The Wong Auditorium and Ting Foyer are adjacent spaces in Building E51 (Tang Center). Please enter at 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA.

Friday, May 2

15:30 – 16:30     Registration
Ting Foyer

16:30 – 16:45     Welcoming Remarks
Wong Auditorium

Agustín Rayo, Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Angelika Kraemer, President, Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, Cornell University
Per Urlaub, Director, Global Languages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

16:45 – 17:45     Opening Keynote
Wong Auditorium

Jonathon Reinhardt, Professor of English and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona

17:45 – 19:00     Reception
Ting Foyer

Saturday, May 3

8:30 – 10:00     Registration and Breakfast
Ting Foyer

10:00 – 11:00     Innovations Across the Consortium, Part I
Wong Auditorium
Moderator: Liana Ewald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Barbara Spinelli, Columbia University
Michael Farina, Yale University
Angela Lee-Smith, Yale University
Adam Oberlin & Ekaterina (Katya) Soloveva Woodyard,
Princeton University

11:00 – 11:15     Coffee Break
Ting Foyer

11:15 – 12:00     Student Perspectives of AI in (Language) Education
Wong Auditorium
Moderator: Per Urlaub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kate Augustyn, MIT ‘25, German
Jada Li, MIT ‘25, Spanish
Arthur Liang, MIT ‘26, Korean

12:00 – 13:00     Lunch Break

13:00 – 13:45     Academia / Industry Collaborations in Language Education
Wong Auditorium
Moderator: Per Urlaub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kristina Schoen, Duolingo
Julio Rodríguez, Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center
David Bong, Avant Assessment

14:00 – 14:45     Innovations Across the Consortium, Part II
Wong Auditorium
Moderator: Dagmar Jaeger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ramla Bedoui, Yale University
Grit Matthias Phelps, Cornell University
Dinny Risri Aletheiani, Yale University

14:45 – 15:15     Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:15     Closing Keynote
Wong Auditorium
Moderator: Eva Dessein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nicole Mills, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University