Last year

NextGen 2025

Three hundred and twenty-five people, a full stage, demos in the quad and a startup hall, put together by fifteen students in under eight months.

What happened

How the day went

NextGen 2025 opened with keynotes on the main stage, then split into panels and breakout sessions where the audience did the questioning. Outside, tech demos put emerging hardware in people’s hands, and the startup hall filled with founders showing what they were building.

More than 325 students and members of the Los Angeles community came. The whole thing was organized, booked, designed and run by a team of fifteen students at Harvard-Westlake School through HW Venture.

A full auditorium at NextGen 2025
A full room for the opening keynote.
In photos

What it looked like

The crowd in the quad
A speaker on the main stage
A tech demo table
A panel in a breakout room
A student trying a VR headset
Check-in on the morning of the conference
A speaker with a microphone
A talk in a classroom
Three organizers at the NextGen backdrop