Podcast appearances and mentions of deborah quazzo

Deborah Quazzo, co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit and managing partner of GSV Ventures, joins us to talk about her observations of the education technology industry and the promising work leading to better education landscapes.

Este episódio foi gravado em inglês.In this episode, we welcome Deborah Quazzo, a highly influential industry figure and Managing Partner at GSV Ventures - a mammoth $950MM fund dedicated to education. Deborah's profound understanding of EdTech and AI's intersection paints a vivid picture of the future of learning. With accolades including being recognized twice among the top 100 seed investors and co-founding the esteemed ASU+GSV Summit, Deborah is a leader shaping the $7 trillion education sector. From her stints at Princeton and Harvard to serving on various educational boards, Deborah's insights are not to be missed.Tune in as we delve into AI's transformative power in education and how personalization is becoming a revolutionary approach in this space. 

In this episode with Deborah Quazzo, we talk about her pathway to VC, including her time at Merrill Lynch and her experience with angel investing as well as her collaboration with Michael Moe in founding ThinkEquity Partners and GSV Ventures later on. We also touch on the current education technology space and the opportunities it holds for entrepreneurs passionate about solving problems. We conclude with a discussion about how GSV has been able to form such a diverse team, especially with women in leadership positions.

We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, YOUR guest is Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner at GSV Ventures & Co-Founder at ASU+GSV Summit, YOUR special guest cohost is Ryan Stowers, Executive Director at the Charles Koch Foundation, YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio, & YOUR sponsor is Unmudl! This is an episode YOU do not want to miss! Joe & Ryan talk with Deb about what she looks for when thinking about impact investing. They also talk about the future of the ASU+GSV Summit & her thoughts on the future of higher education. Enjoy! Deborah is the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures, a venture fund investing in education & workforce skills technologies that are disrupting the $7 Trillion sector & named to Insider's inaugural list of top 100 seed investors. In addition, she is Co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit. The ASU+GSV Summit celebrates innovations & innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning & talent landscape & attracts over 5,500 live & 10,000 virtual attendees. Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Learn what others are saying about their EdUp experience! ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● YOU can follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank YOU for listening! We make education YOUR business! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edup/message

Deborah Quazzo is the Managing Partner at GSV Ventures. GSV Ventures is a venture fund investing in education and workforce skills technologies that are disrupting the $7 Trillion sector and named to Insider's inaugural list of top 100 seed investors. In addition, Deborah is the Co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit. Now in its 13th year, the ASU+GSV Summit celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and talent landscape and attracts over 5,500 attendees. Hear from Deborah on the history of GSV and the ASU+GSV summit, how has GSV's investment thesis or process changed as a result of the pandemic, GSV's investment strategy when investing into emerging markets such as India and Indonesia, de-risking investments, and more.

Our guest today is Deborah Quazzo, the cofounder and managing partner of GSV Ventures, one of the earliest and more prestigious venture funds investing in the entire spectrum of education from PreK to Gray including companies that we all use daily such as Coursera, Classdojo, Clever, Quizziz and many more. Deborah is also the cofounder of the annual annual ASU+GSV Summit which attracts over 5000 visitors each year, now 13 years in, and is where the major education trends are revealed each year.In this episode, we look at EdTech trends post-pandemic, glean a couple of key takeaways from the latest ASU+GSV summit, speculate on the race to the first $100B EdTech company, and, most importantly, talk about Return on Education and what a ROE school would look like.Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:Check out the GSV portfolio, you will know a lot of the names: https://gsv.ventures/portfolio/Why not attend the Summit next year? https://www.asugsvsummit.com/We referenced this prior podcast episode: https://blog.enrollhand.com/consumerization-k12-education/Here are the key takeaways from the GSU+ASV summit:Fireside Chat with Eddie Glaude - https://www.asugsvsummit.com/video/stage-x-fireside-chat-with-eddie-glaude-and-josh-andersonIsabel Wilkerson on ASU+GSV: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/video/isabel-wilkerson-pulitzer-prize-winner-and-author-of-new-york-times-bestsellers-the-warmth-of-other-suns-and-caste-the-origins-of-our-discontent-discusses-truth-reconciliationWhere to learn more about Deborah:Twitter - https://twitter.com/deborahquazzoWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_H._QuazzoOther - https://gsv.ventures/team/deborah-quazzo/Where to learn more about Enrollhand:Website: www.enrollhand.comOur webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.comOur free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/

