Gen Z, Put Your Creative Hats On & Sign Up For This World Café Style Conference

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What Is It?

After starting 2019 with a bang by conducting #MumbaiByDesign, a festival that celebrated everything that makes Mumbai unique, Pearl Academy is back with another power-packed event. At #MumbaiByDesign, creative minds from across the city huddled to share ideas, philosophies, and perspectives that were aimed to make the city a better place. Ranging from creative workshops, panel discussions to exciting competitions, the event was all about bringing a change without worrying about having fun!

And, if you are thinking about how awesome this is, get ready to listen to and discuss all things future at this exciting two-day conference happening on 22nd and 23rd February 2019. Pearl Academy is hosting What’s Next - The Creative Spark, a two day World Cafe method conference that aims to build a creative bridge between avant-garde experiments in technology and their potential to make a social impact. 

Who Is It For?

Are you a technology buff who loves reading up on advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials and more? Do you believe creativity can bridge the gaps and pave way for a socially alert future? If you nodded a yes to both of these, we’ve blocked you a place at the conference!

Why Should I Go For It?

With #MumbaiByDesign, Pearl Academy set in motion a series of activities that intrigued questions, observations and offered solutions to many urgent social matters. Held in two phases - first with Salaam Balak Trust where students used design to paint the city of their dreams and the second phase was a two-day event packed with workshops, panel discussions and competitions. The presence of eminent industry leaders such as Shreyas Karle, Founder & co-director at CONA; Shirali Tyabji, Lead Design & Innovation Specialist at Godrej; Shilpa Srivastava, Film Writer; and Sabbah Shrama, Fashion Stylist; #MumbaiByDesign had the participants hooked till the end.

For all those who want to know what the next event is all about, hear hear! If you have always dreamt of being a part of a creative revolution by building a manifesto for the future of education, this event is for you. Witness the confluence of global design educators, Industry Experts, Policy Makers, International Design Professionals, Thought Leaders along with young students who come together under one roof to discuss urgent social issues and the works of technological vanguards. At the conference, attendees will get a chance to discuss urgent matters such as sustainability, climate change, social justice, equality etc. and how technology is growing beyond the realms of imaginations to bring creative solutions. The event will also touch upon the importance of education playing a role in shaping the world in the near future. 

So, We’re Saying...

As participants carry key ideas or themes to new tables, they exchange perspectives thereby enriching the possibility for sharing new insights – and to reward these lucrative ideas, there are two competitions i.e. for the students and the faculty. Creativity. Technology. Future. If these words have got your grey cells talking, this event is tailor-made for you! Head over to this conference that is the perfect platform to discuss the revolution that is in the making!

If you would like to participate in the conference, register for the What's Next competition. Top 16 winners will get an all expense paid trip to the conference. Many other attractive prizes are also on their way!

Check out the details and register here.