Power of Innovation
Summit 2025 & Yass Prize Awards
December 4, 2025
Washington, D.C
Agenda
The Power of Innovation: Advancing Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education.
Innovation is the engine of American progress — and nowhere is it more urgently needed than in education. The Summits explore how today’s boldest educators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers are reimagining what’s possible for learners across the nation. Through the lens of the Yass Prize’s four pillars — Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless — we’ll highlight the people, programs and policymakers proving that when innovation meets freedom, students, families, and communities flourish.
Registration is Closed
Lunch & Afternoon Panels
11:00 Registration
11:30 Program
Panel | Educating for America’s 250th
Panel | Rebuilding the American Workforce
Panel | Making Children Healthy Again
Panel | Power to the States: Trailblazers Share their Experiences
…and Innovator Spotlights
Yass Prize Dinner & Keynotes
5:00 – Reception
6:00 – Dinner & Awards
Panel | The Alpha, The Omega and AI
Fireside Chat | Who Should Control the Future of Education – Government or Families?
Fireside Chat | How to Ensure Full and Fair Funding Follows the Child
Keynote | How Education Fuels Mobility, Growth, and Competitiveness
discussion | Advancing School Choice, from DC to the States
Presentation of One Million Dollar Yass Prize
Full Agenda herefeatured speakers
Transformational Voices
* Invited speakers
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Photo Gallery
Recent Events and Memories
Just two days after the 2024 election, some of the nation’s most prominent educators, policymakers and influencers gathered in Washington, DC to coalesce on how to ensure that freedom, flexibility, and full and fair funding drive critical changes for education and the workforce in America. Their conversations, covered on C-SPAN and posted here, are indicative of the Power of Innovation and bold thinking to transform US education.
Sponsors
In addition to the gracious and generous support of this event by Janine and Jeff Yass, we are grateful for the partnership of the following organizations in supporting our efforts to promote opportunity and innovation in American Education:
BrightThinker
gemseducation
Prescence
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