Business EDUCA 2017
These sessions are dedicated to the needs of CLOs, HR professionals and learning and talent development leaders looking to deliver individual potential and business results.
BUS01
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: Opening Conversation
The opening conversation of the Business EDUCA track will set the scene by addressing common challenges and opportunities for learning and development professionals and workplace learners alike. As workplaces change, what does this mean for employees, organisations and modern learning professionals? How can we use the increased knowledge about how we learn to learn better? Don’t miss the chance to contribute to perspectives that we can build on throughout the conference. Apart from involving your personal ideas, the facilitated conversation will draw upon insights from speakers including:
Brandon Carson
The Home Depot, USA
Learning in the Age of Immediacy: 5 Factors Transforming Training
Brandon is author of Learning in the Age of Immediacy: 5 Factors for How We Connect, Communicate, and Get Work Done. He is an innovative learning strategist with extensive experience leading global corporate learning teams and programs in environments as varied as startups, tech companies, and the retail industry. He is a popular speaker, delivering a wide variety of engaging presentations and workshops at industry events. Brandon has been honored with several learning industry awards, including the ATD BEST Award, the eLearning Guild People’s Choice Award, and three Brandon Hall Awards for Best Custom Learning Design. He has also served on the board of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association and ATD conference committees. Brandon invites you to chat with him on Twitter (@brandonwcarson), where he engages in frank, interactive discussions about learning and business transformation.
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http://www.brandonwcarson.com/
BUS02
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: Understanding Learners as Customers
How can you move to a customer led learning organisation? What ‘personas’ do your customers have; what do they look like? How do you engage your customers to participate in the design of learning? This guided discussion will cover ground on topics such as: Lessons from learner insights (how can you treat learners as customers and create a compelling offer for them?); Learner ‘personas’ (Design Thinking in learning); Learners at the centre (enabling learners to create their own learning with autonomy and control); Customer led learning (with spaced chunks); Accessible rich learning (and the role of the smartphone); and The role of neuroscience and technology in creating personalised learning.
Andy Lancaster
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), UK
Andy Lancaster
Head of Learning and Development Content
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Andy Lancaster has more than 25 years’ experience in learning and organisational development in commercial, technological and not-for-profit organisations and has also worked in a consultancy role.
As Head of Learning and Development Content at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Andy is responsible for professional development and learning products, digital content and qualifications for L&D, coaching and mentoring, management and leadership and business psychology.
Andy also plays a key role in leading the direction and delivery of CIPD’s wider new vision for L&D. He was part of the team that developed CIPD’s new L&D qualifications, oversees the Leaders in Learning Network and is helping pioneer online digital learning at the Institute.
Andy has a Master’s Degree in Instructional Design and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) and the Learning and Performance Institute (FLPI).
He regularly speaks at conferences, write articles on behalf of CIPD and is the co-author of the “Webinars Pocketbook”. He is also an avid Tweeter being found on Twitter at @AndyLancasterUK!
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Teresa Rose
E.ON SE, Germany
Teresa is Product Manager for Digital Learning at E.ON SE in the Global Learning Centre of Competence, based in Essen, Germany. She has worked for E.ON since 2008, previously in the UK L&D Centre of Expertise as a leadership and management learning designer, then project managing learning initiatives linked to E.ON's UK strategy and people plan. However, her passion for learning stems from working in business development for eLearning and games based education companies. It was where she developed much of her technology enabled learning expertise; partnering Education Authorities and developing teachers to embed technology into their curriculums. When looking at a business problem, Teresa's key strengths are the ability to view situations strategically, using an OD/systems lens to assess the current and future context and identifying opportunities for pragmatic innovation. Her approach is focussed on partnering the business to get to the heart of the underlying issues. And although she'll admit to a love of digital learning, she always puts the business need first and the tech second, stepping away from the learning jargon.
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Annett Irmer
E.ON, Germany
Annett Irmer started her professional career as learning technology consultant at IMC AG in 2000 after studying European Finance and Accounting and a Master Program in European Human Resource Management.
In this role, she supported global organisations in the design and implementation of learning technology strategies. A key focus was the implementation and rollout of learning management systems. She was also responsible for setting up a subsidiary of IMC in Paris, France.
