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November 16 – 18 • Online
November 16 – 18 • Online
Thank you to the 6,500 attendees, speakers, and sponsors that made Learning 2020 such an amazing event! All session recordings will be available to attendees through the end of 2020. Register now for free to get access.
We can’t wait to see everyone next year on November 7 – 10, 2021!
Learning 2020 is the foremost conference exploring the critical issues facing today’s learning leaders. While we are unable to gather in person due to the pandemic, we are looking forward to gathering online where we will engage in discussions and experiences examining the strategies, skills, and solutions that matter most to our work and the organizations we serve.
Whether you are an experienced leader looking to advance your career and help advance the field, or a learning professional new to leadership looking to build his or her skills, you’re sure to find the people, content, and community you need. Best of all, Learning 2020 Online is FREE for anyone to attend.
Inspirational leaders share their insight and stories
Wide array of topics covering all aspects of learning leadership
Sharing stories, learning from each other, and practical strategies
Learning 2020 Online brings the sharing and learning you expect from the face-to-face conference right to your home.
Thought-provoking general sessions, panels with CLOs and notable learning leaders, the Thirty Under 30 Program, and more.
The learning doesn’t stop when the online event ends. We’ll be releasing more sessions every month to extend the learning through the next year, leading us to Learning 2021.
We’ve invited some of today’s most influential learning leaders to share lessons to help us navigate today’s crises, and come out stronger on the other side.
Retired/100 percent disabled Veteran with 38+ years of ever-increasing levels of responsibility and proven success in counterintelligence, law enforcement, security operations, and training program management and instruction. Work experience spans field operations; headquarters training, policy oversight, development and implementation; and Department of Defense (DoD) level Program Management. Able to lead, plan, manage, and execute from field unit to DoD level. Frequently published author.
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.
Dr. Karl Kapp has a worldwide reputation as a pioneer in the gamification of learning and instruction, having literally written the book on the topic. Karl is an expert in the convergence of learning, technology, and business. He was named one of LinkedIn's Top Voices in Education in 2017 and is the recipient of the 2019 ATD Individual Contributor Award. He works all over the world with Fortune 100 companies as well as start-up organizations helping them deliver meaningful instruction using a game-thinking approach. Karl is the author of several LinkedIn Learning courses and creator of several popular learning card games.
Mousumi Saha is a customer/technical training advisor for Dell Technologies. She is responsible for designing and developing server training programs. She has more than 10 years of experience in learning and development. She holds a M. Tech degree in computer science and engineering with VLSI specialization. She is highly passionate about designing learning strategy for adults and exploring advanced learning technology.
Donald H Taylor is the Chair of the Learning and Performance Institute, and the Learning Technologies Conference in London, Berlin and Singapore. He has been involved in workplace learning and learning technology since the 1980s, and has an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University in recognition of his work developing the Learning and Development (L&D) profession. Donald delivers talks and workshops internationally around the future of L&D, and is widely published. The author of Learning Technologies in the Workplace (Kogan Page, 2017), he has produced the annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey since 2014, and contributes the monthly opening column to Training Journal magazine.
Phil leads innovation at Salesforce.com and is the former Chief Digital Officer at the Institute of Transformational Learning at the University of Texas System. With a 25+ year career and C-Suite roles that have led innovation, transformation and technology, Phil is a highly social, entrepreneurial, and award-winning senior executive with unique insights into learning and emerging technologies. Experienced as a C-level executive within higher education that has leveraged entrepreneurial instincts, a broad technical skillset, and a strong reputation for developing and motivating teams at all levels, Phil has consistently helped businesses integrate new technologies to create values for organizations.
Alex Banks is the head of sales for Vyond, whose cloud-based video creation platform is in use by thousands of sales and eLearning professionals around the world. Alex joined the Vyond leadership team after two decades of international sales experience with various software, hardware, and business intelligence firms like Comscore, Inc. and The Economist Group. Alex is passionate about driving Vyond's salesforce to be more agile and effective, and has dedicated his career to helping companies embrace technology to improve their business.
