ASU+GSV Summit Sessions

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Chris Lynne, President of the University of Phoenix; Gregory Fowler, President of the University of Maryland Global Campus; John Baker, Founder and CEO of D2L; and Jodi Feikema, Chief Academic Officer & Provost at the American College of Education. The conversation was moderated by Ernesto Pagano, Managing Director &a...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Tricia Bertram Gallant, Director of the Academic Integrity Office and Triton Testing Center at UC San Diego; Annie Chechitelli, Chief Product Officer at Turnitin; Jenny Maxwell, Head of Education at Grammarly; and Charles Watson, Vice President of Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ardis Kadiu, Founder & CEO of Element451; Patrice Prusko, Director of Learning Design, Technology, and Media at Harvard Graduate School of Education; Sanjay Srivastava, CEO of Vocareum; and Charles Elliott, Head of Industry at Google. The conversation was moderated by Matt Trainum, Vice President of Networks and Strat...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Rajagopal "Raj" Echambadi, President of Illinois Institute of Technology; Drew Bent, Education GTM at Anthropic; Shiren Vijiasingam, Chief Product Officer at Instructure; and Marni Baker-Stein, Chief Content Officer at Coursera. The conversation was moderated by Saurabh Sanghvi, Partner at McKinsey. This dynamic...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ed Smith-Lewis, SVP of Strategic Partnerships & ICB at UNCF; Agenia Clark, President of Fisk University; and Yolanda Page, President of Stillman College. The conversation was moderated by Jonathan Durfield, CEO of SMASH. The panel explored the future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as engines o...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Rachel Janfaza, Founder of The Up and Up and Up and Up Strategies; Robin Lake, Director at CRPE-ASU; Jeff Livingston, CEO and Founder of EdSolutions and CEMD; and Alex Swartsel, Managing Director of Insights at JFFLabs, Jobs for the Future. The conversation was moderated by Korah Wiley, Director of Solutions Strategy &amp...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Stephanie Hall, Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Phil Hill, Publisher of the On EdTech Newsletter and Founder of Phil Hill & Associates. The conversation was moderated by Goldie Blumenstyk, Contributing Writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education . The panel examined the power dynamics and regulatory la...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Liam Pisano, Managing Partner at EduLab Capital Partners; Norman Rodriguez, CEO & Co-Founder of TierOne; Joseph Sapien, Executive Director of the STTE Foundation; and Jeff Cott, Founder & CEO of Trailblazer. The conversation was moderated by Amanda Fernandez, Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Latinos for Ed...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Arvind Nagarajan, Founder and CEO of Astra; Adam Peshek, Senior Director & Fellow, Education at Stand Together Trust; and Denise Gallucci, President of Red Apple Education. The conversation was moderated by Adam Newman, Founder & Managing Director at Tyton Partners. The session explored how private schools are eme...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kyla Johnson-Trammell, Superintendent at Oakland Unified School District; Angélica Infante-Green, Commissioner of Education at the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE); and Kate Eberle Walker, CEO of Presence. The conversation was moderated by Julia Rafal-Baer, CEO and Founder of ILO Group and Women Leading Ed. The...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Jim Chilton, Executive Vice President & CTO at Cengage Group; Josh Reibel, CEO at Dreamscape Learn; Muhsinah L. Morris, Director of Metaverse Programs at Morehouse College; and Matt Sanders, Education and VR Director, Global Affairs at Meta. The conversation was moderated by Eric Klopfer, Professor at MIT. The session...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Lev Gonick, CIO at ASU ET; Leah Belsky, VP and General Manager of Education at OpenAI; and Ed Clark, Chief Information Officer at the CSU Office of the Chancellor. The conversation was moderated by Claire Zau, Partner and AI Lead at GSV Ventures. The session explored how AI is poised to fundamentally reshape the future of...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Nate Ober, AI/ML Strategist at Amazon Web Services; Candice Faktor, Co-founder & CEO of Disco; Michele Catasta, President of Replit; and Steven Syverud, Strategic Product Management at Anthropic. The conversation was moderated by Raymond Kattoula, Vice President at GSV Ventures. The session explored the transformative...