The Rise of Digitization, S3E8

As school digital ecosystems expand and rapidly become more at threat, there needs to be a transparent understanding of building and adapting functionally digitized systems. In the second part of this three-part K-12 Education and Cybersecurity series, our guests discuss the expansion of more developed operational and learning management systems in schools and strategies for successful implementation and change management. As both of this episode's guests can attest, school districts' use of digitization has expanded dramatically over the past decade, and there are a host of challenges technology and education practitioners need to be aware of. Today’s guests are Shahryar Khazei and Vishal Salvi. Shahryar Khazei is a seasoned IT executive with over 36 years of experience in the private and public education industry. He was the Chief Information Officer of the nation’s second-largest school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). After retiring from LAUSD, Khazei founded Macaw Consulting, which provides strategic and management consulting services to school districts, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies in the education sector across the United States.  In 2021, he joined the Board of Directors at the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) Vishal Salvi is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, and Head of the Cyber Security Practice at Infosys. He is responsible for the overall information and cyber security strategy and its implementation across Infosys Group. Vishal has over 25+ years of industry experience in Cybersecurity and Information Technology across different Industries. He is part of various Advisory Councils and Boards to provide leadership and direction on cybersecurity frameworks and standards to drive the adoption of cybersecurity across the industry. He has participated in various case studies related to cybersecurity practices over the past decade. Follow Vishal on Twitter at @VishalSalvi This episode of The CoSN Podcast is supported by Infosys. Learn more at https://www.infosys.com/ Engage further in the discussion on Twitter. Follow: @CoSN,  @edCircuit, @Infosys The CoSN Podcast is produced in partnership with edCircuit. To learn more about CoSN, visit www.cosn.org, and to learn more about at edCircuit, visit www.edcircuit.com.