What’s Next, a Thought Leadership Platform initiated and facilitated by Pearl Academy which was instituted in 2014 and continues to be looked forward to as a prestigious intellectual event every year. This confluence of innovation, ideas and insightful experiences has been traditionally conducted in a World Café format. The forthcoming What’s Next confluence scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on 30th April -2nd May 2020 has now evolved into a three-day event to include conversations with eminent speakers, the world café discussions, installations/paper presentations and workshops.

The theme of the event is “The New Reality”.

The New Reality is an emergent code for living where basic values and shared norms are turned into innovative, positive forces, driving our future; directing a new sense of “Global Togetherness” for a meaningful and sustainable existence of humankind. It is a common vision for a future that we can create, grow and empower through education, technology, social values and equipoised environment. The conference aims to initiate a dialogic inquiry towards a collective insight around the reality of “The World of the future”. It is a cross-pollination of ideas from conversations that critically examine the concerns of the future.

This event will coincide with the launch of Pearl Academy’s New Bengaluru Campus.

Faculty members and students from fellow institutions are invited to participate in the paper and non-paper presentations planned for the event. The call for papers for “What’s Next-The New Reality” is enclosed herewith. You may register your attendance/abstract submissions here. Full papers to be mailed at [log in to unmask] which are selected will be published as a book following the event. The registration fee is as mentioned below:

· Delegates- ₹ 10000

· Academics and Institutions (minimum of 3 attendees)- ₹ 7500

· Students- ₹ 3000.

We look forward to engaging with you at What’s Next 2020.