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Our old education system can’t keep up with the scale and speed of change in the world. Here is how to fix it.
This eye-opening session challenges us all to rethink the role of education when meeting grand challenges. With the exponential speed of change we must be ready to say goodbye to old degrees that go obsolete faster than ever. How can we stay curious and radically creative – learn and unlearn throughout our lives? Inspiring speakers from different backgrounds debate future skills and how to make them accessible to everyone.
Opening words
Anna Valtonen
Professor in Strategic Design
Aalto University
Design has always been about change, about how to change the existing situation into a preferred one. Much of Valtonen’s work has been about researching and facilitating this change and increasing collaboration across fields. She has a broad background in industry, including end-user understanding, strategy, creative industries, management and new business development. She has also worked in academia as post-doc, professor, dean, vice-president and rector. She is actively involved in several national and EU-level boards, advisory groups and consortia.
Bridging the gap: The transformative power of vocational education and training
Esther Goodwin Brown
Lead of the Circular Jobs Initiative
Circle Economy
Esther Goodwin Brown focuses on climate justice and how the circular economy can be a means for inclusive, sustainable development around the world. She leads a programme focused on creating the evidence and tools to ensure the circular economy is positive for work and workers, making sure steps taken by governments and other public agencies to tackle environmental issues are approached fairly and with people in mind. This involves collaborating across sectors and agendas, including the circular economy, climate, just transition, education and economic development.
Risto Sarvas has a diverse history overlapping design, business, technology and society. He has been awarded as a researcher, a service designer and a university teacher. Risto has taught, coached and mentored a variety of professionals, students, entrepreneurs and experts in the past two decades. He sees technology and business education as societal force for solving global problems. Risto is currently the director of the Information Networks BSc and MSc programmes at Aalto University. The programme blends software, design, business and social sciences to create multi-talented professionals.
Design has always been about change, about how to change the existing situation into a preferred one. Much of Valtonen’s work has been about researching and facilitating this change and increasing collaboration across fields. She has a broad background in industry, including end-user understanding, strategy, creative industries, management and new business development. She has also worked in academia as post-doc, professor, dean, vice-president and rector. She is actively involved in several national and EU-level boards, advisory groups and consortia.
Secretary-General and Executive Head
International Rubber Study Group (IRSG), Singapore
Joseph Adelegan is currently heading the biggest worldwide community in the rubber economy with 34 member governments including the European Union. He was a professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Venda in South Africa. He is an international development expert, an erstwhile United Nations official and practitioner-scholar in management with three decades of distinguished professional trajectory.
He is a recipient of several international global awards on circular economy and has earned two doctorates, one in business administration from the Weatherhead School of Management and one in civil and environmental engineering from the Nigerian Premier University of Ibadan.
Gurden combines different crafts in his practice, like systems thinking, rapid prototyping, speculative and critical design, data justice and tech materiality. He has a background in computer science and new media design. Gurden has held multi-disciplinary roles in various industries and different sized companies across the USA, Europe and India.
Lead of the Circular Jobs Initiative
Circle Economy
Esther Goodwin Brown focuses on climate justice and how the circular economy can be a means for inclusive, sustainable development around the world. She leads a programme focused on creating the evidence and tools to ensure the circular economy is positive for work and workers, making sure steps taken by governments and other public agencies to tackle environmental issues are approached fairly and with people in mind. This involves collaborating across sectors and agendas, including the circular economy, climate, just transition, education and economic development.
Risto Sarvas has a diverse history overlapping design, business, technology and society. He has been awarded as a researcher, a service designer and a university teacher. Risto has taught, coached and mentored a variety of professionals, students, entrepreneurs and experts in the past two decades. He sees technology and business education as societal force for solving global problems. Risto is currently the director of the Information Networks BSc and MSc programmes at Aalto University. The programme blends software, design, business and social sciences to create multi-talented professionals.
Design has always been about change, about how to change the existing situation into a preferred one. Much of Valtonen’s work has been about researching and facilitating this change and increasing collaboration across fields. She has a broad background in industry, including end-user understanding, strategy, creative industries, management and new business development. She has also worked in academia as post-doc, professor, dean, vice-president and rector. She is actively involved in several national and EU-level boards, advisory groups and consortia.
Secretary-General and Executive Head
International Rubber Study Group (IRSG), Singapore
Joseph Adelegan is currently heading the biggest worldwide community in the rubber economy with 34 member governments including the European Union. He was a professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Venda in South Africa. He is an international development expert, an erstwhile United Nations official and practitioner-scholar in management with three decades of distinguished professional trajectory.
He is a recipient of several international global awards on circular economy and has earned two doctorates, one in business administration from the Weatherhead School of Management and one in civil and environmental engineering from the Nigerian Premier University of Ibadan.
Gurden combines different crafts in his practice, like systems thinking, rapid prototyping, speculative and critical design, data justice and tech materiality. He has a background in computer science and new media design. Gurden has held multi-disciplinary roles in various industries and different sized companies across the USA, Europe and India.
Lead of the Circular Jobs Initiative
Circle Economy
Esther Goodwin Brown focuses on climate justice and how the circular economy can be a means for inclusive, sustainable development around the world. She leads a programme focused on creating the evidence and tools to ensure the circular economy is positive for work and workers, making sure steps taken by governments and other public agencies to tackle environmental issues are approached fairly and with people in mind. This involves collaborating across sectors and agendas, including the circular economy, climate, just transition, education and economic development.
Risto Sarvas has a diverse history overlapping design, business, technology and society. He has been awarded as a researcher, a service designer and a university teacher. Risto has taught, coached and mentored a variety of professionals, students, entrepreneurs and experts in the past two decades. He sees technology and business education as societal force for solving global problems. Risto is currently the director of the Information Networks BSc and MSc programmes at Aalto University. The programme blends software, design, business and social sciences to create multi-talented professionals.
Design has always been about change, about how to change the existing situation into a preferred one. Much of Valtonen’s work has been about researching and facilitating this change and increasing collaboration across fields. She has a broad background in industry, including end-user understanding, strategy, creative industries, management and new business development. She has also worked in academia as post-doc, professor, dean, vice-president and rector. She is actively involved in several national and EU-level boards, advisory groups and consortia.
