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Laurie Forcier’s interests lie in changing education systems so they better support the students, educators and leaders within them. She currently leads International Partnerships for ISTE, and has been Chief of Staff to EDUCATE Ventures Research, an AIEd start-up helping all parts of the EdTech ecosystem use data and evidence more wisely. She was previously chief content officer for Learnit, director of thought leadership for Pearson, and a senior aide to the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a frequent speaker on AI in Education, evidence in EdTech, and the future of education and skills.

Christina Lewellen, MBA, CAE, Executive Director, Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools, is a seasoned association executive who brings a data-driven framework to business planning and strategy, having earned her MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Certified Association Executive designation from the American Society of Association Executives. She was named the Executive Director of ATLIS in 2019 and travels coast-to-coast visiting independent schools and their leadership teams. She serves as a trustee for the Harmony Foundation International and is a board member for the Virginia Society of Association Executives.

Lukman is global head of solutions for the Public Sector in Google Cloud, with a focus on smart analytics and AI based solutions for the education and government. Formerly he was the ML/AI Solutions lead, working with customers across Google Cloud to enable business applications in AI and ML. He speaks regularly at conferences around the world about Google’s AI technology and its applications in education, such as the keynote at the World AI Summit, EDUCAUSE, the Disney Datathon, McKinsey Analytics Forum, & Google Cloud NEXT conferences. Lukman joined Google in January of ‘17 after acting as CTO for a series of New York startups in education technology, AI and speech recognition. Most recently he was the founding CTO and Chief Product Officer for Acrobatiq, a spin-out of the Open Learning Initiative at CMU, providing machine learning analytics & courseware for both on-ground and online universities. Prior to that he was CTO of Neverware, a startup that builds virtual desktop servers for high schools. Earlier in his career he built speech recognition applications and platforms for call centers. Lukman did his PhD work in Computer Science at UC San Diego, doing computer vision research at JPL in the Machine Learning systems group. As an undergrad at MIT in Cognitive Science & Computer Science he worked on multi-layer neural networks before it was called "deep learning." His academic interests have always centered on the intersection of Cognitive and Computer Science.

Carla Wade is the Senior Director of External Relations at CoSN working with policy and advocacy, partnerships, and professional advancement. Prior to joining CoSN, Carla served as the Digital Innovations Lead at the Oregon Department of Education. She also served as a technical advisor to the US Department of Education on digital learning, evaluation, data collection and analysis and EdFact reporting. Carla has been an active member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) serving on the Board of Directors 2006-08 and currently serves on the and the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA as the Emeritus Board member.