Philipp Schmidt

Philipp Schmidt is an expert in generative AI and digital learning. He is currently vice president of technology innovation at Axim Collaborative, a non-profit organization founded by MIT and Harvard to make learning more accessible, more effective, and more meaningful. There he invests in the development of generative AI tools offering tangible benefits to learners, availing higher education of access to cutting edge technology. He specifically works with education technology innovators to align their products with the needs of broad access institutions, including community colleges. He also creates strategic partnerships, identifying opportunities where technology innovation could lead to better student outcomes and provide targeted funding and capacity building.

Formerly, he was the director of learning innovation at the MIT Media Lab, where he led the ML Learning initiative, taught courses, and conducted research on learning communities.

He is also a cofounder and board member of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), a non-profit organization that provides access to online higher education through public libraries. Philipp served on the founding board of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, co-authored the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, and is an advisor to a number of non-profit and for-profit education projects.