Industry Webinars

Meg Hamel is Vice President, Education at HolonIQ platform, where she leads global insight and thought leadership on the future of education, skills, and learning innovation.

With more than 15 years of experience across education, research, and strategy, Meg brings a systems-level perspective on global education markets. Her work focuses on identifying emerging trends, translating complex market signals into actionable insights, and convening leaders across government, education, industry, and investment to advance innovation in learning and workforce development.

At QS, Meg shapes the organization’s global research agenda and leads the development of data-driven insights on the evolving education and edtech landscape. She has played a key role in building several of HolonIQ’s signature research frameworks, including the Global Learning Landscape and Digital Transformation Frameworks, which are widely used by institutions, investors, and policymakers to understand the structure and direction of the global education sector. Prior to joining HolonIQ, Meg held leadership roles at International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and EdSurge, where she led research initiatives and grant-funded programs focused on edtech markets, procurement, and education innovation ecosystems. At EdSurge, she helped build the organization’s research practice and contributed to the development of the early learning and edtech innovation beats. Earlier in her career, Meg worked as a school leader and educator, an experience that continues to inform her work bridging research, policy, and practice across education systems. Meg holds a B.A. in Art History from Denison University, and both a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Teaching from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Adam is a passionate advocate for the transformative power of technology in education. With an 18-year tenure at Google spanning diverse roles, Adam has spent the last 10 years dedicated to building cutting-edge technology solutions for the education industry. His expertise lies in leveraging Generative AI to address critical challenges in K-12 and higher education, improving teaching and learning experiences, and empowering research computing.

Terrence Gee is Chief Information Officer at Rice University, where he leads Technology Solutions & Services and helps shape the university’s use of technology to advance Rice’s mission and institutional effectiveness.Over a 40-year career spanning consulting, entrepreneurship, corporate leadership, and higher education, Terrence has focused on connecting technology strategy to measurable outcomes. Today, his focus is on positioning the university for a rapidly changing technology landscape: shaping technology and AI strategy, building the institutional capabilities required to put emerging technologies to work, and developing strategic partnerships that can accelerate Rice’s ambitions. He is particularly interested in how Rice moves beyond AI experimentation to responsibly embed it into the ways people teach, learn, discover, engage, and enable.