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.
As new AI technology grabs headlines and captures imaginations, organisations have a unique opportunity to harness the power of AI to reimagine solutions to longstanding challenges in education at a time when they are perhaps needed most.
Wednesday 04 October 10:00 - 10:30 Plenary
Innovation
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
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