Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
“Curiosity is the secret sauce to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)."
What Should Schools Prepare Children For?
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Kuppam, AP
Residential
Creativity Campus
School Leaders
Kuppam, AP
Residential
Creativity Campus
School Leaders
“73% of Students are already using AI for schoolwork, but only 18% of Teachers have recieved any formal guidance on it”
– 2026 Education Trend Report
“73% of parents say their child already uses AI, but 45% of K–12 educators have had no formal AI training — and just 8% have had comprehensive training.”
Source: Instructure survey, 2026
73% of parents say their child already uses AI but 45% of K-12 educators have had no formal AI training, and just 8% have had comprehensive training.
Source: Instructure survey, 2026
Nearly half of ChatGPT’s users in India are under 24 and OpenAl now says India has the world’s largest student population on ChatGPT.
Source: OpenAl / ETV Bharat, 2026, World Economic Forum
“Nearly half of ChatGPT’s users in India are under 24, and OpenAI now says India has the world’s largest student population on ChatGPT.”
Source: OpenAI / ETV Bharat, 2026; World Economic Forum
That’s why this is happening at Agastya!
In India, over 50% of leading higher-education institutions already use generative Al to build learning materials, 40% run Al tutoring systems, and 38% use it for automated grading.
Source: EY-Parthenon & FICCI, “Future-Ready Campuses,” 2025
The schools that thrive in the next decade will be built around the second list. This
conclave is where you learn to build them — by experiencing that second list yourself.
Run real experiments yourself. Feel the "Aha!" you want for your students before they do.
27 years. 40 million children reached. 300,000 teachers trained. Built to nurture curiosity, creativity and confidence — the world's largest hands-on learning campus.
Founders, principals and academic heads only. The group is kept intentionally small, so the three days lead to genuine outcomes and lasting connections.
The AI Experience Lab
You sit down at each station and use the tools your teachers are already quietly using — and find out exactly where they help, and exactly where they fail.
Rebuild one of your own lessons with AI in the room.
One class, thirty levels. Make it work.
What happens to marking when the machine does it.
The messages your school sends, rewritten.
The station that matters most. Watch it break.
That belief started Agastya in 1999, when Ramji Raghavan brought together a group of scientists, educators and entrepreneurs around a single idea: children learn through hands-on exploration, and rote memorisation quietly takes that away from them.
Today we’re one of India’s leading education non-profits, and what we call the world’s largest creativity laboratory – reaching over 40 million children and 300,000+ teachers across 24 states, through mobile science labs, innovation hubs, campus creativity labs, science centres and digital learning platforms.
Our mission runs on three moments:
Aah!
Aha!
Ha-Ha!
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Children Reached
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No photo does this place justice. That's rather the point.
THE PROVOCATION
See what AI is already doing inside classrooms — then map, honestly, what it takes from your school in five years, and the short list it never will.
THE IMMERSION
You become the student. Labs, experiments, your own hands. Then build an experiential lesson your teachers can run next week.
THE COMMITMENT
Leave with a written 90-day plan ready to implement.
Full session-by-session agenda drops soon. Registered leaders see it first.
A circle of Agastya’s Young Instructor Leaders sits at the centre of the room and talks about how they actually learn, what school gets wrong, and what they want from the adults deciding their future.
Over three days, you'll learn from the voices redefining what school is for.
From the labs building the tools your school is now weighing up — and the researchers studying what they do to learning.
Whose work has reshaped classrooms across the globe — and answers this room's question better than almost anyone.
School leaders who've already rebuilt around curiosity — and have the results to prove it works.
Dean of Parents, Alpha School
Heather leads the family side of Alpha School, the AI-powered, student-led school in the US where children finish core academics in just two hours a day, and score in the nation's top percentiles. It's one of the most talked-about experiments in world education. Across 25 years she's been a teacher, a founding principal, and a superintendent leading 13 campuses — and once lifted results 40% in a single year on a high-poverty campus.
At the Conclave, she unveils what an AI-powered school looks like
Professor, School of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras
An expert in data science, AI and systems control, Prof. Tangirala teaches at IIT Madras and IIT Tirupati, where he serves as Dean of Competency Development and Outreach. He is Chief Coordinator of SWAYAM PRABHA, the Ministry of Education's large-scale digital learning initiative, and Editor-in-Chief at the Institution of Engineers (India), with 100+ published papers and national recognition for teaching and research. At the Conclave, he brings the researcher's clarity to what AI can and can't do for how children learn.
President, Catalign Innovation Consulting
Vinay teaches innovation and design thinking at IIM Bangalore and IIT Bombay, and is the co-author of 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (HarperCollins). For nearly two decades, he has helped organisations and leaders build a genuine culture of innovation through 100+ hands-on workshops on design thinking and creative problem-solving. His work focuses on the human skills that matter most as AI reshapes the classroom.
Executive Vice-Chairman, Agastya International Foundation
A chemical engineer from IIT Madras with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Thiagarajan spent over three decades leading companies across engineering, IT and infrastructure — as President, MD and CEO — before bringing that operating discipline to Agastya. For 16 years he has run the foundation's operations and scale, growing it into one of India's largest education movements. He has taught and spoken at the IITs, IIMs, ISB, and Kellogg, and serves on CII's national committees.
