edX
edX was founded by Harvard and MIT and is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies. As a global nonprofit, edX is transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access. Fulfilling the demand for people to learn on their own terms, edX is reimagining the possibilities of education, providing the highest-quality, stackable learning experiences including the groundbreaking MicroMasters® programs. Supporting learners at every stage, whether entering the job market, changing fields, seeking a promotion or exploring new interests, edX delivers courses for curious minds on topics ranging from data and computer science to leadership and communications. edX is where you go to learn.
International Open Academy
The International Open Academy (IOA) is a leader in online learning. They are accredited by the International Council for Online Educational Standards (icoes.org), and their online courses and exams are accessible to students all over the world - from any digital device. The IOA have helped over 320,000 students from 139 countries upgrade their job training, launch new careers, and discover exciting new passions. All IOA courses span a wide spectrum of topics, and are geared towards career training, skill development, and finding sustainable employment.
IOA is a proud member of the European Commission’s The Digital Skills & Jobs Coalition, a multi-stakeholder partnership involving Member States, companies, social partners, NGOs, and educational establishments working to advance digital skills and job training throughout the European Union. They are also proud to collaborate with Tech Partnership, where they join Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, and others in the network, to promote skill development and training for today’s digital economy.
Ace Aviation
Ace Aviation is the official school of Aviation for the top registered training organisation in Australia, giving their students access to tertiary level resources, facilities and certifications.
With access to industry leading campuses and the latest technologies, Ace Aviation is currently operating across Australia, Singapore and South Korea. They are the largest drone training Academy in the Nation.
Ace Aviation has also trained a myriad of governmental bodies, universities and emergency services in the application and usage of drone technology. Ace trainers have been voted as the industry’s best in 2018 and have come from aviation backgrounds that include commercial pilots and aerospace engineers. Their trainers have been operating drones for years and have successfully trained over 2500 students who now operate as photographers, surveyors, risk assessors, agriculture professionals, scientific researchers, university lectures and more!
Most importantly, their courses are not just limited to covering the required syllabus set by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), their courses go much further into the technology and opportunities within the drone industry.
StationX
Nathan House CEO
Nathan has over 24 years’ experience in cyber security and has advised some of largest companies in the world, assuring security on multi-million and multi-billion dollar projects. He is the CEO of Station X, a cyber security consultancy. More recently he acted as the lead security consultant on a number of the UKs mobile banking and payment solutions helping secure to date over £71Bn in transactions.
His clients have included; BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Vodafone, VISA, T-mobile, GSK, COOP Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Natwest, Yorkshire bank, BG Group, BT, London 2012.
Over the years he has spoken at a number of security conferences, developed free security tools, and discovered serious security vulnerabilities in leading applications.
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Codecademy
Codecademy is an education company. But not one in the way you might think. Education is old. The current public school system in the US dates back to the 19th century and wasn’t designed to scale the way it has. Lots of companies are working to “disrupt” education by changing the way things work in the classroom. Codecademy are not one of those companies. They are rethinking education from the bottom up.
Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free and paid coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS, React.js), Ruby, SQL, C++, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. By subscribing to their "pro" option users can access personalized learning plans, quizzes, realistic projects, and live help from advisors.
Alex Genadinik
Senior Instructor
Alex is the Founder of Problemio as well as a software and a mobile developer. He is a 3-time best selling Amazon author, creator of top entrepreneur mobile apps with 2,000,000+ downloads, mobile app marketing expert, a teacher with over 100,000+ students, YouTube marketer (more elearning) with 2,000,000 views, an affiliate marketing expert, and a business coach. We are incredibly excited to have the Alex on board at the Future Blackboard.
Joe Shew
Joe is the Founder and CEO of Crypto Consulting Institute, an organisation advising and educating individuals on how to minimise risk and maximise returns in cryptocurrency.
His passion for financial markets began at the age of 12 when he executed his first trade on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), which lead to a career in the financial sector. After receiving a first class (Hons) finance degree from a London university, Joe continued his career in Australia and was recognised as a Top 10 global performer for Robert Half International (NYSE: RHI), a $US7 billion global financial and executive consulting firm.
He discovered Bitcoin in 2014 and became obsessed with the technology and how it is changing the global financial landscape. Joe is now focused on his cryptocurrency consulting and contributing to the global adoption of cryptocurrency and the underlying blockchain technology.
Josh Lehman
Josh is the Director & Co-Founder at Digital Surge an Australian Bitcoin Exchange designed specifically for beginners.
Digital Surge is Brisbane’s first digital exchange, specialising in bitcoin trading. The team comprises experts in the fields of finance, security, operations, IT, digital and support, and our mission is to make it easy for every Australian to understand, trade and securely pay with bitcoin.
Skye Dunworth
Skye is one of Australia’s female experts in cryptocurrency, and is facilitating the female uptake of cryptocurrencies and digital finance as an emerging asset class with her beautifully simple wallet and digital currency platform,
Spendher Invest available on the app store. Her background is in engineering (BA Computer Science UNSW) and business management consulting at Deloitte, working within their technology practise on large scale finance transformations and strategy for Australia’s largest banking and investment firms including Macquarie Bank, Westpac and ANZ.
Skye has founded and developed her platform Spendher Invest specifically to help a broader range of people increase their financial knowledge and create wealth through digital currencies.
Anouk Pinchetti
Anouk Pinchetti’s career has spanned three decades in the IT industries across three continents within the Government, Utilities, Corporate and Community sectors. Anouk has studied complementary and alternative currencies for twenty years and first heard about Bitcoin in 2010, and began leading workshops in the technology in 2017. Anouk is a Blockchain Technology Educator and Consultant working with the Blockchain Centre in Melbourne, as well as an Educator and Business Strategy Consultant with Intraverse Blockchain Technologies.
Kyle Stagoll
Kyle Stagoll has travelled the world as an international model, between NY, Milan, and HK, after building up a high net worth client base, it became natural for him to form Stag Enterprises, a Private Equity venture capital firm, of which sources funds, through high net worth individuals, for start-up entrepreneurs & business.
Having a strong interest in fitness and health, at 25 he started his first business while finishing his degree in Finance and Economics, bringing a successful US company to Australia, he quickly became a global leader in sales & marketing, he found himself networking with doctors, manufacturers, and other successful business leaders, through this the creation of Stag Enterprises was founded.
Kyle is the co-founder of Sash Group which is an Australian restaurant franchise specialising in Japanese Fusion cuisine, Sash has quickly expanded in its first 12 months from Melbourne to Sydney, and now beinging it's international journey to Vietnam and Europe in 2019.
Kyle is now heading up the crypto currency space at Melbourne strategic advisory firm Elysium Capital Partners, which specialises in raising capital, taking company's public on the Australian Stock Exchange and strategic advice for business exploring cryptocurrency and technology sector of today's rapidly moving global economy.
Amy-Rose Goodey
Amy-Rose is the founder of Future Blackboard. She is also a building designer, mother and an emerging technology events manager.
Amy-Rose has extensive experience in IT, human services, broadcasting on various radio shows and graphic design. With the skills acquired over her career she has combined them in order to build the Future Blackboard platform delivering education for the new economy to all skill levels.
