Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Kristen Bowen, Product Lead for People Development at Google; Omer Glass, CEO and Co-Founder at Growthspace; Jeff Schulz, Vice President of Professional Services at InStride; and Allison Bailey, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group.

The speakers explored how, as AI agents took on more operational and cognitive work, leadership and management roles across organizations were being fundamentally reshaped. They examined how work once owned by individuals was increasingly being orchestrated through intelligent systems, while tools like digital twins were beginning to model workflows, performance, and decision-making at scale.

This session focused on how management was no longer confined to formal leadership roles, as employees at every level were learning to direct, supervise, and collaborate with AI alongside human teammates. Panelists discussed what effective leadership looked like in an AI-enabled workplace where middle managers became critical translators between humans and machines, accountability was being redefined, and organizations needed new frameworks for managing both people and intelligent systems.

At its core, this conversation examined how leadership itself must evolve in the human-AI era. By rethinking management as a dynamic capability that integrated human judgment, technological fluency, and organizational adaptability, the session highlighted what it would take to lead effectively in workplaces increasingly shaped by intelligent systems.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Lina Bankert, Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group; Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO at Lumina Foundation; Rachel Lipson, Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; Zoe Weintraub Barrett, Vice President of Public Sector Partnerships at Guild; and Phyllis Lockett, CEO at LEAP-X LLC.

The speakers explored how the United States was making historic investments in emerging technology industries including quantum computing, biotech, semiconductors, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and data infrastructure—fields essential to national security and global competitiveness. They examined how, despite this momentum, talent pipelines for these sectors were lagging far behind demand.

This session focused on how many of these roles did not require traditional four-year degrees, but did demand specialized training, new credential pathways, and faster routes from classroom to career. Panelists discussed how state governments, employers, and education innovators were building next-generation public–private partnerships to develop credentialed pathways into emerging technology sectors through community colleges, apprenticeships, and short-term programs.

At its core, this conversation examined how America could sustainably and at scale grow its emerging-tech workforce by aligning policy, education, and industry. By leveraging innovative partnerships and more agile learning pathways, the session highlighted what it would take to build the workforce infrastructure necessary for the new American frontier.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured David Blake, CEO at Degreed; Anthony Salcito, General Manager of Enterprise at Coursera; Jason Tyszko, Senior Vice President at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation; Bernard Hampton, Head of the Academy at Bank of America; and Katie Krieg, Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company.

The speakers explored how, after years of “skills-first” initiatives, organizations were increasingly feeling the strain. They examined how frameworks and tools had been multiplying faster than teams could absorb them, causing many skills efforts to stall in the gap between strategic intention and real organizational change.

This session focused on what it took to move from skills overload to meaningful adoption and measurable impact. Panelists discussed how organizations could operationalize skills strategies by translating frameworks into practical systems that aligned talent development, workforce planning, and business transformation. They explored the leadership, infrastructure, and organizational design required to ensure skills initiatives did not remain theoretical, but instead drove lasting change.

At its core, this conversation examined how leaders could shift from fragmented skills efforts to integrated organizational transformation. By moving beyond frameworks alone and focusing on execution, adoption, and business outcomes, the session highlighted what it would take to make skills-based transformation a durable and scalable reality.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Timothy Toomey, Americas Lead for Accenture LearnVantage at Accenture; Brett Waikart, CEO at Skillfully; Jayney Howson, Chief Learning Officer at ServiceNow; Ryan Stowers, Senior Vice President at Stand Together; and Pamay Bassey, Strategic Advisor at Kraft Heinz Company.

The speakers explored how, as AI reshaped work, the true frontier was becoming human potential—our capacity for purpose, creativity, and higher-order performance. They examined how organizations were looking beyond automation to focus on cultivating the human conditions that enabled deeper meaning, stronger contribution, and sustained growth in an AI-enhanced world.

This conversation examined both hiring and day-to-day work to explore how companies could design systems that elevated performance while preserving purpose. Panelists discussed how leaders were rethinking talent strategies, learning ecosystems, and workplace design to ensure employees were not simply adapting to AI, but leveraging it to unlock greater creativity, resilience, and fulfillment.

At its core, this session focused on how organizations could cultivate environments where human potential remained central even as technology accelerated. By aligning workforce development, leadership, and AI-enabled systems, the conversation highlighted how companies could build cultures that elevated human performance and purpose—ensuring that the future of work was not just more efficient, but more meaningful.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Colin Coggins, General Manager at Chegg Skills and Professor at USC; and Sam Hannani, Account Executive at Zoom.

The speakers explored how the implicit social contract between universities, employers, and individuals had been fundamentally shifting. For decades, employers had provided job security and career progression, employees had offered loyalty and performance, and universities had prepared talent for workforce entry. In the age of AI, that model was unraveling, leaving urgent questions about who now owned workforce transformation.

This cross-generational dialogue examined whether continuous upskilling had become the individual’s responsibility, what role skills providers should play in building scalable workforce systems, and how employers needed to redesign talent development as Gen Z became a growing share of the workforce. Panelists explored how the expectations, structures, and responsibilities surrounding work were being rewritten by rapid technological change.

At its core, this conversation focused on how employers, education providers, and individuals could ensure talent grew alongside technology rather than fell behind it. By examining the evolving responsibilities of each stakeholder, the session highlighted what the new social contract of work might require to create resilient, adaptive, and future-ready workforce systems in the AI era.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Maggie Ruvoldt, Chief Human Resources Officer at LEARN Behavioral; Dan Macklin, President at Summer, PBC; and Mike Clementi, Chief Human Resources Officer at ChangeBridge People Solutions.

