Schedule

Guiding question: Why do our systems repeatedly produce problems that we already know how to prevent?

Day One presents the evidence. We examine the structures, incentives, and assumptions behind today’s interconnected challenges, then introduce practitioners developing alternatives.

January 12, 2027

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET

10:00 AM

30 min

Human Rights: The case for a world that works for everyone through whole systems design

Mobilized News + Jack Healey, Human Rights Action Center

Establish the purpose of the experience, the human rights framework, and the need to connect knowledge with action.

Takeaway: What we’re doing, why it matters, and how everyone can participate.

10:30 AM

45 min

The world we inherited: Why systems fail

Explore how inherited economic models, policies, institutional incentives, and extractive practices contribute to recurring crises.

Connect the dots between environmental degradation, inequality, health, and human rights.

Takeaway: Understand the difference between treating symptoms and changing root causes.

11:15 AM

45 min

Human rights: The operating principles for a better world

Jack Healey

  • Explore how universal human rights provide a framework for evaluating the systems we depend on.
  • How do housing, food, health, water, education, democracy, and environmental conditions affect human dignity?

Takeaway: A human rights framework that can be applied to every subsequent session.

12:00 PM

Break

The Exchange opens

A 30-minute networking and exploration break featuring project demonstrations and opportunities to connect.

12:30 PM

45 min

Health: What if we prevented disease instead of only treating it?

Proposed featured practitioner: Dr. Michael Ozner

  • Explore the evidence for cardiovascular disease prevention, including nutrition, lifestyle, clinical care, and environmental influences.
  • Examine which interventions have demonstrated results and how prevention can become more accessible.

Takeaway: Practical, evidence-based prevention strategies and the policies that can support them.

1:15 PM

45 min

Food, land and water: Can we regenerate the systems that sustain life?

Proposed practitioner: Allan Savory, alongside independent researchers and working land stewards

  • Examine regenerative agriculture, soil health, biodiversity, water stewardship, and food security.
  • Compare practical approaches, documented outcomes, and unresolved scientific questions, including debates around holistic grazing.

Takeaway: Understand how to evaluate land restoration claims and adapt practices to local conditions.

2:00 PM

Break

Projects in action

A 15-minute intermission highlighting short demonstrations from participating initiatives.

2:15 PM

45 min

Energy, materials and the circular economy

  • How do we move from extractive, waste-intensive systems toward cleaner energy, durable products, reuse, and resource recovery?
  • Feature implemented projects in clean energy and circular production, including their costs, benefits, and limitations.

Takeaway: Examples of how communities and businesses are redesigning energy and material flows.

3:00 PM

45 min

Justice: Restoring the criminal justice systems.

What if the system focused more on prevention, accountability and restoration?

Proposed participants: Restorative justice practitioners, formerly incarcerated leaders, survivors and community organizers

  • Investigate the underlying causes of incarceration and compare conventional, preventive, restorative, and community-based approaches.
  • Examine evidence for reductions in harm, recidivism, and disparities.

Takeaway: Identify approaches communities can explore while protecting survivors’ rights and public safety.

3:45 PM

45 min

The connections: How one problem becomes another

  • An interactive systems-mapping demonstration connecting the day’s presentations.
  • Follow how food affects health, energy affects the environment, economic policy affects opportunity, and information affects collective decisions.

Takeaway: A shared map of root causes, reinforcing feedback loops, and potential intervention points.

4:30 PM

30 min

Day One closing: The evidence and the opportunity

  • Summarize the strongest findings, distinguish demonstrated solutions from emerging possibilities, and identify the unanswered questions.
  • Invite participants to select a challenge they want to address on Day Two.
  • Takeaway: A clear understanding of the challenges and a personal starting point for action.

What participants leave with after Day One

 

A clearer understanding of interconnected problems, a map of their root causes, examples of practical responses, and one issue they want to help address.

January 13, 2027

Building what comes next: From knowledge to action

Guiding question: What if the people changing the world could find one another, share what works, and build together?

Day Two moves from understanding the problems to demonstrating solutions, connecting resources, and establishing an ongoing network for practical collaboration.

10:00 AM

30 min

Opening: The future is not a spectator sport

Review the evidence from Day One and introduce the day’s challenge: turn knowledge into practical collaboration.

Outcome: Establish what participants will be working to accomplish together.

10:30 AM

45 min

The Upgrade: Solutions already changing the world

A fast-paced showcase of working initiatives across food, clean energy, health, circularity, mobility, and community development.

Each presenter gets five minutes to demonstrate the problem, the solution, evidence of results, and what support is needed.

