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Experience world-class presentations by passionate and engaging speakers, including Google Certified Educators, Trainers, and Innovators. We also are excited to have the team from Google for Education Australia join us for this event.

Join us as we kick off the day with a inspirational, thought provoking
and actionable keynote from Kimberley Hall!

Kimberley Hall

Google

Kimberley Hall

Kimberley is the Head of Digital Transformation APAC at Google. She has spent the past twenty years supporting educators, leaders and education institutions to empower all learners with the tools and skills that set them up for success in building the future they want for themselves. She started her career as an award-winning English teacher, then worked in both school and system-level leadership, as well as at the university level. As the Director of a professional development company, Kimberley was fortunate to work with thousands of educators in dozens of countries globally. Today, she loves working as part of the Education team at Google Australia to transform education at scale.

Attend workshops by a few of our favourite leaders in the Google Workspace
and Australian ed tech space.

Bettina Fifer

Google

Bettina Fifer

Bettina Fifer is the Country lead at Google for Education and has been involved with the Education sector, in multiple Tech roles, for over 15 years. She is passionate about giving back and became an #IamRemarkable facilitator to assist this purpose. Bettina originally studied Zoology, wanting to make a difference in the world with animal conservation, and is now working to make a difference to learners around the country in her role at Google.

Jim Sill

Deploy Learning

Jim Sill

Jim Sill is a former high school teacher who enjoys a great story and loves inspiring people to tell theirs. Using his industry experience, he created an award-winning video production program in California, USA. By involving students in real-world video projects, they garnered awards and recognition at the local, state and national levels. His passion for creating authentic learning experiences for students and teachers has led him to work with teachers on all seven continents. Today, Jim lives outside of Melbourne on the traditional lands of the Wurrunjeri people and works with schools across Australia and New Zealand to support the adoption of technology to support teaching and learning.

Chris Betcher

Chris Betcher is Program Manager for Google Workspace Adoption with the Google for Education Team based in Sydney. He works with schools across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand what Google offers and aims to show them how to get the most from G Suite, Chromebooks and the whole Google ecosystem. Prior to this, Chris was a teacher for almost 30 years, teaching curious young minds about art, computing, multimedia and technology.

Google

Tamara Templeton

Tamara is currently a Digital Technologies teacher at St Anthony’s Catholic College, Townsville. She has a strong passion for all areas of technology and has presented on a number of topics including robotics, coding, Google in Education and Innovative teaching methods. Tamara’s impact goes beyond the classroom as she organizes an annual robotics competition for Catholic schools in the northern region of Townsville.

St Anthony’s Catholic College

Phil Carew

Toorak College

Phil Carew

Phil is the Head of Digital Learning & Innovation and a passionate educator at Toorak College in Victoria. He empowers teachers and students to use technology effectively to enhance teaching and learning. Phil is a Google Certified Innovator, Trainer and he leads the Mornington Peninsula Google Educator Group.

Beyond his role at Toorak College, Phil collaborates with the Deploy Learning team to develop engaging online courses, workshops, and educational content. His experience includes contributions to significant events like the Google Innovator Academy in Seoul, Google Champions Symposium in Sydney, and EduTech in Melbourne.

Greg in a red and blue checkered shirt standing with his arms folded.

Greg O’Connor

TextHelp

Greg O’Connor

Greg has been actively involved in education for over 30 years. During this time he has worked as a classroom teacher, school executive, consultant, and regional manager with the New South Wales Department of Education, Australia and as a technology consultant and coach. Today, he is the AsiaPac Education and Technology Leader at Texthelp, a company providing literacy support and digital inclusion solutions, where he helps make sure that the over half a million users of Texthelp products across the region get the most out of this technology.

Richard Johnson

Google

Richard Johnson

Richard is a Senior Solution Engineer on the Google Education team based in Sydney. As a specialist in all technical aspects of devices and collaboration technologies, he brings a wealth of experience managing cloud services and device fleets in extensive education and commercial environments. While being at Google for almost a decade, his role as an Education Solution Engineer involves supporting organisations in executing technical solutions that optimise the use of Google technology for teachers, students, and schools effectively and securely

Luke Starczak

South Australia Department of Education

Luke Starczak

Luke is the Director of Innovation at Norwood International High School, South Australia. He is a Google Certified Innovator from the first virtual cohort and has a passion for Chemistry and providing students with transferable skills. Luke is also interested in innovative learning design and how we can stretch our digital tools to provide amazing opportunities to teachers and students.