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Since 2008
EdukCircle Series of International Conventions
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PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
PROFILE
MR. WIL ENGLUND was an EdukCircle speaker during the 19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication held on April 27, 2021.
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Wil is currently a senior correspondent at The Washington Post. He is an Energy reporter for the Financial section and a veteran Moscow correspondent of the Washington Post. He won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, as well as an Overseas Press Club award and a George Polk award as a co-author of a project on shipbreaking. He also covered the White House for National Journal, and worked as a foreign correspondent and editor at the Baltimore Sun. He was a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University in 2018. Wil earned his degree in AB English from Harvard University, and his master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.
PROFILE
DR. JAMES GROSS discussed Emotion Regulation during the 20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology held on April 20, 2021.
He is a Professor at the Department of Psychology in Stanford University. He has received several teaching awards, including Stanford’s highest teaching award, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He has over 450 publications, which have been cited over 140,000 times. James is the founding President for the Society for Affective Science, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Affective Science.
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He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy degree from Yale University and his Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
YALE UNIVERSITY
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Dr. Margaret Clark
John M. Musser Professor, Department of Psychology
How Close Relationship are Initiated, Built and Maintained
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Dr. Brian Scholl
Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science Program, Department of Psychology
Teaching Seeing: Visual Perception as a Case Study for How to Introduce Students to the Study of the Mind
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Dr. Heidi Brooks
Senior Lecturer, Yale School of Management
Change-making in Organizations on the Senior Leadership as well as the Everyday Leadership Levels
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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Dr. Priyadarshini Panda
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Towards Energy Efficient and Robust Neuromorphic Computing: Algorithm and Hardware Perspective
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
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Dr. Adele Goldberg
Professor, Department of Psychology
Conventional Metaphors Are More Engaging Than Literal Paraphrases
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
Dr. Michael Graziano
Professor, Department of Psychology
Why Brain-Machines Think They are Conscious
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
Mr. Will Englund
Former Visiting Professor, Journalism Program
What to Do When You Can't Trust the Numbers
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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Dr. Daniel Norbert Congreve
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Nanoscale Control of Light and Energy
8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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Dr. James Gross
Professor, Department of Psychology
Emotion Regulation
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Dr. Jinhwan Kim
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Corporate Disclosure Research
22nd EdukCircle International Convention on Business: Accounting and Finance
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Dr. Yewon Kim
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Marketing and Ethics: Delivering Value to Customers and Society
21st EdukCircle International Convention on Business: Accounting and Finance
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DR. Elias N. Aboujaoude
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Internet-Related Technologies and the Illusion of Knowledge
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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Dr. Daniel Keum
Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
Setting the Bar: How Should Individuals and Firms Set Goals
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
Mr. Paul Canetti
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
Technology Trends
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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Dr. Rebecca Lemov
Professor, Department of the History of Science
From Mass to Micro Persuasion in the Age of Big Data
18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Ms. Jamieson Lesko
Lecturer, Journalism Graduate Program
Covering Conflict: The Importance of Situational Awareness and Emotional Intelligence
18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Ms. Martha Nichols
Lecturer, Journalism Program
First-Person Journalism: How Do You Make a Personal Voice Believable?