As GP Strategies' chief learning and innovation officer, Matt Donovan brings more than 25 years of experience. Throughout his career, he has helped support a wide range of Global Fortune 500 companies through significant transformation initiatives. Not only has he been recognized through industry awards, his articles are regularly published and presented at a variety of national and international conferences. He has an MS in instructional systems technology from Indiana University.
David Kelly is the executive vice president and executive director of The Learning Guild. David has been a learning and performance consultant and training director for more than 15 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 contributed to organizations including ATD, eLearn Magazine, LINGOs, and more. David is also known for his curation efforts, especially related to conferences and events for learning and performance professionals.
With more than 15 years of experience in the learning technology industry —including product, customer success and people management—Abby Miles knows what it takes to build productive and engaged teams. As senior director of people, she combines that expertise with her passion for people to lead OpenSesame's recruiting, training, DEI, and employee experience initiatives.
John Sangimino is a Senior Expert with McKinsey & Company’s Learning Design and Development Center of Excellence (COE). He works with McKinsey’s industry and functional groups to develop learning strategies and solutions that drive deep performance change. John also leads the COE-extended team charged with scaling the reach of quality learning design across the organization. He has more than 25 years of experience designing and developing learning, with deep interest and experience in simulation architectures and situated solutions.
Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data, and ultimately performance. Megan has over 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, of course, the Experience API (xAPI). TorranceLearning hosts the xAPI Learning Cohort, a free, virtual 12-week learning-by-doing opportunity where teams form on the fly and create proof-of-concept xAPI projects.
Ben Betts is chief product officer for Learning Pool, a global leader in learning technology. His role at Learning Pool is to define and develop the next generation of workplace digital learning platforms, with a focus on learning experience platforms and the learning analytics space.
Prior to Learning Pool, Ben helped to build HT2 Labs from humble beginnings into a globally recognized innovator in workplace digital learning. Ben's expertise is based in research; he 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.
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, and has been able to reach over a million users with his latest project, which helps students in grades 2 - 12 learn how to think and write an essay critically.
Karen Kocher is the global general manager of talent & learning experiences for Microsoft. She was previously the chief learning officer of Cigna where she was responsible for capability development and maximization for all of CIGNA’s global employees, as well as external audiences including producers, health care professionals, customers, and clients. Karen has over 15 years’ experience managing learning and development functions within Fortune 250 companies. In addition to roles leading education organizations, Karen’s background includes technical and sales positions within the insurance and financial
services industries.
Bob Mosher, the chief learning evangelist at APPLY Synergies, has been an active and influential leader in the learning and training industry for over 30 years, and is renowned worldwide for his pioneering role in eLearning and new approaches to learning. Before co-founding APPLY Synergies consultancy with Conrad Gottfredson, Bob served as the chief learning evangelist for Ontuitive, director of learning strategy and evangelism for Microsoft, and executive director of education for Element K. He is an influential voice in the IT training industry, speaking at conferences and participating in industry associations. Bob was awarded the Guild Master Award in 2014 for his accomplishments and contributions to the eLearning community.
Mark Smith is the vice president of global human resources at Petroleum Geo-Services in Oslo, Norway. He is responsible for offshore learning programs, infrastructure, and recruiting strategy and implementation. Mark has led organization change initiatives at PGS for over 12 years. He has extensive experience and expertise in developing and leading fast-paced HR teams and talent management processes in Norwegian and international professional service firms such as Aibel, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and McKinsey & Company. Mark earned his BA in fine arts from the Atlanta College of Art, and his master of science degree from Pratt Institute.
An award-winning talent development professional, Liza Wisner has extensive experience working directly with executive leadership at organizations in both the private and public sectors to develop and deliver learning experiences. As the senior DEI curation specialist, she works with publishers and customers to curate the very best diversity, equity, and inclusion content for the OpenSesame catalog.
