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Registration and Sponsorship is open for the October 11 - 13, 2022 Hybrid Event The Europe-ATP Steering Committee continues to look forward to hosting its first in-person conference since 2019 at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Heathrow hotel outside of Central London. With its programme set and its theme one of homecoming: E-ATP: The European Home For Assessment, plans are continuing to shape up as registration and sponsorship climbs. "There is a lot of optimism about this conference," noted 2022 E-ATP Chair Tim Burnett of Education Tech Consulting. “We are excited to be both online and in-person this year, I’m particularly looking forward to networking with colleagues face-to-face. We have lots to discuss as so much has changed in the assessment industry in Europe and beyond and I believe this event will be pivotal for the future of assessment." The programme, which will also have a concurrent virtual component, features sessions on trending topics with titles such as a Hybrid Model of University Admission Testing: Lessons Learned in Czechia and Slovakia; Using Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence in Assessments in Europe; and, Testing Fairness: Taking a Global Perspective. It also contains fundamental how-to business presentations that delegates look forward to at ATP events such as You built a testing business, so what's the next move? and Not only WHAT but HOW: Putting the Student at the Heart of the Certification Process. The virtual programme is equally as strong with presentations such as Fusing Technology with Human Interventions to Provide Better Remote Testing Security and Debating AI in Testing Today - Help, Hype, or Headache? Adding to the depth of the programming for this year's conference, ATP's Security Committee will be hosting its first in-person International Security Summit on October 11, also at the Radisson, the morning prior to the kick-off of ATP's E-ATP Conference. ATP CEO Dr. William G. Harris reported, "the International Security Summit was originally set to launch in 2020, but was forced to pivot instead to the virtual environment. And even so, the Summit was very well attended and there is so much enthusiasm for this event, that it was a natural next step to bring it in-person to Europe." He added that the Summit will be a half-day event and a deep dive into test fraud, how it is evolving and what can and should be done to revolutionize methods and practices to counteract the damaging effects on the entire industry. "This is an issue that crosses all practice areas of testing and devalues assessment in all its forms and uses and in all regions. It's really a global problem and it needs global attention," Harris remarked.
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