After seven years as a consultant, Annett changed to E.ON and took over the role as “Program Manager e-Learning” at the E.ON Academy, the corporate university of E.ON. During her time at E.ON, Annett took on different roles and project responsibilities within Learning & Development such as the implementation of a Group-wide learning controlling framework, learning process management as well as the efficiency project for learning in the context of the program E.ON 2.0.
With the implementation of the new HR model, Annett took the role of the client expert for Regional Unit Germany in the Center of Competence Global Learning.
In the beginning of 2016, Annett was promoted to Head of Digital Learning & Global Learning Solutions. In this role, Annett leads a team of learning experts covering the topics of digital learning, learning management and learning products for functional skills and competencies.
Key projects include the implementation of SuccessFactors learning, setting up functional academies and implementing design thinking for learning.
BUS03
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: Nudging: Methods and Tools for Motivation, Engagement and Productivity
This panel will discuss opportunities for workplace learning as a means of effecting behavioural change. Key elements in focus include gamification strategies and design for enhancing learning, and types of learning experiences that can be created to bring about behavioural change.
Ben Eubanks
Lighthouse Research, USA
Hackathons for Learning: Linking Skill Building and Engagement Practices
Ben Eubanks is the Principal Analyst at Lighthouse Research & Advisory. Ben is a thought leader, author, and speaker on trends and innovative practices in human capital management.
He has authored ten eBooks and more than one thousand articles, maintains an HR blog that has touched the lives of more than 750,000 business leaders since its inception and hosts “We’re Only Human,” a podcast that examines the intersection of people and technology in the workplace.
Previously the HR Director for an Inc. 500-ranked global technology startup, he currently owns and operates Lighthouse Research & Advisory, a human capital research and advisory services firm. He works with HR, talent, and learning leaders across the globe to solve their most pressing business challenges with a research-based perspective tempered by practical, hands-on experience. His research focuses on cutting edge practices in talent and learning technology, strategy, and innovation.
Ben also co-founded the HRevolution unconference for HR and business leaders. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management from Athens State University, and he also holds both SPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications to maintain his relevancy and connection to the critical talent topics affecting businesses today.
Most importantly, he has four children, a wonderful wife of ten years, and a preference for running in a variety of outlandish races for fun.
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Önder Erol
Isbank, Turkey
Önder is a committed Learning and Development professional with a strong focus on innovative and engaging digital learning solutions, with experience over 10 years in banking. He is responsible for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of online courses in the largest private bank of Turkey, Isbank.
Önder has been part of IsVille project, Isbank’s award-winning strategy game (Learning Technologies Awards 2016 Best Learning Game – Gold Winner). As a member of Learning Technologies Team, Önder is working on a new gamification project now, which is currently in its development phase. He is highly interested in engaging digital learning solutions and new adult learning methods, focusing on the real practical benefits for learning and development. He also shares his core business experience with employees of Isbank, by giving lectures mainly in commercial loans and financial analysis.
Tim Ackermann
Lidl, Germany
Tim Ackermann is a seasoned and passionate HR and Talent Acquisition expert with over 20 years of experience in various industries and regions at companies such as Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, Swarovski and Zalando. Recently Tim joined Lidl, one of the world's largest grocery retailers, as Global Head Talent Acquisition & Experience to create a unique and frictionless experience for future and existing employees. Outside of the corporate world, Tim teached HR Management at the International School of Management, Munich. Tim is a founding member of Queb e.V. the (German) Association for Quality Employer Branding and actively engaged in the harmonization of the European higher education with fibaa e.V.
Geraldine Voost
HeidelbergCement Benelux, The Netherlands
Creating a 70:20:10 Learner Mindset
Work experience has always been a mix of psychology and IT, I like working in the area where these two interact. After graduating I lived and worked in the UK for 5 years. In addition to that I've also worked on long-term projects in Ireland (Dublin), the US, as well as instructional/curriculum design & facilitating workshops and (classroom) training all over Europe, the US, and India.
Projects included: evaluating e-learning on usability, introducing e-learning in an IT software & consultancy firm, introducing e-learning in an industrial area, designing/developing/project management of e-learning courses, and LMS system administration. Most of the time on a low budget, which means coming up with creative solutions.
