Richard Granger | Director of Systems Management
Taejon Christian International School

Richard Granger is the Director of Systems Management at Taejon Christian International School (TCIS) in Daejeon, South Korea, where he designs, builds, and operates the school's digital ecosystem: more than 270 in-house systems, including over 120 web apps, spanning academics, admissions, operations, finance, HR, and residence life. An educator first, with nine years of classroom teaching and eight years of school administrator experience, Richard moved into systems leadership to close the gap between what schools actually need and what off-the-shelf software delivers. His current work centers on practical AI in school operations: document-grounded AI assistants embedded in staff and parent portals, automated bilingual (English and Korean) communication, and a privacy-first architecture that keeps student and family data inside the school's own walls while still enabling modern cloud services. He speaks on how a small, educator-led systems office can build, at near-zero licensing cost, the tools schools usually buy, and how AI is collapsing the distance between a school's ideas and its software. Website: https://richard-granger.com Complimentary Resources for the EDUtech community: https://richard-granger.com/complimentary-resources