ETIH Innovation Awards: Best AI-powered EdTech solution RoW shortlist shows global AI in action

16 Apr

AI-driven platforms across global markets show how personalization, pedagogy, and automation are being applied beyond core regions.

As part of our ETIH Innovation Awards 2026 category spotlight series, we are taking a closer look at the categories shaping this year’s inaugural awards. With over 140 entries submitted, the breadth and quality of innovation across the EdTech sector has been clear.

This category focuses on AI-powered solutions developed across the rest of the world, with winners set to be announced on May 11.

Where global AI solutions are adapting to diverse education systems

Best AI-powered EdTech solution (RoW) focuses on platforms applying artificial intelligence across a wide range of education contexts outside the USA and Canada. This includes tools designed for different curricula, languages, and learning environments, often requiring greater flexibility and localization.

Judges are looking for evidence that AI is delivering measurable outcomes in these varied settings. This includes how effectively platforms adapt to local needs, how they integrate into existing systems, and whether they demonstrate consistent impact across different user groups.

The category reflects how AI development in education is not limited to major markets, with solutions emerging globally that combine pedagogy, accessibility, and practical application in ways that respond to specific regional challenges.

Finalists

EdTool (Learnetic)

EdTool is an AI-powered, all-in-one platform that helps teachers, schools, and publishers create, personalize, deliver, and improve interactive learning in one connected environment.

Teachers can turn prompts, PDFs, or textbook photos into interactive lessons, tests, and assignments in minutes, then use AI-supported grading, feedback, and real-time analytics to respond faster and personalize learning.

Schools gain a more consistent way to manage teaching, monitor progress, and support differentiated learning.

Publishers can create interactive content, publish it in branded repositories, and license it to schools and teachers. With 50,000+ ready-to-use resources, AI visual search, multilingual translation, and WCAG-compliant content, EdTool brings practical AI into everyday education.

EFO AI (EdenFiftyOne)

Tom Reynolds, a post-BA-diagnosed dyslexic and ‘Great British Entrepreneur of the Year’ finalist, is a passionate advocate for equitable and inclusive education. With over 20 years’ teaching and school leadership experience, Tom founded EdenFiftyOne - an award-winning technology platform deconstructing literacy into 51 universal skills. As a UK Education Advisor and university teacher-training lecturer, Tom bridges the gap between classroom practice and digital innovation. Central to the EdenFiftyOne platform and to Tom’s mission is ‘EFO’: a pedagogical AI assistant designed to democratize literacy skills education, providing teachers, leaders, learners, and parents with a technology-driven solution to level the literacy playing field.

Lexillion (StudyMatix)

StudyMatix Learning Pvt. Ltd. is an edtech venture built by an educator with three decades of classroom experience, dedicated to ensuring every student has a strong, meaningful start.

Its AI-powered teaching assistant Lexillion serves the entire educational ecosystem through three purposefully designed modes: a Study Buddy for personalized, syllabus-matched student support, a Teaching Buddy that empowers educators to create lesson plans and tailored learning resources, and a Writing Buddy for enterprise and professional applications.

Built pedagogy-first, Lexillion goes beyond answer generation, guiding, scaffolding, and building genuine understanding, preparing students for competitive exams and the global AI-driven economy.