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Harrison Parker

Executive Vice President, North America at Linewize (part of Qoria), an edtech company focused on student online safety and digital wellbeing.

Sep 21, 2026

2:56
How were they chosen and how do they maybe work together at times?
3:00
Sure.
3:00
Trisha, first off, thanks for having me today.
3:03
Really excited to talk about digital safety as probably everyone listening in knows.
3:08
This is a very hot topic right now around children's AI usage as well as screen time, etc.
3:14
It's been something that obviously our company has been focused on for over a decade now.
3:21
And over the last 10 years, we've been acquiring a lot of technology.

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18:24
Can you say a little bit more just in terms of some of the things that maybe the average person is not even factoring, they're not even considering this could potentially be a concern that Harrison, you're saying like our offerings, our programs are going to make people more aware of things that just have not necessarily been on their radar.
35:00
And, and you're so right because it, it was more of a, an equity, how do we get this into the hands of people, and now it's in the hands, and perhaps certain layers of things were not considered before because in hindsight, you know, it's a wonderful thing, but actually were we even aware that, that these things might have been possible, um, and that digital wellbeing may well have been a concern at all? It's a, a new thing altogether, isn't it? Uh, tell us a little bit more about it as a total kind of, uh, application for people to be able to use to be able to support people.
35:32
Sure.
35:32
There, there's a number of different products or features that we offer, and again, it ranges from, from school to home in terms of the end user that's using that product.
35:43
But our core offering to education really started out as a content filter.
35:48
So early, early on in, in the early 2000s when the internet was first hitting schools, it was really about keeping kids off of harmful or inappropriate content.So that, that's our core, uh, is making sure that kids are off, off those certain sites that are, you know, very apparent to everyone that it's, it's not appropriate to, to be on at school.
36:09
And then that, that evolved from there to a classroom management tool where teachers can focus attention just on the sites that they want.
36:17
So I alluded to this earlier, but literally as a teacher you could say, "Hey, you're only allowed to go to these five websites for the next 50 minutes during my class." So you can ensure that they're not getting distracted.

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42:40
So how, how easy is it? How, how is the simplicity of that, and has that been something that you've worked on as a company?
35:07
And perhaps certain layers of things were not considered before because in hindsight, you know, is a wonderful thing, but actually were we even aware that, that these things might have been possible, um, and that digital wellbeing may well have been a concern at all? It's a, a new thing altogether, isn't it? Uh, tell us a little bit more about it as a total kind of, uh, application for people to be able to use to be able to support people.
35:32
Sure.
35:32
There, there's a number of different products or features that we offer, and again, it ranges from, from school to home in terms of the end user that's using that product.
35:43
But our core offering to education really started out as a content filter.
35:48
So early, early on in, in the early 2000s when the internet was first hitting schools, it was really about keeping kids off of harmful or inappropriate content.So that, that's our core, uh, is making sure that kids are off, off those certain sites that are, you know, very apparent to everyone that it's, it's not appropriate to, to be on at school.
36:09
And then that, that evolved from there to a classroom management tool where teachers can focus attention just on the sites that they want.
36:17
So I alluded to this earlier, but literally as a teacher you could say, "Hey, you're only allowed to go to these five websites for the next 50 minutes during my class." So you can ensure that they're not getting distracted.

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42:40
So how, how easy is it? How, how is the simplicity of that, and has that been something that you've worked on as a company?

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