WorkingNation is in San Diego this week for the 12th annual ASU+GSV Summit, the big three-day convening focused on innovations in education and technology, and their impact  on the way we acquire knowledge and skills. My guest on this episode of the Work in Progress podcast is Deborah Quazzo, managing partner of GSV Ventures and the co-founder of ASU+GSV, a collaboration between GSV and Arizona State University (ASU). The way we prepare for our future—the way we learn—has changed just as much as the way we work and the skills we need for a good job. As we've seen over the past 18 months, the adoption of education technology has accelerated as we've had to address the impact of the pandemic on our lives. "We really are here. It is truly the dawn of digital learning," Quazzo tells me in the podcast. "There has been a transformational change in the acceptance of digital learning and scaling solutions that has the opportunity to really make a difference in the lives of millions of people in ways that just had not happened here before, and the attraction of capital into the space is going to drive more and more innovation." The three days of conversation touch on all stages of learning, from "pre-K to gray", as Quazzo describes it. Given the impact of the pandemic on the workforce, many of those discussions zero in on how this ed-tech innovation can help close the skills gap. "It's really about what can this means for the transformation at scale for working adults who desperately need it, who probably even more desperately need it coming out of COVID. "We can finally really look where the puck is going and chase it. While it's hard not to talk about what we've just been through, we're trying to keep a focus on staying on the balls of our feet. How do we take advantage of this? How do we transform things? And how do we use the crisis to transform workforce learning, to transform reskilling, upskilling, higher education, and K-12 education. We're trying to push the conversation that way. "What we really hope is that people walk away feeling like the world really did change, and that learning has really become a centrally important cultural and economic sector and learning is just a critical economic sector for the world." You can listen to this Work in Progress podcast with Deborah Quazzo here, or download it wherever you get your podcasts. Check out what WorkingNation is up to at the ASU+GSV Summit this year.   Episode 196: Deborah Quazzo, ASU+GSV Summit co-founder, GSV Ventures Managing PartnerHost and Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, editor-in-chief, WorkingNationProducer: Larry BuhlExecutive Producers: Joan Lynch, Melissa PanzerMusic: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4.0. Download the transcript for this podcast here.You can check out all the other podcasts at this link: Work in Progress podcasts

WorkingNation is in San Diego this week for the 12th annual ASU+GSV Summit, the big three-day convening focused on innovations in education and technology, and their impact  on the way we acquire knowledge and skills. My guest on this episode of the Work in Progress podcast is Deborah Quazzo, managing partner of GSV Ventures and […] The post The transformation of digital learning could transform millions of lives appeared first on WorkingNation.

Get more information on the ASU+GSV Summit August 9-11 in San Diego https://www.asugsvsummit.com/

Voices of eLearning brings audiences a wide-ranging interview with one of the biggest proponents of EdTech and education for all. Host JW Marshall welcomed Deborah Quazzo. Quazzo is Managing Partner at GSV Ventures and the Co-Founder of ASU+GSV Summit. Quazzo has been in the space for over 25 years as an investor, philanthropist, and evangelist. “I always thought it was a category that deserved more investment because it was solving real societal challenges. Now seeing it come to fruition is a bit of silver lining of COVID with a rush of capital,” Quazzo said.One of the most important parts of her EdTech career is the Summit, which she founded in cooperation with Arizona State University (ASU). “It's a fantastic partnership, and we've been able to accomplish great things around the transformation of education delivery,” Quazzo shared. The 2020 event was only weeks away when the pandemic hit, which meant a quick pivot and postponement. They did hold the event virtually, welcoming over 15,000 attendees, representing 70% of the world's countries. The central theme—how to improve the delivery of education for all, and technology is moving that forward. There's still work to be done.“We thought we had fixed the digital divide with schools wired, but we didn't solve it at home. Low-income students didn't have devices or bandwidth,” Quazzo said. That's changing, and it took the pandemic to put in more front and center. Moving forward, Quazzo shared she thought the future was hybrid learning, as it could feel the individual learning gaps of all varieties. The landscape of education goes beyond K-12, and some companies are stepping up to make this happen. “We need to educate the 70% of the population that doesn't have a college degree. They don't necessarily need a degree but some sort of skill mastery to maintain economic relevance. All people deserve access to the future.”

