Designing Curriculum for 2038 and Beyond: Preparing Students for a Convergent Future

What knowledge, skills, and literacies will students need to thrive in 2038 and beyond? This provocative session challenges education leaders to look past today’s immediate issues and reimagine curriculum for a future shaped by transformative breakthroughs. From CRISPR and genetic engineering to biomimicry, organoids, robotics, immersive realities, superintelligence, and quantum computing, tomorrow’s learners must navigate a convergence of biology, technology, and artificial intelligence that will redefine work, life, and innovation. Chief Academic Officers, curriculum leaders, and education strategists will explore what content areas schools must consider to truly prepare students—not just for the next test, but for a world of occupations and technologies that don’t yet exist. Gain insights from future-minded thinkers and leave with guiding questions and design principles for creating curricula that empower students as adaptive, ethical, and imaginative contributors to the rapidly evolving human-technology frontier.