This document provides a log of upcoming releases for the Bett Edtech Trends podcast series. It outlines future episodes that will cover topics like the state of UK and international edtech, mobile gaming for language learning, coding, augmented reality, funding mechanisms for education, trends in publishing, discussions from SXSWedu on higher education and MOOCs, edtech investment and accelerators, literacy issues, and an upcoming episode with guest Randi Zuckerberg addressing the technology skills gap. The target audiences for the podcasts include educators, edtech companies, investors, consultants, and government officials.

1. Log of upcoming releases
Bett Edtech
Trends 3 -The
state of UK and
international
Edtech in 2017
Caroline Wright, Director General, BESA
Patrick Hayes, Director, BESA
Mark Chambers, CEO, NAACE
Drew Buddie, ICT co-ordinator, Royal
Masonic School
The Dutch School at Bett with Lieke Conijn,
Senior Commercial Attaché at Embassy of
the Netherlands in London
Nick Madhavji, CEO & Founder, Joskos
Group
Fergal Kilroy, Head of Content, Bett
Out music, Action Jackson: Dream Big,
Your Amazing
The state of UK and international
Edtech in 2017
Why broadband is still a critical
issue for UK edtech take-up
How to get involved in the next
Bett as a content contributor
All international and UK
educators - early years
through to higher ed
All edtech and bluechip
educational business
Investors
Consultants
Government
26th March 2017
Wibbu Takeover
- on mobile
gaming and
language
learning
Dean Jacobs, CEO, Wibbu
Jo Sayers, Head of Product, ELT Jam
Sabrina Espasandin, EFL Teacher,
Argentina & Spain
ELT innovations recent
developments
The pedagogy and science
behind language acquisition and
retention
International demand for ELT
Case study of Wibbu on mobile
gaming for language learning
All ELT and MFL teachers and
educators
Gaming sector and indies
Investors
Parents and wider teaching
community
Publishers
2nd April 2017

2. Bett Edtech
Trends 4 -
gaming, apps,
coding, AR, and
audio
Raul Gutierrez, Founder & CEO, Tinybop
Inc.
Alice Lacey, CEO & Co-founder,
now>press>play
Ed Barton, CEO, Curiscope
Srinivas Mandyam, Founder and CTO,
Tynker
Mark Overland, Head of Education, Primo
Toys
Artificial reality and mobile apps
to engage learners in biology
The development of coding for
computational thinking
Why listening helps to enhance
learning
All international and UK
educators - early years and
K-12
All edtech and bluechip
educational business
Investors
Consultants
Government
9th April 2017
Oliver Beach
Extra
Partnerships Manager at Kano, which
empowers young people to create with
technology. Prior to joining Kano, taught for
four years in inner-city London schools and
am an Ambassador of the Teach First
programme.Governor of an Outstanding
primary school and a regular contributor to
the TES, Huffington Post, Telegraph and
the Guardian. Also the founding advisor of
a education charity which seeks to address
inequity in opportunities for disadvantaged
students, called Rocket Fund.
Why alternative funding
mechanisms are needed
Why do Oliver’s TES articles
keep trending?
What are Oliver’s biggest
gripes?
All international and UK
educators - early years and
K-12
All edtech and bluechip
educational business
Investors
Consultants
Government
9th April 2017

3. Bett Edtech
Trends Extra -
Publishing
Steve Connolly, Group Digital Director,
Hodder
Andrea Carr, Founder, Rising Stars
Filippo Aroffo, Programme and Portfolio
Manager SEM presso, McGraw-Hill
Education
Is there such a thing as a
traditional publisher?
How have educational resources
adapted over time?
What’s the story behind Bett
Lifetime achievement award
winner Andrea Carr?
McGraw-Hill’s interest in learning
science
higher education
primary education
further education
publishers
edtech startups
16th April 2017
SXSWedu
Special with
David Bray
David Bray, Chief Information Officer,
Federal Communications Commission - on
Gov comms and ed
What is education in an
exponential age?
What are your recommended
reads?
What is leadership in a digital
age?
How can Gov remain meaningful
to educators, students, parents
and employees?
All international and UK
educators - early years
through to higher education
All edtech and bluechip
educational business
Investors
Consultants
Government
23rd April 2017
1st birthday
episode - extra
Featuring a mix of The Edtech Podcast
listeners from around the world, plus me
giving a look into The Edtech Podcast
community and singing happy birthday…
Focus episode on The Edtech
Podcast community looking at:
Who are listeners are
Where they come from
What they do
Which guests we’ve had
Who we’d like to have more of
Who has sponsored
A celebration of The Edtech
Podcast community and listener
base after 1 year
All international and UK
educators - early years
through to higher education
All edtech and bluechip
educational business
Investors
Consultants
Government
23rd April 2017