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Ms. June Carolyn Erlick
Lecturer, Journalism Program
Foreign Correspondence from the 70s to the Digital Era
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Dr. Gu Yeon Wei
Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Machine Learning at Scale
8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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Dr. Minlan Yu
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Programmable Data Center Networks
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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Dr. Vijay Janapa Reddi
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
TinyML: Machine Learning's Future is Tiny and Bright
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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Dr. Lauren Cohen
L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Hidden Alpha
22nd EdukCircle International Convention on Business: Accounting and Finance
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DR. Ellen Langer
Professor, Department of Psychology
Mindfulness and the Psychology of Possibility
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Dr. Daniel Schacter
William R. Kennan, Jr. Professor, Department of Psychology
Memory and Imagination in Young and Older Adults
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Mr. Matthew Karolian
Lecturer, Journalism Graduate Program
Platforms and The Future of News
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
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Dr. Julian De Freitas
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles
21st EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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Dr. Catherine Elgin
Professor, Graduate School of Education
The Ends of Education
11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
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Dr. Paul Harris
Professor, Graduate School of Education
Children’s Imagination
11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
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Dr. Elizabeth Dawes Duraisingh
Research Associate, Graduate School of Education
Beyond Stereotypes and Surface: Strategies for Learning About Culture(s) in the Digital Age
Programmable Data Center Networks
11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
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Dr. Martin Bechthold
Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology, Department of Architecture
The Future of Construction
1st EdukCircle International Convention on Architecture and Civil Engineering
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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Dr. Roi Cohen Kadosh
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology
Understanding and Modulating Mathematical Learning and its
Neural Mechanisms
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
Dr. Lisa Holmes
Associate Professor, Department of Education
Knowledge Transfer Across Children’s Social Care Policy and Practice
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Tommaso de Zan
Research Affiliate, Center for Technology and Global Affairs
The Cyber Security Skills Shortage and Public Policy Interventions: the Case of Cyber Security Competitions
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Jonathan Bright
Associate Professor
How Digital Technology Changes Political Participation
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Dr. Patricia Lockwood
Medical Research Fellow, School of Psychology
Prosocial Learning and Motivation: Lifespan Changes and Neural Mechanisms
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Dr. Jeremy Gibbons
Professor of Computing, Department of Computer Science
Algorithm Design and Functional Programming
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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Dr. Charles Spence
Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology
Multisensory Perception
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Dr. David Clark
Professor and Chair, Department of Experimental Psychology
Social Anxiety and its Treatment
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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Dr. Timothy Galpin
Senior Lecturer of Strategy and Innovation
Strategy Formulation and Execution
21st EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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Dr. Samantha-Kaye Johnston
Research Officer, Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, Department of Education
Opportunities and Challenges of Using Digital Technologies to Achieve Quality Assessment Outcomes
11th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Dr. Jeffrey Bowen
Lecturer, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
“Big Picture” Thinking in Romantic Relationships: A Tool for Managing Conflict
and Separation
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
Dr. Christopher Krupenye
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
The Social Minds of Humans and Other Apes
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
Dr. Jason Fischer
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Intuitive Physics: How We Understand And Predict the Physical Behavior of Our Everyday Environments
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Dr. Peter Bryant
Associate Professor, School of Business
Leveraging the Complexity of Higher Education in Times of Crisis
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
Dr. Timothy Allender
Professor, School of Education and Social Work
Communicating and Mentoring about Historical Thinking in the Digital Age
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Bunty Avieson
Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications
Through Their Eyes: Standpoint and The Ethics of Immersion in Journalism
18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Dr. Chris Chesher
Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications
Public Identity: From Authorship to Microcelebrity
18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Dr. Shumi Akhtar
Associate Professor, School of Business
Insights: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
Dr. Judy Anderson
Director of the STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy
The Impact of On-going Professional Learning on Teachers' Work
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. David Hirsh
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work
Language Revitalization: Insights from the Asia-Pacific Region
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Alison Grove O’Grady
Towards a Pedagogy of Empathy
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Vincent Gramoli
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering
Making Secure Open Blockchains Scale
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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Dr. Ali Hadigheh
Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering
Resilience and Sustainability in Infrastructures: A Nano-Scale Circular Economy Approach
The EdukCircle International Convention on Architecture and Civil Engineering
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Dr. Ruben G. Fernandez
Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education
Thinking Through the Orders of Cultural Production: A New Paradigm for Arts Education
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. TL Cowan
Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media
Heavy Processing with Digital Materials: Breaking Up with Compulsory Dispossessivity
18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Dr. Paul Chow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Reconfigurable Computing and Its Impact on the Cloud
