Reshaping Higher Ed: Scaling Google AI from Pilot to Campus-Wide

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured James Frazee, Vice President & Chief Information Officer at San Diego State University; Anne Goldmann, Higher Education Lead at Google for Education; and Luis Hernández Muñiz, Director of Productivity and Collaboration Services at the University of California, Berkeley.The speakers discussed how bringing generative AI to a university system was not just a technical upgrade, but a cultural transformation. They shared how their institutions moved from cautious pilots to full-scale adoption of Gemini for Education, offering candid playbooks on governance, faculty training, and change management. The panel highlighted how they navigated data privacy reviews, addressed skepticism, and began measuring the tangible impact of AI on student success and administrative efficiency.