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GLOBAL SHAPERS CHENGDU HUBPRESENTS

Stay in
the Loop.

Build the capability — and agency — to navigate an AI-shaped world of work.

A Global Shapers Chengdu Hub initiative helping young people and early-career workers understand change, diagnose their capabilities, build what matters and apply it in the real world.

Real people. Shared learning. Practical change.

Young participants at the WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge in Chengdu
The WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge community gathered in Chengdu
CHENGDU / IN COMMUNITY
Participants exchanging ideas around a table after FDE Open Night
SHANGHAI / IN CONVERSATION
Young participants in Chengdu. Conversations in Shanghai. Capability grows in community.

IMPACT AT A GLANCE

120K+Cumulative reach

Broader reach through assessments, learning, events and project activities.

进一步探索
5K+Direct participations

Direct participation across programme activities.

进一步探索
9Global Shapers hubs

Global Shapers communities connected through the initiative.

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8Countries

Countries within the initiative’s wider reach.

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200Facilitators trained

Facilitators prepared to support learning and capability building.

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30Sessions delivered

Learning and programme sessions delivered across the initiative.

进一步探索
800+Assessment starts

Assessments started, rather than completed.

进一步探索

Reach, participation and outcomes measure different things.

How we measure

03 / THE MODEL

从变化走向机会的路径。

The loop keeps capability building connected to the world people are trying to navigate.

Stay in the Loop: three human-centred nodes connected by continuous blue orbits. Learn · Reskill · Apply · Repeat.

01 / UNDERSTAND

了解工作如何变化。

Translate changes in AI, jobs and the labour market into practical guidance about tasks, roles, careers and capability requirements.

02 / DIAGNOSE

了解自己的位置。

Identify strengths, gaps and development priorities across eight capabilities and six developmental AI Work Profiles.

03 / RESKILL

建立真正重要的能力。

Develop practical AI fluency, human-AI collaboration, judgment and role-based capabilities through online and offline learning.

04 / APPLY

将能力转化为证据。

Use challenges, projects and real-world problems to move beyond learning and demonstrate how AI can be applied to practical work.

05 / LEARN

Reflect, improve and repeat.

Carry learning from real-world application back into the next cycle of understanding, diagnosis and capability building.

Learn from real work. Bring it back into the Loop.

The AI transition should expand opportunity — not widen the gap.

AI is changing tasks, roles and career pathways faster than traditional learning and workforce systems can adapt.

But the ability to respond is uneven. Some people have access to new tools, guidance, professional networks and learning opportunities. Many others do not.

Stay in the Loop exists to make the AI transition more navigable and more inclusive — so people can understand what is changing, build the capabilities that matter, and turn those capabilities into real opportunity.

我们的愿景

Our vision is a future where AI expands human opportunity rather than deepening the divide between those who can adapt early and those who cannot.

简明的变化理论
  1. 更好的信息
  2. 更清晰的能力差距
  3. 有针对性的学习
  4. 真实世界的应用
  5. 更强的职业与劳动力成果

The goal is not more AI training. It is better adaptation to an AI-shaped world of work.

04 / 循环实践

Different contexts. A shared way forward.

The model connects research, diagnosis, learning and real-world application — and is already being tested across different contexts.

FDE OPEN NIGHT / SHANGHAI

120 in the room. 2,000+ online.

One question: how does AI actually get delivered?

A speaker explaining FDE delivery workflows to the audience at FDE Open Night in Shanghai Jing’an
Shanghai · Jing’an · 23 September 2026 What “Apply” looks like in the real world.

FDE OPEN NIGHT

From AI demos to real-world delivery

前线工程与交付落地交流会

From enterprise agents and AI security to productization and frontline engineering, FDE Open Night brought developers, enterprise practitioners and AI builders together to explore what it takes to move AI from proof-of-concept into real delivery.

Co-organized by Global Shapers Chengdu Hub

FDE capability developmentEnterprise Agent deploymentAI safety and securityProductization after proof-of-conceptFrom Demo to real delivery
200+Registrations
~120Onsite participants
2,000+Livestream audience
5演讲嘉宾

Registrations, onsite participation and livestream audience are separate measures; they are not added into a unique-person count.

