AUHSD Future Talks

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda talks with Stephen Ibaraki. Mr. Ibaraki is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and futurist. His leadership with some of the world’s leading scientific, technical and financial organizations allow him a unique vantage point to oversee where innovation is heading in the coming years. 

During the conversation, Mr. Ibaraki discusses creating social change, adding value, augmented/virtual reality and the metaverse, artificial intelligence and ethics, innovation, and advice to educational leaders and young people on how to get involved.

 Below is  a small sampling of Mr. Ibaraki’s current activities:

Founder chair outreach UN ITU AI for good global summit, adopted by governments, corporations, and academia, as the largest UN ITU innovation impact movement and summit driving AI business solutions across 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;

Founder of Fintech Ideas Festival, Technology Advisory Council, providing industry solutions ten years into the future for CEOs representing US $92.7 Trillion in managed assets;

Founder YPO EU Impact Summit Advisory Board, creating workable business solutions for the world’s largest opportunities/challenges. YPO: 29K CEOs, US $9 Trillion annual revenue across 130 countries. With work underway since May 2019, the first summit will be Oct 2020 and will go public;

Recipient of 18 Microsoft Global Awards (15 MVP Awards), 2018-2021 in AI, recognizing decades of lifetime achievement, global leadership, entrepreneurship, investments, disruptive innovation; and

Contributor to Forbes / Cognitive World and IT World Canada  on leading new investments, innovation, entrepreneurship.

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, AUHSD Superintendent Matsuda interviews Doug Wilson. Mr. Wilson is the Chairman of the CEO Leadership Alliance of Orange County, a group of CEOs from some of the county's biggest companies working together to build a thriving Orange County for all. The CEOs work together on two priorities: how they can grow as purposeful leaders to help build higher performing organizations and a better world, and how they can address some of OC's biggest problems, both economic and social. Mr. Wilson is also an Executive Fellow at The Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. The Center selects thought leaders or CEO's who have demonstrated outstanding higher ambition leadership for this honor.  During the talk, Mr. Wilson discusses the Leadership Alliance of Orange County, mentorship opportunities for AUHSD students, rebranding Orange County, Google Certificates, and the Good Jobs program with McKinsey & Company.

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Dr. Home Nguyen and Sarah Suatoni, Managing Partners of the Mindkind Institute. The Mindkind Institute serves and coaches some of the most influential and highly elevated conscious leaders, their teams and entire organizations to help build thriving and successful organizations that serve everyone at all levels of the organization. They provide a personalized leadership development program that organizations can leverage to develop self-awareness, emotional intelligence and resilience within their leaders.

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Santana Ruiz. Mr. Ruiz is the Deputy Director at the Center for Educational Partnerships at the University of California, Irvine. He is responsible for overseeing all k-12 academic preparation programs which includes; EAOP, GEAR UP, Upward Bound and American Indian programs. He is also responsible for overseeing the Community College academic preparation programs out of the Center. 

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Roman Stearns, Founder & Executive Director at Scaling Student Success. Scaling Student Success is a California state partnership dedicated to educating the whole child and supports Mr. Stearns's career/life goal of leading high impact, system change efforts to transform educational practices and policies in ways that more equitably and holistically prepare young people for their futures and better serve society. Mr. Stearns discusses how after years of working as an organizational change agent to transform education at the school, district, county, and state levels, and living/working overseas, he became much clearer about the kind of education that will prepare students for their futures in the 21st century global economy and sustainable world. 

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Mr. Scott Reindl, AUHSD's Coordinator for 21st Century Career Readiness. During the interview, Mr. Reindl discusses his background, his drivers, AUHSD's Career Technical Education (CTE) programs, Anaheim's Innovative Mentoring Experience (AIME) program, workforce development, dual-enrollment classes, Google Career Certificates, and the Career Preparedness Systems Framework (CPSF).

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews AUHSD's Director of Plurilingual Services, Dr. Renae Bryant. During the interview, Dr. Bryant discusses her background, her drivers, defines plurilingual, explains what makes AUHSD a destination district for plurilingual students,  describes how plurilingualism is connected to the goals of AUHSD's Career Preparedness Systems Framework (CPSF), and emphasizes the importance of student voice and purpose, especially for plurilingual students.

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Dr. Jaron Fried, AUHSD's Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services. During the interview, Dr. Fried discusses his story and drivers, the importance of a learning organization and an entrepreneurial mindset, and the many opportunities available to AUHSD students including dual enrollment classes and Google Career Certificates.

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews AUHSD's Chief Academic Officer, Manuel Colón. During the interview, Mr. Colón discusses his story, his drivers, the AUHSD Educational Pledge, workforce opportunities for AUHSD students, and the importance of identity and purpose.

In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Amy Kwon, AUHSD's Coordinator of STEAM. During the interview, Mrs. Kwon discusses the importance of STEAM, AUHSD's iLab, and AUHSD's Career Preparedness Systems Framework (CPSF).