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.

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Laura is the Managing Director of Towards Maturity a not-for-profit benchmark practice that provides independent expert research and advice in using learning innovation to accelerate business performance. Her work is based on 25+ years of practical experience looking at learning innovation for business advantage, backed by her independent research with over 5,500 organisations and 25,000 learners since 2003. She is author of Author of over 40 major research reports including ´Live Online Learning´, ´Bridging the Gap – Integrating learning and work´ and over 200 articles.

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I'm an award winning learning analyst who loves uncovering and sharing effective practices in learning innovation that lead to business value. As the author of over 40 reports and hundreds of articles, I'm committed to working with wider learning communities to support evidence based learning decisions. You might know me for leading a 15 year longitudinal study programme (Towards Maturity 2004 – 2019) with thousands of Learning leaders and workers around the globe to uncover and share learning strategies that lead to business success.

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Anca is the EMEA Head of Social Learning & Collaboration at Citi.

In her everyday work, Anca helps Citi employees and teams across the region become more effective at how they learn and perform. She creates value by enabling better conversations and collaboration at all levels of the organization.

Anca has been with Citi for almost 15 years, and together with her team, she is currently leading the workplace learning evolution, with coaching and collaborative social learning at its heart. (If you are curious to find out more follow Anca on Twitter and explore some of her work on #BeMore).

Anca spends a significant part of her time and energy helping our leaders utilizing new learning and collaboration technologies and platforms, as well as advising on large scale culture and change initiatives. 

A Romanian-born, global citizen, she brings listening, curiosity and creativity to everything she does, including raising her two boys, learning, communication  and collaboration work at Citi.

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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. 

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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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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.

Andreas Kambach is Managing Director of the training institute TRIPLE A® GmbH (www.triplea.de)  and a member of the board of the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce. He has professional experience as a sales manager and is a long-term sales trainer with the areas of negotiation and sales training and complements these with the digital trends of further education.

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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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Dr. Eran Gal is an e-learning expert with over 18 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.  Dr. Gal delivers courses and seminars regarding instructional design and e-learning offering development. 

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I am the chief executive of the Association for Learning Technology(ALT) and I work as a Learning Technologist and Anthropologist. I am an Open Practitioner with a special interest in leadership, equality and open education.

My work for ALT focuses on increasing the impact of Learning Technology for the wider community, strengthening recognition and representation for the Membership at a national level and leading professionalisation for individual Learning Technology professionals in a broad range of roles.

As a trained sculptor I can carve marble, but nowadays I focus on bringing about change through policy, community engagement and open governance.  Whilst much of my work is in the UK, I am bilingual in English/German and I use my other language skills to keep up with developments in education and technology across the globe and beyond the English speaking nations.

My studies in art and anthropology have given me an appreciation for the importance of criticality, history and theory and how they inform our understanding of education and technology. I am a fan of new technology, a geek at heart, but not one to embrace innovation unquestioningly.

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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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Nicola Vollmar is a Learning and Development Consultant. She started as a trainer and lecturer in adult education in 2003 while incorporating the experience from her former employments in national and international management contexts. Her portfolio has gradually developed concerning means and methods of learning and she advises nowadays also as an Expert on New Learning Technologies and a Certified European E-Learning Manager. The strategic approach to the subject matter is based on her Master degree in Leadership and Management and she additionally holds a license for KODE® (competence diagnostics and development).

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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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I am sharing the interest for learning, innovation and systemic development with customers and peers. With the degree of a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) [cp. Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)] in Media Technology, I am specialized in eLearning since 2007.

Aside of my job at LinkedIn, I am serving the Union of International Associations (UIA) as Member of the Executive Council, the European Commission (EC) as an external expert at for Erasmus+ and the OER community as an Open Education Europa Fellow.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolfreinhardt

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• Currently working as Human Resources Manager with focus on HR Development for kapacht gmbh, Trade Marketing Agency of Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg

• Initially studied Political Science at University of Kassel
• subsequently studied European Economics, Law and and Politics in a Masters Program at University of Marburg
• Co-Funding Member of a Start-Up in the Area of Online Video Production and Marketing
• left the Start-Up to study Human Resources Management at the Management School of University Kassel
• Worked in HR Departments of several industrial and service enterprises such as Volkswagen OTLG and SMA Solar Technology

