Master of Ceremonies - Welcome
Dr Alison Casey, Senior Lecturer (Educational developer), The University of Sydney Business School

Welcome to Country
TBC

Business School Welcome (video)
Professor Leisa Sargent, Dean of The University of Sydney Business School

Opening Address
Associate Professor Danika Wright, Associate Dean - Education, The University of Sydney

Master of Ceremonies – Introduction of Keynote
Professor Angela Knox, Academic Director of Professional Development, The University of Sydney Business School

9:20 - 10:00

Keynote Address

Professor Margaret Bearman, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University

Q&A - Keynote

Moderated by: Professor Angela Knox, Academic Director of Professional Development, The University of Sydney Business School

Master of Ceremonies - Introduction of Sessions and Launch of People's Choice Award Polls
Dr Alison Casey, Senior lecturer (Educational developer), The University of Sydney Business School

Morning session

Theme: AI showcase
Chair: Anthony Krivokapic

Theme: Simulating with AI
Chair: Zoe Alderton

Theme: Interactive oral
Chair: Jodie McGann

Theme: Mixed Theme
Chair: Max Baker

Showcase 1 - AI integration examples: student showcase of real business education practice - Advaith Madhav and Carmen Vallis

Showcase 1 - Balancing student creativity with Artificial intelligence in Design Thinking - Jane Strachan and Praveena Chandra

Showcase 1 - Interactivity in interactive oral assessment * - Alison Casey, Stephanie Wilson and Jo Nash

Showcase 1 - Innovative Assessment Strategies: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Secure Long-Form Writing in Project Management - Mark Freeman

Showcase 2 - Blending GenAI and Industry in Assessment – A Third-year Accounting Story - Kaiying Ji, Louise Luff, Benjamin Lay and Janine Coupe

Showcase 2 - Harness AI Agentics for Role Plays and Customer Research - Karen Ganschow

Showcase 2 - Reflections on delivering interactive orals for CEMS, MMGT and MComm* - Daniel Gozman and Alison Casey

Showcase 2 - Programmatic Assessment in a World of AI: Its Use in a Capstone Accounting Unit - Martin Turner and Maria Tyler

Showcase 3 – Foundations Reimagined: Using Generative AI to Empower First-Year Finance Students - Vycke Wu

Showcase 3 - From Compliance to Creativity: Teaching Problem-Reframing with GenAI in the Capstone* - Raffaele Ciriello

Showcase 3 - Innovating HR Pedagogy through AI-Assisted Assessment Design* - Sunghoon Kim

Showcase 3 - Making Graduate Qualities Visible to Students: Strategies and Insights for Educators - Dewa Wardak and Jennifer Sun

Showcase 4 – AI-Enhanced Business Case Assessments: Integrating Business Software for Real-World Learning - Roel Boomsma and Janine Coupe

Showcase 4 - Assessing with AI: Building Trust or Breeding Doubt? - Corina Raduesecu and Jeffrey Lo

Showcase 4 - Giving Voice to Understanding: Scaling Oral Interactive Assessment in a Large Cohort - Abdul Razeed, Ali Zaheer, Philip Le and Christian Russo

Showcase 4 - Grading the group together - team teaching as a feedback amplifier - Jo Nash and Simon Loria

Theme: Assessment and AI
Chair: Noman Shaheer

Theme: Transformational Student Experiences
Chair: Abdul Razeed

Theme: Rethinking asssessment with AI
Chair: Angela Baxter

Title: Plastic People, Real Problems: Teaching Students to Think Critically About AI

Presenting: Zoe Alderton

Title: You had me at Week One: Designing for connection, not just content

Presenting: Maria Ishkova, Aribah Amal, Luana Marosszeky, Jennifer John and Ihan Samaraweera

Lightning Talk 1 - Pinpoint Referencing as a Defence Against AI-Generated Vagueness - David Chaikin, Fei Gao

Lightning Talk 2 - Can AI Guess the Exam? Rethinking Assessment in the Generative Era - Wei Cui and Vycke Wu

Lightning Talk 3 - Adaptive Learning in Finance: AI-Driven Curriculum Innovation - Henry Leung

Lightning Talk 4 - Enhancing the Student Experience and Learning Outcomes through Excel-Based Cost Allocation Methods - Paul Blayney and Vijaya Murthy

Afternoon session

Title: Critical and creative thinking
Chair: Jo Wang

Chairs: Jennifer Sun and Dewa Wardak

Showcase 1 – Cultivating Innovation: Embedding Creative Thinking in Capstone Courses - Corina Raduescu and Abe Bakar

