Each year, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's Education Summit brings together nearly 400 industry members, education advocates, and elected officials to actively engage in meaningful discussions to strengthen our education and workforce development systems. The 2016 Education Summit will focus on public-private partnerships in the following areas: Workforce Development, EdTech, Diversifying the STEM Pipeline, and Supporting the Implementation of New Education Reforms.
The Workforce Development Panel will be of particular interest to small and medium-sized businesses interested in developing sustainable hiring practices; it will address diversity recruitment and retention, as well as ways to strengthen relationships with local schools.
We are excited to announce that the keynote speakers this year will include Linda Darling-Hammond, the President of the Stanford Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University.
Other speakers include:
Michael Kirst – President, California State Board of Education and Stanford Emeritus Professor of Education
Barbara Means – Co-Director Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International
Diane Tavenner – Founder and CEO, Summit Public Schools
Mike Sego – Director of Engineering, Facebook
Ted Lempert – President, Children Now
Anne Campbell – Superintendent of Schools, County of San Mateo
Claire Shorall – Computer Science Manager, Oakland Unified School District
Muhammed Chaudhry – President and CEO, Silicon Valley Education Foundation
Marc Suidan – Partner, Merger and Acquisition, PwC
John Fensterwald – Editor-at-Large, EdSource Today
Erin Baudo Felter –Executive Director, Zynga.org
Marthaa Torres – Principal, Thurgood Marshall Academic High School
