H5P Hamburg Community Event

Registration + Breakfast

H5P Welcome + Opening Remarks

Speakers: Nils Viken, Senior Director, Sales, H5P & Kelly Choi, Community Manager, H5P

Speaker Bios:
Nils Viken is managing sales and customer success at H5P Group, the global leader in interactive content creation tools based in Norway. Since joining the company in May 2023, Nils has been instrumental in driving H5P’s global growth strategy, and he continues to shape the future of digital learning, combining strategic growth initiatives with a human-centred approach to business and life. With over two decades of experience in the education technology sector, Nils brings a wealth of expertise to his role.

Kelly Choi is a Community Manager at H5P, specializing in building and supporting open source communities. She brings experience in community leadership and engagement, with a strong interest in empowering others through learning and collaboration. Kelly is passionate about creating inclusive environments that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

H5P Innovations in Action: Create Stories, Animate Ideas, and Enrich Videos with Transcripts

Speaker: Jakob Kopczynski, Engineer at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg)

Speaker Bios:
Jakob Kopczynski holds a degree in Media Technology from the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. Since then, he has worked on various educational and media-pedagogical projects, always guided by the question of how new technologies can influence and transform our learning culture — and how we can benefit from them.

H5P and xAPI, the untapped treasure Q&A

Speaker: Oliver Tacke, H5P Expert

Speaker Bio:
Oliver is an IT freelancer and H5P dinosaur. He wrote his first H5P code in 2016, spent a year on the H5P core team, and has since developed 25+ H5P content types, created WordPress plugins, and built additional H5P tools. An active community member, he contributes regularly to the H5P forum and the H5P Group Matrix channel, and attends ed(tech) BarCamps. He’s deeply involved in and enthusiastic about H5P. If you want to know more about him, you'll find plenty of traces using a search engine of your choosing.

Supercharging H5P with AI:

What if you could create deeply rich, highly engaging, interactive learning content in a fraction of the time without sacrificing quality or creativity?!

In this high-energy breakout session, discover how artificial intelligence is transforming the way educators, instructional designers, and content creators use H5P. You’ll learn how to dramatically speed up content production so you can focus on what matters most: learning outcomes and learner engagement.
You’ll leave this session inspired and ready to build H5P content 5x faster.

Speaker: Nils Viken

Creating a Digital Escape Room in H5P: Designing Interactive Learning Paths for Student Engagement

Speaker: Ceren Calici, Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı

In this session, I will demonstrate how to design and implement a fully interactive digital escape room using H5P as an open learning and content creation tool. The focus will be on building meaningful learning paths through Branching Scenarios, Interactive Video, and Course Presentations to create an immersive, student-centered experience. Participants will explore how game-based learning principles can be translated into practical classroom design, allowing students to make choices, solve challenges, and progress through a structured narrative while developing critical thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy skills. The session will include a live demo of an H5P-based escape room, an overview of the pedagogical framework behind the design, and practical guidance for educators to create their own interactive and reusable learning experiences using H5P.

Speaker Bio:
Ceren Calici is a Turkish language teacher, educational content designer, and community contributor focused on game-based learning and interactive digital storytelling. She designs immersive digital escape rooms and branching learning experiences that support critical thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy in secondary education. Ceren works actively with educators and international learning communities to explore how open learning technologies and interactive content can transform classroom practice. She regularly delivers workshops and presentations on creative pedagogy, gamification, and learner-centered digital design.

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Coffee & Networking Break

H5P Pain Points: Bring the Heavy Hitters

Speaker: Oliver Tacke, H5P Expert

H5P is great. But like any beloved tool, it has a few skeletons in the closet. There are a number of things that it lacks or that do not live up to your expectations.

In this hands-on workshop, let's take a joint look and let's identify some major pain points - not small bugs that may annoy you, but things that really cause you and other members of the H5P community a headache regularly. If your issue can be fixed by clearing the cache, it’s not invited. Time is short, but I am convinced that together we'll manage to come up with a list of suggestions that will be passed over to H5P Group.

Designing Microlearning with Guided Progression and Scripted Branching Using H5P Interactive Video

Speaker: Katharina Frosch, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences

Microlearning is widely appreciated: five minutes, one topic, done. From an instructional design perspective, however, developing effective microlearning units is challenging. Guided progression is needed to keep complexity low and reduce cognitive load. At the same time, even short learning units must allow learners to try, make mistakes, receive support, reflect, or relate what they have learned to a real-life context—and then be smoothly guided back to the main learning path in order to preserve focus and remain within the intended time frame. To do so, we use the H5P Interactive Video (IV) content type as a structural and functional layer to combine guided progression with scripted didactic branching. The base video itself does not carry learning content but serves as a backbone for building the main learning path and scripted branches and loops.

Speaker Bio:
Katharina Frosch is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg. She started working with H5P about three years ago and has since used H5P extensively in her teaching. Over the past year, she has supported the introduction of an H5P-based e-learning initiative at the German Federal Office for Foreign Affairs and initiated the interdisciplinary research project SCALE-C, which develops microlearning for building cybersecurity awareness using H5P as an open authoring framework. Her current interests include instructional design for workplace learning, microlearning, and chatbot-based educational simulations.

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Summary & Closing Remarks

Speakers: Nils Viken and Kelly Choi

Networking Social

Join your fellow attendees and keep the momentum going at our Networking Reception. Mingle with fellow attendees and speakers for meaningful conversations and spontaneous connections. Whether you're diving deeper into the day's insights or simply enjoying good company, this is your chance to unwind and engage with fellow attendees.