Aug 12, 2020
Jose “Pepe” Escamilla talked with Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh. A conversation about Edinburgh’s 2030 plan, the digital challenges facing universities, and how to encourage faculty to be future-ready.
Mathieson also discussed ethics in AI and the importance for...
May 13, 2020
A conversation about the startup explosion and EdTech ventures in emerging economies between Maia Sharpley, Partner at Learn Capital, an Education-focused venture capital firm, and José “Pepe” Escamilla, inside TecSounds’ booth at the entrepreneurship festival INCmty 2019.
Maia Shapley described the new lifelong...
Apr 15, 2020
Ger Graus, Global Director of Education at KidZania, met with José "Pepe" Escamilla at Tec de Monterrey to talk about the state of children's education, the need for a new educational focus on children's aspirations and the globalization of growing up.
Ger Graus also discussed how schools, parents, and the environment...
Apr 1, 2020
A talk between Tonika Cheek Clayton, Managing Partner of the Ed Tech team at NewSchools Venture Fund, and José “Pepe” Escamilla about the importance to support edupreneurs, the need for the development of better EdTech tools focused on underserved students learning outcomes and some success stories of the...
Mar 4, 2020
José “Pepe” Escamilla had an eye-opening conversation with Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who recently published “Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive.”
Brackett talked about his RULER approach to social...