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Event Date |
Tue Sep 29 PDT - Thu Oct 1 PDT (about 4 years ago)
In your timezone (EST): Tue Sep 29 8:00pm - Thu Oct 1 8:00pm |
Location | Virtual event |
Region | Americas |
Started in 2010 with a collaboration between Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV), the annual ASU+ GSV Summit connects leading minds focused on transforming society and business around learning and work. Our north star is that ALL people have equal access to the future.
2020 Speakers
Femi Adebogun
CEO, ScholarMe Co.
Dinesh Advani
Director, PlayShifu
Anant Agarwal
CEO, edX
Varun Agarwal
Founder, Mento
Gayatri Agnew
Senior Director of Walmart Giving, Walmart
Kari Alldredge
Vice Provost for Enrollment Management, The University of Tennessee
Austen Allred
Found / CEO, Lambda School
Brent Alvord
CEO, Mighty
Mark Andersen
Co-founder, CEO, Lifeliqe
Ole Andreas Haley
Chief Product Officer, Capeesh
Robert Andrews
VP, Enrollment Management,, DePauw University
Sandeep Aneja
Founder & Managing Partner, Kaizen Capital Management
Mark Angel
CEO, Amira Learning
Maria Anguiano
Senior Vice President & University Planner, Arizona State University
Mark Atkinson
CEO, Mursion, Inc.
Ronit Avni
Founder & CEO, Localized
Claudia Backus
Head of Enterprise and Productivity Partnerships, Facebook Reality Labs
David Bainbridge
CEO & Founder, Boclips
John Baker
President and CEO, D2L
Marni Baker-Stein
Provost & Chief Academic Officer, Western Governors University
Olina Banerji
The Ken, Staff Writer
Justin Barad
Co-Founder/CEO, Osso VR
Carol Barash
Founder + CEO, Story2
Julien Barbier
co-founder and CEO, Holberton
Shadee Barkan
SVP, University Partnerships, 2U, Inc.
Taha Bawa
CEO, Goodwall SA
Stephan Bayer
Founder & CEO, sofatutor GmbH
Jamie Beaumont
Managing Partner, LEGO Ventures
Ashley Beckner
Venture Partner, Imaginable Futures
Leah Belsky
Chief Enterprise Officer, Coursera
Larry Berger
CEO, Amplify
Kai-Leé Berke
Vice Chairman of the Board, Teaching Strategies
Brad Bernatek
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Anurima Bhargava
President, Fmr. Chief Educational Opportunities Section, Anthem of Us, US DOJ
Sujata Bhatt
Senior Fellow, Transcend
Amanda Bickerstaff
CEO, Pivot Professional Learning
Eli Bildner
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Rivet School
David Blake
Advisor, GSV
Goldie Blumenstyk
Senior Writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Keith Bockwoldt
Chief Information Officer, Hinsdale High School District 86
Kelli Bohanon
Director of Early Learning Programs, Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families
Katie Boody
Co-Founder / CEO, LEANLAB Education
Marc Brackett
Director, Yale University Center for Emotional Intellgence
Fran Bradford
Deputy Secretary of Education, Office of the Governor
Rovy Branon
Vice Provost, University of Washington
Patrick Brothers
Managing Director, HolonIQ
Michael Broughton
CEO, Perch
Robert Brown
Head of Government Affairs, TuSimple
Samantha Brown Olivieri
Sr. Principal, Guild Education
Rick Buckingham
VP, Corporate Development, Strada Education Network
Linda Burch
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy & Development Officer, Common Sense Media
Kathleen Burke
Chief People Officer, HubSpot
Bridget Burns
Executive Director, University Innovation Alliance
Janice Burns
Chief Career Experience Officer, Degreed
Gerri Burton
Lead, New Learning Ventures
Brandon Busteed
President, University Partners and Global Head, Learn-Work Innovation, Kaplan, Inc.
Juan Cabrera
Superintendent, El Paso Independent School District
Peter Callstrom
President & CEO, San Diego Workforce Partnership
Michael Carter
Founder and CEO, Strive for college; UStrive Inc.
