Ishan Kolhatkar
Speaker
Ishan Kolhatkar
Global Client Evangelist at Inspera, United Kingdom
Ishan Kolhatkar is the Global Client Evangelist at Inspera and an education technology leader. With over a decade of experience in the intersection of technology and education, Ishan is committed to driving positive change and inspiring the adoption of modern assessment methodologies worldwide.
Before joining Inspera, Ishan was a legal academic following a career as a Barrister. He was Deputy Dean of Learning and Teaching and Director of EdTech which led to him purchasing and implementing Inspera. He has a deep understanding of how pedagogy needs to be enabled by technology through experience before and while at Inspera. He was on the Department for Education T-Level panel for Law.
Ishan is an internationally recognised industry expert in education, digital assessment, digital transformation, digital enablement and change management. As an author, he writes for national and international education publications such as Times Higher Education. He has been a speaker at numerous leading education conferences, including Assessment in Higher Education and Association for Learning Technology, THE Campus Live and THE Digital Universities in the UK, MENA, Asia and ANZ, and the EDUtech Asia and ANZ.
Away from work, he's a keen amateur chef, posting pictures of his food online.
Presentation
The future of assessment is now: Are you ready?
For too long, exams have been treated as an administrative hurdle. Something to be endured rather than an opportunity to shape learning.
But what if assessment was no longer a test of endurance for students, or a logistical headache for institutions, but instead a catalyst for deeper engagement and more impactful outcomes? Digital assessment isn’t simply about swapping paper for screens; it’s about rethinking what universities expect from exams altogether.
In this keynote, Ishan will challenge the assumptions that have kept assessment locked in the past and share how forward looking institutions are using digital assessment to strengthen integrity, improve fairness, and align assessment with the skills students truly need. The question is no longer whether exams should evolve, but how far we are willing to let them drive meaningful change in higher education.