Outcome: A collection of documented projects ready for further exploration.

11:15 AM

45 min

Building healthier communities

Community practitioners demonstrate how local food systems, preventive health, housing, public spaces, and neighborhood initiatives can improve quality of life.

Focus on projects that have moved beyond proposals into implementation.

Outcome: Identify practical models that can be adapted to other communities.

12:00 PM

Break

The Exchange: Discover the projects

Thirty minutes for project demonstrations, networking, and collaboration.

12:30 PM

45 min

Redesigning economics: Making money serve life

  • Explore practical examples of ethical finance, cooperative ownership, community investment, circular business models, and financing for solutions.
  • Ask how successful projects can attract resources without compromising their public-interest missions.

Outcome: Connect projects with potential funding models and resources.

1:15 PM

45 min

Technology and democracy: Tools that empower people

  • Demonstrations of digital public infrastructure, accessible information tools, cybersecurity, community participation, and responsible technology.
  • Examine how technology can strengthen civic participation while addressing privacy, security, and concentration of power.

Outcome: Discover useful tools, their limitations, and opportunities to deploy them.

2:00 PM

Break

The global solutions gallery

A 15-minute showcase of initiatives participating from different regions.

2:15 PM

45 min

Be the Media: Who gets to tell the story?

  • Introduce Mobilized’s participatory media model.
  • Show how independent creators, local organizations, and community journalists can report on the challenges and solutions they know firsthand.
  • Cover verification, evidence, editorial independence, and responsible storytelling.

Outcome: Invite media creators and communities to contribute credible reporting to the network.

3:00 PM

45 min

The Mobilized Exchange: Where solutions meet opportunity

  • A live demonstration of how the Mobilized Exchange connects people, projects, resources, services, media, and events.
  • Participating initiatives demonstrate what they offer, what they need, and how others can get involved.

Outcome: Enable participants to discover and initiate useful connections.

3:45 PM

45 min

The action laboratory: What can we do where we are now?

  • Participants join facilitated working groups organized around major systems.
  • Groups identify a specific challenge, a practical response, potential collaborators, and an achievable next step.
  • Remote participants can contribute through moderated digital working sessions.

Outcome: An initial action plan for each participating working group.

4:30 PM

30 min

Final session: What we’re building together

  • Present the next steps for the Mobilized News Network, including ongoing reporting, project discovery, livestreams, and working groups.
  • Invite participants to identify the contribution they are prepared to make.
  • Close with a concise statement of shared purpose.

Outcome: A pathway from a two-day experience into an ongoing network for collaboration.

January 14, 2026:

Building the future together

Understanding the great transformation

What is changing? Which jobs are at risk? Where are opportunities emerging? What skills are required?

*Schedule subject to change. Please see website for updates.

9:00–9:30 a.m. ET (US/Canada)

The world has changed. Has education kept up?

  • Why the employment model is changing.

  • The relationship between technology, public services and living standards.

  • Why the transition requires participation by workers and communities.

  • Outcome: Establish the shared questions and goals for both days.

9:30–10:30 a.m.

Artificial intelligence — the jobs it may eliminate, transform and create

Live demonstrations comparing human and AI-assisted workflows.

  • Administrative, clerical and customer-service work.

  • Software development, research and technical professions.

  • Healthcare, education and journalism.

  • AI reliability, security and human oversight.

  • The potential loss of entry-level training tasks.

  • Displacement, redeployment and worker participation.

Outcome: A practical AI career-transition map.

10:30–10:45 a.m.

TBD

10:45–11:30 a.m.

Computer science, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure

  • What computer scientists will do as AI writes more code.

  • Building secure software and trustworthy digital services.

  • Cybersecurity jobs across hospitals, utilities and municipalities.

  • Creating affordable entry-level training programs.

Demonstration: Investigating and responding to a simulated cybersecurity incident.

Outcome: Identify practical routes into digital careers.

11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

The new food economy

  • Regenerative agriculture.

  • Precision fermentation and alternative proteins.

  • Controlled-environment growing.

  • Food manufacturing, safety and distribution.

  • Local food enterprises and cooperative ownership.

Demonstration: The skills and equipment involved in a food biotechnology or controlled-growing operation.

Outcome: Identify training requirements, existing facilities and viable business opportunities.

12:30- 1:154p.m.

Session 4: Clean energy — building the workforce

  • Solar, wind, storage and microgrids.

  • Grid modernization and industrial electrification.

  • Building retrofits and heating.

  • Apprenticeships and practical certifications.

  • Energy ownership and local economic benefits.

Demonstration: An electrical or solar training lab and its progression into employment.

