The Future of Higher Education & Skills Training

‘MOOCs & Digitisation’

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WEDnESDay 10TH april, FOur pOinTS by SHEraTOn, SyDnEy

Onsite Guide Agenda & Speaker Profiles

This conference is the next in a series of thought leading discussions presented by Integrating Australia with Asia initiative.

Integrating Australia with Asia is an initiative of GLOBAL MINDSET and Virtual & Global Services hub. It is a hub of academics, consulting and industry from Australia, India, and other Asian countries. It aims to strengthen Australia’s relationship with Asian economies and to position Australia strategically in the Asian services marketplace.

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08.30 - 09.00 rEgiSTraTiOn

09.00 - 09.10 introduction & Welcome address

09.10 - 10.00 Keynote address (Virtual) Prof. Anant Agrawal, President, eDX (online Joint Venture between Harvard & MIT)

10.00 - 10.20 TEa brEaK

10.20 - 12.00 inTEraCTiVE panEl anD Q&aSESSiOn MODEraTOr: pradeep Khanna, Executive Director, Integrating Australia with Asia - Globalisaion, Digitisation and Services Intensification

prof. arun Sharma, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Queensland University of Technologyandrew Thomson, Executive Director AsiaPac, Ciscoprof. uday Desai, Director Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology prof. pip pattison, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) , University of Melbourneprof. iain Martin, Vice President and Deputy Vice Chancellor(Academic) , University of NSW

12.00 - 12.45 lunCH

12.45 - 14.30

14.30 - 15.00 aFTErnOOn TEa brEaK

15.00 - 17.00

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Agenda

HigHEr EDuCaTiOnSESSiOn MODEraTOr: Tim Dodd, Education Editor, Australian Financial Review

•andrew norton, Higher Education Program Director , Grattan Institute

•peter rohan, Partner, Ernst & Young

•prof. Eric y.H. Tsui, Associate Director, KMIRC, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

•Dr loretta O’Donnell, Associate Dean, Education, Australian School of Business, UNSW & member of MOOC panel

•prof. John Simons, Executive Dean, Macquarie University

SKillS TrainingSESSiOn MODEraTOr: pradeep Khanna, Executive Director, Integrating Australia with Asia - Globalisaion, Digitisation and Services Intensification

•Shantanu prakash, Chairman and Managing Director , Educomp, India

•Christopher Campbell, Group MD, Academies Australasia

•Mark J laurie, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia

•peter acheson, CEO, Peoplebank Australia Ltd

• Dilip Chenoy, CEO and Managing Director, National Skill Development Corporation - India

TECHnOlOgySESSiOn MODEraTOr: brad Howarth, Commentator and Author on Digital Transformation

•Dr nick Tate, President, Australian Computer Society (ACS)

•Suan yeo, Head of Education (APAC), Google

•prof. Simon Kaplan, Director, Skills and Industry Transformation, NICTA

•raju Varanasi, Chief Operating Officer, Education Services Australia

•Colin griffith, Director Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation

WOrKSHOp: bEyOnD MOOCS •Dr Dror ben-naim, Founder

and CEO, Smart Sparrow•a/prof gangadhara prusty,

School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW

WOrKSHOp: paSSagE TO inDia •Jonathan Marshall, CEO,

Bondi Labs•aditya bhatnagar, Director,

Drona Edutronics

WOrKSHOp: iMMErSiVE TECHnOlOgy•Christian richter, Research

Stream Leader, CSIRO•prof Farzad Safaei, Smart

Services CRC/University of Wollongong

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Welcome

Speakers PLEASE NOTE: SPEAKERS ARE IN ORDER OF WHEN THEY APPEAR ON THE AGENDA

I am delighted to welcome you to the next conference in the series presented by Integrating Australia with Asia initiative*. Today’s (10th April 2013) international conference looks at the Future of Higher Education & Skills Training in the Australasian Region - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) & Digitisation.