Does Purpose help the bottom line? It’s a fair question, surely—maybe, ultimately, the best question we can really ask ourselves in business as the idea of a move away from purely shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism takes off. And while we do need to ask CEOs of Purpose-driven companies that question, perhaps the ideal community to seek a hard-nosed answer here is the VC (venture capitalist) world, for whom the conditio sine qua non of an investment has to be that it will pay back, at multiples. Luckily for us on Season 7 and all our now fast-interlocking conversations on our central question of ‘Is Purpose Working?’ is that today, we have the definitive answer: yes—in fact, it’s actually only the companies that have Purpose that end up with strong cultures and stronger outcomes. There’s a lot to take in to see why our guest, Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner at GSV Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund investing in education and workforce technology entrepreneurs, is so convinced of that fact, but we hope we have intrigued you enough to listen in to see her logic and proof… but it’s also just such a pleasure to listen to the fusion of a deeply ethical mindset and razor-sharp thinking Deborah brings to her job. Just one example among many: her rhetorical question about why she does what she does: Is it more fun to go call on a company making breakfast cereal, or on a company that’s really trying to change people’s lives meaningfully? Deborah and her team have been active for many years disrupting the $6 trillion education technology sector, having helped amazing names like ClassDojo, Degreed, and RaiseMe, among many others, get out of the lab. Equally important to her, as you’re about to hear, is her work on the annual ASU GSV Summit: now in its 11th year, the Summit celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and talent landscape and this COVID, virtual year attracted a quite staggering 33,000 online attendees. So tune in now to hear how this predominantly Chicago-based ed tech sector investment ninja has been putting ‘Purpose’ as one of the ‘5 Ps’ a startup has to have before she even looks at them. Before we get started, two callouts are needed: one, to our on-going Season 7 partners, Dani and Stacia over at Purpose-driven HR advisory group RedThread Research, and most especially to our Season sponsors, ed tech luminaries NovoEd, who are just as keen as we are to find an answer to ‘Is Purpose Working?’ Don’t forget that in early 2021, the issues Deborah raises today will be under the microscope in our planned special live, online gated experience, where we will debate all the Learnings from Season 7. If you doubt that Purpose is good for capitalism, then make sure you can get in your two cents about it by locking-in your free place at the webinar. How can I do that, Chris? I hear you say. It’s easy: click on over to the special NovoEd microsite supporting the project, www.novoed.com/purpose. All done? Great—so let’s hear about VC money, Purpose, diversity and what a VC does, as well as: how Deborah sees a coming together of all parts of Education and workplace training; the emergence of knowledge as a ‘currency’; why what GSV does is not the same as what an impact fund tries to do; that significant 2019 Business Round Table statement… are we actually seeing enough action by companies? How Learning is starting (at last?) to be seen as an important weapon by corporate leaders to improve overall outcomes; her conviction that exponential growth in an ed tech company will come not just through great technology, but through diverse teams; what inspired her to get into the ed tech area; and much more.

About Deborah Quazzo:My next guest on The One Percent Project is the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures and the Co-founder of ASU Summit, the incredible Deborah Quazzo. Coursera, Course Hero, Guild Education are among a few Edtech unicorn outliers that GSV has invested in over the years and Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush are among the few superstars whom she has hosted over the 11 years of the summit. In this conversation she talks about:Her career: How she got into Venture Capital, after having worked for the likes of JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch and why EdTechThe 5P framework to analysis and valid businesses and ideas. How businesses with Purpose the fifth P, will have a higher outcome.Why is the Asian EdTech market attractive, especially India and Indonesia?How companies are utilising EdTech platforms for upscaling their employees?The impact of Covid on primary, secondary and tertiary education?How the GSV team grooms its portfolio of companies?The key difference between the US and the Asian ecosystemHer learning from organising the ASU EdTech Summit and hosting guests such as Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush, Byju and many other superstarsThree ways to support the podcast:#1 Share the episode with family and friends on social media with #OnePercentProj using the share button on the site.#2 Take a few seconds to give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. This helps new folks find us organically. Rate#3 Leave a review if you feel inclined. We read every single message and love feedback. Review

