Plenaries
Opening Plenary
Date Thursday, Dec 2 Time – RoomPotsdam I
In a world changed forever by a global pandemic, no single word is more important than 'resilience.' It is the secret to overcoming the past, the key to the future. But what do we mean by it? How can we become resilient? Should we learn resilience? Can it be taught? How should we invest in resilience? And how can we make learning itself resilient?
At the Opening Plenary of Online Educa Berlin 2021 we will be "Learning Resilience".
Fons Trompenaars
Organisational theorist and Author, Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Consulting, Netherlands
Dr Fons Trompenaars is a Dutch organisational theorist recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.
He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in the areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership development.
Listed regularly one of the most influential management thinkers alive and inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2017 as one of the world’s most influential, living, management thinkers, he has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development. Fons was voted one of the top 20 HR Most Influential International Thinkers 2011 by HR Magazine. He is also ranked in the Thinkers 50 2011 2013 and 2015 He was inducted into the Thinker 50 Hall of Fame in 2017.
Fons joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Rotterdam. From 1985 he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 we operate as Trompenaars Hampden Turner.
Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.
Fons wrote Riding the Waves of Culture, Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business This book sold over 120 000 copies and was translated into 16 languages amongst them, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Danish, Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian and Portuguese and it is in its 4th edition. He is co author amongst others of Nine Visions of Capitalism Unlocking the Meanings of Wealth Creation and Rewarding Performance Globally.
Marleen Stikker
Founder of Waag, Professor of Practice at HvA, member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation, Waag, Netherlands
Marleen Stikker is founder of Waag. Marleen Stikker (1962) is also founder of 'De Digitale Stad' (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet in Amsterdam. She leads Waag, a social enterprise that consists of a research institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, that launched companies like Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world. She is also member of the European H2020 Commission High-level Expert Group for SRIA on innovating Cities/DGResearch and the Dutch AcTI academy for technology & innovation. Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker's Bill of Rights motto: "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It". Marleen believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.
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Moderator
Donald H Taylor
Chair, Learning Technologies, United Kingdom
Donald H Taylor has worked in learning and technology since the mid-1980s.
He has chaired the Learning Technologies Conference in London since 2000 and writes and speaks world-wide. His annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey, started in 2014, provides a unique perspective on L&D trends from over 100 countries. From 2010 to 2021, he chaired the Learning and Performance Institute.
He chairs the Workforce Development board for VC firm Emerge Education, and advises several EdTech start-ups.
The author of Learning Technologies in the Workplace, Donald is a graduate of Oxford University and the recipience of an honorary doctorate from London’s Middlesex University.