Sal Khan is founder and CEO of the education nonprofit Khan Academy and the vision steward of TED, helping to guide the organization’s long-term vision. He has also founded: Khan Lab School, an experimental mastery-based model; Khan World School, a global learning platform for middle and high school students; and Schoolhouse.world, a free, peer-to-peer tutoring platform that connects people to mastery learning and community.

Isabelle C. Hau is a visionary leader who is dedicated to transforming the way we nurture and educate our children. As executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, she leverages brain science and technology to champion innovative, effective, and inclusive learning solutions. As a successful impact investor, Isabelle previously led the US education practice at Omidyar Network and Imaginable Futures, where she invested in mission-driven organizations. She is the author of “Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education”. She also writes a popular weekly newsletter Small Talks. At Stanford University, Isabelle teaches the class “Design to Equip Learners in Under-Resourced Communities." She serves on the board of EDC and Sonen, on the steering committee of the EdSAFE AI Alliance, the Brookings Institution Global AI Taskforce, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's 4.0 Education. Named as one of the 100 most inspiring women by Harvard Business School, Isabelle has also received distinctions in early childhood education and human-centered artificial intelligence. A mother of two, she co-starred with Grover of Sesame Street. Her lifelong professional goal is to bring the love of learning to each and every child.

Alex oversees strategy, partnerships, fundraising, and external relations for the AI Education Project. Prior to founding the AI Education Project, Alex built the AI Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility function for H5, Inc., a pioneering AI company in the legal services sector. At H5, Alex led strategic partnerships with organizations including the United Nations, NYU School of Law, the OECD, and IEEE to develop judicial education programs and high profile convenings. Prior to his time in the social impact and non-profit space, Alex managed brand and policy communications for companies including Oracle, Airbnb, Nissan, HP, Adobe, and SAP. He was a lead Field Organizer in Columbus, OH for the 2012 Obama Campaign and served as a Presidential Appointee under HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, where he managed communications and community outreach for ACA Open Enrollment, two SCOTUS rulings, and the 2015 Ebola outbreak.

Dr. Yi Zhang is a founder, ISTE+ASCD presenter, TEDx speaker, and learning architect whose initiatives and programs have reached more than 120,000 learners worldwide through periods of organizational and technological change. Her experience spans from Fortune 100 companies including her tenure at Microsoft navigating AI disruption to supporting students in Alaskan classrooms. Dr. Zhang's work bridges learning science, human development, and well-being guidance. She holds a Doctor of Education Degree in Leadership and Learning from Vanderbilt University. Combining her lived experience as a parent with deep expertise in workforce transformation, Dr. Zhang offers strategies that are both practical and effective.

Kip Glazer is the author of Ready to Lead with AI: A Practical Guide for School Leaders and the proud Principal of Mountain View High School. Since earning her doctorate in Learning Technologies from Pepperdine University in 2015, she has worked with several learning science researchers to bring high-quality research to the classroom and has consulted on several projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Considered an expert in AI and K-12 school leadership, she was named one of the DA Magazine's Top 100 Education Influencers in 2025. She is a CSTA Equity Fellow and a member of Common Sense Media and the EngageAI Practitioner Advisory Board. She has also presented and keynoted at numerous conferences, including ASU+GSV Summit, CITE, ISTE, CoSN, CUE, and many more. She believes in student agency and the importance of school leadership in creating an innovative educational experience for students. Of all her accomplishments, she is most proud of her two adult sons, who graduated from West Point and are serving in the Army.

Douglas Kiang is an AI educator and computer science teacher at Menlo School in Silicon Valley. With more than 30 years of experience across independent schools, he still teaches every day, and he advocates for ethical, human-centered AI education.

He served on the development committee for AP Computer Science Principles and was an author of Apple's Develop in Swift curriculum for teachers. An Apple Distinguished Educator, he earned a master's in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard, where he also taught CS50. In 2017 Hawaii nominated him for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and he holds the NCWIT Educator Award for encouraging young women in computing.

