Beyond the Novelty: Evaluating AI-Powered Career Navigation Tools | ASU+GSV Summit 2026

Rilwan Meeran (Head of Impact Investing, Britebound) joins Julia Dixon (ESAI), Keely Cat-Wells (Making Space), Nick Gross (Find Your Grind, Inc.), and Sam Hyams (Springpod) at the ASU+GSV Summit in “Beyond the Novelty: Evaluating AI-Powered Career Navigation Tools” to explore how to assess the real impact of emerging AI tools on student career readiness.

Novel AI-powered career navigation solutions are emerging rapidly – investors hear pitches daily, educators evaluate new tools constantly, and young people navigate an expanding set of options. Amid this innovation explosion, how do we evaluate what’s actually helping young people feel prepared for their future? This session brings together impact investors and entrepreneurs for a candid conversation about identifying solutions that genuinely serve students.Panelists discuss how AI-powered tools are adding value while also exposing weaknesses in youth career navigation, including inequities such as disparities in internet access and persistent biases. The conversation also explores practical frameworks for measuring whether these tools are improving student outcomes and which innovations are worth investing in, implementing, or recommending.