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Operationalizing Data & AI in Education
AI is raising expectations across education. Organizations must deliver more relevant learner experiences, stronger outcomes, faster innovation, more adaptable content, and trusted data, all while operating with greater efficiency.
Meet us at EdTech Week NYC to see how Straive LearningMate helps education organizations turn AI ambition into measurable progress.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Meet the leaders helping education organizations put AI to work across content, learning, data, platforms, and operations.
Abhijeet Sethi
Strategic Business Head, EdTech
Nachiket Paratkar
Strategic Business Head, EdTech
Naveen Gattu
Head of Growth
Thanigaivel Dakshinamurthy
Senior Vice President, Strategic Accounts
Victoria Pylvainen
Senior Vice President, Learning Solutions & Strategy
Stuart Vanorny
VP, Learning Design Group, Straive LearningMate
Uday Howal
Account Director
Our Sessions at EdTech Week
SESSION 01
The Blueprint: Operationalizing AI to Drive Student, Institutional, and Workforce Outcomes
Artificial Intelligence and advanced data analytics hold immense promise for education and workforce development, yet many organizations struggle to move from isolated pilots to scalable, integrated solutions. In this 45-minute session, Straive will share its experiences in building AI-ready foundations that unify siloed systems and demonstrate immediate ROI.
Whether you are scaling learner outcomes, improving retention, accelerating workforce time-to-productivity, or evaluating EdTech investments, this session provides a strategic point of view. Discover the journey for transitioning from legacy silos to dynamic, AI-driven ecosystems that reduce operational costs, ensure compliance, and ultimately drive measurable, systemic outcomes across the lifelong learning continuum..
Presenters:
Abhijeet Sethi
Strategic Business Head, EdTech, Straive LearningMate
Nachiket ParatkarÂ
Strategic Business Head, EdTech, Straive LearningMate
- 13 October 2026 | 2:15 - 3:00PM
- Bollinger Forum
SESSION 02
Operationalizing AI in EdTech: Workflows, Data, and Proven Results
AI offers massive potential, but bridging the gap between small-scale pilot tests and fully integrated operations remains a significant hurdle. To achieve sustainable success, institutions must ground their technology in evidence-based product strategies and rigorous impact measurement. Join experts from Straive for a 45-minute deep dive into designing practical, AI-ready workflows and course development processes, including real-time engines for smart content creation and dynamic decision-making.
Whether your goal is to boost learner engagement, improve retention, speed up employee onboarding, or assess EdTech investments, this session delivers a clear strategic framework. You will learn how to seamlessly integrate data for driving student outcomes, turning passive metrics into actionable insights that empower capacity building and precision learning.
Presenters:
Victoria Pylvainen
SVP, Learning Solutions & Strategy, Straive LearningMate
Stuart Vanorny
VP, Learning Design Group, Straive LearningMate
- 14 October 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | HM144
- Bollinger Forum
Kadal: AI Built for the Way Education Works
Kadal starts with an education ontology—a connected map of concepts, standards, learning objectives, skills, assessments, and outcomes—giving AI real context, not just retrieval. It orchestrates that intelligence across content, data, systems, workflows, AI agents, and human expertise, helping organizations create better learning, make confident decisions, and improve the work behind education, with trust built in through source traceability, human review, and governance.
Keep content current with editionless publishing.
Kadal helps publishers understand the impact of change, coordinate updates across products and formats, and keep content current between traditional edition cycles.
Make every learning experience more personal.
Kadal connects learner context to relevant content, guidance, and support, helping learning providers and institutions deliver more responsive, personalized experiences.
Capabilities that Move Education Forward
From content and learner retention to data, operations, platforms, and delivery capacity, Straive LearningMate helps organizations apply AI where it can create the greatest value.
AI-Powered Content & Curriculum Operations
Make content a continuous engine for growth. Build, update, and reuse curriculum, courseware, and assessments at scale, keeping learning current as standards and skills evolve—while strengthening quality and consistency across teams and freeing internal experts to focus on innovation instead of repetitive production work.
Data Analytics & Data Infrastructure Modernization
Data trustworthy enough to act on. Connect the systems that run education and establish a governed data foundation for reporting, analytics, decision-making, and AI—replacing brittle point-to-point integrations with reusable connections and reconciling identity, definitions, quality, access, and context across the enterprise.
Global Capability Center
Scale capability at the speed of growth. Add dedicated, education-fluent capacity across engineering, content, quality assurance, data, AI, and operations without the cost and risk of building a captive center from scratch, enabling your organization to ramp specialized teams quickly and align capacity, governance, and delivery to changing growth priorities.
AI-Transformed Enterprise Operations
Lower cost-to-serve while improving service. Apply governed AI, automation, and managed expertise to high-volume customer, learner, and enterprise workflows to reduce repetitive processing, routing errors, and manual handoffs, while giving leaders clearer visibility into service levels, bottlenecks, and operational outcomes.
Data & AI Enterprise Partner for the Student Journey
Turn student engagement into retention momentum. Connect learner data, AI assistance, workflow automation, and human support to identify friction earlier and help learners progress from inquiry through completion, surfacing risk before disengagement becomes attrition and enabling more timely guidance without expanding high-touch support at the same pace as enrollment.
Product & Platform Engineering
Modernize the platform. Keep the roadmap moving. Evolve legacy learning platforms with governed, AI-native engineering without a disruptive rebuild or pause in feature delivery, adding modern capabilities alongside the live systems users depend on while reducing technical debt and protecting security, quality, accessibility, and reliability.
A Single Partner Built for Education
Straive LearningMate helps education organizations turn AI ambition into measurable progress across content, learner experiences, data, platforms, and operations.
We combine deep education expertise with Kadal’s governed AI intelligence and the global delivery capacity to move from a high-priority opportunity to sustained capability.