AI is rapidly changing how students learn, how businesses operate, and how future careers will be created. But what does this actually mean for today’s students from high schools to undergrads, and for the parents and educators preparing them for an AI-driven world? This cross-sector panel brings together school leaders, educators, and business perspectives to explore the questions families need answered now: What does it really mean to be AI-literate? How should schools prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce? What skills will matter as AI increasingly performs technical and knowledge-based tasks? And how can students move beyond simply using AI tools to become critical thinkers, entrepreneurs, problem-solvers, and responsible innovators? The conversation will connect the dots between education, entrepreneurship, small business, career readiness, and the future of work. Our panelists will explore how entrepreneurial and real-world business thinking can prepare students not only to enter the workforce, but to identify problems, create value, build solutions, and seize new opportunities in an AI-powered economy. From the classroom, we will examine how AI is changing what and how students should learn, including the evolving role of computer science education. From the world of entrepreneurship and small business, we will explore how AI is lowering barriers to innovation and changing the skills needed to create and grow a business. And from the perspective of career and technical education, we will consider how schools can prepare students for hands-on careers and industries increasingly shaped by AI. Together, the panel will explore what students, parents, educators, and communities should be doing today to prepare for an AI-driven future, and how we can ensure the next generation is not simply prepared to use AI, but empowered to understand it, question it, build with it, and lead responsibly.

AI & Education: What Students and Parents Need to Know

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