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AI applications across education, healthcare, finance, government, and other verticals.
AI is transforming every industry—from education and healthcare to finance and government. Explore how organizations across verticals are deploying AI agents, LLM-powered workflows, and intelligent automation to solve sector-specific challenges and deliver measurable outcomes.
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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.
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
Former U.S.
Coffee with Crow: The AI Roadmap Ahead: Pro Human Learning & Work
ASU President Michael Crow moderates a conversation with will.i.
Actors + Math Stars = Building a Thought Full World
Po-Shen Loh, Carnegie Mellon professor and former national coach of the U.S.
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.