We're no longer leading schools inside stable ecosystems. We're leading them inside digital chaos where platforms engineer engagement, algorithms amplify extremes, and AI can bypass thinking entirely.
This session shows you how to build students who can navigate this chaos with clarity. You'll learn to protect attention by teaching persuasive design, make invisible systems visible, redesign assessment for the AI age, and prepare students before exposure not after harm.
Join Kirra Pendergast, one of the world’s most trusted voices on digital safety, psychosocial risk and governance in the online age. With 34 years at the frontier of technology, security, and human systems, she has built frameworks and infrastructures that now underpin schools, governments, and organisations across five continents.
Her authority is not academic theory but lived experience, sharpened by her early career in national security and cyber governance, long before “online safety” was a policy term. In 2013, after becoming the target of relentless cyber abuse, she transformed trauma into purpose founding Safe on Social and Ctrl+Shft, which has since become the largest privately owned digital safety education and governance agencies in the world.
Date: Thursday 19 March 2026
Time: 3:00pm AEDT