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Mike Alcock
Global Sales Director
Instilled
Michael Alcock, global sales director for Instilled and Gomo, is responsible for
the company's strategy for UK and worldwide sales, product development,
and global marketing. Prior to Gomo, Mike founded Atlantic Link Limited,
where he invented the world's first cloud-based authoring tool.
Presenting
SB103 | Everyone Everywhere: How to Create and Deploy Multi-device Learning Content
Jon Aleckson
CEO
Web Courseworks
Jon Aleckson is the CEO of Web Courseworks. He is an educational leader and a consultant in learning technologies and eLearning, who works with an extensive list of clients on LMS implementation and development, platform alignment and integration, and online curriculum development. This gives him a holistic view of business models, operational practices, and educational approaches in eLearning.
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SB102 | Be Like Harvard: Build a MOOC
Syed Ali
Sr. Global Learning Manager
Intuit
Syed Ali is a global learning experience manager at Intuit. He has been working in the consulting and professional services field for more than 12 years, and with L&D specifically for 10 years. At Intuit, he is responsible for the global delivery of training and certification programs to help drive customer engagement and confidence. Syed is also responsible for creating a learning experience for customers that increases their brand loyalty, confidence of use, and product recommendations. He also has experience leveraging learning technology to provide users with a cross-platform mobile, global, and social learning experience.
Presenting
Christopher Allen
Chief Strategy Officer
Allen Interactions
Christopher Allen is the chief strategy officer at Allen Interactions, providing
direction to feature development and design, product training, and market
focus. Christopher brings more than seven years of experience in digital
content creation and distribution, as well as leadership experience in
publishing and sales management. He holds a master’s degree in
organizational management from The George Washington University and is an
active triathlete.
Michael Allen
Founder and CEO
Allen Interactions
Dr. Michael Allen, founder and CEO of Allen Interactions, has been a pioneer in
the eLearning industry since 1975. Dr. Allen has more than 50 years of
professional,
academic, and corporate experience in teaching, developing, and marketing
interactive learning and performance support systems. Dr. Allen has led teams
of doctorate-level specialists in learning research, instructional design,
computer-assisted learning, and human engineering. He defined unique
principles and methods, Successive Approximation process or SAM, and the
CCAF design model for designing and developing high impact interactive
eLearning experiences that invoke critical cognitive activity and practice.
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310 | The Guide to eLearning: A Landscape of Change and Opportunity
Anthony Altieri
IDIoT in Chief/xAPI Evangelist
Omnes Solutions
Anthony Altieri is the IDIoT in Chief (instructional developer for the Internet of
Things) and founder of Omnes Solutions, as well as an xAPI evangelist,
authoring a course on xAPI Foundations for LinkedIn Learning. Anthony has
worked on multiple projects implementing global LMS systems. He is a
maker, focusing on user analytics and bringing the virtual learning world and
the real world together through the use of Bluetooth beacons and other IoT
devices using xAPI. Anthony has lectured to audiences on topics ranging from
the spread of HIV to network security, content development, why it’s
important to learn to code, and, of course, xAPI.
Presenting
Allison Anderson
Chief Strategist
Siren Learning
Allison Anderson is a chief strategist with Siren Learning. With more than 20 years of experience as a learning leader in both higher education and the private sector, Allison’s roles have included those of learning strategist at Intel Corporation, director of learning at ESCO, and chief learning strategist at Learning EcoStrategies. She is the co-author/editor of Ready, Set, Curate!, published by ATD Press in December 2015. Allison is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences, including DevLearn, the ATD International Conference & Expo, Training 2012, Europe’s Corporate Universities & Ac@demies Summit, and Estrategias de eLearning Brasil.
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David Anderson
Director, Customer Training
Articulate
David Anderson, director of customer training at Articulate, is an award-
winning eLearning designer, LinkedIn Learning course author, host of the E-
Learning Challenges blog, and creator of the Design Mapping process that
helps designers find the right look and feel for their eLearning. David has
more than 18 years of experience designing, developing, and managing
corporate clients' training programs.
Suzanne Armstrong
Director of Learning Programs
United Educators
Suzanne Armstrong, the director of learning programs at United Educators, has 17 years of experience as a learning and development professional. She is responsible for leading a program to design and develop learning solutions for key risk areas at United Educators. Prior to this, Suzanne managed the eLearning business at the Society for Human Resource Management and launched two major eLearning initiatives in the nonprofit sector for the American Physical Therapy Association and the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation. She holds a master of arts degree in education and human development, with a focus in education technology leadership, from the George Washington University.
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Nancy Barnes
Director of Learning and Development
National Kitchen and Bath Association
Nancy Barnes, director of learning and development at National Kitchen and Bath Association, joined them in 2011 as manager of professional development and certification. With more than 15 years of corporate instructional design experience, Nancy specializes in the design, development, and delivery of virtual classroom sessions, as well as blended learning of in-person and online education. Nancy formerly served as manager of technology learning services for KPMG, senior learning manager for Toys ‘R’ Us, and learning solutions manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers. She holds an MS degree in education with an option in online teaching and learning from California State University—East Bay, as well as an MA degree in cinema studies from New York University.
Presenting
204 | Social Learning: The Key Ingredient in the Blended-learning Recipe
Jeff Batt
Founder
Learning Dojo
Jeff Batt has 15+ years of experience in the digital learning and media industry. Currently, Jeff Batt is a Learning Experience Designer for Amazon. He is the founder and trainer at Learning Dojo, a company dedicated to training you to become a software ninja in various eLearning, web, and mobile-related software applications. He was also the program manager of DevLearn for The Learning Guild. Jeff often speaks on developmental technologies such as xAPI, HTML5, augmented reality, mobile development, eLearning development tools, and more.
Dustin Bauman
Owner
iApproach
Dustin Bauman is the owner of iApproach. Dustin has helped several companies, including ResMed, Grocery Outlet, and Skillsoft, to implement an eLearning solution working from the ground up, supporting several LMS platforms globally. His solutions focus on client needs and user experience, utilizing compression technology, branching in single SCO, and customized multi-SCO packing with pre-requisites (SCORM 1.2/2004). Dustin's leadership and team building, coupled with his experience, have built, formed, and re-organized many successful teams, transforming inefficiency to high performance.
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Cammy Bean
Senior Solutions Consultant
Kineo
Cammy Bean started in the industry as a junior instructional designer in
1996 and has since collaborated with hundreds of organizations to design
and deliver training programs. She’s worked at small startups, mid-sized
training companies, boutique eLearning shops, and as a freelance
instructional designer. An English and German studies major in college,
Cammy found an affinity for writing and making complex ideas and
concepts clear to an audience.
In 2009, she helped start up US operations for Kineo, a global provider of
learning solutions. Originally Kineo’s VP of learning design, Cammy is
currently a senior solutions consultant. In this role she leads the North
American sales team, supports clients through the initial discovery process,
and manages Kineo’s portfolio of custom client accounts to help
organizations meet their strategic business objectives through better
learning solutions. She is the author of The Accidental Instructional
Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age – second edition (ATD
Press, 2023).
Michael Bean
President
Forio Business Simulations
Michael Bean co-founded Forio Business Simulations, a software company specializing in developing web simulations, and leads Forio’s consulting activities. Before Forio, Michael held several senior management posts at simulation consulting and simulation software firms in the United States and Europe. Michael has been exclusively consulting on strategic simulation and decision-support engagements for 20 years. Michael was also a research associate for the System Dynamics Group at MIT, where he developed simulations that examined the strategic implications of decision-making.
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Chris Benz
Director of Online Events
The eLearning Guild
In his almost 30-year career, Chris has been a trainer, instructional designer and developer, conference manager, award-winning writer and author, information designer, DITA consultant, project and department manager, operations director, and sales engineer. Chris is a co-founder of Duke University’s Certificate in Technical Communication program, a Society for Technical Communication (STC) Associate Fellow, and a past member of the STC Board of Directors. In his spare time, Chris likes to camp, canoe, and get in over his head on home-improvement projects.
Simon Berridge
Global Assurance Learning Development Leader
EY
Simon Berridge is a global assurance learning development leader at EY (formerly Ernst & Young). He joined EY’s audit practice in the UK in 2001 and became a chartered accountant (FCCA) in 2005. He spent 10 years auditing midsize to Fortune 500 companies before moving to the US into a permanent role in learning and development in 2010. In the past five years, Simon has managed EY’s accounting curriculum; led all learning development efforts across EY’s assurance practice, including kickoff of EY’s largest curriculum redesign; and now focuses on learning strategy and design within EY’s assurance practice. Simon successfully completed the Learning 2012 30 Under 30 program and has been recognized with awards from Brandon Hall and Chief Learning Officer magazine.
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SB106 | Designing, Developing, and Deploying Simulations in a Global Environment
Ben Betts
Chief Executive Officer
Learning Pool
Ben Betts serves as CEO for Learning Pool. Previously, Ben served as chief product officer, where he worked to help define and develop Learning Pool's next generation of workplace digital learning platforms, with a focus on learning experience platforms and the learning analytics space. Ben's expertise is based in research, having completed his PhD researching the impact of gamification on adult social learning, Ben has authored and contributed chapters for many books, has two peer-reviewed academic papers, and has presented at conferences around the world, including TEDx.
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Akshay Bharadwaj
Senior Product Manager Adobe Captivate
Adobe Systems
Akshay Bharadwaj is a senior product manager for Adobe Captivate with Adobe Systems. Akshay is interested in building and growing products into successful businesses. He has helped build products across eLearning and internet domains, and in his eight years at Adobe, he has helped grow the eLearning products portfolio and built start-up products like KnowHow.
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Karen Blades
Principal Consultant
WhirlyBee Consulting
Karen Blades is a principal consultant with WhirlyBee Consulting where she is the driving force. Her over 20 years of experience in project and technology management enables Karen to draw upon a depth of skills in design, technology, and training to produce engaging learning solutions for academic, corporate, and nonprofit environments. She is a published author and international speaker who presents at numerous conferences, universities, and online webinars. Karen holds a master’s degree in engineering.
Presenting
SA104 | Four Seductive Tools to Spice Up Your eLearning or mLearning
Rick Blunt
Consultant
Blunt Learning Services
Rick Blunt, a consultant at Blunt Learning Services, is a learning technology evangelist, learning strategist, author, consultant, serious-games designer, and speaker. Formerly a senior consultant for Adayana Government Group, the director of eLearning for Oak Grove Technologies, and chief game scientist for the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Rick specializes in game-based learning and eLearning. Formerly, he was an associate professor of game and simulation programming, an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, and an author of two knowledge management books. Rick also spent 20 years in the US Navy flying jets.
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Don Bolen
Principal
dBolen & Associates
Don Bolen, the principal of dBolen & Associates, provides project management for large-scale learning and HR initiatives, learning design, development, delivery, media production, and learning strategy. Formerly at Delta Air Lines, Don has managed video services, eLearning development, and corporate learning strategy. He also led the selection and implementation of Delta’s enterprise LMS. Don was responsible for multiple learning organization re-engineering initiatives that delivered positive business impact. Don holds an MA in mass communications and journalism and is a project management professional and certified scrum master. He is active in ASTD and PMI and has presented at a number of conferences.
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Sharon Boller
President and Chief Product Officer
Bottom-Line Performance
Sharon Boller is president and chief product officer of Bottom-Line
Performance (BLP), a learning-solutions firm she founded in 1995. Sharon
has grown BLP from a single-woman sole proprietorship to a $3 million+
company with 30 team members. Under her direction, BLP created the
Knowledge Guru learning game platform, a platform that has received
numerous industry awards, including the coveted Brandon Hall Gold award
for best innovation in gaming and technology (2014). Sharon co-teaches
Guild Academy’s Game Design live online course.
Steven Boller
Marketing Director
Bottom-Line Performance
Steven Boller is the marketing director at Bottom-Line Performance. In
this role, he gathers industry intelligence from organizations interested in
improving the performance of their employees through instructionally
sound learning solutions and innovative approaches such as game-based
learning and retention-driven learning strategies. He has authored more
than 100 educational articles both online for eLearningIndustry, Bottom-
Line Performance, and Knowledge Guru and in print for the Life
Science Trainer and Educator Network’s Focus Magazine.
He assists with product strategy for the Knowledge Guru game-
based learning platform, which has won four Brandon Hall Excellence
Awards, including two "Gold" distinctions.
Presenting
SB201 | Serious Games + Smart Implementation = Win: Seven Keys to Success
Megan Bowe
Partner—Data Strategy
MakingBetter
Megan Bowe, a partner in MakingBetter, is a learning technology product manager turned standards evangelist and data strategist. Championing data-driven design, Megan works on projects that require a bigger lens to bring learning, portability of data, and formative analysis into focus. At MakingBetter, Megan helps people design reporting, data strategy, and products. At Knewton, Megan managed APIs and integration strategies, bringing adaptivity into various learning applications. At Rustici Software, Megan helped to launch the Experience API. Megan is a founding member on the board of directors for the Data Interoperability Standards Consortium.
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P06 | xAPI Camp
414 | Content Wrangling: Applying Content Strategy and Information Architecture
Jane Bozarth
Director of Research
The Learning Guild
Jane Bozarth, the director of research for the Learning Guild, is a veteran classroom trainer who transitioned to eLearning in the late 1990s and has never looked back. In her previous job as leader of the State of North Carolina's award-winning eLearning program, Jane specialized in finding low-cost ways of providing online training solutions. She is the author of several books, including eLearning Solutions on a Shoestring, Social Media for Trainers, and Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-To's of Working Out Loud. Jane holds a doctorate in training and development and was awarded the Guild Master Award in 2013 for her accomplishments and contributions to the eLearning community.
Bill Brandon
Editor, Learning Solutions
The Learning Guild
Bill Brandon is the editor of Learning Solutions. He has
designed,
managed, and delivered instruction since 1968, and has been an e-
Learning practitioner since 1984. Before becoming the editor in 2002,
Bill
held instructor and management positions in the United States Navy,
Texas
Utilities, Atmos Energy, TGI Friday's, and The Sales Consultancy. The co-
author of eight books and the author of dozens of articles on technical
topics, he has also developed programs for major conferences and
owned a
consulting business. He is a past president of the Texas Chapter (now
the
Dallas Chapter) of ISPI, and for 10 years led the Learning Technology
SIG
of the Dallas Chapter of ASTD. Bill is a graduate of the University of
Texas
at Austin and now lives near Dallas, Texas.
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Kimberly Brastad
Director, Global Curriculum/Training
American Dairy Queen
Kimberly Brastad, the director of global curriculum/training for American Dairy Queen, is a seasoned professional with 20 years’ experience in training and education. She currently leads a team of developers and instructional designers at Dairy Queen’s global franchisee support center. Her team is responsible for the curriculum design, development, translation, and delivery of training for Dairy Queen’s franchise system and worldwide field operations.
Brian Brereton
Sales Director
nawmal technologies
Brian Brereton is a sales director with nawmal technologies. Brian has more than two decades of learning industry experience, and he has been involved in building corporate training programs as well as helping organizations use training more effectively. His engaging style and passion for learning have kept him at the forefront of the industry.
