Presentations
Seeing is Believing: VR in Workplace Training
Date Friday, Dec 3 Time – Room: Tiergarten
When we are armed with the right technology, it can serve as a bridge between us and our environment, making learning and trainings a truly contextualised, collaborative and engaging experience in any setting. Join this session in which VR is shown to be that bridge.
Wojciech Bednaruk
Learning Technology Senior Manager, PwC, Poland
Wojciech has gathered almost 20 years of experience in a wide range of learning technology fields. He implemented Learning Management Systems in Canada, Central & Eastern Europe and Africa together with setting up digital learning functions to complement traditional L&D teams. He designed and developed many online learning programmes, always eager to experiment in bridging his technical expertise with organisational design, coaching and change management. His new interests include the ethics of new technologies as the power of technology permeates social and psychological realms.
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Tom Wambeke
Chief Learning Innovation, ITCILO, Italy
A United Nations Senior Executive with 20 years of work experience in managing capacity development programmes with focus on learning innovation and digital transformation. Worked with cross-functional teams on innovation projects across more than 50 countries. Diplomas from the University of Leuven and University of Antwerp (Belgium) and executive certificates from the University of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Public speaker on Innovation, Strategic Foresight and digital transformation. Author of different toolkits, publications. Chief Learning Innovation of the Training Centre of the International Labour Organization since 2015. Specialized in providing sustainable learning solutions with the objective to generate impact and organizational change.
As a certified international facilitator (IAF) actively involved in strategy facilitation, participatory knowledge sharing, networked learning and ICT4Development. Passion for complexity adaptive thinking, intentional serendipity, foresight analysis and futures exploration.
The Programme he is leading has a double mandate: to strengthen the Centre’s in-house capacity to apply state-of-the art learning, communication and knowledge sharing methods and technology, and to provide learning, innovation and communication services to outside partners on a global scale. In this context he works closely together with UN agencies, development banks, international organisations, governments and NGO’s.
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Thomas Grønlund
Training Project Manager, Global Wind Organisation, Denmark
Thomas manages training development projects in global wind industry. Thomas had a long career in the Royal Danish Navy, Training and Education branch, before joining Global Wind Organisation in August 2020. His key focus areas are pedagogical and didactic development and design with an uncompromising curiosity in the pursuit of how we can design teaching that meets the taxonomic ambitions of the set learning goals. In 2016 Thomas presented his project "Didactic Ambitions in e-learning" at OEB. The same year his publication "The Military Instructor's Handbook" was published by the Danish Defense College in Danish and English language and is now syllabus on the Danish Defense NCO instructors training. Thomas holds a Master in Adult Learning and HR Development from Aarhus University.
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Willi Bernhard
Professor, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Willi Bernhard is a Professor at the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences. As an expert in digital engineering at the Department of Computer Science, he works as an engineer, lecturer, researcher, consultant and book author in the fields of computer simulation, serious games and digital education. He is a member of the board of Swiss Engineering STV Basel and head of the special interest group Digital Collaboration of the Swiss academic e-learning community.