The Bankinter Innovation Foundation has held a new edition of the #FutureTalks, an initiative that wants to bring Spanish society closer to the most disruptive trends that will shape the future. To do this, #FutureTalks relies on the world’s leading experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this occasion, and presented by Juan Moreno<\/strong>, our Foundation\u2019s manager, it has been with Angel Cabrera<\/strong><\/a>, trustee of our Foundation and president of the prestigious North American university Georgia Tech<\/strong><\/a>. Previously he was president of the also North American George Mason University and Thunderbird School of Global Management and of the Spanish IE Business School, so he has a privileged vision of the university ecosystem and how it has had to pivot in these times of dizzying and forced change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Angel, the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been, in addition to a very hard blow at the planetary level, an extraordinary turning point in terms of innovation and the advancement of science<\/strong> in all areas. The educational and academic world has undergone a \u201cmassive experiment\u201d in 2020, which otherwise would never have been carried out: going from a 100% face-to-face education to a 100% online education, it was done in a few weeks and with few resources when, in other circumstances, it would have taken years and millions of euros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The positive interpretation is that this “experiment” has highlighted the need for structural changes in educational methods<\/strong> and has caused a tremendous acceleration of innovation<\/strong>. According to Angel, there is no going back. Post-COVID education will never be like pre-COVID education: we must learn from everything that was done well during the pandemic and from all the gaps and poorly resolved problems that arose to arrive at a new educational model<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can access the #FutureTalks with \u00c1ngel Cabrera below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n