Leadership and Vision

Defining a Tech Strategy to Scale AI

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT

Location: 407 / Satsop

Moderator(s)

Delia Decourcy, MA, MFA (she/her/hers)

Senior Education Strategist
Lenovo

Speaker(s)

Liza Francisco Voss (she/her/hers)

Chief Technology Officer
Franklin Pierce Schools
Avondale, Arizona
Colleen Flannery, MA (she/her/hers)

Chief Technology Officer
Chandler Unified School District
Chandler, Arizona
Doug Renfro, EdD

Executive Director of Digital Strategy and Implementation
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
Nashville, Tennessee
Gwen Jamel (she/her/hers)

Executive Director, WW Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions
Lenovo

With the increasing adoption of GenAI in K12 schools, district leaders are grappling with a range of technological and instructional challenges. Once a district has established responsible AI policies and made decisions about the role, they want AI to play in their district – from teaching and learning to campus operations – how do they create an effective and sustainable roadmap for implementation? This panel, featuring district CTOs and Lenovo’s Worldwide Executive Director of Enterprise AI, will discuss how they’re addressing the AI technology roadmap challenge – from data strategy to cybersecurity to budget, as well as how to vet and select the right vendors to support the challenging journey ahead.