Cambridge and HP · Global · 2024 to 2026
Leaders at the front of digital education.
Technical consulting and facilitation for the HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship, a five-month hybrid programme for senior education policymakers and organisation leaders.1
My role: Technical consultant and facilitator. I contribute practical AI, responsible implementation and low-resource delivery into the programme, and I facilitate the annual residency week in Cambridge. Cambridge and HP own the Fellowship. I do not run it.
The programme
Technology spend is not the same as leadership capability.
Cambridge launched the Fellowship with HP to support senior government officials and organisation leaders through digital-education change. The public programme is hybrid: online study plus an in-person residency, aimed at system resilience, better decisions now, and using EdTech as part of a global community rather than as isolated projects.1
The current site records 122 leaders already welcomed. That is the scale of the Fellowship, not a personal delivery count.1
My brief inside it
How to give fellows usable ways to think about AI in education, including responsible implementation, policy implications, low-resource delivery and what it takes to scale, without turning the week into a product tour.
Residency week
Jesus College, with the Latin American cohort
November 2025. Cambridge Partnership for Education hosted the residential academy at Jesus College. I was there as technical consultant and facilitator, on practical AI implementation in education systems.
My contribution
Technical input, then a week that has to work in the room
The Fellowship has a wider faculty and delivery team. My part is the AI and implementation thread, and the live residency facilitation.
Practical AI applications
Help fellows move from AI literacy talk to how tools, workflows and limits show up in real education systems.
Responsible implementation
Keep policy, safeguarding, data and professional judgement in the same conversation as adoption.
Low-resource delivery
Treat connectivity, devices and context as design constraints, not afterthoughts for a later phase.
Annual residency
Facilitate the Cambridge residency week so peer exchange and technical input happen in the same room, not as a slide deck after the fact.
Related research
HP Futures Council on AI and Educators
Alongside the Fellowship I am a named contributor to the 2025 HP Futures report AI and the Future of Learning, listed as AI Product Lead, Education Futures, Cambridge University Press and Assessment, South Africa.2
The report convened three councils of education, AI and policy experts. I sit on the Council on AI and Educators. That is contributing research and expert input, not authorship of the whole publication.
What I took from the work
Three design lessons
- Fellows already have the system problem. They need methods they can take home, not a tour of tools they cannot deploy.
- AI is one thread, not the programme. The Fellowship is about digital-education leadership. AI has to sit inside that, next to policy, infrastructure and coalitions.
- A residency week is a scarce asset. The useful test is whether people leave with a sharper decision, not a longer reading list.
Attribution: The HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship is a Cambridge and HP programme. This case study covers my technical consulting and residency facilitation from 2024 to 2026. It does not imply I designed or directed the Fellowship. Group photograph from Cambridge Partnership for Education’s public LinkedIn post on the November 2025 residential academy at Jesus College.
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