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SE205 | Double the Effectiveness of Your Training with Mobile Reinforcement
Sandy Brink
E-Learning Instructional Designer
Epic
Sandy Brink, an eLearning instructional designer at Epic, specializes in
teaching instructional designers how to make engaging eLearning and in
helping others become smarter users of software. Her experiences over the
past 13 years include instructor-led training, eLearning instructional design,
curriculum development, webcasting, and creating templates and processes
to help others develop new learning materials. She holds a BS degree in
education from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Mark Britz
Director of Event Programming
Learning Guild
Mark Britz is the director of event programming at The Learning Guild. Previously he worked for more than 15 years designing and managing learning solutions with organizations such as Smartforce, Pearson Digital Learning, the SUNY Research Foundation, Aspen Dental Management, and Systems Made Simple. Mark is also an organizational social designer, helping businesses achieve the benefits of becoming more connected and collaborative to improve learning and engagement. Mark is the author of Social By Design: How to create and scale a collaborative company, and regularly presents and writes about the use of social media for learning, collaborative networks, and organizational design.
Damien Bruyndonckx
COO & Pedagogical Director
DiDaXo
Damien Bruyndonckx, a co-founder and pedagogical director of DiDaXo, is a longtime Adobe certified instructor on Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Acrobat, and Captivate. Damien has worked for various Adobe-authorized training centers in Europe and has contributed to many web- and eLearning-related projects for countless customers. In 2015, Damien co-founded DiDaXo. The Belgium-based company specializes in eLearning authoring with Adobe Captivate and in Captivate training all around the world. Damien is the author of four Captivate books, including Mastering Adobe Captivate 8, published in 2015 by Packt Publishing.
Tara Bryan
Owner
TLS Learning
Tara Bryan, owner of TLS Learning, has over 18 years of diverse
experience in strategic consulting, instructional design, and eLearning
design and development for clients in a variety of industries. She is
recognized in her field as being an expert who is passionate about bringing
engaging and interactive learning experiences to learners. She works with
clients to design and build high-quality learning programs that improve
performance in the workplace. Her unique skillset of instructional design,
visual design, and technical expertise puts her in a position to work
successfully with clients to create the right solution that exceeds their
business requirements.
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Bernard Bull
Assistant Vice President of Academics and Associate Professor of Education
Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor
Bernard Bull is assistant vice president of academics and associate professor of education at Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor. His research, consulting, and speaking focus on the future of education, educational innovation and entrepreneurship, alternative models of education, and the intersection of education and digital culture.
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218 | Progressive Credentials, Digital Badges, and Talent Management
Laurie Burruss
Education Innovation Advisor
Lynda.com
Laurie Burruss is an education innovation advisor at Lynda.com, where she has advocated for academic initiatives, supported teaching and learning, and provided integration and implementation solutions since 2009. Laurie is also a professor emeritus at Pasadena City College in California; before working at Lynda.com, she served for 22 years as a professor in interaction design and as the director of the college’s digital media program, providing a regional resource for collaboration between education, industry, and the community. Her passion is digital storytelling.
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703 | From Workbooks to Playlists: The Rise of Multi-modal Learning
Greg Bybee
Vice President of Learning Products
NovoEd
Greg Bybee is the vice president of learning products at NovoEd, where he
leads
the product solutions, marketing, and learning experience design teams. His
team is responsible for designing and building over 200 online programs for
university and corporate partners. Previously, Greg built the product
management function at Coursera and was a fellow at NewSchools Venture
Fund. He also has experience at VMware, Microsoft, and McKinsey &
Company.
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Jeannette Campos
Adjunct Faculty
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jeannette Campos, adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has provided consultative services in the design, development, and delivery of creative learning solutions to clients in the government, nonprofit, academic, and commercial markets. She holds a master of arts degree in instructional systems designs from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has also served as adjunct faculty at the National Labor College and the Community College System of New Hampshire.
Chris Carro
EHR Analyst, Computer Based Training Developer
Geisinger Health System
Chris Carro is an EHR analyst and computer-based training developer for Geisinger Health System. His career has weaved through multiple worlds, including the interactive entertainment industry, online education, thermoplastics, and healthcare, and he’s experienced in public relations, project management, SharePoint administration, instructional design, instructor-led training, and computer-based training development. Chris combines these experiences to create training for both clinical and corporate audiences. Chris holds a BA degree in mass communications and a master’s degree in instructional technology.
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Cory Casella
User Experience Designer
Alden Systems
Cory Casella is a user-experience designer for Alden Systems; he also
contracts through Obsidian. A design professional with a passion for
communicating complex ideas through simple and elegant designs, Cory
has been animating since middle school when he used the pages of his
textbooks. Now he brings his lifelong passion for animation and design to
the business world through eLearning, graphic design, and programming.
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Carla Casilli
Interim Executive Director, IMS Digital Credentialing
IMS Global Learning Consortium
Carla Casilli is the interim executive director of the IMS Digital Credentialing
initiative and currently leads work focused on the development of an open-
currency framework for digital credentials. From 2011 to 2015 she helped to
spearhead the Open Badges movement, first at Mozilla as the director of
badge system design and implementation and then at the Badge Alliance as
the director of research and practice. Using the powerful lens of systems
design, Carla investigates, writes, and speaks nationally and internationally
about digital credentials, including Open Badges.
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804 | Making Sense of the New World of Digital Credentialing
Josh Cavalier
Founder
JoshCavalier.ai
Josh Cavalier has been creating learning solutions for corporations, government agencies, and
secondary education institutions for nearly 30 years. He is an expert in the field of learning &
development and has applied his industry experience to the application of ChatGPT and other
Generative AI frameworks for business and life skills. Josh is passionate about sharing his
knowledge and has a popular YouTube channel that shares tips and tricks on Generative AI. He
is a seasoned speaker, presenting at conferences like DevLearn, Learning Solutions, ATD ICE,
TechKnowledge, NAB, and Adobe MAX.
Melissa Chambers
Online Instructional Specialist
MSC Consulting
Melissa Chambers is an online instructional specialist at MSC Consulting and a
contract speaker coach/host for The Learning Guild's Online Forums and Guild
Academy. Melissa has over 20 years' experience in creative media production,
project and change management, online instructional design, and eLearning
strategy development, and has been designing, producing, and coaching for
synchronous online programs since 2002. She holds a master's degree in
instructional design for online learning, and has spearheaded award-winning
programs in eLearning, process improvement, and strategic development.
Melissa has a passion for lifelong learning, technology, cultivating creativity,
and having fun while working.
Indresh Chauhan
Associate Vice President
Sify eLearning
Indresh Chauhan, the associate vice president of Sify eLearning, is passionate about helping corporate L&D teams and business leaders get business results faster by using learning solutions that are customized to their unique business, people, and culture.
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Janet Clarey
VP, Academy & Research
The eLearning Guild
Janet Clarey is the vice president of The eLearning Guild Academy and Research. Her background is in corporate learning and development where she worked on various learning technology platform implementations, technical training, curriculum development, and instructional design. Before joining The eLearning Guild, she spent several years as a senior analyst first at Brandon Hall Research and then at Bersin & Associates. As VP of The eLearning Guild Academy, Janet strives to help fellow learning professionals make sense of the changing learning environment. In her current role, she is responsible for development of Guild Academy to provide a comprehensive curriculum of courses and certificate programs for training and learning technology professionals around the world.
Donald Clark
CEO
PlanB Learning
Donald Clark, CEO of PlanB Learning, is an EdTech entrepreneur and was CEO and an original founder of Epic Group, which established itself as the leading company in the UK eLearning market. He has a foot in two camps, one as an investor and board member of LearningPool and Cogbooks, the other in the public sector as a trustee for the University for Industry, City, and Guilds and deputy chair of Brighton Arts Festival. He has been involved in film, games, web, mobile, and MOOCs and won many awards for the design and implementation of online learning.
Kirby Crider
Learning Technology Specialist
Training Resources Group
Kirby Crider, a learning technology specialist at Training Resources Group, is an instructional designer and consultant with a decade of experience designing and developing high-quality products on tight budgets for clients like the US Agency for International Development and the Forest Service, producing videos, podcasts, animations, and interactive online courses.
Matt Crosby
Sr. Business Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Matt Crosby is a senior business program manager for Microsoft with over 20 years of experience in teaching and training. After getting his MEd from the University of Florida, he taught high school for several years before making the transition to corporate training. Matt has worked in training development, training delivery, training team management, and training program and project management since that time, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Orbitz Worldwide, Starbucks, and now Microsoft, where he helps lead planning and governance efforts for the worldwide learning group.
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611 | Learn It, Prove It: Requiring Certification for Technical Staff
Jennifer De Vries
President
BlueStreak Learning
Jennifer De Vries is the president and chief solutions architect at BlueStreak Learning. Jennifer, a CPT, has over 25 years of experience managing eLearning programs for companies such as IBM and Motorola. She frequently writes about eLearning for industry journals and is best known for her groundbreaking report, Rapid E-Learning, published by Bersin & Associates. In 2010, Jennifer was named one of the 20 most influential people in online learning by Online University Rankings. In 2016, she was named Most Influential Woman in eLearning by Corporate America News. BlueStreak Learning focuses on helping organizations successfully start and grow high-quality, customer-focused eLearning programs.
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Amber Deibert
Training Manager
Zenefits
Amber Deibert is the training manager for client support at Zenefits. Hired to build the initial training program for the company, she now leads a team that is rapidly iterating and improving its approach in order to support the growth of the client support team, which has increased 3,000 percent in the last 12 months. Previously working as an advanced admin of Salesforce.com, a Certified ScrumMaster, and an agile coach, Amber focuses her career on building highly functional and successful teams.
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812 | Learning Solutions from Silicon Valley: The MVP Approach
Anne Derryberry
Market Analyst
Sage Road Solutions
Anne Derryberry is a learning architect for serious games,
simulations and virtual worlds. She works with learning
organizations, game developers, tools developers, and analysts
as learning architect, advisor, consultant, and industry observer.
She is particularly fascinated with: group experience and how
groups learn in virtual environments, especially through games;
user-generated content; assessment, especially how it relates to
LMSs; analysis; and how to make learning and meaningful play
into profitable and sustainable business.
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SC204 | Badging 21st-century Skills
JD Dillon
Chief Learning Architect
Axonify
JD Dillon became a learning and enablement expert over two decades
working in operations and talent development with dynamic
organizations including Disney, Kaplan, and AMC. A respected author and
speaker in the workplace learning community, JD continues to apply his
passion for helping people around the world do their best work every day
in his role as Axonify's chief learning architect. JD is also the founder of
LearnGeek, a workplace learning insights and advisory group.
Julie Dirksen
Learning Strategist
Usable Learning
Julie Dirksen, a learning strategist with Usable Learning, is a consultant and instructional designer with more than 15 years' experience creating highly interactive eLearning experiences for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to technology startups to grant-funded research initiatives. She's interested in using neuroscience, change management, and persuasive technology to promote sustainable long-term learning and behavior change. Her MS degree in instructional systems technology is from Indiana University, and she's been an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is the author of Design For How People Learn.
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P13 | Design for Behavior Change
512 | The Science of Attention, Willpower, and Decision-making
Sherrie Dotson
Manager, Technical Learning
Intel Security
Sherrie Dotson is manager of technical learning at Intel Security, an Intel
business unit. An advocate of realizing potential though lifelong learning,
she has designed and implemented global learning solutions for over 20
years. Her expertise covers the total array of learning and development
roles with an emphasis on technical product training. Prior to joining Intel
Security six years ago, Sherrie held leadership positions at several major
technology companies including as an advanced services education team
lead at Cisco Systems, manager of training and publications at InterVoice,
and product marketing manager at Alcatel USA. Sherrie holds both an MSc
degree and a PMP certification.
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801 | Accurate Project Estimating Enabled with Scope Management
Scott Edwards
Product Manager
IBM
Scott Edwards is a member of the Smarter Workforce team at
IBM, responsible for the strategic direction of the Kenexa
Learning Suite, which encompasses the learning content
management system (LCMS), the social learning management
system (LMS) and the mobile platform. Prior to joining
Kenexa, Scott was a co-founder and VP at OutStart. He held
many roles at OutStart, among them being the chief architect
for OutStart’s flagship product, the Evolution LCMS. Scott has
almost 30 years of experience in designing, building, and
consulting on complex systems and learning technologies, with
extensive experience as a speaker and evangelist promoting
learning technologies.
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Leslie Eldridge
International Business Manager
eCom-USA Learning Solutions
Leslie Eldridge started her career in corporate America, transitioned into state government, and is now the international business manager for eCom-USA. She understands the roles, hierarchy, and motivation it takes to keep employees engaged and motivated, which makes her keenly interested and excited in the digital badge movement and how it can be used in many areas, such as workforce development and education. Leslie is a member of the Badge Alliance Higher Education Working Group and the Digital Literacy Working Group and has spoken internationally regarding badges and technology.
Diane Elkins
Owner/Founder
E-Learning Uncovered
Diane Elkins is owner of Artisan E-Learning, a custom eLearning development company, and E-Learning Uncovered, where she helps people build courses they're proud of. She has built a reputation as a national eLearning expert by being a frequent speaker at major industry events for ATD, The Learning Guild, and Training Magazine. Her favorite topics include accessibility, instructional design, and Articulate Storyline. She is co-author of the popular E-Learning Uncovered book series, as well as E-Learning Fundamentals: A Practical Guide, from ATD Press. She is a past board member of the Northeast Florida and Metro DC chapters of ATD.
Brenda Enders
President & Chief Learning Strategist
Enders Consulting
Brenda Enders is the president and chief learning strategist for Enders Consulting, a St. Louis, MO-based company. She is a consultant, author, and public speaker specializing in leveraging innovative technologies to improve employee performance. She has 19 years’ experience in the learning and development field. Brenda’s first book, Manager’s Guide to Mobile Learning, was published in 2013. Prior to founding Enders Consulting, Brenda was the chief learning strategist and learning services practice leader for a custom learning solutions provider for 12 years, where she led the design and deployment of innovative and award-winning custom learning solutions.
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P09 | Getting Started with Mobile Learning: Determining the Strategic Fit
306 | Learning with Augmented Reality and 3-D Viewers
SD204 | Building Your Mobile Learning Strategy
MB01 | Daily Docent Kickoff
MB15 | Daily Docent Kickoff
MB29 | Daily Docent Kickoff
Adobe Experts
Adobe Systems
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David Ferguson
Curriculum Designer
BC Pension Corporation
David Ferguson is a curriculum designer for BC Pension Corporation. For 30 years, David has produced training and performance support both as an internal and external consultant, helping people in jobs from inventory management to highway engineering to jet engine sales. Among the companies he’s worked with are Amtrak and GE.
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Molly Filler
E-Learning Instructional Designer
Epic
Molly Filler, an eLearning instructional designer at Epic, specializes in
developing engaging, interactive, and educational online courses for
medical professionals and IT analysts. She takes any topic and makes it
easy to understand and visually appealing to the learner. With over 11
years of experience, she regularly conducts instructor-led training, develops
synchronous and asynchronous eLearning solutions, designs templates and
best practices for peers and clients, and manages high-visibility learning
projects. She holds a BS degree in communications with a specialization in
instructional design from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Daryl Fleary
VP Business Solutions
Trivantis
Daryl Fleary is a vice president of business solutions at Trivantis. He has
over 20 years’ experience as a unit and project manager, senior
instructional designer/consultant, eLearning designer, and business
developer/relationship manager specializing in instruction and performance
support solutions. Daryl’s experience includes developing instructor-led
courses, web-based training programs, knowledge portals, electronic
performance support/help systems, self-study guides, and other learning
materials. As an FTE or consultant he has worked with a number of
industries, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare,
utilities, and federal and state governments. Daryl has been a frequent
presenter in online webinars and at learning conferences, including
Learning Solutions, DevLearn, and TechKnowledge.