8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
Dr. John Miller
Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education
Working with Contemplative Practices in Higher Education
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Cross-Modal Representations of Real-World Scenes in the Human Brain
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
Dr. Jeffrey Dvorkin
Director of Journalism Program
Trusting the News in a Digital Age: What Journalists Need to Tell the Public
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Dr. Arlo Kempf
Assistant Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education
Critical & Grounded Approaches to Mitigating Implicit Race Bias in Education
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Jasmine Rault
Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media
Heavy Processing with Digital Materials: Breaking Up with Compulsory Dispossessivity
18th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
Mr. Garfield Gini-Newman
Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Further Studies in Education
Designing Assessments that Inspire, Inform and Extend Learning
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
Dr. Avni Shah
Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management
The Death of Cash, the Growth of Debt? How Shifts in Financial Technology Affect Our Spending
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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Dr. Daeho Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Toward Co-Robotic Construction: Visual Site Monitoring & Hazard Detection To Ensure Worker Safety
1st EdukCircle International Convention on Architecture and Civil Engineering
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BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
Dr. Miguel Moital
Principal Academic, Business School
Managing Attendee Circulation at Exhibition
13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
Dr. Adele Ladkin
Professor, Business School
Sustainable Tourism Destinations: A Human Resource Perspective
13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
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Dr. Julia Hibbert
Lecturer
14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Dr. Jukka Laitamaki
Clinical Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality
Hospitality and Tourism Industry Trends Pre-Corona Virus Pandemic
13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
Dr. Vanja Bogicevic, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality
Clinical Assistant Professor
Navigating the Future: How Virtual Reality Can Aid Tourism and Hospitality
14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
Ms. Dianne Devitt
Adjunct Associate Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality
Embracing the Future of Conferences and Events
14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
Dr. Christopher Gaffney
Clinical Associate Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality
Global Tourism Risk Index - A Systematic Analysis of Risk Exposure in the Tourism Industrial Complex
14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
Dr. Bruno Eeckels
Clinical Associate Professor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality
Global Tourism Risk Index - A Systematic Analysis of Risk Exposure in the Tourism Industrial Complex
14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
Mr. Ronald Castro Sanchez
Adjunct Instructor, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality
Positioning: The Art and Science of Differentiating Your Product in the COVID-19 Era
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
Dr. Alexandra Coghlan
Associate Professor, Griffith Business School
Systems Thinking for Sustainable Tourism: What are the Benefits?
13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
Dr. Margarida Abreu Novais
Lecturer, Griffith Business School
Destination Competitiveness: A Supply-Demand Approach to Its Assessment
14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
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INSEAD
Dr. Amitava Chattopdhyay
Chair Marketing Area, and Professor, INSEAD Singapore
Doing Business in Emerging Markets
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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Dr. Abhishek Borah
Assistant Professor, INSEAD France
Generating Customer Insights and Managing Brand Crisis Using Unstructured Data
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Industry 4.0: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
Dr. Armin Gerhard Aberle
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Status of Solar Electricity
9th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Dr. Usha Goswami
Professor and Director for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology
Music, Rhythm and the Brain: Improving Phonology in Developmental Dyslexia
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Dr. Chekitan S. Dev
Professor, SC Johnson College of Business
Challenges in Contemporary Hospitality Branding
13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Dr. Berkeley Dietvorst
Associate Professor, Booth School of Business
Algorithm Aversion
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Ann-Lynn T. Reyes
Senior Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Depression: Understanding the Silent Pandemic
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Psychology
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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Dr. Sharmila Chatterjee
Academic Head, Enterprise Management, Sloan School of Management
Business-to-Business Marketing
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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GLION INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SWITZERLAND
Dr. Barbara Czyzewska
Interim Academic Dean
The Role of Guest Experience in Luxury Hospitality Branding
14th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Dr. Karla Boluk
Associate Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies Department
Turning ‘Business as Usual’ on its Head: Centering Purpose in the Pursuit of Sustainable Tourism
13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
Dr. Gayle Jansen Brisbane
Assistant Professor
Preparing Journalism Students for the Digital News World
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Media Communication
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DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY, MANILA
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Dr. Roy Francis Navea
Associate Professor, Electronics and Communications Engineering Department
NeuroRobotics Technology
8th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology
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HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
Dr. Emi Makino
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
The Secret of Expert Entrepreneurs
20th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE
Dr. Sonny Ben Rosenthal
Assistant Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Creating Presence and Connection in Video Lectures
10th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies
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HOTEL RISILIENT, GERMANY
Dr. Bijan Khazai
Chief Executive Officer, Hotel Resilient
Supporting Resilience in Accommodation in the Face if Crisis
13th EdukCircle International Convention on Tourism and Hospitality
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PLDT
Mr. Chito Franco
Vice President and Head, Corporate Relationship Management, PLDT Enterprise
Pivoting to Beyond Normal: Digital Transformation Journey
19th EdukCircle International Convention on Business
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