Watch the event below, or on YouTube, on Tuesday, 3 November 2026 at 17:50 CET.
What does the evidence show?
Debate around young people and technology is full of strong claims. Prof. Candice Odgers brings the research into focus, including where the picture is more complicated than the headlines suggest.
Join the Jacobs Foundation live from Zürich for a keynote by Candice Odgers, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, followed by a panel discussion on the implications for schools, families, and policy.
Candice Odgers will be joined by Moritz Daum, University of Zurich; Christa Schmid-Meier, Intercantonal University of Applied Sciences in Special Needs Education; and Daniel Süss, University of Zurich, for the panel discussion. It will be moderated by Gelgia Fetz Fernandes of the Jacobs Foundation.