Po-Shen Loh | Raise A Thought Full Generation in the Age of AI | Chicago, IL
What Success Looks Like For The Next Generation and Why It's Changing
What will it take for today's children to thrive in a world where AI can increasingly outperform humans at many of the tasks we once considered uniquely our own?
As AI rapidly transforms education, careers, and society, many of the assumptions we've long held about learning and achievement are beginning to change. The question is no longer simply how students can get better grades or gain admission to top universities, but how they can develop the qualities that will remain valuable throughout a lifetime of change.
In this thought-provoking session, Prof. Po-Shen Loh explores the future of education and the changing skills that will matter most in the decades ahead by asking:
• Why are traditional markers of achievement becoming less predictive of future success?
• Which skills and qualities are becoming more valuable in an age of AI and rapid change?
• What can parents and educators do today to help their children stay ahead of these changes?
💡 You’ll learn:
Why the future of education is about much more than academic performance, how AI is reshaping the skills that universities, employers, and society increasingly value, and what parents and educators can do to cultivate curiosity, creativity, independent thinking, and a lifelong love of learning.
You'll also explore why collaboration, empathy, and the ability to contribute to others are becoming more important than ever, along with practical strategies you can begin applying immediately.
😎 Who Should Attend:
Parents who want to prepare their kids for success
Teachers and Administration looking for powerful strategies to adopt in education
Students debating future careers
Community leaders focused on developing opportunity
Anyone curious about how AI, education, and the job market will shape the next 20 years
Speaker Info
The speaker, Po-Shen Loh, has traveled to over 100 cities in recent years, delivering talks on this topic and gaining insights from diverse audiences—a tour that was even featured by The Wall Street Journal.
Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor working across mathematics, education, and healthcare. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way for people to learn challenging math live online from brilliant people to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest.
He has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the USA Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was the coach of Carnegie Mellon University’s math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. He featured in or co-created videos totaling over 21 million YouTube views.
Po-Shen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Caltech in 2004, graduating with the highest GPA in his class. He received a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2005, where he was supported by a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship. He continued his studies at Princeton, supported by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, where he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the end of 2009, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University ever since.
Acknowledgment
Most of Prof. Loh's public outreach, including this event, is sponsored by LIVE by Po-Shen Loh. This talk is also proudly supported by the Math Circles of Chicago.