IN-PERSON EVENTS

Digital Education Council Global Summit 2025

The Digital Education Council Global Summit 2026

The Digital Education Council Global Summit 2026 will be taking place from 7–8 December 2026 in Madrid, Spain, hosted by IE University, a DEC member institution.

Now in its third year, the Global Summit will once again convene DEC members and global higher education leaders to exchange strategic insights, shape policy, and advance innovation across education and workforce development.

Speaker list and programme agenda to be announced.

Attendance

The Summit is by invitation only. Places are allocated to DEC member institutions. The DEC team will be in touch with member contacts directly to coordinate attendance.

The Digital Education Council Global Summit 2025

The Digital Education Council Global Summit 2025 took place from 4–5 November 2025 in Hong Kong, hosted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a founding member of DEC.

In its second year, the Summit brought together 200 higher education leaders from 82 member institutions across 25 countries, marking a critical moment for global higher education as institutions confront rapid AI-driven transformation.

Anchored in the theme When Change is the Only Constant, the 2025 Summit examined four strategic lenses for institutional transformation:

Defining Change

Understanding the forces shaping higher education

Implementing Change

Translating strategy into action

Teaching Change

Equipping students and educators for the future

Measuring Change

Developing metrics for institutional and societal impact

Key Outcomes and Strategic Takeaways

This report synthesises insights generated across two days of open debates, panel discussions, live polling, and keynotes. Conversations were transcribed, organised into key themes, and analysed to identify key patterns, examples, challenges, and recommendations raised by participants.