HEDx

EP 209. Building a culture for change in an AI era

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Lucy Marshall is DVC of Community and Leadership at University of Sydney. In this episode she joins Peter Chun as CEO of UniSuper to explore...

Podbite#7 Global AI sandboxes

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week's podbite follows 3 major milestones of Annabel Murphy becoming the first HEDx FT employee, the launch of the Sydney June event program,...

HEDx Student Experience - EP3

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Most PhDs are built on original ideas and critical thinking—so what happens when AI enters the equation? On this episode of the HEDx Student Experie...

EP 208. CIT: harmonising the nation's human capital

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

CEO Margot McNeill and Chief Industry and Innovation Officer Georgia von Guttner host HEDx at the Canberra Institute of Technology to share insights i...

EP 207. Wyndham Tech School: a spark of curiosity

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is from a site visit to the Wyndham Tech School in Werribee. A tour of a real tertiary harmonisation centre of excellence with Director S...

Podbite#6 Reconnecting with purpose

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode reflects on what members in UTS and USyd are bringing to the next HEDx event. It follows meetings making plans for workshops on collectiv...

HEDx Student Experience EP2. Student reflections on the TEFA Network conversation - Student Experience Epsiode 2

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when students listen in as teaching academics from across Australia speak with Professor Barney Glover – Acting Chief Commissioner of t...

EP 206 The future for teaching academics with Prof Barney Glover

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kelly Matthews steps in to host a special Teaching and Education Focused Academics (TEFA) Network conversation. Academics from across Austra...

Podbite#5. Global AI innovation coalitions for public value

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This latest weekly reflection follows the second week of visits to UK Vice-Chancellors in London. In a collaboration with Rose Luckin and EDUCATE Vent...

Podbite#4: Innovating out of a crisis

22 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A Podbite live from London where HEDx joins Rose Luckin of EVR and her colleagues in exploring AI innovation sandboxes. We visit Antony Finkelstein of...

EP 206. Looking up and out at Otago.

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Grant Robertson looks up and out 18 months in as Otago VC. As former Deputy PM of NZ he returns to where he studied and worked in research commerciali...

Podbite#3: Can employers fund students?

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This question is posed in the light of overwhelming student debt and non-completion in the US, the call for an employer levy by Bill Shorten in Austra...

EP 205. Research will distinguish disrupted future universities

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pierpaolo Limone is Rector of Pegaso University in Rome. He leads a privately-owned 100,000+ student online university. He is former Rector of the Uni...

Podbite #2 Doing different things, differently

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This second short and snappy podbite describes changes in the program of HEDx activities made in response to feedback. New new member of the HEDx team...

EP 204. Scaling student impact with AI

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Nester MD of SEEK investments is joined by a group of the world's most innovative EdTech companies. Nicola Cresp of OES, Joel di Trapani of V...

Podbite #1 Hallucinating in an echo chamber of complacency

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first in a series of snappy short podcasts called podbites. They are updates on a key topic and question with inputs from various members ...

EP 203. HEDx Student Experience - Episode 1

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The first Student Experience episode features a lively panel of students and sector leaders from the launch event, exploring the exciting future of th...

EP 202. The Future Universities Alliance

21 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Noah Pickus, Director of Global Strategy from Duke University joins the podcast to launch this alliance to Australian and NZ. With a closing date for ...

EP201. Human Skills in an AI World: What Leaders Must Do Now

14 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Burt from the Future Skills Organisation, Gail Bray from Victoria University, Colin Gniel from LinkedIn and Dr. Kathryn Blyth from The Univers...

EP 200. The crisis of trust in our universities

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Deborah Terry AC leads The University of Queensland and the Group of 8 universities. She outlines declining trust as the key issue facing th...

EP 199. Commitments for lifelong learners

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Charlsey Pearce as CEO of Mortar Caps Data Standard is a long term HEDx partner leading an innovation project around data standards for human capabili...

EP198: Why trust is our social capital for change

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Kivanch Oner is CIO of University of Nevada Las Vegas. He joins me and co-host Matt Cavallaro of Salesforce to discuss how change to serve changing st...

EP 197 Celebrating vulnerability in our community

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kris Ryan DVCA of The University of Queensland introduces and reflects on the most recent HEDx event on Our Commitments to Students in the A...

EP 196. Commitments to online learners

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kylie Readman DVC of UTS leads a panel of Australian experts in online learning in a discussion of the needs of this special group of lifelo...

EP 196. Commitments to online learners

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kylie Readman DVC of UTS leads a panel fo Australian experts in online learning in a discussion of the needs of this special group of lifelo...