Work
I currently work for HeidelbergCement Benelux where I've had three different positions since I joined in September 2009. My current position (since March 2017) is Development & Recruitment Manager Benelux. With the team we're now very much focused on implementing more 70 & 20, and less 10.
Educational Background
Masters degree in Cognitive Science (Radboud University Nijmegen) with a Psychology base. Langevin certified instructional designer. Certified PCM Trainer. Certified in OPQ Assessments.
Personal Background
48 years old, married, 2 cats, member of the board at the Dutch Dance Sports Federation, NADB (responsible for Communication) after having competed myself at the highest level until May 2016.
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http://www.heidelbergcement.com/en/bene…
BUS04
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: The Learning L&D Needs
Creating learning solutions which enable workforce development is no easy feat. And becoming an effective instructional designer will often require a degree, courses and field experience. This session will discuss the skills practitioners need for the L&D department of the future, as well as how we can learn the profession and remain relevant to our organisations.
Maren Deepwell
Association for Learning Technology, UK
Re-articulating What we Value: a New Vision for Learning Technology Professionals
Dr Maren Deepwell (BA, MA, PhD) is the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)’s Chief Executive. ALT is the UK's leading membership organisation in the learning technology field. Maren's work is focused on working with the ALT community, researchers, practitioners and policy makers and to provide overall leadership for the Association. She works to develop ALT's understanding of the community and ensures that ALT's work aligns with the demands of the rapidly developing learning landscape.
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Jo Cook
Training Journal magazine and website, and media partner of OEB, UK
Taking the Uncertainty out of the Future Role of the L&D Professional
Jo Cook is Deputy Editor at www.TrainingJournal.com magazine and website, and focuses her time on ground-breaking discussion webinars and speaking at events.
TJ is the only independent, monthly print magazine in the UK for learning and development professionals and has 50 years experience with the best L&D thought leaters.
Jo works for TJ part time and the rest of the time is Director of her company www.LightbulbMoment.info, which specialises in developing, facilitating and training others to deliver great live online training sessions, virtual classrooms, webinars and blended, digital programmes.
You can contact through @LightbulbJo or @TrainingJournal
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https://lightbulbmoment.infohttp://www.trainingjournal.com
Eran Gal
Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel
An Instructional Designer Training Program that Meets Organizational Needs
Dr. Eran Gal is an e-learning expert with over 17 years of experience in applying cross-company technology-based learning solutions. Dr. Gal holds both M.A. and PhD degrees from the Knowledge Technology Lab at the Tel Aviv University, School of Education. Following several years as an e-Learning manager in large enterprises Dr. Gal joined the Holon Institution of Technology (HIT), Faculty of Instructional Technologies as a lecturer and a research team leader.
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BUS05
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: Competent or Disrupted? Key Strategies to Cope with Digital Uncertainty from a Competence-based and HR Perspective
The general aim of this interactive learning café is to develop a mutual understanding of how organisations can design their survival strategies from a competence-driven and HR perspective, rather than from a pure digital technology perspective, when coping with disruption. “Change,” as such, is not only about gaining efficiency by applying more digital technologies, by adding more digital tools to our organisations, it is also about the whole ‘competence structure’ of our workplaces. Let us apply a systematic analysis of the underlying forces at play and look at what this actually means for an organisation from an HR perspective as the technological world collides with the HR world today.
Kai Reinhardt
HTW Berlin, Germany
Competent or Disrupted? – Key Strategies to Cope with Digital Uncertainty from a Competence-based and HR Perspective
BUS06
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: From Development to Transformation and Retainment: Measuring the Organisational Impact of Learning
This session is for learning and development professionals looking to gain new insights into how to track and report on the impact of learning. Join us to discuss ideas on how to spend your budget in a world full of data. Our roles keep developing: instead of assigning training, we enable learning. But when employees pick the courses they take, how can we evaluate the impact of their learning? How can we align key performance indicators with our organisations’ goals? How can we define a suitable time for reporting for anytime, anywhere learning? And to what extent can technologies and competence mapping support personalised learning on alarge scale? This panel will kick off the conversation and set the scene for an interactive discussion on challenges, successes and best practice that links learning to general business objectives and drives innovation.