Douglas keynotes and leads faculty workshops around the world, from Beijing to Latvia, and in 2026 he headlines the Future of Learning conference in Jakarta. He helps educators put AI to work without losing the human relationships at the center of teaching.

A career educator, Tara currently serves as Chief Innovation Strategist, Education at Lenovo, focusing on creating transformational learning experiences through innovative programs, professional learning, redefining teacher roles and responsibilities, and emerging technologies. Tara spent over 20 years teaching and leading in school districts, most recently as Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning for Arlington Public Schools (VA) and then transitioned to consultative roles as a Chief Innovation Strategist at Dell Technologies and Managing Director of Innovation Strategy at ISTE+ASCD. At ISTE+ASCD, Tara led teams focused on AI strategy, higher education, and professional learning.

Tara has actively supported educators in realizing safe and responsible use of AI including leading AI Task Forces for state departments of education and districts while also serving on the steering and advisory committees for Teach AI and the EdSafeAI Alliance. She was recognized as one of the leading Women in AI in EDU by ASU+GSV.

Tara earned a doctorate in Education Leadership and Policy from Vanderbilt University.

Francisco González is a digital education leader with more than six years of experience driving the development of digital skills across public education systems in Latin America, with a recent focus on AI integration. He has led teacher training programs in partnership with Google, UNESCO, OEI, and the LEGO Foundation, reaching more than 14,000 educators and 500,000 students across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile.

As Project Director at Movilizatorio, he leads the design of an AI-powered learning tool co-developed with Ministries of Education and advises governments on the responsible integration of technology in classrooms.

A PgMP®-certified professional and winner of the 2026 ChildTech Challenge for Generative AI in STEM Learning, Francisco holds a Master's degree from the University of Warwick and instructional design credentials from the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Neil studied Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), initially specialising in financial mathematics. He had an early career in Investment Banking in London and then proceeded to own and operate a technological manufacturing firm in London. During this time, he completed and MSc in International Relations, where he again specialised in financial mathematics in addition to international politics.

Neil's career change into teaching followed the successful sale of his business on the eve of the COVID pandemic. He currently teaches maths at Imperial Maths School in London, a specialised mathematics college affiliated with Imperial College London, the university, but for 16-18 year old keen youngsters.

Neil's leverages his considerable commercial experience in the classroom, where he is always the first to use new technology and tools to aid his students. His experience in manufacturing technology, robotics, financial software and investment elevate the examples he can offer, bringing maths to life in the class.

Beyond the classroom, Neil's interests range from sports like tennis and golf, to playing the guitar.

Mike Mendelson brings deep experience at the intersection of teaching, learning design, and applied AI in education. He began his career as a high school math and technology educator and later served in a district-level role supporting the implementation of personalized, competency-based learning systems.

At NVIDIA, Mike served as an Education Product Manager, where he led the design of Deep Learning Fundamentals, a flagship learning program reaching more than 250,000 learners globally. He collaborated with educators and domain experts to translate complex AI concepts into accessible learning experiences, delivered through platforms such as Coursera and edX. He has presented on learning design and AI education at conferences including the O’Reilly AI Conference, Autodesk University, and GTC San Jose.

Mike is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of sideby, where he leads the technical vision for an AI-supported educator network focused on collective learning and reflective practice. His work centers on using AI to reduce friction, support sensemaking, and strengthen—not replace—professional judgment in education systems.

Callie Turk, Ed.D., is a Palo Alto mom of three teens, one of whom is 2e/autistic. In her work with REEL, Callie draws on her 15-plus year career working with ed tech companies (including Harcourt and Truenorthlogic acquired by PowerSchool) and school districts at the cutting edge of educator professional learning. Callie received her MBA from Stanford University with a concentration in public and nonprofit management as well as a BS from Miami University (Ohio) in marketing. She completed her doctorate degree at Elmbridge University (formerly the Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education). She has written for 2eNews, appeared on the Children’s Health Council’s Voices of Compassion podcast, and presented at many regional and national venues including the 2e @ William & Mary Conference, CUNY’s Neurodiversity Conference, NAGC (National Association for Gifted Children), SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted), CEC (Council for Exceptional Children), G/T/N (Gifted/Talented/Neurodiverse) Week, and the California Inclusion Collaborative, among others.

