Schedule | May 14

The ability to effectively and appropriately communicate, understand and interact with people from different cultural backgrounds is needed more than ever in the world our students are facing. Students in international schools like Verita, who foster respect, understanding and collaboration will find that they leave school with a new superpower- Intercultural competence!

While history helps us understand how we got here, foresight and studying the future can give us the tools to shape where we’re going. In a world of rapid change—climate shifts, AI, new jobs, and new social norms—both professionals and students need not only knowledge of the past, but imagination and anticipation for what lies ahead.

According to renowned author Nassim Taleb, systems can be fragile, robust or antifragile when encountering stress factors. A person is a system and so is a classroom or a school. Or a family. There are four pillars that can help any system to foster antifragility: Building trust, Learning from action, Dealing with uncertainty and Risk mitigation. In oder to succeed, all of them require a systematic approach continuously tuned to the ever-changing spectrum of stressors that challenge each individual, group or community

This talk will cover ideas on flexibility and its development as passing through variability and stability embedded in various contexts, and on grounded teaching as a way forward for the future education in which we interlace the old and the new.

HI (Human intelligence) now actually becomes more important than AI and how we can actually grow our intelligence when it is under threat.