January 2025

Professor Genevieve Bell joins the podcast as Vice-Chancellor and President of the ANU. She reflects on her journey as a scientist, engineer and humanist, in the US and Australia, in Silicon Valley and leading Australia’s national university. She reflects on short term challenges and the long term trajectory of higher education, the role technology plays in change and goals of providing opportunity for all. An episode at the heart of the HEDx agenda with commentary with Katie Ford of Microsoft.

Ann Kirschner, Former President of Hunter College at CUNY and Aleks Subic, VC at Aston set a scene of innovating toward ominichannel higher Ed. This is before Suzanne Steel of Adobe, Arlene Stewart of OES, Andrew Proctor of AWS and Osama Khan of Aston describe how multi tech-company partnerships can help AI make this real. All described by Andrea Burrows of OES and I following a recent Aston-hosted conference in the UK.