About Me
Ritesh Dhanak
Chief Innovation and Digital Officer
Ritesh works extensively with industry partners to bring in the latest technology and innovation initiatives to impact teaching and learning practices at Modern. Digital Transformation is at the core of what his role entails.
Ritesh has led teams at Modern to become SAP NextGen Young Thinkers Chapter, Microsoft Showcase School and CommonSense Media Certified School.
As a member on Project Zero’s Creating Communities of Innovation project (2016 to 2018), along with 6 colleagues designed an innovative approach to curriculum transaction called the Futures Curriculum: A design-based approach.
Currently working to bring conversational AI into the classroom using esports as a medium and create an ecosystem withing school to education students and teachers on exponential and emerging technologies such as Blockchain, Web3, Defi, NFT, Metaverse, GPT-3 etc.
Ritesh believes in innovation with purpose and pedagogy first approach for technology integration.