Outcome: Connect prospective workers with training providers and employers.

1:45–2:30 p.m.

Session 5: The new manufacturing economy

  • Robotics and automation.

  • Advanced manufacturing and digital fabrication.

  • Repair, remanufacturing and circular production.

  • Locally distributed manufacturing.

  • Materials science and biotechnology.

Demonstration: From digital design to a locally manufactured product.

Outcome: Explore how communities can build production capacity.

2:30–2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45–3:30 p.m.

Session 6: Media and entertainment — who creates, who owns, who earns?

  • AI-generated content and changing production jobs.

  • Journalism, verification and trustworthy sources.

  • Copyright, licensing and creator compensation.

  • New formats for interactive and community media.

  • Skills for independent producers.

Demonstration: A human-led, AI-assisted production workflow with editorial verification.

Outcome: A practical framework for independent media careers.

3:30–4:15 p.m.:  Public and planetary health, science and discovery

  • Digital health and clinical AI.

  • Robotics and laboratory automation.

  • Preventive healthcare and community health.

  • Environmental monitoring.

  • Bioinformatics and scientific research.

  • Training, safety and professional responsibilities.

Outcome: Identify healthcare and research careers across technical and nontechnical pathways.

4:15–5:00 p.m.

Closing forum: What did we learn about the future workforce?

Representatives from every sector identify:

  • Three important occupational changes.
  • Three training gaps.
  • One functioning program to showcase.
  • One opportunity for cross-sector collaboration.

Outcome: Publish the first draft of the IMX Future Careers Map.

The future of work meets the future of life. How we get there.

Friday, January 15, 2026: Building the future together

  • How do we transform Industrial-age education into life long learning.
  • How can education provide people with the skills and wisdom that serves life, and honors our human rights?
  • How do we turn emerging opportunities into education, careers, local businesses and improved quality of life?

9:00–9:30 AM

Democratizing Wisdom & Knowledge: The future is not a spectator sport

  • Review yesterday’s findings.
  • What would happen if every community had access to the knowledge, tools and training needed to participate in the emerging economy?

9:30–10:15 AM

Dialogue: Reinventing education

Should education still be structured around classrooms, degrees and a single career?

Explore:

  • Lifelong learning.
  • Paid apprenticeships.
  • Community colleges.
  • Skills-based credentials.
  • AI-supported education.
  • Learning through real projects.

Demonstration: An existing program that connects education with employment.

Deliverable: A replicable lifelong learning model.

10:15–11:00 AM

The transformation of public services

  • How will technology reshape government, infrastructure, water, utilities, waste management and community services?
  • Who trains public employees to operate the new systems?

Deliverable: A public-service workforce transformation framework.

11:00–11:45 AM

Housing, transportation and smarter communities

  • Explore affordable housing, sustainable construction, mobility, public transportation, community infrastructure and accessible urban design.
  • Who will design, build, maintain and manage the communities of tomorrow?

Deliverable: A community infrastructure career map.

11:45 AM–12:30 PM

Dialogue 11: A new economy — who owns the future?

How can technological transformation translate into broader economic participation?

  • Worker cooperatives.
  • Community-owned infrastructure.
  • Local entrepreneurship.
  • Employee ownership.
  • New financing models.
  • Sharing the benefits of productivity.

Deliverable: Examples of functioning alternative ownership and enterprise models.

12:30–1:15 PM

Lunch and networking

1:15–2:15 PM

Meet the people already training tomorrow’s workforce

Five international training initiatives demonstrate their actual programs.

Each answers:

  • What do you teach?
  • Who can participate?
  • What does it cost?
  • How long does it take?
  • What jobs can graduates pursue?
  • What employment results can you document?
  • How can other communities replicate it?

Deliverable: The foundation of the IMX Global Training Directory.

2:15–3:00 PM

What does a good life look like in the new economy?

  • Technology may change not only how we work, but also how we live, play, learn and care for one another.
  • Explore working hours, income security, leisure, family life, lifelong education and community well-being.

Deliverable: A set of human-centered measures for evaluating economic transformation.

3:00–3:45 PM

From ideas to action — build your career pathway

Interactive working session.

Participants identify their existing skills, choose an occupation to investigate, evaluate training programs and develop a practical 90-day learning plan.

Deliverable: A personal career transition roadmap.

3:45–4:30 PM

The IMX Exchange: Connecting people, projects and opportunities

  • Training providers meet employers. Innovators meet communities. Workers meet mentors. Projects meet potential collaborators.
  • Participants present specific needs and offers.

Deliverable: A documented list of opportunities, contacts and proposed collaborations.

