Aleksa is a pedagogue and a specialist in Internet technologies. He works at the Institute for the Improvement of Education of the Republic of Serbia (Zavod za unapređivanje obrazovanja i vaspitanja), within the Center for Professional Development of Education Personnel, as an advisor–coordinator.
He is engaged in the development and implementation of digital educational technologies, the preparation and delivery of national teacher training programs, as well as in the application and development of artificial intelligence in education.

Ania Bourgeois is a senior education policy and systems analyst with the Eurydice
network, part of the coordinating unit at the European Education and Culture Executive
Agency (EACEA). She has extensive experience in collecting and analyzing qualitative
and comparable data on teaching and learning key competences in schools, including
digital, entrepreneurship, and citizenship education.

Borut is a policy officer (secretary) in the Digital Education Unit of the Ministry of Education in Slovenia. He is an expert in the development of teacher training and support, digital pedagogy, interactive e-materials and R&D projects co-financed by the national programmes, European Social Fund, Recovery and Resilience Fund, Erasmus+. He is a member of the expert groups in Slovenia and the EU (digital education, STEM, AI) and an author of various articles in scientific and professional journals as well as a panellist at national and international conferences.

Dr. Paul Atherton is the founder and CEO of Fab and AI-for-Education.org, its flagship initiative. The initiative is working to ensure that children in low-income countries benefit equally from AI innovations in education, and that AI is harnessed to help solve the learning crisis. He has spent the last 20 years supporting education improvements in low-income countries in a variety of roles — from academia (at the UCL Institute of Education), to government (for the UK Department for International Development), and building organisations. Underpinning all this is a focus on improving people, processes, and policies in education through technology and innovation.

Duša is the Principal of the Computer Grammar School in Belgrade, and a teacher of computer science subjects at both the Mathematical Grammar School and the Computer Grammar School in Belgrade. She is an Oracle Academy Instructor for international teacher training programs in database and Java programming courses, and holds the professional title of Pedagogical Advisor.

She is one of the authors of the national curriculum for Classes for Students with Special Aptitudes in Computing and Informatics, implemented in over 50 high schools across Serbia, as well as a trainer for teacher professional development and an author of digital textbooks for teachers and students in Database and Object-Oriented Programming courses (Institute for the Improvement of Education).

Duša is the author of several books in the field of programming, including two officially approved high school textbooks for the subject Computer Science and Informatics in the third and fourth grades. She is the recipient of several awards, such as:

Creative School 2008/09 (Serbia) – Second Prize in the high school category for the project “Modern Technologies in the Practical Application of Theoretical Knowledge and Teamwork of Students”

European Forum of Innovative Teachers, Microsoft, 2008 (Croatia) – Third Prize in the Collaboration category for the project “Exploring Science through Blogging” and participation in the World Forum of Innovative Teachers, Microsoft, Hong Kong, China.

The Oracle Academy has been advancing computer science globally for more than 25 years, fostering knowledge acquisition, skill development, innovation, and diversity in technology-related fields.

During this presentation, ways of collaboration with primary, secondary, and higher education institutions will be presented, as well as curricula and teaching materials that are freely available to educators through this partnership, with a special focus on artificial intelligence courses.

Teachers who are members of the Oracle Academy gain access to a modern online learning platform, Member Hub, which provides high-quality courses in databases, Java programming, artificial intelligence, Oracle Cloud infrastructure, and other areas. Teachers and professors can complete various professional development trainings independently, at their own pace. Work with students and learners is available in multiple formats.

Selected Oracle tools can be used free of charge in teaching, and students can obtain internationally recognized certificates, both within the Database subject in IT departments of high schools across Serbia and in other schools offering modern computer science courses.

Filiz holds bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science Education, as well as an MSc and a PhD in Computer Education and Instructional Technology (CEIT). With nearly two decades of experience at the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (as a system analyst and education coordinator), she transitioned to academia in 2017 as a faculty member in the CEIT Department at Manisa Celal Bayar University. She was awarded the title of Associate Professor in 2022. Between September 2022 and August 2023, she visited Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz as a visiting scholar, conducting her postdoctoral project on integrating computational thinking into STEM education. Then, she worked as a senior researcher at JKU Linz from August 2023 to September 2025. She currently holds a post-doctoral researcher position in Digitalization in Early Childhood Education at the University of Graz. Her research interests include digital education and digitalization in education. She collaborates with the Interdisciplinary Teacher Academy (https://interteacher.org/), Hacettepe University’s ONTOLAB (https://ontolab.hacettepe.edu.tr/), and JKU STEM Education (https://www.jku.at/linz-school-of-education/linz-school-of-education/abteilung-fuer-mint-didaktik/research-groups). Dr. Mumcu has authored numerous papers and contributed to international projects. She considers herself a system and instructional designer, focusing on seamlessly integrating technology, pedagogy, and content.

Nikola’s work connects software engineering and education. He develops conceptual and digital tools that improve the quality of higher education and applies them in teaching to better prepare future software engineers. His work focuses on project-based learning, intelligent tutoring systems, and the application of large language models to support all aspects of the educational process.

Panagiotis is a Project Adviser at the Platforms, Studies and Analysis Unit of European Education and Culture Executive Agency and Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus. He graduated from Jyvaskyla University (Finland) with his PhD in creativity while he has a longstanding experience as primary school teacher, music teacher, school head, and teacher trainer. He worked from 2012 to 2020 as a project manager and team leader at the European Commission´s Joint Research Centre, where he led, among other projects, the development of the European Framework for Digitally-Competent Educational Organisations (DigCompOrg), the SELFIE tool for schools’ digital capacity and the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp). He also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Educational Technologies from 2021 to 2023, working on projects related to computational thinking and teachers’ digital competence. His research interests include digital and entrepreneurship competences, creativity, computational thinking, innovation and digital transformation of education, training and lifelong learning. He has published extensively in these fields (6850+ citations), and delivered keynotes at various events in Europe and beyond. 

Tanja Rankovic, Education Specialist and Head of Education Programme UNICEF Serbia, is leading
programs and initiatives in education and early learning. Her efforts are dedicated to ensuring access to
quality education and improving opportunities for all children, especially those from marginalized
communities and refugee backgrounds. With over 20 years of experience, Tanja has led initiatives to
improve early learning, foster inclusion, enhance education quality, and prevent violence,
discrimination, and dropout. Her expertise spans system-level reforms—policy development,
monitoring, and implementation—gained through work with UNICEF, governments and NGOs across
Serbia, Slovakia, North Macedonia, Greece, and Jordan.
Tanja holds a MA in Education Policy and she deepened her knowledge through the Equity, Quality, and
Leadership Programme from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (USA).