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Steven Johnson, Editorial Director at Google Labs. The session explored Google Labs’s groundbreaking tool, NotebookLM—an AI-powered learning and research companion recently named one of Time Magazine’s top inventions of 2024. Steven Johnson walked through how NotebookLM, powered by Gemini, is transforming how educators an...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kelly Shiohira, Director at the Global Science of Learning Education Network; Diya Wynn, Principal and Responsible AI Lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS); and Allison Scott, CEO of the Kapor Foundation. The conversation was moderated by Erin Mote, CEO of InnovateEDU. The session explored the sweeping impact of AI on both ed...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Mahalia Hines, Educator, Retired Principal, Author, Speaker, and Board President of the Common Ground Foundation; Brittany Jones, Managing Director of Justice Initiatives at KIPP Chicago; Alejandro Gibes de Gac, CEO & Founder of Springboard Collaborative and Paloma Learning; and Yodit Weldu, Alumni Advisor at KIPP Chi...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kwame Owusu-Kesse, Chief Executive Officer of Harlem Children's Zone; Russell Booker, Chief Executive Officer of Spartanburg Academic Movement; Maria Vazquez, Superintendent of Orange County Public Schools; and Kristy Sullivan, Partner for Community Coalitions and Cross Sector Partnerships at TNTP. The conversation wa...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Paul Gollash, SVP of K–16 Skills & Educator Solutions at ETS; Rebecca Kockler, CEO of Magpie Literacy; Neil McGough, Chief Product Officer at Learnosity; and Sue Lottridge, Chief Scientist of Natural Language Applications at Cambium Assessment, Inc. The conversation was moderated by Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Vice Presi...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Elizabeth Moore, Deputy Director at the Gates Foundation; Deepanshu Arora, CEO & Co-Founder of Toddle; and Barry Malkin, CEO of Carnegie Learning. The conversation was moderated by Hannah Karzmer, Vice President at GSV Ventures. The session explored how EdTech innovators are applying AI in real-world classrooms—not as...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Tim Renick, Executive Director of the National Institute for Student Success; David Felsenthal, Chief Executive Officer of EAB; Michael Larsen, CEO of Studiosity; and Nina Huntemann, Chief Academic Officer at Chegg. The conversation was moderated by Catherine Shaw, Managing Director at Tyton Partners. The session explored...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Marie Groark, Managing Director at the Schultz Family Foundation; Daniel Fisher, President & CEO of ECMC Group; Jane Swift, President of Education at Work; and Connor Harrington, CEO of Kuder, Inc. The conversation was moderated by Julie Lammers, Executive Vice President at American Student Assistance (ASA). The sessi...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Erica Cuevas, Director of Education Policy at JFF; Stephanie Murphy, Director of State Policy and Research at HCM Strategists; and Amy Loyd, CEO of All4Ed. The conversation was moderated by Elizabeth Texeira, Vice President of Social Impact at American Student Assistance (ASA). The session explored the growing need for ro...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President of Southern New Hampshire University; Richard Vedder, Senior Fellow & Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Independent Institute and Ohio University; John Katzman, CEO of Noodle Partners PBC; and Scott Carlson, Senior Writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education . The conve...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Bryon Grigsby, President of Moravian University; Cheryl Costantini, SVP of Product at Cengage Group; Jose Ferreira, Founder & CEO of BookBaker; Nachiket Paratkar, SVP and Business Head of Higher Education & Workforce at LearningMate; and Mike Malefakis, President of University Partnerships at Emeritus. The session...

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Joseph Watt, Managing Director at ECMC Education Impact Fund; Jessie Woolley-Wilson, Operating Partner at Owl Ventures; Vivian Wu, Managing Partner of Ventures at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; and John Rogers, Partner at TPG Rise. The session explored the evolution of impact investing over the past decade, examining how...