Marketing Officer - Vizrt

Manager, 26TEN Strategy

Associate Professor - Faculty of Education, University of Windsor

Thematic Lead in Education, United Nations Technology Innovation Lab (UNTIL)

Senior Lecturer - School of Education and English Language, University of Bedfordshire

CEO - Aussie Books For Zim

Founder - ROCHUN: Pay it Forward

PhD Candidate - UMASS Amherst

Associate Professor Early Childhood Education - University of Houston

Literacy Specialist - International School of Islamabad (ISOI)

Publisher for the Story Makers Press

Founder Sir Linkalot’s

CEO - Descriptionari

CEO - Klik2learn

Founder & CEO - Kinephonics® Pty Limited

Founder & Literacy Advisor - Yayasan Literasi Anak Indonesia

Founder - Ashta No Kai

Founder - The Winford Centre for Children and Women

Educator at Lagos Elementary in Manor Independent School District in Manor, Texas

Assistant Professor of Writing - Bloomsburg University

Senior Lecturer Language and Literacy - St Mary's University College

World Literacy Foundation - Sunbooks Uganda

Initiator/Founder - Let's Encourage A Reading Nation (LEARN)

Project Coordinator - Bücherpiraten e.V.

Founder and CEO - Kupanda Sisters, Inc

CEO/Director - Happy Readers Zimbabwe

Educational Consultant and Director - Beagle Innovations Limited

Chair of Licensure and Endorsements/Associate Professor - University of Findlay, College of Education

CEO and Co-Founder - Mra-BOOKR Kids Kft.

Scientific advisor of the PeP-Project - PeP-Project at Ernst-Reuter-Schule 1

Doctoral Candidate - University of Waikato

Head of Publisher Partnerships - The Reading Agency

Author of Let’s visit Numberland

PhD Student - Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne

Literacy and Education Senior Consultant - SIL International

Project Manager - University of Oxford; Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Founder - OSH literacy

Director of Operations and WordScientists.org at NEST USA

Literacy Consultant and Director - Code-Education Ltd

Executive Director - ARISE2Read

Reading Specialist -The College School

Chief Executive Officer - Kaizen’s Company

Literacy Educator - Texas A&M University-Commerce

Technical Advisor & Director Supplementary Resource Development for the Pakistan Reading Project - International Rescue Committee

Senior Education Consultant - SIL International

PhD Candidate - Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne

Focal Point - ADEA Books and Learning Materials Section

Instructional Assistant Professor -Illinois State University

Founder - Reading in Colour

English Language Arts teacher in the United States - Literacy Speedway/XPRIZE-

Research & Development Program Manager. - Queen Rania Foundation

Founder/President - Budding Reader

Assistant Professor of Reading - Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Middle East Youth Ambassador / ICT Officer

CEO - Queen Rania Foundation

Literacy Coach - Manor ISD/Lagos ES

Professor in the Graduate Studies of Lifelong Learning program in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University

Director for Education, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion - Impact(Ed) International

Program Manager DINGO - World Literacy Foundation

Author - HerbAnn Publications.

President, Book Love Foundation - Plymouth State University

BSc in Education and Psychology.

Principal Research Fellow - Australian Council for Educational Research

Founder - Institute Of Peace

Mother Tongue literacy researcher - His Hands Reader

Director - iVerbalize Limited

Student City of Vienna

Research Officer and Teaching Associate - The University of Oxford & Monash University

President of ElevatED, NYUAD's Student Group on Education

Assessment Specialist - Mera SABAQ Learning Systems Private Limited

Adjunct Professor of English - Mohawk Valley Community College

Director Supplementary Resource Development - Pakistan Reading Project

Program Manager - Wipro Foundation

President & CEO - Frontier College

Associate Professor - Faculty of Education, University of Windsor

Lecturer in Primary English at Leeds Beckett University

PhD Student - Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University

Doctoral Student - St. John's University, Department of Education, Queens, New York, USA

Associate Professor of Linguistics; TESOL - The Department of English The University of Akron

Literary Agent, Author Coach, Editor - WRITE. EDIT. PUBLISH

Research Fellow - Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)

Educational Developer - The Curriculum and Learning Material Developing Group of the Reformed Church in Hungary