Written by Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
A few days at ASU-GSV left me energized and deeply unsettled in equal measure.
Simply said: I am Energized by the conversation; but troubled by the contradiction. As many of your are aware, the theme of this year’s ASU-GSV Summit was “The Power of Fusion.” The stated mission, printed on every surface, was that all people deserve equal access to the future.
I believe that. I have spent my entire career betting on it.
And I leaving San Diego genuinely energized. The conversations were sharp. The urgency was real. Sitting in a room with 7,000 people who care deeply about the intersection of learning and technology is not something I take for granted. There were moments this week, in hallway conversations, in sessions that ran long because nobody wanted to stop talking, that reminded me exactly why this work matters.
The EdTech founders in that room building tools to reach the students legacy institutions ignore deserve particular recognition. They are not part of the problem I am about to describe. In many ways they are the most important people in the building.
But I also kept sitting with something that nobody put on a slide.
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