There are clear headwinds for the higher education and skills training industry, in Australia as well as globally. Digital disruption & MOOCs are certainly one of them. So, is a tsumani coming our way or is it just another passing wave ?

Education services are Australia’s third largest exports, after iron ore & coal – estimated at $15 billion last year. The Asian Century Whitepaper lists India as one of our six focus countries. India is also an important market for our education exports, and therefore India is a focus country at this conference.

So, fasten your seat belt, sit tight and enjoy yourself, listening to and getting your questions answered on higher education, vocational education & training and corporate training.

* integrating australia with asia is an initiative of glObal MinDSET and Virtual & global Services hub. It is a hub of academics, consulting and industry from Australia, India, and other Asian countries. It aims to strengthen Australia’s relationship with Asian economies and to position Australia strategically in the Asian services marketplace.

pradeep KhannaTitle: Executive Director Company: Integrating Australia with Asia - Globalisaion, Digitisation and Services Intensification

Pradeep is developing Virtual & Global Services Hub of academia, consulting & industry from Australia, India & other Asian countries. He is Managing Director of GLOBAL MINDSET, thought leading research and consulting company heavily involved in all aspects of virtual & global services, & global sourcing. With over 25 years of executive & management experience across number of

industries, Pradeep has been Leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) leveraging India, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Egypt, Romania, Brazil & Argentina for A/NZ . He has worked on assignments involving IBM, Australian Trade Commission, Optus, Westpac, Qantas, ING, Crompton Greaves etc

He is also Chairperson, Branding & Treasurer of IITian Association of Australia (IITAA), Chairman of Royal Star, Global Executive Member at IIT Delhi AA, & Director (Consulting) at Mindfields Consulting. He is mentor at UNSW, AIBC & other places. Pradeep did his MBA from AGSM (UNSW), M.Sc, Computer Science from UTS, & B Tech from IIT Delhi.

prof. anant agrawalTitle: President Company: eDX (online Joint Venture between Harvard & MIT)

Anant Agarwal is the President of edX, an online learning venture of Harvard and MIT. Agarwal taught the first course of edX on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He is also a founder of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor. He led the development of Raw, an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle, an early multi-threaded microprocessor, and Alewife, a scalable multiprocessor.

prof. arun SharmaTitle: Deputy Vice Chancellor Company: Queensland University of Technology

Arun Sharma is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Commercialisation) at QUT. He was a co-founder of NICTA. He has served as a member of the ARC Advisory Council, Queensland Premier’s Smart State Council and Business Roundtable, and currently chairs the Queensland India Council. He has also served as the National Chair of the Australia India Business Council.

andrew ThomsonTitle: Executive Director AsiaPac Company: Cisco

As Director of Public Sector Strategy for Cisco, Andrew works with government agencies to improve efficiency and citizen engagement. His deep understanding of education and government results from his experience a senior provincial-government minister in Canada where he served as Saskatchewan’s minister of finance, education, public safety, and energy.

prof. uday DesaiTitle: Director Indian Institute of Technology Company: Indian Institute of Technology

Uday B. Desai received the B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1974, the M.S. degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1979, all in Electrical Engineering. Since June 2009 he is the Director of IIT Hyderabad.

prof. pip pattisonTitle: Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) Company: University of Melbourne

Professor Pip Pattison is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Melbourne. Her research involves the development and application of mathematical and statistical models for social networks and network-based social processes. Pip was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1995.

prof. iain MartinTitle: Vice President and Deputy Vice Chancellor(Academic) Company: University of New South Wales

Professor Iain Martin is Vice President and DVC (Academic) at the University of New South Wales. Having trained as a medical doctor at the University of Leeds, UK, we worked for the University of Leeds for 13 years before moving to the University of Auckland as Professor of Surgery in 2000. In 2005 he was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences a post he held until mid 2011 when he was appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor(Strategic Engagement) at the University. In October 2012 he took up his current role at UNSW.

