ASU+GSV Summit Sessions

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Vivian Wu, Managing Partner, Ventures at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Atin Batra, Director, Impact Investing at ECMC Group’s Education Impact Fund; Matt Zieger, Chief Programs and Partnerships Officer at GitLab Foundation; and Esther Benjamin, CEO & ED at World Education Services. Philanthropy had increasingly begun bo...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Deepanshu Arora, Founder & CEO at Toddle; Arif Karakus, CFO at Doping Technology; Joleen Liang, Co-founder at Squirrel AI Learning; Zara Zaman, Investor & Head of Platform at Emerge Capital; and Joy Chen, Senior Advisor at GSV Ventures and Stanford Accelerator for Learning. Some of the world’s most ambitious EdTec...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kaylee Seely, Head of Immersive at Pearson Labs, Pearson; Elina Ollila, Deputy Center Director and Professor of Practice at Endless Games and Learning Lab at ASU; Nicole Staubli, Head of Education at Meta; and Jim Chilton, Board Director at SNHU Board. Immersive technology had long promised to transform learning, but this...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Brian Johnsrud, Director of Education at Adobe; Will Ji, Head of Customer Success at HeyGen; Gabrielle Rosemond, Head of Industry, Education & Services at TikTok; and Dan Quine, Senior Director of AI and Engineering at Learning Commons. As AI gained the ability to draft marketing copy, design graphics, generate video...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Carolina Recchi, CEO at EdSights; Lev Gonick, Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University; Christina Yancey, Vice President at AIR (American Institutes for Research); Emily Smith, VP, Strategic Partnerships at CollegeVine; JC Bonilla, COO and Head of AI at Element451; and Tim Renick, Executive Directo...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kevin Guthrie, President at ITHAKA; Chris Ferguson, Executive Vice Chancellor of Finance and Strategic Initiatives at California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office; Abby Snay, Deputy Secretary, Workforce Strategy at California Labor and Workforce Development Agency; Brenda Thames, President/CEO at El Camino Colleg...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Jamie Reffell, Chief Product Officer at Clever, Inc.; Dan Meyer, VP User Growth at Amplify; Christian Pantel, Chief Product Officer at D2L; Dr. Kimberly Smith, Executive Director at Jackson Public Schools; and Erin Mote, CEO at InnovateEdu. As AI and consumer platforms entered classrooms, the line between technology desig...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Dave Duke, SVP & Chief Product Officer at McGraw Hill; Annie Chechitelli, Chief Product Officer at Turnitin; Anne Jones, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Arizona State University; Jenny Maxwell, Head of Education at Superhuman; and Camilla Roberts, Director, Honor and Integrity System; President Emerita, Ka...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Sven Schütt, CEO at IU Group; Eilif Serck-Hanssen, CEO at Laureate; Laura Kakon, Former Chief Growth & Strategy Officer at Honoris United Universities; Abdujabbor Abduvohidov, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Central Asian University; and Lucy Stonehill, CEO at Alwin Education Limited. Around the world, higher edu...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured John Danner, CEO at Flourish Schools; Renato Feder, Secretary of Education São Paulo at Secretaria da Educação do Estado de SP; Susana Martinez, Governor at Governor Susana Martinez; Victoria Pylvainen, Senior Vice President at LearningMate; Don Soifer, CEO at National Microschooling Center; and Michael Horn, Author of Jo...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Amar Kumar, CEO at KaiPod Learning; Allison Serafin, Vice President at Building Hope Impact Fund; Kelly Smith, Founder/CEO at Prenda; Robin Winder, Chief Academic Officer at FlexPoint and Florida Virtual School; Caroline Allen, Chief Program Officer at Center for Education Reform; and Kerry McDonald, Author of Joyful Lear...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Jason Palmer, Co-Founder & President at Socrait; Heather Anichini, President & CEO at The Chicago Public Education Fund; Jim O'Neill, President, Core and Supplemental Solutions at HMH; Jodi Feikema, Chief Academic Officer and Provost at American College of Education; Megan Mitchell, Teacher & EdTech Consul...