Colin Pidd (Aus) a Director of an international consulting company BTLi, works all over the world with some of the world's most iconic companies and organisations. He specialises in communication, leadership conversations and influencing strategies.

Ferre Laevers (Belgium) is Director of the Research Centre for Experiential Education based at Leuven University (Belgium). The Experiential Education project has generated a framework for quality assessment and quality improvement, suitable for a wide range of settings.

Gunilla Dahlberg (Sweden) Professor of Early Childhood Education, Stockholm Institute of Education. Dr. Dahlberg is a leading international scholar in the area of social welfare policy for young children and their families, and in the area of identifying the theoretical and policy implications of a 'postmodern' view of children's development.

Helen Milroy (Aus) is a descendant of the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Helen works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Bentley Family Clinic and Families At Work residential programme, and as a Professor and Director for the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health at the University of Western Australia.

Iram Siraj-Blatchford (London) is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Iram is interested in early childhood education, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and the impact of learning in school and home. She is an expert in mixed method and qualitative research analysis and case study work and is currently working on longitudinal studies as a principal investigator in a number of countries including the UK, Australia and Ireland.

Pauline Harris (Aus) is a world-renowned early childhood academic with particular expertise in children's language and literacy. Pauline has an outstanding international record in early childhood research, strongly underpinned by social justice principles.

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