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AI is moving fast, and the people shaping AI are moving even faster. Season two of Voices of Innovation brings insights from the Agentic AI and the Student Experience conference.
Read More: https://tech.asu.edu/aase2025/global-gathering-explores-agentic-ai-and-student-experience
This season, industry leaders discussed strategic leadership, student preparedness and transformed industries in the age of AI.
By leveraging the anti-silo mindset, agentic AI can elevate the user’s ability to create, add, and improve even faster and smarter than before. Vala Afshar speaks with Lev Gonick on the release of his new book, Autonomous: Why the Fittest Businesses Embrace AI-First Strategies and Digital Labor, and on the value of lifelong learners. For Afshar, staying teachable and embracing the new and improved, is imperative to embracing the anti-silo mindset.
The constellation of literacies approach to education strategy embraces a culture of openness and inclusion, ensuring innovations such as AI so as to include learners from all backgrounds. In this episode, Gunder discusses the interconnection of literacies with Lev Gonick, opening up the conversation around who gains privilege and power when these literacies are decided.
In this episode, Phil Komarny discusses the meaning behind business technology numbers with Lev Gonick. According to Komarny, it’s not just enough to be knowledgeable about the latest in technology – it’s important to look at the data and understand the language of that data in order to create innovative solutions. The key to transformation is in the language of business data.
Futurists do not simply predict the future – they think systematically about the future and prepare for opportunities. In this episode, Marina Gorbis deconstructs the sense of disruption against the sense of opportunity with rising AI use in higher education with Lev Gonick.
AI is transforming education – and that transformation is creeping into adjacent industries. Brad Wolverton discusses the urgency and the adaptability of journalism in a world driven by AI, particularly when covering AI in higher education. Back in the editor’s seat, Wolverton covers the biggest stories on higher education, including political, technological, and economic coverage.
For Melissa Vito, the key to innovation centers on meeting the students where they are. Vito talks with Lev Gonick about framing AI innovations to support the needs of students. Rather than the kneejerk reaction of villainizing AI in education, Vito redirects the mindset into a framework that meets students where they are with AI and then stepping forward.
These episodes were filmed at the Agentic AI and the Student Experience Summit in Tempe, hosted by ASU Enterprise Technology.
Agentic AI and the Student Experience offered interactive workshops and sessions, alongside inspiring keynotes and was marked by several major announcements, including new ASU partnerships, the winner of the inaugural 2025 Humanitarian Award and launch of Xbox Game Camp to Phoenix. The closing message of the conference was clear: this community is well on its way to navigating the era of agentic AI, but success depends on doing it together.
Read more: https://tech.asu.edu/features/nothing-happens-until-something-moves