SXSW EDU 2025

Boosted EdTech: Leveraging Product Validations for Success

Description:

Led by a product developer and edtech validators, this workshop will explore the extrinsic and intrinsic value of third-party validation through product certifications. Not only do they demonstrate to funders, districts, and educators the quality of the product and make it easier to stand out, but the application process itself helps companies create strong collaboration across development, research, and outreach teams. Participants will workshop an idea that best fits their current company’s needs and leave with specific templates and activities to foster new, ongoing dialogs across teams.

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Takeaways

  1. The value of third-party validations for marketing, fundraising, and procurement as well as how to achieve third-party validations.
  2. The process of applying to a certification creates and codifies impactful internal processes that keep different silos connected across your company.
  3. Workshopping quality templates for creating critical external deliverables (e.g. logic models, research documents, accessibility statements).

Speakers

  • Parker Van Nostrand, Project Director of Product Certifications, Digital Promise
  • Susanne Nobles, Chief Academic Officer, ReadWorks
  • Shayla Cornick, Director of R&D for Edtech & Emerging Technologies, Digital Promise

Organizer

Parker Van Nostrand, Project Director, Product Certifictaions, Digital Promise

Meta Information:

  • Tags: design thinking, edtech
  • Event: EDU
  • Format: Workshop
  • Track: Startups & Investment
  • Session Focus Area Convergence
  • Level: Field Experience
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