Karen Cator
CEO, Digital Promise
Sean Cavanagh
Senior Editor, EdWeek Market Brief, EdWeek
Angela Ceresnie
Chief Executive Officer, Climb Credit
Tim Chartier
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Davidson College
Akshay Chaturvedi
Founder & CEO, Leverage Edu
Aakash Chaudhry
Mr, Aakash Educational Services Ltd.
Joy Chen
US Chief Investment Officer, TAL
Luyen Chou
Chief Learning Officer, 2U
Steffanie Clothier
Investment Director, Gary Community Investments
Gregg Coccari
CEO, Udemy
Geoff Cohen
James G. March Professor in Organization Studies in Education and Business, Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Nirit Cohen
CEO, Work Futures
Courtney Collins-Shapiro
CEO, Portal Schools
Melissa Connelly
Chief Executive Officer, OneGoal
Michael Conner
Superintendent, Middletown Public Schools
Gavin Cooney
Founder & CEO, Learnosity
Douglas Cooper
Executive Director, Career Development & Engagement, Morehouse College
Matt Cooper
CEO, Skillshare
Gloria Corral
President & CEO, Parent Institute for Quality Education
Sherry Coutu
Founder, Workfinder
Andrew Crapuchettes
CEO, Emsi
Ivan Crewkov
CEO, MyBuddy.ai
Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University
Christine Cruzvergara
VP, Higher Education & Student Success, Handshake
Richard Culatta
CEO ,ISTE
Philip Cutler
Chief Executive Officer, Paper
Beverly Tatum
President Emerita, Spelman College
John Danner
Managing Partner Dunce Capital
Beth Davies
Former Director of Learning, Tesla, Podcast Host, Career Curves
Yaki Dayan
Founder & CEO, EdTech Israel & IES Summit
Chris Dede
Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard University
Kathleen deLaski
President, Education Design Lab
Ryan Delk
CEO, Primer
Jason DeParle
Journalist, New York Times
Tonio DeSorrento
CEO, Vemo Education
Lydia Dobyns
President & CEO, New Tech Network
Arne Duncan
Managing Partner, Emerson Collective
NIkki Eatchel
Chief Assessment Officer, Scantron
Jean Eddy
CEO & President, American Student Assistance
Ken Eisner
Director, Worldwide Education Programs, Amazon Web Services
Molly Elgin-Cossart
Chief Impact Officer, Merit America
Susan Enfield
Superintendent, Highline Public Schools - Burien, WA
Shahar Erez
CEO, Co Founder, Stoke Talent
James Evans
Co-Founder, codePost
Jaime Fall
Director, Upskill America, Aspen Institute
John Farrar
Industry Lead for Higher Education, Google
Rahim Fazal
CEO / Cofounder, SV Academy
Nuno Fernandes
President & CEO, Ilumno
Harris Ferrell
CEO, APDS
Rachel Fichter
Vice President, S&P Global
Matthew Mugo Fields
EVP & GM, Supplemental and Intervention Solutions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lynn Fiellin, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale
John Fillmore
Chief Business Officer, Chegg
Jonathan Finkelstein
CEO Credly
Marco Alexandre Fisbhen
CEO, Descomplica
Carol Fishman Cohen
Chair and Co-founder, iRelaunch
Andrew Flagel
President and CEO, Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area
Kai Frazier
CEO, Kai XR (formally Curated x Kai)
Joseph Freed
Co-founder and CEO, Cultivate
Dan Friedman
Founder & President, Thinkful
Neil Frye
Chief People Officer, Alto Pharmacy and GSV Strategic Advisor
Joseph Fuller
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Kobie Fuller
Partner, Upfront Ventures
Kavish Gadia
Co-founder & CEO Stones2Milestones
Shiv Gaglani
Co-founder & CEO Osmosis
Susan Perry
Chief Deputy Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Jason Gaulden
Interim CEO, Untapped Potential Project
Yakut Gazi
Assoc. Dean, Learning Systems Georgia Tech Professional Education
Emma Giles
COO, Sophya
Noel Ginsburg
Founder and CEO CareerWise
Anand Giridharadas
Author and Editor at Large, TIME
Malcolm Gladwell
Author and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Rufus Glasper
President/CEO, League for Innovation in the Community College
Emily Glassberg Sands
Head of Data Science ,Coursera Inc.
