*** This story has been updated to reflect school officials’ decision to change the location of the Oct. 20 summit.

WESTPORT — Summits on long-term strategic plans for Westport’s public schools, with the public invited to weigh in, are planned this month and next.

The first forum on the strategic plans is set for Wednesday, Oct. 20, from 6-8 p.m., in the Bedford Middle School auditorium, and the second will take place Wednesday, Nov. 10, from 7-9 p.m., in the Bedford auditorium.

“A critical step in that [planning] process is projecting the world our students will inhabit as young adults,” Supt. of Schools Thomas Scarice said in a statement announcing the summits.

Both programs are open to the public. They will include “a wide open question-and-answer session,” Scarice promised.

Each of the summits will feature remarks by so-called “futurists” — Mitchell Weiss, a professor at the Harvard Business School and author of “We the Possibility,” will appear at the Oct. 20 program, and Christopher Bishop, workplace futurist and Inside Quantum Technology official, will appear at the Nov. 10 forum.

When the Board of Education heard Scarice elaborate on the long-term strategic plan in September, he said it will span much of the 2021-22 school year, involving dozens of staff members, online surveys, two educational summits and possibly even a fireside chat.

“This is about our core work,” Scarice  said at the time. “It helps any complex organization focus,” said Scarice “Otherwise, we are just responding to the latest issue or problem or crisis.”

A consulting facilitator, Judith Wilson, of the Executive Leadership Institute, has been hired to guide the project.