Join us for a timely conversation bringing together neuroscience, campaigning and frontline education to explore digital technology.

Join us for a timely conversation bringing together neuroscience, campaigning and frontline education to explore digital technology and learning: whether screens and AI are weakening attention, memory and critical thought; why the consequences are already visible in Gen Z; and what the future of our education system should look like.

Jared Cooney Horvath (PhD, MEd) is a neuroscientist, educator and bestselling author who specialises in human learning and brain development. He is the creator of The Learning Blueprint, an international award-winning programme helping educators and students understand how learning actually works. He has conducted research and taught at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Melbourne, and has worked with more than 1,000 schools around the world. He has published over fifty research articles, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist and Harvard Business Review. He currently serves as Director of LME Global, an organisation dedicated to bringing cutting-edge brain and behavioural science to educators, students and communities.

Katharine Birbalsingh CBE, is Headmistress and co-founder of Michaela. She is known as ‘Britain’s Strictest Headmistress’.Michaela’s Progress 8 score places the school top in the country. The National Inspectorate, OFSTED, grades the school as “Outstanding” in every category. Over 1000 guests visit Michaela every year.Katharine read Philosophy & Modern Languages at The University of Oxford and has always taught in inner London. Michaela has a book called The Power of Culture, edited by Katharine.Follow Katharine on X: @Miss_Snuffy or Listen to her podcast Strictly Education on Youtube and Spotify.

Sophie Winkleman, Lady Frederick Windsor began acting at Cambridge University where she wrote and performed in the award-winning Footlights show 'Far Too Happy'. She went on to act with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Peter Hall Company, and on screen in film and TV. She is patron of several charities including the education charity School-Home Support, Cure.org and the Children's Surgery Foundation. She has long campaigned against social media, smartphones and EdTech for children - writing in the Times, Telegraph, Spectator, Politics Home and Unherd among others, and appearing on TV shows including Politics Live, the BBC and Sky News. She has worked alongside Jonathan Haidt, Hugh Grant and been interviewed by Oprah

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