English teacher with more than 20-year experience, game designer, game educator, the head of Trendy English.


Topic: "Find your way as a facilitator"

Karen Elliott has been an English teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer for over 20 years. Specialising in young learners, she has given talks, workshops and webinars on many topics, including phonics, storytelling and content and enquiry based learning. Karen is committed to a life-long and nature-based approach to education. She currently writes and illustrates online lesson plans for the British Council website. She co-authored Activities for Young Learners with Herbert Puchta and has worked with authors to contribute materials to several course books, including Kids Box, Greenman and the Magic Forest, Super Minds and Interactive.


Topic: "Find your way in using phonics for Young Learners"

Polina is a teacher, trainer, researcher and a director of Polina Kordik School of English that specializes in preparation for CAE and CPE online. Polina holds an MA in Bilingualism, MA (hons) in European Languages, CELTA, IH CAM, CPE, Delta (1, 2 Merit) and blogs about teaching, reading and exams.
https://polinaenglish.ru/


Debates "It's better to be a universal teacher than to have a specialisation"

Lesley White has over 30 years of experience as both an Early Years' educator and trainer. As Director of Training for Letterland International, Lesley leads Letterland's team of trainers around the world. She has developed and delivered training sessions in many countries both in person and online.


Topic: "Find Your Way to Effectively Teach Young Learners Remotely"

Nina has been teaching English for young learners and teens for over 17 years and last 4 of them she has been interested in CLIL method. Since then Nina has been successfully applying this method at the lessons. She has TKT (1,2,3) and TESOL certificates. At the conference, Nina is going to share her knowledge of the method and tell you 4 steps how to create an exciting CLIL lesson for your students.


Topic: "Find the easiest way to create a CLIL lesson (4 steps to create CLIL lesson)"

Teacher of English with more than 18 years of experience, teacher trainer at language school Tip Top, Sevastopol. CAE, TKT YLE, CELT-P. Prepares students for Cambridge YLE, KET, PET, FCE, CAE


Topic: "Find your way to optimise your lesson preparation time"

Eduardo Carranza Picas is an experienced teacher and teacher trainer with broad international experience in ESL. Eduardo is specializing in teaching very young learners (3-8 y.o) and teens. He is a leading teacher and teacher trainer of Smart School, Ulyanovsk.


Topic: "Find the way to create a chat room (in English)"

Taia has been working as a passionate teacher for more than 10 years and she has never got disappointed by her occupation. Today she is an English school owner and a teacher trainer. Also Taia is an author of more than 20 webinars and seminars for teachers and school owners. She shares her experience in "We teach English" (teachers community) and her Instagram blog.


Topic: "Find your way to hybridize lessons"

Anna Tonkikh is DELTA-certified teacher and a Cambridge University graduate. As an Educator, she teaches pre-service teachers and trains in-service ELT professionals. Anna is also a DOS at Linguagrad, Kazakhstan and works as a coordinator for the English Access Scholarship, a highly competitive and prestigious EFL program for teens sponsored by the US Department of State. Anna is an author of professional development courses TEACH IELTS and SAVVY ONLINE TEACHING.


Topic: "Find your way to teach with COMICS"

Aleksandra is a newly minted freelancer with 15 years of experience in teaching, CELTA holder and adept at teaching kids. For the last 2 years she's been teaching mostly online.


Topic: "Find your way to get the most out of their energy online."

Teacher of English specialising in working with young learners and very young learners online. Speaker at an international ELT-conference "Слёт Василис по обмену премудростями-2020, 2021"


Topic: "Find your way to deal with limited course book resources"

Yelena Cherkassets is a FLEX '14 Alumna. She has over 7 years of teaching experience including online teaching and exam preparation. Besides being an EFL teacher she is also a Marketing specialist with focus on the educational field.


Topic: "Find your tools and bring the colors"

Teacher of English, expert in teaching teens. Speaker at international ELT conferences (Trendy English, Слет Василис по обмену премудростями). Assistant teacher trainer


Topic: "Find your way to use whatsapp as a teaching tool"

Alena Kikhay is an EFL online teacher, teacher trainer. Self-employed tutor. Has TKT certificates. She has been teaching for over 12 years. 5 of them online. Main area of interests is teaching online. She has been working with primary, young teens, teens and adults online both individually and in mini-groups. The owner and the author of the VK community "Give&Get | Всё про онлайн-преподавание", runs her private club for online teachers. She organizes CPD events for teachers in online area and presents at webinars and international conferences.


