Shape the World Summit 2020 “Global Education 4.0 for Inclusion and Sustainability” to take place in Kaohsiung this June

A 2-day creative summit in Kaohsiung from 19-20 June to gather leaders and educators to rethink the methods of education, to innovate and redesign our education systems in order to build a more inclusive and sustainable world.

Singapore. January 24th 2020 – As industry 4.0 threatens to blur the lines between the biological, digital, and physical aspects of the world around us, the new generation of leaders need to be prepared with a whole new set of skills and competencies. But more importantly, they need to be nurtured to become “proponents of the common good, creative and responsible leaders in social and civil life, with a proper vision of the person and the world” as quoted from Pope Francis. There is an urgent need to reshape our education systems, to ideate and innovate new approaches that will ensure a generation of future leaders with the vision of shaping the world inclusively and sustainably.

The Shape the World Summit 2020 will convene over 300 diverse stakeholders at the Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages from 19-20th June in Kaohsiung.

The two-day summit is jointly organized by Consulus and Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages. Including a diverse group of stakeholders from business leaders, politicians, civil servants, religious leaders, educators to youths and students. Participants will come from 17 countries, including the US, Italy, Brazil, Singapore, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. The summit will use a design thinking approach to uncover the current challenges, issues and problems in today’s education approaches and to discover new methods of education that will help shape a more inclusive economic system and sustainable future.

“We are entering a new era brought on by the fourth industrial revolution that will require us to reinvent ourselves, which begins with education. It is now more critical than ever that we redesign education to teach inclusivity and sustainability for 4.0, and ensure that we are preparing students and retooling workers for the future. The time is now to shape education, so that we can shape the future rather than let it shape us. The opportunity to attend the Shape the World Summit 2020 gives professionals, leaders and education innovators the opportunity to come together and dialogue and learn from each other what it is that we must do. Don’t miss it!”

Jim Funk, Chairman for Consulus Global Network and Global Head of Leadership Transformation at Consulus Global

“Wenzao has begun a journey of transformation, to shape the university in a way that would enable us to develop our students as whole persons, leaders capable of navigating through the challenges of the future. We are proud to be able to have embarked on this journey with our partner, Consulus, and are excited to be able to host the Shape the World Summit 2020. Through this Summit, we would like to share and demonstrate a systematic approach to provide a nurturing ground for youths to explore and try new possibilities in a vision of an inclusive and sustainable world.”

Margaret Mei-Hua Chen, Ed.D., President of Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages

Tickets are on sale starting today.

For more information about Shape the World Summit, please visit the official website at www.shapetheworldconference.org. 

Consulus Pte Ltd
120 Lower Delta Road
Cendex Centre
#13-05/06
Singapore 169208

Presscontact: Kannon

About Shape the World Summit 2020
Consulus is the convener for Shape the World Summit (STWS), a creative thought-leadership event aimed at providing design-led strategies to inspire companies to transform their business and organizational models to shape a better world. More than 5,000 delegates have participated in STWC from around the region since 2005. The conference was launched in Singapore and has been held in Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and now Kaohsiung. www.shapetheworldconference.org

About Consulus
Consulus is a global innovation and design consultancy present in 16 countries. We help leaders, companies and cities unite, transform and innovate by design to meet the challenges of Industry 4.0.

Our Purpose:
Shaping a better and inclusive economic system, by helping leaders, companies and cities discover their better selves by enabling them to become the difference they are meant to be from the inside out.
We are a firm driven by purpose with multidisciplinary capabilities from business, organization to design. Today we are present in Singapore (World Centre), Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Consulus is a member of the Economy of Communion Global Network, a group of businesses, professionals and academics committed to shaping a new economic system that favours inclusive growth. www.consulus.com

About Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages
Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages (Wenzao) was founded by the sisters of the Roman Union of the Order of St. Ursula in 1966. Today, they have over 9000 students and is known for its commitment to excellence in foreign languages teaching and research.

Education in Wenzao is founded on the Christian concept of faith in the uniqueness of the individual. Curricula are designed to foster the growth of this uniqueness and the development of the whole person. With Chinese language and culture as the foundation, the University seeks through foreign language education to provide an understanding of multi-culturalism and an international perspective. Students are equipped with the academic and professional skills which will enable them to achieve linguistic excellence, acquire wisdom, develop leadership and serve society. www.wzu.edu.tw

This release was published on openPR.