I studied mechanical science at the technical university in Ilmenau, Germany. I finished university in November 2015 and started to work in February 2016 as a PhD student at the BMW Group in Munich. Since I started thinking, I liked the idea of human-computer interaction in order to make humans life faster and easier. Augmented Reality (AR) technologies became very popular in the recent years, not just due to the successful launch of the Microsoft HoloLens, so I decided to dig into that interesting field. I read 600+ scientific paper in less than one year and gave several talks about AR-based training systems on different conferences. Developing AR applications for industrial use cases are my main focus at this time. Additionally, I do extensive user-studies to get a deep understanding of shop-floor operator’s demands

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After graduating as Master of Mechanical Engineering and receiving a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of  Karlsruhe (TH), Stefan Hoffmann joined the Gas Turbine Development Team of Siemens AG in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1994. In 2004 he graduated as International Executive MBA in the global OneMBA program at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

In 2005, Hoffmann left his position as Siemens' Head of Gas Turbine Component Engineering to become SVP, R&D at Viessmann in Allendorf (Eder). In 2009 he became GM of Köb Holzheizsysteme GmbH in Wolfurt, AT and Mawera Holzfeuerungsanlagen GmbH in Hard, AT.

Since 2012, Dr. Hoffmann leads the Viessmann Academy, Viessmann's corporate training centre for employees and customers.

Laura Cezanne is Head of Regional Learning Germany at Merck – a leading science and technology company in healthcare, life science and performance materials based in Darmstadt, Germany.

Her current projects are focusing on the individualization and digitalization of learning offers and tools as well as implementing new learning methods like MOOCathons and WOL into the organization. Shaping a self-learning organization is one of the overall goals a L&D department has to focus on.

Laura Cezanne holds a M.Sc. in Human Resource Management and a B.Sc. in International Business.

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Lindsay is a Biomedical Science graduate who, whilst studying at the University of Southampton UK, specialised in Alzheimer’s disease, immunology and oncology. She joined Bayer early this year as a researcher and developer supporting a variety of projects, including a European Commission Erasmus+ project called the WAVES project, where her main focus is in the design, delivery and implementation of a Scenario-Based Learning (SBL) Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Lindsay is also a qualified Innovation Coach at Bayer and enjoys facilitating innovation sessions for employees across the business. Her learning interests include Virtual Scenarios, innovative approaches to e-learning, the power of storytelling, Systematic Inventive Thinking and prototyping.

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Sheetal is a Medical biologist graduated from Brunel University. Since graduating she has worked at St George’s University of London for the Times Higher Award winning eLearning Unit.

She started her career as a Learning Technologist and has worked to become the eProjects Manager within the unit. Sheetal’s main focus of work has been on the use of virtual scenarios for teaching and training. She worked on the developments of virtual scenarios in virtual worlds such as Second Life, delivering virtual scenarios on mobiles, implementing virtual scenarios within the medical curriculum for small and large group teaching sessions and for self-directed learning exercises.

Sheetal has worked on a number of international projects, funded by The European Commission under the Erasmus+ program and is currently the project manager for the WAVES project. The project is taking all the lessons learnt from authoring and delivering virtual scenarios to make them more accessible to the wider teaching and training community and build a network of virtual scenario authors, users and learners.

Sheetal has led on a number of training and teaching workshops internationally to teach others to create and use virtual scenarios in their own organisations.

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Dr. Lars Satow is an educational psychologist, professional learning executive and test author. He started his career at SAP Learning Solutions where he was responsible for the SAP certification program for several years. Since 2014, he is responsible for social and digital learning on SAP’s cloud platform SAP Learning Hub with more than 500,000 learners. Lars Satow holds a PhD in educational psychology from the Free University of Berlin and a diploma of advanced studies in educational management and corporate learning from the University of St. Gallen.

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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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Karin Fuhry works as a Solution Consultant for D/A/CH in IBM´s Collaboration and Talent Management Solution unit. She began her career at IBM in 1999 as a Subject Matter Expert for the Learning Solution Portfolio, from 2009 on, she covered different other roles within the Social Collaboration Unit. Since 2013 she focuses on solutions around finding, developing  and maintaining talents – cognitive solutions within the IBM Talent Management Solutions and Watson Talent Portfolio.

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Sue Martin is a trusted advisor to companies and institutions across Europe in the area of workforce credentialing, learning strategies and certification. Her career prior to consulting included a role as Senior Global Certification Director for SAP and several regional and global management roles in the testing industry. She has also held several positions within industry institutions, such as the Chair of the European Association of Test Publishers, and is currently a member of the learning & Development Committee at BCS (British Computer Society).  

