Responsible AI in Higher Education - from Alignment to Co-Creation: Universities Shaping the AI Future

​AI is moving faster than traditional models of education can keep up. As highlighted by the QS World Future Skills Index, the gap between what employers need and what graduates can deliver is widening - especially in AI. At the same time, universities themselves are undergoing 360° AI transformation - embedding AI across research, curriculum design, teaching and assessment, operations, and procurement. This shift is redefining not only how institutions educate, but how they operate, innovate, and partner.

​Bringing together leaders from the LSE, Imperial College Business School, EDHEC, and QS, this session explores what next-generation collaboration really looks like: from co-designed curricula and embedded industry experiences to new EdTech-enabled learning models that scale at speed. In a world shaped by rapid technological change, geopolitical shifts, and competition over data, energy, and talent, universities must move beyond partnership - and into shared ownership of innovation and capability-building.

​Expect practical insights, bold ideas, and real examples of how collaboration - and institutions themselves - are being reimagined to shape an AI-ready future.