EP195. Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia's Future

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

George Williams of Western Sydney University launches a seminal essay on the crisis of social license in our universities and what we have to do about...

EP 194. The launch of ASU London

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Biggs VC of JCU recently visited TEDI-London as an exemplar of learning innovation and of how AI can democratise education for disadvantaged lea...

EP 193. What do students need?

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Shorten, Pascale Quester, Sharan Burrow and Simon Biggs answer this and other questions posed by Dionne Higgins of KordaMentha. "Nothing abo...

EP 193. What do students need?

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Shorten, Pascale Quester, Sharan Burrow and Simon Biggs answer this question as posed by Dionne Higgins of KordaMentha. Nothing about us without ...

EP 192. Doing things our own way

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Chris Husbands former VC of Sheffield Hallam University and founding chair of the UK Teaching Excellence Framework joins Professor Helen Bartlett ...

EP 191. Shaping the future of tertiary education data

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Oppermann is Chair of Data Standards for the Commonwealth and Industry Professor at UTS. From a lifetime in AI and driving technology to serve the...

EP 190. Australian Student Voices

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode gives voice to 34 students from 8 different HEDx member universities and partners in UQ, Adelaide, Swinburne, OES, OUA, Torrens, UniSC, a...

EP 189. Staff and students as partners on a two-lane AI strategy

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Danny Liu and Adam Bridgeman at the University of Sydney have pioneered the development of AI and a two-lane strategy for its use and assessment. In t...

EP 188. The Queensland Commitment student panel

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Suzanne Le Mire as PVC of Education and the Student Experience at The University of Queensland brings a student panel to the podcast. The pa...

EP 187. Playing in the partnership sandpit to find new value.

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Amanda Broderick is Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of East London. UEL in 2018 was heavily in debt and rated the UK univers...

EP 186. Co-designed skills-based lifelong learning

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Elibank-Murray and Rania Shibl of the University of the Sunshine Coast share experiences of industry partnerships to give work experience to stud...

EP 185. Global online education strategy at UTS

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kylie Readman as DVC Education and Students at University of Technology Sydney outlines a new venture in global online education. Launching ...

EP 184. What does the next 5 years hold?

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

HEDx launched its first podcast on September 9 2020. Since then over 183 episodes, more than 200 global leaders have shared thoughts on the future hig...

EP 183. A time for courage

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Dewar and Dionne Higgins are experienced leaders of Australian universities now leading a higher education consulting practice at Korda Mentha. T...

EP 182. Where will higher education's Spotify come from?

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kristian Widen is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Cooperation and Innovation at Sweden's industry-engaged Halmstad University, after a disting...

EP 181. AI impacts on human wellbeing

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Biggs as Vice-Chancellor of James Cook University sees great opportunity in AI enhancing personalisation in tertiary learning and becoming a dis...

EP 180. The sector seen through fresh eyes

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Honourable Bill Shorten transitioned at the start of the year from cabinet to Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra. His fre...

EP 179. How do we gain and measure social licence?

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Sheehy of Universities Australia, Verity Firth of Engagement Australia and Georgina Downer of the Robert Menzies Institute were a formidable open...

EP 178 Learning from the expertise economy

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly Palmer led global corporate learning at LinkedIn, Degreed, Yahoo and Sun Microsystems. Inspired by the audacious gaols of Silicon Valley, her mi...

EP 177. How skills education drives productivity growth

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Soon Joo Gog, Tracey Donnery, Patrick Kidd, and May Sok Mui Lim join the podcast. Skills Future Singapore, SkillsNet Ireland and FSO in Australia are ...

EP 176. What is an achievement wallet?

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah DeMark is an assessment expert leading education and workforce outcomes as Vice Provost at Western Governors University. This is the worlds larg...

EP175. A global perspective from the birthplace of computers

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Duncan Ivison is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester where staff members including Alan Turing defined the concepts of algor...

EP 174. Serving communities by engaged teaching and research.

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Verity Firth as Chair of Engagement Australia and Vice-President of Societal Impact, Equity and Engagement at UNSW joins with guest host Alphia Possam...

EP 173. How do UK and Australian Tertiary Education compare?

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An episode from a HEDx study tour of the UK and from the foyer of the HEPI Conference in London. Sally Curtain of Bendigo Kangan Institute, Andrea Bur...

EP 172. Student success is everybody's business

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Burdick, Marni Passer Vassallo and Holly Halmo, EdD, form the core of an outstanding student success team at New York University bringing human s...

