Sponsored by CER, the leading authority and advocate in the U.S. for education innovation and transformation, in partnership with and hosted by Stoà*, one of the top 10 Business Schools in Italy

CER is proud to present with Stoà, the most important and historic management school in the South of Italy, The U.S.–Italia Education Innovation Festival, April 27–29, 2020, in Ercolano, Italy, steps from Pompeii and overlooking the Bay of Naples.

The U.S.–Italia Education Innovation Festival will be the first global Ed Tech event in Italy, with a concentration on innovations and technologies that amplify, engage and educate the world’s students in the arts and sciences.  Our focus will be on exploring, uncovering and connecting with technologies and innovative practices already being increasingly applied across the globe to learning, teaching, and in the workforce, bringing us each day more quickly than the last into the 21st Century. Together, we will move from early education, through K–12 and Higher Ed and across the Workforce, breaking up the silos to build continuum of education models that cut through all levels of education, preparing us for work, life and explosive change–across the globe. 

Gather with the experts, investors, entrepreneurs and start-ups from one of the world’s most beautiful, culturally rich, scientifically pioneering countries in the world. Our host region, Campania, and its most famous city, Naples, home to the first Greek settlements, is widely considered the epicenter of world history and scientific invention, beauty and culture. 

Join us to build the new education renaissance worldwide. 

Registration will open soon. Contact the organizing team at [email protected] to ensure you are notified! 
 

Do you think you could be the perfect partner, speaker, exhibitor, pitch contestant, or one of the few select attendees?  Priority will be given to members of edmaven.com, CER’s unique, new global education network.  (not a member? Sign up today!)

INCONTRIAMOCI!  Let’s meet! 

Hotel and location information will be provided by late January. Attendees are encouraged to arrive at least a day in advance.  Several educational and cultural experiences will be provided, including visits to Pompeii and Oplontis, as well as food and wine tasting events.

WHY NAPLES? Why Italy?
Once upon a time, Naples was the city that connected the Romans to the rest of Italy with their innovative roads, tunnels, ports and public baths. It’s the gateway to the country’s southern regions, and the anchor to the superior and plentiful science and engineering expertise that is often little known outside the historic nation. Italy has a growing and dynamic Ed Tech community. We believe that the US’s experience with educational technology and innovation can become a critical new link in a new global partnership.

Countries like China, Israel, England and Brazil–to name just a few–have hosted and boasted innovative education expertise for many years.   When it comes to education, however, there are few better places in the world which can inspire not just the sciences to be delivered in better and innovative ways (think aqueducts) but could help transform the teaching of the humanities just by staging an event with the beautiful backdrop of Napoli, where so many great advances of civilization were largely developed.

ABOUT Stoà
Stoà, one of the top ten graduate business schools in Italy, was born in 1987 in collaboration with the prestigious Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  Attentive to the digital transformation 4.0, Stoà has training courses addressed both to a  polytechnic vision and to specialized contents, placing human capital at the center for the development of organizations, businesses and Public Administration.

Founded in 1993, the Center for Education Reform started with a simple premise—to achieve excellence in education. The first laws supporting charter schools, school choice offerings and even state standards were owing to CER’s leadership. Today CER works to bring about every opportunity possible to expose learners at all levels, from K through Career, to the best innovations America can provide, a goal we know from our history is boundless.