Larry Nelson

Regional Business Leader, Education, Asia, Microsoft 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.


Leadership Summit Sessions

AI in Education: Not new, just now

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

Add to calendar 10/04/2023 10:00 10/04/2023 10:30 AI in Education: Not new, just now 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. 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