Rolf Reinhardt
LinkedIn, Ireland
From Development to Transformation and Retainment: Measuring the Organizational Impact of Learning beyond Training Initiatives
BUS07
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: Human-Computer Interaction and Augmented Reality Training
Join this session for an engaging discussion on the future of augmented reality training as a means to provide on-the-job support in highly demanding technical work. What is the impact of merging technology and the physical environment? To what extend is this type of training learner driven? What does this mean for the role of L&D and what does it mean for an organisation to handle potentially complex technical requirements?
Björn Schwerdtfeger
AugmentedRealityExperts, Germany
BMW Representative
BMW, Germany
Miho Tanaka
Enobyte GmbH, Germany
Miho is the co-founder of Enobyte GmbH, a company that helps businesses through the EU General Data Protection Regulation compliance process with their GDPR Toolbox. Prior to this she founded AirMarkr, a mobile app that lets you draw in the air. It was named one of the hottest startups in Germany by LeWeb, and The Next Web. Miho has won multiple awards as a digital concepter and UI/UX person, working for major clients such as Vodafone, MINI, and Sony-Playstation.
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http://enobyte.com/https://www.gumpp.com
BUS08
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: The Learning Organisations’ Stakeholders: Connecting Visions, Roadmaps, Tools and Methods
From micro-learning to MOOCs to Hackathons - and from analytics for performance management to global knowledge academies: an innovative, interdisciplinary L&D team is a key enabler for a learning organisation. The Corporate Learning Community is a network of professionals, who like to experiment and drive concepts to the limit. They will share their experience of organizing a MOOC with 8 international Companies (Merck, Continental, Ottobock, DNV GL Oil & Gas, Viessmann, Aareal Bank, Bosch, Audi) and 1100 participants, as well as the lessons learnt by connecting people. What really happens if you unleash the potential of learnning together?
Join this interactive session which will kick off with best practices from peers – and leave with new ideas and an overview of tools and implementation strategies to apply in your workplace.
Charlotte Venema
HESSEN METALL Verband der Metall- und Elektro-Unternehmen Hessen e.V., Germany
Stefan Hoffmann
Viessmann Werke GmbH & Co. KG,
BUS09
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
Business EDUCA: Scenario-Based Learning for Capability Development
How can Scenario-Based Learning (SBL), impact my organisation? If you are a Learning and Development professional looking to make learning and training in your organisation more engaging then this is a session not to miss! You will walk away with: insight into what SBL can do; practical experience in generating scenarios (to develop learning modules & MOOCs) and; become part of a wider discussion on how to implement SBL and more interactivity for learners in your workplace. SBL allows learners to better engage with their training rather than just thinking of it as a tick box exercise and they can apply the learning to their everyday working life.
Lindsay Germain
Bayer, Germany
Sheetal Kavia
St George’s University, UK
BUS10
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
Business EDUCA: The Tech World's L&D Experts: Strategies and Solutions
Silver bullet solutions are understandably met with caution, however, these workplaces have taken on organisational transformation challenges and new methods and tools that have affected L&D and learners alike. Join us to hear about transferable best practice and lessons learnt.
Lars Satow
SAP, Germany
Virtual Learning Rooms: Skill Development in Learning Communities and Virtual Learning Rooms
Michelle Lentz
Oracle Corporation, USA
Keeping the Human in HR: Change Management in Moving HR Learning to the Cloud
Tom Lamberty
Cisco Systems, Germany
HR on the Blockchain – Towards a New Social Paradigm
Tom Lamberty is part of Cisco Systems. He works as a consultant in Cisco's Leadership & Team Digitalization organization. Designing and incubating solutions leveraging the opportunities of digitizing HR. Some of his current areas of focus are: dynamic teams, open talent marketplaces, agile collaboration, blockchain applications. Tom has a professional track-record in strategic HR consulting and a wide range of traditional HR functions incl. recruiting, comp&ben and leadership development.
