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July 9th – 11th

BigBlueButton World 2026

June 23-25th, 2026

BigBlueButton World 2026 is the annual gathering for educators, administrators, developers, and partners shaping the future of online learning. This year’s theme, The Virtual Classroom for the Future, reflects a pivotal moment for the platform: a redesigned user interface, a powerful plugin architecture, and AI-driven capabilities.

Whether you’re running BigBlueButton already, considering leveraging it in the future, or just curious about the technology, this event is your chance to see what’s coming, hear directly from the team building it, and connect with a global community that shares your commitment to better virtual learning.

This year’s program features product roadmap deep dives, a look inside the new BigBlueButton user experience, sessions on the platform’s extensible plugin architecture, the role of AI in the virtual classroom, insights from Moodle, and real-world success stories from organizations already transforming how they teach and train online.

BigBlueButton World 2026 is free to attend and open to everyone — current and future users, integration partners, developers, and anyone interested in the future of the virtual classroom.

 

Registration is open!

Fred Dixon

Speaker Session:

How AI and Analytics are Shaping the Future Virtual Classrooms

Presented by:  Fred Dixon, Co-founder of BigBlueButton

When: Thursday Nov. 23 at 1:30-2:00pm  / Berlin Time (7:30-8:00am EST)
Where: Room TLM18D

As technology continues to advance, Pedagogy – the science of teaching and learning – is even more relevant today. A key measurement of any class, physical or virtual, is “Did students learn?”.

In this presentation, Fred Dixon, co-Founder of BigBlueButton Inc., will explore how AI can assist educators in creating more opportunities for applied learning during their virtual classes, and how related analytics can help educators pin-point students that are struggling and give them feedback in the moment, thereby improving learning outcomes.

This presentation covers three topics:

  • Framework for evaluating effective use of AI and analytics in the virtual classroom
  • How BigBlueButton is implementing this framework
  • Examples of using the framework to judge the effectiveness (or not!) of using AI in teaching virtual classes.

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About BigBlueButton and Blindside Networks

BigBlueButton is an open source virtual classroom solution for online learning that provides real-time sharing of audio, video, slides, whiteboard, chat and screen. It also allows participants to join the conferences with their webcams and invite guest speakers.

Learn more about the BigBlueButton  developed and supported by Blindside Networks

Blindside Networks started the BigBlueButton project in 2007 and manages its growth world-wide.