ASU+GSV Summit

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Steven Johnson, Editorial Director of NotebookLM at Google Labs.

The session explored NotebookLM as an innovative AI partner built with the latest Gemini models and designed to redefine the educational landscape for both educators and students. Steven Johnson examined how, by anchoring itself exclusively in trusted documentation, NotebookLM functioned as a tailored expert that empowered users to organize their thinking, accelerate research, and spark new ideas.

This interactive conversation highlighted practical use cases demonstrating how NotebookLM could optimize research workflows, individualize learning experiences, and enhance institutional efficiency. The session explored how educators and students could use the platform to improve academic inquiry, deepen understanding, and connect raw information with stronger educational outcomes.

At its core, this session focused on how personalized AI tools like NotebookLM could serve as trusted research, teaching, and learning partners—helping users move from information overload to structured insight while supporting academic excellence across education environments.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured David Scales, Developer Relations Engineer at Google.

The session explored how Google partnered across the education ecosystem as increasing numbers of EdTech companies built new tools for learning. David Scales discussed the various ways EdTech organizations could get the most out of working with Google, including startup programs, education partnerships, and opportunities to build on Gemini.

This conversation examined how EdTech leaders could leverage Google’s latest AI tools to accelerate innovation, integrate with Google products so educators could more easily discover and adopt their solutions, and participate in startup programs that provided access to credits and strategic support. The session highlighted how Google’s ecosystem could support EdTechs not only in product development through generative AI, but also in go-to-market strategies that expanded reach and impact.

At its core, this session provided a practical roadmap for EdTech companies seeking to navigate partnership opportunities with Google—from GenAI development to product integration and GTM acceleration—while building stronger, more scalable solutions for education

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Head of Industry Architects at Google Public Sector.

The session explored how Gemini Enterprise served as a single hub for building, orchestrating, and sharing AI agents across the academic community. Charles Elliott examined how these agents represented a major opportunity to amplify institutional and learner productivity by autonomously managing tasks ranging from routine administrative functions to complex academic and research workflows.

As academia increasingly deployed autonomous agents to scale and enhance institutional processes, the conversation focused on how the challenge shifted toward agent integration and communication. Through a live demonstration, the session showcased how agents could collaborate across the siloed systems common in higher education, highlighting how interoperability—regardless of vendor or framework—could increase autonomy, multiply impact, and lower long-term costs.

The session detailed how “Deep Research” agents could compress research timelines from weeks to seconds by synthesizing archives, analyzing data, and running simulations to accelerate discovery. It also explored how connecting core systems could unify campus intelligence, enabling administrators to ask complex questions and receive data-driven answers without coding, while empowering faculty to build custom agents that provided adaptive, personalized support for students from enrollment to employment. This conversation highlighted a new front door to AI-enabled productivity, innovation, and institutional transformation.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ronit Levavi Morad, Senior Director at Google Research; Dave Driggers, CEO at Cirrascale; Chrysoula “Chrysa” Malogianni, Senior Associate Vice President for Digital Innovation and Chief Digital Experience Officer at Old Dominion University; and Jesus Trujillo Gomez, Research and Education Executive Lead at Google Public Sector.

The speakers explored how, for researchers, the most critical metric was the speed at which data became discovery. They examined the supercomputing architectures, hardware, platforms, and ecosystems needed to transform massive datasets into breakthroughs across disciplines.

This session brought together leaders to discuss how Google’s AI-optimized hardware, including TPUs, advanced High Performance Computing (HPC), and powerful models like Gemini, were coming together to tackle the most demanding research workloads. Panelists highlighted how these technologies were accelerating research and discovery by reducing time-to-science and enabling institutions to process increasingly complex scientific challenges with greater speed and precision.

The conversation focused on how this convergence of AI infrastructure, HPC, and advanced models was helping build a new engine for scientific discovery—one marked by unprecedented innovation, increased efficiency, and expanded possibilities for academic and institutional research.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Chrysoula “Chrysa” Malogianni, Senior Associate Vice President for Digital Innovation and Chief Digital Experience Officer at Old Dominion University; Dimitrios Peroulis, Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Online at Purdue University; Mike Kennedy, Deputy CIO at UC Riverside; and Matthew Schneider, Managing Director of U.S. Education, State and Local Government at Google Public Sector.

The speakers explored how a new era of research, discovery, and personalized learning demanded a total reinvention of higher education institutions. They discussed how transformation went beyond technology adoption to include empowering faculty and researchers, deeply personalizing the learning experience, and optimizing every facet of campus life.

