Students in the future will be able to personalise their learning while teachers can monitor their engagement and behaviour, according to ed-tech experts. Opening the EdTechX conference in London today, Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet said the future of education lies with artificial intelligence and deep learning, citing the movement towards data and "deep tech" in new ed-tech companies, away from the "lighter tech" of digitisation of content seen at the beginning of the decade.