On Friday, 21 August 2026, the banquet halls of IBIS Thane held more than a seminar. They held a question that now sits at the centre of every classroom in the city: how do we prepare children for an age of artificial intelligence without surrendering the human strengths of memory, attention and self-awareness? That question gave The Times of India Newspaper in Education Knowledge Meet its theme “The Future-Ready Mind: Balancing AI Innovation with Human Memory in Education”  and it drew more than seventy-five school principals from Thane and Dadar into an intensive dialogue that lasted through the morning and concluded over lunch.

Among the invited voices was renowned graphologist, counsellor, TEDx speaker and Amazon #1 bestselling author Nitika Didwania. She shared the dais with Professor Hitesh Moghe, an IIT Bombay graduate in Material Science and Metallurgy; Saurabh Vidyadhar, Padho India International Memory Coach and educator; and Abhishek Banerji, psychologist and TEDx speaker. Organised in association with Vidyalankar and co-partnered by Padho India, the Knowledge Meet gathered school leaders not for a parade of presentations, but for a working conversation about what students are actually living through. Manish Kukreja and Nisha Solanke from Times of India NIE Team were the eminent coordinators who pushed this envelope to an altogether different level by creating a mix of successful speakers from select walks of life including Nitika Didwania.