

Silicon Valley EdTech Summit
Agenda
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09:00 - 09:45 Registration
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09:45 - 10:00 Opening Remarks
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10:00 - 10:20 Keynote 1
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10:20 - 11:00 Panel 1: Character Education
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11:05 - 11:45 Panel 2: EdTech in schools
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11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
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12:45 - 13:05 Keynote 2
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13:10 - 13:50 Panel 3: Emerging Technologies
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13:50 - 14:20 Coffee Break
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14:20 - 14:40 Keynote 3
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14:45 - 15:25 Panel 4: Global Education Investment Trends
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15:25 - 15:35 Closing Remarks

The summit has three sections —
Keynote Speech
Panel Talk
And Expo.
Keynote Speech is delivered by esteemed scholars and industry leaders in which they would share their unique perspectives in the fields of education technology and the future of learning.
Panel Talk gathers industry professionals from different disciplines and aims to stimulate cross-disciplinary discussions and innovation in education.
Expo is the exhibition in which EdTech companies, innovative schools, and influential global institutions introduce their exciting job openings and talent recruitments.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Panel 1: Character and Competency Education





Rebecca Zipprich
Head of School at Shu Ren International School
Chris Bezsylko
Head of School at Imagination Lab School
Ophelia Ma
Founding Middle School Project Teacher at Presidio Knolls School
Kerry Tremblay
Master Facilitator at Virtues Project International
Cindy Liu (Moderator)
Head of Strategy and Operation at Yu Ming Charter Upper school
Panel 2: EdTech in Schools

Thalea Torres
Alumni Program Associate at AI4All

Steve Ritter
Founder and Chief Scientist of Cargenie Learning

Karen Chiang
Member Board Of Directors at Alelo

Jerry Lee
VP of School Partnerships at Swing Education

Kara Bradley (Moderator)
MBA Candidate from Berkeley Haas School of Business

Zachary Pardos
Professor at School of Education and School of Information at UC Berkeley
Keynote I: Value-Centric Adaptive Recommendation in K-16

Elena Chen
Product Manager at
Google
Keynote II: What comes next for adaptive learning?

James Genone
Associate Dean of Academic Programs at Minerva Project
Keynote III: How can technology enable transformative education?
Panel 3: Emerging Technologies





Panel 4: Global Education Investment Trends

Chian Gong
Principle at Reach Capital

Ross Darwin
Principle at Owl Ventures

Enyi Okebugwu
Analyst at Omidyar Network

Quinn Sure (Moderator)
MBA Candidate from Berkeley Haas School of Business
Kenneth Holstein
Human Computer Interaction Researcher at CMU
Sheetal Singh
Executive Director at Early Learning Lab
Dimitry Kushelevsky
Serial Entrepreneur in EdTech Industry
Alan Eng
Industry Partnership at Coursera
Fayzan Gowani (Moderator)
MBA Candidate from Berkeley Haas School of Business