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 FuturistsDr Indu K Murthy
Sector Head-Climate, Environment & Sustainability
Center for Study of Science, Technology and PolicyAakash Sethi
CEO
Quest AllianceRohit Adhlaka
Independent Board Member and CXO
AI and Digital Revolutionary - Sustainability EvangelistSonali Vyas
Associate Director - Programs and Operations
SafetipinKumar Sambhav Shrivastava
Founder
Land Conflict Watch & India Research Lead, Digital Witness Lab, Princeton UniversityArihant Chindalia
Country Manager (India)
Sustainable Living LabNitin Jerath
Head of Design & Storytelling
KaryaAnshul Tewari
Founder
Youth Ki AwaazDeval Sanghavi
Co-Founder and Partner
DasraNamrata Agarwal
Director - Fundraising and Strategic Finance
Quest AllianceBabitha George
Partner
QuicksandAbhishek Jain
Director, Powering Livelihoods
Council of Energy, Environment and WaterKumar Anurag Pratap
Vice President & Head Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Capgemini IndiaPriyanka Krishna
Research Specialist
Quest AllianceBhawna Parmar
Research Coordinator
Quest AllianceGautam John
CEO
Rohini Nilekani PhilanthropiesSuchetha Bhat
CEO
Dream a DreamAnant Bhagwati
Partner
Bridgespan GroupVinay Narayan
Senior Manager- Policy
Aapti InstituteAishani 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