Speakers
Hörður Arnarson is CEO of Landsvirkjun, a company which aspires to become a leader in the sustainable use of renewable energy resources. Landsvirkjun is owned by the Icelandic state and processes 75% of all electricity used in Iceland. Arnarson completed electrical engineering at the University of Iceland in 1986 and obtained his doctorate from the Technical University of Denmark DTU in 1990.
He began working in the food processing industry at Marel in 1985 and became CEO in 1999, a position he held for ten years during which the company became a world leader of automation in the food processing industry. He was then managing director of the Sjóvá insurance company, leading the restructure of that organization before moving on to Landsvirkjun in 2012. Hörður's slides.
Johan Malmqvist is chair professor in product development and dean of education MATS at Chalmers University of Technology. His research addresses development methodologies and IT support for product development (PLM). Current research focuses on methods and tools for development of product-service systems, for product configuration and for strategic development of PLM solutions. Another area of interest is engineering education.
Malmqvist was one of the founders and is currently one of the leaders of the international Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) Initiative. He is one of the authors of “Rethinking engineering education - the CDIO approach". The engineering education model that has been developed by the CDIO Initiative has been adapted by a large number of universities across the world. Johan's slides.
Paul Denny is lecturer in the department of Computer Science at The University of Auckland and the man behind PeerWise. His research interests focus on developing and evaluating technologies for supporting collaborative learning, particularly involving student-authored resources.
Paul is a recipient of the National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award (2009), the Australasian Association for Engineering Education Award for innovation in curricula, learning and teaching (2009) and the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia Teaching Award (2010). His recent publications have examined the effectiveness of virtual achievements for motivating students in online environments and investigated the effectiveness of various styles of error reporting on the performance of novice programming students. Read more about Paul Denny and PeerWise. Paul's slides.
Kristina Edström is Associate Professor in Engineering Education Development at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, one of the founders of the CDIO Initiative. Since 1997 she leads and participates in educational development activities at KTH, in Sweden and internationally. She serves on the international CDIO Council and the SEFI Administrative Council 2010-2013.
She was also Director of Educational Development at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, 2012-2013. Over 700 participants have successfully taken her course Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (7.5 ECTS) customized for KTH faculty. Kristina was awarded the KTH Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Education in 2004 and elected lifetime honorary member of the KTH Student Union in 2009. Kristina has a MSc in Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Kristina's slides here and here.
