Featured Session: Strategy in the Times of Chaos: Imagining Futures of Education

Event ID: PP1149832

Thu, Mar 12, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Venue: Hilton Grand Ballroom (Salon HJK) (Hilton Austin Downtown)

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Summary

Daily, we wake to the unimaginable becoming reality: the highest temperatures in recorded history, technology acquiring human-like communication capabilities, realignment of global alliances and ideologies. Such times of upheaval are opportunities to reinvent the institutions, ways of thinking, and modes of doing. Sociologist John Fabian Witt said, these are “occasions in which people remake the world.” In this conversation, experts with decades of experience in future-facing strategies, will share foresight techniques for imagining radically different futures and detecting signals of reinvention and scholarship on how communities depicted as under-resourced create practices and institutions of their own—as examples for building more just and equitable futures.

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