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BUS11
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
Business EDUCA: Best Practices from Corporate Universities
Are you looking to enable internal consultants to provide real-time training to business units? Do you want to find out how others created a platform to support (personal) leadership skills? In this session, global workplaces will share why and how they took on the development of their learning campus/corporate university with unique learning strategies and instructional models. Information about ‘best practices’ will highlight the main stages and decisions involved, showing how change can be managed.
Darlene Christopher
World Bank, USA
Keeping Pace with Rapid Change at the World Bank via Virtual Classroom Training
Darlene Christopher, CPLP, has designed and delivered virtual training programs for global audiences for over twelve years and authored a book, The Successful Virtual Classroom, on the subject. She is a Senior Knowledge & Learning Officer at the World Bank in Washington D.C. where she directs global learning programs and provides technical leadership on distance learning programs. Previously, Darlene held technology development and management positions at Disney Internet Group, 3Com and Nextel. Darlene’s international work experience includes consulting for the United Nations in Germany, teaching in Venezuela, and serving as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize.
Darlene speaks regularly at national and international conferences, sharing her passion for leveraging virtual classrooms to solve workplace learning needs. Darlene has an MPA in International Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a BA in Spanish from the University of California, Davis.
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Christie Deydier
Gemalto, France
Learning Journey in Innovative Collaboration
Ernesto Barrios
Repsol, Spain
The Repsol Evolution from a Face-to-Face Training Department Towards an Online-based Corporate University
Ernesto Barrios is Learning Office manager at Repsol. He is an Industrial Engineer with an MBA, and a background of more than 20 years in different business and countries with Repsol. Originally from Peru, Ernesto has lived and worked in USA, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and in Spain since 2005. During this experience, he early understood that people is the main driver of change within organizations, which took him to shift his career into the learning and development areas.
Currently, Ernesto is a member of the corporate university of Repsol. He created the learning strategy, the instructional model and the content factory that they are running. During his participation Ernesto will share with us how they faced this creative and change process, what main decisions were made and how they embedded their instructional model in an on-line tool that not only assures the instructional design, but reduces production costs and times as well.
BUS12
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
Business EDUCA: Designing Rapid Solutions to Emerging Business Problems
The key to successful change is people. In uncertain times, learning takes on new significance in terms of helping people to adapt to new roles or new ways of working and giving them the skills they need to be successful. Getting learning right at these times can give organisations and institutions an enormous competitive advantage, enabling them to be agile and adapt to new situations quickly. So what does ‘right’ look like? This interactive session will cover how to identify threats, problems or opportunities and how to design solutions that will enable a rapid and effective response. This session will not be a passive, watch-and-listen experience. You will be expected to be active and will be encouraged to share experiences and help your colleagues with potential solutions through a series of activities.
Rob Hubbard
LAS, UK
Designing Rapid Solutions to Emerging Business Problems
Rob is a designer through and through who is fascinated by how we learn, what we remember and why. He is a great enthusiast of all that technology can offer to enhance learning and has completed a huge variety of projects in his 15 year career.
In 2005, Rob founded LAS, which has grown to become a multi award-winning digital learning company. He served on the Board of the eLearning Network for four years including two as the elected Chair. A regular conference speaker he is also the editor and co-author of the 'Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual' published by Wiley and featuring contributions from the brightest and best elearning minds on both sides of the Atlantic.
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BUS13
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
Business EDUCA: Ensuring a Successful Learning Technology Implementation
What makes a learning technology implementation succeed or fail? Guess what – it’s never the technology. In his new book ‘Learning Technologies in the Workplace’, Donald Taylor explored 16 years of case studies to uncover the common factors of success. Join this session to find out what Donald discovered in writing the book and boost the likelihood of success in your next implementation. You’ll walk away with a crucial checklist, a set of free tools and some tough questions that will challenge how you think about using technology for learning. APPA – the four characteristics of successful implementation teams; The cult of the amateur and how it cripples too many roll outs; Tips for broadening your network and gaining a wider perspective; The greatest single threat to your implementation; Your first next step back in the office.
Donald H. Taylor
The Learning and Performance Institute, UK
Ensuring a Successful Learning Technology Implementation
Donald H Taylor is a 25 year veteran of the learning, skills and human capital industries, with experience at every level from design and delivery to chairman of the board. He has been chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute since 2010.