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SA205 | Responsive Course Design: Meeting the Challenge of Mobile Delivery
Nick Floro
Learning Architect/Imagineer
Sealworks Interactive Studios
Nick Floro, a co-founder and learning architect at Sealworks Interactive
Studios, has over 25 years of experience developing learning solutions,
applications, and web platforms. Nick is passionate about how design and
technology can enhance learning and loves to share his knowledge and
experience to teach, inspire, and motivate. As a learning architect, Nick gets
to sketch, imagine, and prototype for each challenge. He has worked with
start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to help them understand the technology
and develop innovative solutions to support their audiences. Nick has won
numerous awards from Apple and organizations for productions and services.
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216 | B.Y.O.L.: Designing and Building My First Game with GameSalad
SA201 | Understanding HTML5 for Browser, Native, and Hybrid App Delivery
SB101 | Designing and Prototyping: Turning Ideas into Reality
SB105 | The Future of Learning: What Should We Focus on This Year?
102 | Just-in-place Learning for a Mobile World
MB09 | Best Tools, Resources, and Apps to Use in Everyday Production
Jake Fordham
Training Content Developer
Alaska Airlines
Jake Fordham is the training content developer for Alaska Airlines. He has
spent the last two years at Alaska Airlines as a classroom facilitator,
training content developer, and LMS administrator. Jake holds certificates in
eLearning instructional design. As an experienced Articulate Storyline user,
Jake focuses on building engaging eLearning, classroom, and blended
learning courses to address the diverse training needs of over 10,000
employees in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Jake has applied his
experience designing and developing training to many areas of the
operation, such as ticket counter, ramp, cargo, call centers, and station
leadership.
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Steve Foreman
President
InfoMedia Designs
Steve Foreman is the author of The LMS Guidebook and president of
InfoMedia Designs, a provider of eLearning infrastructure consulting services
and technology solutions to large companies, academic institutions,
professional associations, government, and military. Steve works with
forward-looking organizations to find new and effective ways to apply
computer technology to support human performance. His work includes
enterprise learning strategy, learning and performance ecosystem solutions,
LMS selection and implementation, learning-technology architecture and
integration, expert-knowledge harvesting, knowledge management, and
innovative performance-centered solutions that blend working and learning.
Joe Fournier
Learning Infrastructure Designer
Anthem
A long-time learning professional, Joe Fournier has been a hands-on
practitioner, manager, director, and consultant to many Fortune 100
companies. He is currently a learning infrastructure designer focusing
on the edge and exploring the use of technology in learning and
performance contexts. Joe's current projects and interests include
mobile learning, AI/machine learning, chatbots, and blockchain. Joe
leads the internal Learning Innovation and AI Enthusiasts learning
communities at Anthem.
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Dan Frazee
Lead Developer
eLearning Brothers
Dan Frazee is lead developer at eLearning Brothers, where he deciphers the
best solution for clients, innovating and leading custom development efforts.
As the first hire of now two successful eLearning startup companies, Dan
helped define, develop, and implement standards for course development
and additional service offerings.
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Caroline Freeman
Head of Learning Design
Brightwave
Caroline Freeman is the head of learning design for Brightwave. Caroline
had more than 20 years’ experience in interactive media and broadcast TV
before moving into eLearning, and is now responsible for ensuring the
quality and creativity of Brightwave’s learning design team. At Brightwave
she has worked as both project manager and senior designer for a broad
range of public sector and private accounts. Her approach to solutions
design is to use her experience in the games industry and TV to create
effective, creative learning courses/campaigns that incorporate learning
portals, CMSs, and social media.
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SC106 | Raising the Bar in Service: Interactive Film to Train Bartenders Worldwide
Robert Gadd
President
OnPoint Digital
Robert Gadd is president of OnPoint Digital and responsible for the
company’s vision and strategy. OnPoint’s online and mobile-enabled
offerings support more than one million workers and include innovative
methods for content authoring, conversion, and delivery extended with
social interactions, gamification, and enterprise-grade security for
workers on their device or platform of choice. Prior to OnPoint, Robert
spent 10 years as CTO of Datatec Systems and president/CTO of spin-off
eDeploy.com. He is a frequent speaker on learning solutions—including
mobile, informal learning, xAPI, and gamification—at national and
international T&D conferences.
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Adam Gagne
Manager, eLearning
Starwood Hotels and Resorts
Adam Gagne, a manager of eLearning for Starwood Hotels and Resorts, has
extensive expertise in learning technology. This includes learning
management system administration, eLearning design and development,
and classroom virtual training delivery and web meeting platforms.
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Eran Gal
Owner
Workplace Learning & Performance Support
Eran Gal is an eLearning expert with over 16 years of experience in applying cross-company technology-based learning solutions. Following six years as an eLearning manager for a leading mobile company, Eran today acts as a consultant enabling companies to reach business goals by applying learning technologies. He holds MA and PhD degrees from Tel Aviv University and is a faculty member in the Department of Instructional Technologies at the Holon Institute of Technology.
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SE106 | Integrating Formal and Informal Learning with a Performance Support Solution
Joe Ganci
President
eLearning Joe
Joe Ganci is the owner and president of eLearning Joe, a custom
learning
company. Since 1983, he has been involved in every aspect of
multimedia and
learning development. Joe holds a computer science degree, writes
books and
articles about eLearning, and is widely considered an eLearning
development
guru. He consults worldwide and also teaches at conferences and
client sites.
Joe writes tool reviews and has received several awards for his work
in
eLearning, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 and an
eLearning
Guild Master Award in 2013. His mission is to improve the quality of
eLearning
with practical approaches that work.
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P14 | B.Y.O.L: Create Excellent Responsive eLearning Using Captivate
516 | B.Y.O.L.: Top Tips for Adobe Presenter Users
402 | mLearning Hacks
Ashish Garg
Senior Engineering Manager
Adobe Systems
Ashish Garg, a senior engineering manager for Adobe Systems, has more than seven years of experience working in eLearning. Ashish has managed the releases of multiple successful versions of many eLearning products and applications, and is passionate about technologies that foster learning and development. A serial innovator, he has worked on multiple projects in the learning analytics and user content space. Ashish holds a post-graduate degree in computer applications.
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Jeffery Goldman
Senior eLearning Designer
Johns Hopkins Health System
Jeffery Goldman, a senior eLearning designer at Johns Hopkins Health
System in Baltimore, MD holds an MA degree in instructional systems design
from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and has been designing
and developing eLearning for 15 years. His experience also includes 19
years of designing and facilitating traditional classroom training in nonprofit
organizations, banking, and healthcare. Jeff also writes about eLearning on
his blog at www.elearningcyclops.com and he was the recipient of the Best
Software System Course award at DevLearn’s 2011 DemoFest.
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Sheryl Grant
Director of Badge Research
HASTAC
Sheryl Grant is director of badge research at the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), which administered the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition that awarded over $3 million to 30 digital badge development projects in 2012. Her book What Counts as Learning: Open Badges for New Opportunities is a synthesis of lessons learned from the first year of badge system design across 30 projects. Sheryl is currently completing her PhD dissertation on badges and reputation systems.
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Ryan Gunhold
Senior Consultant
DLI
Ryan Gunhold is a business capability manager at DLI with over 10 years’ success managing programs, organizational development, and engagement campaigns for global, multi-language audiences in a wide range of business and industry settings. He designs, develops, and executes effective models, programs, and presentations tailored to business needs and environments. Ryan’s work drives results in customer satisfaction, ROI outcomes, and overall growth to improve the bottom line.
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Patrick Gurczynski
Digital Learning Developer
ResMed
Patrick Gurczynski is a digital learning developer at ResMed. After 10 years as a sports journalist, he transitioned into eLearning in 2013.
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Vicky Hale
Chief Learning Officer
GAAP Dynamics
Vicky Hale is a director of eLearning at GAAP Dynamics. With a degree in accounting (and a minor in visual arts) from the University of Richmond, her path to the learning community has been nontraditional. Vicky began her career as an auditor at PwC and still holds an active CPA license. A desire for teaching and the need for a more creative outlet led her to GAAP Dynamics, where she spearheaded the company's eLearning initiative. She is passionate about instructing, accounting, eLearning, and marketing, and looking for ways to combine them all!
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Johnny Hamilton
Multimedia Developer
Providence St. Joseph Health
Johnny Hamilton, a multimedia specialist at Providence St. Joseph Health, has developed multiple augmented reality experiences. He is an experienced learning content developer, manager, instructional designer, and credentialed teacher with extensive experience in online professional development and project management. Johnny is an expert in course authoring platforms and has developed style guidelines/templates, system/standardization processes, and innovative award-winning content. He holds design certifications in UX, microlearning, gamification, story-based and virtual training, and instructional design. He was a recipient of the 2016 Learning! Champions High Performer award.
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508 | Making eLearning “Sticky” with Interactive Infographics
Shannon Hart
Learning Strategist
Obsidian Learning
Shannon Hart is an accomplished and committed learning strategist at Obsidian Learning with more than 20 years of experience in facilitation, design and assessment of learning events, and training/communications project management. Her mission is to rid the world of boring learning and to help those with specialized knowledge share it in an accessible way. She is a little obsessed with how people learn new things and change their behavior for the better. She is an experienced and certified Accelerated Learning Practitioner and works with a wide range of audience and content types.
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SA105 | Simply Effective Mobile Learning: A New Mobile Learning Tool Hits the Stage
Stephen Haskin
Principal
Industrial Strength Learning
Stephen Haskin, the principal of Industrial Strength Learning, started in video production and computing in the 1970s. He has worked with digital video and eLearning since the late 1980s, and has been at the forefront of streaming media. Previously, Stephen was a producer and director of film and video and won many awards for his work. He worked for the University of Michigan for several years, but has now returned to the private sector where he currently directs and consults for distance-learning projects and video. Stephen frequently speaks at conferences and seminars, is the author of three books, and is writing a fourth book about media and learning.
Martin Hayter
Global Assurance Learning Leader
EY
Martin Hayter is the global assurance learning leader of EY. Martin has worked for EY for more than 25 years, having graduated from the University of Warwick in the UK. In his 10 years as an auditor and in other roles supporting operations and technology implementations, Martin has always had a passion for learning, both developing and facilitating programs. Martin was appointed as the global advisory learning leader in 2010, moving from the UK to Dallas, Texas, shortly thereafter, and then transitioned to global assurance learning leader three years later. In his learning leader roles, Martin has overseen programs winning multiple Brandon Hall and CLO awards.
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SB106 | Designing, Developing, and Deploying Simulations in a Global Environment
Ruth Ellen Heaton
Media Manager
Intel
Ruth Ellen Heaton is the media manager at Intel Security. She runs the internal production team that supports technical learning and other types of media projects across all of Intel. Her team also enables global employees to create DIY (informal) learning media products for employees, vendors, partners, and customers. Ruth Ellen has built a “creatively technical” career, gaining expertise in instructional design, information technology, media production, and marketing-application management. She has received several awards for her work and creative problem solving, including the CLO Award for Innovation in Learning.
Jennifer Hendryx
Instructional Developer
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Jennifer Hendryx is an instructional developer at the University of Wisconsin
- Oshkosh. She has experience in both K-12 and higher education settings,
with extensive experience in instructional design and development for online
learning, professional development training, and instructional technology
integration. Jennifer holds a BS in career, technical education, and training
from the University of Wisconsin–Stout and an MS in career and technical
education from the University of Wisconsin–Stout with an emphasis in
teaching. Her graduate studies focused on adult education and generational
differences in attitudes toward technology in education.
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317 | Your ID Toolbox: Templates for Speedy Online Course Development
Ted Henning
Head of Customer Education
Privitar
Throughout his career, Ted Henning has been engaged on all sides of
the learning continuum; from grad student and corporate trainee, to
learning strategist, instructional designer, in-person and online trainer,
and associate faculty. He has designed and implemented complex
training strategies, developed a wide-range of outcome-based
learning content, managed teams of IDs, developers and application
admins, used data to drive design and measure outcomes, and
presented at multiple conferences. His passion lies in emerging
technologies and how they can transform how modern learners
acquire new skills and apply them in the workplace. His current focus
is on Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs), using WhatFix, Pendo, and
WalkMe to embed onboarding, support, and ongoing training into
software platforms, empowering users to learn in the flow of work.
Andy Hicken
Product Innovation Specialist
Web Courseworks
Andy Hicken, a product innovation specialist for Web Courseworks, has worked in eLearning since 2006. He has been the lead instructional designer and, later, product innovation specialist on a number of projects, including the World Anti-Doping Agency’s PlayTrue Challenge game, which won a silver award in the Games for Good/Non-Profit category at the Serious Games Conference. Andy holds a PhD degree in ethnomusicology and stays active in the field.
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SB102 | Be Like Harvard: Build a MOOC
Daniel T. Hickey
Professor and Coordinator, Learning Sciences Program
Indiana University
Daniel T. Hickey is a professor and coordinator of the Learning Sciences Program at Indiana University. Daniel studies new participatory approaches to learning, instruction, and assessment, mostly in the context of online learning and cutting-edge technology. He works toward access, openness, and equity, while still attending to prevailing concerns over accountability and scalability. His research has been funded by MacArthur, the National Science Foundation, Google, the Department of Energy, and Indiana University. Daniel leads the Open Badges in Higher Education project for MacArthur, co-leads an effort to develop quality standards for stackable digital credentials at the American Council on Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and co-leads the Microcredentials Constituent Group at EDUCAUSE.
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Jennifer Hofmann Dye
Founder and President
InSync Training
Jennifer Hofmann Dye is founder and president of InSync Training.
She
specializes in the design and delivery of engaging, innovative, and
effective modern blended learning. Jennifer has written and
contributed to a number of well-received and highly-regarded
books including The Synchronous Trainer's Survival Guide:
Facilitating Successful Live Online Courses, Meetings, and
Events and Live and Online!: Tips, Techniques, and
Ready to Use Activities for the Virtual Classroom. Her latest
book, Blended Learning (ATD, 2018), introduces a
new instructional design model that addresses the needs of the
modern workplace and modern learners.
Christina Holloway
Learning Center Manager
American Physical Therapy Association
Christina Holloway, learning center manager at the American Physical
Therapy Association, has 10 years of experience as a learning and
development professional. She holds a BA degree in organizational
communications from Bloomsburg University, and an MS degree in
instructional technology from Towson University. She also earned a
Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) certification in
2012. She currently manages the learning management system and
production of eLearning courses. Prior to this work, Christina developed
bilingual technical training for US and Mexican clients and facilitated
training in the US Army Reserves as a retention officer and equal
opportunity leader.
