Leading a Digital School Conference 2019

Education in the age of digital disruption creates both challenge and opportunity. Reports cite statistics of jobs that will no longer exist in the next twenty years whilst the exponential march of progress gives us glimpses of the jobs that haven’t yet been invented. Whilst education is much more than just preparation for a life of work, schools at the leading edge are now grappling with how to provide opportunities for students and teachers to engage with new and emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Blockchain and Brain-Machine Interfaces, struggling with the consequences of real-time language translation and attempting to cultivate the right pedagogical conditions for students to develop the attitudes, morals, ethics, dispositions and skills needed for a life of learning.

In this keynote, Adrian will explore how organizations can advance a culture of innovation in a time that is inherently more complex; where the educational discourse has never been more contested; and how as leaders we can make smarter decisions when we don’t have all the facts. He will argue that educational leaders need to think about digital transformation from a systems perspective and build an organizational culture that encourages ubiquitous leadership in a networked web of organized chaos. By sharing practical examples, experiences and profoundly moving personal stories, Adrian will convince you that in order to lead a digital school, we may in fact need to focus less on technology, and more on what makes us human.