June 10 – 12 Austin, Texas

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207 Are Mobile Devices More Important Than Your Toothbrush?

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Wednesday, June 10

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Many people today view mobile phones as more important than their toothbrush or deodorant. Some statistics estimate that people reach for their phones more than 150 times per day. This new world order requires massive changes from both enterprises and the learning organizations that support them.

In this session you will examine the explosive growth of mobile technologies in the past several years and how learning can be integrated into the workflow of increasingly mobile users. You will explore how mobile shifts the workflow of learning, both from the expectations of organizations and of the learners themselves. You will leave this session with a clear picture of how mobile is changing the world and the priorities that shape the new workforce and responsibilities in the workplace.

In this session, you will learn:

  • The dominant trends in mobile-first thinking
  • The impact of this mobile world view on modern enterprises
  • The impact of this mobile world view in workflow
  • The impact of this mobile world view in learning expectations

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Rich media learning, technical training delivered on mobile devices, offline mobile players, social learning, collaboration platform, virtual reality learning, and gamification.

 

Brian Finnerty

General Manager, Technology

Intuition

Brian Finnerty, the general manager of technology for Intuition, has spent his entire career in the eLearning industry. Brian joined a leading eLearning provider in the year it went public and helped the company expand its corporate training library to include rich media learning and healthcare compliance training. Brian founded a private developer training company with a group of eLearning executives and helped to grow the business to reach several hundred enterprise clients with a software developer community of 150,000 members. In his current role at Intuition, Brian is responsible for the company’s West Coast operations, including mobile learning, knowledge management, and custom portal development.

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