Quest 2 Learn Summit 2023

This year’s Quest 2 Learn (Q2L) annual summit brings together 200+ educators, design thinkers, technologists, civil society, CSRs and government officials to explore what it takes to build radical futures in the event of AI advances and climate emergency.

At A Glance

7

Plenary Sessions

4

Parallel Tracks

8

Exhibits

230

CSO Partners

17

Government Representatives

486

Educational Institutions

230

CSO Partners

17

Government Representatives

19

Funder Partners

We are talking about

Climate Change and its effects on learning experiences

Artificial Intelligence reshaping employment opportunities

Futures Literacy and shifting the perspective on collective future making

Speakers

  • Dr Shermon Cruz

    Chair
    Association of Professional Futurists

  • Dr Indu K Murthy

    Sector Head-Climate, Environment & Sustainability
    Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy

  • Aakash Sethi

    CEO
    Quest Alliance

  • Rohit Adhlaka

    Independent Board Member and CXO
    AI and Digital Revolutionary - Sustainability Evangelist

  • Sonali Vyas

    Associate Director - Programs and Operations
    Safetipin

  • Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

    Founder
    Land Conflict Watch & India Research Lead, Digital Witness Lab, Princeton University

  • Arihant Chindalia

    Country Manager (India)
    Sustainable Living Lab

  • Nitin Jerath

    Head of Design & Storytelling
    Karya

  • Anshul Tewari

    Founder
    Youth Ki Awaaz

  • Deval Sanghavi

    Co-Founder and Partner
    Dasra

  • Namrata Agarwal

    Director - Fundraising and Strategic Finance
    Quest Alliance

  • Babitha George

    Partner
    Quicksand

  • Abhishek Jain

    Director, Powering Livelihoods
    Council of Energy, Environment and Water

  • Kumar Anurag Pratap

    Vice President & Head Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
    Capgemini India

  • Priyanka Krishna

    Research Specialist
    Quest Alliance

  • Bhawna Parmar

    Research Coordinator
    Quest Alliance

  • Gautam John

    CEO
    Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies

  • Suchetha Bhat

    CEO
    Dream a Dream

  • Anant Bhagwati

    Partner
    Bridgespan Group

  • Vinay Narayan

    Senior Manager- Policy
    Aapti Institute

  • Aishani Rai

    Research Consultant
    Aapti Institute

Sessions

Day 1

09th Oct 2023

WALK in

9.00 - 9.45 am

Registration + Networking (Coffee & Tea will be served)

OPENING

9.45 - 10.05 am

Introduction to Q2L 2023

STORIES FROM YOUTH & PANEL DISCUSSION

10:10 - 11:40 am

Imagining Futures that Youth will Occupy: Picking up from actual stories of what youth envision the future to be, we attempt to extrapolate them on a spectrum of utopian and dystopian visions. We also introduce two key disruptors, AI and Climate Change, and explore the impact they may have on these futures.

A SHORT BREAK

11.40 - 12:00 pm

Networking with Tea and Coffee

REPORT LAUNCH

12.00 - 1.15 pm

Futures Literacy as a Critical Skill for Youth: With the future being uncertain the importance of Futures Literacy as a skill for young people becomes all the more important. We look at implications of this and how this skill can be inculcated in our youth. We also launch our report, ‘From Anxiety to Hope: Building Emancipatory Climate Futures Literacy in young people’ which introduces a pedagogy of hope in the climate crises.

LUNCH BREAK

1.15 - 3.00 pm

There are interactive, immersive exhibits all around the event venue.

MASTERCLASSES / Parallel Tracks

3.00 - 4.30 pm

Sign up for any one of the following:

[1] AI and Learning

AI and personalised learning are almost synonymous. In this session, we discuss how we could design personalised learning experiences that deepen choice, creativity and agency.

[2] Future-proofing Schools Against Climate Change

The session deep-dives into the potential disruption climate change could bring to the schooling system.

[3] AI and Work

All sectors whether emerging or existing are greatly impacted by AI. With this as the backdrop, what are the types of futures we wish to create for our youth?

[4] Futures Literacy Workshop

Get first-hand experience of what it takes to build Futures Literacy skills.

A SHORT BREAK

4.30 - 4.50pm

Networking with Tea and Coffee

Closing remarks

4.50 - 5.10pm

Where are we at?

Music Performance

5.15 pm onwards

There's a live band in the house

Day 2

10th Oct 2023

Registration + Networking

9.00 - 9.45 am

(Coffee & Tea will be served)

Opening session

9.45 - 10.00 am

Crafting New Futures: Disrupting the status quo

10:00 - 11:00 am

We open Day 2 with a session on building hopeful futures. We explore futures that use technology ethically and that keep youth and sustainability at the centre.

Preparing the Future: Perspectives on Policy

11.30 - 12.15

In this session, we bring together voices from government officials on how policy is geared for the future. An added Q&A with youth is included with the aim of adding relevance.

Reimagining the Future Role of Philanthropy and Civil Society

12.20 - 1:10 pm

Building a hopeful future requires shifting current models of working. We bring together philanthropy and civil society for a dialogue to reflect on giving trends and shifts needed there.

Lunch and Immersion in Exhibit spaces

1.10 - 3.00 pm

Read about Exhibit at slide 12 - 13

Parallel Tracks

3.00 - 4.30 pm

AI and Learning

AI and personalised learning are almost synonymous. In this session we discuss how we could design personalised learning experiences that deepen choice, creativity and agency.

Future of Skilling for Green Transitions

The session will facilitate a dialogue on how we prepare young people for green skilling and enable institutional shifts needed to make young people ready for the future job market.

AI and Work

All sectors whether emerging or existing are becoming greatly impacted by AI. With this as the backdrop, what are the types of futures we wish to create for our youth.

Futures Literacy Workshop

Get a first hand experience of building Futures Literacy skills through a hands-on workshop.

Networking Break with Tea and Coffee

4.30 - 4.50pm

Key note - The need to build hopeful futures

4.50 - 5.20 pm

At the end of this year’s Quest2Learn journey, we reflect on the way forward and paradigm shifts needed in our ways of being, doing and thinking to prepare for a more equitable future.

Closing Remarks: What does Futures Literacy mean for us?

5.20 - 5.50 pm

Funding Partners

Knowledge and Outreach Partners