A recognised commentator and organiser in the fields of workplace learning and learning technologies, Donald is passionately committed to helping develop the learning and development profession.
His background ranges from training delivery to director and vice-president positions in software companies. Donald has been a company director and shareholder for three companies through start up, growth and acquisition.
He is an influential writer and speaker in the fields of the professional development of L&D and of technology-supported learning. He was the 2007 recipient of the Colin Corder award for services to training and has chaired the Learning Technologies Conference since 2000. He also chairs the Learning and Skills Group, hosting its bi-weekly webinar programme, and edits Inside Learning Technologies Magazine. He is a graduate of Oxford University and in 2016 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University in recognition of his work developing the L&D profession.
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http://www.iitt.org.uk/http://www.infobasis.com/
BUS14
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
Developing and Enhancing Meaningful Collaboration
By using specific pedagogical and digital solutions that support peer to peer learning in the workplace and in other out of classroom learning situations you will both experience the effectiveness of available tools, as well as take part in facilitated discussions about how to best use these tools for grouping, creating safe learning environments and building online communication skills for VET learners. We will use a set of cards to discuss different scenarios effectively. The outcomes of our session (links, ideas and best practices) will be presented and uploaded to a Padlet wall. This session is open to all but should be of specific interest to ‘on the job’ mentors, trainers, teacher trainers, VET teachers, VET coaches and upper secondary school teachers.
Franziska Trede
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Designing for Engaged Workplace Learning: A Mobile Technology Capacity Building Framework
Franziska Trede is Associate Professor in Higher Education at Charles Sturt University where she leads research, scholarship and practice in professional education and workplace learning. She is a national board member of the Australian Collaborative Education Network. She teaches an open online subject to academics and practitioners on the theory and practice of workplace learning. Her research focuses on professional practice, learner agency and resilience, pedagogy of deliberateness, professional identity development and professionalism. She has developed innovative online capacity building teaching tools using arts-based approaches. Franziska published 7 books and over 80 peer-reviewed papers and has presented her work in Canada, Europe and New Zealand. Her latest book under contract with Springer is titled Education for practice in hybrid spaces: Enhancing professional learning with mobile technology.
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Esko Lius
Omnia, Finland
Learning together: 70:20:10 Gives more than one hundred
Esko Lius is known for inspiring learning projects which put emphasis on learners' own activity, transformative pedagogy, and versatile tools for authentic learning. Mobile learning and BYOx model are most often employed.
He is involved in designing strategies and systems for building up the capacities of the teaching staff, and he facilitates digital strategy processes of the management – both in Finland and in international projects, e.g. in Kosovo and Egypt.
He is curious enough to ask What if… and divergent and diligent enough to find new approaches in challenging situations. He sees that the connection between formal school learning, the world outside, and learner's own interest is paramount to generate deep learning.
Recently he has been pondering (and piloting) how open digital badges may change the paradigm in recognizing competences and learning.
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https://www.omnia.fi/internationalomnia
Riitta Vihunen
Omnia, Finland
Learning together: 70:20:10 Gives more than one hundred
Taru Kekkonen
Omnia, Finland
Learning together: 70:20:10 Gives more than one hundred
BUS15
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
Business EDUCA: Closing Conversation
Join us with new thoughts and unanswered questions for this final, interactive, crowd-sourced session to share ideas and experiences with the Business EDUCA community.
CNT04
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
The Futurist Mindset; How to Navigate Uncertainty with Purpose
You are facing an increasingly VUCA environment – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – full of exponential change. How do you navigate a world like that? How do you prepare for a future that seems to be changing too rapidly to grasp? These complex and uncertain times require a new mindset. The “must have” skillset required to thrive in an era of unprecedented uncertainty is strategic foresight. It’s how you can effectively manage, harness, and leverage the constant change that is all around us. Strategic foresight provides the tools to transform our existing processes and mindsets to become adaptive and resilient. Simply put, strategic foresight provides us with the ability to navigate an uncertain future with purpose. Join this learning café to discover how strategic foresight will empower you to make sense of the emerging landscape of change, develop aspirational future visions, and create detailed road maps to achieve them. Set yourself up to thrive today - and in the future - in an uncertain and changing world.