Debates "It's better to be a universal teacher than to have a specialisation"

Katerina teaches teens and young adults and is particularly interested in exams preparation (EGE and IELTS). She also runs a project for soft skills and anti-burnout for teachers.


Topic: "Find your source of energy when teaching YL&teens"

Dilorom Mirsaliyeva is an owner and an academic director of GES Educational Hub in Kazkanshatan. She is specialized in teaching teenagers and adults. Her passion is training in-service and pre-service EFL teachers. She is a Delta certified teacher trainer with 17 years of teaching and training experience.


Topic: "Find your way working with Emergent language"

Stephanie Secrist is the Director of Tutoring at Alegra Learning and an enthusiastic instructor and cheerleader for students and teachers worldwide. Stephanie has a degree in English and English Editing, a TESOL certification, 10 years of experience teaching kids face-to-face, 2 years teaching teachers, and 6 years teaching young students online. Additionally, as a mother of 4 young children, Steph knows what it takes to engage students, instruct at their level, and teach through play. Known for her enthusiasm and energy, Steph firmly believes that it is the responsibility of every teacher to ignite a love for learning in each student they teach.


Topic: "Find your way in successful tutoring young kids online"

Anna is a freelance teacher of English and a teacher trainer with over 18 years of experience. She holds CAE, CPE, CELTA, IH CYLT and SIT TESOL. Apart from teaching general, business, legal and financial English in different contexts, Anna has worked as a Cambridge Presenter for the British Council, a Director of Studies and a School Director for International House Donetsk. She also has extensive experience of preparing students for a full range of international examinations such as IELTS, CPE, CAE, FCE, BEC, ILEC, ICFE, SAT, GMAT and GRE. Anna was a speaker of the exams track at Donelta 2020 conference. Now she runs short-term skills-based courses for CAE and CPE.


Topic: "Find Your Way Through the Danger of Skill"

She has been teaching English online and offline to adults for 12 years, specialising in general English, exam training (KET - CPE, IELTS) and Neurolanguage coaching. She is the holder of CAE (A), CPE (A), TKT Practical (Band 4), ICELT Module 1 (Merit). She is an accredited and certificed Neurolanguage coach and ex-Cambridge Speaking examiner (from KET to CPE)


Topic: "Find your Way around the first Diagnostic Session with Adults"

Anna Nakleishikova has been successfully running a a family-owned language school since 2008, primarily as a teacher, turning later into a teacher trainer and finally becoming a full-time CEO of the school. With her never-ending interest in modern language teaching approaches, Anna has introduced a unique bunch of methods that are making their 650 students (both adults and children) happy to stay in the school for the school year, never quit and be aware of the learning process. Anna's professional interests include gamification approaches, marketing for language schools, language coaching and neuroscience to boost the learners' productivity. Anna is an ICF accredited Neurolanguage coach, international agent (education in the UK) and a passionate Director of the English Club school in Cherepovets.


Topic: "Find your way to effective ways to boost your learners' results by increasing their awareness of the learning process"

Anastasia's worked for herself for more than 3 years and all these years she's taught online. She's gone a long way starting from teaching individually to having 4 online groups of different levels (including a group for teachers) as well as a speaking club.


Topic: "Find your unique approach to creating speaking classes"

Irina Ozolina is a senior lecturer and a teacher trainer at the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. AStafyev. Her professional interests are related to digital transformation and gamification. She's a researcher who delivers lectures for future bachelors, writes articles, prepares for international exams using digital resources. She has been teaching English for over 10 years


Topic: "Find your way to digitalize your classroom without a prep"

Helga Drogan is an American English coach at her online school helgasmethod.com. She has nine years of experience teaching adults in various educational contexts. She holds a TESOL Certificate from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in Educational Research from the Sapienza University of Rome. She has a YouTube channel about language learning called "Helga's Method" with over 10,000 subscribers.


Topic: "Find your way to revive the grammar approach for adults"

Tatiana has been teaching English to students of all ages and walks of life. She has earned several Cambridge certificates (CELTA, Delta 1&2, CPE, Train the Trainer) and is a CELT-P/S tutor and Russian State Exam expert. Currently, Tatiana she is a senior English teacher at Specialized Educational Scientific Center, working with gifted teenagers. Her main area of interests is exam preparation, Olympiad training and project-based learning.


Topic: "Find your Zen and master Russian state exam 2022"

Ekaterina has been teaching adults for over 17 years and all this time she's been developing her teaching skills. She runs an online school, writes a blog called English teacher thay is followed by over 42k people. Today she consults colleagues about various topics related to teaching adults. When it comes to methodology, she absolutely loves talking about developing speaking skills.


