Purdue AI in P-12 Education Conference
The theme for our 2025 conference is “Empowerment” and focuses on how AI can be leveraged to empower educational stakeholders, particularly teachers and their students. Presentations will include resources and strategies to promote student learning and further teacher development. The conference will also include:
- Over 50 presentations on AI for curriculum development, school AI policy, bias, privacy and AI, and AI and education research
- Networking with AI vendors
- Professional Growth Points for teachers
Box lunches for registrants and coffee and refreshments will be provided
Monday, November 10, 2025
Stewart Center
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Keynote Speaker
View last year’s keynote presentation by Dr. Stephen Aguilar.
Keynote Speaker
Stephen J. Aguilar, PhD
University of Southern California
Dr. Stephen J. AguiIar is an Associate Professor of Education in the Educational Psychology concentration at the USC Rossier School of Education. His research focuses on investigating how educational technologies—both emerging and established—influence teaching, learning, and motivation. Dr. Aguilar studies the impact of generative AI in educational settings, the digital equity gap, and learning analytics applications. Currently, he is co-leading USC’s new Center for Generative AI and Society’s efforts to understand when and how generative AI is used by students and instructors in post-secondary settings.
His honors and awards include winning both the Wilbert J. McKeachie Early Career Award for Motivation in Education Research, and the AERA Division C Early Career Award. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Army Research Office, among others. Dr. Aguilar has also given televised interviews on the digital equity gap in both English and Spanish, has been guest on NPR’s AirTalk, and has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post.
Sponsorship
Interested in being a conference sponsor? Contact Bill Watson (brwatson@purdue.edu). Sponsor packages can be customized.
Possible benefits include:
- Conference admission
- Ability to interact with conference attendees during designated exhibit times
- Listing in the conference program
- Presentations during the conference
Schedule
8:00 a.m.
Registration opens – Stewart Center foyer under the mural (outside of Loeb Playhouse)
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Welcome, keynote speaker
10:10 – 11:00 a.m.
Session one
11:00 – 11:40 a.m.
Break, Exhibit Hall
11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session two
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch, Exhibit Hall
1:30 – 2:20 p.m.
Session three
2:30 – 3:20 p.m.
Session four