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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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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.

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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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.

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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In 2003 Guy Pfeffermann founded the Global Business School Network on the principle that skilled management is critical to successful international development.

After 40 years as an economist at the World Bank, including 15 years as Chief Economist of the International Finance Corporation, he saw too often how lack of management talent was impeding economic and social development in communities throughout the developing world. Now as CEO of GBSN, which started at the IFC and is today an independent nonprofit, Guy oversees programs and events that harness the expertise and passion of a worldwide network of leading business schools to strengthen the institutions and educators who deliver management education for the developing world. GBSN’s unique approach pairs a robust network of experts with efficient administration to build institutional capacity, foster collaboration and disseminate knowledge, all aimed at promoting management education that delivers international best practice with local relevance.

Born in Montauban, France, Mr. Pfeffermann received his Licence en Droit et Sciences Economiques in Paris in 1962 and was awarded first prize, Concours General, a French national inter-university essay competition. He was a Besse scholar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford from 1962-65 and received a B.Litt. (Oxon.) in 1967 for his thesis: “Industrial Labour in Senegal,” which was also published as a book.

From 2000-2003 he was an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. From 2003-2007, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the GlobalGiving Foundation. He published “Paths out of Poverty – The Role of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries (IFC, 2000). He is currently on the Advisory Board of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). Guy is also a member of the African Management Initiative’s Advisory Panel. His most recent publications include “Technology, Education and the Developing World” in nBizEd, a publication of the AACSB (July/August 2013) and “Cutting a Path to Prosperity – How Education Pioneers are Building Better Business Schools for the Developing World… and Why” (with co-authors, 2013). Guy is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management.

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Charles is a leading expert on building and implementing 70:20:10 learning strategies. He is co-founder of the 70:20:10 Institute. The Institute is the premier centre for 70:20:10 principles and methodology and works with organisations around the world to help improve L&D practices and business outcomes.

His 40-year career includes roles as a business school professor, as a chief learning officer, and as a senior advisor and member of boards and steering groups for international learning, performance and business bodies.

Charles is also a member of the Internet Time Alliance, a small multinational think-tank of leading learning and business performance practitioners helping organisations exploit emerging practice in informal and social learning to ‘work smarter’.

He is also a director of Duntroon Consultants, an independent consultancy practice where his work is focused on performance improvement. The practice involves helping organisations deliver maximum business benefit from their workforce using new workplace and social learning approaches and the 70:20:10 Framework.

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For many years Jos has worked on improving the performance of people and organisations by connecting working and learning in smart ways. This work has been through a mixture of strategic projects with clients and international collaboration within the L&D community. Jos’s strength lies in designing performance driven solution at a systems level and working in the role of a Performance Architect. In collaboration with Charles Jennings and Vivian Heijnen he has published articles and books about learning and performance, measurable performance improvement and about 70:20:10. 

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Vivian is Co-Founder of the 70:20:10 Institute and co-owner of Tulser B.V.

Her strength is her strategic thinking combined with pragmatism and a knife-like focus on execution.  She has consulted on a wide range of projects at every level for the implementation of 70:20:10 solutions. Her projects have covered managment development change, the implementation of electronic patient files and across other areas. Vivian’s strengths are in a total focus on the execution of the Performance Detective tasks, and of those of the Performance Tracker and the Performance Game Changer.

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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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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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An education manager and a life long learner currently working at Omnia, the joint authority of educaion in Espoo region, Finland. 20 years of experience in online learning and 10 years of phenomenon based learning. Believes in participatory methods and shared leadership.

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Laura is the Managing Director of Towards Maturity a not-for-profit benchmark practice that provides independent expert research and advice in using learning innovation to accelerate business performance. Her work is based on 25+ years of practical experience looking at learning innovation for business advantage, backed by her independent research with over 5,500 organisations and 25,000 learners since 2003. She is author of Author of over 40 major research reports including ´Live Online Learning´, ´Bridging the Gap – Integrating learning and work´ and over 200 articles.

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http://www.towardsmaturity.orghttp://www.e-skills.com

Charles is a leading expert on building and implementing 70:20:10 learning strategies. He is co-founder of the 70:20:10 Institute. The Institute is the premier centre for 70:20:10 principles and methodology and works with organisations around the world to help improve L&D practices and business outcomes.