Tim DoddTitle: Education Editor Company: Australian Financial Review - Event Breakout Session Moderator

Tim Dodd leads the education coverage in the Financial Review, editing the weekly Monday education section and co-ordinating the daily coverage of education issues. He writes a weekly column, Education Observed, published on Mondays. He has over 20 experience as a journalist covering public policy, economic and political issues.

andrew nortonTitle: Higher Education Program Director Company: Grattan Institute

Andrew Norton is the Higher Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute. His most recent reports are Mapping Australian higher education, 2013 and Graduate Winners: Assessing the public and private benefits of higher education. He has a regular higher education column for The Age newspaper, and is a frequent media commentator on higher education issues.

peter rohanTitle: Partner Company: Ernst & Young

Peter is a Senior Memberof Ernst & Young’s Education Industry Group. He has extensive experience both locally and internationally. Peter’s key expertise is in public policy reform, operational strategy & improvement and organisational change. He has over 25 years experience in leading and managing important projects across a variety of organisations and a diverse range of stakeholder groups.

prof. Eric y.H. TsuiTitle: Associate Director, KMIRC Company: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Eric was appointed Professor of Knowledge Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the President’s Distinguished Professionals Scheme in September 2002, he joined as a full time staff in March 2005. Since then, he has designed and delivered numerous public and custom-designed knowledge management and technologies workshops. He has consulted for many government departments and private organisations in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei. Eric is Vice President of the Hong Kong Knowledge

Management Society, an honorary advisor on KM to the Hong Kong Police College, and a member on IT Technical Advisory Sub-Committee in the Hospital Authority. He has held various positions at various organisations these include but are not limited to; CSC, AMP and Maybank. He was also a gratis visitor to Microsoft Research in February, 2000.

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Dr loretta O’DonnellTitle: Associate Dean, Education, Australian School of Business Company: UNSW & member of MOOC panel

Dr Loretta O’Donnell is Associate Dean, Education at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales. Loretta’s research interests are in human capital analysis issues within financial markets, and how to improve dialogue between Boards and markets on human capital and intangible value creation.

prof. John SimonsTitle: Executive Dean Company: Macquarie University

Professor John Simons is Executive Dean of Arts at Macquarie University. He previously worked at the universities of Wales, Exeter, Winchester, Edge Hill and Lincoln in the UK and has held several visiting Professorships in the USA. In the 1990s he worked extensively in eastern Europe on various projects to build universities after the fall of communism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Higher Education Academy, the Zoological Society of London and the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

Shantanu prakashTitle: Chairman and Managing Director Company: Educomp, India

Shantanu Prakash founded Educomp Solutions Limited in 1994, a few years after acquiring an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His vision has been to transform the teaching-learning process through the use of technology and best practices. The company employs over 16000 people across 27 offices worldwide including India, USA Canada, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Educomp is the leader in education content, professional development, online learning and the first company to set up high

quality schools across the country Educomp works with over 32,000 schools and 20 million students across the globe and has joint ventures with Pearson PLC and Raffles Education Corporation for vocational and higher education respectively.

Christopher CampbellTitle: Group MD Company: Academies Australasia

Group Managing Director, Academies Australasia (‘AKG’), since 1996. AKG’s 10 separately licensed colleges in Australia and Singapore have taught tens of thousands of students from 116 countries. Director, Asia Society Australia and Member, Council on Australia Latin America Relations Education Action Group. AKG has been operating for more than 100 years and listed on ASX for 35 years.

