ASU+GSV Summit Sessions

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Mark Atkinson, CEO at Mursion; Majd Sakr, Chief Learning Officer at Accenture; Marissa Farrar, Chief People Experience Officer at Turnitin; Karie Willyerd, Head of Strategic Engagements at GP Strategies; Colton Gyulay, Chief Operating Officer at Speak; and Rob Lauber, CEO at XLO Global. In an era defined by geopolitical t...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kate Erricker, Group Head Education Research and Global Partnerships at Nord Anglia Education; Nick Yoder, Associate Vice President at Harmony Academy at National University; Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Center Director at Brookings; Ying Xu, Assistant Professor at Harvard University; and Jaime Casap, Co-Founder at...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Adam Nordin, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs; Ernesto Pagano, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group; Hriday Kemburu, Product Growth Lead at GPTZero Inc.; John Bailey, Non-resident Senior Fellow at AEI; and Naomi May, Partner at Cooley. The speakers examined whether AI represented the next grea...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Senior Research Engineering Lead at Google; Chris Clark, Senior Director, Product at Salesforce; Kavitta Ghai, Co-Founder and CEO at Nectir; Dr. Min Sun, Co-Founder and CEO at Colleague AI; and Jennifer Lee, Partner at GSV Ventures. The speakers discussed how, across campuses and classrooms, ambient AI sy...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Sebastian Belmar, Head of Engineering at LitLab.ai, Dan Lee, Head of Product at Lirvana Labs, Medha Tare, Senior Director of Research, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. EdTech products were described as too often being judged after they reached classrooms—when design decisions were already locked in and impact w...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Bridgett Willey, Executive Director / COO at UW Health WorkForward; Lori Partain, Chief People Officer at Helios Consulting; Nicholas Morgan, President at Adaptive Construction Solutions, Inc.; Marek Laco, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Labor, and Ryan Craig, Managing Director at Achieve Partners. Ap...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Agenia Clark, President at Fisk University, and Kevin Thames, Vice President, AMERS Channel Sales at Equinix. The session brought to life the power of fusion through a fireside conversation highlighting what became possible when mission-driven institutions and industry leaders moved in true partnership. The speakers share...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Cathy Cheung, Software Engineer at Google; Shashank Agarwal, Software Engineer at Google Research; and Yoav Bergner, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences/Educational Technology at NYU. The speakers discussed how skill development is increasingly viewed as the next frontier of education, particularly as the gap widens...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Julia Wilkowski, Learning Science Team Lead | Learning & Education at Google; Kevin McKee, Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; and Shashank Agarwal, Software Engineer at Google Research. The speakers explored how, in a sea of generic AI tools, technology can be designed to serve the mind rather than replace it. The...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Chris Phillips, VP & General Manager, Education at Google; Richard Culatta, CEO at ISTE+ASCD; Jennie Magiera, Global Head of Education Impact at Google; Julie Tonsing-Meyer, Professor of Education at McKendree University; and Casey Cuny, 2024 California Teacher of the Year at Valencia High School. The speakers discuss...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Senior Research Engineering Lead at Google; Sara Wiltberger, Senior Product Manager at Google; Shashank Agarwal, Software Engineer at Google Research; and Anisha Choudhary, Program Manager at Google Research. The speakers discussed how the promise of personalized education has long been constrained by the...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Austin Bates, Gemini for Higher Education, North America at Google. The session explored how operational and administrative efficiency remains a top priority for CIOs navigating fragmented tech stacks and tight budgets. It demonstrated how Gemini for Education was designed to complement, not complicate, existing instituti...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Caroline Levens, Head of Education & Workforce at Grow with Google. The session explored how the professional landscape has been fundamentally reshaped by AI. Designed for Deans, Provosts, and forward-thinking faculty, it offered a blueprint for modernizing curricula and embedding AI effectively so students graduate w...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured James Frazee, Vice President & Chief Information Officer at San Diego State University; Anne Goldmann, Higher Education Lead at Google for Education; and Luis Hernández Muñiz, Director of Productivity and Collaboration Services at the University of California, Berkeley. The speakers discussed how bringing generative A...

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Sara DeWitt, Senior Vice President & General Manager, PBS KIDS and Education at PBS; Cristobal Viedma, CEO & Founder at Lingokids; Katie Kurtz, Managing Director, Global Head of Youth & Learning at YouTube; and moderator Gregg Behr, Executive Director at The Grable Foundation. This session was part of the Earl...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Aislynn Fait and Ruby Savala, two student roadtrippers from Roadtrip Nation’s upcoming documentary Rethinking Higher Ed , moderated by Justin Draeger, SVP of Affordability at the Strada Education Foundation. The session explored the real-life journeys of young people questioning traditional pathways to success and examini...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Shannon King, Chief Learning Officer at Battelle for Kids, and Sari Factor, Vice Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Learning. The speakers explored the Portrait of a Graduate—a transformative framework designed to define what success looks like for today’s students. They discussed how this vision can unite c...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Nivine Megahed, President at National Louis University, and Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Braven. The session addressed the persistent opportunity gap facing low-income and first-generation college students, noting that only about 30% of the 1.4 million students in this group who enroll in...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kenny Green, CPA and author of Faith. Finance. Purpose , in conversation with Dr. Mahalia Hines, educator, retired principal, and board president of the Common Ground Foundation. The session explored Green’s five foundational principles—Faith, Integrity, Sacrifice, Leadership, and Legacy—as the cornerstones of building bo...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Dr. Maureen Dunne, CEO and bestselling author of The Neurodiversity Edge , in conversation with moderator Meredith Rosenberg, Partner & Co-founder of NU Advisory Partners. The session explored Dr. Dunne’s bold framework for leveraging neurodivergent talent as a source of innovation and organizational strength. Drawing...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Dr. Angela Jackson, CEO of Future Forward Institute, in conversation with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch, Executive Director of Craft Education. The session explored Dr. Jackson’s groundbreaking research on 1,200+ companies, uncovering a powerful insight: organizations that prioritize employee well-being consistently outperform t...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Almi Abeyta, Superintendent of Chelsea Public Schools, and Jessica Sliwerski, Cofounder & CEO of Ignite Reading. The session explored how Chelsea Public Schools is integrating 1:1 foundational reading skills tutoring into its MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) framework to drive reading fluency and equity across s...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured David Yeager, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Kumar Garg, President at Renaissance Philanthropy. The session explored how psychology deeply influences learning—often in ways that are not well understood. Despite good intentions, mentors, managers, and AI bots frequently miss the mark when it comes to m...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Cordell Carter, Esq., Executive Director of the Aspen Institute. The session explored the foundational role of moral ideals in shaping and sustaining a nation, focusing on three seminal American texts: the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Throug...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Griggs, Director of Community Initiatives for the City of Jacksonville; MaliVai Washington, Founder of the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation; and Dana Andrews, Past President and Advocacy Advisory Team Lead at USTA Florida. The session explored the powerful intersection of sports, education, and community progra...