Yvette Montero Salvatico
Kedge, LLC, USA
The Futurist Mindset: How to Navigate Uncertainty with Purpose
Yvette is an experienced and engaging speaker who is unique in her ability to transport audiences into the future. Holding a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from the University of Florida, Yvette has over 15 years of corporate experience with large, multi-national firms such as Kimberly-Clark and The Walt Disney Company. At The Walt Disney Company, Yvette led the effort to establish Future Workforce Insights to identify future workforce trends and leverage foresight models and techniques to assess potential threats and impacts, emerging ideas, and exciting opportunities for the organization. In her current role as a partner at Kedge – a strategic design, foresight, and innovation firm – Yvette utilizes extensive research and customized toolkits to service a diverse global client base. She nurtures strong relationships with her clients and challenges them to foster new ways of thinking.
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Plenary C
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
Workplace Learning Starts Here
How can organisations align training, learning and development with business goals? How can higher education and the TVET sector interact more effectively with the workplace? How can workplaces remain human-centered and use new technologies to keep the momentum to implement continuous change? What are the best ways to encourage dynamic cooperation? We invite you to participate in a dynamic panel discussion on workplace learning fit for the future.
Patrick King
Insights Lead, Learning Solutions at LinkedIn, USA
I have held a wide range of data-oriented roles in tech, media and finance. Most of this work has been focused on building data products for non-technical users (external and internal). Currently, I lead our insights team for Learning Solutions at LinkedIn, working across sales, marketing, engineering, product and analytics to understand how we can use LinkedIn's unique dataset to provide value to our customers in the e-learning space.
I am passionate about coaching and empowering analysts to use data to inform decision-making and measure impact to ensure the right problems are being addressed. In this role and my past, I have used a variety of technical tools including: distributed file systems (Hadoop), Relational Databases (SQL), Python, unix/bash, web development and whatever else was needed to get the job done. I pride myself on being able to not only think "big picture" but also my ability to "get in the weeds".
Heather McGowan
Internationally Recognized Expert on the Future of Work and the Future of Learning, USA
Heather McGowan works at the intersection of the future of work and the future of learning advising education and business leaders to most effectively prepare for rapid and disruptive changes in learning, work, and society.
Accelerating disruptive cycles in industry, with rising automation and rapid adoption and scaling of technology, are making traditional jobs frameworks obsolete and demanding new and adaptive skill sets of workers.
In higher education, McGowan advises presidents and senior leaders to develop students’ agile learning mindset in order to prepare graduates for jobs that do not yet exist. McGowan also guides corporate executives to re-think and re-frame their business models, and their understanding of team and organizational structures, to be resilient and successful in changing markets.
Her corporate clients range from start-ups like publicly traded, Fortune 500 companies, including Autodesk and BD Medical. She is the co-author of the book Disrupt Together: How Teams Consistently Innovate (Pearson) and is writing a book on the future of work due out in 2018.
McGowan speaks internationally on the future of work and the future of learning. For more information visit www.heathermcgowan.com.
SPL02
Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time –
OEB Spotlight Stage: Navigating the Digital, Networked, World
We live in a world of ‘hyperspecialism,’ where there is always a danger that we get stuck in the furrows we have ploughed. The expertise we valued so highly has served to narrow and shorten our vision. It has blinded us to potential and opportunity. Spotlight Stage speakers will argue that there is a need and a place for both the specialist and the generalist. Do you possess both a breadth and depth of skills, knowledge and experience, the potential, the attitude and the aptitude to specialise in more than one discipline? Join us to hear how we can become more adept at navigating the digital, networked world we inhabit today.
Kenneth Mikkelsen
Future|Shifts, Denmark
Kenneth Mikkelsen is a writer, speaker, leadership adviser and learning designer. His focus is on transformational leadership and learning.
As co-founder of FutureShifts Kenneth works with some of the leading organisations in the world to help their leaders rethink, redefine and reshape their organisations and better prepare themselves for emerging futures.
Kenneth has published widely on issues of leadership and the shifting nature of business in the 21st century. He is an associate of the Drucker Society Europe and Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He has co-founded St. Martin’s School, a non-profit organisation that provides education for underprivileged children in Cameroon.