Mark J laurieTitle: Partner Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Mark is a Senior Partner at PwC, the Client Lead Partner on a number of multi-national clients and is the PwC Australia - India Practice Leader. He also leads both a Partner and a Client Executive Development program and was a Member of PwC Australia’s Leadership Council and the Industry Leader’s Committee. Mark has a background in both corporate and advisory roles, across a broad range of industries and geographies, including Australia, China, South East Asia, India and New Zealand. His has had many assignments across

financial and management reporting, mergers and acquisitions, market entry strategies, the development of operating models, capital raisings, corporate restructures, risk management and litigation support. Mark was a Lieutenant in the Australian Army Reserve (Infantry) and awarded the Australian Defence Medal.

peter achesonTitle: CEO Company: Peoplebank Australia Ltd

Peoplebank is Australia’s largest IT&T recruitment company. Founded in 1990, we specialise in the permanent and contract placement of IT&T professionals across all vertical markets. We have a national network of offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney; with 3,000 contractors on-site and place 6,000 candidates every year. Our vision is to be the best recruitment company in Asia Pacific, the No. 1 Choice for our Employees, Clients and Candidates. Peoplebank... Passionate about People.

Dilip ChenoyTitle: MD & CEO Company: National Skill Development Corporation

Dilip is currently Managing Director & CEO of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The NSDC is a Public Private Partnership whose objective is to skill 150 million people in India by 2022 by fostering private sector investment and initiatives in training and skill development in 20 high growth sectors and the unorganized segment.

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brad HowarthTitle: Commentator and Author on Digital Transformation

Brad has built his career around investigating the impact technology has on business, society and individuals. As a professional journalist, author and speaker, Brad has spent the last two decades analysing the challenges and opportunities that arise from new technologies, and has become much sought after as a catalyst for discussions around the evolution of industry and business models. Brad co-authored A Faster Future (February 2011). In the mid to late 1990s Brad reported on the rapid growth of Australia’s IT industry as

it rode the dotcom bubble. In 1999, he joined the editorial team at BRW as Information Technology Editor and then into the role of Marketing Editor.

Dr nick TateTitle: President Company: Australian Computer Society (ACS)

Dr Nick Tate is President of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and Director of the Australian Government’s Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) project which is based at the University of Queensland (UQ). This initiative aims to transform the storage of research data throughout Australian Universities and Research Institutions. He was Associate Director of the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) which developed and deployed cloud computing and cloud storage services for researchers across Australia. He

has been an Adjunct Professor in IT and Electrical Engineering at UQ since 2008. He has over 38 years IT experience with 16 years at CIO level in a University and two banks.

Suan yeoTitle: Head of Education (APAC) Company: Google

Suan heads up Google’s Enterprise Education efforts in Asia-Pacific. He is responsible for promoting the adoption of Google technology at the institution level for schools and universities. Suan is passionate about Educational Technology, and is constantly advocating for collaborative learning, open access and innovative experimentation. He is a lifelong learner, and firmly believes that no child should be left behind in education.

prof. Simon KaplanTitle: Director, Skills and Industry Transformation Company: NICTA

Simon Kaplan is NICTA Director, Skills and Industry Transformation. Prior to working at NICTA, Simon was Professor of Computer Science and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Queensland University of Technology. And before that he was Head of the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland, He holds B.Sc (Hons) (first class) and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, both from the University of Cape Town. He has over 30 years of industry and research experience in information technology.

raju VaranasiTitle: Chief Operating Officer Company: Education Services Australia

Raju Varanasi is the Chief Operating Officer of the NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre (NSW CLIC) at the NSW Dept. of Education and Communities. The Centre develops high quality teaching and learning resources in all areas of school curriculum, professional learning courses, tools, portals and support materials to support delivery in classrooms. His key responsibilities include the promotion of a culture of innovation through the development and implementation of major teaching and learning initiatives using ICT.

Raju was a speaker at the National Broadband Network Summit at UNSW in 2009 and a panelist for OpenGov forum in 2012. He is member of the national education groups for Digital Architecture and E-learning, managed by the federal education department (DEEWR). He is an Australian Fulbright Scholar and was a Director in TAFE NSW for several years prior to joining the Centre for Learning Innovation. He has an excellent understanding of and broad experience in the development and delivery of digitally based services for both school and vocational education within NSW and Australia.

