Future of Learning & Education in the Age of AI [🌷Human Tech Week Flourishing Track]

​AI is changing how we learn, work, and create faster than traditional education systems can adapt. Across K–12, higher education, industry, community spaces, and alternative learning environments, many are beginning to reimagine what learning could—and should—look like going forward.

​As information becomes abundant and many technical skills become automated, what uniquely human capacities will matter most? How do we return learning to its most joyful, social, creative, and deeply human dimensions while preparing people for an increasingly AI-native world? Could project-based, interdisciplinary, and experience-driven learning be part of the answer?

​This conversation brings together educators, technologists, designers, and founders building new models of learning across academia, industry, community, and emerging alternative education ecosystems. Spanning K–12 through adult learning, the discussion explores approaches centered on creativity, agency, interdisciplinary thinking, hands-on experimentation, and real-world problem solving.

​Together, we’ll explore how AI can support—not replace—human potential, and what education might look like in a more creative, adaptive, and rapidly changing future.

This is meant to be a group discussion and not a talk, please come with stories and ideas to share! We'd love to hear them.

Hosted by:

Polina Kratova
Riseup Stars - an after school partner for school districts that offers AI literacy education. Also founder of Luno Learning - an AI-powered career learning platform helping students explore career pathways, build real-world projects, and develop portfolios that demonstrate skills, strengths, and readiness for the future of work.

Devinder Sodhi
Founder of Learning Layer Labs and leader of the AI Floor at Frontier Tower. He focuses on project-based, builder-driven education and creating spaces where founders and technologists learn by building and shipping real-world ideas.

​Mingzhu He
Co-founder and Executive Director of the Flourishing Systems Foundation and the Human Flourishing Floor at the Frontier Tower. An alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Education heavily influenced by MIT Media Lab' ethos throughout her academic and industry careers, she builds community innovation labs that foster interdisciplinary collaborations to liberates human creative potential.

David Ramsay
Assistant Professor at DePaul University School of Computing and director of the Principled Interfaces Lab and IRL (Idea Realization Lab), an on-campus makerspace. A MIT Media Lab graduate and interdisciplinary innovator, he is innovating at the frontier of project-based learning in higher education by helping students engage with AI and emerging technologies through hands-on experimentation and creative making. His work explores how novel human-computer interactions shapes human attention, agency, and wellbeing.

​Yvette Kong
Entrepreneur, former Olympian, and founder of Arelyx, a venture exploring new approaches to human capability development. She previously taught at MIT on transversal design for social impact and serves on the boards of Mind Hong Kong and lululemon’s Global Advisory Board on Mental Wellbeing.

​TalentOS
TalentOS is the operating system for AI adoption by training early career learners with real employers with project needs. The platform has trained 15,000+ professionals in applied AI skills and helps organizations understand and measure AI capability across their workforce in real time.