Founder, Agastya International Foundation
In 1998 he left a banking career across Citibank in India, Puerto Rico and New York to start Agastya — and spent the next 27 years building it into what is now the world's largest hands-on learning campus, reaching over 40 million children and 300,000 teachers. He has served on the Government of India's Central Advisory Board of Education, and spoken at Stanford, MIT Media Lab, the Clinton Global Initiative and the Education World Forum. Under his chairmanship, Agastya won the Google Global Impact Award and was ranked among the Rockefeller Foundation's top 100 global innovators.
President, Catalign Innovation Consulting
Vinay teaches innovation and design thinking at IIM Bangalore and IIT Bombay, and is the co-author of 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (HarperCollins). For nearly two decades, he has helped organisations and leaders build a genuine culture of innovation through 100+ hands-on workshops on design thinking and creative problem-solving. His work focuses on the human skills that matter most as AI reshapes the classroom.
Executive Vice-Chairman, Agastya International Foundation
A chemical engineer from IIT Madras with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Thiagarajan spent over three decades leading companies across engineering, IT and infrastructure — as President, MD and CEO — before bringing that operating discipline to Agastya. For 16 years he has run the foundation's operations and scale, growing it into one of India's largest education movements. He has taught and spoken at the IITs, IIMs, ISB, and Kellogg, and serves on CII's national committees.
Professor, School of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras
An expert in data science, AI and systems control, Prof. Tangirala teaches at IIT Madras and IIT Tirupati, where he serves as Dean of Competency Development and Outreach. He is Chief Coordinator of SWAYAM PRABHA, the Ministry of Education's large-scale digital learning initiative, and Editor-in-Chief at the Institution of Engineers (India), with 100+ published papers and national recognition for teaching and research. At the Conclave, he brings the researcher's clarity to what AI can and can't do for how children learn.
Founder, Agastya International Foundation
In 1998 he left a banking career across Citibank in India, Puerto Rico and New York to start Agastya — and spent the next 27 years building it into what is now the world's largest hands-on learning campus, reaching over 40 million children and 300,000 teachers. He has served on the Government of India's Central Advisory Board of Education, and spoken at Stanford, MIT Media Lab, the Clinton Global Initiative and the Education World Forum. Under his chairmanship, Agastya won the Google Global Impact Award and was ranked among the Rockefeller Foundation's top 100 global innovators.
The full faculty is announced over the coming weeks.Registered leaders hear every name first.
A circle of Agastya’s Young Instructor Leaders sits at the centre of the room and talks about how they actually learn, what school gets wrong, and what they want from the adults deciding their future.
Founder, Agastya International Foundation
27 years ago he left a banking career to build the world's largest hands-on learning movement. 20 million children later, he'll tell you what a lifetime of wonder teaches about what machines can't touch. Fireside, under the stars.
Founder, Agastya International Foundation
27 years ago he left a banking career to build the world's largest hands-on learning movement. 20 million children later, he'll tell you what a lifetime of wonder teaches about what machines can't touch. Fireside, under the stars.
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“Curiosity is the secret sauce to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)."
"The purpose of Agastya, in my opinion, is not to teach science but to arouse curiosity through the medium of science. When the child gets curious, he wants to learn."
"When Ramji explained the van [Mobile Science Lab] to me, I said I would buy it and if it was any good, I would get L&T to buy it for every location. I felt it was good, so we now have 11 or 12 mobile labs."
"Agastya is managing to expand in a macro way, but within the micro level. This is mezzo."
"Agastya found the formula needed to ignite the child's mind, to help the child explore the process of comprehension and allow the child to develop the ability to use such learning to creatively solve problems."
"A truly remarkable story. Agastya's journey is one we can all learn from – its mission is one we should all try and be a part of."
"I think the beauty of Agastya has been to leverage the power of experimentation to communicate scientific ideas. It creates the foundation to enhance the curiosity of children."
"What we need in society is more curiosity — the foundation of creativity, of searching and questioning."
"Agastya's noble and transformative work will go in the annals of history as a spectacular yet unassuming contribution for generations to come."
Executive Chairperson, Biocon & Biologics
Investor and Philanthropist
Former Executive Chairman, Larsen & Toubro
“Agastya is managing to expand in a macro way, but within the micro level.
This is mezzo.”
Stanford University
Former Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
“A truly remarkable story. Agastya’s journey is one we can all learn from –
its mission is one we should all try and be a part of.”
Chairperson and CEO, Salesforce India Former Chairperson, State Bank of India
“I think the beauty of Agastya has been to leverage the power of experimentation to communicate scientific ideas. It creates the foundation to enhance the curiosity of children.”
Founder, Infosys Ltd.
“What we need in society is more curiosity — the foundation of creativity, of searching and questioning.”
Stanford University
“Agastya’s noble and transformative work will go in the annals of history as a spectacular yet unassuming contribution for generations to come.”
Former Chief Secretary, Government of Haryana
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No. The AI Experience Lab starts where you are. Leaders who have never opened an AI
tool and leaders already piloting them both leave with the same thing: a clear map of
where it helps their school and where it fails.