Survive or Thrive: How Adults Can Best Learn and Upgrade in the Age of AI

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💡Topic: Survive or Thrive: How Adults Learn, Adapt, and Upgrade in the Age of AI
《生存还是进化？AI时代职场人的终身学习之道》
📆 Date: Tuesday, 10 Feb 2026
⏰ Time: Doors open at 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Can Bar, 28 Carpenter St, #01-01, Singapore 059827
🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Yang Peidong, Associate Professor, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
🗣️ Language: English

AI is no longer coming — it’s already here.

From ChatGPT in the workplace to automation in finance, healthcare, and education, the rules of professional success are being rewritten in real time. For Singapore’s highly skilled workforce, the question is no longer “Should I learn something new?” but “How fast can I adapt before my skills become obsolete?”

In this timely and provocative TapTalk, Dr. Yang Peidong, Oxford-trained sociologist of education and Associate Professor at NTU’s National Institute of Education, unpacks how adults actually learn in times of disruption — and why most lifelong learning initiatives fail to deliver real career resilience.

Drawing on two decades of global research, Dr. Yang will explore:

• Why adult learning (andragogy) is fundamentally different from schooling — and why this matters in the AI era
• Which skills, mindsets, and cultural competencies make professionals adaptable, not replaceable
• Whether degrees and credentials still matter in a world of micro-credentials, bootcamps, and AI tutors
• How global mobility, identity, and inequality shape who gets to thrive in the future of work
• What Singapore must do to build a future-ready, human-centered learning ecosystem

Ranked among the world’s top 2% education scholars by Stanford University (2023–2025), Dr. Yang bridges education sociology, migration studies, and workforce development. His work helps policymakers and professionals understand how learning, opportunity, and technology intersect in global cities like Singapore.

This isn’t another “AI tools” workshop.
This is a strategic playbook for anyone who yearns for self-evolution and refuses to become obsolete.

Come grab a drink 🥂, meet ambitious lifelong learners 🤯, and design the next chapter of your career — before the algorithm does.

About TapTalks
TapTalks is a social learning community that brings thought-provoking ideas to life in bars and lounges. Born in Hong Kong, we create spaces where scholars, industry leaders, and curious professionals gather after work to explore big questions — over great drinks and even better conversations.
This Singapore session marks TapTalks’ first international expansion outside Hong Kong, and we couldn’t imagine a better city to begin our global journey.

Agenda

7:30 PM – Doors open: seat yourself and order food/drinks

7:55 PM – Host introduction

8:00 PM – Talk begins

8:40 PM – Q&A

9:00 PM – Stay and mingle with the speaker and fellow curious minds

Only at TapTalks. 🍷

**This ticket does NOT include any food & beverage. We kindly ask you to support SG local businesses by ordering at least one item per guest from their menu.

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