This session brought together institutional and technology leaders to examine how they were building the AI-ready campus of the future today. Panelists detailed how a full-stack cloud approach, anchored by Gemini Enterprise for Education and High-Performance Computing (HPC), was driving strategic shifts across entire institutions to empower faculty and transform teaching and learning, accelerate research and discovery, and optimize campus operations.

The conversation highlighted this new era of innovation by outlining both technical and strategic roadmaps for creating future-proof environments that supported student success and next-generation institutional transformation.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Dr. Melissa Gomez de la Fuente, Senior Director of Product Management – AI & Innovation for Teaching & Learning at Covista; Christopher “Topher” Wren, Senior Vice President of Technology at BoysTown; James Frazee, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at San Diego State University; and Adam Deer, Research and Education Executive Lead at Google Public Sector.

The speakers explored how AI was evolving at unprecedented speed while a critical skills gap threatened to stall innovation, with many organizations lacking necessary AI expertise and relatively few campuses having formalized AI fluency outcomes. They examined how unlocking AI’s full potential required building a cohesive continuity of learning that spanned the entire student lifecycle.

This session brought together K–12, higher education, and workforce leaders to discuss how they were bridging the AI fluency gap for students, faculty, and researchers. Panelists highlighted how competency frameworks, credentialing systems, and the latest AI models and platforms were being leveraged to create stronger pathways for AI readiness across education and employment systems.

The conversation focused on building a resilient talent pipeline that connected learning from K–12 through higher education and into the workforce, emphasizing that sustained innovation depended on aligned systems capable of developing AI fluency at scale.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Drew Sidel, Head of North America Google Workspace and AI for Education, and Kenny Drake Sergeant, Higher Education Solution Engineer at Google for Education.

The speakers explored how educational institutions can address rising cyber threats and expanding AI adoption by implementing practical Zero Trust security strategies that protect educator and student data while preserving strong teaching and learning experiences. They examined Google’s Secure by Design approach, demonstrating how schools can use Google for Education tools to safeguard sensitive research, institutional systems, and student information through secure Google Workspace for Education domain setup, administrative controls for Gemini, secure browsing, and ChromeOS endpoint security. The session also clarified critical data privacy considerations, emphasizing how institutions can harness AI responsibly while ensuring their data remains protected, private, and under their control.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Vivek Chachcha, Senior Product Manager at Google for Education, and Caroline Levens, Head of Education & Workforce at Grow with Google.

The speakers explored how preparing students for an AI-driven future requires more than access to tools—it demands a strategy for meaningful engagement. They demonstrated how Gemini and NotebookLM have transformed passive study into active, inquiry-based learning while empowering educators to create teacher-led AI experiences through tools such as Gems, NotebookLM, and Chromebook class features. The session highlighted how institutions can strengthen student engagement, support career-aligned skill development, and better prepare learners for tomorrow’s workforce through the Google AI for Education Accelerator. The conversation also showcased how Grow with Google has expanded access to free, industry-recognized career certificates and AI training that help students thrive beyond graduation.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Nisha Patel, Senior Program Manager, Scaled Programs at Google, and Arden Haselmann, Associate Manager, Knowledge & Trust at Google.

The speakers explored Meet LEA (Learn and Explore with AI), Google Search’s AI fluency program designed to help educators harness Google’s AI-powered Search features to enrich learning experiences. They demonstrated how tools such as Google Lens, Augmented Reality, AI Overviews, and AI Mode have transformed standard lessons into more vivid, immersive explorations while supporting educators in integrating age-appropriate technology into the classroom. The session highlighted practical strategies for empowering students as responsible, critical thinkers who can use AI-powered tools to explore the world with confidence, curiosity, and purpose.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Head of Industry Architects, Rapid Innovation at Google Public Sector, and Gabby Burke, Cloud AI Customer Engineer at Google Public Sector.

The speakers explored how Gemini Enterprise has served as a unified hub for building, orchestrating, and sharing AI agents across the academic community, creating new opportunities to amplify productivity for researchers, students, faculty, and administrators. Through a live demonstration, they examined how autonomous agents can manage tasks ranging from routine workflows to complex institutional challenges while addressing the growing need for interoperability across siloed higher education systems. The session highlighted how connected, vendor-agnostic AI agents can accelerate research timelines, unify campus intelligence through integrated data systems, and personalize the academic journey with adaptive support from enrollment through employment. The conversation emphasized how enabling agent collaboration across frameworks can increase autonomy, multiply institutional impact, and reduce long-term operational costs.