Announcing the EdTech 2026 conference

• When: June 3rd-4th 2026
• Where: Dublin City University, St Patrick's Campus, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland
• How: Check the ILTA website and our mailing list as Call for Abstracts will open soon

In 2026, the Irish Learning Technology Association’s annual EdTech conference will convene to ask not just what technologies can do in the service of teaching and learning, but who gets to design, develop or deploy them, for whom, and why?

We invite you to join us in a conversation that asks: Who was, is and should be the people of your/our Edtech community? Who was, is or was missing from conversations about digital pedagogies (Macgilchrist, Potter & Williamson, 2022)? Who are we designing for (or against) in EdTech, and who is missing?

We look forward, as usual, to hearing about novel applications, techniques, tools or projects you have been working on, but we ask that you also reflect on the human (or non-human) beings that your work impacts or is produced by. We are interested in participatory tools and approaches such as Students as Partners (Ní Bheoláin, Lowney & O’Riordan 2020), Relational Ethics (Birhane, 2021) and the hard, messy and ever-unfinished work of making EdTech more accessible, equitable, diverse and inclusive.

To widen the conversation around EdTech, we particularly welcome newer voices. We simultaneously wish to pay homage to the occasion of our 25th conference and consequently welcome retrospectives, retrocomputing homages and EdTech histories. You are welcome to include your favourite old skool technologies, memes, methods, throwbacks and theories as reminders that EdTech is not ahistorical and that we are a product of what and where we have come from, even as we aspire to more just and joyous social imaginaries (Benjamin, 2024).

Please come join us and help make EdTech a plural and a pluriversal you!

• When: June 3rd-4th 2026
• Where: Dublin City University, St Patrick's Campus, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland
• How: See the ILTA website and join our mailing list to find out when the Call for Papers opens