Participants exchanging ideas around a table after FDE Open Night
02 / Participants exchanging ideas around a table after FDE Open Night
Participants holding event recognition letters in front of the FDE Open Night screen
03 / Participants holding event recognition letters in front of the FDE Open Night screen
A speaker comparing local and OpenCSG implementation workflows at FDE Open Night
04 / A speaker comparing local and OpenCSG implementation workflows at FDE Open Night
A packed audience listening to a presentation about changing AI industry trends at FDE Open Night
05 / A packed audience listening to a presentation about changing AI industry trends at FDE Open Night
Young participants at the WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge in Chengdu
Chengdu, China · APPLY

Chengdu, China · Applied AI Challenge

Learning matters when it can be used.

An applied AI challenge environment where participants move from ideas to problem framing, solution development and presentation.

WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge · ~80 participants. Supported by Global Shapers Chengdu Hub.

Application makes capability visible, testable and useful beyond the learning room.

Bring a challenge into the loop
Participants discussing an applied AI challenge
Participants discussing an applied AI challenge
The WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge community gathered in Chengdu
The WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge community gathered in Chengdu
Participants listening during the WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge in Chengdu
Participants listening during the WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge in Chengdu
Original challenge poster
Public poster for the WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge
Public poster for the WAIC Future Tech OPC Challenge · View original
Learners working together during a classroom session in India
India · RESKILL

India

Foundational AI learning in India.

面向接触新兴技术和数字学习机会有限的儿童与社区,开展基础 AI 素养与未来准备度学习。

Foundational AI literacy · India classroom and remote learning

获得 AI 能力建设不应取决于地理位置或特权。

Earlier learning programmes

Foundational AI literacy · Learning delivery in China, India and Kenya

Earlier learning programmes across China, India and Kenya engaged 200+ educators and education leaders and reached 1,000+ learners. These are programme-specific figures, not additional initiative totals or India-only counts. They describe reach and participation, not unique people or learning outcomes.

Young learners gathered for an AI literacy classroom activity in India
Young learners gathered for an AI literacy classroom activity in India
An educator connecting a classroom in India with a remote learning session
An educator connecting a classroom in India with a remote learning session
Children taking part in a group learning activity in India
Children taking part in a group learning activity in India
Learners taking part in an outdoor AI literacy session in India
Learners taking part in an outdoor AI literacy session in India
Learning across distance
An online foundational AI literacy session in progress
An online foundational AI literacy session in progress · View original
An educator supporting remote foundational learning in an India classroom
An educator supporting remote foundational learning in an India classroom · View original
The earlier Shanghai FDE learning group gathered after a session
Shanghai · Xuhui, China · RESKILL

Shanghai · Xuhui, China

前沿部署工程与 AI 原生工作

以角色为基础的学习,重点是将 AI 系统与真实组织问题、工作流程和业务需求连接起来。

Nearly 100 practitioners and professionals. Supported through a collaboration involving OpenCSG, the Communist Youth League Xuhui District Committee and Global Shapers Chengdu Hub.

新兴 AI 角色同时需要技术素养与结合业务语境的判断力。

Read the source recap
A speaker leading the earlier Shanghai FDE learning session
A speaker leading the earlier Shanghai FDE learning session
A wide Shanghai learning room during the earlier Forward Deployed Engineering program
A wide Shanghai learning room during the earlier Forward Deployed Engineering program
Shanghai practitioners learning around a laptop
Shanghai practitioners learning around a laptop

05 / THE NETWORK

From Chengdu to communities around the world.

9Hubs in the network8Countries in our footprint

在多个社区中共同构建,而非局限于一间教室。

Connecting perspectives across Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

Nine Global Shapers communities. Shared learning, with each hub contributing in its own way.

Hub network

Hub network

Chengdu

China

Part of the Global Shapers community network supporting Stay in the Loop. Each hub takes part in its own way.

Map: Natural Earth · Public domain.

One model. Many local ways to use it.

The long-term goal is not to export one fixed curriculum. It is to build a model that local communities can adapt to their own workforce and learning context.

语言ExamplesDeliveryLearning contextLocal workforce needs

06 / TOOLS THAT POWER THE LOOP

Before telling people what to learn, help them understand where they stand.

LEVEL 1 · EXPLORE

AI Era Player / AIEP

6–7 minutes · 7 primary Player Types + the additional Mission Integrator identity · Exploratory · Shareable result

AI Era Player discovery quest sample

Quickly reflect on your current way of working with AI.

从 AI 时代玩家开始

AI fluency isn’t one skill.

The quality of AI-supported work depends on more than knowing how to prompt. Our assessment looks at eight capabilities that shape how people frame problems, collaborate with AI, verify information, exercise judgment, take ownership, learn and create original value.

