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Ammar Sagban met Felix Scholz at academyEX: Ammar as a learner, Felix as an industry advisor. Their conversation began with higher education and ended somewhere beyond it.
Student / technologist / systems thinkerAmmar Sagban
Ammar brought more than twenty years across technology, engineering, product and people—and the live perspective of a learner. His question was not whether expertise matters. It was whether a learner should need an institution to own the path to it.
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Felix Scholz
Felix brought twenty years across consulting, corporates and startups, alongside his work as a lecturer, innovation coach and builder of The Futures School. His instinct: less theory at a distance; more curiosity, making and useful outcomes.
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Advisor / educator / innovation coachAmmar wonderedAt PhD level, the institution may provide space, tools and method—but the learner still does the learning.
Felix pushedWhat changes when a residency runs with the energy of a hackathon and the care of a learning community?
Ammar returnedThe real value is often the people beside you—and the ideas that only exist because you met.
Felix connectedOpen-source culture already knows how to build knowledge in public, improve it together and give it back.
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