This years theme
Intelligent Futures: How AI is Transforming Education and Careers
A voice from the frontier
Leon Furze
Author, consultant and PhD candidate
Leon Furze, PhD is a best selling author and consultant with 15+ years' experience in secondary and tertiary education. His PhD focused on the implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for teachers.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has continued to disrupt many industries, including education. Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, education providers have been coming to terms with increasingly capable, multimodal GenAI like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. This session explores the practical and ethical implications of GenAI in education, and how we might adjust our teaching and learning to remain valid in the face of the technology.
What to expect?
9:00 - 9:50
FEATURED KEYNOTE
Leon Furze
9:50 - 10:20
PLATINUM KEYNOTE
10:30 - 11:25
SESSION 1
Students & Teachers Workshops
11:30 - 12:25
SESSION 2
Workshops & Student Panels
1:25 - 2:20
SESSION 3
Students & Teachers Workshops
2:30 - 3:30
SESSION 4
Workshops and Educator Panel
Why attend?
STUDENTS
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Skills for future careers and pathways
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Learn: Panel discussions to hear insight from past VBC STEAM Alumni and industry experts.
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Network: Meet the people doing it. Talk to engineers, researchers and founders about how they got there — and what they wish they'd known at your age.
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Workshops: Work on the real thing. Not a worksheet about the future — an actual project, built with your teacher and shaped by people working in science, tech and design right now.
TEACHERS
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Presentations and workshops from leading scientist and industry experts
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Special panel discussion
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Learn AI without the hype: Cut through the noise with frameworks you can take straight into a unit — no evangelism, no fear, just what actually works in a classroom.
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Build partnerships: Ones that outlast the day. Meet industry and research organizations looking to work with schools, and leave with contacts, not just business cards.
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See it, then run it: Every workshop is led by someone doing the work — innovative classroom practices for primary and secondary you can adapt for your own students, your own subject, your own term.
Pricing
Get early bird pricing now - ending midnight 31st July
TEACHERS
$210 / person
STUDENTS
$35 / person
PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS
$40 / person
Most Popular
BUNDLE
$800
3 teachers & 8 students
The Venue
Viewbank College,
Warren Road, Rosanna
How to Get Here
517 Bus (Christine St / Rutherford Rd)
Hurstbridge line (Rosanna Station then 517)
Limited Parking Available
"...I loved the focus on collaboration and how students were actively involved and leading their learning. It was a refreshing and motivating day that gave me plenty to take back to the classroom."
- Sonali Pendurkar, VCE Chemistry Teacher at Beacon Schools Hindi Initiative
"I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have attended, now many times, and would highly recommend the STEAM Futures Conference to any educator looking to inspire innovation and authentic learning
experiences in their school."
- Leanne Williams, Assistant Principal at Elsternwick Primary School