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<h3>Keynote Address:</h3> <h4><strong>The Interpersonal Architect Transforming Higher Education with AI-Supported Pedagogy</strong></h4> <p style="text-align: left;">Higher education faces the challenge of using digital technologies to create accessible environments for diverse students while many academics worry about how artificial intelligence will change their roles. This presentation offers a practical solution to these challenges based on a successful framework used with more than 200 university students over two academic years. The talk will demonstrate how academics can adopt a pragmatic approach to support multimodal learning by using artificial intelligence to assist with creating animated avatars that deliver lessons. Instead of replacing educators, this method empowers them to become interpersonal architects who guide student learning while maintaining full control over lesson design. Through a real-world case study, attendees will discover a step-by-step method to design visual and auditory content. The session will explore using tools like Animaker to turn written text into engaging reading material and video lectures. It will also show how to extract audio from these videos to create standalone podcasts for mobile learning. Finally, the address will highlight how the time saved from automating content delivery can be used to focus in-person classes on active problem solving and mentoring. The ultimate value of this session lies in equipping academics with practical insights to use artificial intelligence responsibly and transform their classrooms into spaces for inclusive learning.</p>