Sam Glassenberg
Founder and CEO, Level Ex
Matt Glickman
Managing Partner, Promise Venture Studio
Fred Goff
Founder & CEO ,Jobcase
Shravan Goli
Chief Product Officer ,Coursera`
Lev Gonick
Chief Information Officer ,Arizona State University
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
CEO, Product School
Mitch Gordon
CEO & Co-founder, Verto Education
Jerry Gorham
Chief Measurement and Testing Officer ,Ascend Learning, LLC
Anita Grantham
Chief People Officer, Pluralsight
Andrew Graue
CEO and Co-Founder, Course Hero
Diane Greene
Chairwoman, Greene
Claire Parascandolo
Student in the ISA program, SD Workforce Partnership ISA
Alison Griffin
Senior Vice President, Whiteboard Advisors
Carlos Guillermo Elizondo
CEO, Territorium
Parul Gupta
Cofounder, Springboard
Kevin Guthrie
President, ITHAKA
Jennifer Hanley
North American Head of Safety Policy ,Facebook
Michael Harreys
VP of Global Enrollment, Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE)
Elizabeth Harz
CEO, Sittercity
Zishaan Hayath
CEO and Co-founder, Toppr Technologies Pvt Ltd
Megan Healy
Chief Workforce Advisor, Office of Governor of Virginia
James Heckman
Professor of Economics and Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, University of Chicago
Joel Hellermark
CEO and Founder ,Sana Labs
Tyce Henry
Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group
Laura Hernandez
Senior Researcher ,Learning Policy Institute
Kent Hopkins
Vice President, Enrollment Services, Arizona State University
Michael Horn
Head of Strategy, The Entangled Group
Alexis Horowitz-Burdick
Managing Director, LEGO Ventures
Grant Hosford
CEO & Co-founder, codeSpark
Will Houghteling
CEO, Strive
Laura Howe
VP, Innovation Communications, Pearson
Jacob Hsu
CEO, Catalyte
Bertie Hubbard
Cofounder and CEO ,MyTutor
Richard Irwin
EXECUTIVE DEAN, UOFM GLOBAL & COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL & LIBERAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS
Arpit Jain
CEO, SplashLearn
Ashish Jhalani
Managing Director - India, Square Panda Inc
Karina Jhangiani
Investment Associate ,GSV Ventures
Yscaira Jimenez
CEO, LaborX
Dani Johnson
Co-founder, RedThread
Gordon Jones
Founding Dean, College of Innovation + Design at Boise State University
Jennifer Newbill
Director University Recruitment, Dell Technologies
So-Young Kang
Founder & CEO, Gnowbe
Jon Kaplan
Principal and Founder ,Corvantus Consulting
Sergey Karayev
Head of AI for STEM, Turnitin
Rich Karlgaard
Editor-at-Large & Global Futurist, Forbes Media
Kian Katanforoosh
Founder & CEO, Workera
Brian Kathman
Chief Executive Officer, Signal Vine, LLC
Fr. Steve Katsouros, SJ
Founding Dean and Executive Director, Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago
John Katzman
CEO, The Noodle Companies, LLC
Bernie Kaussler
Professor of Political Science, James Madison University
Anne Keehn
Global Education Lead, Zoom
Frank Kelley
Vice President (Retired General), Defense Acquisition University
Clay Kellogg
CEO, Terminal
Kat Kennedy
Chief Experience Officer ,Degreed
Dev Khare
Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
Rob Kingyens
Founder & CEO ,Yellowbrick
Ann Kirschner
CEO, Comma Communications
Terren Klein
CEO/co-Founder, College Pulse
Amy Klement
Managing Partner, Imaginable Futures
Andreas Klinger
Head of Remote, AngelList
Ethan Knight
Executive Director, Gap Year Association
Charles Koch
CEO, Koch Industries
Vamsi Krishna
CEO, Vedantu
Mohan Lakhamraju
Founder and CEO ,Great Learning
Erica Lewis
Assistant Professor, James Madison University
Patrice Ludwig
Associate Professor of Biology and Core Facutly JMU XLabs, James Madison University
Dave Lundgren
CEO, Piper, Inc.