Kenneth is co-author of The Neo-Generalist with Richard Martin. The book explores the value of multidisciplinarity, of living in more than one world. Inc. Magazine highlighted it as one of three books about creativity and leadership that you should read in 2017. The Neo-Generalist is a 2016 finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year.
SPL03
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
OEB Spotlight Stage: Surviving in an Age of Overload
We could have never imagined that absorbing so much information, while trying to maintain a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives, could feel complex, dissatisfying and unproductive. Is something missing? Julia Hobsbawm argues that it is and we need a new blueprint for modern connectedness to regain social health. Join her and Andrew Keen for an insightful discussion on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis to help you navigate through the rough seas of overload.
Julia Hobsbawm
The World's First Professor of Networking and Author on How to Manage Knowledge, Networks and Time, UK
Julia Hobsbawm founded the 'knowledge networking' business www.editorialintelligence.com and consults, writes, teaches, talks and blogs on a number of topics including entrepreneurship, the role of behavioural networks in politics and society, business productivity and the subject she has defined on modern knowledge networking - Social Health. She is the world's first professor of Networking, having been made Honorary Visiting Professor by London's Cass Business School and at the University of Suffolk. She is the author of several books and articles covering communication, business, the media and the future of the workplace. She has written and presented the 5 part BBC Radio 4 series "Networking Nation".
Hobsbawm's new book, 'Fully Connected' was published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2017 and was made Book of the Week by The Times Higher Education Supplement. It was praised by INSEAD and London Business School's Professor Herminia Ibarra as 'stella...a must-read for individuals and policymakers alike' and by Andrew Keen as 'the most profound book about connectivity published this century".
Professor Hobsbawm was awarded an OBE for Services to Business in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2015.
Photo by Andres Reynaga
Links
http://editorialintelligence.com/http://www.juliahobsbawm.com/
Andrew Keen
Author, Entrepreneur and Controversial Commentator on the Digital Revolution, USA
Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution.He is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and his current international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a "powerful, frightening read" and the Washington Post called "an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn't as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe". He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salonFutureCast and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. In 2015, he was named by GQ magazine in their list of the "100 Most Connected Men”. His next book, How To Fix The Future, will be published worldwide in January 2018.
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SPL04
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time –
OEB Spotlight Stage: Red Monkey Disruption
The time has come, not only to talk about innovation and culture change, but to destruct our old ways of learning, innovating and managing. If a seismic shift in management style is needed in your organisation this exciting Spotlight Stage talk will inspire you to use the “Rise of the Red Monkeys” to create an organisation where innovation can develop organically.
Jef Staes
EOI Academy, Belgium
The Power Defect is Strangling your Red Monkeys!
“Why don’t organisations learn and innovate fast enough?”
Jef Staes offers an answer to this question. As a thought leader in the fields of learning and innovation management, he analyses the way in which people resist and even obstruct change processes. And Jef does not shy away from confrontation! With a vast range of new insights and metaphors, he illustrates why managers and policymakers often reach the wrong decisions.
Expert
Jef Staes (Belgium, 1956) is one of the leading experts on these topics in Belgium and is quickly gaining international respect for his energizing mindset. He currently assists organizations in their quest to find a comprehensive answer and approach to the changing dynamics of today’s world. Based on his career as a software designer (GTE ATEA in Belgium & USA), training Manager and Corporate Learning Officer (Siemens, Belgium), he gained practical insights in the dynamics of organizational development.
Speaker
Jef Staes is often the keynote speaker on various topics concerning culture innovation and this for a diverse audience (conferences, education, in-company, ...). He has given hundreds of keynotes, both in English and Dutch. Furthermore, he’s a visiting lecturer at several Management schools (Vlerick, UAMS, EHSAL). His refreshing stories are guaranteed eye-openers and his new look at the role of managers has inspired many.
Author
He is also the author of a number of books on the topics of innovation and change management. One of which, “My Organisation is a Jungle”, was also translated to English. Through the use of rich metaphors and exciting parallels, he truly engages you in the story of the Red Monkey. Other books in the series, “My Manager is a Hero” & "I was a Sheep" continue the story and are often featured in Jef's speeches. All books have been bestselling publications with over 15.000 copies sold.