ASU+GSV Summit 2026

JFF returns to ASU+GSV!

Jobs for the Future (JFF) returns to the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, April 13–15, ready for three days of bold ideas, practical insights, and meaningful connections to advance the future of education and work.

As a proud summit sponsor, we’re excited to reconnect with longtime collaborators and engage with trailblazers from across the learn-and-work ecosystem. Together, we’ll challenge assumptions, surface breakthrough solutions, and advance a future where opportunity has no limits, and every learner and worker can navigate a clear, supported pathway to success.

Connect with JFF leaders at the sessions below.

Open-Door Session

Code Red: Building a New Future of Work for Workers in the Era of AI

Hosted by Jobs for the Future (JFF)

Date: Tuesday, April 14
Time: 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt – Bankers Hill Room, 3rd Floor, Seaport Tower

About This Session

AI is poised to upend the assumptions that have shaped work and opportunity for a century. In this Code Red moment, we need bold ideas and worker-centered leadership—not just better technology.

In this session, Ben Pring, vice president of the Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work at JFF, will lay out the practical steps employers, educators, and policymakers must take now to ensure AI serves the common good.

Amid extraordinary risk and possibility, he’ll offer a clear-eyed roadmap for creating better work for more people—and show why a new golden era of work remains in our (human) hands.

ASU+GSV Summit sessions featuring JFF leaders

Monday, April 13, 2026

From Silos to Systems: How States Are Reuniting Education and Workforce
Location: Coronado D, Level 4
Time: 2:10 p.m. PT – 2:50 p.m. PT
Featuring:

• Maria Flynn, President and CEO, Jobs for the Future
• Anna Edwards, Whiteboard Advisors
• Nick Moore, U.S. Department of Education
• Nadja Young, MetaMetrics
• Steve Dackin, Ohio Department of Education and Workforce

Non-Degree Paths: Hype or Hope?
Location: Harbor D, Level 2
Time: 3:50 p.m. PT – 4:30 p.m. PT
Featuring:

• Erica Bouris, Senior Director, Britebound Center for Career Navigation, Jobs for the Future
• Ebony Thomas, Year Up United | Grads of Life
• Janelle Duray, Jobs for America’s Graduates
• Clayton Lord, SHRM Foundation

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Designing the AI-Enabled Frontline: Human and Machine at Work
Location: Coronado B, Level 4
Time 11:00 a.m. PT – 11:40 a.m. PT
Featuring:

• Ben Pring, Vice President, Center for AI & the Future of Work, Jobs for the Future
• Vicki Greene, PaceAI
• Stephanie Tsales, InStride
• Raphael Rosenblatt, Workforce Edge
• Lisa Schumacher, McDonald’s Corporation

Skills, Degrees, or Both? Making Sense of the Signals We Send Young People
Location: Harbor D, Level 2
Time: 2:00 p.m. PT – 2:50 p.m. PT
Featuring:

• Erica Bouris, Senior Director, Britebound Center for Career Navigation, Jobs for the Future
• Jeff Bulanda, Vice President, Britebound Center for Career Navigation at Jobs for the Future
• Judy Goldstein, Britebound
• Julie Kreiss, Britebound
• Donnell Butler, Prelude
• James Cyan, Willow Education
• Sheila Saremzadeh, BASTA