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Anita Horsley
President
CALEX Learning Consultants
Anita Horsley is the founder and president of CALEX Learning Consultants, where she works with agencies internationally developing eLearning and mLearning. An Adobe certified instructor and expert in Captivate, she provides Adobe Captivate/Presenter and Storyline training and is the Adobe eLearning User Group manager for the Carolinas. Anita holds a master’s degree in education; she also is a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing and Adobe Systems, and an author for Packt Publishing.
Rob Houck
Head of Technology Innovation
UL Compliance to Performance
Rob Houck is the head of technology innovation at UL Compliance to Performance. He has provided strategic direction for learning and talent management software, managed software development and support of technology products and services, and overseen software implementations for more than 3.2 million users in 73 organizations. Rob has worked in technology for more than 25 years and has consulting experience ranging from small business to Fortune 100 clients.
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Steve Howard
Manager of Technical Training Development
FireEye
Steve Howard is manager of technical training development for FireEye. Steve has spent over 15 years developing engaging instructional content, both as an associate and a consultant, for many diverse industries, such as department stores, utilities, the US Navy, healthcare, finance, real estate, and high tech. Steve’s passion is utilizing technology to its best for learning solutions.
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Karen Hyder
Online Event Producer and Speaker Coach
Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting
Karen Hyder, online event producer and speaker coach at
Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting, has been teaching about
technology since 1991, when she delivered instructor-led software
courses for Logical Operations. She was promoted to director of
trainer development, helping trainers improve skills and earn
certifications. In 1999 she created a course for trainers using
virtual classrooms, and helped launch The eLearning Guild Online
Forums in 2004. She continues to host The Guild’s Best of
DemoFest, and was honored with the Guild’s Guild Master Award.
Currently, Karen provides coaching and production support for a
series of online courses at Hearing First, a not-for-profit that serves
audiology professionals earning CEUs.
Pooja Jaisingh
Senior Director, Digital Learning
Icertis
Pooja Jaisingh works as a senior director of digital learning at Icertis.
She has created several award-winning eLearning courses and authored
books and video courses on eLearning tools and technologies. In her
previous roles, she worked as a principal eLearning evangelist at Adobe
and chief learning geek at a start-up. Pooja is CPTD-, and COTP-certified.
She holds a master’s degree in education & economics and a doctorate
in educational technology.
Pete Janzow
Sr. Director and Badge Lead
Pearson
Pete Janzow is senior director of business development in support of the enterprise-class badging platform Acclaim at Pearson. With a keen interest in STEM education, Pete continues to work actively in the fields of workforce development, professional credentialing, and technical education. He is a former director of the American Society for Engineering Education, and has diverse work experience that includes working in higher education and professional segments for publishing companies, ed tech startups, and software companies.
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Richard John Jenkins
eLearning Solutions Consultant
Adobe Systems
Richard John Jenkins is an eLearning solutions consultant with Adobe Systems. Richard evangelizes Adobe’s eLearning solutions far and wide and is responsible for supporting Adobe’s worldwide eLearning teams on its award-winning Captivate and Presenter eLearning software solutions. His focus is on educating and training Adobe’s commercial, government, K-12, and higher-education customers on all aspects of Adobe eLearning and mLearning tools and technologies throughout the world. Previously Richard worked with Adobe Experience Manager solutions: Site Catalyst, Target, Social, Analytics, SearchCenter, and other web analytic tools, as well as all Adobe Creative Cloud solutions—Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, and many other tools. He also has an extensive background in search engine marketing and search engine optimization.
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Chris Jennings
Instructional Lead for Analytics Academy
Chris Jennings, the instructional lead for Analytics Academy at Google, has 14 years of experience in educational technology and instructional design. Currently, he’s an instructional lead at Google where he helped design the Analytics Academy learning platform for hundreds of thousands of users. Previously, he built a successful cross-product online training and certification program for Google advertisers and publishers. Chris has also worked at NYU where he managed the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, and built online courses for The University of Texas System. He has published articles for Learning Solutions and eLearn magazine about online course design and strategies to build homegrown online training programs.
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209 | Online Course Metrics You Should Measure (But Probably Don’t)
Ray Jimenez
Chief Learning Architect
Vignettes Learning
Ray Jimenez, PhD, spent 15 years with Coopers & Lybrand in the areas of
management consulting and implementation of learning technology
solutions. Ray is the author of Workflow Learning,
Microlearning Impacts Report, 3-Minutes eLearning,
Scenario-Based Learning, Do-It-Yourself eLearning, and
Story-Based eLearning Design. He has worked with American
Bankers Association, Neiman Marcus, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, Blue Cross,
Goodwill Industries, Pixar Studios, Edison Mission Group, Dendreon,
Netafim, Progressive Insurance, Bridgepoint Education, and California
Institute of Technology, to name a few. He is the chief learning architect for
Vignettes Learning and Situation Expert.
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Jeff Joanisse
Co-Founder/Creative Director
th3rd coast Entertainment & Training
Jeff Joanisse, a creative director at th3rd coast Entertainment & Training, is an award-winning director of commercials and documentary films, a writer, and a music producer. From filmmaking to founding his own production company, where he serviced multiple global corporations’ marketing, training, and learning needs, Jeff has always been a storyteller. Jeff and his business partner have grown the training arm of their entertainment company year after year with the guiding principle that “training should never be boring.”
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Andy Johnson
Contractor
Problem Solutions
Andy Johnson, a contractor with Problem Solutions, has supported the ADL contract since 2000. He spent much of that time learning and executing the technical specification SCORM, and he created real-world SCORM architecture for programs such as the Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC). He is now the lead on the new tracking specification called the Experience API. Andy holds a BS degree in computer science and a master’s degree in education from UW Madison.
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Karl Kapp
Professor
Commonwealth University
Karl Kapp, EdD, is a professor of instructional technology at Commonwealth
University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania who teaches instructional game
design, gamification, and online learning design. He keeps busy internationally
consulting, training, coaching, and counseling established companies,
academic institutions, and startups. He co-founded L&D Mentoring Academy,
which helps midcareer learning professionals move to the next level. Karl has
authored many books and created several LinkedIn Learning courses. In
2019, he received the ATD Distinguished Contribution to Talent Development
Award. His YouTube series, "The Unauthorized, Unofficial History of Learning
Game," is his current passion project.
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P08 | B.Y.O.L.: Play to Learn—Designing Effective Learning Games
203 | B.Y.O.D.: The Engagement Abyss: Three Effective Methods to Engage Learners
MB01 | Daily Docent Kickoff
MB15 | Daily Docent Kickoff
MB29 | Daily Docent Kickoff
Patrick Kedziora
Founder & CEO
Kedzoh
Patrick Kedziora, the founder and CEO of Kedzoh, specializes in increasing
revenues and profits, fundraising, making operations more efficient, and
building long-term value, all with a focus on customer care and employee
morale. Patrick has been the CFO and COO of public and private companies
and done deals from a few million to a few billion, and he has won two
major entrepreneurship awards, Startup Chile and Startup Brazil. He holds
an MBA degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University
and BA degree in economics/political science from NYU.
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David Kelly
CEO
The Learning Guild
David Kelly is the CEO of the Learning Guild. David has been a learning and
performance consultant and training director for over 20 years. He is a
leading voice exploring how technology can be used to enhance training,
education, learning, and organizational performance. David is an active
member of the learning community, and can frequently be found speaking at
industry events. He has previously contributed to organizations including ATD,
eLearn Magazine, LINGOs, and more. He can be found online at his website,
davidkelly.me, or on Twitter @LnDDave.
Alex Khurgin
Director of Learning Innovation
Grovo
Alex Khurgin is a director of learning innovation at Grovo, a learning solution for today’s workforce. A leader in the microlearning movement, Alex has played an integral role in developing Grovo’s methodology, using science and psychology to engineer a learning experience for modern minds. He is also responsible for developing an internal learning culture at Grovo by facilitating a program for professional development and self-directed learning for all employees. Prior to Grovo, Alex developed next-generation educational content at leading ed tech company Knewton. Alex graduated with a BA in philosophy from Amherst College.
Art Kohn
Professor
ASPIRE Consulting Group
Dr. Art Kohn earned his PhD in cognitive science at Duke University and is a consultant with Google, helping the organization develop new programs which train more than 1.2 billion people. Dr. Kohn's professional research explores how to present information in order to maximize learning and memory. He was awarded the National Professor of the Year award from the American Psychological Association and he won a Fulbright Fellowship in cognitive psychology and a second Fulbright Fellowship in distance education. He consults with organizations around the world, helping them modernize and optimize their training programs.
Janet Laane Effron
Managing Principal
Four Rivers Group
Janet Laane Effron is a data scientist who focuses on the creation of effective
learning experiences through iterative processes, data-driven feedback loops,
and the application of best practices in instructional design. She has worked
on xAPI design projects related to designing for performance outcomes and
designing both for and in response to data and analytics. Janet’s areas of
interest include text analytics, machine learning, and process improvement.
She is also the co-author of Investigating Performance: Design and
Outcomes with xAPI.
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SE204 | Introduction to xAPI
Gordon Lam
eLearning Designer
UBS Financial Services
After managing the award-winning blended learning program at the
American Management Association and the Financial Systems training
program at Pfizer, Gordon Lam joined UBS. He has over 15 years
experience in corporate training, focusing on the design, development, and
delivery of e-Learning and virtual training. A Master’s Degree candidate in
Educational Technology, he holds certifications in Synchronous Training,
Instructional Design, Criterion Reference Testing, and the Adobe software
suite. Gordon applies his talents as an improvisational jazz piano player
towards the design and development of instructionally creative and
engaging learning.
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407 | User-generated Content and the Shrinking Learning Department
Darci Lammers
Senior Instructional Designer
University of Wisconsin—Extension
Darci Lammers is a senior instructional designer, primarily responsible for designing and developing online and competency-based course offerings, at the University of Wisconsin—Extension. Darci has over 17 years of instructional design experience in higher education and healthcare. She has experience in designing and developing courses delivered in online, blended, and traditional classroom formats, and has designed courses for college credit and corporate training initiatives. Darci holds a doctorate in education with a focus in online learning.
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Kevin Lange
Principal Consultant
Immersion Learning
Kevin Lange is the principal consultant at Immersion Learning. Previously he
was a learning governance and technology manager with The Mosaic
Company. Since 2005, Kevin has worked as a facilitator, instructional designer,
project and program manager, and learning strategist within academic,
consulting, and Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies, including Capital One,
Citi, Expedia, American Express, Deloitte, and Sony. Kevin holds bachelor's
degrees in radio-television and speech communication from Southern Illinois
University, an MBA from Indiana State University, and an MEd in educational
technology from the University of Florida.
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401 | The Accidental Voice Actor: Recording Your Own eLearning Voiceovers
Neil Lasher
Senior Instructional Designer
FireEye
Neil Lasher, the senior instructional designer for FireEye, is a Fellow of the UK Learning and Performance Institute. Over the last 25 years, Neil has assisted hundreds of companies of all sizes with their learning design and strategy. In 2012 Neil worked for the organizing committee of the London 2012 Olympics, helping to roll out one million hours of learning to 200,000 contractors and volunteers. A recognized expert and thought leader in instructional design and workplace analytics for using technology in learning, Neil is now part of a team of experts delivering learning at FireEye, ranked fourth on the Deloitte 2012 Technology Fast 500.
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Joan Lasselle
President
Lasselle-Ramsay
Joan Lasselle, president at Laselle-Ramsay, has over 25 years of experience designing and developing new product content and training for the high tech, healthcare, finance, and insurance industries. Since 2000, Lasselle-Ramsay has worked with their clients to help them move to the use of XML/structured content to help streamline development of content and customize output in multiple forms and formats. She is regular contributor at industry conferences and holds an MEd degree from the University of Oregon.
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Mark Lassoff
Founder
Dollar Design School
Over two million people have learned coding and design from Mark Lassoff.
Mark and his company are pioneers in new media learning, having created the
first streaming media network dedicated to learning workforce and career
skills. They produce broadcast-quality learning content that focuses on digital
skills such as design, coding, and digital productivity. Mark is an in-demand
speaker and has traveled the world to teach. He was named to the 40 under
40 in both Austin, Texas, and Hartford, CT. In 2017, Mark was awarded the
prestigious Learning Guild Guild Master Award.
Stefanie Lawless
VP Training
Yukon Learning
Stefanie Lawless is the vice president of training at Yukon Learning, where she manages the design and development of customizable off-the-shelf courseware in Rapid Course and provides virtual training for the Articulate suite of tools. She has spent more than 10 years training people on software products and policies, as well as developing eLearning content and custom courseware for organizations worldwide. Stefanie holds a BS in information technology and an MBA from Western Governor's University.
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215 | B.Y.O.L.: How to Succeed in Storyline 2 Without Even Trying
The Learning Guild
The Learning Guild is the oldest and most trusted source of information,
networking, and community for eLearning Professionals. As a member-
driven organization, the Guild produces conferences, online events,
eBooks, research reports, and Learning Solutions Magazine—all devoted
to the idea that the people who know the most about making eLearning
successful are the people who produce eLearning every day in corporate,
government, and academic settings. Our goal is to create a place where
eLearning professionals can share their knowledge, expertise, and ideas
to build a better industry—and better learning experiences—for
everyone.
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David Leaser
Senior Program Manager, Innovation and Growth Initiatives
IBM
David Leaser is senior program manager of innovation and growth initiatives for the Global Skills Initiative program at IBM. David developed IBM’s first cloud-based learning solution and is the program developer for the IBM Open Badge Program, a leading-edge program to attract, engage, and progress talent. David is the author of a number of thought-leadership white papers on talent development, including Migrating Minds and The Social Imperative in Workforce Development. He has trained more than 4,000 clients and developed more than 30 training manuals and video tutorials.
Steve Lee
Chief Delivery Officer
Allen Interactions
Steve Lee is an award-winning instructional designer, eLearning
developer, EPSS designer and developer, project manager, and
renowned "trusted advisor", assisting companies developing their own
internal learning development teams. With learning industry
experience spanning the last three decades, Steve has provided
strategic learning and consulting services for over 400 major
organizations including participation in multiple large-scale military
and commercial aviation eLearning projects. As a college professor of
computer science for over 14 years, Lee has developed/instructed
curriculum on hardware, gaming, and information security, and is
considered an expert in the use of multiple delivery platforms, "game-
theory", and social networking in learning.
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Elaine Lennox
VP, Marketing
Inkling
As VP of marketing for Inkling, Elaine Lennox brings 20-plus years of marketing management experience to the startup company that is the go-to source for cloud-based content publishing. Elaine spearheads all marketing initiatives for the Inkling brand, focusing on helping potential customers discover and engage with the platform, while capturing greater global awareness of the company across industries. Her collaborative, high-energy approach has made her an asset to a number of companies, including Zend and IBM, where she guided go-to-market and demand-generation strategies to promote greater success to each company.
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SB107 | Test Your Content IQ: How Mobile-ready Is Your Training?
Jamie Lewis
Director, Curriculum and Learning Exchange
The eLearning Guild
Jamie Lewis is a director for The eLearning Guild. Prior to joining The
eLearning Guild she worked at the Investment Management Consultants
Association. She has also worked as a senior instructional designer for
national training at Archstone and held different roles at Accenture,
including curriculum management specialist and senior instructional
designer. Jamie holds a master’s degree from University of Colorado at
Denver, where she majored in eLearning design and development.
