Edtech Insiders Alex Sarlin and Ben Kornell

Join Alex Sarlin and Ben Kornell as they explore the most critical developments in the world of education technology this week:🎓 OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Edu for universities🔍 Google AI Overviews visibility drops significantly🌐 Google’s NotebookLM goes global with enhanced features📱 Apple’s major announcements at WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover and more💼 Bain Capital to acquire PowerSchool in a $5.6B deal🇨🇳 Alibaba invests $27M in an AI-powered education start-up📉 BlackRock slas...

Dr. Jeremy Roschelle, Executive Director of Learning Science Research at Digital Promise, conducts research on the future of learning with technology. Dr. Roschelle is Fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, with >100 publications, 25,000 citations, and 10 patents. Dr. Roschelle serves as a subject matter expert on Artificial Intelligence to the U.S. Department of Education and on the Advisory Committee for Education at the National Science Foundation. He actively com...

Mark Heaps is the Chief Technology Evangelist at Groq® where he leads a diverse team focused on innovative and creative AI solutions with demo applications enabled by the Groq LPU™ Inference Engine. Mark is a longtime technology evangelist who has worked with Adobe, Google, Apple, and others on various projects ranging from digital imaging to AI systems used in some of the most popular applications today. He is passionate about democratizing AI in service of advancing human agency and loves e...

Join Alex Sarlin and Ben Kornell as they explore the most critical developments in the world of education technology this week:🚨 OpenAI announces a new safety board, strikes a $250M content deal with News Corp, and begins training its next flagship AI model🚀 Anthropic unveils a new method to map large language models💻 New AI-enhanced Chromebooks are launched for educators🤝 Microsoft partners with Khan Academy to develop AI educational tools📉 Guild Education lays off a quarter of its workforce...

Tory Patterson is the co-founder of Owl Ventures and is actively involved with all facets of the firm. As one of the early pioneers in the next generation of leading EdTech companies, Tory has led investments in some of the most successful companies in the sector. As a lead investor and board member he has played a hands-on role helping leading edtech companies across all facets of development including core definition and measurement of value proposition, sales & distribution, hiring, fu...

Shantanu Sinha is the VP and GM of Google for Education. In addition to bringing Google products like Workspace to schools, Shantanu and his team build educational products such as Google Classroom, which helps over 150 million students, teachers and education leaders across classrooms around the world, and new experiences such as Practice Sets and Read Along, that demonstrate the power of artificial intelligence for teaching and learning.Before Google, Shantanu was the founding President and...