A global online conversation!
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On Saturday, March 21, 2026, we will meet for the online Global Meeting on Equinox with presentations and discussions around the globe!
Over the course of 18 hours and 8 sessions, we will travel online from Blue Pacific/Oceania via East Asia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Latin America to North America.
This time we will discuss what particular bildung challenges are most crucial to address in each culture zone and how we can take the Global Meeting on Equinox to the next level.
The Global Meeting on Equinox is a global conversation in March and September each year about what it means to be human and how we can create a future where everybody can thrive.
This is not about a utopia or soft psychedelic philosophy. This is where research meets values and dreams. We look to an improvement within the existing rules. Collaborative instead of competitive games. A “game of life” where people are free to move but do not end up polarised.
Watch videos from GME March 2025
Watch videos from GME September 2025
GME Program March, 2026
We will start adding speakers soon — stay tuned…
Oceania/Blue Pacific, East Asia, Asia and the Middle East:
05:00-13:00 / 5am-1pm UTC
Hosts:
Eliane Metni
Lebanon & Canada
Folarin Gbadebo-Smith
Nigeria
Halyna Yarmolenko
Ukraine & Austria
Lene Rachel Andersen
Denmark
Martin Ivarson
Sweden
Robert McTague
USA & Romania
Sanchita Shekhar
India
Blue Pacific:
05:00-06:45 / 5:00am-06:45am UTC
18:00-19:45 / 6:00pm-7:45pm Wellington
16:00-17:45 / 4:00pm-5:45pm Melbourne
Aesthetics and emotions in education–and the lack thereof
Brad Haseman, Australia
Blue Pacific, presentation 2
More speakers are on their way…
Speaker TBA
East Asia:
07:00-08:45 / 7:00am-08:45am UTC
16:00-17:45 Tokyo
15:00-16:45 Beijing
Looking forward and dealing with the past in East Asia
Hironobu Shindo, Japan
Education challenges in China
Michael Jiang, China
Asia:
09:00-10:45 / 9:00am-10:45am UTC
16:00-17:45 Bangkok
14:30-16:15 Mumbai
Asia, presentation 1
Reghu Rama Das,
India
Asia, presentation 2
Speakers TBA
The Middle East and Conclusion:
11:00-13:00 / 11:00am-13:00pm UTC
14:30-16:30 Tehran
11:00-13:00 Rabat
Middle East, presentations
Speakers TBA
Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America:
15:00-23:00 / 3pm-11pm UTC
Hosts:
Eliane Metni
Lebanon & Canada
Folarin Gbadebo-Smith
Nigeria
Halyna Yarmolenko
Ukraine & Austria
Lene Rachel Andersen
Denmark
Martin Ivarson
Sweden
Robert McTague
USA & Romania
Sanchita Shekhar
India
Africa:
15:00-16:45 / 3:00pm-4:45pm UTC
17:00-18:45 Cape Town
16:00-17:45 Lagos
Africa, presentations
Speakers TBA
Europe:
17:00-18:45 / 5:00pm-6:45pm UTC
19:00-20:45 Kyiv
18:00-19:45 Paris
Europe, presentations
Speakers TBA
Latin America:
19:00-20:45 / 7:00pm-8:45pm UTC
16:00-17:45 Sao Paulo
14:00-15:45 Bogotá
Latin America, presentations
Speakers TBA
North America:
21:00-23:00 / 9:00pm-11:00pm UTC
17:00-19:00 / 5pm-7pm Washington DC
14:00-16:00 / 2pm-4pm Vancouver
The need for Human Ecology
Sandy Ericson, USA
The need for micro colleges
Jacob Hundt, USA
Is AI in schools bypassing human sensemaking and creating “an idiocracy”
Jill Nephew, USA
North America, presentation 4
Brad Canham, USA
What it Means to Be Human is a series of online events the first Saturday after Equinox, a series of articles, and a book.
Watch the presentations from the September 2024 event here
Intro article for the September 2024 event by Lene Rachel Andersen and Folarin Gbadebo-Smith