Deborah Limb
COO
Learning Pool
Deborah Limb is Learning Pool’s director of operations and is responsible for supporting the one million users of the company’s service. Deborah has led the design and implementation of Adapt Builder across Learning Pool’s customer base. She has 20 years’ experience in using eLearning tools and processes, and she’s passionate about helping organizations to transform workplace performance through the effective integration of innovative learning techniques. Deborah’s a founding steering group member of the Adapt Open Source project.
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Terri LoGiudice
Digital Solutions Manager
Alliance Data
Terri LoGiudice is a digital solutions manager with Alliance Data and has
over 30 years of training and development experience in a corporate
environment. Terri’s experience includes instructional design, facilitation,
eLearning development, and project management. Terri is also on the
marketing and communications committee for the Central Ohio ATD
chapter.
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Laurie MacDonald Steele
Senior eLearning and LMS Specialist
UCHealth Organizational Development
Laurie MacDonald Steele is the senior eLearning and LMS specialist for UCHealth Organizational Development. A skilled educational curriculum developer and technical educator with experience in web design, instructional design, interaction, and digital media, Laurie has expertise in a number of areas, including multimedia production, data analysis, and technical supervision. She holds a PhD in educational technology with a focus in distance education and interactive technologies.
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Dawn Mahoney
Owner
Learning In the White Space
Dawn J. Mahoney CPTD is a talent development professional who is passionate about developing people through better learning content, better learning strategy, and better dialog. In 2015, Dawn founded Learning In the White Space, a boutique consultancy devoted to planning a learning strategy and bringing it to life. Dawn writes the "Last Word" column in Training Magazine and is the author of Lean Learning Using the ADDIE Model.
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Scott Mahoney
Managing Director Americas
Seertech Solutions
Scott Mahoney, the managing director of Seertech Solutions, joined the company a 15-year career in learning and development and a 20-year career in banking and finance. In Scott’s current role he is responsible for the strategic growth and operations of Seertech’s multi-million dollar business focused on the Americas region. One of the pioneers of the corporate eLearning industry in Australia, Scott is an expert on the application of learning systems to leverage corporate capability, and has led learning, workforce capability development, talent management and aligned projects across the globe. He holds a master’s degree in adult education and is currently studying for his doctorate in adult education and design.
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SE105 | Learning for Profit
Connie Malamed
Founder and Mentor
Mastering Instructional Design
Connie Malamed helps people learn and build instructional design skills at
Mastering Instructional Design. She is a consultant, author and speaker in the
fields of online learning and visual communication. Connie is the author of
Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers.
She also publishes The eLearning Coach website and podcast. She was
honored with the Guild Master award in 2018 for contributions to the learning
technologies industry.
Ty Marbut
Executive Producer
Ty Marbut Instructional Video
Ty Marbut, executive producer at Ty Marbut Instructional Video, is an independent producer, director, editor, and adviser of instructional multimedia and documentary films. Focusing on training principles drawn from research in cognitive psychology, Ty works with teachers and teams in higher education, private companies, and government to deliver their messages as effectively as possible through multimedia immersion, high level-of-processing interaction, and the efficient use of existing media and human talent. His specialty areas include instructional video production and direction, training others in video production, and interactive video pedagogy.
Andrea May
VP Instructional Design Services
Dashe & Thomson
Andrea May is the vice president of instructional design services for Dashe & Thomson. Andrea has 18 years of experience consulting, designing, developing, and delivering customized training programs for large organizations. Her early career was spent leading documentation and training efforts for organizations such as General Mills, Thomson Reuters, and Saudi Aramco as they implemented SAP at US locations and abroad. Since 2009, Andrea has designed and managed the development of national certified employee training programs for the propane industry. She also holds a master of fine arts degree in directing from the University of California, Irvine.
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Cindy McCabe
Senior Instructional Designer/Program Manager
SweetRush
Cindy McCabe is a senior instructional designer and program manager at SweetRush, specializing in game-based learning experiences, including simulations and serious games. After earning her law degree and a successful career at Deloitte, she decided to pursue her passion for teaching and technology. With a master’s degree in instructional technology and more than 15 years in the field, Cindy is equally at home consulting with executives and SMEs, writing creative storylines for simulations, and fine-tuning the details of video and animation. Cindy’s expertise also extends to large-scale program management, SAP implementation, and marketing communications.
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111 | Ten Projects Showcasing the Top 10 Reasons for Gamification
Paul McElvaney
CEO
Learning Pool
Paul McElvaney is the CEO and founder of Learning Pool. Paul is the driving force behind Learning Pool’s involvement in the Adapt Learning Framework. An unashamed technology enthusiast, Paul listens to what customers need to improve organizational performance and builds solutions using the best technology available, usually from the open-source community. Paul focuses on balancing the implementation of new technology with business priorities of getting the right things done, on time and on budget.
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Carole Meade
Director of Learning Services
Sumaria Learning Solutions
Carole Meade has more than 20 years of experience in the
training industry and is currently the learning services director for
Sumaria Learning Solutions. She manages a group of more than 30
instructional designers, content developers, technical writers,
editors, and certification specialists. Carole holds a CRP from the
ROI Institute as well as a patent, a BS in management from
Lesley University, and an MBA certification from Harvard
University.
Andrew Mechelewski
General Manager
Virtual Ashridge
Andy Mechelewski is the general manager at Virtual Ashridge. He leads and motivates a diverse team whose objective is the continued product development, brand awareness, and ultimately increased sales of Virtual Ashridge, a successful online digital learning resource. Andy is involved in the development of content and supplier partnerships and the strategic vision of the product and is responsible for new business development and client account management for over 50 clients in the UK and overseas. Andy and his team collectively won the Learning Technology of the Year 2014 Award and the LearnX 2015 Best Talent (Learning Partnership) Award in partnership with Lend Lease.
Mira Mendlovitz
Instructional Designer
Medline Industries
Mira Mendlovitz, an instructional designer with Medline Industries, has been
in the learning and development field for over 25 years. She has been
involved in strategy, analysis, delivery, design, and development of
learning. Mira works with internal clients to develop a range of learning
solutions with a focus on how to blend learning to ensure stickiness.
Through the years, she has led the implementation of many new learning
technologies at a large Fortune 500 company; and she currently works with
Medline, a multibillion-dollar manufacturer and distributor of medical
supplies.
Sarah Mercier
CEO & Strategic Consultant
Build Capable
Sarah Mercier, CEO and strategic consultant at Build Capable, specializes in
instructional strategy and learning technology. Sarah is known for
translating highly technical concepts and research to real-world practice.
She is an international facilitator for the Association for Talent
Development and Greater Atlanta ATD Past President. Her innovative
learning solutions have been recognized by winning industry awards, such
as Best of Show at FocusOn Learning DemoFest for xAPI for Interactive
eBooks, and Best Performance Support Solution at DevLearn DemoFest for
Critical Success Factors training and assessment tool.
Sarah is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and business events
on topics such as instructional design and development, accessibility, data
strategy, and learning ecosystems. Her work has been published in ATD’s
2020 Trends in Learning Technology, The Book of Road-Tested Activities, TD
Magazine, Learning Solutions Magazine, CLO Magazine, and a variety of
other training and workforce publications.
Matt Meyer
Manager, Instructional Design & Development Group
Penn State University
Matt Meyer is the manager of the instructional design and development group within the Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) organization at Penn State University. Matt has over 20 years of experience in online and technology-based education, including design, development, management, and assorted leadership roles. Seeking to combine his experience in the private sector with the rapidly emerging digital learning solutions that Penn State continues to cultivate, Matt left corporate training to join the college in 2009. His team focuses on working with faculty on the redesign of strategically selected large-enrollment courses throughout the entire school. His focus is on faculty engagements related to improving teaching and learning practices via educational technology.
Allison Michels
Training Program Manager
Zenefits
Allison Michels is the training program manager at Zenefits. Previously she was the director of education programs and services at Hootsuite and Microsoft, where she served as the global education programs manager for Yammer. Her focus has always been her customers and building programs that keep the learner at the center, since whether an executive at a large enterprise or a volunteer at small nonprofit, everyone has something to learn about social and technology. She helps to focus business strategies into applications that revolve around people.
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812 | Learning Solutions from Silicon Valley: The MVP Approach
Michael Miller
Division Manager Global Dealer Learning
Caterpillar
Michael Miller is the division manager of global dealer learning for Caterpillar.
Michael has responsibility for processes, standards, and solutions for
Caterpillar Global Service Training. His team is responsible for learning
development and delivery and driving global consistency of technician
capability to deliver the Cat brand customer experience.
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SD101 | How Caterpillar Uses Bite-sized Learning to Close the Skills Gap
Lisa Minogue-White
Director of Learning Solutions
WillowDNA
Lisa Minogue-White is a director of learning solutions and co-founder of WillowDNA, a reporter for Learning Now TV, a presenter for Learning Now Radio, and a fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute. She is also a popular webinar speaker in the UK, a regular contributor to leading industry publications, a speaker at key events, and a writer. Lisa’s specialties include online distance learning, collaboration, learning technologies, and communities, and she was featured by Clive Shepherd in his book More Than Blended Learning.
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502 | Using the Power of Online Communities to Supercharge Your Learning
Dana Monroe
Senior Coordinator, Digital Solutions
Alliance Data
Dana Monroe, the senior coordinator of digital solutions for Alliance Data, has instructional design experience in both virtual training and formal classroom training. She has been in a training and design role for the last eight years, working as a corporate trainer and a physician trainer. She is passionate about adult learning and loves to find new technology capabilities that enhance the learning experience. Dana holds a bachelor of science degree in organizational communication with a focus in business technology from the Ohio University.
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Matt Mow
Executive Director of Instructional Strategy
Sublime Media
Matt Mow, the executive director of instructional strategy for
Sublime Media, has spent the last 12 years in a variety of
learning and development roles—from creating security
training solutions at Microsoft to leading curriculum
development projects at TIAA-CREF to delivering sales and
technical training for Fortune 100 and global nonprofits
worldwide. He has spent the past three years with Sublime
Media, leading the instructional design teams and developing
training strategies for a variety of industries. His business
acumen and depth of knowledge in learner engagement and
evaluation methodologies help clients develop well-rounded
and robust learning curriculums for all experience levels.
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712 | Tell Me a Story: How Do Storytelling and Learning Work Together?
Treion Muller
Chief Strategy Architect
ELB Learning
Treion Muller is ELB Learning's chief strategy officer. He has spent the past two decades helping some of the largest learning & development companies and their clients with their behavior change and digital transformation initiatives. Some of his roles have included CEO & founder of The Modern Learning Architect, chief product officer at Korn Ferry, and chief product officer at Strategy Execution (formerly ESI). Treion is an author and problem-solver who can align market and customer demand with successful product creation, CX, and go-to-market initiatives. He knows what the modern learner wants, how they want it, and what to do about it. Treion has a master's degree in instructional technology and learning science and is currently a PhD student in the same field. He is the author of several books and publications, including his new book, The Rise of the Mutant Learner (coming Fall 2022.)
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207 | Building Bite-sized Learning in a Traditional Training World
Carol Munir
Sr. Director
ADP
Carol Munir, senior director of talent and development ops at ADP, is a learning professional and ISD with nearly 20 years’ experience who specializes in deploying innovative, global solutions for talent development. Prior to ADP, Carol was senior manager of US training at QuintilesIMS and manager of global L&D at Starwood Hotels & Resorts. She delivered “Making Virtual Training Engaging” at the 2015 DevLearn conference. Most recently, she facilitated the session “Design on a Dime” at the 2017 Learning DevCamp conference. Her passion is enhancing the learner experience by personalizing content to drive a pull, not push strategy.
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Matt Murdoch
Global General Manager of Digital Learning
FranklinCovey
Matt Murdoch has been with FranklinCovey for nearly a decade and has served in many strategic management roles, including head of corporate marketing, director of FranklinCovey’s Symposiums, director of product management and marketing, and director of web development. He and his team successfully designed and implemented LiveClicks Webinar workshops, FranklinCovey’s first delivery channel that effectively distributes a catalog of FranklinCovey training workshops to clients via online classrooms. Matt holds an MBA degree from the University of Utah with emphases in marketing and information technology.
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207 | Building Bite-sized Learning in a Traditional Training World
Christopher Nekvinda
Director of Global Learning Operations
Cannon Financial Institute
Christopher Nekvinda leads the global learning initiatives for Cannon Financial Institute. He has worked on sales, coaching, leadership, and compliance programs distributed throughout the UK, Dubai, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. As a social learning and performance support evangelist, Christopher thrives on organizational change management, coaching, and performance-centered design projects that can be delivered through an informal approach using social learning tools.
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104 | Learning with Friends: Best Practices in Adopting Social Learning
Mark Nelson
COO
XanEdu
Mark Nelson is the COO of XanEdu, a learning technology company focused on improving the efficiencies of learners in both the corporate and higher education markets. Mark is a serial entrepreneur, having developed, built, and sold multiple software companies. He has extensive experience in business process redesign, performance management, and learning technology. His past work experience also includes working as a management consultant with Oracle and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mark is a CPA in the state of New Jersey and holds a BS degree in accounting from Rider University and an MBA in information systems from Rutgers Graduate School of Management.
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SC203 | Take Your Existing Training & Reference Materials Mobile
Darren Nerland
Sr. Learning Strategist
Knowplicity
Darren Nerland is a senior learning strategist at Knowplicity, where he works on disruptive, innovative, and emergent digital learning technologies and methodologies. Darren aligns key leaders and stakeholders on the implementation of learning initiatives for the enterprise. He is an expert technologist with a demonstrable track record of bringing complex learning systems from requirements through design into scalable production. His experience includes working at the executive level to determine how training strategies and awareness can effect and sustain positive behavioral change. Darren is an accomplished and dynamic leader with strong global learning strategy and measurement experience.
Carl Nestor
Visual Designer/Owner
Nestor Education
Carl Nestor is the owner of Nestor Education, as well as its visual designer and illustrator. Carl specializes in educational materials and has over six years of online and classroom teaching experience in visual design. With a background in branding, visual communication, and storytelling, Carl finds designing digital badges especially rewarding. He designed digital badges for gaming in the award-winning development math massive open online course at Cuyahoga Community College, and the badge system for Kent State University’s workshops and for Colorado Mesa University. Recently, Carl founded Badge Soup to provide a low-cost, high-quality online digital badge art creator to help non-designers tasked with creating artwork.
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MaryAnne Nestor
Instructional Designer
Kent State University
MaryAnne Nestor is an instructional designer in the Office of Continuing and Distance Education at Kent State University. She is a badge evangelist and assists organizations with incorporating badges by teaching the basics of digital badges and providing hands-on assistance with tools to make their badge program a success. One of the tools she uses to promote badges at Kent State was featured last June by EDUCAUSE.
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Anh Nguyen
Developer
Credmos.com
Anh Nguyen is a software engineer and developer of the Credmos badge
discovery platform. Credmos is designed to aggregate digital badges into a
single platform that can be accessible to badge earners seeking to expand
their collection of badges. Anh works for the UC Humanities Research
Institute and HASTAC on the Digital Media and Learning Competition.
Previously he designed the data architecture of a PCI-DSS compliant
financial system that kept millions of credit card numbers and built
Spigot.org, a unique digital media and learning aggregator.
