ASU+GSV Summit Sessions

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Maggie Ruvoldt, Chief Human Resources Officer at LEARN Behavioral; Dan Macklin, President at Summer, PBC; and Mike Clementi, Chief Human Resources Officer at ChangeBridge People Solutions. The speakers explored how student debt was no longer simply a personal finance issue, but a strategic workforce challenge. In this fir...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Stephanie Tsales, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at InStride; Vicki Greene, Chief Growth Officer at Pace AI; Lisa Schumacher, Director of Education Strategies and Workforce Policy at McDonald’s Corporation; Raphael Rosenblatt, Chief Portfolio Officer at Workforce Edge; and Alex Swartsel, Associate Vice President...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Candice Faktor, Co-CEO at Disco; Sanjay Srivastava, CEO at Vocareum; Josh Allen, Group Director of Walmart Academy Learning at Walmart; Karen Kocher, General Manager of Global Learning and Skilling at Microsoft; and Brandon Sammut, Chief People and AI Transformation Officer at Zapier. The speakers explored how AI systems...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Antoinette Banks, CEO and Founder at Expert IEP; Barry Finder, Vice President of Operations at Chegg; Nellie Tayloe Sanders, Former Oklahoma Secretary of Education; Toni Barton, CEO at E.L. Haynes; and Meredith Rosenberg, Partner and Co-Founder at NU Advisory Partners. The speakers explored what it would mean to design ed...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Auditi Chakravarty, CEO at AERDF; McKenzie Snow, Director at the Iowa Department of Education; Pedro Martinez, Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; and Sara Schapiro, Executive Director at the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI). The speakers explored how leaders shaping t...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured John White, CEO at Great Minds; Lizzette Reynolds, Commissioner at the Tennessee Department of Education; Lance Evans, State Superintendent of Education at the Mississippi Department of Education; Ashley Andersen Zantop, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Cambium Learning Group; and Karen Vaites, Founder at Curriculu...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Amy Loyd, CEO at All4Ed; Raghu Krishnaiah, Chief Operating Officer at University of Phoenix; Monique Perry-Graves, CEO at Road to Hire; Lisa Larson, CEO at Education Design Lab; and Kiersten Barnet, Executive Director at the New York Jobs CEO Council. The speakers explored how talent lived within communities, but opportun...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Bonita Brown, Chancellor at Winston-Salem State University; Shawna Young, CEO at Camelback Ventures; Marc Barnes, PhD, Senior Vice President of Strategic Impact Fundraising at UNCF; and Barbara Logan-Smith, Chief of Experience and Belonging at Teach For America. The speakers explored how transformative philanthropy was re...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Jon Ford, Head of State, Local and Education Market for Service Delivery, Cyber Security Solutions, and Election Cybersecurity at Google Public Sector. The session explored how higher education institutions were facing unprecedented challenges, from operational pressures and enrollment concerns to rising data security thr...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Steven Johnson, Editorial Director of NotebookLM at Google Labs. The session explored NotebookLM as an innovative AI partner built with the latest Gemini models and designed to redefine the educational landscape for both educators and students. Steven Johnson examined how, by anchoring itself exclusively in trusted docume...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured David Scales, Developer Relations Engineer at Google. The session explored how Google partnered across the education ecosystem as increasing numbers of EdTech companies built new tools for learning. David Scales discussed the various ways EdTech organizations could get the most out of working with Google, including startu...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Head of Industry Architects at Google Public Sector. The session explored how Gemini Enterprise served as a single hub for building, orchestrating, and sharing AI agents across the academic community. Charles Elliott examined how these agents represented a major opportunity to amplify institutional and le...