His 40-year career includes roles as a business school professor, as a chief learning officer, and as a senior advisor and member of boards and steering groups for international learning, performance and business bodies.

Charles is also a member of the Internet Time Alliance, a small multinational think-tank of leading learning and business performance practitioners helping organisations exploit emerging practice in informal and social learning to ‘work smarter’.

He is also a director of Duntroon Consultants, an independent consultancy practice where his work is focused on performance improvement. The practice involves helping organisations deliver maximum business benefit from their workforce using new workplace and social learning approaches and the 70:20:10 Framework.

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Nicole Baker Rosa is the Head of Human Design at Kedge – a global strategic design, foresight, creativity and innovation firm based in Orlando, Florida. She leads the organization’s daily operations and people development efforts, ensuring a human-centric culture across the Kedge ecosystem. Nicole is an experienced speaker and curriculum developer partnering with a variety of industries and fields. She has previously worked in the Continuing Education sector shaping, executing and analyzing non-credit online and face-to-face program offerings. Nicole holds a Master of Arts in Interpersonal Communication and Diversity Certificates from the University of Central Florida as well as a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations from the University of Florida. She is a published author in journals discussing topics such as generational perceptions in the workplace and organizational communication rules. Nicole is passionate about engaging with the Orlando community through her role as Member at Large for the Greater Orlando Organization Development Network (GOOD) and volunteer for the annual Orlando Space Apps NASA Hackathon. 

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Sue Martin is a trusted advisor to companies and institutions across Europe in the area of workforce credentialing, learning strategies and certification. Her career prior to consulting included a role as Senior Global Certification Director for SAP and several regional and global management roles in the testing industry. She has also held several positions within industry institutions, such as the Chair of the European Association of Test Publishers, and is currently a member of the learning & Development Committee at BCS (British Computer Society).  

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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.

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".

HEE’s Director of National Programmes is responsible for the delivery of a range of national programmes focusing on the education and training of the healthcare workforce in England, including Technology Enhanced Learning and e-Learning for Healthcare.

Alan is a trained nurse who practiced clinically for 18 years. Previous to this current role he has worked in senior management positions for the Department of Health including Project Director for the R-ITI programme, the award-winning e-learning project for radiology and HEE Technology Enhanced Learning Lead & National Programme Director for the e-Learning for Healthcare programme which drives high quality patient care by working in partnership with the NHS and UK professional bodies to develop nationally quality assured, curriculum based e-learning to support healthcare training across the UK. Other national roles include working with Modernising Medical Careers and the National Clinical Governance Support Team. Alan has been instrumental in driving e-learning and technology enhanced learning in the UK health sector.

Alan has a passion for using technology positively and his interest in education extends to Uganda where the Kiddies Support Scheme charity, for which he is a trustee, helps disadvantaged children escape poverty through education.

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In 2016 Nik Gowing co-authored interim findings of the “Thinking the Unthinkable” study. The work is currently scaling up because of global anxieties about the new pressures on leaderships. It is based on hundreds of top level confidential interviews and conversations with corporate and public service leaders, plus hundreds more conversations with the new generation of millennials. Findings so far reveal candidly why so many leaders face new difficulties identifying what looms in the disruptions of the “new normal” that have emerged since 2014. New vulnerabilioties are confirmed. The findings are scary.

Nik Gowing was a main news presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London , plus location coverage of major global stories.

For 18 years he worked at ITN where he was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been a member of the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), and the Overseas Development Institute (2007-2014), the board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy including vice chair (1996-2005), and the advisory council at Wilton Park (1998-2012 ). In 1994 he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center in the J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  He is a board member for the Hay Literature Festival.

His peer-reviewed study at Oxford University “Skyful of Lies and Black Swans” predicted and identified the new vulnerability, fragility and brittleness of institutional power in the new all-pervasive public information space. The work builds on his work initiated at Harvard.

In 2014 Nik was appointed a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London in the School of Social Science and Public Policy. Since 2016 he has been a Visiting Professor at Nanyang University (NTU), Singapore focussing on deepening and widening the “Thinking the Unthinkable” research. From 2014 he was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-Economics.

He was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Exeter University in 2012 and Bristol University in 2015. They recognise his ongoing cutting edge analyses and distinguished career in international journalism. 

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“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.

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http://www.jefstaes.com

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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http://ajkeen.com/

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

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