Dave Philp

With a background in consulting and data management, Dave, along with co-founder Josh, launched Intellischool to help solve data issues and provide meaningful, impactful data analysis services to schools. Intellischool is now the largest provider of data warehousing and analytics services to independent and private schools globally.

Workshop Information:

In this workshop, we'll explore how schools can safely integrate their data systems with the AI platform of their choice - from both technical and non-technical perspectives.

Schools have vast amounts of data, but making sense of it—and triangulating it—can prove challenging. 

By using a combination of well-tested industry practices and the latest AI interoperability tools, it’s now possible to inform AI models with contextual data that facilitates high-quality outputs - from personalising learning, to analysing behavioural patterns, or even correlating behaviour, attendance, performance, and wellbeing data for bespoke, highly-targeted early warning systems.

Session Outomes:

You will leave this workshop with an understanding of what Model Context Protocol (MCP) is and how you can implement safely, as well as the policies and training that you'll need to support your school community before, during, and after implementing. 

The content of this workshop applies to any major AI environment - including Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic, OpenAI, and more.

Biography:

Dave is a former IT director, having worked at several leading independent and private schools across Australia. With a background in consulting and data management, Dave, along with co-founder Josh, launched Intellischool to help solve data issues and provide meaningful, impactful data analysis services to schools. Intellischool is now the largest provider of data warehousing and analytics services to independent and private schools globally.