Larry Nelson

Regional Business Leader, General Manager Asia Education Microsoft

As General Manager of Education for Microsoft Asia, Larry Nelson leads the education business unit for primary, secondary, and higher education institutions and drives digital transformation projects in educational organizations across India, China, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and all other countries in Southeast Asia.

Before joining Microsoft in 2009, Nelson led strategic planning of telecom services at Stanford University. He was also the principal at Global Educational Technology Knowledge, LLC, where he provided strategic planning, marketing, operations, market research and business development expertise to corporations, schools, universities, and Ministries of Education.

With more than three decades of experience, Nelson has held a series of executive positions in multinational technology corporations, including Director of Global Citizenship and Acting Executive Director of the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC) at Sun Microsystems. Nelson converted the GELC to an independent non-profit corporation now known as Curriki.org.


2022 Leadership Summit Agenda Sessions

A new wave of positive transformation

The last two years have provided unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In this session, we will explore how this landscape can support the acceleration of education transformation in a meaningful and impactful way.

In collaboration with Microsoft

Tuesday 11 October 10:00 - 10:30 Plenary

Leadership

Add to calendar 10/11/2022 10:00 10/11/2022 10:30 A new wave of positive transformation

The last two years have provided unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In this session, we will explore how this landscape can support the acceleration of education transformation in a meaningful and impactful way.

In collaboration with Microsoft

Plenary Asia/Shanghai

Bett Asia 2022 VIP Programme Sessions

A new wave of positive transformation

Digital transformation has far-reaching potential. True transformation is about people and it’s important to keep a human lens on the digital transformation of society at large. It’s even more important for education because of what is at stake. We need to recognize that the drivers for digital transformation are human.

In collaboration with Microsoft

Tuesday 11 October 10:00 - 10:30 Plenary

General

Add to calendar 10/11/2022 10:00 10/11/2022 10:30 A new wave of positive transformation

Digital transformation has far-reaching potential. True transformation is about people and it’s important to keep a human lens on the digital transformation of society at large. It’s even more important for education because of what is at stake. We need to recognize that the drivers for digital transformation are human.

In collaboration with Microsoft

Plenary Asia/Shanghai

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