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    Speaker Profile

    Yong Zhao, PhD

    Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas; Professorial Fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy, Victoria University; Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Author, “Artificial Intelligence and Education: End the Grammar of Schooling” (2024, ECNU Review of Education) and Learners Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for All Students (2021); Co-Author, “Reconsidering Literacy in an AI World” (2025, KAPPAN), Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World (2022), Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners (2020) and Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job (2015)
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    Past Talks

    Teaching Generation AI-Z
    Advancing Schooling, Skills, Relationships, and Learning in a Distracted, Uncertain, AI Age
    The Fairmont SF, San Francisco, CA
    February 13-15, 2026
    Future-Ready Brains
    Teaching Students to Think, Create, Innovate, Learn, and Adapt for an Anxious, AI Age
    NY Sheraton Times Square Hotel, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom
    April 18-20, 2024
    The Science of Teaching
    Applying Brain Science and COVID Lessons to Improve Teaching, Schools, and Learning Spaces
    The Fairmont, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
    February 18-20, 2022
    Reaching for Greatness
    Unleash Potential, Passions, and Creative Talents in Students with Cognitive Science
    Westin Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA
    November 16-18, 2018
    The Science of How We Learn
    Engaging Memory, Motivation, Mindsets, Making and Mastery
    Held at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA
    February 17-19, 2017