ASU+GSV Summit

Recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Julia Stiglitz, CEO & Co-Founder at Uplimit; Pamay Bassey, Chief Learning and Culture Officer at The Kraft Heinz Company; Jenny Dearborn, CHRO, Board Director, and Investor at BTS, Plum, and AAG; Ali Khokhar, CEO at Amigo; and Nicole Helmer, VP Product at Degreed.

The speakers discussed how the L&D toolbox has become far more powerful in just two years. They explored how intelligent automation, agentic AI, expert cloning, and flow-of-work learning have allowed learning leaders to rethink the scope of their roles. The session highlighted how these advancements have led to stronger learning strategies, better employees, and measurable business impact—directly from the people building and deploying these tools.

This session, recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, featured Charles Elliott, Head of Industry at Google.

The session explored the trajectory of generative AI in education, moving beyond the initial excitement to showcase its practical applications. Charles Elliott addressed common misconceptions surrounding generative AI and highlighted real-world use cases including intelligent agents, avatar creation, personalized learning styles, code recommendation tools, and more. Generative AI was presented not as hype, but as a catalyst for agentic and multimodal experiences that have fundamentally changed how we interact with information and each other.

This session, recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, featured Charles Elliott, Head of Industry at Google, and Dan Speck, Vice President of Technology Research and Development at Burwood Group.

The speakers discussed how, without data maturity, the transformative power of advanced analytics and generative AI solutions remains limited. They explored how academic institutions and EdTech companies can directly influence learner performance and engagement by deeply understanding education data and its lifecycle. This session highlighted how a unified data and AI strategy can turn text, image, video, and code data into real-time insights that make learning more personal.

This session, recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, featured Jun Li, Professor of Technology and Operations at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; Robert L. Manuel, President of DePaul University; Rob MacDonald, Chief Product Officer at Strategic Education, Inc.; and moderator Adam Deer, Education Industry Executive at Google Public Sector.

The speakers explored how higher education institutions have been leveraging AI to enhance learning, research, and student outcomes—while ensuring students are equipped for an AI-driven workforce. University leaders shared how they have adapted to rapid technological trends and evolving demands in higher education.

This session, recorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, featured Anand Padmanabhan, VP & Chief Information Officer at Fordham University, and JP Ortiz, Head of Higher Education (East) at Google.

Gen AI is transforming higher education. In this conversation, Fordham University shared how it successfully implemented a campus-wide AI solution using a unique scaffolding framework. The speakers explored best practices for rollout, governance, and fostering healthy adoption—along with insights into Fordham's innovative partnership with Google. This session offered a practical roadmap for institutions looking to harness the power of generative AI.