EP 171. Hyper-agility for radically affordable college

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sasha Thackaberry is Founder and President of the newly launched Newstate university. As a competency-based, stackable, subscription price-model, onli...

EP 170. Teaching focussed leaders

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly Matthews of UQ takes control of the mic as a guest host joined by Tim Fawns of Monash and Stephen George-Williams of the University of Sydney. T...

EP 169. Why do we teach?

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Danny Liu of the University of Sydney argues that AI makes us question not only how, but why we teach. He joins a panel that includes Susan Zhang of ...

EP 168. The tectonic plates of education

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lev Gonick is CIO of the most innovative university in the US at Arizona State. He outlines the part technology has played in the 20+ year of transfor...

EP 167. A vision of agentic AI for student life cycles

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Theo Farrell as Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University has a vision for agentic AI to serve the lifecycle needs of all students. Why this would solve ...

EP 166. Leaders engaging at the student coalface

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Tim Renick of Georgia State and George Williams VC at Western Sydney are two pioneering leaders and champions of student success on the global stag...

EP 165. Is higher education changing fast enough?

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Melinda Cilento as CEO of CEDA leads the national conversation for a shared plan towards Progress 2050. It has pillars of productivity and innovation ...

EP 164. Finding AI strategic sparkle to avoid our Kodak moment

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Dewar of KordaMentha leads a panel of public and private university leaders re-examining strategies in the light of opportunities with AI. Pascal...

EP 163. Higher Education in the Age of AI

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Theo Farrell as Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University, with his VC Fellow Dr Susan Zhang, join as co-hosts and partners with HEDx in opening the late...

EP 162. AI experimentation with Cogniti

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Danny Liu of University of Sydney built the award-winning Cogniti.ai to enhance student learning in higher education. In this interview with...

EP 161. Knowing our students and their journeys

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charlsey Pearce is CEO of MortarCAPS Data Standard. She joins Michael Burgess, formerly of Western Sydney University, and I to describe a new data sta...

EP 160. Global best-practice in skills-based lifelong learning

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A/Prof May Lim Sok Mui is Assistant Provost of Applied Learning at Singapore Institute of Technology. She pioneers a coaching approach to competency-b...

EP 159. Never waste a crisis: how universities remain relevant

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lev Gonick the CIO of Arizona State University and Dave Rosowsky Senior Advisor to President Michael Crow are colleagues at the world's most innov...

EP 158. Where is the jagged frontier for AI in HE?

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Laufenberg is Head of Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University. His career already spans three continents, and traversing startups in tech...

EP 157. Equity and wellbeing: Keys to sustainability

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Bendall of the National Student Ombudsman office, George Williams VC of WSU, Shamit Saggar of ACSES, Paul Harpur of UQ and Hashini Panditharatne...

EP 156. What happened at the UA summit?

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Biggs of JCU, Kris Ryan and Suzanne Le Mire of UQ and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy of WSU reflect on what they heard in Canberra this week and what i...

EP 155. Everyone loves equity until it hurts

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Damon Salesa is Vice-Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology. He is the first and only Indigenous VC of any university in Australia ...

EP 154 How many international students does Australia need?

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Abul Rizvi is former Deputy Secretary of the departments of Immigration and Communtcation. He has a PhD in Immigration Policy from Melbourne and ca...

EP 153. Caring for students

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Bendall as the new First Assistant Ombudsman in the Office of the National Student Ombudsman has a passion for resolving complaints. Six days in...

EP 152. Integrating universities to enhance student experience

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Greenstein, Chancellor Emeritus of the Pennsylvania State University system came to the role from time at Oxford, the University of California sys...

EP 151. Where did AI come from and where is it taking us?

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Genevieve Bell joins the podcast as Vice-Chancellor and President of the ANU. She reflects on her journey as a scientist, engineer and human...

EP 150. Using AI in omnichannel higher education

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ann Kirschner, Former President of Hunter College at CUNY and Aleks Subic, VC at Aston set a scene of innovating toward ominichannel higher Ed. This i...

EP 149. Accessing education for the haves and have nots

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jared Pearlman is Chief Strategy Officer of VitalSource a global digital content provider for higher education. He and they are very focussed on the c...

EP 148. Student empathy is critical to everyone's success

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sabih Bin Wasi is the Founder & CEO of Stellic. He brings his lived experience as a recent graduate in design thinking and AI at Carnegie Mellon U...