Chris Bond, CEO of Bluewater, has been transforming the Learning and Talent Management field for over 20 years through his leadership and consulting services.
By combining strategic thinking, people development, process development, user experience and the effective use of technologies, Chris has helped clients meet or exceed organizational goals that impact bottom-line financial growth and corporate success.
His diverse industry background and thought leadership lead Chris to be sought after as an authoritative voice in the learning and talent industry. His passion, creativity and experience have inspired the Bluewater team to share his commitment to putting the client first.
Wendy Gates Corbett, CPTD is an engaging international speaker, award-winning presentation consultant, and a former global training executive. She’s on a mission to foster belonging by creating embracive workplaces so every person experiences the freedom and flourish that comes when they are respected and protected by their peers and leaders. Wendy is the president of Refresher Training, LLC. She is a nationwide leader in the training industry with a 20+ year career and is a member of the Guild’s Learning Leaders Alliance Advisory Board. She has a BS in psychology and an MS in applied psychology: industrial/organizational psychology.
Wendy Gates Corbett, CPTD is an engaging international speaker, award-winning presentation consultant, and a former global training executive. She’s on a mission to foster belonging by creating embracive workplaces so every person experiences the freedom and flourish that comes when they are respected and protected by their peers and leaders. Wendy is the president of Refresher Training, LLC. She is a nationwide leader in the training industry with a 20+ year career and is a member of the Guild’s Learning Leaders Alliance Advisory Board. She has a BS in psychology and an MS in applied psychology: industrial/organizational psychology.
Frank Nguyen is a learning executive who specializes in transforming learning organizations through strategy and technology. He was previously the chief talent development officer at Advisor Group and previously led enterprise learning for Fortune-ranked companies including American Express, Intel, MicroAge, and Sears. Frank, a PhD, has published extensively on the intersection of eLearning, instructional design, and performance support. He is a recipient of the Learning Guild Master and the ISPI Distinguished Dissertation awards. His work on compliance training, learning strategy, business transformation, and technology has been recognized by Brandon Hall and Chief Learning Officer. Frank has served on learning industry committees for Adobe, ATD, BJET, Brandon Hall, The Learning Guild, and ISPI.
Matthew Smith is a partner and chief learning officer at McKinsey & Company. He is responsible for developing the firm’s learning and development strategy and for the execution of L&D programs for more than 29,000 colleagues globally.
Prior to his current role, he served as chief of staff to McKinsey’s global managing partner and spent 10 years as a consultant and leader in McKinsey’s organization and pharmaceutical & medical products practices. He sits on the firm’s global partner-election committee.
Matt has published several articles on organizational and talent topics, including in Harvard Business Review and the McKinsey Quarterly. He served as senior faculty for McKinsey’s Change Leaders Forum program, where he brought his research and experience in change management to senior executives across sectors. He was the research director for the recently published book Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).
Gloria leads the Associate Dean and Managing Director of Professional Learning at Minerva Project. She oversees the strategy, development, and implementation of Minerva’s partnerships in executive education. With her background in Neuroscience, Gloria is a thought leader on learning innovation and the science of learning. She leads the design and development of Minerva’s professional learning portfolio. Previously, Gloria was Executive Director at Yale School of Management, working with Fortune500 companies on consumer insights, brand management and customer experience. She was also the Head of Global Onboard Learning at McKinsey, after spending 7 years as a management consultant, advising over a dozen C-suites and institutional leaders on their company strategy and organizational transformation.
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.
Jake Gittleson is a Senior Expert in Learning Design for McKinsey & Company. In this role, Jake leads McKinsey Learning’s Research and Innovation Lab and also supports the design for the firm’s pre-partner learning programs. He specializes in helping teams uncover the ‘why’ and imagine the “what if” in areas of learning design, experience, performance, and learning technology. Through research and experimentation, Jake strives to support better learning experiences and empower intentional learners, so colleagues can continue to flourish and achieve their learning goals. In addition to Jake’s everyday role, he co-hostsThe Learning Geeks Podcastand most recently served as the Planning Committee Chair of 2020’s ATD’s Techknowledge Conference.
