ICS Education Summit 2025
40 Momentous yrs of Shaping Change and Guiding Futures
Transforming Education, Careers, and Lives for Meaningful Impact
🎓 Celebrating a Journey of Impact, Inspiration, and Innovation
For four decades, ICS has inspired learners, educators, leaders, and institutions - guiding futures and shaping change.
At ICS, we empower individuals with wisdom, empathy, and foresight to realize their highest potential, pursue rewarding careers, make meaningful contributions, and lead lives of purpose, fulfillment, and holistic well-being.
Dr. Amrita Dass
Founder Director
✨ Summit Highlights
Keynotes: Big ideas on driving innovation in education, advancing career readiness and designing a brighter future.
Panel Dialogues: Predicting the future of Work and job evolution, leveraging real intelligence, bridging learning and work
Ideation Roundtables: Collaborative problem-solving for impact - ensuring that the evolution of AI remains aligned with humanity's deepest values - equity, dignity, empathy, and the common good.
40-Year Celebration: Honouring our legacy and community
This is more than a conference - it's a catalytic movement to envision a future where technology amplifies human potential and creativity, rather than replacing them.
Meet the speakers and panelists
Bringing together visionaries and changemakers from education, healthcare, technology, business, and government to reimagine the future where human intelligence and AI evolve for the greater good of humankind.
Rashmi Arun Shami (IAS)
Additional Chief Secretary, Dept of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection
Event Overview
The Institute for Career Studies (ICS) proudly presents the ICS Education Summit 2025 on the theme "Reimagining the Future with AI: Opportunities and Challenges."
Marking 40 momentous years of leadership in education and career guidance, this landmark Summit celebrates the ICS legacy of shaping change and guiding futures.
A first-of-its-kind national, multi-stakeholder event, the Summit will convene influential voices driving the transformation of education, technology, and work in an era defined by Artificial Intelligence.
A Convergence of the Present and the Future
The Summit will bridge the gap between today's realities and tomorrow's possibilities — creating a platform for insightful dialogue, collaboration, and co-creation between academia, industry and government.
Principals, educators, counsellors, industry leaders, policymakers, and students will explore how AI is reshaping education, redefining employability, and reimagining human potential - culminating in strategies and solutions for a future of endless possibilities and purposeful progress.
Event Itinerary
Welcome Tea
Dr Amrita Dass – 40th Anniversary Address: Opening Reflections Inaugural lamp lighting by Student Trailblazers. Unveiling of AstraMind by Saurabh Saha, CEO, and Ajay Anandteertha, CTO
Panel Discussion 1 Envisioning the AI Tipping Point in the Future of Work: Evidence-based Scenarios and Strategic Insights on Job Evolution in an AI-Driven World
Break
Panel Discussion 2 Real Intelligence Matters: Future-Proofing Humanity Beyond Algorithms Preserving and Amplifying Human Creativity, Intuition, and Wisdom amid AI Transformation in Life and Learning
Lunch
Panel Discussion 3 Bridging Learning and Work for an AI-Driven Future: Fostering Synergy among Schools, Higher Education, Industry, and Policy to Empower Real Intelligence and Build a Resilient Workforce
Closing Session Dr Amrita Dass – Reflections and the Road Ahead Kavita Dass – Expressions of Gratitude
High Tea
Join the Celebration
Be part of this milestone event as we honour the past, engage with the present, and envision the future of education, careers, and life - reimagined through innovation, collaboration, and compassion.
Venue & Details
Location: Taj Mahal Hotel, Lucknow
Email: institute@icsmail.in
Event Hours: 9:30 - 6:00
The ICS Legacy
Four Decades of Guiding Futures
Since 1985, ICS has empowered generations through informed guidance, transformative professional development, visionary leadership, and global collaboration.
📍 1985–2025: From vision to legacy - from classrooms to careers - from global conversations to co-creating a bright and inclusive future with AI and human intelligence.