​⏱️ 7:00-10:00 PM, Wednesday, July 8, 2026

​Venue: TBD. The venue may be updated.

​The goal is to bring together people working on practical and research-level questions around AI x Education.

​We welcome researchers, builders, educators, evaluators, and anyone working on or studying AI for education.

​Speakers: Researchers

​Yanzhe Chen, National University of Singapore / NUS Show Lab

​Paper: Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Creation

​Yanzhe is the first author and ICML poster presenter for Code2Video, which explores how AI can turn code into educational videos and create clearer learning materials from code-centered content.

​Zachary Pardos, UC Berkeley

​Project: Open Adaptive Tutor

​Zachary is an Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley working on adaptive learning and AI. He will introduce Open Adaptive Tutor, an open-source adaptive tutoring system from UC Berkeley’s Computational Approaches to Human Learning lab.

​Speakers: Builders / Founders

​Sungman Cho, Founder at Origin Layer

​Sungman previously worked at Intel and is now building an AI-native game for kids. He is hosting this gathering to connect researchers and builders in AI education.

​YoungHoon Jeon, Part Lead at Upstage AI Education Learning Design

​YoungHoon Jeon leads AI education and learning design at Upstage. She will share how generative AI is being translated into practical learning programs for students and professionals.

​JQ Lee, Dev Team Lead at ZEP

​JQ leads development for ZEP QUIZ, a gamified classroom platform with 4M MAU and 600,000+ new quizzes created monthly. He will share how ZEP is building a deterministic AI question-generation system.

​Eu-Bin Kim, Founder at Cylinder

​Eu-Bin, who studied at Oxford, is building Purple, a reverse dictionary for phrases that helps writers find natural expressions and expands through user interaction.

​ICML Paper Authors Joining

​Tom Sühr - Stop Evaluating AI with Human Tests

​https://openreview.net/forum?id=tKU68AwShB

​Qiaosheng Chen - InteractScience

​https://openreview.net/forum?id=QooehkRtN5

​Chenye Ke - Rethinking Pretraining Data Detection for LLMs

​https://openreview.net/forum?id=ThlRUXqFZ0

​Kaifeng Lyu - UOJ-Bench

​https://openreview.net/forum?id=BI4t1PefdY

​Sang Truong - Item Response Scaling Laws

​https://openreview.net/forum?id=QFgM1iNKmg

​Event details

​7:00-7:15 PM: Arrival and informal introductions

​7:15-7:45 PM: 5-minute researcher introductions

​7:50-8:20 PM: 5-minute builder / service introductions

​8:20-8:45 PM: Fireside chat

​8:45-9:45 PM: Open networking

​9:45-10:00 PM: Closing