SPECIAL EVENT

EdTech Futures Symposium: Education in a Technology-Transformed World

Organised as the opening symposium of In the Ether — A Festival of Technology and Innovation, EdTech Futures offers a radical imagining of the future of learning. The symposium gathers thought leaders, futurists, startup disruptors, education practitioners and policymakers to discuss harbingers of change and transformative shifts in a technology-driven education landscape.

The programme considers how AI is reshaping modern education and a new way forward with disruptive technologies; how schools are integrating AI-enabled adaptive learning in the classrooms and keeping in step with the implementation of the EdTech Masterplan 2030 and Singapore’s National AI Strategy; national-level recommendations in navigating AI ethics in education and safeguarding the digital rights of the young in a digitalising world; and the role of the startup innovation industry in edtech’s capacity for change.

Speakers include Professor Lim Sun Sun (Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at SMU), Koo Sengmeng (Head of LearnAI at AI Singapore), Dr Kenneth Lo (Director of Office of Digital Learning and Sector Lead of campusX at SUTD), Katrina Tan (Senior Associate Director of the Futures Office at NUS), Chan Kok Hong (Head of Department for Information & Communications Technology at Lakeside Primary School) and Rohan Pasari (Co-founder and CEO of Cialfo).

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
2pm – 2.05pm	Welcome by Zhang Baoxin (Curator of Public Programmes at ArtScience Museum)
2.05pm – 2.10pm	Opening remarks by Adrian George (Director of Programmes, Exhibitions and Museum Services at ArtScience Museum)
2.10pm – 2.35pm	Professor Lim Sun Sun (Vice President of Partnerships & Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at SMU) on technology domestication and parenting practices in Asian homesteads set against the evolving technological and socioeconomic context.
2.35pm – 2.55pm	Koo Sengmeng (Head of LearnAI at AI Singapore) on AI Singapore’s work as a national programme in accelerating AI adoption across our city-state, including its outreach programmes which nurtures young people to explore machine learning and critical thinking at their own pace.
2.55pm – 3.15pm	Dr Kenneth Lo (Director of Office of Digital Learning and Sector Lead of SUTD campusX) on how SUTD leverages digital learning technologies and innovative pedagogies to advance itself as a future-ready university to nurture lifelong tertiary learners and innovators with its campusX Education Design.AI.Technology (D.AI.Tech) initiative.
3.15pm – 3.30pm	Chan Kok Hong (Head of Department for Information & Communications Technology at Lakeside Primary School) on classrooms of the future and how MOE schools are harnessing new technology and digital tools to transform how teachers teach and students learn
3.30pm – 3.50pm	Rohan Pasari (Co-founder and CEO of Cialfo) on how edtech startups are transforming the global educational landscape, illustrated through Cialfo’s work that democratises access to universities by simplifying application and career counselling workflows.
3.50pm – 4.10pm	Katrina Tan (Senior Associate Director of the Futures Office at NUS) on speculative futures for education.
4.10pm – 4.30pm	Panel Q&A with Professor Lim Sun Sun, Koo Sengmeng, Dr Kenneth Lo, Chan Kok Hong, Rohan Pasari and Katrina Tan, moderated by Zhang Baoxin