Our keynote sessions, will inspire you to see things from multiple perspectives while providing new ideas you can apply to your work.

The Future of Instructional Design: 5 Perspectives

In this fast-paced and thought-provoking opening session you will hear from five different industry leaders, each of whom will provide a short, TED-like talk exploring their view on the future of instructional design. You will discover how the world of ID is changing and what it means for the work we do in L&D. These perspectives will help you see instructional design through different lenses, helping you and your organization prepare for the future of training and development.

Megan Torrance CEO TorranceLearning	Chad Udell Managing Partner, Strategy and New Product Development Float	Nick Floro Learning Architect & CEO Sealworks Interactive Studios	Karen Hyder Online Event Producer and Speaker Coach Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting	Connie Malamed Founder Mastering Instructional Design Membership Community

 

10 Non-L&D Tools that can Improve Your Practice

There are plenty of common tools that learning and development professionals use every day as part of their work. But sometimes you discover a tool that opens new doors or makes an existing workflow much more effective, transforming your work for the better.

In this keynote, we’ll explore non-L&D tools that can improve your practice. We’ve invited 10 members of The Guild community to share quick, four-minute presentations on an uncommon tool that they use in their work. Get ready for a rapid-fire exploration of tools that you can use to improve the work you do every day.

Kindra Dionne President & CEO Purpose WorX	Mike Taylor Consultant Change4GrowthLearning	Bianca Woods Sr. Manager of Programming The Learning Guild	Betty Dannewitz Associate Learning Solutions Architect The Ken Blanchard Companies	Keith Quinn Learning Technologies Manager Scottish Social Services Council
Hadiya Nuriddin Senior Learning Strategist Duets Learning	Mathias Vermeulen Owner Winston Wolfe	Maikel Alendy Learning Design Innovation Manager FIU Online	Michael Sheyahshe Founder and Technologist aNm	Danielle Wallace Chief Learning Strategist Beyond the Sky

 

The Critical Skills of Learning Leadership

We often talk about leadership by describing the traits leaders share, or by using the labels of the roles and titles leaders have in their organization. But learning leadership isn’t about your position or about a templated set of characteristics. Successful learning leadership is driven by the proper application of a critical set of skills.

In this panel discussion we will explore the specific skills that are required by today’s modern learning leaders. You will discover what these skills look like in practice, and how they help others view you as a leader in your organization. You will also explore ways to build these skills in yourself and in other members of your team.

Sonia Malik Learning Strategist IBM	Frank Nguyen Learning Executive

 

Emerging Technologies and Learning: A Guild Master Panel

It seems like we’re constantly discovering new technologies that have the potential to fundamentally change what it means to live, work, and learn. Understanding how to vet a new technology in the context of your work can be a challenge. Being able to assess the opportunities and risks of new technology requires an understanding of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we are headed.

In this keynote, we’ve invited three Guild Masters for a discussion exploring the role technology plays in our work. You will examine a host of emerging technologies and explore perspectives on where they present opportunities, and where they may present limitations and/or risks. While we explore individual trends, we will also be placing a spotlight on the common characteristics of emerging technologies that have the potential to disrupt organizational learning and provide tips on how to vet new technologies in the context of your own work.

Mark Lassoff President Framework Television	Karl Kapp Professor of Instructional Technology Bloomsburg University	Jane Bozarth Director of Research The Learning Guild

 

Learning in the New Normal: 5 Perspectives

What we learn at a conference isn’t as important as our ability to apply what we’ve learned in a way that improves our practice. In this fast-paced and thought-provoking closing session of the Learning Solutions Digital Experience, we will focus on how to apply what we’ve learned in the evolving world of “the new normal”.

We’ve invited five different industry leaders, each of whom will provide a short, TED-like talk exploring one aspect of how learning professionals need to approach their work in the uncharted territory of the new normal. These perspectives will help you see how our role needs to evolve in order to better support our organizations and coworkers through the changes we are all adapting to.

Tracy Parish Education Technology Specialist Southlake Regional Health Centre	Wendy Gates Corbett President and Chief Presentation Officer Refresher Training	Bob Mosher CEO & Chief Learning Evangelist APPLY Synergies	Julie DIrksen Learning Strategist Usable Learning	David Kelly EVP & Executive Director The Learning Guild