Over the years, the ITHET conference series has had the privilege of welcoming distinguished Plenary Speakers. Please find a list of them below:

2022

• Anthony E. Ward (Univ. of York, UK), Title: Is Ghostwriting something Higher Education is willing and able to challenge?
• Anna Friesel retired (Technical University of Denmark), Title: 21st century engineering education for Inventions and Innovations in Technology

2021

• Professor Sirin Tekinay, Chair (GEDC), Board Member (IFEES, SEFI)
• Prof. Fae Martin, Deputy Dean Learning and Teaching, School of Engineering and Technology at Central Queensland University
• Prof. Marilyn Wells, Head, College of Information and Communication Technology, School of Engineering and Technology at Central Queensland University

2019

• Keith Bowman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, US.  Changing Learner Contexts: Implications for Equity, Inclusion and Career Success.
• Janusz A. Koziński, Brock University, Canada. Reflecting Megatrends and Future Skills in Higher Education.
• Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University. US.  Monitoring and Improving Student Team Experiences.

2018

• Stephanie Farrell, ASEE President-Elect, Rowan University, US.  Spatial Skills Training – Supporting Access and Equity in STEM Education.
• Luis Gomes, University Nova de Lisboa & UNINOVA-CTS, Portugal.  Remote Laboratories Role Within Engineering Education.
• Piet Kommers, University of Twente, Netherlands.  Beyond the Learning Perspective.
• Anthony Ward, York University, UK.  Measuring and Certifying Generic Skills: Should We and Can We?

2017

• Robin Braun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.  Can We Use New Ways of Modelling Complex Systems to Optimise Student Learning?
• Rob Reilly, IEEE Education and Computer Societies, US.  You Can Receive the Nobel Prize!
• Sirin Tekinay, Isik University, Turkey.  If All the Books in All the Libraries Talk to One Another: What Technology Can Do for Education?

2016

• Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University, US.  Cross-Cultural Exploration of Spatial Visualisation Abilities of First Year STEM Students.
• Arnold Pears, Upsala University, Sweden.  The Rise and Fall of MOOC: What Can we Learn About the Education of the Future?