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The Agentic Government: Why 250,000 AI Agents Are Just the Beginning
A sovereign nation has committed to running 50% of government operations on agentic AI within two years — with 250,000 agents already active. Here's what that shift means for public institutions globally, and why the gap between 'AI strategy' and 'AI infrastructure' is where governments will either lead or fall behind.

The Enterprise AI Agent Inflection Point: What NVIDIA, Google, and OpenAI Just Shipped
In one week, NVIDIA, Google, and OpenAI each launched enterprise agent platforms. Here's what happened, why it matters, and what organizations should look for before deploying.

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.

From Chatbots to Agents: How Enterprise Organizations Are Deploying Autonomous AI in 2026
Gartner projects 40% of enterprise apps will embed autonomous AI agents by end of 2026 — up from less than 5% in 2025. Here is what that transition actually looks like in production, and what organizations need to build it right.

Sovereign AI Agents for Government: Why Federal Agencies Are Choosing Infrastructure They Own
Federal agencies building sovereign AI infrastructure — owning their code, choosing their LLMs, deploying on their own networks — are creating strategic compounding advantages that per-seat SaaS subscriptions cannot match.

The Governance Gap: Why Enterprise AI Agents Succeed or Fail in Production
Most enterprise AI pilots fail in production for operational reasons, not technical ones. This is what governance-first agent deployment actually looks like in 2026.

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.

Why Enterprise AI Is Moving from Per-Seat Licensing to Agentic Operating Systems
Per-seat AI licensing is breaking at enterprise scale. Organizations are moving to agentic AI operating systems — platforms they own, deploy anywhere, and scale without per-seat cost penalties.

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

Why Enterprise AI Integration Keeps Failing — And How MCP Fixes the Architecture
Most enterprise AI deployments fail at the integration layer, not the AI layer. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing the architecture — and why it matters for every organization deploying AI at scale.

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.