From artificial intelligence to digital badging, and education R&D to edtech product certification, Digital Promise has 12 dynamic session ideas that we would love to bring to the SXSW EDU stage from March 3-6, 2025. With your votes, we can share solutions and learnings about education innovation to support others in creating powerful and inclusive learning opportunities for all students.
Click the title of each session below to read more and cast your vote!
Unlock and open the gates to advancement by hearing how micro-credentials and open-source digital badging are democratizing skill recognition and creating new pathways to workforce opportunities.
Discover how schools, edtech companies, nonprofits, and researchers are partnering with educators and students to co-design the future of AI-enhanced learning.
Deep dive into issues related to algorithmic bias, ethical AI, and data privacy, and collectively discuss ways to mitigate the harms of technologies on individuals and communities.
Learn practical tips on how you can drive meaningful change and create an action plan to keep up with the fast changes in technology, learning science, and society through inclusive research and development (R&D).
Explore nationally representative survey data on teachers’ vision for transformation of their profession and new research on how we can unlock teachers’ contracts as a vehicle for student-centered change.
Discover how stakeholders are creating a career-focused, competency-based education system that equips learners for the STEM workforce of tomorrow.
Hear from a product developer and edtech validators on the extrinsic and intrinsic value of third-party validation through product certifications, and participate in a hands-on workshop to develop an idea that best fits your current company’s needs.
Digital wallets have arrived in education, but what should we look for to know they’ll create greater equity and inclusion? This immersive workshop will explore the principles of co-designing Learning and Employment Records (LERs) for greater equity.
Hear from edtech industry leaders on how they are proactively designing and creating tools that foster inclusive learning environments that empower students with special needs and empower every child to reach their full potential.
Quality in educational technology requires balancing innovation with evidence-based practices. This panel will address these priorities, exploring how to support research-backed evaluation frameworks while fostering transformation in the field.
Learn from educators and edtech experts on how to use generative AI to gain insightful data analysis and create engaging personalized learning initiatives within your school.
Join a community seeking to integrate culture, society, and liberation into K12 STEM learning, and explore partnership opportunities with fellow attendees and leading practitioners who are leveraging STEM for social change.
