What are we preparing our children for, and are we brave enough to look for the answers?
It began in London in June, one afternoon that people called the beginning of a movement. On 10 November the conversation comes to New York, and on 2 December it continues in London.
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These three questions worked in London and they stay. What we explore underneath them will keep evolving as the New York room takes shape, and some of it will come from you.
What do we mean by learning?
Learning, education and school are not the same thing. Now that information is everywhere, which of our assumptions deserve questioning?
How do we prepare young people for a future we cannot predict?
What qualities, capabilities and strengths do young people need to develop?
How do we create the conditions and environments to support that?
How can we all support that, as parents, educators and founders, at school, at home and at work?
The founders building new tools. The school leaders living the reality every day. The psychologists who understand children's minds. The technologists shaping what's coming. The investors, the policy voices, the parents. And the young people it's all for, with a teenager at every table.
In the London room, amongst others, we hosted a senior leader from Google AI, the COO of a platform with 20 million learners, founders of AI learning tools from London to Vietnam, heads of Montessori and international schools, the founder of an alternative school, Cambridge Assessment, child psychotherapists, investors, parents and teenagers.
The New York room is being curated now.
Filmed at the first edition · Soho House, London · June 2026
I did not even know that things like that exist in the world. I wish there were more events like this.
That really was a great event. Having young people there and ensuring they had a voice in the discussion — loved this. I really admire you for setting this up; you had some outstanding speakers.
I don't know that anyone else in the world could have curated it the same way Didi did… Some of the people I've met today I'm going to have in my life for a very long time.
We are teaching machines to have a sense of self before we teach our children about themselves.
As a panellist, I expected to contribute. Instead, I found myself learning far more than sharing… one of the most thought-provoking educational events I've attended in years.
My strategic planning conversations with our new head have been so much better informed since I had the space to ruminate during the Future of Learning in June.
This is the first time I've seen someone include the young voices, the youth, the future generation, in the conversations.
At my table I had a grandmother, a student, parents and educators… I truly believe this alone contributes to our world being a better place.
There were debates, but healthy debates, not about who is right… how the future is and how we can all navigate it together.
I had an 18-year-old at my table and I didn't know the real challenges going on with adolescents.
I walked away feeling confident that people are thinking about these problems and are passionate about the future of learning.
It was fantastic — the people, the discussions, the organisation and thought that went into every detail. Your questions and 'in conversation' technique were superb.
The event was incredibly useful, and such a great initiative. Please keep going — this is a much-needed conversation.
This event was really helpful, hearing how the teenagers are thinking, how the educators are thinking, the perspectives of different people in education.
I think Didi just started the beginning of a new movement.
For the New York edition, Future of Learning is inviting one organisation to become its sole Aligned Partner. The partnership supports the time, care and resources behind the gathering and helps this important conversation continue beyond a single room.
The New York edition will also produce the first Future of Learning Insight Report, carrying the strongest insights from the room into schools and other organisations shaping how young people learn.
Explore the New York partnership →Educators, principals, founders, technologists, parents and teenagers around the same tables.
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Didi Aurelia is an educator, founder and author with a background in psychology, finance and education. After more than a decade in senior corporate finance across Europe, she left to found My Montessori School in London and write 100 Days to a More Aware You. She has spent years working with children, parents and educators on the questions at the foundation of how humans learn and grow. She is now building Aurelia Collective, joyful conversations with extraordinary people in beautiful places.
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