Larry Lutz
Executive Vice President, Business Development & Investments, Strada Education Network
Robert Lytle
Global Head of Education, EY-Parthenon
Maureen MacDonald
Dean, School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto
Sebastian Mackinlay
Founder & COO, Digital House
Tom Mahoney
Superintendent, Oregon CUSD 220
Barry Malkin
CEO, Carnegie Learning
Makaziwe Mandela
Chairman, House of Mandela Family Foundation
Marcela Manubens
Global VP for Integrated Social Sustainability, Unilever
Bethanie Maples
Product & Research, Google AI
Tamera Maresh-Carver
MD Global Learning and Development ,FedEx
Stephanie Marken
Executive Director Education Research, Gallup
Michelle Marks
Chancellor ,University of Colorado Denver
Jaime Martinez
CEO, Schola, Inc.
Gary Matkin
Dean, Continuing Education/Vice Provost, Career Pathways, University of California Irvine
Arthur Matuszewski
VP Talent Acquisition, Better.com
Sara Mauskopf
CEO, Winnie
Seán McCarthy
Writing Studies, James Madison University
Joanna McFarland
Cofounder and CEO ,HopSkipDrive
Jon Meacham
Presidential Historian and Author
Sophia Mendoza
Director, Instructional Technology Initiative, Los Angeles Unified School District ,
Xiao-Li Meng
Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Statistics and Editor in Chief, Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences and Harvard Data Science Review
Frances Messano
Senior Managing Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund
Amine Mezzour
CEO ,Lalilo
Tess Michaels
Founder & CEO ,Stride Funding
Noelle Millholt
Co-founder + CRO, BEGIN
Kevin Mills
Head of Government Partnerships, Coursera
Dr. Vivienne Ming
Co-Founder & Executive Chair Socos Labs
Ted Mitchell
President ,American Council on Education
David Miyashiro
Superintendent ,Cajon Valley Union School District
Michael Moe
Founder ,GSV
Pattie Money
Former Chief People Officer ,Twilio Inc.
Candace Moore
Chief Equity Officer ,City of Chicago
DJ Moreau
Senior Director, Games for Change
Carlos Moreno
Co-Executive Director, Big Picture Learning
Stephen Moret
President/CEO, Virginia Economic Development Partnership
Omowale Moses
CEO, MathTalk
Ami Moyal
President, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering
Hector Mujica
Head of Education & Economic Opportunity, Google
Mait Müntel
CEO, Lingvist
Darren Murph
Head of Remote, GitLab
Eileen Murphy
Founder ,ThinkCERCA
Andre Narciso
CEO, Quero Education
Amir Nathoo
CEO, Outschool, Inc.
Alexi Nazem
CEO & Co-Founder, Nomad Health
Ben Nelson
Founder & CEO, Minerva
Josh Nester
Education Director ,SEEK
Romy Newman
President and Co-Founder, Fairygodboss
Matti Niebelschuetz
Founder & Managing Director, CoachHub
Karen Niemi
President and CEO, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Bernhard Niesner
CEO, Busuu
Shilpi Niyogi
Senior Strategy Advisor, Analytic Measures, Inc.