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ronit Levavi Morad, Senior Director at Google Research; Dave Driggers, CEO at Cirrascale; Chrysoula “Chrysa” Malogianni, Senior Associate Vice President for Digital Innovation and Chief Digital Experience Officer at Old Dominion University; and Jesus Trujillo Gomez, Research and Education Executive Lead at Google Public S...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Chrysoula “Chrysa” Malogianni, Senior Associate Vice President for Digital Innovation and Chief Digital Experience Officer at Old Dominion University; Dimitrios Peroulis, Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Online at Purdue University; Mike Kennedy, Deputy CIO at UC Riverside; and Matthew Schneider, Managing Direct...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Dr. Melissa Gomez de la Fuente, Senior Director of Product Management – AI & Innovation for Teaching & Learning at Covista; Christopher “Topher” Wren, Senior Vice President of Technology at BoysTown; James Frazee, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at San Diego State University; and Adam Deer, Research a...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Drew Sidel, Head of North America Google Workspace and AI for Education, and Kenny Drake Sergeant, Higher Education Solution Engineer at Google for Education. The speakers explored how educational institutions can address rising cyber threats and expanding AI adoption by implementing practical Zero Trust security strategi...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Vivek Chachcha, Senior Product Manager at Google for Education, and Caroline Levens, Head of Education & Workforce at Grow with Google. The speakers explored how preparing students for an AI-driven future requires more than access to tools—it demands a strategy for meaningful engagement. They demonstrated how Gemini a...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Nisha Patel, Senior Program Manager, Scaled Programs at Google, and Arden Haselmann, Associate Manager, Knowledge & Trust at Google. The speakers explored Meet LEA (Learn and Explore with AI), Google Search’s AI fluency program designed to help educators harness Google’s AI-powered Search features to enrich learning e...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Head of Industry Architects, Rapid Innovation at Google Public Sector, and Gabby Burke, Cloud AI Customer Engineer at Google Public Sector. The speakers explored how Gemini Enterprise has served as a unified hub for building, orchestrating, and sharing AI agents across the academic community, creating new...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kaiz Alarakyia, Senior Product Manager at Google DeepMind; Ben Caulfield, CEO at Eedi Labs; and Dr. Owen Henkel, Co-Founder and Research Director at EdTechnical. The speakers explored how Google DeepMind and Eedi approached gold-standard classroom research through a rigorous UK Randomized Control Trial, moving beyond head...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Beth Hollenberg, CEO at Everspring; Richard Weiqi Zhang, Co-Founder at Solvely.ai; Mick Hewitt, CEO at Ednition; Greg Hart, CEO at Coursera; and Jennifer Lee, Partner at GSV Ventures. The speakers explored how the shift to AI answer engines, algorithmic feeds, and embedded assistants has fundamentally transformed EdTech d...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Anada Lakra, CEO at BoldVoice; Julie Walbaum, Co-founder & Co-CEO at Wilgo.ai; Hilah Barbot, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Playlab; Benjamin Somers, CEO at Recess. GG; and Amanda Nolen, NED, Advisor, and Investor at Amanda Nolen & Partners. The speakers explored how the assumptions that shaped the last generat...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Rhys Spence, Head of Platform and Research at Brighteye Ventures; Ardis Kadiu, CEO & Co-founder at Andi AI, Inc.; Stephen Laster, CEO at Panopto; Jason Brein, Co-President at Francisco Partners; and Nate Laverriere, Managing Director at Moelis. The speakers explored how the M&A playbook for EdTech has fundamentall...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Rajen Sheth, CEO and Co-founder at Kyron Learning; Darren Person, EVP and Chief Digital Officer at Cengage Group; France Hoang, CEO & Founder at BoodleBox; Melva K. Wallace, President and CEO at Huston-Tillotson University; and C. Edward Watson, Vice President for Digital Innovation at the American Association of Coll...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Tom Dretler, CEO & Co-Founder at Shorelight, LLC; Clare Rawlins, Senior Vice President of Student Recruitment, Marketing and Partnerships at Kaplan International Pathways; Julia Rosen, Vice President of Global Academic Initiatives at Arizona State University; Martin Basiri, Founder & CEO at Passage.com; Alejandro...