PEDAGOGY & INNOVATION

Nicole Dyson is a multi-award-winning educator and entrepreneur, and a global authority on project-based learning, entrepreneurial pedagogy and whole-school curriculum transformation.

A former school leader in Australia’s public system, Nicole is the founder and CEO of Future Anything, a national education provider that has worked with 140 000 young people and teachers to impact the education of more than 1 million students in Australia and New Zealand.

Nicole has received significant personal recognition, including being recognised as an Australian of the Year nominee for QLD in 2026, an Obama Foundation Leader (Asia Pacific), QLD’s 40 Under 40, and included in The Educator’s Most Influential list three years running (2023 - 2025).

Passionate about the power of youth-led ideas to bend the future, Nicole works with educators, schools, and systems to design and deliver learning that unlocks young people’s creativity, passion, and potential.

STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP

Louka Parry is the CEO + Founder of The Learning Future and works globally as a speaker, learning strategist and education futurist. He speaks on innovation, leadership and change having worked with thousands of leaders and educators from diverse contexts all across the world, including in high-level policy fora such as the OECD, UNESCO, and the European Commission, and with all Australian States and Territories.

A rapid learner, he speaks five languages, has visited over 80 countries, and holds two Masters degrees, one in Instructional Leadership from the University of Melbourne and another in Applied Linguistics, and has also completed executive studies at Harvard and a residency at the d.school at Stanford University. Through his work, he has acquired expert knowledge in leadership, strategy, communication, wellbeing and organisational change and culture. As an education leader, he was promoted to Principal at only 27 years old and in 2012 he was named South Australian Inspirational Public Secondary Teacher of the Year.

As CEO of The Learning Future, he is committed to transform learning structures, systems and societies that better empower individuals to develop the key human capabilities that matter most now and into the future. He sits on the Steering Committee for Learning Creates Australia, and also co-leads Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills, which connects the global education community at the forefront of the future of education and social emotional learning to empower children, educators and communities all across the globe. 

INSIGHTS & EVIDENCE

Dr Selena Fisk is an author, speaker and data storyteller who helps educators and school leaders use data in ways that are practical, meaningful and focused on improving outcomes for young people. She has 16 years' experience as a teacher and school leader across Australia and the United Kingdom. That experience shaped the way she now works with schools: grounded in the realities of classrooms, honest about the pressures educators face, and focused on making data useful rather than overwhelming.

Her doctoral research at Queensland University of Technology explored students’ and teachers’ perceptions of feedback in Queensland secondary schools. It reinforced something Selena had seen throughout her career: schools are rarely short on data, but they often need clearer, more human ways to turn that data into better conversations, better decisions and better learning.

Selena is the author of four books on data storytelling and evidence-informed practice, the creator of the Make Data Talk podcast, the Founder and Director at DataWorks Institute, and the creator of Data Champions, a 12-month action research program that supports educators to build confidence and capability with data. In 2024 she was awarded the Australian Council for Educational Leaders Hedley Beare Award for Educational Writing.

Selena works with schools, systems and education organisations across Australia and internationally to build data-informed cultures. Her work has supported thousands of leaders and teachers to ask better questions, make evidence-informed decisions, and keep students at the centre of the process. Selena's approach brings rigour and humanity together, helping educators make sense of evidence in ways that are accessible, purposeful and genuinely useful.