What are we preparing our children for, and are we brave enough to look for the answers?
A curated afternoon bringing educators, founders, technologists, parents and young people around the same tables. 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.
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Most parents have felt it at some point, often in very ordinary moments. Sitting at the kitchen table with homework. Watching children memorise information they can access instantly online. Sensing that many of the systems surrounding education were designed for a very different world from the one young people are now entering.
At the same time, the conversation itself has become fragmented. Schools speak to schools. Technology companies speak to technology companies. Parents are often left trying to make sense of it on their own, while young people are discussed without being meaningfully included in the conversation.
Future of Learning brings those perspectives into the same room. We do not have all the answers yet, but every significant shift in how humans learn has started with people willing to sit together and ask difficult questions before the answers are within reach.
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?
A carefully selected group of voices approaching the same questions from very different perspectives. In the first room, in London:
The New York room is being curated now, seat by seat, with voices from both sides of the Atlantic.
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.
I would feel privileged to come again and stay for all of the next one.
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.
There were debates, but healthy debates, not about who is right… how the future is and how we can all navigate it together.
The New York gathering will produce the first Future of Learning Insight Report, bringing together the strongest insights from the conversations, the tensions that remain unresolved and the perspectives of young people in their own words.
It will be shared with participants and distributed to school leaders, educators, founders, funders and policy voices, together with a conversation guide that schools can use in their own communities.
Parents are often more confused than anyone else right now. This is for the parent who wants to be part of the conversation and ask the uncomfortable questions.
Teachers and school leaders who are asking hard questions about their own systems and are ready to take action and initiate change.
Teenagers whose voices belong in this conversation are not always asked. Everything being discussed here is ultimately for them.
People building things in technology, learning and human potential who know the future is being shaped right now and want to be part of that conversation.
Researchers, authors, practitioners and curious humans from adjacent fields who bring unexpected angles to familiar problems.
People with the power to change systems, invited to listen, to contribute, and to imagine together what could be different.
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.
Future of Learning is inviting one organisation to become the sole Aligned Partner for the New York edition. The partnership supports the work and resources required to bring the room together and helps this important conversation continue.
Explore the New York partnership →This is a curated gathering. Requesting an invitation does not guarantee a place, but it means we know you want to be in the room. We'll be in touch personally.
