Hal Speed is an advocate for all students learning computer science and believes these skills are necessary for socioeconomic mobility and the future prosperity of nations in the digital age. He is currently the Chief of Global Engagement for the Micro:bit Educational Foundation that provides educational learning tools for computational thinking, coding and making.
Hal also founded CS4TX to coordinate activities across Texas and represent the state in the national CSforALL initiative and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. He was a writer for the K-12 Computer Science Framework published in 2016 and is a past CSTA chapter president.
Previously, Hal held strategy and marketing roles with technology startups and corporations such as Dell, AMD and Texas Instruments. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from Virginia Tech.