Vidya Krishnan is the head of competence and capability consulting and education for Ericsson North America. She has the responsibility and a deep passion for transforming how Ericsson creates the capability for its customers and their workforces. Vidya has over 20 years of experience in the telecom and IT industry, spanning AT&T, Nortel, and Ericsson. She holds a BS degree from Princeton and an MS degree from Stanford in electrical engineering, with a specialization in sustainability. She and her team are dedicated to transforming how, where, and when effective learning takes place in a networked society.
Hadiya Nuriddin is the owner of Duets Learning. She has nearly 20 years' experience in learning and development. She specializes in instructional design and development for both corporate and academic environments. She has extensive experience in designing, developing, and delivering both technical and professional development courses. She also designs and develops eLearning courses. Hadiya is the author of the book StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect. Hadiya has an MEd in curriculum design, an MA in writing, and a BA in English. She holds the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP).
Tomissa Smittendorf leads a high-performance sales L&D team that focuses on the commercial capabilities needed to be best-in-class. Tomissa is seen as having a transformation drive with a make-it-happen spirit. She ties learning to business solutions and consults with leaders to understand and overcome business challenges. Her ability to demonstrate a holistic view of the business comes from 30 years of CPG experience and having worked in retail sales, supply chain, sales, finance, customer service, HR, and DSD. In addition, Tomissa holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Siena Heights University.
Richard Olson is an executive education expert with more than 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors. He has been working with Ross Executive Education since 2005, creating and managing learning programs and initiatives with some of the world’s most respected companies. Richard brings a wealth of leadership experience from senior roles in education, transportation, food, manufacturing, inventory and warehouse management, system integration, and security systems. His expertise in corporate education, as well as consulting focused on business development, marketing, and leadership development, give him unique capabilities in helping individuals and organizations thrive.
Richard’s broad perspective is a powerful asset in meeting the professional development needs of leaders from a wide range of commercial and nonprofit sectors. Experienced with all elements of program design and program management, Richard advises Fortune500 companies with professional development needs ranging from front-line managers to C-suite and board of director levels.
Lisa Christensen serves as director of learning design and development for McKinsey & Company, leading a global team of design experts as they innovate the next generation of exceptional learning design and build learning programs to serve McKinsey’s 30,000 colleagues. She previously served as director of mid-tenure learning for the firm.
Before joining McKinsey, Lisa was the senior vice president of implementation for Socratic Arts, where she led the design and development of custom learning programs for clients, including F100 global organizations, non-profit organizations, and the US military. Lisa has deep experience in a variety of learning modalities and approaches but specializes in blended learning, performance support, knowledge management strategies, and immersive simulation design.
Lisa is an accomplished facilitator and author. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international law and diplomacy and a master’s degree in organizational management.
Conrad A. Gottfredson, the chief learning strategist at APPLY Synergies, has deep experience in organizational learning, collaborative development, knowledge management, online learning, performance support, and instructional design and development. Conrad is the original developer of the Learning at the Five Moments of Need framework now in use around the world. He has worked with many of the world’s largest organizations, helping them attain higher levels of learning agility. Conrad’s experience includes the design and deployment of large-scale knowledge management and performance support systems within multinational corporations. In 2014 Conrad was awarded the Guild Master Award for his accomplishments and contributions to the eLearning community. He holds a PhD in instructional psychology and technology.
