Sahra-Josephine Hjorth

Sahra-Josephine Hjorth

CEO

CANOPYLAB

Miss Hjorth is an expert on converging technologies and how these are applied in learning contexts to design personalized learning experiences that empower end-users to realize their true potential. She serves as co-founder and CEO of CanopyLAB and faculty at Singularity University focusing on the Future of Learning. Miss Hjorth has spent the past six years creating digital learning experiments with groundbreaking results. She coined the term "Virtual Immersion Program" and has leveraged her background as a researcher to found CanopyLAB – a leading adaptive learning company headquartered in Copenhagen. During her Ph.D. research, Miss Hjorth discovered that in the physical classroom, teachers use more than 55 exercises to ensure that their students learn future-proof competences. This stands in sharp contrast to how we learn in a Learning Management System (LMS) today, as these on average only enable five different types of exercises and heavily favor teaching knowledge over competences. Miss Hjorth is an advocate for changing that outdated learning model. In addition to co-founding CanopyLAB, Miss Hjorth is a member of the advisory board for Digital Hub Denmark, she is an advisory board member for the UNDP and the co-founder of "the LAB" a free online learning platform, where youth from more than 90 countries can take courses about the SDGs, health, democracy and sexual and reproductive health.