AI in Higher Education Summit : what Paris is saying about the future of universities
Sold out, waiting list open. This summit brings together in Paris on March 17 and 18 the decision-makers who will define how 11 million European students learn in five years. What the program reveals, what I expect from each session, and why I will be there with my camera for both days.
ESCP is hosting a summit on AI in higher education. Sold out. Waiting list open. That is not a sign of passing enthusiasm. It is a sign that the sector is starting to take seriously a question it has long avoided: does what we do in lecture halls still make sense in the age of large language models?
European higher education runs on pedagogical infrastructure designed in the 1990s. The LMS platforms in place, Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, were built to manage content, dates, and attendance. Not to measure what a student can actually do. The result: 11 million European students receive diplomas every year that certify they attended courses, not that they have mastered anything.
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