Charu Noheria
Co-founder and Chief Business Officer, 3rdFlix
Rich Novak
Vice President for Continuing Studies and Distance Education ,Rutgers University
Bill Nye
Renowned Scientist, Inventor & Television Personality,
Ryan O'Mahoney
Managing Director of Short Courses, 2U
Eloy Oakley
Chancellor, California Community Colleges
Diego Olcese
CEO, Crehana
Cheryl Oldham
SVP, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Andreas Oranje
Vice President - Assessment & Learning Technology Development, ETS
Khalil Osiris
Founder, Reflecting Freedom Network
Ryan Padrez
Medical Director, The Primary School
Ofir Paldi
Founder&CEO, Shamaym
SuryaNarayanan PaneerSelvam
Co-Founder, Skill-Lync
Rohan Pasari
Co-founder & CEO, Cialfo - College Application Platform
Amit Patel
Managing Director, Owl Ventures
Susan Patrick
President and CEO ,Aurora Institute
Angel Perez
CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)
Kathy Perkins
Director, PhET Interactive Simulations
Heidi Perry
Co-founder & COO, Writable
Savannah Peterson
Founder, Savvy Millennial
Joshua Pierce
CEO ,Acadeum
Frida Polli
CEO and Co-Founder, pymetrics
General Colin Powell
Former Secretary of State
Scott Pulsipher
President, Western Governors University
Piyush Puri
Vice President, Brand Capital, The Times Group
Carol Quillen
President, Davidson College
Bharani Rajakumar
CEO, TRANSFR
Vignesh Rajendran
Investors, GSV Ventures
Ashish Rangnekar
CEO & Co-Founder, BENCHPREP
Matt Rascoff
Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation, Duke University
Aaron Rasmussen
Founder & CEO, Outlier.org
Diana Rauner
President, Ounce of Prevention
Byju Raveendran
Founder & CEO, BYJU'S
Vijay Ravindran
CEO, Floreo
Clare Rawlins
VP International Student Recruitment & Marketing, Kaplan International
Karl Rectanus
Cofounder & CEO, LearnPlatform
Karthik Reddy
Managing Partner, Blume Ventures
Courtney Reilly
K-12 Program / Co-Founder, GSV Summit / Empower Kids Club
Natalie Renew
Director, Home Grown
Julia Rivard Dexter
Co-Founder & CEO, Eyeread makers of Squiggle Park & Dreamscape
Lauren Rivera
Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management
Ian Roark
Vice President Workforce Development & Strategic Partnerships, Pima Community College
Jerelyn Rodriguez
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc.
Daniel Rogers
CEO, A.M. Money
Jessica Rolph
CEO + Co-Founder, Lovevery
Todd Rose
President, Populace
Andy Rosen
Chairman & CEO, Kaplan, Inc.
Michael Rosenbaum
CEO, Arena
Dan Rosensweig
President and CEO, Chegg, Inc.
LaShawn Routé Chatmon
Executive Director, National Equity Project
Damir Sabol
CEO, PhotoMath, Inc
Anthony Salcito
VP Education, Microsoft
Jessica Santana
CEO, America On Tech
Sonja Santelises
CEO, Baltimore City Public Schools
Saurabh Saxena
Founder & CEO, Uable
Patricia Scanlon
Founder and CEO, SoapBox Labs
Ramona Schindelheim
Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNation
Jonathan Schor
Co-Founder & CEO, CodeMonkey
Gregg Scoresby
CEO, CampusLogic
Andrew Scott
Author, "The 100-Year-Life"
Will Sealy
Founder & CEO, Summer
Robert Sedgewick
William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science and Founding Chair of the Computer Science Department and Former Adobe Board Member and Author of Ma..., Princeton University
Benjamin Selznick
Assistant Professor, Strategic Leadership Studies, James Madison University
Carmita Semaan
Founder and President, The Surge Institute
Randal Seriguchi Jr.