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Matt Miller, CEO & Co-Founder at OKO Labs; Kim Smith, CEO/Founder at LearnerStudio; Maria Ortiz, Assistant Superintendent of High Schools at City of Newark Schools; Colin Kaepernick, CEO at Lumi Story AI; and Greg Toppo, Senior Writer at The 74 Million. As AI increasingly took on routine cognitive work, the true advan...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ali Bebo, Chief Human Resources Officer at Pearson; Omar Abbosh, CEO at Pearson; Gian Paolo Perrucci, Technology Officer at Pearson; and Sandra Loughlin, Chief Learning Scientist at EPAM Systems. The speakers explored why past conversations about the future of the learning leader have often missed the mark, and what becom...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Matt Wilkerson, Founder & CEO at Extern; Heather Stefanski, Partner and Chief Learning and Development Officer at McKinsey; Stephanie Veck, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Economic Opportunity at American Institutes for Research (AIR); John Koelliker, CEO & Co-Founder at Leland; and Raymond Sass, Senior Vice Presiden...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Julie Stone, Chief Learning Officer at TTEC; Tigran Sloyan, CEO & Co-founder at CodeSignal; Ken Schumacher, Founder and CEO at Ropes; Nikki Eatchel, Chief Assessment Officer at Prometric; and Jennifer Lee, Partner at GSV Ventures. The speakers explored how contingent workers now make up nearly 40% of the workforce, cr...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Vishaal Gupta, President, Enterprise Learning & Skills at Pearson PLC; Lydia Logan, Vice President for Global Education and Workforce Development at IBM Corporate Social Responsibility; Anshul Sonak, Principal Engineer at Intel; Guna Jayaraman, Chief AI Officer at Cornerstone; and Lawrence Stevens, Director, Learning...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Portia Pratt, Senior Policy Analyst at National Governors Association; Lee Lambert, Chancellor and CEO at Foothill-De Anza Community College District; Kristin Hultquist, Past Chair at MSU Denver Board of Trustees; and Alison Griffin, Principal Consultant at FutureRise. The speakers explored how Workforce Pell is opening f...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Destin Mizelle, Roadtripper at Roadtrip Nation; Enoch Ellis, Roadtripper at Roadtrip Nation; Tobias Brown, Roadtripper at Roadtrip Nation; and Jasmine Haywood, Strategy Director at Lumina Foundation. Inspired by Roadtrip Nation’s documentary Thriving: Black Men in Higher Education, the speakers explored the relationships...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Hugh Yao, CEO at LingoAce Academy Inc; Max Azarov, CEO at Novakid; Karine Allouche, General Manager, Language Learning Worldwide and Skills GTM Europe at Chegg; and Alina von Davier, Chief of Assessment at Duolingo. The speakers explored how language learning apps did not simply add AI, but instead rebuilt around it earli...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Justin Wenig, Founder & CEO at Starbridge.ai; Diana Heldfond DiGia, CEO and Founder at Parallel Learning; Vinay Bhaskara, Co-founder at CollegeVine; and Erik Edwards, Partner at Cooley LLP. The speakers explored how securing a strong Series A+ round is only the beginning for AI-first EdTech companies, as the real chal...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Fernando Bleichmar, CEO at Risepoint; Chris Lynne, President at University of Phoenix; Jeffrey Conlon, Chief Executive Officer at Unitek Learning Education Group, LLC; Elizabeth Chou, Partner at Leeds Illuminate; and Adnan Nisar, Senior Partner and Co-Head of Knowledge and Learning Solutions at The Vistria Group. The spea...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Jaime Casap, Co-Founder at Purpose Lab; Alisa Sommer O’Hara, Global Head of Learning & Education Partnerships at Google; Tom Sayer, CEO and Co-Founder at Ello; and Dan Carroll, Co-founder and Advisor at Clever. The speakers explored how frontier AI labs including Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft have been rapi...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ron Levin, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures; Carole Ackermann, Chairwoman of the Board and President of EHL Board of Trustees at EHL Hospitality Business School; Ariel Hersh, Investment Director at SEEK Investments; and Nana Kyei, Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey. The speakers explored how the capital backing EdTech...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ronit Levani Morad, Senior Director & Chief of Staff for Google Research at Google; Lydia Logan, Vice President for Global Education and Workforce Development at IBM Corporate Social Responsibility; Dan Schneider, Enterprise Platform Product Specialist at NVIDIA; Matthew Rascoff, Vice Provost at Stanford University; a...