Day1: Oct 30, 2026 (Fri) – Keynote Speaker
Dr David Marsh
CEO, MED Finland
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Dr. David Marsh (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London) is actively involved in developing bilingual education globally, and a key architect of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). His current initiative, The Children of Cyberspace: Adapting Learning Processes and Spaces, explores how schools can redesign practices, environments, and pedagogies to enhance young people’s wellbeing and readiness for an uncertain future.
Day2: Oct 31, 2026 (Sat) – Keynote Speaker
Dr. Julie Choi
Associate Professor, Additional Languages, Faculty of Education,
The University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Julie Choi is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne and the developer of Arts-Rich Translanguaging Pedagogy. A teacher educator and critical applied linguist, she teaches across the Master of Teaching, TESOL, and Modern Languages Education, and works with parents, young learners, low literacy learners, and second-generation speakers in community settings. She researches the embodied, affective, and aesthetic dimensions of multilingual meaning-making for language and literacy learning, including the role of digital tools and AI, and is the author of multilingual picture books, including Kimchi Is for Everyone, that open up language and literacy practices for the reclamation of voice, identity, and belonging among multilingual speakers.