Executive Director, Urban Ed Academy
Deborah Serri
VP Simulation, Ascend Learning
Burr Settles
Head of Research and AI, Duolingo
Warren Shaeffer
Co-founder & CEO, Knowable
Neal Shenoy
CEO & Co-Founder, BEGiN
Mike Silagadze
Founder, CEO, Top Hat
Garrett Smiley
Co-founder, Sora Schools
Anthony G. Smith
Superintendent, Winton Woods City Schools
Burck Smith
CEO, StraighterLine
Kelly Smith
Founder, Prenda
Felipe Sommer
CO-Founder & COO, Nearpod
Aseem Sood
Director, Investments, Temasek International
Esteban Sosnik
General Partner, Reach Capital
Mark Sparvell
Education Leader Microsoft, Microsoft Education
Maria Spies
Founder & Co-CEO, HolonIQ
Chelsea Sprayregen
Early Care & Education Entrepreneur and Consultant
Venkat Srinivasan
Founder Chairman ,EnglishHelper, Inc
Vlad Stan
Founder & CEO Galileo XP Ltd
Gloria Steinem
Writer, Lecturer, Political Activist, and Feminist Organizer
Mitchell Stevens
Faculty Chair, Education Enterprise, Stanford University
Julia Stiglitz
Partner, GSV
Jennifer Stredler
Vice President, Workforce Development, Salesforce
Sean Strong
CEO, Grove Learning
Mary Struzska Tyamayev
Director of the Center of Global Education, Simmons University
Jonah Stuart
Chief Policy & Government Relations Officer, Teaching Strategies
Scott Stump
Assistant Secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Department of Education
Sam Subramaniam
CEO, Brand Capital - The Times Group
Grace Suh
Vice President, Education, Corporate Social Responsibility, IBM Corporation
Dominic Swayne
Executive Director 4-Virginia and Founding Director JMU X-Labs, James Madison University
William Symonds
Executive Secretary, Coalition for Career Development AND Director, Global Pathways Institute at ASU, Global Pathways Institute at Arizona State University
Tom Symonds
Mr, Immerse Learning
Christine Tao
CEO & Cofounder, Sounding Board Labs
Neville Taraporewalla
President, Brand Capital International
Tim Taylor
Cofounder & President, America Succeeds
Lou Tedrick
Chief Learning Officer, Verizon
Mike Teng
CEO, Swing Education
Brian Thomas
CEO, Lightspeed Systems
David Thomas
President, Morehouse College
Brian Tobal
CEO, Schoolhouse
Gaurang Torvekar
CEO and Co-founder ,Indorse
Paul Tough
Author, "The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us"
Chuck Trafton
President, edly, Inc.
Rob Urstein
Lecturer in Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Victor Valdez
CTO, Pflugerville ISD
Jacqueline Valouch
Head of Philanthropy, Deutsche Bank Wealth Management
Vu Van
CEO ,ELSA, Corp.
Gauthier Van Malderen
CEO, Perlego
Edwin van Rest
Co-founder and CEO ,Studyportals
Tom Vander Ark
CEO, Getting Smart
Kurt VanLehn
Prof., Arizona State University
Amrutha Vasan
Co-Founder & COO, Inspirit Learning
Krishna Vedati
Co-Founder & CEO, Tynker
Freddy Vega
CEO, Platzi
Cia Verschelden
Vice President Academic & Student Affairs, City Colleges of Chicago - Malcolm X College
Kami Viswanathan
Founder, work4.0capital
Alina von Davier
Chief of Assessment, Duolingo
Mujtaba Wani
Associate, GSV Ventures
Jason Weingarten
Co-Founder & CEO, Yello
Tammy Westergard
State Librarian / Administrator, Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records
Ardine Williams
Vice President, Workforce Development, Amazon
Randi Williams
Graduate Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab
Chris Wilson
Director of Engagement, APDS
Anne Wintroub
Director, Social Innovation ,AT&T
Benoit Wirz
Partner, Brighteye
Markus Witte
Founder and Executive Chairman, Babbel
Tom Woolf
Founder & CEO ,EdAid
Dun Xiao
Co-Founder, 17zuoye
Elanna Yalow
Chief Academic Officer ,KinderCare Education
Caitlin Zaloom
Professor of Social And Cultural Analysis, New York University
D'Andre Weaver
Superintendent, DeSoto Independent School District
Stacy Caldwell
CEO, Mastery Transcript Consortium
Julia Bamba
Principal, Gibson Ek High School
Bart Epstein
CEO, EdTech Evidence Exchange
Rose Else-Mitchell
Advisor, EdTech Evidence Exchange
Ayana Verdi
Founder & Executive Director, Verdi EcoSchool
Peter Callstrom
CEO, San Diego Workforce Partnership
Pam Cantor M.D.
