About keynote speaker

Rupert Wegerif is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge and the founder and academic director of the Digital Education Futures Initiative at Hughes Hall, Cambridge (DEFICambridge.org). Since his PhD in educational technology in 1995 he has focussed on developing a new theory and practice of education in the digital age. His recent book with Louis Major ‘The Theory of Educational Technology: A Dialogic Framework for Design’ (Routledge, 2024) suggests ways to re-think education in the light of the AI-enhanced Internet. His even more recent book ‘Rethinking Educational Theory: Education as Expanding Dialogue’ (Edward Elgar, 2025) argues that education is about expanding ‘dialogic space’.