Speakers
Main Stage Speakers
Patrick Ahrens
Assemblymember - District 26
Chris Ategeka
Author, Speaker, and Leading Voice on the Inner Self
Nichol Bradford
Founder
Human+Tech Week
Sonya Christian
Chancellor
California Community Colleges
Don Daves-Rougeaux
Senior Advisor to the Chancellor Workforce, Strategic Partnerships and Gen AI
California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
Ricardo De La Fuente
Member
California Community Colleges Board of Governors
Robert Diaz LeRoy
Writer/Director/Producer
Writer/Director/Producer
James Ehrlich
Director of Compassionate Sustainability
Stanford School of Medicine
Ambassador Rahm Emanuel
Former White House Chief of Staff and U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Kavitta Ghai
CEO and Co-Founder
Nectir
Craig Hayward
Vice Chancellor AI Strategy and Digital Transformation
California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
Cheryl Ann Healy
Co-Director of Brain Health | McKinsey Health Institute
McKinsey & Company
Sowmya Kannan
Director, Education and Workforce Development
IBM
Kiran Kodithala
CEO
N2N Services Inc.
Tiffany Kuo
Professor of Music
Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC)
Lee Lambert
Chancellor and CEO
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Jee Hang Lee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Association of Community College Trustees
Bre Onna Mathis-Perez
Principal Consultant
With Care Consulting
Fiona Ma
California’s 34th State Treasurer
Cecilia Núñez-Massara
Student
Evergreen Valley College
Antony Randall
H3+ Ventures · Co-founder
Planet Home
Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez
Artist & Climate Voice
Barry Williams
Figuring It Out
Make Possible
Speakers
Alejandra Acosta
CEO and Founder
One Degree Hotter College Advising
Carie Addis
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Pearson
Hildegarde B. Aguinaldo
President
California Community Colleges Board of Governors
Karina Alexanyan
Program Director
OurMedia
Suha Aljuboori
AI Department Chair
Folsom Lake College
Aiszellyn Alvarez
CSU Fullerton College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Coordinator and Grad Student
Climb Together
Marina Aminy
Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director, CVC
Foothill-De Anza CCD and California Virtual Campus
Sanketa Anand
Vice President - Sales and Business Development
Excelsoft Technologies Limited
Jozef Antolin
Automotive Technology
Wilcox High School, Santa Clara Unified School District
Lolita Araim
Adjunct Instructor
Clovis Community College
Tina Austin
Nicole Avina
Student Success Technology Program Manager
Bakersfield College
Eva Bagg
Superintendent-President
Barstow Community College
Tim Barnes
Co-Founder and CEO
Scout
Stephen Bass
Austin Bazydlo
Lindsay Berger
Walter Boggan
Founder & Executive Director
Center for Sports, Culture & Innovation
Jennifer Bollinger
Joella Brewer
Research Intern
Climb Together
Ben Cadranel
Founder and Principal (Advocacy Chiefs LLC); Head of Government Relations (Scout Funding)
Advocacy Chiefs LLC / Scout Funding / Sierra College
Chelsea Caparas
Alicia Cardenas
Counselor & AI Fellow
West Valley College & California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
Angela Cardinale
Associate Dean, Library and Learning Support
Barstow Community College
Kim Carter-Tillman
President/CEO
Black and Brown Opportunities for Profit (BBOP) Center dba The Kinetic AI Hub
Anthony Cervantes
Dean of Enrollment Services
Foothill College
Elaine Chance
Innovation Systems Analyst
San Diego Community College District
Luis Chavez
Counseling Faculty & CO AI Changemaker
Merritt College
Jessie Cheng
Operations Manager, Economic and Workforce Development
Saddleback College
Timothy Chia
Director of Business Operations
CENIC
Peter Church
sUAS Project Lead
Monterey Bay DART
Byron D. Clift Breland
Chancellor
North Orange County Community College District
Elli Constantin
Advisor
California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
Lilian Coral
Member
California Community Colleges Board of Governors
Kim d'Arcy
Dean, Instructional Support and Teaching Innovations
Saddleback College
Roman de Jesus
Professor, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Climate Fellow
Fullerton College
Christopher Dela Rosa
Vice Chancellor, Business Services
Foothill - De Anza Community College District
Monica Demcho
EOPS and CalWORKs Faculty Coordinator
San Diego Miramar College
Lynn Dickinson
Communication and Media Studies Faculty
Santa Monica College
Sanjay Dorairaj
CIS Faculty, San Jose City College
AI Advisor, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
David Doyle
Jennifer Elemen
Interim Director of Academic Affairs, Student Academic Support and Foster and Kinship Care Education
Hartnell College
Michelle Fischthal
Vice Chancellor, Institutional Innovation and Effectiveness
San Diego Community College District
Tim Flem
Chief Product Officer
Macmillan Learning
Alan Foote
Computer Information Management Professor
Saddleback College
Judy Fox
LARC Program Manager & AI Taskforce Co-Lead
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL CONSORTIUM
Cody Freeman
Educational Liaison
Trane
Angel G. Fuentes
Dean of Business, Workforce Development, Adult Education, Distance Education, and Dual Enrollment
Evergreen Valley College
Julie Gamberg
Nicholas Garcia
IT Technician
Hartnell College
Juan Garcia
Diksha Garg
Sr. Product Owner, AI
McGraw Hill
Ron Gerhard
Chancellor
Chabot-Las Positas Community College District
Gabe Giangualano
Esports Solutions Manager/Director of Esports
Extron/Long Beach City College
Gary Graves
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Artificial Intelligence
California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office AI Fellow | Fullerton College
Raquel Gruver
Virginia Guleff
Superintendent/President
Butte-Glenn Community College District
Alison Gurganus
Online Services Librarian
San Diego Community College District
Jory Hadsell
Executive in Residence, Strategic Technology Initiatives
California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
Tahmid Al Hannan
Student Researcher
Stanley Han
Associate Vice President, Engagement
CENIC
Sarah Harmon
Open Educational Resources (OER)/Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Program Manager
Cañada College
Pamela Haynes
Member
California Community Colleges Board of Governors
Dr. Jacqueline Hester, PhD
Dean of Public Safety
San Diego Miramar College
Michael Hines
Educational Initiatives North American Leader
Trane Technologies
Patrick Hong
Lecturer
University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Howze-Owens
Faculty, Instructional Designer
College of San Mateo
Aaron Iffland
Professor, Program Chair, Project Manager
San Diego Community College District
Scotty James
Rebecca Johnson
Professor of Communication Studies
Southwestern College
David Johnston
Chief Technology Officer/Director of Information Technology
Mendocino-Lake Community College District
Norma Jones
Faculty and AI+OER Coordinator
Antelope Valley College
De Kai
AI Professor & Author, Raising AI
Empathetic AI Institute; ICSI Berkeley; HKUST
Shagun Kaur
Project Facilitator and LibreText Lead
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Open Educational Resources Initiative (OER
Mia Keeley
Lindsay Kerr
Program Manager, Workforce Innovation
Sierra College
Nadia Khan
Instructional Designer
MiraCosta College