Founder & Senior Science Advisor, Turnaround for Children
Nate Davis
CEO, K12
Pete Ruppert
CEO, Fusion Academy
Robert Paddock
Founder and CEO, Valenture Institute
Devin Vodicka
Chief Impact Officer, Altitude Learning
Richard Miller
President Emeritus & Professor of Mechanical Engineering ,Olin College of Engineering
Sasha Barab
Executive Director of the Center for Games and Impact, ASU
Karen Garza
President & CEO ,Battelle for Kids
Marie Izquierdo
Chief Academic Officer ,Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Benjamin Colas
Program Manager, K-12 Partnerships, Charles Koch Institute
Lisa Dawley
Executive Director, Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education, University of San Diego
Ed Hidalgo
Chief Innovation and Engagement Officer, Cajon Valley Union School District
Erin English, Ed.D.
Executive Director of Innovation, San Diego County Office of Education
Dana Lambert
CEO, GlobalED Solutions, Inc/PBC
Sarah Young
Director of Strategic Initiatives ,Utah State Board of Education
Annabel Cellini
Chief Strategy Officer, American Student Assistance
Erin Figula
Senior Director of Programs, LEAP Innovations
Stephanie Short
Vice President of Partnerships, America Succeeds
Michael Fee
Co-Founder, Spotlight
Preston Smith
Co-Founder & CEO, Rocketship Public Schools
Melissa Agudelo
Principal, San Diego Met
Corey Mohn
Executive Director, Blue Valley CAPS
Chris Bennett
CEO, Wonderschool
Nate McClennen
Vice President for Education and Innovation, Teton Science Schools
Tom Rooney
Superintendent, Lindsay USD
Chad Carlson
Director of Research & Design, One Stone Inc.
Dr. Andrew Smith
Chief Strategy Officer, Rowan-Salisbury Schools
Orlando Riddick
Superintendent, Midland ISD
Ryan Kelly
Head of Marketing and Communications, Virgin Hyperloop
Jeff Hawkins
Executive Director, Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative
Qiana Patterson
VP of Strategic Development, HopSkipDrive Inc
Jonathan Law
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Gia Truong
CEO ,Envision Education
Susana Cordova
Superintendent, Denver Public Schools
Malvika Bhagwat
Director of Outcomes and Efficacy, Owl Ventures
Sarah Hernholm
Founder / President, WIT - Whatever It Takes
Kim Alexander
Chancellor, Collegiate Edu-Nation
Leila Walsh
Chief External Affairs Officer ,Chiefs for Change
Anthony Kingston
Coordinator of Technology, Alabaster City Schools
Liz Brooke
Chief Learning Officer, Rosetta Stone and Lexia Learning
Tim Mould
Senior Executive Health & Public Services Practice, Accenture
Father Stephen Katsouros
Founding Dean ,Arrupe College
Betsy Corcoran
Co-Founder ,EdSurge
Matthew Pittinsky
CEO ,Parchment
Rodney Stark
Student, Orange Coast College
Carolyn DeWitt
President and Executive Director, Rock the Vote
Mike Huseby
CEO & Chairman, BNED/Barnes & Noble Education
Doug Becker
Founder & Chairman, Cintana
Julie Cram
Deputy Assistant Administrator, US Government Special Coordinator for International Basic Education Assistance, Senior Coordinator for Gender Equal..., Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment, US Agency for International Development
Shai Reshef
President ,University of the People
Julia Rosen
Managing Director, Global Academic Partnerships, Arizona State University
Kara Monroe
Provost, Ivy Tech Community College
Kim Thanos
Co-Founder and CEO, Lumen Learning
Arthur Levine
Distinguished scholar of Higher Education, New York University
Bob Moesta
President & CEO, The Re-Wired Group
Andy Chan
Vice President for Innovation & Career Development, Wake Forest University
Chrystina Russell
Senior Vice President & Executive Director, Global Education Movement (GEM), Southern New Hampshire University
Sean Gallagher
Executive Director, Northeastern University
Brooke Elliott
Associate Dean, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Betty Vandenbosch
Chief Content Officer, Coursera
Doug Lederman
Editor and co-founder, Inside Higher Ed
Sarah Kiley
General Manager, Parchment
Marc Boxser
VP Of Communications ,Chegg
Beth Akers
"Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt", Author
Scott Smallwood
Editor-in-chief ,Open Campus
Kevin Martin
General Manager, Higher Education, Parchment
Alex Qin
Founder and CEO, 101stud,
Aragorn Li
Operations Director, Kwai Education
Bill Ning
Founding Partner, BE Capital
Jeremy Wu
Co-founder, Zhangmen Education
Phyllis Zhang
Vice President, ClassIn
Stephanie Butler
Product Management, Strategy, and User Experience Leader, Turnitin
Rachel Carlson
CEO, Guild Education
Dr. Soraya Coley
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Chief Education Evangelist, Google
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Director of Training, AT&T
