Bridge the Gap 2026
Empowering students for careers that don’t yet exist.Knowledge, skills, values and identity in the age of AI.
Register nowOur starting point for 2026
The world our students are growing into is being reshaped by AI faster than we are rethinking how we prepare them for it.
We can’t predict the jobs our students will hold. But we can prepare the people who will hold them. Grounded in knowledge, ready in skill, clear in values, and sure of who they are.
Bridge the Gap 2026 brings school leaders, educators, employers and young people into one conversation. It moves from the problem to what schools can do now, organised around four things school still owes every student: knowledge, skills, values and identity.
Agenda
The programme moves from the problem to the response, with a youth roundtable at its centre.
Welcome and framing
8 minThe map: disappearing, surplus, emerging jobs
10 minHow a 16-year-old actually decidesPlus Q&A with a youth representative
20 minYour students already have a career coach. It’s a chatbot.
10 minSkills: what employers can’t find
10 minAsk us, not about us: 16, 19, 22The roundtable hinge, where young people speak for themselves
20 minWhat counts after school: universities, microcredentials and the unbundling degree
10 minKnowledge: does knowing things still pay?
10 minValues: the career strategy nobody teaches
10 minIdentity: the last homework
10 minThis year’s Advisory Board
The programme is shaped by leaders across education, technology and the future of work.
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