The International Publishers Association (IPA) and The London Book Fair (LBF) have announced that the third edition of What Works? Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies will take place on April 16, 2015, in association with The Publishers Association.
The World Bank's Lead Education Economist, Harry Patrinos, will give the keynote speech, beginning a day that will see top level policy makers from major international organisations around the world debate and share their knowledge on how technology, policy and content may be most effectively applied to raise educational standards. Topics on the conference agenda for 2015 include the value of edutainment and gamification, if educational publishers or governments are best placed to commission educational content, and how education systems can successfully adapt to the digital world.
This year's international panel of experts include Harry Patrinos Lead Education Economist, World Bank (USA); Wouter van Tol, Corporate Citizenship Director, Europe, Samsung (UK); Professor Eva Matthes, Augsburg University (Germany); Gino Roncaglia, Senior Research Fellow, University of Viterbo "La Tuscia" (Italy); Jo Twist, CEO UKie (UK Interactive Entertainment) (UK); Richard Charkin, Executive Director, Bloomsbury Publishing (UK); Jay Diskey, Chair, IPA Educational Publishers Forum (USA); and Graham Taylor, The Long Game (UK).
The programme is fully managed and operated by Reed Exhibitions, and programmed by the Educational Publishers Forum of the IPA.
