Announcing the 2027 Theme: What the World Needs Now...

Each year, GSV Summit curates a central theme for the ASU+GSV Summit, in order to address both the current state of the learning and skills ecosystem and where it's headed next. The 2027 theme is What the World Needs Now..., an invitation to confront the biggest questions facing education, work, and society with both ambition and purpose—and to do so together.

Read our 2027 theme manifesto for more:

What the World Needs Now...

More technology.

Less technology.

Bigger swings.

Smaller steps.

A shared question, yet with no shared answer.

What does the world need now?

Trust.

Truth.

Harmony.

A world that’s changing every day, where the walls of reality bend and expand with every leap of technology, and with every fusion between man and machine.

When so much is possible, what actually becomes probable?

How do we know what we need…if we don’t really know what’s next?

That kind of open-endedness is an invitation: a call to engage with the moment and the collective.

With the builders and believers expanding the spectrum of opportunity for all.

It is a summons to dig deep; to root in purpose.

A charge to kindle what keeps us human.

The foundation for flourishing, since the dawn of time.

What the world needs now is what it has always needed, and what every great teacher, parent, coach, and citizen does. Not quite a silver bullet, but a golden rule…

To build boldly, with care;

To cast light in every direction;

To lead, through every age, with love.

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