4. SXSWedu 17
edtech trends -
Higher
Education and
Moocs
Simon Nelson, CEO, FutureLearn
Brian MacDonald, Director Residential
Education, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Dhawal Shah, Founder, Class Central
Nikolas Jungaard, CEO, Score, Sweden
Is Higher Education innovating
fast enough?
What are the latest trends in
online courses, corporate
training and MOOCS?
Higher education professionals
Further education
professionals
Educational content and
course developers and trainers
Government
Edtech Start ups
Consultants
Investors
30th April 2017
SXSWedu 17
edtech trends -
investment,
start ups and
accelerators
Matt Candler, Founder + CEO, 4.0 Schools
China Gong, Investor, Reach Capital
Phil Kim, Co-Founder, Michelson Runway
EdTech Accelerator | President, The
Michelson 20MM Foundation
Mayra Lombera, Director, Strategic
Initiatives, The Michelson 20MM
Foundation
Avi Warshavsky, CEO at MindCET
T.T. Nguyen Duc, VC, Pearson Affordable
Learning Fund
Tomoko Haneda, Afrel Co. , Ltd. on behalf
of Edtech Japan
Where is money currently being
invested into edtech?
What are various accelerators/
incubators focusing on and why?
How does edtech differ from
Vietnam to Israel to Japan to the
USA?
All education professionals
and teacherpreneurs
Start up ventures
Government
Bluechips
Consultants
Investors
7th May 2017
SXSWedu
Special with Ted
Fujimoto
Ted Fujimoto, President, Landmark
Consulting Group, Co-Chair of Right To
Succeed
How do you scale innovation?
What’s wrong with most
schools?
Why is charter schoolvs. district
school the wrong argument?
What’s the chronology for
success?
Why is music so exciting for
learning?
All education professionals
and teacherpreneurs
Start up ventures
Government
Bluechips
Consultants
Investors
14th May 2017

5. SXSWedu 17
edtech trends -
K-12
Nina Rees, President and CEO, National
Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Anthony A Owen, State Coord of Computer
Science, Arkansas Department of
Education
Michael Cohen, The Tech Rabbi, EdTech
trainer
Alex Rosenthal, Editorial Director, TEDed
What are charter schools?
What are the current discussions
around education and school
choice?
How did computer science gain
status in Arkansas?
How can design thinking interest
students and educators?
What’s next for TEDed after
millions of YOUTUBE views?
All education professionals
and teacherpreneurs
Start up ventures
Government
Bluechips
Consultants
Investors
21 May 2017
SXSWedu
Special with a
Norwegian
chatbot
Geir Sand Nilsen, VP New Business,
EdTech Foundry
What are chatbots?
Why are they of interest in the
context of educational
institutions?
Why chatbots can learn from
every interaction
Why chatbots still need humans
All education professionals
and teacherpreneurs
Start up ventures
Government
Bluechips
Consultants
Investors
28 May 2017
SXSWedu 17
edtech trends -
literacy,
language,
culture and
innovation
Dr. Shlomy Kattan, Senior Director at
XPRIZE
Matt Keller, Prize Lead, Global Learning
XPRIZE
Mark Nagurski, Co-Founder, MakeMatic
Tricia Edwards, Head of Education,
Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center For The
Study of Invention And Innovation
Maggie Mitchell Salem, Executive Director,
Qatar Foundation International
What are the global educational
problems of our time?
How is Elon Musk and others
seeking to find the best solution
to these problems and then
scale?
Why do we think innovators look
a certain way?
Why more Arabic speakers and
language teachers matters
All education professionals
and teacherpreneurs
Start up ventures
Government
Bluechips
Consultants
Investors
4 June 2017

6. Randi
Zuckerberg
episode
Randi Zuckerberg is a New York Times
bestselling author; the founder and CEO of
Zuckerberg Media; host of "Dot
Complicated" on SiriusXM, and Editor-in-
Chief of Dot Complicated, an online
community helping us navigate and
"untangle" our wired, wonderful lives. Randi
also served as a mentor on Oxygen's show
"Quit Your Day Job," and currently serves
as executive producer of "Dot.," based on
Randi's recent children book, which
premiered on CBC and Sprout Fall 2016.
Randi appears regularly on NBC's the
TODAY Show and CNBC, and has also
been seen on CNN, Good Morning
America, Fox Business, Bloomberg News,
and ABC's World News. She is a Tony
Voter, as well as a correspondent for the
2016 Tony Awards and the World
Economic Forum in Davos. Randi was
recently appointed as a Young Global
Leader for the World Economic Forum, and
is part of the Tech Committee for the
American Theatre Wing.
Addressing the tech skills gap
Key research findings including
the deficits of applied and hard
tech skills in the current
workforce
Predictions for the future of
technology and how to prepare
students to meet real-life
technology demands in the
workplace.
All education professionals
and teacherpreneurs
Start up ventures
Government
Bluechips
Consultants
Investors
TBC