Innovation Summit

2018
Helsinki, Finland

HundrED Innovation Summit 2018, Helsinki

The HundrED Summit brought together the world's most inspiring innovators in education. Across the three days, over 200 education innovators shared their expertise and experience through keynotes, workshops, and masterclasses.

From learning how to spread innovations to 100+ countries, to debating whether students can change the world if adults cannot, to discovering the experience of building a Finnish preschool in China – this year's Summit explored the biggest, most innovative themes in education!

Check out our speakers and the sessions below.

Sanni Grahn-Laasonen

The Minister of Education.
Finland

Pasi Sahlberg

An award winning education specialist and author
Finland & Australia

Kiran Bir Sethi

The founder of Design For Change, founder and director of The Riverside School in Ahmedbad
India

Oliver Percovich

Founder and Executive Director of Skateistan
Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa

Kehkashan Basu

Founder and president of Green Hope Foundation, International Children´s Peace Prize Winner
Canada

Ilkka Paananen

Co-Founder and CEO of Supercell

Suchetha Bhat

CEO of Dream A Dream
India

James Steckart

Head of School, THINK Global School
Global

Kayla Delzer

Founder of Top Dog Teaching, 30 "All-Star Digital Innovators" in US
USA

Cleary Vaughan-Lee

Executive Director for the Global Oneness Project
USA

Milla Kokko

CEO Of Hei Schools
Finland

Emma Scripps

Co-Founder, Senior Design Lead, The Teachers Guild

Jordy Angel Coldwell

Jordy Angel Coldwell, Youth Ambassador and Director of Student Voice Film
Mexico

Vanessa Wilkins

Founder, Future School Lab and former Impact Director, Nike

John Goodwin

CEO, LEGO Foundation

Mabel Woo

Program Director at Yidan Prize Foundation

Linda Liukas

Founder of Hello Ruby

Pia Pakarinen

Deputy Mayor for Education
Helsinki

Whitney Grubbs

Executive Director, Chalkboard Project

Eyal Doron

Researcher & Inventor of the SEISEI method

Tim Taylor

Practitioner, Mantle Of The Expert

Riku Alkio

CEO of Seppo.io

Essie North

Managing Director, Big Change

World's most inspiring education innovators gather in Helsinki

At the beginning of November 2018, we hosted the annual HundrED Innovation Summit in Helsinki, where launched HundrED's Global Innovation Collection 2019! This invite-only event brought together the most inspiring education innovators, educators, youth and other engaged stakeholders from across the world to celebrate innovation in education on a global scale. It was all about sharing ideas, forging connections and building a movement.

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About the summit

The HundrED Innovation Summit is a 3-day celebration of education innovation, with talks, workshops, and discussions. Each year the jam-packed program is built around the innovators who will be attending and every innovator gets the opportunity to get up on stage and share their work!

The summit is free to attend for all invited and all refreshments will be provided, including celebratory dinners for the innovators. However, please note that HundrED does not cover the cost of travel or accommodation.

Summit Program

Did you get an invite?

This invite-only event was capped at 220 attendees and a small number of places were available to other stakeholders in education. However, whether you attended the event in person or not, you can now find all videos on our youtube channel.

Day 0 - The HundrED 2019 Launch, SCAPE Tennispalatsi

Day 1 - HundrED Innovation Summit, Nokia Executive Experience Center

Day 2 - HundrED Innovation Summit, Finlandia Hall

Experiences

WOW! Well done - 12 more schools is a great opportunity for you. Funnily enough, I’m just arranging Tagtiv8 training for teachers there in February. The organiser has just said: “Great news about the Award! The work in Helsinki looked great. I saw some great stuff on Instagram too.”

- Bryn Llewellyn, Tagtiv8 (UK)

With my 34 years in Education in a variety of roles and now with one of Director of Innovation in redefining/transforming schooling and learning for a contemporary world for our 88 schools/services, I truly believe that HundrED will be a significant pillar and resource in my work and I hope through being an ambassador I will drive much innovation, discussion, community engagement and fun towards HundrED through my current professional work, partnerships, contacts and initiatives here in Australia and elsewhere.

- Derek Bartels, Director of Innovation & Technology, Lutheran Education Queensland

Wow, that summit was so amazing this year! You all deserve a pat on the back for everything you pulled off with Education week, school visits and so much more! I really believe in that work that Hundred does and feel so blessed to be a part of things.

- Lisa Gottfried, Blog Portfolios, New Technology High School

We at Luminos were so honored to be recognized by HundrED for our Speed School program. Being a HundrED award recipient has been a really helpful bit of recognition for the work, and such a meaningful validation for all our teachers who are working so hard to bring rich, joyful learning to children who have been denied the chance to go to school.

- Caitlin Baron, Speed School, Ethiopia

BRAC was honored to participate in the inaugural HundrED Global Innovation Summit last year. The rigorous application process elevated an impressive community of education innovators from around the world. This made the opportunity to exchange ideas and develop partnerships at the convening that much more rewarding. As a development organization, the unique mix of attendees provided a rich and diverse pool of resources to draw inspiration from, and the Summit offered a bridge to new audiences and global platform to share our work. We are eager to return.

- Matt Kertman, Boat Schools, BRAC USA

HundrED Global Innovator's Summit was some of the best professional development I've ever attended as an educator. It was like the superbowl for educators and I got the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of therockstars of learning. I got the chance to learn from leaders in the field and network with people at the forefront of education. I have implemented so many of the innovations and lessons that I saw at the summit and I know I am a better educator, my school is more leading edge and my students are more engaged than before I attended the summit. If you only attend one educational event - make it this one!

- Ellen Heyting, An Australian Educational Researcher and International High School teacher