shaping the future of AI education for young learners

Congressman Don Beyer is serving his fifth term as the U.S. Representative from Virginia’s 8th District, representing Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, and parts of Fairfax County. He serves on Congress' Joint Economic Committee, and also serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1998, and was Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Obama. He is Vice Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus and a national advocate for responsible AI policy.

Rep. Beyer spent fourteen years as Chair of Jobs for Virginia Graduates, a highly successful high school dropout prevention program, and was active for a decade on the board of the D.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. As Chair of the Virginia Economic Recovery Commission, he helped pass permanent pro-business reforms and was co-founder of the Northern Virginia Technology Council.

Rep. Beyer has spent four decades building his family business in Northern Virginia after a summer job at a car dealership in 1974. He is a graduate of Williams College and Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC. He was named a Presidential Scholar by President Lyndon Johnson.

Rep. Beyer has four children and two grandchildren. He and his wife Megan live in Alexandria, Virginia.

Kiryn Hoffman is President and CEO of National Children’s Museum, a one-of-a-kind hybrid science center and children’s museum dedicated to sparking curiosity through playful, hands-on STEAM experiences for children ages 12 and younger. Located in Washington, DC, it serves more than 225,000 visitors annually from all 50 U.S. states and over 75 countries.

With 20 years of leadership experience in nonprofit organizations focused on scientific research and education, Kiryn has developed educational programs, led fundraising campaigns, and built community partnerships. Before coming to DC to lead the Museum, she spent a decade at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) as Chief Advancement Officer. She also served as Vice President and Chief Development Officer at the New York Academy of Sciences and Director of Major Giving and Capital Campaign at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Kiryn is trained as a physical chemist and holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s from New York University. Between her undergraduate and graduate studies, she assisted Nobel laureate James D. Watson in writing and editing his book, DNA: The Secret of Life, and curated an international touring exhibit about his writing career. She is also a published science writer, with articles in Scientific American Mind, The National Academies Press, and Nature Nanotechnology, among others. She has two young children, 7 and 12.

Dr. Lynne Parker is the Former Principal Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), where she advanced policies across the spectrum of science and technology, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI). She has previously served in numerous other White House positions, including Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer, Founding Director of the National AI Initiative Office, and Assistant Director of OSTP for AI. In these capacities, she has led the development of numerous landmark national AI policies bolstering research, governance, education and workforce training, international engagement, and the Federal use of AI.

In addition to her White House roles, she has held numerous other leadership positions, including at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Associate Vice Chancellor, Founding Director of the AI Tennessee Initiative, Interim Dean of the Tickle College of Engineering, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Professor of Computer Science), the National Science Foundation (Division Director), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Distinguished Research and Development Staff Member and Group Leader). She has authored numerous peer-reviewed technical papers and is a Fellow of several professional societies (IEEE, AAAS, AAAI). She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her M.S. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her B.S. from Tennessee Technological University, all in computer science.

As a member of the executive leadership team at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. James L. Moore III is the Assistant Director for the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) projects focusing on K-12 education, undergraduate and graduate education, workforce and human resource development, as well as learning in formal and informal settings.

Dr. Moore comes to NSF from the Ohio State University, where he has served on the faculty since 2002. He is the first executive director for the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male and is the inaugural EHE Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at The Ohio State University. His research ranges from school counseling to gifted education to urban education to STEM education.

Jennie Magiera is the Global Head of Education Impact at Google, bestselling author of Courageous Edventures, and the founder of the non-profit Our Voice Alliance whose mission is to elevate marginalized voices and perspectives to improve equity and empathy in education. She also serves on the board of Saga Education. Previously, she was the Chief Innovation Officer for the Des Plaines School District, the Digital Learning Coordinator at AUSL, a Chicago Public Schools teacher and a research assistant in Carol Dweck's Columbia University lab. A White House Champion for Change, ISTE Impact Award Winner, SheRunsIt Working Mothers of the Year, and TEDx Speaker, Jennie works to improve education globally. She has served on the TWG for the US Department of Education’s National EdTech Plan, NAEP Delivery and Technology Panel, TeachAI Advisory Committee, and has been featured on NBC’s Education Nation, C-SPAN’s Reimagining Education, TEDx, and NPR.

Jennie is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and has earned a BA in psychology and history from Columbia University and a MS from University of Illinois at Chicago in Mathematics Education.

Her proudest achievement: daughters Lucy & Nora.

Erin Mote is the CEO and Founder of InnovateEDU. In this role, Erin leads the organization and its major projects, including its policy and strategy portfolio. She leads the organization’s work on creating uncommon alliances to create systems change - in special education, talent development, artificial intelligence, and data modernization. An enterprise architect, she created, alongside her team, two of InnovateEDU’s signature technology products - Cortex, a next-generation personalized learning platform, and Landing Zone - a cutting-edge infrastructure as a service data product.

Erin is also the co-founder of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School with her husband Dr. Eric Tucker. She is a recognized global leader in technology, mobile, and broadband and has focused much of her career on expanding access to technology in the US and abroad. Erin has served in an advisory capacity to the White House/OSTP’s US Ignite Initiative, the Obama Administration’s Global Development Innovation Policy, the State Department’s TechCamp program, and the Obama Administration’s interagency process for Rio 2.0 and Rio+20. Erin served as the founding Chief of Party for the USAID Global Broadband and Innovations Alliance – a $19.5 million global technology expansion project.