Event Description

AI isn’t science fiction anymore. Chat GPT5 just dropped, and Google AI just scored Gold on the most competitive math exam in the world. If machines can outcompete the best of humans, what can we do? Better yet, what does the next generation do?In this free seminar, Professor, CEO, and former USA Math Olympiad Coach Po-Shen Loh explains what today’s young people will need to succeed in a future shaped by AI. Drawing from conversations in over 100 cities, plus years of coaching world champion students, he shares clear insights based on real experience.

You’ll learn:

What companies are really looking for in the AI era — from a real CEO who hires in today’s market.
How education is evolving across continents — with real-world stories and exchanges from 100+ cities to back it up.
Top strategies and mindsets to help the newest generation build resilience, independence, and success in unprecedented times.
How to look into the future and become a more powerful thinker to solve the problems of tomorrow.

Who Should Attend:

Parents who want to prepare their kids for success
Teachers and Administration looking for powerful strategies to adopt education
Students debating future careers
Community leaders focused on developing opportunity
Anyone curious about how AI, education, and the job market will shape the next 20 years

Speaker Info

The speaker, Po-Shen Loh, has traveled to over 100 cities in recent years, delivering talks on this topic and gaining insights from diverse audiences—a tour that was even featured by The Wall Street Journal.

Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor working across mathematics, education, and healthcare. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way for people to learn challenging math live online from brilliant people to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest.

He has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the USA Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was the coach of Carnegie Mellon University’s math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. He featured in or co-created videos totaling over 21 million YouTube views.

Po-Shen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Caltech in 2004, graduating with the highest GPA in his class. He received a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2005, where he was supported by a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship. He continued his studies at Princeton, supported by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, where he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the end of 2009, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University ever since.

Location

Grand River Chinese School

Main site (Resurrection High School)

455 University Ave W, Kitchener, ON N2N 3B9, Canada

Get GPS direction on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zZfox31fZv5g4Hyk6

Acknowledgment

Most of Prof. Loh's public outreach, including this event, is sponsored by LIVE, by Po-Shen Loh. This talk is proudly supported by the Grand River Chinese School. Grand River Chinese School was established in 2007, it is a non-profit Chinese school serving the greater Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) region, Ontario, Canada.

[English] A Blueprint For Next-Generation Success | Kitchener, ON | Nov 8