Venue
Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego
Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, 1 Market Pl, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

What is Qwoted?

Qwoted is a free expert network: we help reporters connect with experts & we help those same experts build relationships with top reporters.

Event Date Sun Apr 14 PDT - Wed Apr 17 PDT (8 months ago)
In your timezone (EST): Sun Apr 14 3:00am - Wed Apr 17 3:00am
Location Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego
1 Market Pl, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Region Americas
Details

Started in 2010 with a collaboration between Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV), the annual 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.
Who Can Attend?
• PreK-12 leaders (including principals and superintendents), higher education leaders (including provosts, presidents, and chancellors), workforce/enterprise leaders, not-for-profit organizations and foundations, investors, EdTech startups, and more.
Why Attend?
• Actionable Insights
The Summit fosters a space to collaborate, share knowledge, and develop resources needed to innovate and accelerate groundbreaking impact. With innovative research, quantitative insights, and informed forecasts embedded in every discussion, every attendee leaves the Summit with tools to create change.

• Human-Centered Connection
Each year, thousands of industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and educators come away from the Summit with new relationships, meaningful connections, and a wider, deeper network. The Summit has become the most important space in EdTech for networking, deal-making, idea-sharing, learning from thought leaders, meeting innovators, finding investors and foundation funders, and more.

• Transformational Experiences
From exceptional keynotes from the world's most important leaders to world-class performances by chart-topping artists to virtual reality exhibits to Startup events and competitions, the Summit brings a vibrant mix of the most exciting experiences every year

• Unexpected Discoveries
With the most important global voices assembled, the possibilities for innovation and ingenuity are endless. Who knows what can happen when the brightest minds in digital learning and workforce skills come together?

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Paula Abdul
Global Icon, Grammy & Emmy Award Winning Recording Artist, Choreographer, and Dancer, Paula Abdul Inc

Russlynn Ali
Co-Founder and CEO at XQ Institute, Managing Director of the Education Fund at Emerson Collective, XQ Institute, Emerson Collective

Ashley Andersen Zantop
Chairman and CEO, Cambium Learning Group

Jenny Anderson
Author, Journalist, TIME

Erin Andrews
Director, Clinical Affairs, Uwill

Terron Armstead
Professional Athlete, Miami Dolphins

Emma Bloomberg
Founder & CEO, Murmuration

Marc Brackett
Director, Yale Center of Emotional Intelligence

Ruby Bridges
Civil Rights Icon, Activist, Author and Speaker

Val Brown
Director, Future of Learning, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

William Brown
Chicago CRED Life Coach, Chicago CRED

Jake Browning
Player, NFL/PAC

Steven Butschi
Director of Education, North America, Google

Bridget Burns
CEO, University Innovation Alliance

SOUL COLE
FLOW FACILITATOR, SOUL COLE THE BRAND

Anthony Calhoun
Chicago CRED Alumni Ambassador, Chicago CRED

Jamie Candee
CEO, Edmentum

Alberto Carvalho
Superintendent, LAUSD

Agenia Clark
President, Fisk University

Michael Cohn
Partner, GSV Ventures

Michael M. Crow
President & Professor of Science & Technology Policy, Arizona State University

Richard Culatta
CEO, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

Ashwin Damera
CEO, Emeritus & Eruditus

Donna Deegan
Mayor, City of Jacksonville

Arne Duncan
Managing Partner, Chicago CRED

Kate Eberle Walker
CEO, Presence

Chase Edmonds
Founder/ CEO, SceeneInc

Maria Flynn
President & CEO, Jobs for the Future

Bethlam Forsa
CEO, Savvas Learning Company

Adam Freed
Managing Partner, GSV

Lisa Gevelber
Founder, Grow with Google, Google

Lev Gonick
Chief Information Officer, Arizona State University

Christina Grant
State Superintendent, Office of the State Superintendent of Education, District of Columbia

Daniel Greenstein
Chancellor, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Ed

Kimberley Gregorie
Talent Transformation Partner/Speaker, KWG Consulting

Eilert Hanoa
CEO, Kahoot!

Marjorie Hass
President, Council of Independent Colleges

Isabelle Hau
Executive Director, Stanford Accelerator for Learning

Kaya Henderson
CEO/Co-Founder, Reconstruction.US

Dr. Mahalia A. Hines
Educator, Retired Principal, Author, Speaker and Board President, Common Ground Foundation

Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Co-Founder of Inflection AI, Partner at Greylock

Michael Horn
Author, From Reopen to Reinvent

Arianna Huffington
Founder and CEO, Thrive Global, Founder, The Huffington Post

Lila Ibrahim
COO, Google Deepmind

Laura Ipsen
President & CEO, Ellucian

Shavar Jeffries
CEO, KIPP Foundation

Barbara Jenkins
Chief in Residence, Chiefs for Change

Mervin Jenkins
National Academic Advisor, Renaissance/Nearpod

Katie Jenner
Secretary of Education, Indiana Department of Education

Mike Johnston
Mayor, City and County of Denver

Sergey Karayev
Co-founder, Volition

Rich Karlgaard
Editor-at-Large / Global Futurist, Forbes

Kian Katanforoosh
CEO & Founder, Workera

John Katzman
CEO, Noodle Partners

Travis Key
COO, Pro Athlete Community

Stephanie Khurana
Chief Executive Officer, Axim Collaborative

Ann Kirschner
President, Hunter College at The City University of New York

Timothy Knowles
President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Karen Kocher
General Manager, Future of Work and Workforce of the Future, Microsoft