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Eric Oakland
Chief Innovation Officer
TruScribe
Eric Oakland, the chief innovation officer at TruScribe, is a leading expert in messaging and visualization and is the mind behind TruScribe’s products and brand. After creating the first TruScribe whiteboard videos in 2010, and working with psychologist and author Susan Weinschenk, he created Scribology, a unique method of creating engaging content based on principles of neuroscience and behavior.
Barbara Oakley
Professor of Engineering, Oakland University; Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego
Oakland University
Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE, is a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan; a visiting scholar at UC San Diego; and Coursera’s inaugural “innovation instructor.” Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Barbara’s research has been described as “revolutionary” in the Wall Street Journal; she has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. She has won numerous teaching awards, including the American Society of Engineering Education’s Chester F. Carlson Award for technical innovation in engineering education.
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Karl Okamoto
Co-Founder
ApprenNet
Karl Okamoto is the co-founder of ApprenNet. He is also
professor of law and director of the business and
entrepreneurship law program at Drexel University. A nationally
recognized expert in practical skills training, Karl created
LawMeets, a series of live and online simulations for teaching
lawyering skills. Karl taught the first MOOC for law students and
is a frequent speaker on learning technology.
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Tammy Olson
Global Learning Program Manager
Donaldson Company
Tammy Olson, a global learning program manager at Donaldson Company, is
an experienced global learning leader and strategist with a passion for
developing learning strategies, infrastructures, and solutions that leverage
social, collaborative, virtual, and mobile learning technologies for Fortune 500
companies. Tammy continually looks for opportunities to innovate the way
people work by integrating learning and collaboration exactly where and when
it is needed. She has over 20 years’ experience creating technology-enabled
learning experiences to engage and develop high-performing, diverse
employee populations.
Laura Overton
Award-winning L&D Analyst, Facilitator, and Author
Towards Maturity
Laura Overton is an award-winning learning analyst dedicated to uncovering and sharing effective practices in learning innovation that lead to business value. The author of over 40 reports and hundreds of articles, her work is based on 30 years of practical experience and a commitment to supporting evidence-based learning decisions. As the founder and original CEO of Towards Maturity, she is also known for leading a 15-year longitudinal study program (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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208 | Ten Hidden Secrets of Top-performing International L&D Teams
Koreen Pagano
Founder & CEO
Isanno, Inc.
Koreen Pagano, founder and CEO of Isanno, Inc., is a globally recognized
product leader with deep expertise in learning technologies, skills strategy,
AI, analytics, and immersive technologies. Koreen has held product
leadership roles building go-to-market strategies and technology and
content products for learning, skills, and talent markets at Lynda.com,
LinkedIn, D2L, Degreed, and Wiley. Koreen previously founded Tandem
Learning in 2008, where she pioneered immersive learning through virtual
worlds, games, and simulations. She has taught graduate courses at
Harrisburg University and provided advisory and consulting services to
emerging tech companies in the VR and education markets. Koreen is a
seasoned international speaker and author of the book Immersive
Learning.
Natalie Panek
Mission Systems Engineer
MDA Robotics and Automation
Natalie Panek, a mission systems engineer with MDA Robotics and Automation, is on a mission to inspire the next generation of female game-changers to dive head-on into challenge and pursue careers in engineering and technology. At age 20, Ms. Panek was the first female driver of the University of Calgary’s solar-powered vehicle, which raced up from Texas to Calgary. She’s a technology contributor for The Next Women Business magazine and was featured on the editorial site Women You Should Know as a STEM Rock Star who is revolutionizing how people think about women in tech.
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Robert Panetti
Enterprise Learning Consultant
Slalom
Robert Panetti, an enterprise learning consultant with Slalom, has provided solutions for companies like NCR, Amdocs, and IBM for the last 16 years. He is fluent in all phases of the learning design process and familiar with a wide variety of social technologies, authoring tools, and learning management systems. At Slalom, Robert focuses on helping clients transform their learning organizations to support today’s connected, mobile workforce. He is passionate about technology, collaboration, and enabling people to do their best work.
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713 | Building a Learning Ecosystem in SharePoint (Yes, SharePoint)
MB17 | Enabling the 70 in 70:20:10
Tracy Parish
Education Technology Specialist
Parish Creative Solutions
Tracy Parish is an accomplished instructional designer, eLearning
developer, and consultant based in the Greater Toronto area. With a
unique blend of skills in computer programming, adult education, and
eLearning design/development, she has built a successful career in
instructional design. With over 18 years of experience in instructional
design, development, LMS implementation and administration, Tracy is a
respected figure in her field. She is a speaker, active Articulate
Community Hero, co-host of the Toronto Storyline User Group and
webcast Nerdy Shop Talk, the marketing director for the Canadian
eLearning Conference, and moderator of the monthly Twitter event
#lrnchat.
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808 | Exploring WordPress as a Tool for Delivering Blended Learning
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MB15 | Daily Docent Kickoff
MB29 | Daily Docent Kickoff
Allen Partridge
Head, Digital Learning Evangelism
Adobe Systems
Dr. Allen Partridge is a learning addict with a rebellious spirit and a
passion for evidence-based reasoning. Allen served on the doctoral
faculties of The University of Georgia and Indiana University of
Pennsylvania before joining Adobe in 2007. As Adobe's Head of
Evangelism, Digital Learning Solutions, he provides guidance by
relating customer experiences and challenges to the product and
engineering teams that create Captivate, Presenter Video Express
(PVX), and Adobe's extraordinary new learning management system,
Adobe Captivate Prime. Allen is well recognized for his videos and
presentations to audiences around the world. He has published a host
of articles and a handful of books on topics ranging from critical
thinking for business training to 3D online game development.
Molly Petroff
Education Specialist
Saint Vincent Hospital
Molly Petroff, an education specialist at Saint Vincent Hospital, is the architect
of performance support (PS) at the hospital and has implemented several PS
solutions focusing on the moment of apply for health system associates. She
has worked in staff development for over 25 years, focusing the last 15 years
on online learning technologies and the last five years primarily on PS design
and development. She has authored numerous eLearning programs and PS
solutions for in-house delivery and for other institutions. Molly, an RN, holds a
BSN in nursing, an MEd in adult education, and certificates in eLearning
instructional design and 5MoN design.
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David Pogue
Host, NOVA ScienceNow and Founder & Columnist, Yahoo! Tech
David Pogue, the host of the PBS show NOVA ScienceNow and a columnist for Yahoo! Tech, is one of the preeminent voices on cutting-edge consumer technology. With over three million books in print, Mr. Pogue is one of the world’s best-selling “how-to” authors. He has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series and in 1999 launched his own line of computer books, the Missing Manual series, which now includes 120 titles. For 13 years Mr. Pogue was the weekly personal technology columnist for The New York Times; in the fall of 2013 he made the move to Yahoo, where he founded Yahoo Tech as a destination for non-techies. Mr. Pogue graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985 with distinction in music, then spent 10 years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. He has won two Emmys, a Loeb Award for journalism, and an honorary doctorate in music.
Dan Pontefract
Author
Lead, Care, Win
Dan Pontefract is founder and CEO of The Pontefract Group, a firm
that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture. He
is the author of four best-selling books, has presented at four TED
events, and writes for Forbes and Harvard
Business Review. Dan is an adjunct professor at the
University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business, and has
garnered more than 20 industry awards over his career. Previously
he was chief envisioner and CLO at TELUS—a large Canadian
telecommunications company—and has held senior roles at SAP,
Business Objects, and BCIT.
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Dawn Poulos
Vice President of Marketing
Xyleme
Dawn Poulos is the vice president of marketing for Xyleme. With over 15
years of experience in both the US and Europe, Dawn is responsible for the
market strategy that has driven Xyleme’s rapid revenue growth. She is the
author of the popular Dawn of Learning blog and has written numerous white
papers and trade articles focusing on the topics of next-generation mobile
learning technologies, social learning, XML, and content reusability. Prior to
Xyleme, Dawn worked for a number of start-ups, including network mediation
and billing vendor Narus. She holds an undergraduate degree from the
University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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SD101 | How Caterpillar Uses Bite-sized Learning to Close the Skills Gap
Arun Prakash
Chief Learning Strategist
InfoPro Learning
Arun Prakash, chief learning strategist at InfoPro Learning, is a recognized thought leader in the fields of organizational development and performance improvement. Arun works with Fortune 500 organizations across the globe to help them formulate and deliver impactful learning programs. His work over the past 20 years has set the pace of innovation in the L&D industry and has been heavily awarded by groups like Brandon Hall and Chief Learning Officer.
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SE203 | Decreasing the Learning Curve
Robert Pratten
CEO
Conducttr
Robert Pratten, the CEO of Conducttr, is an internationally recognized expert in transmedia storytelling—a design approach to multiplatform user engagement. Robert’s worked with leading companies like Disney, Canal+Spain, Toyota, ADL, and Endermol. He is author of the book Getting Started in Transmedia Storytelling: A Practical Guide for Beginners.
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SB205 | Creating Crucibles—How to Design Transformative Experiences
Ron Price
Chief Learning Officer
Yukon Learning
Ron Price has over 35 years of experience in organizational effectiveness, leadership
coaching, instructional design, spiritual development, and experiential learning. His unique
background has allowed him to support a wide range of customers, from schools like Duke
University and Harvard Business School to multinational corporations like Sanofi, Amazon, BP,
and Pepsico. In 2002, Ron founded a consulting firm and challenge course devoted to increasing
organizational performance while developing authenticity and integrity. After joining Yukon, Ron
worked closely with the Articulate team to design the certified training programs for the Articulate
tools. He is a Guild Master.
Sean Putman
Vice President of Learning Development
Altair Engineering
Sean Putman, a partner in Learning Ninjas, has been an instructor, instructional designer, and developer for over 15 years. He has spent his career designing and developing training programs, both instructor-led and online, for many different industries, but he has had a strong focus on creating material for software companies. Sean has spent the last few years focusing on the use and deployment of the Experience API (xAPI) and its effect on learning interventions. He has spoken at industry conferences on the subject and is co-author of Investigating Performance, a book on using the Experience API and analytics to improve performance.
Clark Quinn
Chief Learning Strategist
Upside Learning
Clark Quinn, PhD is the executive director of Quinnovation, co-director of the
Learning Development Accelerator, and chief learning strategist for Upside
Learning. With more than four decades of experience at the cutting edge of
learning, Dr. Quinn is an internationally known speaker, consultant, and
author of seven books. He combines a deep knowledge of cognitive science
and broad experience with technology into strategic design solutions that
achieve innovative yet practical outcomes for corporations, higher-education,
not-for-profit, and government organizations.
Vijayanandraj Ramalingam
Deputy Manager – eLearning Solutions
Sify eLearning
Vijayanandraj Ramalingam is the deputy manager of eLearning solutions for Sify eLearning. Vijay is a doctor by education, but an instructional designer by profession. He combines these two passions to develop learning solutions that solve crucial problems for his customers while addressing learner needs and motivation.
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Nancy Reyes
Instructional Design Manager
eLearning Brothers
Nancy Reyes is an instructional design manager at eLearning Brothers. Nancy’s career in learning and development focuses on strategic management of instructional design, distance education, and emerging technology functions. Nancy holds an EdD degree in instructional technology and distance education and was the winner of SolutionFest 2014’s Best Immersive/Simulation/Game-Based Solution.
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715 | B.Y.O.L.: Behind the Scenes: Building Scenario-based eLearning
Thomas Reyes-Cairo
QA Specialist
eLearning Brothers
Thomas Reyes-Cairo is a QA specialist at eLearning Brothers, with a
microscope in one hand and a double-edged yardstick in the other. Hailing
from Brigham Young University, Thomas holds the company’s production of
scripting, visuals, and interaction to the highest standard.
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Trina Rimmer
Director, Community and Customer Engagement
Articulate
As the director of community and customer engagement with Articulate, Trina uses her many years of eLearning design and development expertise to guide the creation of inspiring content for our community of workplace learning professionals, E-Learning Heroes. Before joining Articulate, Trina worked as an instructional designer, eLearning developer, and writer focused on delivering creative, engaging, and effective learning solutions to various companies, from global aid organizations to Fortune 500s.
Stevie Rocco
Assistant Director for Learning Design, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Penn State University
Stevie Rocco is assistant director for learning design at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State University. Stevie has more than a decade of experience working with faculty to create and manage online learning. At Penn State, her team produces and uses tools and technologies that create quality online course experiences. In addition, Stevie consults on a wide variety of topics, including faculty development for online teaching, accessibility, usability, open source and free tools, and social media. Stevie holds a BS degree in secondary education and an MEd degree in adult education.
Lee Rodrigues
Learning Experience Designer
Sunrun
Lee Rodrigues is a learning experience designer at Sunrun, where he creates
interactive eLearning for the solar power company’s sales team. Lee holds an
MA and brings a unique combination of experience in technology, instructional
design, and public speaking. He served as both a creative and genius for
Apple and is a certified Final Cut Pro instructor. Lee developed YouTube’s first-
ever, award-winning online certification program, and he produced a series of
90 videos at Google studios.
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709 | Video Within Reach: Mythbusting and Testing to Greatness
Sam Rogers
President
Snap Synapse
Sam Rogers, the president of Snap Synapse, creates more effective,
efficient, and engaging ways to deliver learning for clients including
Google, Capital One, Deloitte, and AAA. He produced YouTube’s first
online certification training, and he is a writer, director, producer,
composer, and performer for stage and screen. Sam also writes and
speaks frequently at conferences, sharing his passion for solving the
problems that matter and inspiring learners to action.
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709 | Video Within Reach: Mythbusting and Testing to Greatness
Marty Rosenheck
Chief Learning Strategist
Cognitive Advisors
Marty Rosenheck, PhD, CEO and chief learning strategist at Cognitive Advisors, provides talent development, learning experience design, and learning technology ecosystem consulting. He is a thought leader and sought-after consultant, speaker, and writer on the application of cognitive science research to learning and performance. Marty has over 30 years of experience. He has created award-winning learning experiences, designed learning ecosystems, developed cognitive apprenticeship programs, built performance support systems, conducted needs assessments, specified learning paths, constructed virtual learning environments, and developed formal, informal, and social learning strategies for dozens of nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
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311 | Becoming a Learning Experience Designer
SD103 | Using Mobile and xAPI to Make On-the-job Learning Practical
Mike Roshuk
Multimedia Developer
Safety Codes Council
Mike Roshuk is the multimedia developer for the training department of the Safety Codes Council. He has over 10 years of experience as a professional graphic artist and design consultant. In the beginning of his design career, Mike worked on developing interactive training modules for the oil and gas industry. Some notable accomplishments of his have been creating comics and illustrations for a magazine with a nationwide readership for eight consecutive years, developing touch-screen poker games for a Las Vegas gaming company, and spearheading the corporate branding and marketing design for an agricultural company with products sold around the world.
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605 | Easy Graphic Design Tips to Give eLearning a Professional Edge
Shawn Rosler
Senior Instructional Designer
Office Practicum
Shawn Rosler has been an instructional designer, project manager, and developer of dynamic, interactive, and highly efficient eLearning and other instruction for over 20 years. He's a frequent contributor to industry-based publications, and he has presented to academic, medical, and corporate audiences on an expansive array of topics. From the basics of adult learning theory to the real-world application of converting instructor-led training to a computer or web base, he is an evangelist for trimming down processes while keeping them effective.