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Partner, McKinsey & Company
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CEO ,Futuro Health
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Partner, McKinsey & Company
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President, University of Phoenix
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Senior Writer ,Fast Company
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Author/Special Advisor ,Arizona State University
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Chancellor, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education
Chip Paucek
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Founder ,228 Accelerator
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Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence, AT&T Aspire Acclerator
Terah Crews
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Matthew Sigelman
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President ,Robert Morris University
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Founder, Chief Scientist ,Enlearn
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CEO & Co-founder, Humu
Matthew Glotzbach
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Leilani Brown
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Associate Partner, McKinsey
Sanjay Gupta
Global CEO, English Helper
Aaron Walker
Founder & CEO ,Camelback Ventures
Roshaan Wolusmal
Deputy Minister of Urban Affairs, Afghanistan, and Global Ambassador for the Global Parliament of Mayors
Dick Senese
President ,Capella University
Layla Avila
CEO, EdLOC
Julie Young
ASU Vice President of Education Outreach and Student Services, Managing Director of ASU Prep and ASU Prep Digital High School, Arizona State University
Jared Schiffman
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president, TES
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Chief Operating Officer of Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education
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Executive Director of Continuing and Professional Education Division, George Mason University
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Director, Sales, Google
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Managing Director, The Aspen Institute
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TechCrunch Reporter, TechCrunch
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Life Coach, Youth Peace Center of Roseland
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CRED/Youth Peace Center of Roseland
Josh Frazier-Sparks
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MBA Student and Co-CIO of GSB Impact Fund, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
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Chief Design Officer, EdPlus at ASU
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YouTube host, ASU Student
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Linda Jacobson
Senior Writer, The 74
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President, The Greater LA Education Foundation
Mickey Revenaugh
Director of New School Models, Pearson
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two-time NBA All-Star, serial-entrepreneur, investor and creator
Jim Shelton
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Partner, Duane Morris
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Host & YouTube Creator, Origin of Everything
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journalist, host of LearnIt podcast, LearnIt
Billy Moore
CRED
Brian Napack
President & CEO, John Wiley & Sons
Anthony Wilson
CRED
Jim Federico
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Education
Janice Jackson
CEO, Chicago Public Schools
Aylon Samouha
Co Founder, Transcend Education
Rod Bristow
President, Pearson UK & Global Online Learning
Chandre Sanchez-Reyez
Executive Director, Indiana Connections Academy
Karina Bean
Director, Product Strategy & Research, 2U
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Head of Product Strategy & Research, 2U
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SVP, Career Services, 2U, Inc.
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Corporate Recruiter, Microsoft
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Global Account Executive, Agora
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CRO & COO, Agora
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Event Marketing Manager, Agora
Nancy Deutsch
Professor, Director of Youth-Nex, University of Virginia
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Program Director, American Student Assistance (ASA.org)
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