4:30–5:00 PM

Closing dialogue: What do we build together now?

Present the development of initial Future Careers Guide, Global Training Directory and ongoing learning network.

  • Identify working groups, responsibilities and follow-up milestones.
  • Introduce the continuing Mobilized News platform for collaboration.

The dialogue format: no passive panels

Every featured dialogue follows a repeatable 45-minute structure.

The IMX 45-minute session

1. The reality

5 minutes

What is changing, why is it happening and who is affected?

2. Show the work

10 minutes

A practitioner demonstrates an operating initiative, technology, training program or solution.

3. The career implications

10 minutes

What tasks are changing? What careers and skills are emerging? What evidence supports the opportunities?

4. The audience dialogue

10 minutes

Participants question presenters, raise barriers and identify needs.

5. The action

10 minutes

Where can people learn? Who is hiring? What does training cost? What can participants do next?

The four roles in every dialogue

Each session should feature four distinct perspectives:

  • The practitioner: Someone already implementing the transformation.

  • The educator: Someone training people for the associated work.

  • The worker: Someone whose occupation or career has changed.

  • The facilitator: Someone who connects the discussion, challenges unsupported claims and identifies practical actions.

One person may fulfill more than one role, allowing sessions to remain compact.

The lasting outcome

By the end of the second day, IMX should have established three tangible foundations for ongoing work.

From conference to continuing collaboration

The Future Careers Guide

Which occupations are changing, what skills are needed and how people can enter new fields.

The Global Training Directory

An evolving database connecting people with verified educators, apprenticeships and workforce initiatives.

The Mobilized Collaboration Network

  • A continuing space for people, projects, organizations and communities to share opportunities and develop partnerships.
  • The defining IMX question: What if the people building the future, the people training for it and the communities that need it could finally find one another — and start working together?
  • That’s the purpose of these two days.

Less talking. More doing.

January 15, 2026:

Building the future together

The future of work meets the future of life. How we get there.

Friday, January 15, 2026: Building the future together

  • How do we transform Industrial-age education into life long learning.
  • How can education provide people with the skills and wisdom that serves life, and honors our human rights?
  • How do we turn emerging opportunities into education, careers, local businesses and improved quality of life?

9:00–9:30 AM

Democratizing Wisdom & Knowledge: The future is not a spectator sport

  • Review yesterday’s findings.
  • What would happen if every community had access to the knowledge, tools and training needed to participate in the emerging economy?

9:30–10:15 AM

Dialogue: Reinventing education

Should education still be structured around classrooms, degrees and a single career?

Explore:

  • Lifelong learning.
  • Paid apprenticeships.
  • Community colleges.
  • Skills-based credentials.
  • AI-supported education.
  • Learning through real projects.

Demonstration: An existing program that connects education with employment.

Deliverable: A replicable lifelong learning model.

10:15–11:00 AM

The transformation of public services

  • How will technology reshape government, infrastructure, water, utilities, waste management and community services?
  • Who trains public employees to operate the new systems?

Deliverable: A public-service workforce transformation framework.

11:00–11:45 AM

Housing, transportation and smarter communities

  • Explore affordable housing, sustainable construction, mobility, public transportation, community infrastructure and accessible urban design.
  • Who will design, build, maintain and manage the communities of tomorrow?

Deliverable: A community infrastructure career map.

11:45 AM–12:30 PM

Dialogue 11: A new economy — who owns the future?

How can technological transformation translate into broader economic participation?

  • Worker cooperatives.
  • Community-owned infrastructure.
  • Local entrepreneurship.
  • Employee ownership.
  • New financing models.
  • Sharing the benefits of productivity.

Deliverable: Examples of functioning alternative ownership and enterprise models.

12:30–1:15 PM

Lunch and networking

1:15–2:15 PM

Meet the people already training tomorrow’s workforce

Five international training initiatives demonstrate their actual programs.

Each answers:

  • What do you teach?
  • Who can participate?
  • What does it cost?
  • How long does it take?
  • What jobs can graduates pursue?
  • What employment results can you document?
  • How can other communities replicate it?

Deliverable: The foundation of the IMX Global Training Directory.

2:15–3:00 PM

What does a good life look like in the new economy?

  • Technology may change not only how we work, but also how we live, play, learn and care for one another.
  • Explore working hours, income security, leisure, family life, lifelong education and community well-being.

Deliverable: A set of human-centered measures for evaluating economic transformation.

3:00–3:45 PM

From ideas to action — build your career pathway

Interactive working session.

Participants identify their existing skills, choose an occupation to investigate, evaluate training programs and develop a practical 90-day learning plan.

