The Future Starts Early
First time in GhaziabadA landmark gathering of India's most respected early childhood educators, right here in the city. Spend a Saturday with the people shaping how young children learn — then take the ideas straight back to your classroom on Monday.
Educators, researchers and practitioners who have spent their careers with young children. Each brings a different vantage point — early years, school culture, individual learners, parents, movement and music — and on 31 October they bring all of it into one room, with you.
8:30 am to 4:30 pm at Khaitan World School, Ghaziabad. Keynotes and a panel in the morning; a school tour, lunch with our students, and your choice of an expert workshop or the breakout panel in the afternoon.
Arrival of delegates, tea and breakfast, and the first round of networking.
Formal opening of the conference by Khaitan Education Centre.
Dr Swati Popat Vats and Mamta Kapoor set the question for the day.
All six guest speakers in conversation, moderated by Mamta Kapoor. Questions from the floor welcome.
Walk through Khaitan World School while it is working — classrooms, documentation and student-led experience zones.
A shared table with the children of Khaitan World School.
Four sessions run at the same time. You pick one when you register.
Founder circles, teacher interaction zones and meet-and-greets with the experts, in the garden.
Vishwa Srivastava and Maya Menon close the day — followed by a group photograph of everyone who was in the room, to remember it by.
Small, hands-on, 90 minutes, led by the experts themselves. All three run at the same time as the breakout panel, so you choose one when you register — and you work in it, not just watch it.
"From feelings named to friendships made."
How to build emotions, talking and getting along into the ordinary parts of the day — circle time, transitions, snack, clean-up — instead of teaching them as a separate lesson.
"From ticking boxes to telling stories."
Practical ways to watch, note and record what a child does — so your reports say how a child thinks and grows, not just which boxes they ticked.
"From one definition of clever to many."
Some children show you what they are good at straight away. Others need you to look differently. How to notice the strengths that tests and checklists miss.
A shared conversation space between the preschools and early years centres of Ghaziabad. Three of the city's most respected founders and school heads sit down with our guest experts to talk honestly about the challenges and the opportunities ahead. It runs at the same time as the three workshops — choose it instead of a workshop when you register.
The challenges: changing parent expectations, rising costs, and finding and keeping good teachers.The opportunities: what preschools and early years centres could do better together than alone.
Building a shared conversation space for Ghaziabad's early years community.
Founder networking circles before and after the session.
Most conferences describe practice. Here you walk into it. For one afternoon the school itself becomes the session — move through the campus, meet students, look closely at learning, ask anything.
Follow a single child's learning journey and see how observation, planning, personalisation and progress actually come together.
Look at the pedagogic research and documentation that makes personalised learning possible in KEC-led schools.
Sit with our students. Ask your questions. Hear what school is like through their eyes, unedited.
At one o'clock you sit down to lunch with the children of Khaitan World School. No script, no showcase. Just a shared table, and an hour with the people the entire day is about.
Curiosity, communication, confidence, empathy, adaptability. These are not alternatives to literacy and numeracy — they are what allow children to use knowledge with thought, purpose and agency.
What remains timeless and non-negotiable about childhood and the way young children learn?
As the purpose of what we teach changes, how should the way we teach change with it?
How can literacy, numeracy, social-emotional development, inclusion and individual strengths become one learning experience rather than eight separate ones?
One educator comes back with ideas. A team comes back with a plan. The group rate is deliberately the lowest on this page — send three or more from the same school or preschool and each attends at ₹900.
When 3 or more participants from the same school or preschool register together, each attends at this rate — and you go home with a shared conversation, not a solo one.
The full conference at our best individual rate — reserved for delegates who confirm before 10 September.
The complete conference experience for individual delegates registering after the early-bird window closes.
The world will change, the times will move.From the closing verse of The Future Starts Early
The foundations stay, the purpose grows —
the child remains where learning flows.
Saturday, 31 October 2026 · 8:30 am – 4:30 pmKhaitan World School, GhaziabadFirst time in Ghaziabad — a landmark gathering of eminent early childhood educatorsSeats allocated in order of confirmationEarly-bird pricing closes 10 September 2026A confirmation and secure payment link will be emailed to you.
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