In Kampala, Uganda, more than 700 educators and policymakers from across Africa and beyond are gathering to ask one of the defining questions of this era: what does it mean to prepare a child for a world being reshaped by artificial intelligence? The National Curriculum Development Centre's second International Conference on Curriculum Development, convening August 20–21, reflects a growing recognition that education built around memorization cannot serve a future built around adaptability. Uganda's own shift toward competency-based learning since 2022 places it at the center of a continental