Manoj Kulkarni leads all aspects of Realizeit's commercial development and operations in the US and Europe. He has held senior executive roles for more than 15 years, providing transformational leadership in high volume, global businesses in education, technology, and retail sectors. Manoj is the former CTO for Career Education Corporation where he pioneered the implementation of predictive analytics-based personalized learning across large-scale ground and online institutions. Prior, he was the VP of IT at Toys R Us Inc. Manoj earned his bachelor's in engineering from India's College of Engineering, and masters in BA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
With over 25 years of experience in corporate learning, Nigel Paine is a regular speaker, writer and broadcaster on the topics of development, technology and leadership. Between 2002 and 2006 he headed up the BBC’s Learning and Development operation. Following this, he started his own company nigelpaine.com Ltd that is focused on building great workplaces. He has written three recent books, presents a monthly TV program (Learning Now TV), and shares a weekly podcast (with Martin Couzins) called "From Scratch".
Sravani Tammiraju is a product owner for tech onboarding solutions at Visa. She was a software engineer-turned-L&D-professional by way of an MBA from Boston University. During her time in business school, she lead the first ever Boston-wide Diversity & Inclusion conference. Sravani is a member of the Learning 2019 Class of Thirty Under 30. You can find her case study in ATD’s Designing for Modern Learning book that launched earlier this year. She has been a board member for Junior Achievement since 2019.
Rob Garris serves as Managing Director for Leadership Development at Trinity Church Wall Street. He is responsible for the development of the Trinity Leadership Initiative (TLI), a global collaborative network of partners that will offer leadership development programs combining the inspiration of faith with the practical skills leaders need to be effective in the world. The TLI will bring together mission-driven lay leaders and clergy, train them to gather and empower communities for a changing world, and network them into a global cohort for leadership learning. Rob has built innovative international education programs at universities and foundations for more than twenty years, working for Schwarzman Scholars (a new leadership development program in China), the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University, and John’s Hopkins School of International Affairs. Rob received his PhD in History from the University of North Carolina, where he specialized in immigration and urban policy.
Learning 2020 targets the challenges and topics that are most critical to today’s learning leaders. Browse through the full program for sessions ranging from organizational strategy, career growth, and tactical use of data intelligence.
Explore what “Learning Leadership” means in a modern learning organization and what it looks like in practice
1Hear perspectives on the future of work and how the changes matter to our profession
2Learn from leading organizations on how they are tackling the COVID-19 crisis
3Join a tactical discussion on preparing yourselves and your teams for success in a post-pandemic world
4Frank Nguyen, Learning Executive
Sravani Tammiraju, Product Owner, Visa
John Sangimino, Sr. Expert, Learning Design & Jake Gittleson, Sr. Expert, Learning Design, McKinsey & Company
Karl Kapp, Professor, Bloomsburg University
Tomissa Smittendorf, Director, Sales Learning & Development, Kellogg Company
Chris Bond, CEO, Bluewater Learning
James Backus, Senior Training Advisor, Office of Partner Engagement, Defense Intelligence Agency
Alex Banks, Head of Sales, Vyond
Liza Wisner, Senior DEI Curation Specialist & Abby Miles, Senior Director of People, OpenSesame
Matt Smith, CLO and Lisa Christensen, Director of Learning Design and Development, McKinsey & Company
Nigel Paine, NigelPaine.com
Ben Betts, Chief Product Officer, Learning Pool
Mousumi Saha, Advisor-Customer/Technical Training, Dell Technologies
Kelly Leonard, Executive Director, Learning and Applied Improvisation at Second City Works
Bob Mosher & Conrad Gottfredson, Chief Learning Evangelists, Apply Synergies
Vidya Krishnan, Global Chief Learning Officer, Ericsson
Wendy Gates Corbett, President, Refresher Training
Donald Taylor, Chairman, The Learning and Performance Institute
Mark Jack Smith, VP, Global Human Resources, Petroleum Geo-Services & Manoj Kulkarni, CEO, Realizeit
Matt Donovan, Chief Learning & Innovation Officer, GP Strategies
Jane Bozarth, Director of Research, The Learning Guild
The goal of the Thirty Under 30 Program is to provide support, visibility, voice, and development for the next generation of learning leaders.