Having taught in international schools at the K-5 level for 15 years across five countries in Asia and Europe, Janna now serves as the Digital Literacy and AI Lead and a Grade 5 teacher at Vilnius International School in Lithuania. She is a Google Certified Innovator, a recent Google Innovator Academy Coach, and a Common Sense Media Educator whose use cases are featured in their advanced AI for K-12 course. Janna is currently piloting the Scaffolded Gatekeeping Framework™, a K-8 roadmap for the successful deployment of generative AI in schools.

Addy Salau is an education technology leader with over a decade of experience driving innovation at the intersection of AI, K–12 education, and educational equity. She serves as Director of Program Impact & Continuous Improvement at the Center for Supportive Schools and as a Senior AI Education Consultant, where she helps schools strategically integrate AI to strengthen instruction, deepen student engagement, and prepare young people for an AI-driven future. A lifelong New Yorker and award-winning community organizer, Addy is passionate about expanding equitable access to emerging technologies that create pathways to economic mobility and opportunity. Her work equips educators and students with practical AI skills while centering equity, critical thinking, and real-world application. Addy holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education.

Meaghan Crowley-Sullivan is an instructional leader dedicated to helping schools translate research into meaningful classroom practice. As the Curriculum and Professional Learning Developer at Loyola Marymount University's iDEAL Institute, she designs professional learning experiences and instructional resources that support innovative, human-centered teaching and learning. She also directs the Technology Integration Specialist Certification Program, preparing teacher leaders to thoughtfully integrate technology into their schools and classrooms. Her commitment to human-centered innovation led her to create the Catholic Companion Framework for Technology and Innovation, a framework being adopted by dioceses and religious schools across the country to help educators thoughtfully integrate artificial intelligence through the lens of human dignity, ethical discernment, and sound pedagogy. She believes the future of AI in education will be determined not by the tools we adopt, but by the habits of thinking, discernment, and agency we cultivate in students.

Lauren Cage is a STEM educator with 14 years of experience designing and facilitating design challenge learning experiences for The Tech Interactive in San Jose, CA. She is experienced in instructional design, prototyping, and R&D collaboration, with expertise in inclusive pedagogy and equity-focused program development. She is a recognized national presenter on empathy in engineering, climate education, and AI literacy.

Presenter Bio — Shuai Yuan:** Shuai Yuan is the founder of Proof to AI (P2AI), a nonprofit that helps high school students build identity and critical thinking alongside AI fluency. For three years, she worked at Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies and Stanford Online High School, supporting Stanford Math Circle, Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC), and serving as Lead Program Assistant for the Stanford USAMO testing site — after five years of teaching at Monta Vista, Fremont, and Saint Francis High Schools in Silicon Valley. She is the author of a four-book AI education series published in China this year, covering logic, science, art, and literature for young readers, and writes widely for Chinese-language education audiences. She holds master's degrees in both Education and Law.

**Student Co-Presenter—-Cyrus Chen** Cyrus is a SUMaC (Stanford University Mathematics Camp) '25 alumnus and current Applied Mathematics student at the University of Southern California ('30). He describes himself as a counterexample to the traditional math major — building at the intersection of human behavior, design, and logic, with experience spanning practical psychology, product design, and visual art. As an Agentic AI practitioner and Fellow with Proof to AI (P2AI), Cyrus builds AI agents for tasks such as visualizing mathematical formulas and creating personalized study assistants, treating AI as a collaborative partner rather than an answer machine. He co-presents this session to share a student's firsthand perspective on building identity and creative range alongside AI fluency.

Amanda Grutza is an educator, technologist, and advisor who helps people turn emerging technology into practical tools, systems, and learning experiences. She is the founder of Talk to Robots (talktorobots.org), a nonprofit that creates accessible, open-source, technology and AI education for teachers, students, and communities.

