In 2018, Bett Educar formally established an Advisory Board for content curation, whose role is to provide guidance on the educational proposals to be presented at the event.

Since then, every edition has featured a team of prominent representatives from the education sector. The panelists are always professionals working in a wide variety of sectors within the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

The Council aims to foster leadership in transforming innovation in education while shaping this ecosystem in the country. In 2020, this distinguished team is led by educator Maria Alice Carraturi, Director of Content at Bett Educar, and consists of 16 members.

The collective wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of education possessed by the participants enables the Bett Educar Conference—and all of its parallel discussion forums—to initiate crucial, global debates on education during the four-day event.

It is the advisory board members who help define the central theme of Bett Educar—which in 2020 is “Does today’s education prepare us for the future?”—and put together the schedule of presentations, organized into 24 core themes based on four guiding pillars: Management, Technology, Teacher Training, and Public Policy.

Learn more about the members of the Bett Educar 2020 Board:

Ademar Batista Pereira, president of the National Federation of Private Schools (Fenep)
A businessman and school principal, he served as president of the Union of Private Schools of the State of Paraná (Sinepe-PR) from 2008 to 2012 and has been with Fenep since 2016, initially as vice president, before being reelected president for the 2019–2021 term.

Alessio Costa Lima, former president of Undime
, who served as president of the National Union of Municipal Education Directors (Undime) from 2015 to 2017, is the municipal education director of Alto Santo (CE) and the current president of Undime’s Northeast Region for the 2020–2021 term.

Celso Niskier, President of ABMES
, Dean of UniCarioca University Center and holder of a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, was elected CEO of the Brazilian Association of Higher Education Institutions (ABMES) and will lead the organization through May 2022.

Daniela Caldeirinha, Director of Projects at the Lemann Foundation
A journalist with a graduate degree in Social Psychology, she leads projects to support school networks and schools, as well as initiatives to expand the pedagogical use of technology. Previously, she headed the Foundation’s Educational Policy department, leading efforts to support the development and approval of the BNCC (National Common Core Curriculum), and early in her career at the institution, she was responsible for the translation and implementation of the Khan Academy platform in Brazil through a school-based project that benefits more than 50,000 students.

Domingos Machado, Director of Innovation at Unit
s been Vice President of the Association of Information Technology Managers of the State of Sergipe (CIO-SE) since 2015, following the end of his long tenure as president of the institution (from 2008 to 2015). He served as Director of Information Technology (1992–2008) and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Tiradentes University (1998–2011) and is currently Director of Competitive Intelligence for the Tiradentes Education Group and a professor at Tiradentes University.

Fredric Litto, president of ABED
As president of the Brazilian Association for Distance Education (ABED) since 1995, he has extensive experience in the field of Information Science, with an emphasis on Computer-Mediated Communication, focusing primarily on the following topics: distance education, learning, telematics, digital repositories, and new ways of working.

Henrique Sartori, a university professor
and political scientist, served as Acting Minister of Education (MEC), Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Education (SE/MEC), National Secretary for the Regulation and Supervision of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education (SERES/MEC), and Executive Secretary of the National Education Council (CNE-MEC). He is the former Chancellor of the Estácio Group.

James Pinheiro dos Santos, executive secretary of ANEC
A social worker and educator specializing in Adolescence and Youth, with a postgraduate degree in Higher Education Teaching and currently pursuing a master’s degree in Education, he currently holds a senior position on the board of the National Association of Catholic Education of Brazil (
, ANEC).

José Augusto de Mattos Lourenço, vice president of SIEEESP
A businessman, professor, and school principal, the former president of Fenep (National Federation of Private Schools) is currently the vice president of the Union of Educational Institutions of the State of São Paulo (SIEEESP).

Lucia Dellagnelo, executive director of the Center for Innovation in Brazilian Education (CIEB)
. Honored by the Ministry of Education (MEC) with the National Order of Educational Merit medal, she holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in education from Harvard University (United States). She is a national and international authority on educational technology. Among other roles, she chairs the judging committee for the King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize, sponsored by UNESCO, which recognizes global initiatives for the use of technology in schools.

Luciano Meira, president of Joy Street
A renowned expert in gamification—or, more precisely, education through games—he holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of California, Berkeley (U.S., 1991), a master’s degree in cognitive psychology (UFPE, 1987), and a bachelor’s degree in education (FAFIRE, 1984). In addition, he collaborates with C.E.S.A.R. (Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems) on innovation projects and usability studies.

Luiz Miguel Martins Garcia, president of Undime-SP
With extensive academic experience, he currently serves as Municipal Secretary of Education for the municipality of Sud Mennucci, São Paulo,
president of the São Paulo Chapter of the National Union of Municipal Education Directors (Undime-SP), and vice president of Undime
Southeast Region. He has participated in the development of the BNCC (National Common Core Curriculum) since its inception as a Research Assistant and currently co-chairs, alongside the state secretary of education, the Steering Committee for the Implementation of the BNCC and the Development of the São Paulo State Curriculum. He delivers lectures, workshops, and training sessions throughout the country, focusing on educational policies and teacher training.

Luiz Roberto Curi, president of the National Education Council (CNE)
A sociologist with a Ph.D. in economics from Unicamp, he has served as a member of the National Education Council (CNE) since 2012, having been appointed by the SBPC (Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science), ABC (Brazilian Academy of Sciences), SBM (Brazilian Mathematical Society), and SBQ (Brazilian Chemical Society), where he served as president of the Chamber of Higher Education from 2016 to 2018 and currently serves as president. He also served as president of the Anísio Teixeira Institute for Educational Studies and Research (Inep).

Miguel Thompson, academic director of the Santilhana Foundation
A elementary school teacher for more than three decades, biologist, and oceanographer, the speaker and former CEO of the Singularidades Institute—author of several textbooks, consultant, and educational administrator—assumed his new position in September 2019. As an educational consultant, he has provided services to the Ministry of Education, the São Paulo State Department of Education, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pearson Education, and Gartner Consulting. He currently also chairs the Editorial Board of Editora Segmento.

Priscila Cruz, executive director of Todos Pela Educação
, holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She helped found the Faça Parte Institute in 2002, where she served as coordinator until 2005. She is a co-founder of the Todos Pela Educação movement, where she serves as executive president. Since February 2018, she has chaired the Board of the Articule Institute. She has given hundreds of lectures on education in Brazil and abroad and has participated in numerous hearings in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

Romero Tori, professor at Poli-USP
Author of the book *Educação Sem Distância* and curator of the blog of the same name, this engineer—who holds a Ph.D. and the title of “libre-docente” from USP—is currently an Associate Professor 3 at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Poli-USP), where he coordinates Interlab, USP’s Interactive Technologies Laboratory, and conducts research on virtual and augmented reality applied to education and healthcare.

 

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