Digital Universities Europe 2024

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Our high-quality speakers are essential to ensuring our events engage audiences and provide relevant, up-to-date and innovative content for our delegates. If you are an innovator or influencer in your field, or know someone who is, please apply below.

Monica Arés

Executive director of the Innovation, Digital Education and Analytics (IDEA) Lab

Imperial College London

Aras Bozkurt

Associate professor and editor-in-chief at Open Praxis and Asian Journal of Distance Education

Anadolu University

Cesar Caceres-Taladriz

Vice-rector for digital learning and IT

University Rey Juan Carlos

Mike Cameron

Senior consultant - digital capabilities

Jisc

Pierre-Paul CAVALIE

Chief digital officer

SKEMA

Victor Cebotari

Strategic adviser for academic affairs

University of Luxembourg

Erbuğ Çelebi

Director of software development

Cyprus International University

Gavin Clinch

Head of online learning innovation

Atlantic Technological University

Helen Cocks

Head of digital strategy and engagement

University of Exeter

David Corscadden

Communications and digital engagement manager

Irish Universities Association

Marcin Czyżuk

Director, Centre for Modern Teaching Technologies

WSB Merito University in Torun

Joanna Daaboul

Vice-rector for international relations

Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Carol Damm

Head of Digital Education

Constructor University

Agata Danowska-Ździebło

Project manager

Merito Universities Group

Maka Eradze

Associate professor of educational research and teaching methodologies

University of L’Aquila

Dávid Farkas

Head of Centre for Data Science and Digitalisation

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Tania Ferreira

Head of content – events

Times Higher Education

Stephan Fortier

Regional vice-president (EMEA)

Instructure Global

Carly Foster

Deputy director (London campus)

Northumbria University

Tor Fridell

Head of student information system

Linköping University

Chris Frost

Director of digital transformation

Exeter University

Isak Frumin

Head of Observatory of Higher Education Innovations

Constructor University

Sami Hautakangas

Senior specialist in services for educational leadership

Tampere University

Emma Hillman

Head of Curriculum Development

Kaplan International Pathways

Ari Hirvonen

Chief digital officer

University of Jyväskylä

Paul Hunter

Director of programmes and learning design

IMD Business School

Jakub Jasiczak

Chief executive officer

Poznan University of Economics and Business Knowledge Transfer Company

Manel Jiménez-Morales

Vice-rector of alliances, community and culture

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Thomas Ekman Jørgensen

Director of policy coordination and foresight

European University Association

Anna Kalinowska-Żeleźnik

Dean of Faculty of Business

WSB University Merito in Gdańsk

Andreas Kaplan

President and managing director

Kühne Logistics University

Maciej Kawecki, PhD

Director of the Innovation Center at the WSB Merito University in Poznan, located in Warsaw

WSB Merito University in Poznan

Katarzyna Kepinska

Director of E-Learning Development Department

DSW University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw

Eyal Kirshner

Vice-president, student engagement solutions

Clarivate

Ishan Kolhatkar

Global client evangelist

Inspera

Agata Komendant-Brodowska

Assistant professor, Faculty of Sociology

University of Warsaw

Michael Kopp

Head, Centre for Digital Teaching and Learning

University of Graz

Gerd Kortemeyer

Member of the rectorate

ETH Zurich

Mustafa Kurt

Vice rector

Near East University

Jānis Laizāns

Head of IT service centre

Riga Stradiņš University

Stéphane Lauwick

President

European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education

Valérie Le Strat

Enterprise architect

L’Agence de Mutualisation des Universités et des Etablissements

Colin Lewis

Professor of artificial intelligence

University of Warsaw

Adrianna Maksym

Marketing coordinator and photographer

BLUELENS

Patrik Maltusch

Chief enterprise architect

Aalto University

Barbara Małuszyńska

E-learning and instructional design manager

Merito Universities Development Centre

Ivan Marić

Director, University Computing Centre

University of Zagreb

Marek Michajłowicz

Deputy director

National Information Processing Institute

Alexandra Mihai

Assistant professor of innovation in higher education

Maastricht University

Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz

Associate professor in computer science

University of Warsaw

Lee Newman

Dean

IE Business School

Joanna Nogieć

Chancellor

WSB Merito University in Wroclaw

Magdalena Nowak

Vice-chancellor

DSW University of Lower Silesia in Wrocław

Cezary Orłowski

Director, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies on Campus

WSB Merito University in Gdansk

Özgür Özlük

Professor

Minerva University

Anna Pacholak

Digital teaching and learning specialist

EUNIS and University of Warsaw

Lana Par

Vice-president

European Students' Union

Annette Pedersen

Senior digital learning consultant

University of Copenhagen

Dorota Piotrowska

Director, International Cooperation Centre

Lodz University of Technology

Karolina Popławska

IT manager specialising in Moodle

Merito Universities Development Center

György Purebl

Director, Institute of Behavioural Sciences

Semmelweis University

Hannes Raffaseder

Chief executive officer and president

St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

Evelien Renders

Adviser for international education

SURF

Johan Roos

Chief academic officer

Hult International Business School

Georgios Roussos

AV project manager, IT Centre

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Ernest Rudziński

Chief information officer

Merito Universities Development Centre

Emilien Sanchez

Director digital FCU project

France Université Numérique

Francesc Santanach-Delisau

Edtech architect

Open University of Catalonia

Zofia Sawicka

Acting director

Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange

Alexander ‘Sasha’ Sidorkin

Chief artificial intelligence officer

California State University, Sacramento

Aneta Sobotka

Regional subscriptions director

Times Higher Education

Wojciech Tomaszewicz

Former head of student council, lawyer and student

WSB Merito University in Gdansk

Stéphanie Vanneste

Educational researcher in edtech

University of Ghent

Oliver Vettori

Dean of accreditation and quality management

WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Istvan Vilmos Kovacs

Director for learning and teaching

Budapest Metropolitan University

Dolores Volkert

Head, HEI capacity building initiative

European Institute of Innovation & Technology

Marek Wachnik

Head, employer branding department

KGHM

Paulina Witomska

Strategic partnership director

Merito Universities Development Centre

Kathryn Woodhead

Subject specialist

Jisc

Łukasz Wrona

Entrepreneur and lecturer

WSB Merito University in Wroclaw

Malin Zingmark

Project leader

Ladok Consortium

Paweł Zygarłowski

President

Merito Universities Development Centre

Piotr Olaf Żylicz

Vice-rector for international affairs

WSB Merito University in Poznan

Halldóra Lóa Þorvaldsdóttir

Director of academic services

Bifrost University

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