AI in Education Fireside Chat

Paul van der Boor is a Senior Director of Data Science at Prosus and a member of its internal AI group.

Klinton Bicknell is Head of AI at Duolingo. He works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. His research has been published in venues including ACL, PNAS, NAACL, Psychological Science, EDM, CogSci, and Cognition, and covered in the Financial Times, BBC, and Forbes. Prior to Duolingo, he was an assistant professor at Northwestern University.

Bill Salak has more than 20 years of experience overseeing large-scale development projects and more than 24 years of experience in web application architecture and development. Bill founded and served as CTO of multiple Internet and web development companies, leading technology projects for companies including Age of Learning, AOL, Educational Testing Systems, Film LA, Hasbro, HBO, Highlights for Children, NBC-Universal, and the U.S. Army.

Bill currently serves as the CTO of Brainly, the leading learning platform worldwide with the most extensive Knowledge Base for all school subjects and grades.

Yeva Hyusyan is the Co-Founder and CEO of SoloLearn, the most engaging platform for learning how to code.

Prior to co-founding SoloLearn, Yeva established a startup accelerator for mobile games, consumer apps, and ag-tech solutions. In a previous role, she implemented programs for the World Bank and the US Government in business and education. Later, she served as a General Manager at Microsoft, where she led sales, developer ecosystem development, and strategic partnerships.

Yeva holds an MBA in Corporate Strategy from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands, an MS in International Economics from Yerevan State University in Armenia, and completed the Executive Program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.