Deborah Quazzo is Managing Partner at GSV Ventures, a fund focused on Online Education ventures. This is a very good discussion on patterns of success and failure in the sector, and what investors are gravitating towards.

Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade Public Schools, with Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner, GSV VenturesThe ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, Microsoft, Walton Family Foundation, and Pearson. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.

This episode is hosted by Deborah Quazzo, Partner, GSV Ventures, and our guest today is Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida & Chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, includingAmerican Student Assistance, Pearson, and New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.

Hello and welcome to the GSV Ventures Podcast, where we will be discussing the age of digital learning that has been kickstarted by the 1.6B learners forced online by the Coronavirus pandemic. As the world transitions from B.C. (Before Coronavirus) to A.D. (After Disease), an enormous catalyst has accelerated the opportunity of the future to today. Join industry leaders, educators, government officials, entrepreneurs, and investors as we explore the A.D. world. Join Deborah Quazzo, Partner, GSV Ventures, and her guest, Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School.This episode of the GSV podcast is brought to you by the 2020 ASU GSV Summit, September 29th through October 1st at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Google Cloud, Kaplan, and Pearson. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.

Deborah Quazzo (@deborahquazzo) is the founder and managing partner of the annual ASU-GSV Summit, which will be held this year from April 8 -10 in San Diego, CA. The event, now in its 10th year, celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to gray” learning and talent landscape, and attracts over 4,000 attendees. In this “curtain-raiser” interview for the summit, on Episode 55 of Reality Check, Deborah talks about her journey to the $2 trillion dollar emerging market in global ed tech; why innovators and investors now see education as a deeply consequential growth market; and how the ASU-GSV Summit incubates and accelerates growth by forging the passions and energy of super-talented individuals across a range of sectors in a crucible of collaboration and innovation. For more information about the summit, visit the ASU-GSV Summit website at: http://www.asugsvsummit.com

Matt takes us through his 20+ year career beginning with starting BabyCenter in 1996 and why early childhood is so exciting from social impact, technological, and investing perspectives. With BabyCenter still widely used today, reaching 100M parents monthly with 8 out of 10 new mothers as online users, Matt shares his key entrepreneurial lessons learned and why he believes the company has stood the test of time. Having recently returned back to early childhood post other business ventures, Matt explains his main incentives for starting Promise Venture Studio, which catalyzes and accelerates entrepreneurial ventures driving impact at scale for children 0-5 in the U.S. and the evolution he has seen in the industry. Lastly, given the recent influx of high-profile investments made in early childhood, Matt discusses why the time is now for the industry and identifies areas of innovation in this market he’s most excited about.

Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of GSV AcceleraTE Fund, discusses how GSV AcceleraTE makes an impact in the learning and talent sectors, as well as how to maximize your time at ASU GSV Summit 2019. Learn more in this episode of the Knowledge Leaders Podcast, hosted by Todd Hand. Get a transcript excerpt here: https://knowledgeleadersgroup.com/interview-with-deborah-quazzo-gsv/ Share this via video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JitGh9C6GD4

Julia Stiglitz hosts Rebecca Taber, the CEO and cofounder of Merit America, to discuss their work enabling scaled education-to-employment pathways. Merit America is building a new talent stream from low-skill to upwardly mobile careers through targeted education, coaching, and mentorship to fill employers' high demand roles.

