The future of higher education.

The printing press. The lecture hall. The MOOC. Every one of them threatened to make the university obsolete, and every one followed the same cycle. Institutions that used the tool to do the old thing faster stagnated. The ones that reset on the real goal defined the next century of learning.

Generative AI is the current jetpack, and it arrived inside the classroom before anyone had a policy for it. The question isn't whether students use it. It's what a degree certifies when they do.

In this keynote, Sam Rad shows higher education leaders the cycle every big change follows, why the new tools aren't paying off yet, and the four moves that turn the corner. The pattern has repeated for five thousand years, which is why it lands with any room in this industry.

The four moves

See the pattern. Let go of the old way. Lead the jetpack. Take it off. The arc underneath: recognition, reassurance, challenge, agency, practice, hope.

We don't have an adoption problem. We have a reinvention problem. The returns happen after you redesign.