Colin griffithTitle: Director Company: Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation

Colin Griffith is the Director of the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI), a collaborative research initiative led by CSIRO in partnership with NICTA, Colin has been a leading exponent of innovative internet and electronic services over the last twenty years working in a variety of media, internet, consulting and government positions. He established the popular and awarding winning ABC Online and managing the ABC’s new media service during the 1990s. He was also a senior executive with the NSW Government Chief Information Office,

responsible for promoting broadband and new forms of service delivery for health, education and other government services. Key achievements included the construction of state-wide fibre optic network for major hospitals, schools and other government facilities and the development of open government policies and initiatives to improve access to public sector data.

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Dr Dror ben-naimTitle: Founder and CEO Company: Smart Sparrow

Dr Dror Ben-Naim is the founder and CEO of Smart Sparrow, an ed-tech start-up pioneering adaptive and personalized learning technology. Prior to founding Smart Sparrow, Ben-Naim led a research group in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Educational Data Mining at UNSW, resulting in the development of the Adaptive eLearning Platform. The tools and content that the group developed were successfully adopted by UNSW and other top Australian universities.

In 2011, as demand for Adaptive eLearning grew beyond the capacity of the research team, Ben-Naim and his fellow researchers founded Smart Sparrow with a mission to take Adaptive Learning to the next level and with backing from venture capital investors. Smart Sparrow has since grown and is now involved in several multi-university projects (involving UMelb, UTas, UTS, ACU, Monash, UWS, JCU and more), aiming to make the world a smarter place.

Dr. Ben-Naim holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science and a PhD in A.I. and Education from UNSW.

a/prof gangadhara prustyTitle: A/Prof, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Company: UNSW

Gangadhara Prusty is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW and have received multiple teaching excellence awards, including Australian Awards for Teaching and Australian Council of Engineering Deans Award for Engineering Education Excellence in 2012. He pioneered the Adaptive eLearning technologies with traditional teaching in novel ways to help net-gen students in large engineering classes. His teaching development has been taken up by students and academics at the national and international universities.

Jonathan MarshallTitle: CEO Company: Bondi Labs

Jonathan Marshall founded Bondi Labs in 2012 to develop serious games for the plant biosecurity space in collaboration with the CSIRO, QUT, SBIT and the Crawford Fund. The objective is to develop effective and scalable skills development solutions that address global food security challenges in the 21st Century. Jonathan also runs Plataris an OEM eLearning content developer for professionals in the early childhood education sector. Jonathan has a Bachelor in Economics (Hons) and an MBA and was previously a strategy leader for GE in the US, UK, Europe and Australia.

aditya bhatnagarTitle: Director Company: Drona Edutronics

Aditya Ranjan Bhatnagar is a keen observer of educational trends around the world and their application to Engineering Education. Training and skilling of technical manpower for core engineering Industry. Content development and e learning and Vocational Training are key areas. Designing Labs and Experiments for hands on approach. Worked on skilling proposals with the National Skills Development Council and the Electronics Skills Sector Council.

Christian richterTitle: Research Stream Leader Company: CSIRO

Since joining the CSIRO in 2009, Christian led a series of multidisciplinary research projects and initiatives ranging from sensor network technology to information management. He currently leads a series of projects within the Digital Productivity and Services Flagship, a major initiative to deliver more efficient and innovative services for Australia.

prof. Farzad SafaeiTitle: Director, ICT Research Institute Company: Smart Services CRC/University of Wollongong

Farzad Safaei graduated from the University of Western Australia with the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) and obtained his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from Monash University, Australia. Currently, he is the Professor of Telecommunications Engineering and Managing Director of ICT Research Institute at the University of Wollongong. Before joining the University of Wollongong, he was the Manager of Internetworking Architecture and Services Section in Telstra Research Laboratories.

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