The third annual Tūwhitia! symposium will see more than 120 senior tertiary education decision makers gather at Unitec’s Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae next month.
The theme of this year’s Tertiary Education Commission conference will be Setting tertiary education learners up for success in a world profoundly impacted by artificial intelligence.
Because of the interest in the symposium from around the motu, attendance at the event is by invitation-only.
Leading experts will share transferrable learnings from a broad range of learner success strategies and large-scale projects, including those leveraging academic integrity, artificial intelligence and ancestral intelligence.
The two-day symposium will feature an address from Peter-Lucas Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Te Hiku Media. Mr Jones was recently named in Time Magazine’s Top 100 AI2024 for his work in indigenous data sovereignty and development of te reo Māori automatic speech recognition systems.
Further keynote speakers will include Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow Professor Jessica Vanderlelei, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and Professor Adam Bridgeman, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Educational Innovation), at the University of Sydney.
“The symposium comes at a key stage in the rapid integration of AI into our daily work and personal lives,” says Professor Martin Carroll, Deputy Chief Executive – Academic, MIT & Unitec who’ll chair the conference.
“It’s important educators in Aotearoa have these conversations now so an understanding of what all ākonga need to achieve success is front and centre in its development,” says Professor Carroll.
Paora Ammunson, Deputy Chief Executive, Te Pūkenga and Morgan Healey, Deputy Chief Executive Ōritetanga – Learner Success at TEC, will deliver the closing remarks at the event which will be held from 21-22 November at the marae.
Event sponsors include Echo360, Anthology and Studiosity, who will be presenting on how they incorporate AI into their learner-enabling platforms.