AI Governance in Education (Seattle + Online)
AI House Governance Affinity Group — Community Meetup Hosted by AiGovOps
ONLINE LINK: For those attending virtually, here is the link for online: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/265673038345651?p=O6B8kL9PGPBCFtHoyM
DATE/TIME: Thursday, July 9, 2026 · 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (networking continues to 6:00 PM)
REGISTRATION: Approval Required — Your registration is subject to host approval.
ABOUT EVENT:
AI Governance in Education: What Schools, Districts, and EdTech Are Actually Shipping
Three expert practitioners. 10 minutes each. Distinct and experienced perspectives on what governing AI in education actually looks like in the classroom, a district IT office, or an EdTech product team. Our presenters are:
Bill Anderson -AiGovOps Founding Steward and technology leader with ~30 years in big tech, including 24+ years at Microsoft. As responsible-AI technical PM lead at UnitedHealth Group, he helped review 1,100 machine-learning models in a single year and built systems to operationalize AI governance at this scale — not "a stack of PDFs." A former educator as well, he now advises two AI-driven ed-tech startups, including an AI-based writing assistant for dyslexics and their educators.
Allan McLennan — Founder & CEO, PADEM Media Group, and a longtime "market technologist" working where media, AI, and learning meet. He serves on the board of CEI, whose Bronx AI innovation lab reaches ~3M students and 250K teachers, and advises UVA's Darden School and the Kinderwood early-learning initiative. In the 1990s he earned five patents on learning and built the original Lion King and Little Mermaid interactive CD-ROM storybooks — the "learning tree" design that later informed Khan Academy. He also works on deepfake governance as a technical innovation officer at IBC.
Juliano Menegazzo is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with 26 years of experience in the technology sector where he drives Microsoft Education's AI and ecosystem strategy for the next-generation agentic teaching and learning experiences. Juliano holds an MBA from the University of Washington, with degrees in Marketing and Electrical Engineering. With a practical and curious approach, he operates at the intersection of education, technology, and innovation, seeking solutions that truly make a difference in and beyond the classroom.
Education is where AI hype meets the hardest constraints: minors' data, FERPA and COPPA obligations, academic integrity, unequal access, no money or time to address this tsunami of change, and parents and school boards who want answers in plain language. The people closest to that pressure aren't writing think pieces — they're scampering to build policy, standing up controls, and making AI defensible in environments that can't afford to get it wrong.
This forum puts them on stage, back-to-back, to show what they're building, what's working, and where education AI governance is heading next. No panels. No moderated debates. Just practitioners showing the room what comes next.
What you'll see
Student data governance in the age of AI — protecting minors' data across LMS platforms, AI tutors, and embedded vendor features, where FERPA and COPPA set the floor, not the ceiling
Shadow AI in schools and on campus — finding ungoverned AI use across student devices, faculty tools, autocomplete, and SaaS surfaces before it becomes an incident
Academic integrity without the arms race — what's actually working beyond detection tools that punish the wrong students
EdTech vendor and supply-chain transparency — making model provenance and component risk legible to districts, procurement teams, and accreditors (CycloneDX AI/ML-BOM and adjacent work)
Evidence generation for audit and insurance — turning governance activity into artifacts that satisfy boards, auditors, carriers, and the families who trust you with their kids' data
The 2026 operating environment for education — building for a world of tightening state student-privacy laws, federal activity, and insurers asking hard questions about AI exposure
Format:
3:00 PM — Doors open for the in-person event in Seattle
3:30 PM — Ken Johnston to introduce the topic, and then our 3 presenters share "top of mind" on AI in Education (10 min each)
4:00 PM — Community discussion
4:30 PM — Online streaming ends
5:00 PM — In-person event ends
Guest Exprerts
Who should attend: District CIOs and CTOs, university IT and academic leadership, Chief AI Officers, EdTech founders and product leads, compliance and privacy officers, faculty and instructional technologists, and anyone responsible for deploying AI in education that students, parents, and boards can trust and defend. If you own AI risk in a learning environment — this is the room to be in.
About the AiGovOps Foundation: The AiGovOps Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit building a global practitioner community focused on operationalizing AI governance — shipping policy frameworks as executable, auditable code rather than PDF documents. We believe governance must move at DevOps speed and be provable, auditable, and operational by design.
aigovopsfoundation.org | ken.johnston@aigovops.community
Space is intentionally limited to keep the discussion candid, practical, and forward-looking.
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