French Edtech & HR event @Expo 2020 Dubai

These thematic highlights will bring together entrepreneurs, institutional players and experts who are working on these topics related to education, higher education and vocational training. The 12 December will enable a meeting with the FENI delegation, to highlight the wide variety of French solutions and know-how, and existing and potential synergies with Emirati and international partners.

We are therefore honoured to invite you to take part in this day and to meet the local and international experts present. You will have the opportunity of attending the round tables organised around the themes mentioned above. This invitation also means that you will be able to attend the Cocktail Reception in the presence of the local and international press.

We are excited to share our new speakers. Check out our latest programme and register now to secure your place

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE DAY OF 12 DECEMBER AT THE FRANCE PAVILION

9:45 am : Speakers and the public welcomed at the France Pavilion

> AUDITORIUM

10:00 - 11:15 Round Table: Editing the DNA of tomorrow school. In a period where everything’s mutating, where the consequences of digital transformation and the Anthropocene era are remodeling the very heart of our civilizations, we have to design the school of tomorrow. How do technologies open new paths for pedagogy? What kind of skills do we have to teach the young generation to prepare them for the challenges they’ll be facing?

11.30 - 12.45 Round Table: EdTech For Good: How do technologies close the gap in knowledge access? Edtech is also a place for purpose-driven innovation built to make a positive and lasting impact on society. These solutions want to use technology to serve the public good by bringing knowledge and training to everyone everywhere. What kind of problems do they address? What are the challenges? How to develop this field? How to attract VCs into financing these structures?

> AGORA ROOM

10:00 – 11:15 Round Table: Between resilience and rapid transformation, the changes in French ESR in the face of Covid: creative destruction? How did universities and Ecoles face the crisis? What lessons did they learn? Did the crisis help them on their journey to design hybrid campuses? The Covid19 lockdowns showed that technologies can provide efficient solutions to maintain educational continuity, but what limits to their use have to be settled?

11:30 - 12:45 Round Table: Lifelong learning: how do edtech shape continuing education? It’s now established that most of tomorrow’s jobs don’t exist yet. Continuing education appears to be one of the solutions to address the transformations of work, but is it its only purpose? Arent also social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development aspects of this pursuit of knowledge? How can technologies help both professionals and firms to remain relevant? What kind of pedagogy is performant when it comes to adult education? How can new approaches proposed by edtech companies meet individual expectations?

Panel discussion with:

Mr. François Taddei - Researcher, specialist in 21st century learning", founder of the CRI

Mr Audran Le Baron or Mr Philippe Ajuelos - DNE – MENJ Ministry of national education

Mr Mehdi Gharsallah - Strategic advisor for digital technology (DGESIP) and/or Nady El Hoyek : Scientific and Pedagogical Advisor (Ministry of Higher Education)

Mr Pierre-François Mourier - Managing Director, France Education International

Some other speakers to be confirmed, the program will be updated

If you wish to take part in the institutional events of 12 December 2021, we invite you to register. Please confirm your participation in this this full day conference on education as part of the Dubai World Expo