Speaking / Schools & Education Systems
Keynotes and working sessions for school leaders, educators and staff. Understand what is changing, work through real concerns, and choose your next move.
School speaking
For leaders, educators, and the people helping teams put AI into practice.
All sessions can also be offered through a Catholic faith lens, drawing on published Vatican guidance, including Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.
Description
Understand what you need to know about AI today and why you need to act now.
Explore how education systems are responding to challenges in authentic learning and assessment.
Key takeaways
Leave with clear next steps to guide staff in your school or system.
Description
This practical session helps system leaders strengthen their own confidence with AI while planning how to scale effective use across their departments.
Through peer sharing, guided practice, and collaborative planning, leaders will explore practical AI applications, identify high-impact opportunities, and design a pilot they can apply in their own context.
The session will also help participants assess progress, clarify priorities, and create a focused implementation roadmap.
Key takeaways
Leaders will leave with stronger personal AI habits, a clear pilot direction, and concrete next steps for broader impact.
Description
Understand what is changing in AI, why it matters for your students, and why educators need to act now. Explore common concerns, your role in guiding AI use, and how other educators are getting value from it. Wherever you are in your AI journey, identify a practical next step and a clear direction for developing your practice.
Key takeaways
A clearer understanding of AI and your role, examples of what is possible in education, and a practical next step with a path for continued progress.
Description
Work with AI as a thinking partner on a real teaching challenge. Explore how to improve existing lessons, feedback and routines—and develop learning approaches that were previously difficult to put into practice. Move from completing tasks faster to making better decisions about how you teach and support learning.
Key takeaways
Practical ways to collaborate with AI, an approach to strengthen teaching or learning, and a way to check whether it makes a difference.
Description
Explore how AI can support critical thinking and problem solving while keeping students actively involved in their learning. Examine how to augment existing lessons, assessments and practice tasks while addressing academic integrity and overreliance on AI. Find ways for students to explain their reasoning, think independently and demonstrate genuine understanding.
Key takeaways
Practical ways to strengthen lessons and assessments with AI, support independent thinking, and gather clearer evidence of student learning.
These sessions can stand alone or work together.
Keynote
Description
Move the Portrait of a Graduate from a shared vision into everyday learning. Explore why transferable skills matter alongside academic knowledge, and how small shifts in practice can strengthen student agency.
Key takeaways
Hands-on workshop
Description
Put the Portrait of a Graduate into practice without starting from scratch. In this hands-on workshop, staff use AI to adapt existing lessons, assessments, or student supports so students have more opportunities to develop transferable skills.
Key takeaways
For university departments
Description
Explore how leading organizations turn AI into measurable gains and what their habits can teach university departments. Rethink what students should learn, how to assess meaningful learning when AI can supply answers, and how AI can improve feedback—preparing graduates to contribute meaningfully and build fulfilling careers.
Through small-group discussion and examples from your discipline, identify shared departmental goals and practical ways to achieve them.
Key takeaways
Changes to try in your teaching, priorities to pursue together, and ways to measure progress.
Description
Build your own AI skills and plan how to support the people you work with.
Learn and practise Task Engineering : identify the result you want, what will prompt people to act, and how needs differ across your community. Decide what to check so you can adjust your approach.
Key takeaways
A first Task Engineering plan to try with your team, plus a next step for improving your own AI use.
THE P.A.V.E. METHOD
Giancarlo uses the P.A.V.E. method to design sessions that connect with the people in the room, involve them in the thinking, focus the conversation on something worth moving forward, and create experiences they can carry back into their work.
The P.A.V.E. methodology
A PaveEDU method developed by Giancarlo Brotto.
MEET YOUR SPEAKER
An educator who understands the room—and the system around it.
Giancarlo began his career as an educator and has spent more than two decades working across education, technology, leadership and system change.
He has worked with educators, school and system leaders, governments and education organizations around the world, helping people make sense of emerging technology and translate it into practical action.
That experience matters in an AI conversation. Educators arrive with different levels of confidence, legitimate concerns, competing priorities and a responsibility to protect learning while preparing students for what comes next.
Giancarlo’s role is not to tell the room that everyone should embrace AI. It is to help people examine what is changing, think critically about what matters, and identify practical next steps that make sense in their context.
Not a generic AI keynote. A conversation grounded in teaching, leadership and the realities of educational change.
Learn more about GiancarloLet’s plan your session
Tell Giancarlo who will be in the room and what you want the session to help them do.
Book a speaking conversationinfo@aireadyschools.caSchool leaders and parent councils can arrange sessions for those audiences too.
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