IQAA employees took part in the international conference "CONNECTED 2024"

On October 18-19, 2024, Astana hosted the international conference on understanding the image of the future "CONNECTED-2024", in which IQAA employees took part.

About 1,500 delegates from more than 20 countries came to the conference. Among them were futurologists, philosophers, leaders in the field of innovation and technology, public and government figures, founders and representatives of the world's leading EdTech companies, international organizations, transnational corporations, etc.

The program of the event is built within the framework of three key verticals: "Awareness of the Future", "Education and Science of the Future" and "Educational Technologies and Impact Entrepreneurship".

During the panel session "Global Competitiveness of Higher Education: Building a Strategy", the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan Sayasat Nurbek noted that the education system of Kazakhstan is facing a dilemma: to lose the existing foundation of the basic sciences curriculum or to preserve the conservative core of education. According to the head of the ministry, most of the radical changes are related to artificial intelligence.

The two-day event featured key speakers at the conference: writer and humanist Gerd Leonhard; Nobel laureate in the field of green economics Rae Kwon Chung; President of the Association of Futurologists, foresight adviser to the European Commission Tanya Schindler; Oxford University professor and author of the bestseller "The Silk Road. A New World History" Peter Frankopan; "China's Green Goddess" and green development advocate Peggy Liu; Stanford University professor, author of courses on AI Younes Bensouda Murri; bestselling author, the first editor-in-chief of WIRED magazine David Rowan; Futurist, trend analyst, economist, UNDP Futures Fellow Bronwyn Williams; Tibetan lama, master, author Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche; systems thinker and philanthropist, included in the top 10 most influential people in Africa (Forbes) Mamadou Quijim Toure and others.