Showcase 2 – Enhancing Business Analytics Case Studies with Partial Information Exercises - Mostafa Khatami and Quan Spring Zhou

Table 1 - Use AI Avatar

Roundtable 1 - What Do Students Think About AI Avatars? Insights for Teaching - Carmen Vallis

Roundtable 2 - Avatar Academics: Teaching with a Digital Doppelgänger - Joanne Nash, Uri Gal and Simon Loria

Table 2 - Work-Integrated Learning

Roundtable 1 - University-Industry Partnership in Work-Integrated Learning for Transformational Student Experiences - Linh Nguyen

Roundtable 2 - Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn: Navigating Trauma Responses in Work-Integrated Contexts - Timothy Davies

Table 3 - Collaborative Learning

Roundtable 1 - Designing for Social Connection: A Framework to Foster Collaborative Learning and Well-Being - Corinna Galliano, Maria Ishkova and Michael Fernando

Roundtable 2 - Redesigning Tutorials for Engagement: Peer-led Learning and Critical Dialogue in Large Finance Classes - Hedda Cui

Theme: Reimagine Assessment
Chair: Carmen Vallis

Theme: Reflection with AI
Chair: Stephanie Wilson

Theme: Cross/Interdisciplinary curriculum design
Chair: Mark Freeman

Showcase 1 - Reimagining Assessment through Co-Design: Lessons from Three Interventions - Jennifer Sun, Sandris Zeivots, Amanda Kennedy, Andrew Cram and Echo Liao

Showcase 1 - Critical Thinking in Cogniti Conversations - Joseph Boulis, Alison Casey

Showcase 1 - 5 takeaways for collaborative cross-disciplinary curriculum development - Jessica Tyrrell, Benedicte Rokvic and Amanda Wong

Showcase 2 – Reimagining assessment resilience: Co-Creating deep learning with students as producers and partners - Maria Ishkova, Darren Moon, Michael Fernando, Jasmin Meyabadi, Hannah Nguyen, Daniel Park, Abby Bobkowski and Carol Farhoud

Showcase 2 – Integrating AI Chatbots in Higher Education to Enhance Reflective Practice - Corinna Galliano

Showcase 2 – MARD: Make a Real Difference - Abdul Razeed and Christian Russo

Showcase 3 – Employability in an AI Era: Rethinking Assessment through Assessment Centres - Shenoli Perera, Runshuang Tang, Sandra Alday and Dearbhail Lang

Showcase 3 – Leveraging Generative AI to structure Reflective Practice in Work-Integrated Learning contexts - Timothy Davies and Ruby Nguyen

Showcase 3 – You to the Power of Us - Activating a community of experts to empower students in a capstone - Prashan Karunaratne

Theme: Innovating for graduate success
Chair: George Issa

Theme: Exploring new approaches to learning design
Chair: Donna Denyer

Theme: Engagement and belonging in learning
Chair: Ardalan Sameti

Showcase 1 - From Classroom to Career: Enhancing Student Employability through AI-Powered Interview Simulation - Mauricio Marrone, and Ali Amrollahi

Lightning Talk 1 - Innovating Without Failing? The Surefire Way to Kill Teaching Innovations - Noman Shaheer

Lightning Talk 1 - Enhancing Student Engagement Through Personalised Feedback and Proactive Support - Helena Nguyen, Mesepa Paul, Anya Johnson

Showcase 2 - CareerEDGE+: Transforming Graduate Outcomes through the Employability Module Insight Profile (EMIP) - Peter Sewell (Hybrid)

Lightning Talk 2 - Reignite the Live Learning Experience - Louise Luff, Janine Coupe, Benjamin Lay, Kaiying Ji

Lightning Talk 2 - Enhancing student engagement and performance in podcast assessments: A holistic approach to equipment, evaluation, and training - Cong Sun, Wen Zhang, Wanxin Wang, Rongrong Zhang

Showcase 3 - Brains, Bias and Bravery: Using Neuroscience and Risk Theory to Reframe Business Education - Joelene Morse (Hybrid)

Lightning Talk 3 - Turning a Vulnerability into a Learning Experience: Prompt Injection in Assessment Design - Julian Prester

Lightning Talk 3 - Breaking the Ice, Building the Base: Learning Through Community - Malmi Amadoru

Lightning Talk 4 - Beyond the textbook: Transforming marketing education through business simulations - Beatriz Rodriguez Garcia (Hybrid)

Lightning Talk 4 - Enhancing Soft Skills and Cohort Connectivity through Unmarked Group Presentations - Wes Hamilton-Jessop and Olga Gouveros

Associate Professor Danika Wright, Associate Dean (Education), The University of Sydney Business School

Face-to-face