ASU Next Lab Co-founders Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen and Dan Munnerley were featured as speakers at ASU’s Smart Region Summit on March 4, 2025. Rodriguez-Fransen served on a panel on Indigenous Communities and Social Impact, and Munnerley was a panelist for the Education and Workforce Development stream. Indigenous Communities and Digital Twins: Capacity-Building, Digital Sovereignty &…

Next Lab is collaborating with the Institute for Digital Inclusion and Access (IDIA) to create and facilitate lessons and activities in emerging tech literacy, game design, worldbuilding, and more to community members of all ages. To bring emerging technology education to community members across the Arizona valley, Next Lab has partnered with the Institute for…

The Applied AI Infrastructure Guild’s WhatsApp Learning Chatbot is an AI-powered educational system designed to deliver personalized learning experiences directly within WhatsApp. By integrating conversational AI with course-specific content, the platform enables students to learn, practice, and track their progress in a familiar messaging environment. Faced with the problem of the global digital divide, where…