Deliverable: A personal career transition roadmap.

3:45–4:30 PM

The IMX Exchange: Connecting people, projects and opportunities

  • Training providers meet employers. Innovators meet communities. Workers meet mentors. Projects meet potential collaborators.
  • Participants present specific needs and offers.

Deliverable: A documented list of opportunities, contacts and proposed collaborations.

4:30–5:00 PM

Closing dialogue: What do we build together now?

Present the development of initial Future Careers Guide, Global Training Directory and ongoing learning network.

  • Identify working groups, responsibilities and follow-up milestones.
  • Introduce the continuing Mobilized News platform for collaboration.

The dialogue format: no passive panels

Every featured dialogue follows a repeatable 45-minute structure.

The IMX 45-minute session

1. The reality

5 minutes

What is changing, why is it happening and who is affected?

2. Show the work

10 minutes

A practitioner demonstrates an operating initiative, technology, training program or solution.

3. The career implications

10 minutes

What tasks are changing? What careers and skills are emerging? What evidence supports the opportunities?

4. The audience dialogue

10 minutes

Participants question presenters, raise barriers and identify needs.

5. The action

10 minutes

Where can people learn? Who is hiring? What does training cost? What can participants do next?

The four roles in every dialogue

Each session should feature four distinct perspectives:

  • The practitioner: Someone already implementing the transformation.

  • The educator: Someone training people for the associated work.

  • The worker: Someone whose occupation or career has changed.

  • The facilitator: Someone who connects the discussion, challenges unsupported claims and identifies practical actions.

One person may fulfill more than one role, allowing sessions to remain compact.

The lasting outcome

By the end of the second day, IMX should have established three tangible foundations for ongoing work.

From conference to continuing collaboration

The Future Careers Guide

Which occupations are changing, what skills are needed and how people can enter new fields.

The Global Training Directory

An evolving database connecting people with verified educators, apprenticeships and workforce initiatives.

The Mobilized Collaboration Network

  • A continuing space for people, projects, organizations and communities to share opportunities and develop partnerships.
  • The defining IMX question: What if the people building the future, the people training for it and the communities that need it could finally find one another — and start working together?
  • That’s the purpose of these two days.

Less talking. More doing.

One consistent format for every presentation

Every featured initiative should demonstrate practical work rather than simply deliver a speech.

The Mobilized presentation standard

Suggested structure for a 15-minute featured project demonstration.

  1. The problem — 2 minutes. What is wrong, and who is affected?
  2. The root cause — 2 minutes. Why does the problem persist?
  3. The solution — 3 minutes. What have you actually implemented?
  4. The evidence — 3 minutes. Where is it working? What measurable results exist? What hasn’t worked?
  5. The connections — 2 minutes. Which other systems does your work improve or affect?
  6. The invitation — 3 minutes. What support is needed, and what can people do now?

Required from every presenter: A project profile in the Mobilized Exchange with contact information, evidence, collaboration needs, and a clear action opportunity.

The interactive experience

  • The greatest distinction between Mobilized Live and a conventional conference should be what the audience can actually do.

Watch

  • Experience live presentations, field reports, interviews, and demonstrations.

Participate

  • Ask questions, contribute local knowledge, and join moderated discussions.

Connect

  • Meet projects, organizations, innovators, and potential collaborators.

Take action

  • Choose a project, offer a resource, join a working group, or share a verified story.

What happens after January 14?

A two-day experience can initiate collaboration. Its longer-term value depends on whether the network continues to help people work together.

Phase 1

Immediately after the event

Publish session recordings, project profiles, resources, and a summary of the major findings.

Phase 2

Within 30 days

Convene working groups, document collaboration commitments, and identify the resources needed to move projects forward.

Phase 3

Within 90 days

  • Report on projects launched, collaborations established, obstacles encountered, and progress toward measurable outcomes.

Ongoing

  • The Mobilized News Network
  • Keep the reporting, project discovery, livestreams, and collaboration opportunities accessible throughout the year.

THE FINAL MESSAGE

The future is not a spectator sport.

  • Two days to understand the challenges.
  • Two days to discover what works.
  • Two days to connect the people who can make change happen.

An ongoing network to carry the work forward.

Human rights provide the principles.

Whole-systems change provides the pathway.

People provide the power.

MOBILIZED LIVE — JANUARY 13–14, 2027

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Programming priority: Make Day One a compelling case supported by evidence, and Day Two a working experience that produces connections, actionable plans, and clear responsibilities. The goal is not to produce another conference. It is to establish the foundation for an ongoing, participatory network.