ASU+GSV Summit Sessions

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Steve Shapiro, Founder and AI Advisor at FinetuneAI and Prometric; Drew Bent, Education Lead at Anthropic; Nate Ober, Generative AI Strategist at Amazon; Raman Malik, VP of Product at Perplexity; and Narine Hall, Leading AI Product Strategy at Instructure. The speakers explored how autonomous AI agents have come to domina...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Pat Yongpradit, General Manager, Global Education and Workforce Policy at Microsoft; Miriam Vogel, President & CEO at EqualAI; Kim Majerus, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector Global Education and U.S. State & Local Government at Amazon AWS; Larz May, Founder and Executive Director at #HalfTheStory and Co-foun...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Brandon Busteed, CEO at Edconic; Frank Shushok, President and CEO at Roanoke College; Vanessa Kenon, Associate Vice President Technology Compliance and Community Engagement at University of Texas at San Antonio; Courtney Hills McBeth, Chief Academic Officer and Provost at Western Governors University; and Paul Fain, Edito...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Matthew Winters, Artificial Intelligence Education Specialist at Utah State Board of Education; Mary Beck, President at Distinctive Schools; Sari Factor, Vice Chair & Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Learning; and Amanda Bickerstaff, CEO at AI for Education. The speakers discussed how the rapid spread of GenAI has br...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Justin Lall, Principal at Gallup, and Stephanie Marken, Senior Partner at Gallup. This session explored what happens when the generation with the most exposure to AI becomes less convinced of its value. New national research from Gallup in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures revealed a striking...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Matt Sigelman, President at Burning Glass Institute; Joseph Fuller, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School; Allison Dulin Salisbury, CEO at Humanist Venture Studio; Shad Ahmed, Economic Mobility Lead at Anthropic; and Michael Horn, Author of Job Moves. The speakers examined the growing labor divide em...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Brett Pollak, Executive Director at UC San Diego, and Courtney Giordano, Associate Chancellor at UC San Diego. Higher-education leaders were navigating an increasingly noisy AI marketplace while seeking affordability, institutional autonomy, and demonstrated results across both enterprise operations and learning environme...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Preston Cooper, Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute; Dan Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Chief of Industry Transformation at Ellucian; Anne M. Kress, President at Northern Virginia Community College; Barbara Mistick, President at NAICU; and Phil Hill, Publisher of the On EdTech Newsletter at PH&A. Fed...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Carol Rava, Vice President – Education Grantmaking at Ascendium Education Group; Scott Pulsipher, President at Western Governors University; Carlos Carvalho, President at University of Austin; Pierre Dubuc, Cofounder and CEO at OpenClassrooms; and Stig Leschly, President at Postsecondary Commission. Innovation was urgentl...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Brian O. Hemphill, President at Old Dominion University; Pradeep K. Khosla, Chancellor at UC San Diego; Jeremy Singer, President at College Board; Tim Cleary, Chief Strategy Officer at Risepoint; Sian Leah Beilock, President at Dartmouth; and JP Novin, CEO at Plexuss.com. With graduate unemployment rising and employer ski...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Krista Newkirk, President at University of Redlands; Bhushan Heda, CTO/COO at Emeritus; Stephen Green, Chief Partnerships Officer at Noodle; Noe Ortega, Commissioner at Massachusetts Department of Higher Education; and James DeVaney, Associate Vice Provost and Founding Executive Director of CAI at University of Michigan....

