The 17th Asian Conference on Education (ACE2025), which took place from November 23 to 28, 2025, brought together 789 participants from 66 countries and 448 affiliations to Tokyo, Japan, for international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary discussions around its main theme of education. Plenary speakers and panellists focused on the future of education amidst ongoing geopolitical and technological disruption from the standpoint of both teaching and learning. Educational reform, higher institutions’ internationalisation efforts, and the teacher, curriculum, and skills of the future were some of the current climate’s pressing issues that require immediate attention, according to these experts.
With a special focus on Japan and East Asia, the plenary sessions promoted the message that a hybrid collaboration between humans and machines is the best way to ensure a sustainable future, and that younger generations hold the key to long-term peacebuilding and intercultural understanding.
