Student Success Week

Anne began working in the publishing space in Google over 6 years ago in Dublin Ireland. She eventually transitioned into the Higher Education space for the past few years and covers G Suite products for education across half of North America.

Speaker at: Distance learning with Google Meet

James is an entrepreneurial and data-driven software executive with 10+ years of experience in cloud computing and VDI/DaaS. James is the VP of Strategic Alliances for itopia, a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year, and a former tech startup CEO. James has a deep passion for cloud computing and virtualization. He has the unique ability to understand the technical aspects of the software development lifecycle and the impact it has on the bottom-line and Go-to-Market strategies. James leverages his experience, leadership, and business development expertise to provide value to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders while delivering highly impactful results.

Speaker at: Enabling learning from anywhere with virtual apps and desktops

With 15+ years of experience in technology across enterprise and public sector, Jesus Gomez has been part of the Google Cloud public sector team for 4 years and is currently the Strategic Business Executive for EDU and Research. Jesus's work focuses on the implementation of solutions that transform the next-generation of student experience and academic operations.

Speaker at: Intelligence and Incident Management and Virtual Agents for 24/7 Support

Prior to Co-Founding Now IMS, John was previously the CIO of Vroom.com/Texas Direct Auto and global business development and technology leader with extensive experience forming and coordinating partnerships, developing teams, with a focus on technology planning and strategy. John has served as a senior security consultant to the National Football League assisting with numerous events including the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and international games. John is a member of an education security advisory committee and serves as a board member/advisor to start-ups.

Speaker at: Intelligence and Incident Management

Kyle Unruh is a Sr. Data Analyst at Unizin. His primary responsibilities include curating research and learning analytics projects that leverage the Unizin Data Platform (UDP), developing a self-service analytics infrastructure for universities, and designing loading schemas for various teaching and learning tools. Currently, Kyle is exploring ways to leverage LMS data for in-term student engagement analytics, risk detection, and course grade predictions. He is based in Austin, Texas, and enjoys yoga, plant-based cooking, and improv comedy in his free time.

Speaker at: Empowering advisors with early intervention tools and Looking at Student Engagement to Improve Retention

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, such as the keynote at the World AI Summit, the Disney Datathon, McKinsey Analytics Forum, and 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. Prior to joining Google 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 and courseware for both on-ground and online universities.

Speaker at: AI Tutors for Personalized Learning

Ned started his career as a middle school reading and writing teacher for bilingual students in Chicago, before joining NoRedInk -- a digital writing curriculum startup -- which he helped grow from 0 to over 1,000 customers. In his current role at Google, he works to help education institutions leverage the power of data at their disposal to improve student outcomes.

Speaker at: Empowering advisors with early intervention tools and Looking at Student Engagement to Improve Retention

Prabh handles the Go-to-Market efforts for Conversational AI Practice at Quantiphi. She has extensive experience in helping clients translate the big promise of AI into quantifiable business impact across industries including Retail, Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Insurance, Public Sector and so on.

She is deeply passionate about understanding customer’s business concerns and eventually helping them meet their desired goals.

Speaker at: Virtual Agents for 24/7 Support

Rachel leads business development & technology partnerships for Google Cloud in Higher Education and K12. Her goal is to create an ecosystem of technology solutions that benefit students, instructors, and researchers and work seamlessly with Google Cloud, Chromebooks, and G Suite. Rachel has been at Google for over 4 years and was previously on the Google for Education team.

Speaker at: Enabling learning from anywhere with virtual apps and desktops

Taylor is a graduate of the Boston University Questrom School of Business, and has spent his career delivering sophisticated technology to customers. Outside of working hours, Taylor can be found watching or playing hockey, or skiing.

Speaker at: AI Tutors for Personalized Learning

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