Education: The new currency | Eve Psaltis | TEDxAcademy

Education: The new currency

Global director of education programs for Microsoft.

In her role as global director of education programs for Microsoft Education, Eve is responsible for Microsoft's strategy across educators and key business & technical decision makers in education.
Microsoft offers a range of professional development programs to bridge the gap between technology skills and innovative teaching. These programs reach beyond traditional software training to provide a scaffold that supports educators of all skill levels on their learning journey. Through these programs, we trained more than 12 million teachers and reached more than 230 million students since 2003.
Eve is passionate about using technology to solve hard problems and has worked with Microsoft since 2001 in various technology and leadership positions focusing on solutions that scale and partnerships that extend impact and benefit.