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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
ASU+GSV 2026 Coffee with Crow session with Ben Pring and Steve Yadzinski of Jobs for the Future on building a future where everyone can work with AI.
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.
What Do Kids Need to Learn in the Age of AI?
A panel featuring education experts Kaya Henderson and Rick Hess debates what students actually need to learn in the age of AI, drawing on interviews with over 60 experts conducted by the Learning Commons foundation.
Connected Intelligence: The AI Network Effect in Higher Ed
Lisa Gevelber of Grow with Google announces what she describes as Google's largest-ever commitment to AI in education: free AI training for all six million U.S.
Can't We Be Friends...It's Not People, It's Parties...Coming Together
ASU+GSV 2026 conversation between former U.S. Secretaries of Education Margaret Spellings and Arne Duncan (Emerson Collective), moderated by Ben Wallerstein (Whiteboard Advisors), on bipartisan common ground in education.
Coffee with Crow: The AI Roadmap Ahead: Pro Human Learning & Work
ASU+GSV 2026 Coffee with Crow: ASU President Michael Crow with will.i.am (FYI.AI) and Sonya Christian (California Community Colleges Chancellor) on the AI roadmap for higher education.
Actors + Math Stars = Building a Thought Full World
ASU+GSV 2026 session with Po-Shen Loh, Carnegie Mellon professor, Expii founder, and former U.S. International Math Olympiad coach, on building a thought-leadership pipeline from actors to math stars.
Class Disrupted Live: Reed Hastings on the AI-Powered Future of Learning
Reed Hastings, speaking from the board of Anthropic and 25+ years of education work, delivered a sweeping assessment of what has and hasn't worked in education reform.
Burning Traditional Learning... Here Comes the Disruptors
A provocative lunchtime panel moderated by Larry Chu (Goodwin) pitted three EdTech leaders against each other on what's worth saving and what's worth burning down in traditional education.
State Chiefs on Leadership — Aimee Guidera (ASU+GSV)
Former Virginia education secretary Aimee Guidera joins a candid ASU+GSV 2026 panel of state education chiefs on system leadership, reform, and hard-won lessons.
State Chiefs on Leadership — Angélica Infante-Green
Rhode Island commissioner Angélica Infante-Green joins a candid ASU+GSV 2026 panel of state education chiefs on system leadership, reform, and lessons learned.
One Civic Mission, Many Paths: State Leaders on the Future of Civics
This panel brought together state education leaders from Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Utah to discuss the current state of civics education across the country.
Turning Goals Into Scalable Systems: Statewide Career Navigation in Action
This panel explored the practical challenges of building statewide career navigation systems that actually reach students.
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