207 The Science of Presence: Improving Emotional Intelligence Through VR
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Tuesday, June 25
Virtual Reality
Garden
The soft skills gap is real, according to Bersin, LinkedIn, and McKinsey. Employers reported leadership, communication, and collaboration as the most crucial skills to learn from L&D programs. However, when it comes to developing these complex skills, many current offerings teach what to do but don’t provide opportunities to practice and apply them. Learners may try games, role-plays or pre-recorded simulations, but are you truly moving the needle on performance? In light of shrinking budgets, limited time, and lack of effectiveness, how can you demonstrate impactful gains at scale?
With immersive VR simulations, it's now possible to deliver intelligent soft skills training at scale. Powered by a blend of AI and live human interaction, mixed reality VR has become the ideal way to gain essential skills in the workplace. By using trained specialists who orchestrate the interactions between learners and avatar-based characters, such simulations can achieve the realism needed to deliver measurable, high-impact results.
In this session, you will learn:
- The science of "presence" at work in VR
- How organizations are leveraging VR in areas like leadership development, sales enablement, and customer service
- How cost savings are realized for soft skills training
Audience:
Managers, senior leaders
Technology discussed in this session:
VR platform, mixed reality platform
Christina Yu
Chief Marketing Officer
NovoEd
Christina Yu is a marketing executive focused on transformational learning technologies that unlock workforce potential and productivity. She is the chief marketing officer at NovoEd, the ultimate social and collaborative learning platform. She previously built the brand identity and growth strategy at Mursion, a virtual reality company for human skills at work. Christina was on the founding team of a new PaaS business unit at McGraw-Hill at the forefront of the company's transformation from publisher to software and services provider. She began her technology career at Knewton, a pioneer in adaptive learning, and held multiple product and business roles there.