Through Third Space, Amanda consults with major business. technology companies, and growing organizations on tech stacks, AI implementation, workflow design, data systems, product strategy, and technical communication. Her work focuses on making complex technology useful, understandable, and grounded in real human needs.

Amanda also brings years of classroom teaching, curriculum design, project-based learning, and maker education to her work. She has built and tested AI-supported reading tools, student goal-setting systems, differentiated learning resources, interactive games, curriculum units, and educator workflows with real students. Her goal in life is to ensure that everybody has the ability (and confidence!) to access the progressive and cutting edge technology available to build and thrive.

Rebecca Gaillot has been a teacher for over 20 years, currently at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, LA. She has served as a leader in AI development and teaches AI Literacy courses as well as Engineering courses offered through dual enrollment with Louisiana State University. A dedicated advocate for AI policy in education, Rebecca has served on Louisiana's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education's AI Task Force, New Orleans Public Schools' AI Task Force, and the Louisiana Department of Education's Teacher Advisory for AI. She was also selected to represent Louisiana at MIT's Day of AI Summit, and has presented at national conferences including NCSS and NCTM. Rebecca is passionate about social justice in technology and is driven to help every student realize the paths they can take.

Manpreet Singh is a Technical Lead at Google. For two decades, Manpreet has built the invisible digital highways connecting our globe—all while leading mindfulness practices for thousands of colleagues.

Nicole Marie Erb (who is fairly certain that she is not an android) is a former English teacher who loves literature and believes that human creativity is more valuable than ever. She is the author of three novels in the YA sci-fi series, After Intelligence, and she leads writing workshops for teens focused on being human in a tech-filled world. Learn more about her work at tandemental.com.

Dr. Sonia Tiwari is the Director of Research at Oki Pie Lab where she explores the role of characters as facilitators of children’s learning experiences. She also hosts weekly creative workshops for families of children ages 5-10 in the Bay Area that public libraries, museums, and makerspaces, using characters as inspiration for expressive arts activities that strengthen self-expression and intergenerational connection.

Angela Chen is an educator, advisor, and builder working at the frontier of AI and education. She teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford, where she previously grew the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and built its Education Entrepreneurship Hub from a single sentence into a program supporting 200+ scholars and 70+ ventures. Through her AI education studio, We Launch Me, she advises schools on responsible AI adoption, coaches early-stage founders, and leads live "Build with AI" sessions for non-technical professionals. A former strategy consultant, edtech founder, and co-author of international research on AI's impact on the future of learning and work, she serves on the AI Advisory Committee of University of Toronto Schools, is certified in Anthropic's AI Fluency Framework, and is a Catalyst Fellow with the EDSAFE AI Alliance. She writes about the future of learning at newcurrent.substack.com.

Zhuozhuo "Joy” Liu is the co-founder of Hatch Hatch, an AI-native education company helping the next generation think, create, and build with AI. Her work focuses on using AI to amplify, not replace, students’ curiosity and creativity, while helping them develop the judgment and confidence to turn ideas into meaningful real-world projects.

She brings an interdisciplinary background across education, UX, software engineering and AI. She holds degrees in Psychology (Tsinghua), Education (UPenn), and Computer Science (UBC). She began her work as an intern at Khan Academy and Khan Lab School in 2016, and has since worked across UX research (Google), software engineering (Meta), and NLP research (UBC and Vector Institute).

On social media, she creates visual explanations that make AI and algorithms visible through animations, cartoons, and stories

Dr. Trudi L. Perkins spent seventeen years in LAUSD classrooms before deciding that educator development deserved the same rigor, respect, and reinvention she brought to her students. She holds an Ed.D. from USC and is the founder of Momentum Consulting Firm, LLC, where she lives by a simple company motto: Doing the usual thing of education in unusual ways. She is the creator of the Sage-Seeker's Journey™, a proprietary approach built on a stubborn belief that teachers are scholars first, and that real growth happens when educators are trusted to investigate their own practice instead of being handed someone else's answers. Dr. Perkins writes and speaks with the same voice in every room, whether that room calls for poetry, provocation, or plain truth. She is a scholar-practitioner, a contrarian thinker, and an unapologetic believer that education can be both deeply serious and genuinely alive.