In this episode, Chief People Officer of UiPath, Marius Istrate joins GSV AcceleraTE Fund Managing Partner, Deborah Quazzo. UiPath is the global leader in robotic process automation AND the fastest growing enterprise software company in history. UiPath has grown from 100 employees in 3 countries under two years ago to 2,400 employees in 30 countries today AND, most importantly, UiPath was recently acknowledged as the NUMBER 1 rated Unicorn in the world for culture as measured by Comparably. Deborah asks Marius how an organization growing this quickly receives ratings from employees of 97 on “happiness” and 92 and above on gender and diversity. You’ll hear that it’s all about being able to bring your authentic self to work, employee empowerment and perversely the benefits of starting the business in a small, formerly Communist country, where gender equity and valuing diversity come naturally. Don’t miss this fabulous interview and see Marius on StageX at ASU GSV in April!

Julia Stiglitz speaks with Ashu Desai, the cofounder of Make School, a product-focused, accredited program that is providing a bachelor’s degree in computer science and challenging the status quo in higher education. You can also see Ashu at the upcoming ASU GSV summit in San Diego April 8th through the 10th .

This month, Babbel CEO Markus Witte joined GSV AcceleraTE Founder and Managing Partner Deborah Quazzo to discuss his entrepreneurial Journey, Babbel’s strong performance in the US market led by Julie Hansen, his views of emerging technologies, and the secrets to the global success of Babbel.

Host Laura Zarrow talks with Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner of GSV AcceleraTE, about developing women run businesses. Deborah speaks about bringing together female founders, funders, advocates, influencers, and emerging talent who are creating platforms to elevate others.She also shares her own experiences navigating the gender barriers in the venture capital world.Deborah Quazzo is the Managing Partner of GSV AcceleraTE, a venture capital fund that invests in the education and talent technology sector. Deborah is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of the ASU+GSV Summit, an event that celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and talent landscape and attracts over 4,000 attendees.Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on October 24, 2018 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Deborah Quazzo, the Founder and Managing Partner, GSV Acceleration Fund and the Co-Founder of the annual ASU+GSV Summit joined Jeff and Michael at this week’s summit in San Diego to talk about the evolution of private capital in higher ed and how the future of education blends work and learning.

In this episode I speak to Patrick Brothers, CEO, Navitas Ventures on the Global Edtech Census which has mapped over 30,000 education companies from around the world into various edtech specialisms. Plus, extra conversations with Scott Kinney, Senior Vice President, at Discovery Education and Matthew Johnson, Associate, Cooley LLP, give us the low down on K-12 and legal landscapes around education innovation in the US and globally. Deborah Quazzo from GSV Labs also joins in the intro to give the GSV perspective on the ed innovation landscape from Pre-K to Grey". Go to www.theedtechpodcast.com for full show notes and references. 

