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Prof. Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor. He combines math, science, and technology with firsthand exploration of the human condition. Across the global landscape of work, AI, and education. Major newspapers have covered his diverse innovations. His latest initiative unites math stars and actors to transform education.

He won silver for Team USA at the 1999 International Math Olympiad, and served a decade as National Coach. He is a Hertz Fellow — in a community of broadly innovative scientists with roots in the Manhattan Project and Space Race.

He personally speaks in an unprecedented 100+ cities per year on education-after-AI. Conferences. Substitute-teaching in K–12 classrooms. Visiting companies and labs. Public lectures. Learning while sharing ideas with students, parents, researchers, and policymakers. All while teaching at one of the world’s foremost universities in AI (Carnegie Mellon) and running his own EdTech social enterprise.

Josh Laney is Vice President of Apprenticeship and Work-Embedded Learning at the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN). He convenes education, industry, and government to turn shared vision into durable structure, drawing on more than two decades of leadership across K-12, technical education, state workforce development, senior advisory roles in state government, and registered apprenticeship. At C-BEN he leads the National Project on Apprenticeship Standards and Interoperability (PASI), a federally funded initiative to expand and modernize competency-based apprenticeship nationwide. As the founding director of the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship, Mr. Laney established himself as a nationally recognized voice in apprenticeship and work-embedded learning. He has testified before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee and served on the executive board of the National Association of State and Territorial Apprenticeship Directors.

Mr. Laney is a graduate of Auburn and Troy Universities and lives with his family on their cattle farm in Russell County, Alabama.