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May 29, 14:00 - 14:45 CET
Transforming Education: Applying AI to Universities
Level: General

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 you can do to get started with AI in your work or how you can get more out of your current use.

Speaker
Craft 2025 - Zach Pendleton
Zach Pendleton
Chief Architect at Instructure

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 ha...