Jonathan Koppell
President, Montclair State University

Mitchell L Stevens
Professor, Stanford University

Moez Limayem
President, University of North Florida

Phyllis Lockett
Founder & Senior Advisor, LEAP Innovations

Jeff Maggioncalda
CEO, Coursera

Elijah Mayfield
AI Advisor, GSV Ventures

Darryl DMC McDaniels
Hip Hop Legend, Philanthropist & Author

Patrick Methvin
Director of Education, Postsecondary, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

James Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

Barbara Mistick
President, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)

Ted Mitchell
President, American Council on Education

Michael Moe
Founder & CEO, GSV

Billy Moore
Site Manager, Chicago CRED

Adam Nordin
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Soledad O'Brien
Award Winning Journalist and News Anchor, CEO, SO’B Productions

Chip Paucek
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Pro Athlete Community

Donde Plowman
Chancellor, University of Tennessee

Justin Pugh
Professional Athlete, New York Giants

Scott Pulsipher
President, Western Governors University

Chris Quazzo
Actor, Writer, and Content Creator

Aylon Samouha
Co-CEO, Transcend

Aaliyah Samuel
President & CEO, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Richard Sander
Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Ben Sasse
President, University of Florida

Daniel Schwartz
Dean/Professor, Stanford University

Penny Schwinn
VP of PreK - Pre-Bachelors Programs and President of Civic Impact, University of Florida and Civic Impact

Jeff Selingo
Special Advisor & Professor of Practice, Arizona State University

Bijal Shah
Interim CEO, Guild

Michael Sorrell
President, Paul Quinn College

Julia Stiglitz
CEO and Co-Founder, Uplimit

Lorraine Stomski
SVP Associate Learning & Leadership, Walmart

Lisa Marsh Ryerson
University Provost, Southern New Hampshire University

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Partners

CONVENING PARTNER:
• ASU

PEAK 6 PARTNERS:
• ASA
• Google Cloud

EVEREST PARTNERS:
• AwS
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Walton Family Foundation

K2 PARTNERS:
• Cambium
• Grammarly
• Meta
• SNHU
• Stand Together

MCKINLEY PARTNERS:
• Ascend Learning
• Boston Consulting Group
• Carnegie Learning
• Charles Koch Foundation
• Coursera
• ECMC Group
• ETS
• Ellucian
• Imagine Learning
• Instructure
• JFF
• Kaplan
• Kokomo Solutions
• LearningMate
• Learnosity
• Lumina Foundation
• McKinsey & Co
• National University
• Prometric
• Walmart
• Western Governors University

KILLIMAJARO:
• Adtalem Global Education
• CDW
• Carnegie Foundation + XQ Institute
• Cengage
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
• Cooley
• D2L
• Discovery Education
• Edmentum
• Education Week
• HP
• Handshake
• HolonIQ
• InStride
• Learneo
• Macquarie Capital
• McGraw Hill
• MetaMetrics
• Microsoft
• Moelis & Company
• Morgan Stanley
• Nu Advisory Partners
• PowerSchool
• Presence
• Renaissance
• Russell Reynolds Associates
• Strada Education Foundation
• The Rise Fund
• Times Higher Education
• Truist Securities
• Tyton Partners
• Vistria Group
• Whiteboard Advisors

MONT BLANC:
• Ansrsource
• Clever
• Codio
• Copyleaks
• Emeritus
• FlexPoint Education Cloud
• Goldman Sachs
• Innovare
• Lightcast
• NAVAGANT
• Noodle
• NovoEd
• QUANTASING
• Raymond James
• TRUE
• Virtual Internships
• Vocareum
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

MATTERHORN:
• Age of Learning
• American College of Education
• Ascendium Education Group
• Barclays
• Chronicle of Higher Ed
• Class Technologies
• ClassWallet
• Doowii
• ExecOnline
• Gener8tor
• Guild Education
• IEP & Me
• Lincoln International
• OpenClass
• PrairieLearn
• RealmSpark
• Resultant
• Study.com
• Supporting Education Group
• The Grable Foundation
• Tipalti
• Tuscany Strategy Consulting
• Tutored By Teachers
• Udacity
• Unity Technologies
• WeVideo
• Woolf University

COLLABORATING PARTNERS:
• AACC
• AIEDU
• Big Picture Learning
• CIC
• Cajon Valley
• Cambiar Catalyst
• Digital Promise
• EDUCATING ALL LEARNERS
• Future Ready Schools
• Getting Smart
• IEI
• KIPP Chicago
• Leap Innovations
• Learner Centered Collaborative
• Murmuration
• PLTW
• Paramount
• Transcend Education
• University Innovation Alliance