Topic: "Find your way to make low-prep speaking activities"

Certified English teacher (IELTS, CAE, CELTA, CertBET, TKT (3 modules and CLIL)) with 2 master's degrees with concentrations on education management and international business. Founder of Go-International.RU - the language project for business students..


Topic: "Find your way to teach without coursebooks"

Julia is an American accent coach, the founder of a community for English Teachers and a school of Advanced English. She's been working with teachers for over 3 years helping them boost their fluency and confidence, enlarge their Vocab and improve pronunciation. She has devised multiple courses for C1/C2 and reached 36k subscribers on VK. She's spoken at conferences, done various streams and webinars and worked with other schools.


Topic: "Find your way to fluency via pronunciation"

Kieran Donaghy is a freelanceaward-winning writer, international conference speaker and trainer. He is the author of books for students and teachers of English as a foreign language. His publications include Film in Action (Delta Publishing), Writing Activities for Film (ELT Teacher2Writer) and Video, The Image in ELT (ELT Council)andLanguage Hub (Macmillan). He trains teachers in Barcelona and online at his specialist teacher development institute, The School for Training. His website Film Englishhas won a British Council ELTons Award, an English Speaking Union Award and the MEDEA Award.He is the founder of The Image Conference and co-founder of the Visual Arts Circle.You can find out more about Kieran at his author website - http://kierandonaghy.com/


Topic: "Find your way in using video in class. Social Shorts: Using short films and videos to raise awareness of social issues"

David Byrne has worked in EFL for over a decade and in that time has taught all the ages, levels and exams he could find. He's worked in Ireland, England, Spain and South Korea but the majority of his career has been spent in London. There, he has worked for a number of schools but mostly for EC, where he has been teacher, aDoS, DoS and most recently Curriculum Manager. With Mark, he publishes a popular and has written articles for ETP magazine as well as working on workbooks and online content for well-known publishers. In his free time he also writes stories for his little boy…who doesn't seem that interested in them. Mark Heffernan has taught English for over 16 years, spending many of those years focusing on exam teaching. In 2016, he moved to Queen Mary University where he teachers EAP, is a materials writer and a module convenor. Together, he and David have written a popular blog and a teachers resource book, called Textploitation. Besides teaching, his main interest is creating and releasing music.


Topic: "Find your way (back) into coursebook texts"

Iuliia Dementeva is a teacher specialising in exam preparation and advanced levels. She has been working for Polina Kordik School of English since 2020. Iuliia holds a specialist's degree in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, CELTA and CAE.


Topic: "Find your writing first aid kit just before the exam"

Maria Molashenko started teaching IELTS back in 2012 and has been training up IELTS teachers for more than 6 years. She is the founder of Yourielts.ru and the host on IELTS Speaking for Success Podcast with over 3 million listens. Maria is running IELTS courses for teachers and is a CELTA trainer. Her education includes CELTA, DELTA, Nile training and MA in teaching.


Topic: "Find Your IELTS"

Alena Kikhay is an EFL online teacher, teacher trainer. Self-employed tutor. Has TKT certificates. She has been teaching for over 12 years. 5 of them online. Main area of interests is teaching online. She has been working with primary, young teens, teens and adults online both individually and in mini-groups. The owner and the author of the VK community "Give&Get | Всё про онлайн-преподавание", runs her private club for online teachers. She organizes CPD events for teachers in online area and presents at webinars and international conferences.


Debate "It's better to be a universal teacher than to have a specialisation"

Polina is a teacher, trainer, researcher and a director of Polina Kordik School of English that specializes in preparation for CAE and CPE online. Polina holds an MA in Bilingualism, MA (hons) in European Languages, CELTA, IH CAM, CPE, Delta (1, 2 Merit) and blogs about teaching, reading and exams. https://polinaenglish.ru/


Debate "It's better to be a universal teacher than to have a specialisation"

Antoine Marcq is the co-founder of Resource Education, materials and CPD for language teachers. He specialises in developing advanced communication skills and accurate fluency. His mission is to provide teachers with the materials and training to excel in their field.


Topic: "Find your way to bridge the gap in communication with the BRAVE Framework"

Online Language Center and Business Language Training Institute owner, IATEFL BESIG joint coordinator, Visual Arts Circle Online Coordinator and Independent Authors & Publishers co-founder. He is a speaker worldwide on Business English, Online Teaching, and Effective Image Presentation, has authored several EFL books and nominated for the 2016 British Council's ELTon Award for Innovation in Teacher Development.


Topic: "Find your Business Sense for a Future Less Tense"