Education & Workforce Development

What if education could be truly personalized — adapting to each learner — without turning students into data products? What if professional credentials could travel across borders and employers without months of re-verification?

This Accelerator builds the privacy-preserving infrastructure to make that real.

25 Members
19 Affiliates
2018 Since
Education Vertical

The Problem

Education and workforce systems are caught in the same trap as healthcare and finance: to personalize, you need data. To protect data, you sacrifice personalization. Students generate learning data across dozens of platforms, schools, and programs — but none of it connects. Workers earn credentials that don’t transfer. Training outcomes stay locked inside individual organizations.

The result: education stays generic, credentials stay fragmented, and the people who would benefit most from personalized learning and portable qualifications — career changers, immigrants, rural students — are the ones least served.

What This Looks Like in Practice

AI Tutoring Without Surveillance

A student uses an AI tutor that adapts to their learning style, pace, and knowledge gaps — drawing on their complete academic history across every school they’ve attended. But no school, platform, or vendor sees the full picture. The student’s Personal Privacy Network holds their learning profile. The AI works inside it. The student gets truly personalized education without becoming a data product.

Workforce Credentials That Travel

A nurse trained in the Philippines moves to Hawaii. Today, she spends months re-proving her qualifications to each employer, licensing board, and insurance credentialer — each with their own forms and verification process. With privacy-preserving verifiable credentials, her qualifications are verified once and accepted everywhere — without exposing her immigration status, personal history, or anything beyond what each party needs to see.

Cross-Organization Training Intelligence

Three hospital systems pool their anonymized training outcomes to build a shared AI model that predicts which onboarding approaches reduce staff turnover. None of them share employee data with each other. The Privacy Network lets them collaborate on workforce intelligence without any organization seeing another’s people.

The patented technology to build these exists. This Accelerator is where the teams come together to make them real.

Part of a Larger Ecosystem

Education & Workforce Development connects naturally to other EP3 Accelerators:

  • Lōkahi Healthcare — workforce credentials for healthcare professionals across Hawaii’s health system.
  • Proof of Trust Accreditation — independent verification that credentials and certifications are legitimate.
  • Quantum Privacy & AI — the underlying privacy infrastructure that makes cross-organization learning data collaboration possible.

LabLab.ai — a global community of over 250,000 AI builders — managed the inaugural Lōkahi Healthcare Hackathon and provides a direct pipeline for workforce development in privacy-preserving AI.

Get Involved

Educators, edtech companies, workforce development organizations, credential issuers, and AI researchers — help build education and training systems that personalize without surveilling.

Two ways to participate. Apply to join the Accelerator to build AI-powered learning that respects student privacy, create portable privacy-preserving professional credentials, and develop cross-organization workforce intelligence. Or record your contributions through QPN Catalyst — no signup required.

Team and Affiliates

Members · 25

Marsali S. Hancock
EP3 Foundation CEO and President
Board Member

Dr. Alex J. Carlisle
National Alliance against Disparities in Patient Health, Chairman and CEO
Board Member

Michael Rich, MD, MPH
Founder and Director, Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Childrens Hospital
Board Member

Iwan Streichenberger
President & Co-Founder, Mindshine Technologies
Board Member

Jonathan Hare
WebShield CEO, President, and Co-Founder
Board Member

Peter Knez
Palm Global Technologies, TEAL Chairman & CEO
Board Member

Simran Chana
Cambridge Frontier Technology Lab Executive Director

Patricia Hammar
PKH Enterprises CEO
Board Member

Pawel Czech
Co-Founder New Native, EP3 Foundation

Prof. Carlos Bustamante
CEO, Galatea Bio
Board Member

Lan Jenson
CEO of Adaptable Security (ADA)
Board Member

Gözde Erbaz
CEO and Founder RobinCode CyberRobin.org
Board Member

David Bickham, Ph.D.
Research Director, Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children's Hospital
Board Member

Thomas Sam Shomaker
Dean, University of Hawaii John A Burns School of Medicine

Virginia Bartlett
Pearson, Former VP, Privacy & Data Protection inBloom Inc Former Chief Privacy Office
Board Member

Teri Schroeder
Chief Executive Officer at ISAFE Enterprises LLC

Denise Tayloe
CEO & Co-Founder, PRIVO | Children's Online Privacy Expert | Evangelist | Keynote Speaker
Board Member

Joshua C. Rubin
President & CEO, Learning Health Community
Board Member

Michael Kleeman
Senior Fellow and Director Institute for, Global Production and Innovation, University of California, San Diego
Board Member

Dr. Sandra Elliott
Founder and CEO
Elliott Street Consultancy LLC
EP3 Foundation Chief Education Officer
Board Member

Holly Hawkins
Principal, Global Advertising Policy
Amazon
Board Member

Michael Kaiser
President and CEO at Defending Digital Campaigns
Board Member

Scott Gallant
Founder and Principal Consultant
Keyed Systems
Board Member

Ed Barbier
Colorado State University, School of Global Environmental Sustainability Distinguished Professor
Board Member

Marcelo de Andre
ProNatura International, Earth Capital Chairman
Board Member

Affiliates · 19

  1. WebShield
  2. Center on Media & Child Health
  3. NADPH
  4. Cambridge Frontier Technology Labs
  5. Hawaii SHPDA
  6. University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
  7. New Native
  8. Palm Global Tech
  9. ProNatura International
  10. E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
  11. Global Footprint Network
  12. Global Grid for Learning
  13. MetaPause
  14. CodeX
  15. Privo
  16. Code.org
  17. LabLab.ai
  18. Digital Wellness Lab
  19. Palm Promax Investments