Each member of the Thirty Under 30 program will receive:
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Learning innovations, products, and services provided by leading suppliers are featured in Innovation Showcase sessions at Learning 2020. These are content rich sessions that highlight the latest thinking and innovations within the learning marketplace.
To learn how to host an Innovation Showcase session at Learning 2020 Online, click here.
OpenSesame helps develop the world's most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world's top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you'll find it simple to use and administer your elearning courses.
Bluewater Learning has helped great companies care for and develop their people to positively impact the future of their business and the transformation of the world. They do this by maximizing employee engagement and optimizing Learning, Talent, and HCM technology.
With over 1000 organizational transformations achieved, Bluewater is known for their dramatic, responsive, and rapid impact. Founded in 2003, Bluewater has grown alongside many of their world-renowned clients expanding to a global presence. Our deep expertise across enterprise, extended enterprise, and SMBs has given us the ability to swiftly diagnose root causes, end the day-to-day inefficiencies, and proactively shift learning and talent systems to support today's pace of change.
Bluewater Learning is one of the few consultancies capable of driving end-to-end impact. They've seen firsthand that for true transformation to occur, the entire employee experience across the life cycle and learning spectrum must be taken into account while planning for the organization's future needs.
"We are insanely passionate and honored to fill a role that drives both individual and organizational success," explained CEO Chris Bond. "True transformation and future-readiness cannot be achieved without both."
Sponsor Contact Information
Bennett Jensen
bennettjensen@bluewaterlearning.com
+1.214.736.3671
GP Strategies is a leading workforce transformation partner—one of the few truly dedicated global providers in the marketplace providing custom solutions. We believe our transformation focus, when paired with deep listening, a customer-centric approach, and innovative expertise, enables our clients to routinely achieve superior business and operational results from our evidence-driven and technology agnostic recommendations. From rapid learning conversions and global deployment to engaging and collaborative virtual events, we offer the support to deliver a cost-effective, customizable, and scalable learning solution mapped to your goals.
Founded in 1966, we are at our best when driving innovation—integrating leading technologies, developing new learning paradigms, and instituting fresh business processes and measurement approaches. We are proud to say that clients see us as an extension of their own team when it comes to providing technical, managed learning, leadership and technology adoption solutions.
Whether your business success requires a change in employee performance and mindsets, learning technologies, or critical processes, GP Strategies is the transformation partner you can trust.
At Learning Pool, we help clients deliver exceptional performance with pioneering online learning platforms, creative content and powerful analytics. We have a fresh approach to partnering with our customers; one that makes a real difference with a 98% client recommendation rate.
Learning Pool is a full-service online training provider, offering courses, tools, and content creation to over 800 organizations and 3.5 million learners around the world. Annual revenue growth increased 34% last year and our team has grown to 200 colleagues across our six global offices.
We also won a vast array of awards, including Gold for Innovation at the most recent Learning Technologies Awards, Gold at the International CSR Awards for our commitment to being a responsible business and scooped Gold for Customer Service Success at the 2020 Stevie® Awards. It's not all about the awards though. We deliver on our promises and listen to customers, constantly looking at ways to improve and innovate, to delight clients and make sure Learning Pool is a fantastic place to work.
Contact Information
Sharon Claffey Kaliouby
sharon.claffeykaliouby@learningpool.com
+1.857.204.3234
Founded among the booming tech community of Silicon Slopes in the beautiful Wasatch Mountains of Utah, Mobile Coach is the leading enterprise SaaS platform for designing, deploying, and managing chatbots.
Mobile Coach was founded by technologist Vince Han who created his first chatbot in the 6th grade! We invite you to get to know our talented team of chatbot writers as well as check out a demo of our powerful, yet easy-to-use platform.
Contact Information
Vince Han
vince@mobilecoach.com
Realizeit® is on a mission to transform workforce training and drive learning innovation for large scale organizations by maximizing the value of training operations with our first-of-its-kind intelligent technology.