Katie Christon is a Managing Director on the Talent Development team at IDEA Public Schools. Her team's work spans manager effectiveness, resource and video production, and supporting the organizational learning infrastructure across the network. As a former principal and classroom teacher, she is passionate about connecting educators with the tools they need to do their best work. With the onset of AI, she's been thinking a lot about what needs to stay human when so much of our thinking and writing can be outsourced.

Ashmeet Sahni, M.Ed., is an instructional designer and AI integration strategist working at the intersection of curriculum, professional learning, and emerging technology. As Coordinator of Curriculum and Instruction at Dublin Unified School District, she brings both the systems perspective and the classroom reality to every room she works in.

Her workshops on AI integration are built around a simple belief: teachers don't need more information — they need time, trust, and a space to figure this out together. Through her consultancy, Sahni Learning Designs, she works with schools and districts to build practical, human-centered approaches to AI integration — helping educators move from uncertainty to confident, purposeful use of emerging tools in the classroom.

Ashmeet is passionate about designing learning experiences that are practical, equity-minded, and, above all, human — because meaningful AI integration begins not with the tools, but with the teachers, and the best PD builds trust before it builds fluency.

Michael is a current UC Berkeley student studying Computer Science, Data Science, and History. In the past, he has served as an archivist for the Library of Congress and organized an oral history project with his local community. He has two years of experience as a teaching assistant and a teacher. In his free time, he enjoys F1, restaurant-hopping, and comedy.

Max Cady is beginning his 14th year as a project-based classroom educator. Previously, he taught at Liger Cambodia, Liger New Zealand, and High Tech High. Max is currently at Design Tech High School (d.tech) in Redwood City, where he runs a design thinking pre-apprenticeship program that connects 10th grade student teams to co-design with youth-serving organizations to solve actual design problems. Originally from New York City, Max holds a master’s in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and one-year-old son, and enjoys mountain biking and playing ultimate frisbee on the weekends.

Otavio Good is currently starting a company working on humanoid robots. He created Word Lens, the world's first augmented reality translation app, which was acquired by Google, and went on to work on computer vision and large language models at Google Translate. He also co-founded the console gaming company Secret Level, acquired by Sega, and led "All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.", the team that won the 2011 DARPA Shredder Challenge. Otavio *loves* working on side projects related to computers, math, science, and technology

BlueRobins is a UC Berkeley SkyDeck Pad-13 company building an AI-native Builder OS for students in grades 3–12, combining mentored projects, interactive modules, and certified portfolios in frontier fields. Raji Kannan, Founder and CEO of BlueRobins, is a serial entrepreneur and operator with deep experience across AI, computational imaging, augmented reality, and education. Her background includes Nokia Research, Intel RealSense, MIT Media Lab, Berkeley SkyDeck, and a YC-backed AR startup. After years of building frontier technologies, Raji turned her focus to education with a simple mission: to help millions of kids become builders of the future econo…

Azade Sanjari is co-founder and CEO of Ignite Curiosity Lab, which builds AI infrastructure designed to strengthen reasoning in K-12 education instead of simply delivering answers. A machine learning engineer by background, she has built production ML and computer vision systems and spent several years in education nonprofits expanding access to computer literacy, especially for girls. She is currently pursuing the Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD program. Her work asks how children can learn to think with AI rather than let AI think for them.

Brandon Patino is the founder of AI Film Academy, where he has taught generative AI filmmaking to over 30,000 global learners through hands-on workshops, live events, and technical demos. His recent work has involved helping organiziations in Los Angeles equip students with essential tech and media skills to succeed in the workforce. Known for being a great workshop host and mentor in the video production space.