We’re thrilled to offer this meetup for SXSW EDU 2027!

AI is reshaping entry-level work faster than education can easily respond. In this meetup, reimagine how we as educators, counselors, and employers prepare students to launch careers in a changing workforce.

Using thought-and-action-provoking data, examples, and questions, we’ll spark discussion and ideas for curriculum, tools, programs, and real-world learning to reinvent skill and competency growth.

Come with your experiences and curiosity. Leave with peer connections, frameworks, and concrete next steps to help students build a fulfilling professional path that fits—and flexes—into their futures.

About Marco Morales

Marco Morales is a product leader and designer focused on educational change at scale. He's founder of Schema Education, a product design and development agency serving edtech organizations, with a model built around apprenticeships that place and grow early-career designers and product managers. Before Schema, Marco spent a decade on the product and design teams at edX, where he led edX Mobile, served as Open edX Lead, and held product management roles across Teaching & Learning and platform. He remains active in the Open edX community, including as a member of the Technical Oversight Committee. Marco has also taught design and entrepreneurship at Olin College, where he earned his B.S. in Engineering (Product Design & Development), and has founded and worked on several education startups.

About Ela Ben-Ur
Ela supports educators and organizations making positive change. Over 13 prior years at innovation firm IDEO, Ela was a design practitioner, project leader, team coach, facilitator for clients, and co-founder of IDEO’s Leadership Studio. Ela teaches courses from product design to life design at pioneering Olin College. She has led featured workshops at venues from MIT (her alma mater) to the National Science Teachers’ Association, Front End of Innovation conference, International Development Design Summit, and US Conference on AIDS. With many co-experimenters, she developed Innovators’ Compass, a visual tool used from preschools to companies and communities to creatively and collaboratively navigate challenges. Ela’s daughters are her inspiration.

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