#82 - On Efficacy and Impact in Edtech The third part of the ASU GSV Summit Series on The Edtech Podcast. Listen here. Welcome everyone to this third episode from the ASU GSV Summit series on The Edtech Podcast. This week we hear about efficacy and impact touching upon evidence-based education, why you shouldn't attempt to be a researcher, and why accreditation isn't the answer in the complicated world of education!  Don't forget to check out the reference links below, for more follow up videos, podcasts and reading on this topic.  What's in this episode? Message from this week's episode sponsors Qatar Foundation International and The Michelson 20MM Foundation Sophie Bailey introduction - latest events, competition winners and news  Deborah Quazzo with the GSV Cap. perspective on efficacy and impact 1:1 interviews featuring: Bart Epstein, Founding CEO, Jefferson Education Accelerator (recorded at ASU GSV Summit) Tom Bennett, Director and founder of researchED Sophie Bailey outro - what's next in the series?  Sample quotes:  Rather than saying let’s do it like this because Vgotsky said so in the 1920s, let’s look at what is the alternative  Very very infrequently is the efficacy and impact judged in advance of major policy decisions We want to make it more likely that the edtech products that reach our classrooms will have the best impact, not just the best marketing claims  References:  Bart Epstein - Jefferson Education Accelerator Bart Epstein - Twitter Jefferson Education Accelerator EDUCATE - Twitter EDUCATE Luyen Chou - Twitter Pearson Sir Michael Barber EdTech Efficacy Research Symposium Thinkster Math Rose Luckin - Twitter Episode #27 with Dr Rose Luckin on the importance, or not, of efficacy What Works Clearinghouse Which? Magazine Consumer Reports Innovate My School Voxy National Education Research Database - NERD Todd Bloom - Twitter ASU GSV Summit - Games and Neuroscience Making an Impact (Finally) in Education and Talent Episode #77 - Play It Smart: Games and Neuroscience Making an Impact (Finally) in Education and Talent BAFTA Young Game Designers London Educational Games Meetup (LEGup) - Twitter Wellcome Trust University of Virginia Curry School of Education Foundation Strada Education Network Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Amanda Ripley - The Smartest Kids in the World Tom Bennett - ResearchED Tom Bennett  ResearchED Vgotsky  Carter Review  EEF Deans for Impact  Daniel Willingham - Why Don’t Student’s Like School? Daisy ChristoDoulou - Seven Myths About Education Pedro De Bruyckere Paul A. Kirschner and Casper D. Hulshof - Urban Myths about Learning and Education Tom Bennett - Teacher Proof RISE project Research Schools Ben Goldacre David Hume  Like this episode? Check out these related videos and podcasts: Solving Higher Ed's complex problems with Bart Epstein, Founding CEO, Jefferson Education Accelerator and Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia and company...   Under 30 Conversation: Dorm Room Founders On Impact And Reform with Caroline Howard, Editor, Forbes with Jacob Allen, Founder-CEO, pilotEd Schools (30 Under 30 2017), Alexis Morin, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Students for Education Reform (30 Under30 2013) and Joe Vasquez, Co-Director, Runway Incubator; Co-Founder, Michelson Runway EdTech Accelerator (30 Under 30 2017):   Solving K-12’s most complex issues across ed-tech dev, funding, and procurement with Katrina Stevens, Former Deputy Director of the Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education and Bart Epstein, Founding CEO, Jefferson Education Accelerator and Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia moderating...      Messages from The Edtech Podcast: Our website has just launched! You can check it out here. Applications to host a guest episode of The Edtech Podcast are now open. Find out more here Have you checked out Innovate Edtech yet? It takes place in November and focuses on learner experience. More here. Do you love The Edtech Podcast? Share the love by checking out our Patreon campaign and joining our list of awesome Patrons! Don’t forget to subscribe to The Edtech Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Thank you to this week's sponsors: The ASU GSV Summit annually brings together the most impactful people from diverse constituencies – entrepreneurs, business leaders, K12 and higher ed leaders, policymakers, leading tech companies, and philanthropists – to create partnerships, explore solutions, and shape the future of learning and talent innovation. Go to: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/     This episode is brought to you by the Michelson 20MM Foundation. A nonprofit based in Los Angeles, California that supports and invests in leading edge entrepreneurs, technologies, and initiatives with the potential to improve access, affordability, and student success in higher education. In 2016, 20MM launched the Michelson Runway, the world’s first accelerator dedicated to supporting innovations in higher-ed and career training. Both were founded thanks to the generous support of renowned spinal surgeon, Dr. Gary K. Michelson and his wife, Alya. Visit 20mm.org and michelsonrunway.com for more information. Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). QFI operates as both a grant-making organization, and a convener of thought leaders on issues related to global and international education, open education and education technologies as they intersect with the three core QFI programmatic areas: Arabic language and Arab culture, STE{A}M (STEM plus the Arts), and Youth Engagement.  Go to: http://www.qfi.org/ Subscribe to The Edtech Podcast:  Never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Edtech Podcast via iTunes, TuneIN Radio, Stitcher, Pocket Cast and many more. You can also subscribe to The Edtech Podcast weekly for news, events updates and episode links: Sign up to The EdTech Podcast Weekly  

When Davey Koch's hoop dreams take him to the Windy City, the Koch Brothers discover a twisted liberal wasteland ruled by a mysterious nine-fingered figure. Written By and Starring: Gary Pascal Brad Einstein Charles Pettitt Shannon Noll Libby Schreiner Tom Fell Ryan Asher Sean Sullivan Music and Sound Design by: Chris Yearwood