ASU+GSV Summit

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Chris Phillips, VP & General Manager, Education at Google; Richard Culatta, CEO at ISTE+ASCD; Jennie Magiera, Global Head of Education Impact at Google; Julie Tonsing-Meyer, Professor of Education at McKendree University; and Casey Cuny, 2024 California Teacher of the Year at Valencia High School.

The speakers discussed how students are already using AI to reshape how they learn and work, and explored how educators can move beyond keeping up to truly leading the way. They examined the future of AI professional development and introduced the Google AI Educator Series, a major initiative designed to provide free AI foundational training to all 6 million educators across the United States.

The session highlighted how supporting educators in building a strong foundation in AI can better equip them to guide students in using these technologies safely, responsibly, and effectively.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Senior Research Engineering Lead at Google; Sara Wiltberger, Senior Product Manager at Google; Shashank Agarwal, Software Engineer at Google Research; and Anisha Choudhary, Program Manager at Google Research.

The speakers discussed how the promise of personalized education has long been constrained by the difficulty of systematically identifying and mapping an individual’s knowledge gaps at scale. They explored how systems that understand students’ learning goals, track their progress, and help remediate knowledge gaps are needed to realize this vision.

Google Cloud and Google Research shared the technical architecture of their knowledge graphs, which mapped complex relationships between learning objectives and educational standards. They also demonstrated how AI was leveraged in Learn Your Way, Google Skills, and Gemini Enterprise to generate targeted assessments and real-time remediations, effectively bridging knowledge gaps as they arose.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Austin Bates, Gemini for Higher Education, North America at Google.

The session explored how operational and administrative efficiency remains a top priority for CIOs navigating fragmented tech stacks and tight budgets. It demonstrated how Gemini for Education was designed to complement, not complicate, existing institutional technology—moving beyond the “all-or-nothing” myth to show how institutions can adopt Gemini regardless of their primary productivity suite, at no cost.

Austin Bates walked through how Google Workspace LTI™ securely integrated Workspace apps, including Gemini, with existing LMS platforms such as Canvas and Moodle. The session also highlighted deployment best practices to ensure a seamless end-user experience, providing institutions with a practical approach to integrating AI without requiring full system migration.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Caroline Levens, Head of Education & Workforce at Grow with Google.

The session explored how the professional landscape has been fundamentally reshaped by AI. Designed for Deans, Provosts, and forward-thinking faculty, it offered a blueprint for modernizing curricula and embedding AI effectively so students graduate with the durable, practical skills required by an AI-integrated economy.

Moving beyond theory, Caroline Levens provided a high-level walkthrough of the Google AI Professional Certificate Educator Guide, demonstrating how practical labs could be seamlessly integrated into diverse subject areas—from Business and Communications to the Humanities and Applied Sciences. The session highlighted strategies for accelerated research and synthesis, adaptive workplace communication, and no-code technical creation, showing how AI-driven activities can be embedded into any course to help students maintain a competitive edge.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured James Frazee, Vice President & Chief Information Officer at San Diego State University; Anne Goldmann, Higher Education Lead at Google for Education; and Luis Hernández Muñiz, Director of Productivity and Collaboration Services at the University of California, Berkeley.

The speakers discussed how bringing generative AI to a university system was not just a technical upgrade, but a cultural transformation. They shared how their institutions moved from cautious pilots to full-scale adoption of Gemini for Education, offering candid playbooks on governance, faculty training, and change management. The panel highlighted how they navigated data privacy reviews, addressed skepticism, and began measuring the tangible impact of AI on student success and administrative efficiency.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Sara DeWitt, Senior Vice President & General Manager, PBS KIDS and Education at PBS; Cristobal Viedma, CEO & Founder at Lingokids; Katie Kurtz, Managing Director, Global Head of Youth & Learning at YouTube; and moderator Gregg Behr, Executive Director at The Grable Foundation.

This session was part of the Early Childhood Education Summit presented by Valhalla Foundation.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Maria Flynn, President & CEO at Jobs for the Future; Nadja Young, Chief Brand Officer at MetaMetrics; Nick Moore, Acting Assistant Secretary at the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education; Steve Dackin, Director at the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce; and moderator Anna Edwards, Chief Advocacy Officer and Co-Founder at Whiteboard Advisors.

The speakers explored how leaders across the country—and now at the federal level through Department of Education–Department of Labor interagency agreements—were breaking down long-standing silos between K–12, higher education, and workforce to build a more coherent, career-connected learning system. They discussed how this shift was enabling states to align policy, funding, and data around a shared goal: creating pathways that reliably lead learners into good jobs. The session brought together state innovators, federal partners, and employers to examine how these new structures were being built in practice, what they meant for innovation across the learning–work continuum, and where employers could play a catalytic role.

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Aislynn Fait and Ruby Savala, two student roadtrippers from Roadtrip Nation’s upcoming documentary Rethinking Higher Ed, moderated by Justin Draeger, SVP of Affordability at the Strada Education Foundation.

The session explored the real-life journeys of young people questioning traditional pathways to success and examining whether college is still the golden ticket—or if alternative routes can offer equal or greater value. Through behind-the-scenes stories and reflections from the road, panelists shared what they learned about the evolving role of postsecondary education, the power of near-peer inspiration, and the importance of broadening our definitions of success. The conversation provided an exclusive preview of the documentary and powerful insights into how we can better support students as they navigate the complex decisions that shape their futures.

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Shannon King, Chief Learning Officer at Battelle for Kids, and Sari Factor, Vice Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Learning.

The speakers explored the Portrait of a Graduate—a transformative framework designed to define what success looks like for today’s students. They discussed how this vision can unite communities, shape educational priorities, and promote deeper learning. The conversation highlighted how leveraging the Portrait of a Graduate alongside High Quality Instructional Materials can lead to more meaningful learning experiences and better prepare students for a rapidly evolving world.

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Nivine Megahed, President at National Louis University, and Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Braven.

The session addressed the persistent opportunity gap facing low-income and first-generation college students, noting that only about 30% of the 1.4 million students in this group who enroll in college each year go on to graduate and secure a strong first job or pursue graduate studies. The speakers highlighted a powerful collaboration between National Louis University, Braven, and local employers in Chicago as a model for closing this gap. Through innovative partnerships, the initiative equips college students with the critical skills and professional networks needed to thrive post-graduation and achieve the American Dream.