The changing complexion of the workforce and the increasing speed of business leaves training organizations struggling to keep up with the pace and puts them under constant pressure to justify the value of their training programs and their learning system infrastructure. For many, the legacy systems and traditional ways of thinking are no longer effective. Realizeit solves all of these challenges.
Realizeit delivers unprecedented levels of precision in corporate training and learning by leveraging the power of adaptivity and personalization at scale. This allows companies to transform from conventional one-size-fits-all, content-centric learning model to one that is personalized, knowledge-based and performance-linked for every employee. With Realizeit, organizations can significantly optimize workplace training, maximize job performance for every employee and validate their return on investment (ROI) for training. Additionally, continuously measuring each individual's knowledge against their role-based competencies, Realizeit can help uncover potential risks to the operation or brand.
Our platform is powered by an intelligent and self-learning engine fueled by machine learning. The system continuously shapes the learning experience to deliver the personalized training that learners need to best perform in their individual job and role. It is designed to build confidence and competence in every employee and optimize their learning experience.
Realizeit's adaptive learning platform is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) technology. For more information, visit: www.realizeitlearning.com
Contact Information
Ty Roberts
community@realizeitlearning.com
+1.847.241.4577
Sealworks develops custom solutions blending design and technology with a focus on your audience to create amazing experiences. We take ideas from concept to launch with a roadmap to grow and expand as your needs evolve. We offer a full line of services from planning, prototyping, design, user interfaces to user experience, development of courses, apps, learning experience platforms, and ecosystems. We utilize our LaunchCycle.com platform for managing project development, teams, and tasks. We love partnering with organizations to collaborate and develop amazing learning experiences from ten to millions of learners.
Sponsor Contact Information
Nick Floro
nick@sealworks.com
+1.215.369.9640
Vyond puts the power of video in the hands of everyone, allowing people of all skill levels and in all industries to create dynamic and powerful media. With features that go beyond moving text and images, you can engage your learners in a truly captivating way.
Grab attention with video. Video is an impressive catalyst for engagement and has been shown to improve the ability to remember concepts and details, with effects that even increase over time. Plus, employees today are tired of slides and text. Video is simply more interesting -- and easy to create in Vyond.
Captivate through storytelling. Don't talk at your learners. Make training something that surprises and delights by teaching through story. With Vyond, you can build character-driven stories, repurpose and customize content, and create compelling data visualizations that engage audiences and deliver results.
Enhance your existing content. Everything goes better with video. Use Vyond as part of a blended learning approach to supplement your existing material, or create videos to replace outdated printouts. Vyond MP4 videos are mobile-friendly and can be shared via LMS, in PowerPoints, or online.
Customize your learning. Use dialogue, lip-sync, and realistic movements to speed learners' immersion in the content and improve their learning outcomes with better, more visual communication. Vyond has thousands of colors, characters, and movements make your content unique to every situation.
Start a free trial at Vyond.com.
Contact Information
Vyond Sales
sales@vyond.com
+1.888.360.9639
zipBoard is a visual content review and bug tracking platform for accelerated learning development. We are based in Vancouver, Canada.
Our solution works well for teams or individuals collaborating on building, e-learning courses, apps, videos, PDF documents, images or mocks.
What makes zipBoard stand out from other e-learning review tools is:
We currently serve teams across the world in simplifying their e-learning development process and making feedback part of the development process. zipBoard has helped teams which are particularly interested in scaling their development process and develop more quality courses.
zipBoard helps simplify this process of QA and review when building e-learning content.
Sponsor Contact Information
Bhavya Aggarwal
bhavya@zipboard.co
+1.604.348.7511
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Learning 2020 is for all learning leaders, be they experienced veterans looking to stay ahead or mentor the next generation, new leaders looking to build their skills, and every stage of leadership in between.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind program to re-energize you and your business, delivered right to your home office!