The speakers explored how student debt was no longer simply a personal finance issue, but a strategic workforce challenge. In this fireside chat, leaders examined how organizations were rethinking student loan benefits as part of broader talent, retention, and workforce strategies.

This conversation focused on how new tax-advantaged programs were enabling companies to transform student loan support into a cost-effective retention and engagement strategy. Drawing on large-scale deployments across enterprise and public sector institutions, panelists discussed what was working, what was not, and how organizations could design benefits that strengthened recruitment, improved retention, and enhanced long-term workforce resilience.

At its core, this session examined how student loan innovation could move from debt management to strategic differentiation—helping employers build stronger talent pipelines, increase employee loyalty, and create more competitive, future-ready workforce systems.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Stephanie Tsales, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at InStride; Vicki Greene, Chief Growth Officer at Pace AI; Lisa Schumacher, Director of Education Strategies and Workforce Policy at McDonald’s Corporation; Raphael Rosenblatt, Chief Portfolio Officer at Workforce Edge; and Alex Swartsel, Associate Vice President at Jobs for the Future (JFF).

The speakers explored how AI was reshaping frontline work faster than any other part of the labor market, increasing the leverage, judgment, and impact of every frontline role while raising the stakes for how organizations designed and supported these jobs. They examined how, as routine tasks were automated and copilots became embedded in daily workflows, frontline roles were shifting from task-based positions to role-based careers that required continuous learning and growth.

This session focused on how organizations could enable real-time, workflow-embedded training; build modern vocational pathways that supported retention and progression; and put education benefits and mobility infrastructure in place so frontline roles did not become dead ends. Panelists examined how these shifts were redefining what frontline work looked like in 2026 and what employers needed to build immediately to ensure resilience, performance, and sustained opportunity.

At its core, this conversation explored how leaders could design AI-enabled frontline systems where human capability and machine intelligence worked together—creating more adaptive, future-ready roles while expanding career mobility and long-term workforce success.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Candice Faktor, Co-CEO at Disco; Sanjay Srivastava, CEO at Vocareum; Josh Allen, Group Director of Walmart Academy Learning at Walmart; Karen Kocher, General Manager of Global Learning and Skilling at Microsoft; and Brandon Sammut, Chief People and AI Transformation Officer at Zapier.

The speakers explored how AI systems were now learning, adapting, and improving continuously—often faster than the workforce itself. They examined how, as people increasingly worked alongside intelligent systems they could not outpace, organizations needed to fundamentally rethink the foundations of learning, talent development, and workforce strategy.

This session focused on how AI-native platforms that dynamically mapped skills, personalized learning, and evolved in real time could help close the growing gap between human capability and system advancement. Panelists examined what organizations needed to redesign so humans and AI systems could grow in sync, rather than compete on unequal timelines.

The conversation highlighted how next-generation learning architectures could transform speed, adaptability, and human capability into lasting competitive advantage. At its core, this session examined how leaders could build systems where workforce development evolved as rapidly as technology itself—ensuring that organizations remained resilient, people remained relevant, and learning became a continuous engine for success in the AI agent era.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Antoinette Banks, CEO and Founder at Expert IEP; Barry Finder, Vice President of Operations at Chegg; Nellie Tayloe Sanders, Former Oklahoma Secretary of Education; Toni Barton, CEO at E.L. Haynes; and Meredith Rosenberg, Partner and Co-Founder at NU Advisory Partners.

The speakers explored what it would mean to design education and workforce systems around learner variability instead of retrofitting support only after students fell behind. They examined how, for decades, support for learning differences had been siloed, reactive, and often cut off after high school, and how AI was challenging that model.

This conversation brought together leaders across K–12, research, and workforce innovation to discuss whether AI would be used to redesign systems for every learner or reinforce the inequities those systems were originally built on. Panelists examined how personalization and skills development at scale could transform support structures so that learner differences were addressed proactively rather than reactively.

At its core, this session focused on what needed to change to ensure support did not end at graduation and that opportunity truly extended from classroom to career. By rethinking learner variability as a lifelong design principle rather than a temporary intervention, the conversation highlighted how AI could help build more inclusive, adaptive, and equitable systems across education and workforce pathways.

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Auditi Chakravarty, CEO at AERDF; McKenzie Snow, Director at the Iowa Department of Education; Pedro Martinez, Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; and Sara Schapiro, Executive Director at the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI).

The speakers explored how leaders shaping the next chapter of education innovation were examining how federal and state policymakers could embrace a blueprint for the future of K–12 education R&D. They discussed what it would take to translate vision into real-world impact through responsive research and development systems, public–private partnerships, and student-centered innovations designed to work for every learner.

This session focused on how policymakers and ecosystem leaders could move from strategy to execution by building stronger infrastructures for innovation. Panelists examined how responsive R&D systems could accelerate meaningful progress, how collaboration across sectors could strengthen educational outcomes, and how policy frameworks could better support scalable, evidence-based innovation.

At its core, this conversation highlighted how the next era of K–12 R&D depended on turning blueprint into breakthrough—aligning policy, innovation, and partnerships to create more adaptive, effective, and equitable systems that delivered lasting impact for students.