feb is for learning summits other than wise

eg varney - awards million $ teacher prize- 50 candidates a year provides many hundred extraordiary teachers to celebrate;  annual  2018 program -edtech forum - usually march, national patron duba's Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ; varney in ghana has its own great project,,, dubai also has billionnaire founding new uni

After months of deliberations we have chosen ten Finalists from the 30,000 applications and nominations we received from 173 countries. You can find full details of the Global Teacher Prize Top 10 Finalists here. One of our ten remarkable teachers will win our annual $US 1 million award given to recognise a truly exceptional teacher.

All of the teachers in our final shortlist have taken their work far beyond what is generally expected of a teacher. In the classroom they have inspired and enlightened their pupils, but their innovative and original approaches to education have ensured the impact of their work has touched communities beyond their schools, both locally and globally. The winner of the prize will be announced at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai on Sunday 18th March 2018.

germany's oeb next learning summit berlin dec 2018 -past speakers include Speakers at OEB in the past few years have included, among others: Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning at MIT; Alan Ryan, Technology Enhanced Learning Lead for HEE and the NHS; Julia Hobsbawm, Expert in Social Health; Roger Schank, AI and cognitive science visionary; Andrew Keen, author and commentator on the digital revolution; Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School; Charles Leadbeater, leading authority on innovation and creativity; Aida Opoku-Mensah, Special Adviser: Post - 2015 Development Agenda United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA); Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Author & Professor at Oxford University’s Internet Institute; Nick van Dam, Global Chief Learning Officer at McKinsey & Company; Xavier Durochat, Head of Learning & Development, Change and Transformation at BNP Paribas; Mark Stevenson, futurist, writer and entrepreneur; Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University; Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the blog Boing Boing and journalist; Andreas Schleicher, statistician, researcher and Director of the OECD Education and Skills Directorate; Aleks Krotoski, Social Psychologist and Broadcaster at the Guardian and many more.