As the Chief Architect of Instructure, the makers of Canvas, Zach Pendleton brings over a decade of experience in education technology to solving education’s most pressing challenges. In the past, he has built and scaled engineering organizations from a single engineer to over a hundred and worked on both large legacy applications and greenfield startup projects. As an engineer and a speaker he has traveled across the world to collaborate with teachers and students to extend education’s reach, to promote open educational platforms, and to improve the impact of education technology. Today he is a frequent speaker, podcast guest, and author in education technology when he isn’t working with Instructure’s engineering teams to promote innovation and plan system designs. His current research areas are large language models, digital credentialing, and edge computing.
Since the release of ChatGPT, teachers across the world have struggled to adapt to AI’s impact on education. Similarly, engineers have had to reckon with how these tools are changing software. At Instructure, we’re at the center of both waves. In this session, we’ll review what is happening with AI in education, how we’ve adjusted our development practice to accommodate it, and you’ll learn what y...
The question of diversity is of ever-growing importance. The cardinal question is, how do you integrate it into your professional life?Whether you are a team leader or just beginning your career, this is a topic you would want to listen to!Some of our talking points will include:What diveristy means to you now?Leadership commitment: part of internalized values or on the surface?Feeling so lonely: ...