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Harrison Keller, President at University of North Texas; Preston Cooper, Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute; Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO at Center for Education Reform; and Stig Leschly, President at Postsecondary Commission. As new delivery models, credentials, and learning pathways emerged, long-standing a...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Bryan Lively, CEO at Fusion Academy; Denise Gallucci, President at Red Apple Education; Smita Deorah, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at LEAD Group; Ryan Delk, CEO and Founder at Primer; and Nate McClennen, CEO at Getting Smart. The speakers explored how great schools took vision and craft, but learning ecosystems extended that imp...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Paul Escala, Superintendent of Schools at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles; Stephanie Elizalde, Superintendent of Schools at Dallas Independent School District; Michael Felton, Executive Director at St. George Municipal School Unit; Sonn Sam, National Director of Partnerships at Big Picture Learning; Heather Tow-Yick, Super...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Jess Wang, Chief Operating Officer at Presence; Amanda Kocon, Chief Strategy and Operating Officer at Edmentum, Inc.; Christine Glandorf, Vice President of Business Development at Outschool; Jinal Jhaveri, Founder and CEO at SchoolMint; Lauren Bender, Chief Commercial Officer at Odyssey; and Dante Iacovella, Co-Head of Ed...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured James Rhyu, CEO at Stride; Aylon Samouha, CEO at Transcend; Christopher Neilson, CEO at Tether Education; Garrett Smiley, CEO at Sora Schools; Cady Ching, Chief Executive Officer at Summit Public Schools; and Robin Lake, Director at CRPE. The speakers explored how, within a Multiple Choice ecosystem, AI held real promise...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Steven Wilson, Senior Fellow at Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research; Margaret “Macke” Raymond, Program Director at Stanford University; Oliver Sicat, CEO at Ednovate; Amy McGrath, Managing Director at ASU Preparatory Academy; Dana Peterson, CEO at New Schools for New Orleans; and Kirianne Suriano, Senior Director...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Barry Malkin, CEO at Carnegie Learning; Jon Laven, Co-Founder and COO at Snorkl; Melina Uncapher, CEO and Founder at SETA-ED; Kip Glazer, Principal at Mountain View High School; and Kristin Vincent, Vice President of Product at Learning Commons. The speakers explored how, in a world where AI could help students at every s...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Adora Mora, Chief of Staff at Curriculum Associates; Steven Dorsey, Superintendent Area E at San Diego Unified School District; Devon Gadow, Vice President of National Consulting at TNTP; Brittany Miller, Chief Innovation Officer at The Center for Outcomes Based Contracting; Karl Rectanus, CEO at Really Great Reading; and...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Rahul Kalita, Co-Founder at Tutored by Teachers; Ben Caulfield, CEO at Eedi Labs; Susanna Loeb, Professor at Stanford University; Antoinette Mitchell, State Superintendent at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, District of Columbia; and Liz Cohen, Vice President of Policy at 50CAN and author of The Future...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Rebecca Kockler, Founder at Magpie Literacy; Nick Gaehde, President at Lexia; Kelly Butler, Senior Advisor at ReadingUniverse.org; Dr. Miatheresa Pate, Chief Academic Officer at New York City Public Schools; and Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Senior Vice President for Innovation and Impact at the Carnegie Foundation. The speake...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Sawyer Altman, CEO at Goblins; Ahsan Rizvi, CEO at Kiddom; Chonghao Fu, CEO at Leading Educators; Angie Gaylord, Chief Academic Officer at Dallas ISD; and Lewis Leiboh, Deputy Director of K–12 Research & Development at the Gates Foundation. The speakers explored how recent NAEP results delivered a sobering message: ma...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Taylor Stockton, Chief Innovation Officer at the U.S. Department of Labor; and Michael Ioffe, Co-Founder and CEO at Arist. The speakers explored how, as AI reshaped the economy, access to foundational AI skills was becoming a prerequisite for participating in the future of work. They examined a bold new partnership betwee...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ulrik Juul Christensen, CEO at Area9 Lyceum; and Peter Fox, Head of Learning at Citibank. The speakers explored how, as AI reshaped roles and accelerated the pace of change, organizations were facing a familiar but newly urgent challenge: closing the gap between completing training and demonstrating real capability. They...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Justin Singh, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cengage Work at Cengage Group; David Kafafian, Chief Operating Officer at Clasp; Sarah Favreau, Vice President of Workforce Solutions at Stepful; Mehul Patel, CEO at NASM, Ascend Learning; and Jake Bryant, Partner at McKinsey & Company. The speakers explore...