DAY 1

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

• H.E. Lakhdar Brahimi, Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations
• Video message from: Rep. Nancy PELOSI, Speaker of he United States House of Representatives, USA
• H.E. Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, PhD., Chairman of WISE, Qatar Foundation, Chairman of the WISE Awards 2010 International Jury
• Moderator: Ms Nima Abu-Wardeh, Jounalist and broadcaster, presenter of BBC World's Middle East Business Report
   

 

Shared Values

• Yvon FONTAINE, President, AUF (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie), moderator
• H.E Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa AL-THANI, Chairperson, Qatar Museums Authority Board of Trustees and Chairperson, Reach Out to Asia (ROTA), Qatar
• H.E. Dr Mohamed El-Aziz BEN ACHOUR, Director General, ALECSO
• Prof. Russel H. BOTMAN– Rector & Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, South Africa 

Education and Reconciliation

• Moderator : Dr J. Michael Adams, President-Elect, International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), USA
• Dr Fanie du Toit, Executive Director, Institute for Justice & Reconciliation, South Africa
• John Gregg, Interim Director, Education Above All, Qatar
• Ms Joke Van Der Leeuw-Roord, Founding President and Executive Director of EUROCLIO - The European Association of History Educators, The Netherlands.
• Prof. Brandon Hamber, Director, The International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), University of Ulster, UK

Learning from Reforms of National Education Systems

• Moderator : Mourad Ezzine, Education Sector Manager, Middle East and Northe Africa, The World Bank
• Ms Sabah Al-Haidoos, Education Institute Director, Supreme Education Council, Qatar
• Dr Kiyong Byun, Associate Professor, College of Education, Korea University and Vice-Director, Higher Education Policy Research Institute, Korea
• Rt. Hon. Charles Clarke, former Secretary of State for Education and Skills, UK

Access to Quality Education for All

• Moderator : John Wood, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK
• Dr Bálint Magyar, Member of the Governing Board, European Institute of Innovation and Technology and former Minister of Education (1996-1998, 2002-2006), Hungary
• Jenny Lewis, CEO and Company Secretary, Australian Council for Educational Leaders, Australia
• Dr José David Weinstein Cayuela, Vice-President of Education, Fundación Chile, and former Minister of Culture, Chile

THEMATIC PLENARY SESSION

Improving Education Systems

• Moderator : Mike Baker, education journalist, broadcaster and author, UK
• Michael Stevenson, Vice-President Global Education, Cisco, UK
• Prof. Dr Fasli Jalal, Vice Minister of National Education, Indonesia
• Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO (Paris)

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Leadership Models

• Moderator : Allan Goodman, President and CEO, Institute of International Education (IIE), USA – moderator
• H.E. Abdullah Ben Abdul-Rahman Abdullah Al-Othman, Rector, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Dr Patrick G. Awuah, President and founder, Ashesi University, Ghana
• Mr Toby Salt, Deputy Chief Executive and Strategic Director for School Leadership Development, National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s services, UK

Assessment and Education Improvement

• Moderator : Charles Goldman, Senior Education Specialist, RAND Education, USA
• Mr Steen Lassen, Senior Adviser, Department of General Upper Secondary Education, Ministry of Education, Denmark
• Dr Martina A. Roth, Director Global Education Strategy, Research and Policy - Corporate Affairs Group, INTEL Corporation, Germany
• Mr Ian Whitman, Head of the Programme for Co-operation with Non Member Economies, Directorate for Education, OECD (Paris)
• Dr Barbara Means, Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International    

Designing Adaptable Curricula

• Moderator : Dr Patti McGill Peterson, Senior Associate, Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
• Mrs Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder-Director, The Riverside School, India
• Mrs Vicky Colbert, Founder and Executive Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva, Colombia
• Dr Dennis Littky, Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Big Picture Learning, USA

Human Capacity Development

• Moderator : Mike Gibbons, CEO, Richard Rose Federation (WISE Awards International Jury 2009 and 2010)
• Dr Frannie Léautier, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe
• Mr Fred van Leeuwen, Secretary General, Education International, Belgium
• Dr Tarek Shawki, Director, UNESCO Regional bureau for Sciences for the Arab States, Egypt

 

 

 

DAY 2

INTERMEDIATE PLENARY SESSION

Funding Education

• Moderator: Mike Baker, education journalist, broadcaster and author, UK
• Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO (Paris)
• Scott S. Cowen, President, Tulane University, USA
• Steen Jorgensen, Sector Director, Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank (Washington, D.C.)
• Mushtaq Chhapra, Chairman and founding Director, The Citizens Foundation, Pakistan

BREAKOUT SESSION

Skills for the 21st Century

• Moderator: Ekkehard NUISSL von REIN, Director, German Institute for Adult Education/Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learning, Germany
• Mr Ahlin Byll Cataria, Executive Secretary, Association for the Development of Education in Africa, and member of the governing board, UNESCO Institute for lifelong learning (UIL), Tunisia
• Dr Katerine Bielaczyc, Deputy Head and Associate Professor, Learning Sciences Lab., National Institute of Education, Singapore
• Prof. Khalil S. Hindi, President, Birzeit University, Palestine
• Mr Marc Prensky, writer and consultant, author of "Teaching Digital Natives", USA

