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Transcripts and key takeaways from major education and AI conferences including ASU+GSV Summit.
Full transcripts and key takeaways from leading education and AI conferences. Watch the sessions, read the highlights, and explore insights from top speakers at events like the ASU+GSV Summit.
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MagicSchool Alternative: District-Owned K-12 AI on Your Infrastructure
MagicSchool runs in MagicSchool's cloud and prices per teacher. ibl.ai is the district-controlled alternative: runtime executes inside the district's VPC, FERPA-protected student data stays inside the district, no per-teacher or per-student tax, multilingual via Qwen 3.
SUNY CIT 2026: Empowering Students and Faculty With Owned AI
ibl.ai is at SUNY CIT 2026 in Stony Brook, where SUNY's Deepa Deshpande and Audeliz MatÃas present research-based findings on empowering students and faculty with AI the institution owns.
After Google I/O 2026, Universities Need to Make an AI Infrastructure Decision
Google I/O 2026 just rewrote the enterprise AI playbook. Here's what it means for universities that have been quietly deferring their AI infrastructure decisions.
District-Controlled AI for K-12 Schools, Done Safely
The blocker for AI in K-12 isn't whether it works — it's student data and safety. Here is what district-controlled AI looks like: COPPA and FERPA compliant, grade-band moderation, and student data that never leaves the district.
The NextGen Law Firm Runs Its Own AI
Law firms outsourced research to Westlaw and document management to the cloud. Outsourcing AI — which processes privileged data — is a fundamentally different decision.
The AI Governance Mirage: Why Enterprises Are Building Control Planes From Scratch
72% of enterprises believe they have adequate AI governance. VentureBeat's Q1 2026 research says most don't. Here's what the organizations getting it right are doing differently.
How Enterprise Teams Are Replacing AI Chatbots with Autonomous Agent Architectures in 2026
The Stanford AI Index 2026 confirmed what enterprise leaders are learning the hard way: autonomous agents now outperform expectations, but most organizations are still buying chatbots. Here's what the shift to agentic architecture actually looks like in practice.
Becoming Is a Journey: Young Adults Charting Their Paths
This session showcases Road Trip Nation's partnership with Brightbound to bring career exploration to middle school students through a PBS documentary and scalable digital tools.
Powered by Curiosity: Designing Learning for the Age of AI
This panel challenged the ASU+GSV conference itself, asking whether the education technology community is too focused on solutions and not enough on the enduring human values of curiosity, creativity, and child development.
Democrats Finding the Plot on Education...How Did We Get Here?
Former Rhode Island Governor and U.S.
At the Speed of AI – Personalizing Knowledge for 8 Billion People
This StarTrack panel featured founders of three breakout AI companies -- Connor Zwick (Speak), Andrew Grauer (Quillbot), and Victor Riparbelli (Synthesia) -- moderated by Claire Zau (GSV Ventures), discussing why they chose to build in education desp
Bull Market for Teachers... Architects of Human Potential
This session explored whether AI could create a "bull market" for teaching by making the profession more accessible, attractive, and effective, featuring Nonie Lesaux (Harvard), Aneesh Sohoni (Teach For America), and Aylon Samouha (Transcend).
Building with the Cool Kids: The New Architecture of Classroom Engagement
This panel of ed tech company leaders -- Ankit Gupta (Wayground/Quizizz), Bethlam Forsa (Savvas), and Sam Chaudhary (ClassDojo) -- discussed how classroom engagement is evolving through AI-powered personalization, multimodal input, and growing student agency.
Coffee with Crow: Building A Future Where Everyone Can Work with AI
A panel featuring former U.S.
A Student-First, AI-Native Vision for the Future
A senior leader from Western Governors University (WGU) presented a comprehensive vision for how AI can fundamentally transform higher education from a provider-centered model to a learner-centered one.
Cage Match or Common Ground: Higher Ed, Skills, and AI
This session explored whether skills-based hiring and college degrees are mutually exclusive or complementary, moderated by Jane Swift with panelists Byron Auguste (Opportunity@Work) and Ted Mitchell (ACE).
But What are You Doing for YOUR Kids?
This panel, moderated by Patrick Methvin (Gates Foundation), brought together education leaders who are also parents -- Dacia Toll (CourseMojo), Michael Sorrell (Paul Quinn College), and Stephen Jull (Teach for All) -- to explore the disconnect betwe
Leading with Civility: From Hoosier Roots to Harvard Halls
Former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb sat down with Bill Hansen in a fireside chat about leadership, civility, and the future of education and workforce development.
MindUp with Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn and ASU College of Education Dean Carole Basile discuss the MindUp program, Hawn's evidence-based initiative teaching children about their brains as a foundation for emotional self-regulation and learning.
FIRE It Up...
FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) president Greg Lukianoff speaks with Studium founder Olivia Gross about the crisis of free speech in education and its intersection with AI.
Career-Connected Learning
This panel on career-connected learning featured CEOs from four education companies -- James Rhyu (Stride), Jamie Candee (Edmentum), Krishna Kumar (Simplilearn), and Steve Daly (Instructure) -- moderated by Tony Won (Reach Capital).
A National Imperative… Jim Shelton on the Work of Opportunity in the Age of AI
Jim Shelton, CEO of Blue Meridian Partners, delivers a sobering keynote framing AI not as a standalone threat but as an "accelerator" pouring gasoline on a pre-existing fire of declining economic mobility.
Coffee with Crow: Future-Ready Nations: Education as Economic Strategy
ASU President Michael Crow leads a conversation with former Korean Education Minister Lee Ju-ho, Kazakhstan Science and Higher Education Minister Sayasat Nurbek, and global university builder Doug Becker (Cintana Education) on education as a national economic strategy.
AI is the New Key to Unlocking the American Dream
This panel brought together Taylor Stockton (DOL Chief Innovation Officer), Josh Allen (Walmart Academy), and Naria Santa Lucia (Microsoft Elevate) to discuss AI's impact on the labor economy and workforce.