阅读 AI 素养框架
Eight AI fluency capability dimensions
  1. Problem Framing & Task Selection
  2. AI Collaboration & Orchestration
  3. Verification & Information Literacy
  4. Explainable Ownership & Accountability
  5. Domain & Contextual Judgment
  6. Learning & Capability Transfer
  7. Synthesis & Original Contribution
  8. Human Complementarity & Implementation
Six developmental AI Work Profiles

The assessment does not reduce people to a single score. It identifies developmental patterns that help people understand how they currently work with AI — and what to build next.

  • Strategic AI Collaborator
  • Capable but AI-Dependent User
  • Efficient but Fragile Operator
  • Creative AI Synthesizer
  • Responsible but Underutilized User
  • Developing AI Professional
Explore the product experience

07 / LISTEN → MEASURE → ADAPT

We listen before we design.

We continuously gather perspectives from young professionals, business leaders, educators and workforce practitioners to understand how AI is changing real work before deciding what people should be assessed or trained on.

40+ FIELD CONVERSATIONS

从实地证据走向全球对话。

我们关于 AI、Z 世代与劳动力转型的工作洞察,为我们与商业领袖及国际受众围绕 AI 如何重塑早期职业工作、能力发展和未来工作展开的对话提供了依据。

Cross-hub dialogue, future-of-work conversations, research and public dialogue.

Listening across roles helps us understand what people need to learn, use and repeat.

Generation Z — The Great ExpectationDoes AI Change the Future of Work?

These conversations inform our work; they do not imply endorsement.

A speaker addressing an international future-of-work conversation
International future-of-work conversation
Panel discussion on the future of work
Panel discussion on the future of work
Interview during a future-of-work conversation
Interview during a future-of-work conversation
Audience during a future-of-work conversation
Audience during a future-of-work conversation

我们围绕证据设计,而不是围绕固定课程。

As work changes, the capabilities people need will change too. Research, field conversations and public dialogue continuously feed back into the program.

观看对话

公共对话让本地证据在不同社区与语境之间持续交流。

Updated AIGW Policy Observatory poster for the AI & Education Policy Dialogue, 8 March 2026

Continue the conversation.

Explore the updated AIGW Policy Observatory event poster and watch the full conversations.

View all conversations

FROM REACH TO IMPACT

我们不把参与本身视为影响。

Reach matters. But the next question is whether capability, behaviour and opportunity actually change.

01

Reach

Who encountered the initiative

02

Participation

Who directly took part

03

能力

What people learned or developed

04

Application

What was applied in real situations

05

Outcome

What changed over time

The Impact Ledger

What the numbers mean.

120K+Cumulative reach

Cumulative exposure across assessments, learning, interviews and events — not a count of unique people or demonstrated outcomes.

5K+Direct participations

Participation across programme activities. A person may take part more than once, so this is not a count of unique people.

200Facilitators trained

Facilitators trained to support learning and capability building. Training facilitators is distinct from measuring what participants learn.

30Sessions delivered

Sessions delivered across the initiative. A session count describes activity, not learning or career outcomes.

800+Assessment starts

Assessments started, not completed assessments or unique participants. Starting an assessment does not demonstrate capability improvement.

What we are now testing

We are studying whether learning changes capability, practice and opportunity. These are questions we are exploring, not outcomes we have already demonstrated.

Capability Development

Stronger evidence of effective AI-supported work.

Real-World Application

New skills and workflows applied in study, work or projects.

Career Clarity

Better-informed learning and career decisions.

Learning Transfer

Capability carried into classrooms, organizations and communities.

Institutional Adoption

Tools and learning models reused by hubs, schools and organizations.

08 / BUILD THE NEXT LOOP WITH US

JOIN THE LOOP.

Capability building gets stronger when more people can add a perspective, a problem, a place or a practical next step.

For educators & communities

Bring practical AI capability building to your learners.

  • Run an AI literacy activity
  • Use the assessment
  • Host a workshop
  • Build a learning cohort
带到你的社区

For organizations

Connect workforce needs with diagnosis, learning and real-world application.

  • Run a capability cohort
  • Pilot the diagnostic
  • Bring a real-world challenge
  • Contribute workforce evidence
Explore a Pilot

For Global Shapers

Adapt the model in your community.

  • Run the assessment
  • Host a dialogue
  • Deliver a learning activity
  • Localize the model
  • Share field evidence
Bring It to Your Hub