Open Education Models

• Moderator :  Michael Trucano, Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist, The World Bank (Washington, D.C.)
• Ms Cecilia d’Oliveira, Executive Director, MIT OpenCourseWare, USA
• Prof. Asha Singh Kanwar, Vice President, Commonwealth of Learning (Vancouver)
• V.N. Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India

Multistakeholder Partnerships in Education 

• Moderator: Salvatore Nigro, Chief Executive Officer, Europe, Education for Employment Foundation, Spain
• Dr Sylvie Lainé, Managing Director, Fondation Nationale Entreprise et Performance, France
• Mr Kenneth Cohen, Chairman, ExxonMobil Foundation, USA
• Prof. Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana
• Mr Jacob Kragh , President, LEGO Education, Denmark

Creating Teachers for Tomorrow

• Moderator: Andrew Bethell, Vice-Chair & Director of External Affairs, Teachers TV, UK
• Prof. Stephen Heppell, Founder heppell.net, UK
• Mr Tim Rylands, Innovative educator, UK

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Appraising the Impact of ICT

• Moderator: Tim Unwin, Unesco Chair in ITC4D, Professor of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Prof. Daniel A. Wagner, Professor of Education and Director of the International Literacy Institute, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Dr Kentaro Toyama, Researcher, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Social Entrepreneurship in Education

• Moderator: Brian Stecher, Acting Director, RAND Education, USA
• 
Mr Bunker Roy, Founder-Director, Barefoot College - Social Work & Research Centre -, India
• Mr Rodrigo Baggio, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), Brazil
• Mr Charles Leadbeater, Innovation expert and author “Learning from the Extremes”, UK

Creative Arts in Education

• Moderator: Prof. John Tarrant, former Secretay General, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), UK
• Prof. Rita Irwin, President, International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) (Canada)
• Prof. Elaine Thomas, Vice Chancellor, the University for the Creative Arts, UK   
• Simonetta Carbonaro, Humanistic Marketing, Design Management, University of Borås, The Swedish School of Textiles 

New Perspectives for the Media in 21st-Century Education

• Moderator: Richard Lindley, veteran British television journalist, UK
• Prof. Dr Alexander Fedorov, Pro-Rector, Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute and President, Russian Association for film and Media Education, Russia
• Mr Yoshihiko Hibi, Executive Director, Learning Media Division, NHK Educational Corp, Japan
• Ms Liliane Landor, Controller Languages, BBC Global News, BBC World Service, UK
• Mr Lucian Sârb, Director of News and Programmes, Euronews, France

 

 

 

DAY 3

THEMATIC PLENARY SESSION
 EXPLORING INNOVATIVE TRENDS

• Moderator:  Mike Baker, education journalist, broadcaster and author, UK
• James Bernard, Worldwide Director, Microsoft Partners in Learning, USA
• Martin Burt, Founder and CEO, Fundación Paraguaya and co-founder, Teach A Man To Fish, Paraguay
• Lord David Puttnam, Chairman, Futurelab, UK
• Zhou Qifeng, President, Peking University, People’s Republic of China

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Lessons from Cognitive Science

• Moderator: Daniel Andler, Chair of Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, University Paris-Sorbonne and Institut Universitaire de France
• Prof. György Gergely, Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Development Center, Central European University, Hungary
• Dr William M. Jenkins, Chief Scientific Officer and Founder, Innovation & Research Department, Scientific Learning Corporation, USA
• Dr Barbara Wanchisen, Director, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive & Sensory Sciences and Committee on Human-Systems Integration, National Research Council, USA

Games for Serious Learning

• Moderator: Bruce Dixon, Director, Preston Dixon Consulting and founder and President, Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation, Australia
• Sara de Freitas, Director of Research, Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK
• Ntiedo (Nt) Etuk, Founder and CEO, Tabula Digita Inc., USA
• Derek Robertson, National Adviser for Emerging Technologies and Learning, Learning and Teaching Scotland, UK

Learning through Mobile Devices

• Moderator: Dan Buckley, Director, Director of Research and Development, Cambridge Education
• Mr Esko Aho, Executive Vice-President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Nokia Corporation, and former Prime Minister, Finland
• Ms Jessica Colaço, Manager, iHub (Nairobi's Innovation Hub), Kenya
• Mr John Davitt, education innovator and digital toolmaker, NewTools.org, UK
• Mr David Prosser, Head of Programmes for Asia, BBC World Service Trust, UK

Social Media: Trends in Collaborative Learning

• Moderator:  David Wheeler, Managing Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA
• Mr Dan Sutch, Head of Development, Futurelab (UK)
• Prof. Ellen Wartella, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Professor of Communication and Director of the Center on Media and Human Development, School of Communication, Northwestern University, USA
• Abdalla Adballa, Mechanical Engineering student, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Oman

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION

• Moderator :  Mike Baker, education journalist, broadcaster and author, UK
• Mrs Vicky Colbert, Founder and Executive Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva, Colombia
• Martin Burt, Founder and CEO, Fundación Paraguaya and co-founder, Teach A Man To Fish, Paraguay
• Steen Jorgensen, Sector Director, Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank (Washington, D.C.)

Closing speeches by :

•  H.H. Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser, Chaiperson, Qatar Foundation
• H.E. Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, PhD., Chairman of WISE, Qatar Foundation, Chairman of the WISE Awards 2010 International Jury
• Moderator : Ms Nima Abu-Wardeh, journalist and broadcaster, presenter of BBC World’s Middle East Business Report, UAE