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

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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