EP 147. Time for the sector to get brave

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A final episode from the Future Solutions conference has Kelly Mathews of UQ join me to reflect on the panel she led of data from 8000+ Australian HE ...

EP 146. How is AI impacting equity students?

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recent and future hosts of HEDx Conferences are Professors Kris Ryan DVC A of UQ and Jessica Vanderlelie DVC A of La Trobe. A fireside chat with them ...

EP 145. AI: the biggest education transformation we will see

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professors Jessica Vanderlelie, Allie Clemens and Rorden Wilkinson as DVCAs of La Trobe, Monash and Macquarie join the podcast to reflect on the impac...

EP 144. Partner or perish: collaboration from diversity in the sector

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode showcases innovation from beyond public universities into the tertiary system including in innovative partnerships involving employers, g...

EP 143. How can public universities best innovate?

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Debbie Terry of The University of Queensland joins fellow VCs John Dewar, Helen Bartlett, Simon Biggs and Chris Moran. They respond to a provocation b...

EP 142. Learning agility: the most important future trait?

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Washbourne has been founder and CEO of ReadyTech for 25 years. His personal agility has seen him grow a leading tech company of 600+ staff and na...

EP 141. How will a million more students access tertiary education?

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Jones leads Navitas as Group CEO after more than 20 years working for this private provider in partnerships with public universities. The growth...

EP 140. Students are more than walking hard drives of knowledge

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ulrik Juul Chistensen is the Danish founder of the Area 9 group of learning technology companies working in partnership with VitalSource. In this epis...

EP 139. Fighting for the interests of students

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

George WIlliams AO is the new VC of Western Sydney University. He argues that we show our values by what we do and who we fight for. He sees that as t...

EP 138. Doubling down on student payback

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Stofenmacher is the purpose-driven founder and CEO of Mexican private university UTEL and established a global education company Scala partnerin...

EP 137. How diverse is the tertiary education ecosystem?

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Jacob CEO of Collarts epitomises diversity in tertiary education, after a varied public and private university experience. They make a case for a ...

EP 136. Is higher education innovative and relevant?

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kerry London, DVC Research at Torrens University Australia, leads a debate of global sector leaders on the state of higher education and its...

EP 135. How are universities failing students?

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Renick has led outstanding student success at Georgia State University for 25 yers. He has achieved improvments in student completions and outcome...

EP 134. What would an AI-first university be like in Australia?

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Human Systems group of Paul LeBlanc, George Siemens and Tanya Gambey are exploring the concept of an AI-first university. At a recent event at UTS...

EP 133. How do you start a new university?

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kerri-Lee Krause was the most recent person to start a new university in Australia. She has now been appointed to chair the panel to advise ...

EP 132. Nursing education in Australia powered by ASU

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Hill as APAC CEO reflects on his experience of pioneering new models of private investment and online education globally in roles at Laureate an...

EP 131. Systemic issues with the HE model in an AI world

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Rowena Harper, DVC Education of Edith Cowan University is a leading innovator and pioneer in new models of education fit for the emerging te...

EP 130. Is disruptive innovation now underway?

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Horn was co-founder of the Clayton Christenson Institute and co-authored The Disruptive Class with Clay. In this episode he outlines the diffe...

Ep129. Global experiences in place-based innovation

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Ken Sloan is Vice Chancellor of Harper Adams University in the UK. He joins the podcast in the first of a series of episodes delivered in a ...

EP 128. A journalists take on current HE issues

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Erin Morley is Education Editor of Campus Review and writes for a higher education staff audience about change and where it is heading. After a year i...

EP 127. Four futures for higher education

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Chris Husbands is former Vice Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University and the first Chair of the UK Teaching Excellence Framework. He recently p...

EP 126. The Inertia of Excellence

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Noah Pickus of Duke University and Bryan Penprase of Soka University share insights from their recent book The New Global Universities: Reinventing Ed...

EP 125. A flywheel for IT skills for 2 million lifelong learners

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paulo and Guilherme Silveira are two brothers who co-founded and lead Alura as an integrated set of companies delivering IT skills in Brazil. They do ...

EP 124. What is an AI-first university?

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

George Siemens of Southern New Hampshire University Human Systems and UniSA has pioneered technology advances in higher education and recent advances ...

EP 123. Is AI disrupting higher education?

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Lodge of the University of Queensland was a member of a roundtable led from ANU. It was commissioned by the Australian Universities Accord proce...

EP 122. How broken is higher education?

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joel di Trapani co-CEO of student support company Vygo co-hosts an episode going out on both HEDx and Vygo's Broken Education podcast platform. Re...