Tracy Ross
IoT Sales Enablement Curriculum Mananger, IoT Sales Champion Program Owner
Intel
Tracy Ross is the learning strategist for Intel Corporation's Internet of Things Sales Enablement Team. She developed and manages the award-winning IoT Sales Champion Program. With an education degree and later an MEd in instructional design, she left the comfort zone of the physical classroom and pushed the limits of virtual platforms. In her blog, See Yourself Learning, she shares best known practices for creating engaging adult learning experiences in the virtual classroom. Tracy is a connector and a maven who is known for advocating change agency with or without a leadership role. She “injects fun� into every learning experience.
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803 | Reinventing the Live Virtual Learning Experience at Intel
Allison Rossett
Principal
Allison Rossett & Associates
Dr. Allison Rossett, long-time Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University, is in the Training magazine HRD Hall of Fame, and was a member of the ASTD International Board of Directors. Recipient of ASTD’s recognition for lifelong contributions to workplace learning and performance and designated a 2008 LEGEND, Allison co-authored Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving from Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere and a new edition of her book, First Things Fast. Rossett edited The ASTD E-Learning Handbook: Best Practices, Strategies, and Case Studies for an Emerging Field. She also wrote a white paper for the American Management Association, Blended Learning Opportunities and another, on learner engagement, for Adobe Systems. Allison’s client list includes IBM, HP, Ingersoll Rand, the Getty Conservation Institute, Fidelity Investments, Kaiser Permanente, BP, the IRS, Amgen, Royal Bank of Scotland, USAA, National Security Agency, Transportation Security Administration, and several eLearning start-ups. Allison was awarded the Guild Master Award in 2013 for her accomplishments and contributions to the eLearning community.
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Kirsten Rourke
Founder and CEO
Rourke Training
Kirsten Rourke is the founder and CEO of Rourke Training. She is on a mission to create engaging communication in the online presentation and speaking space. She works with business leaders to transform their voice, body language, and content into memorable virtual presentations. She runs a podcast and community, Ongoing Mastery: Presenting and Speaking, to support development and improvement in creating successful, targeted results in pitches, sales presentations, training, and high-stake events. Kirsten speaks on online presenting, creating adaptable teams, public speaking, and productivity at seminars and events across the country.
Lou Russell
Managing Practice Director
Moser Consulting
Lou Russell is director of learning at Moser Consulting. As an executive consultant, speaker, and author, she channels her passion to create growth in companies by growing their people. Lou inspires greatness in leadership, projects, and teams. She is the author of seven popular books on leadership, teams, and project management. Most importantly to Lou, you will leave this session with a new tool.
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Adam Savage
Host, MythBusters & Industrial Design/Special Effects Fabricator
Adam Savage, one of the hosts of MythBusters, started his varied career as a child actor, appearing on Sesame Street and in commercials and music videos. Since then Mr. Savage has worked as an interior designer, a set designer, and an artist, and in special effects at Industrial Light and Magic, on movies including Galaxy Quest, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and The Matrix Revolutions. He is best known for his long-running television show MythBusters, in which he and his cohorts conduct experiments to determine the viability of urban legends, joyfully blowing up stuff in the process.
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Monica Savage
President
Obsidian Learning
Monica Savage is the president of Obsidian Learning. Her 16 years of experience in variety of industries have given her a structured yet flexible approach to efficient organization and successful management of complex processes and organizations. Her master’s degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering add depth to many of Obsidian’s scientific and technical projects. Her straightforward, collaborative approach to communication—both internally and with customers—and her creative problem solving abilities have been fundamental to Obsidian’s delivery of out-of-the box ideas and projects on time and on budget.
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SA105 | Simply Effective Mobile Learning: A New Mobile Learning Tool Hits the Stage
Deepak Sawant
Senior Product Manager
Adobe Systems
Deepak Sawant is a senior product manager with Adobe Systems who has focused on consumer and enterprise applications for the last seven years. Deepak has over 14 years of industry experience, ranging from coding routing algorithms to building roadmaps for cloud services, and he's most interested in using a combination of data and instinct to solve problems that lie at the intersection of business and technology. Deepak holds a master's degree in engineering and an MBA.
Laura Sayers
Learning Advisor
Spectrum Health
Laura Sayers is a learning advisor for the Spectrum Health University.
She has spent the majority of her career in the healthcare industry. In her
current role, Laura works closely with high-performing individual
contributors and leaders across Spectrum Health, and is highly involved in
leadership development and program management.
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412 | This Time It’s Personal: Retaining Human Connection in a Digital Age
Dan Schwartz
Principal
Convergent Media Productions
Dan Schwartz, the principal of Convergent Media Productions, helps small businesses and nonprofits develop and deploy their online learning strategies. He has broad and deep experience building websites, eBooks, games, simulations, and information portals for educational publishers in the K-12, higher ed, and healthcare industries. Dan began his career as a video producer and is particularly focused on the use of online video to enhance teaching and learning. He holds a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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SA102 | Fast, Easy, and Cheap: How to Use WordPress as an LMS
Andrew Scivally
CEO & Co-founder
ELB Learning
Andrew Scivally is the co-founder and CEO of ELB Learning. He has 20 years
of experience in the learning technology space, including all aspects of course
design and development, as well as leading learning and development teams
for financial institutions such as JPMorganChase and Zions Bank. He holds a
master's degree in computer education and cognitive systems. Led by
Andrew, ELB Learning has established an industry-leading brand and been
featured in the Inc. 5000 for six consecutive years.
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Dave Seligsohn
VP, Strategic Accounts
Bluewater Learning
Dave Seligsohn has served as the vice president of operations, the vice
president of business development, and is currently the VP of strategic
accounts for Bluewater Learning. In this role, Dave serves as part of the
Bluewater leadership team while focusing on building and sustaining partner
relationships and working with clients to design solutions in response to
complex and varying business needs. Prior to his time at Bluewater, Dave
owned his own consulting firm, specializing in helping business owners ensure
long-term viability and success. He also served as a teacher and principal in
the public school system for 15 years.
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Joe Sferrazza
CEO
TrainingRelief
Joe Sferrazza, the CEO of TrainingRelief, has experience with implementing strategy, value engineering, stabilization of information technology systems, project implementation, financing and management of large-scale infrastructure projects and operational projects within the Mutual Fund, Brokerage, Manufacturing, Banking and Insurance industry operating in Canada and internationally. Joe holds a master’s degree in engineering.
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SA203 | Closing the Skills Gap
Ali Shahrazad
Co-founder and COO
Saltbox
Ali Shahrazad is the co-founder and COO of Saltbox, where he is
responsible for customer success, sales, and marketing. Ali has
12 years of experience in sales training and operations. He has
published research in the IEEE Ultrasonics International
Symposium on medical device technology while at the University
of Washington. Ali is also a contributor to the Experience API
eLearning standard.
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Mark Sheppard
Principal Consultant
2Sphynx Innovations
Whether it's coming up with new solutions to age-old challenges or conveying
those experiences at industry conferences or with podcast audiences, Mark
Sheppard embraces the opportunity to learn and share. Over the course of
more than 30 years in the field, this "perpetually upgrading L&D geek" has
benefitted from being immersed in a rich milieu of working environments and
projects across North America, ranging from medical software, indigenous
governments, automotive engineering, and military aviation.
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603 | Selecting Cloud-based Authoring Tools: Going Beyond the Feature Sets
Michael Sheyahshe
Founder and Technologist
aNm
Michael Sheyahshe, a founder and technologist at aNm, has a vast
breadth of experience in information technology, eLearning, and
innovation spanning two decades and several industries. His extensive
career encompasses design and development of various eLearning and
training content, specializing in animation, simulations, and interactive
content. Michael is an expert in numerous 3-D software tools, game
engines, programming languages, mobile devices, platforms, and coding
frameworks. He holds two bachelor of arts degrees from the University
of Oklahoma in film and Native American studies, and a master of fine
arts degree in 3-D modeling from the Academy of Art University.
Leigh Shocki
Training Compliance Manager
Alaska Airlines
Leigh Shocki is a manager of compliance training programs for Alaska Airlines. She has spent her career designing, developing, and now managing training for airline employees in many areas of the operation such as airports, cargo, inflight, call centers, and management. An experienced Articulate Storyline developer and LMS administrator, Leigh designs and deploys eLearning, mobile learning, classroom, and blended learning courses to address the training needs of a diverse, international workforce.
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Priyank Shrivastava
Director of Product Marketing
Adobe Systems
Priyank Shrivastava, the director of product marketing at Adobe Systems, is responsible for strategy and direction of Adobe’s marketing efforts across eLearning and web application product lines. Priyank overseas various global marketing functions including product, field, and search marketing. In addition, he also runs the product evangelism function for the said product lines, where the primary goal is to be the voice of customer and voice of the product. He joined Adobe in November of 2008 and has since managed the brand and demand for eLearning and web application products. Previously, Priyank spent couple of years at Subex, where as a director of product marketing he ran the product marketing function and led multiple successful product launches. Prior to Subex, Priyank worked at LG Electronics, where he was responsible for overseas sales and marketing for TV. He also held various positions at Alstom Ltd from 1997 to 2004.
Kevin Siegel
Founder and President
IconLogic
Kevin Siegel, the founder and president of IconLogic, has written more than 100 books, including Adobe Captivate 8: The Essentials and Adobe Captivate 8: Beyond the Essentials. Kevin spent five years in the US Coast Guard as an award-winning photojournalist and has more than two decades of experience as a print publisher, technical writer, instructional designer, and eLearning developer. He is a certified technical trainer, has been a classroom instructor for more than 20 years, and is a frequent speaker at trade shows and conventions. Kevin holds multiple certifications from organizations such as Adobe and CompTIA.
Enzo Silva
Learning Strategist
SAP
Enzo Silva, senior instructional designer for SAP, is an avid learner and instructor who worked in the language-learning field for many years in his home country of Brazil. Enzo is involved in learning mediated by social media, virtual worlds, and games. He currently resides in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area.
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Aaron Silvers
Manager, Analytics
Elsevier
Aaron E. Silvers helps teams achieve real-world outcomes with analytics
strategies for high compliance, high accountability concerns. A common
theme throughout his 20+ year career is an optimistic embrace of
talent, emerging technology, and entrepreneurialism that charts learning
& development paths towards measurable outcomes that scale.
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P06 | xAPI Camp
414 | Content Wrangling: Applying Content Strategy and Information Architecture
Mark Simon
Principal Training Consultant
HiMark Solutions
Mark Simon, a principal training consultant at HiMark Solutions, has over 25 years of hands-on experience with design, development, and delivery of eLearning and instructor-led training. Mark is also an adjunct professor in the instructional design graduate program at UMass-Boston, and is currently VP of programs for the ATD Greater Boston group.
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SC105 | Leveraging Video in Your PowerPoint Courses with iSpring 8
Tim Slade
Creator
The eLearning Designer's Academy
Tim Slade is a speaker, author, award-winning freelance eLearning designer, and creator of The eLearning Designer's Academy. Having spent the last decade working to help others elevate their eLearning and visual communications content, Tim has been recognized and awarded within the eLearning industry multiple times for his creative and innovative design aesthetics. Tim is also a regular speaker at international eLearning conferences, a recognized Articulate Super Hero, and author of "The eLearning Designer's Handbook."
Dave Smelser
VP, Business Development
OnPoint Digital
Dave Smelser, a vice president of business development at OnPoint Digital,
has helped design and deliver technology-enabled learning solutions in the
enterprise for several years. Dave previously worked in software
integration at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and in Ernst & Young’s
Technology and Security Risk Services practice. Through a strong
understanding of technology and the practical realities of the business
world, Dave has assisted many Fortune 1000 companies in yielding real,
measurable results through implementations of various learning
technologies. Dave holds both bachelor and master of science degrees in
decision and information sciences from the University of Florida.
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Barry Smith
Client Partner
Assima
Barry Smith, a client partner at Assima, has an extensive background with
supporting enterprise systems through change management, business
analysis, business process re-engineering, project management, end-user
performance strategy, and training delivery. Barry has over 15 years of
project management experience, spanning industries including
pharmaceutical, government, manufacturing, beverage, defense, and
energy. His current focus is helping clients leverage advanced software
cloning technologies to optimize enterprise system implementation and end-
user performance. Barry holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical
engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Patrick Smith
President
Envolvemedia
Patrick Smith is president of Envolvemedia. He has over 25 years of software industry and eLearning experience at Envolvemedia, Oracle, Pitney Bowes Software, aerospace and defense integrators, and a number of Internet and mobile software startups, supporting public sector and commercial clients including the Defense Security Service, the Department of State, the House of Representatives, and healthcare organizations. A certified trainer and an eLearning developer, Patrick has provided training to hundreds of students, covering blended instructional design, Captivate, Storyline, and virtual instruction. He holds undergraduate degrees in computer science and business administration from the University of St. Thomas and an MBA from George Washington University.
Thomas Spiglanin
Senior Project Leader
The Aerospace Corporation
Thomas Spiglanin is a senior project leader for The Aerospace Corporation. He has developed learning strategies and educational products for over 20 years, increasingly through using video for the workplace. He now leads technical education projects for Aerospace University, the educational division of The Aerospace Corporation. Thomas earned his PhD from Wesleyan University and his BS from the University of California–Riverside.
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Geoff Stead
Senior Director, Mobile Learning
Qualcomm
Geoff Stead, the senior director of mobile learning at Qualcomm, works
internally to mobilize employee learning and externally to encourage
smarter use of mobile learning at work. Geoff’s team works with cutting-
edge mobile technologies to explore how they can and should use these
technologies to enhance learning and performance. Geoff’s team also
curates the popular WorkLearnMobile.org site, sharing best practice and
industry insights. Considered one of the founders of mobile learning,
Geoff has been creating innovative mobile learning tools since 2001. He
advises the mobile industry (GSMA), education departments, and the EU,
UK, and US governments on perfecting the blend between mainstream
consumer technologies and enhanced learning and teaching.
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Julian Stodd
Author and Founder
Sea Salt Learning
Julian Stodd is an author and founder of Sea Salt Learning, a global
learning consultancy helping organizations adapt and thrive in the
social age. Much of his consultancy work is around the need for
social leadership, the design of scaffolded social learning, planning
for organizational change, and the impacts of social collaborative
technology. Julian comes from an academic background in
communication theory, psychology and neurophysiology, learning
design, educational psychology, museum education, and
philosophy. He is a proud global mentor with the Cherie Blair
Foundation for Women, and a Trustee of Drake Music, a charity
that
works to break down disabling barriers to music through education
and research. He was awarded the Learning Performance
Institute’s
Colin Corder Award for Services to Learning in 2016. He has
written
10 books, including The Social Leadership Handbook,
Exploring the World of Social Learning, and A Mindset
for Mobile Learning.
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707 | Beyond Badges: Understanding Game Dynamics in the Social Age
Ian Stokes
HTML5 Developer
Ian Stokes is an HTML5 developer with Facebook. Beyond his fluency in multiple languages (both digital and real-world), he is adept in responsive design and has worked with multiple startups in the Bay area. Ian is also an accomplished independent game developer with many hit web and mobile games.
