Accelerating Higher Education
The New CRUI-Google Framework
A high-level executive briefing exploring AI, cloud infrastructure, digital transformation and innovation in higher education.
Agenda
The evolution of the CRUI-Google partnership. Bridging the gap between advanced research labs and daily university operations.
- Gianluigi Greco — Rector Università della Calabria, Delegate CRUI ICT
- Anna Artemyeva — HE Lead EMEA & JAPAC at Google for Education & Ivana D’Errico, Field Sales Manager Public Sector at Google Cloud
How DeepMind’s research (e.g., AlphaFold) accelerates scientific discovery. The architecture of Gemini: designed for reasoning and pedagogical support
- Terra Terwillinger — Director, Strategic Initiatives and Public Engagement at Google DeepMind
- Miriam Schneider — Learning & Education - Director, Learning Initiatives at Google DeepMind
Enhanced Teaching & Learning: Enhancing human potential with Gemini and NotebookLM. Impact: Boosting productivity and increasing accessibility via multimodal AI. Security: Uncompromising data protection (zero data training).
- Simona Maccari — Higher Education Lead Italy at Google for Education
- Ivan Parodi — Education Solution Engineer Italy, Uk, CEE at Google for Education
Faculty: Strategies for "Teaching with AI" and ethical integration in the classroom. Students: Building core AI Competencies for learning and future workforce. Staff: Digital upskilling to enhance operational workflows.
- Emanuele Pozzi — Digital Transformation Manager, Google for Education
Data & Research: Google Cloud HPC for research labs and Predictive Analytics for student retention. Gemini Enterprise (Agentic AI): Connecting LLMs to university systems (SIS, LMS, ERP) to build agents that automate complex processes.
- Silvia Bellucci — Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Operational steps to activate the framework and technical prerequisites.
- All Speakers + CRUI Technical Coordinator.