Title: UNESCO Chair and former Vice Chancellor of the Open University of Tanzania.

Keynote Focus:
The changing landscape of open and distance learning in Africa through technology.

Title: Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education and Director of Strategic Digital Education in the School of Engineering at the university of Edinburg.

Keynote Focus:
Innovating from the inside: An inside story of changing minds about digital education in university practical work

Title: Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning at Brock University

Keynote Focus:
Designing for justice: Embracing open pedagogies in an age of techno-solutionism

Title: Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana

Keynote Focus:
Education as liberation: Thoughts on technology, resilience and change in open education

Title: Inaugural Chief Executive of BOCODOL and later the founding Vice Chancellor of Botswana Open University

Keynote Focus:
Incarnation of Global and National Development Ideals for Institution of Sustainable Open Education Systems: The Case and Experience of Botswana