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507 | Designing Mobile and Responsive eLearning Across Devices
Katie Stroud
Master Story Crafter
Incremental Success
Katie Stroud is a master story crafter at Incremental Success. Her roles in instructional design, technical writing, and consulting led her to develop a story-based approach to address the unspoken culture that lingers in every corporate initiative. The process is based on scientific studies that explain why people do what they do. It helps to find what inspires them to change behaviors in support of corporate goals.
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210 | Simple Techniques for Making Your Learning Content More Visual
MB36 | Making Meetings Work for You
Sai Sundar
Manager – Mobility Solutions
Sify eLearning
Sai Sunder, the manager of mobility solutions for Sify eLearning, is a technologist at heart. He helps customers to solve difficult business performance problems by leveraging technologies like mobile, 3-D virtual worlds, xAPI, augmented reality, gamification, and other “ahead-of-the-curve” solutions.
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Amber Swope
DITA Specialist
DITA Strategies
Amber Swope, an internationally recognized expert on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) at DITA Strategies, specializes in helping teams implement XML to deliver compelling learning experiences as well as improve their organizational efficiency. Amber has authored numerous papers and articles on information design, development, and architecture and presented at leading industry conferences. She holds a master’s degree in technical and professional writing from Northeastern University.
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Majid Tahir
Founder
Acumenity
Majid Tahir, the founder of Acumenity, has been working in the consulting
and professional services field for over 10 years, specifically in the area of
building high-end user experiences. In 2007, Majid founded Acumenity, a
user-experience agency dedicated to bringing eLearning to the next level by
designing and developing rich mobile and global-ready solutions for large
and small organizations. At Acumenity Majid has helped numerous teams
and organizations roll out exciting new eLearning content and complex
learning management system (LMS) implementations.
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Will Thalheimer
Founder
Work-Learning Research
Will Thalheimer, PhD, MBA, is a world-renowned speaker, writer, researcher, and consultant
focused on research-based best practices for learning design, learning evaluation, and
presentation design. Will wrote the award-winning book Performance-Focused Learner Surveys
(second edition); created LTEM, the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model, the Presentation
Science Workshop, and co-created the eLearning Manifesto. Will has the honor of being a
Learning Guild Master.
Kevin Thorn
Director of Development
Artisan E-Learning
Kevin Thorn holds an EdD in instructional design and technologies and is
an award-winning eLearning designer and developer. He is the director of
development for Artisan E-Learning, and principal owner of NuggetHead
Studioz, LLC., a boutique studio specializing in consulting and developing
custom learning experiences.
Kevin combines his skills in technology, instructional design, eLearning
development, illustration, graphic design, animation, video, and
educational comics to develop innovative learning solutions. He is a well-
known industry speaker and trainer in visual communication, eLearning
development, and design workflows and is a certified facilitator in LEGO®
Serious Play® methodologies.
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P04 | B.Y.O.L.: Storyboard to Storyline
309 | Style Guides: The Unsung Hero of eLearning Development
Megan Torrance
CEO
TorranceLearning
Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps
organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data, and
ultimately performance. She has more than 25 years of experience in learning
design, deployment, and consulting . Megan and the TorranceLearning team
are passionate about sharing what works in learning, so they devote
considerable time to teaching and sharing about Agile project management for
learning experience design and the xAPI. She is the author of Agile for
Instructional Designers, The Quick Guide to LLAMA, and
Making Sense of xAPI. Megan is also an eCornell Facilitator in
the Women's Executive Leadership curriculum.
Joe Totherow
Senior Learning Technologist
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Joe Totherow, a senior learning technologist for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, has been an instructional technologist for 10 years, leveraging technology in creative ways to provide quality instruction to learners. He holds a PhD in philosophy.
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Kama Totherow
Assistant Vice President of Operations
Concordia Plan Services
Kama Totherow, the assistant vice president of operations for Concordia Plan Services, provides customer delight to employers and members around the world. She balances compassion and stewardship in the collaborative provision of health and wellness, retirement, deferred savings, and income replacement benefits. She is charged with developing excellence in her operations team and is constantly investigating and experimenting with methods for improving team performance. In her work, Kama has successfully implemented game mechanics in her organization to improve employee work performance.
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Rachel Troychock
Manager of Collaborative and Social Learning
National Kitchen and Bath Association
Rachel Troychock is the manager of collaborative and social learning at the National Kitchen and Bath Association. Previously with KPMG and Cendant, Rachel has a decade of experience in the field of eLearning. She holds a master's degree in instructional technology from Bloomsburg University.
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204 | Social Learning: The Key Ingredient in the Blended-learning Recipe
Michael Tucci
Director of eLearning & Learning Infrastructure
UBS Financial Services
Michael Tucci was a technology consultant and implementer for small & medium size businesses. His work in education began as a consultant for PaineWebber where he created their first self-paced Financial Advisor training. After UBS bought PaineWebber, Michael became a Learning Infrastructure Manager and implemented the firm's first LMS Web-based e-Learning offerings. Since becoming e-Learning Manager as well, he led a team that created processes to streamline the production of quality self-paced learning that, relying on both internal and external staff, has led to many successful partnerships within the industry.
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407 | User-generated Content and the Shrinking Learning Department
Joseph Vajda Jr.
Sr. Strategic Digital Media Developer
Assurant
Joseph Vajda Jr. has been in eLearning development for more than 10
years. He develops courses for programs that support clients and
employees in web, mobile, and hybrid platforms. Joseph uses a range of
Adobe products, including Flash, Dreamweaver, and Captivate, as well
as other authoring tools like Articulate Presenter and Storyline.
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Alexander Vance
Instructional Designer
UnitedHealth Group
Alexander Vance is an instructional designer on the enterprise talent development team at UnitedHealth Group and has worked in the field of eLearning and instructional design for a dozen years. Alexander started his career in the film industry and writes novels for young people in his spare time. He holds a master’s degree in instructional technology.
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SA106 | Put Your eLearning in Motion
Tim VanderLaan
Manager
Spectrum Health
Tim VanderLaan, a manager of the Spectrum Health University, has a passion for developing leaders and making processes more efficient, programs more engaging, and participants more connected. Over the past eight years he has developed structured leadership programs, administered learning management systems, created eLearning, deployed social collaborative platforms, and helped launch a corporate university.
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412 | This Time It’s Personal: Retaining Human Connection in a Digital Age
Mathias Vermeulen
Founder
Winston Wolfe
Mathias Vermeulen, the owner of Winston Wolfe Innovative HR Solutions, has an eight-year track record in L&D and HR management. He received Belgian Learning & Development Awards in 2010 & 2011 and a nomination for 2013. Topics for the 2011 & 2013 awards were in the game-based learning and gamification domain.
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Ellen Wagner
Managing Partner
North Coast EduVisors
Ellen Wagner is an accomplished learning technology professional with
career experiences in academic, commercial, and non-profit
organizations. She has worked as a tenured professor and university
administrator, was a founding ed tech entrepreneur, a senior executive
of publicly traded software companies, a journal editor, and a board
member of a number of start-up ed tech companies. Her areas of
expertise include ed tech, emerging tech, change management,
instructional systems design and learning engineering, and digital
learning (online and eLearning).
Mike Walworth
Founder/CEO
GAAP Dynamics
Mike Walworth is the founder and CEO of GAAP Dynamics, a training firm headquartered in Virginia that focuses on providing quality, entertaining learning solutions to accounting firms and companies worldwide. Prior to founding GAAP Dynamics in 2001, Mike was a senior manager with KPMG, serving financial institution clients in Richmond, Virginia and Zurich, Switzerland. Mike is a US CPA and a member of the AICPA and holds a BS degree in accounting from the University of Florida.
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Barbara Waxer
Copyright & Media Educator
Seattle Film Institute
Barbara Waxer is a copyright and media educator, author, and trainer who teaches at the Seattle Film Institute and Santa Fe Community College. She has authored over two dozen textbooks and online products on copyright, finding and using media, writing for the web, and Adobe and Microsoft software. Her book, Internet Surf and Turf Revealed: The Essential Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Finding Media, won the TEXTY Textbook Excellence Award and the New England Book Show Award. Barbara thrives when developing best practices for users and creators of digital content.
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Colin Welch
Director of Product Development
Brightwave Group
Colin Welch is a director of product development at Brightwave. Colin has over 15 years’ experience managing the design and development of bespoke training solutions that have a measurable impact on key business objectives. He has been responsible for managing both classroom-based training and eLearning projects and has a track record of delivering projects that meet learners’ needs with a high level of customer satisfaction.
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SC106 | Raising the Bar in Service: Interactive Film to Train Bartenders Worldwide
Bill West
President & Founder
RegattaVR
Bill West is the founder of Regatta VR and vice president of Immersive
Learning Solutions at NIIT Limited. His career spans Accenture, EY,
GP Strategies, Xerox, LEO, Sea Salt Learning, and eLearning Brothers.
He founded one of the world's first elearning companies in 2001 and
has led the adoption of new technologies for the last 20 years. His
expansive client list includes over 100 global companies and his
teams have won more than 50 industry awards. He has presented
many times at training industry events, on topics ranging from
learning methods and game design to virtual reality and xAPI. He's
also written two highly-acclaimed books on successful vendor
partnerships. His teams have adapted the strongest ID methods into
a cohesive methodology for VR design and development, including VR
user experience design and xAPI data management.
Presenting
SD203 | How to Design Blended Learning Programs for a Millennial Workforce
Steven Westmoreland
Director of Software Design
Obsidian
Steven Westmoreland is director of software design at Obsidian Learning. He is a software and user interface designer with an extensive technical background and over 10 years of experience in web software and services. His core competencies include user interface and graphic design, user experience strategy and planning, and development of client and server software. Steven leads all software design and front- and back-end web development efforts at Obsidian, and has architected a variety of SharePoint solutions that achieve business goals and provide an excellent user experience. He is also the brain behind obsidian.black.
Presenting
SA105 | Simply Effective Mobile Learning: A New Mobile Learning Tool Hits the Stage
Lieve Weymeis
Consultant/Trainer
Lilybiri’s Consultancy/Training
Lieve Weymeis is a consultant and trainer with Lilybiri’s Consultancy/Training. After years of teaching and research in project management and eLearning, Lieve is now freelancing and specializing in advanced Adobe Captivate; in 2009, she was invited to join the advisory board for Captivate. As an Adobe
Certified Expert, Adobe Community Professional, and Adobe Education Leader, Lieve has presented about Captivate and flipped classes both online and face-to-face in the Captivate community and on social media.
Presenting
Craig Wiggins
Community Manager
Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative
Craig Wiggins is a senior instructional designer for Problem Solutions, through which he supports the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) as a community manager, particularly for the Experience API (xAPI) and other learning technologies. Craig has worked primarily to design and develop eLearning in the commercial, military, and US federal government contexts. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology and a masters of education degree in curriculum development.
Presenting
Laura Winzen
Educational Technology Strategist
American Academy of Family Physicians
Laura (Filla) Winzen has served as an educational technology strategist in
the Continuing Medical Education Division of the American Academy of
Family Physicians (AAFP) for almost four years, where she helped implement
and continues to administer the company’s first learning management
system. Laura previously served as an assistant director of online operations
in the distance learning department at Park University in Parkville, Missouri.
She has over 20 years of instructional design and technical writing
experience and earned her master of education degree in instructional
design for online learning in 2007.
Presenting
SB104 | Flipped Classroom: Case Studies in Continuing Medical Education
Gary Wise
Founder/Principal Strategist
Human Performance Outfitters
Gary Wise, the founder and principal strategist at Human Performance
Outfitters, is a workforce performance strategist and coach with performance
consulting fueling his foundational discipline and perspectives. He is a 30-
plus-year veteran of corporate L&D gigs and is now a Point-of-Work
consultant and coach. Gary’s experience includes several performance support
system integrations. He speaks at many local and national events, is a
longtime blogger, and advocates for changing things mired in outdated
paradigms. He recommends disruptive solutions that normally accompany
shifting paradigms.
Presenting
107 | Performance Support as an Extended-blend Solution Component
Bianca Woods
Customer Advocacy Manager
Articulate
Bianca Woods is a customer advocacy manager at Articulate. Her past
experience includes working on the community and event programming for
the Learning Guild, learning and communications roles at BMO Financial
Group, and teaching art. Bianca is passionate about how visual design and
multimedia can help people learn, loves test-driving new technology, and
collects photos of bizarre warning signs.
Jericho Wu
Product Manager
Bonio
Jericho Wu is the product manager of Bonio. He specializes in distant
learning, learning sciences, education entrepreneurship, online
curriculum design, and the field of education technology. Since studying
learning science and technology at the Graduate School of Education at
the University of Pennsylvania he has been providing consultation in
utilization of ed tech tools in regular education settings as well as
corporate training environment. His research interest focuses on training
and development, sales strategy, market analysis, and SEM consulting in
ed tech. Jericho is also helping companies to maintain their own
knowledge assets by using innovative teaching methods to deliver the
content with the use of educational technology.
Presenting
SD205 | PaGamO—Social Gaming Solution for Both MOOC and Corporate Training
Steve Yacovelli
Director, Inclusion & Change
SweetRush
Steve Yacovelli, the director of inclusion and change for SweetRush, focuses on helping clients embrace and adapt to using new and innovative ways to work with their employees. Steve has worked with such great organizations as The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Tupperware Brands, George Washington University, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Bellsouth-AT&T. A published author, Steve holds a BS degree in public relations, an MA degree in educational policy and leadership development, and an EdD degree in instructional technology and distance education.
Presenting
111 | Ten Projects Showcasing the Top 10 Reasons for Gamification
Connie Yowell
Director of Education
MacArthur Foundation
Connie Yowell, the director of education for the MacArthur Foundation, oversees one of the first philanthropic efforts in the country to systematically explore the impact of digital media on young people and the implications for the future of learning. Previously, Dr. Yowell was an associate professor at the University of Illinois, publishing scholarly work that examined the complex interplay among young people’s emerging identity, their social context, and achievement. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Fellows Award from the William T. Grant Foundation, an award to support scholars seeking to bridge research and practice, and she worked with the National Writing Project to develop approaches that integrate web 2.0 technologies into the social practices of teachers. Dr. Yowell holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a PhD from Stanford University.
Presenting
Ning Zhang
Consultant
Z5 Consulting
Ning Zhang is an independent learning consultant specializing in the corporate education sector. Prior to launching his practice, he successfully led learning teams at companies such as Facebook, Mediaocean, and others that straddle the world of technology and marketing.
Presenting
507 | Designing Mobile and Responsive eLearning Across Devices
Wayne Zitsch
Global Director of Learning, Leadership & Capabilities
Coca Cola
Wayne Zitsch is the global director of learning, leadership and capabilities at
Coca-Cola. He has over 25 years in the industry with extensive experience in
talent management and multiple successful learning and organizational
transformation projects under his belt. Prior to Coca-Cola, he was director of
learning at Truist and SunTrust Bank, and managed the curriculum
architecture, design, and development at Bank of America. He is passionate
about designing forward-thinking learning strategies that empower
organizations for long-term success. He has won numerous awards including
multiple Training Top 125 and ASTD BEST awards for demonstrating
enterprise-wide success through employee talent development.
