ASU GSV Summit September 29 - October 1, 2020 | ASU+GSV Summit | 29 September 2020 | Virtual event

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
President ,California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Dr. Darienne Driver Hudson
President and CEO, United Way for Southeastern Michigan

Joan Gabel
President, University of Minnesota

Mildred Garcia
President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities

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President, University of Phoenix

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Senior Writer ,Fast Company

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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

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Founder, Chief Scientist ,Enlearn

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CEO & Co-founder, Humu

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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

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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
Co-Founder, Phenomena Learning

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president, TES

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Michael Wallace
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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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CEO, Chiefs for Change

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Chancellor, DC Public Schools

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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

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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

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Director of New School Models, Pearson

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two-time NBA All-Star, serial-entrepreneur, investor and creator

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Partner, Duane Morris

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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

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Co Founder, Transcend Education

Rod Bristow
President, Pearson UK & Global Online Learning

Chandre Sanchez-Reyez
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Director, Product Strategy & Research, 2U

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Head of Product Strategy & Research, 2U

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CRO & COO, Agora

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Professor, Director of Youth-Nex, University of Virginia

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