2010 Keynotes
ICELW was pleased to have two excellent keynote speakers for ICELW 2010: Jonathon Levy and Dr. Tony O'Driscoll.
Jonathon Levy
LeveragePoint Innovations Inc.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Talk: A Game-Changing Corporate Strategy: Transcending the University Model with eWorking
eLearning was state-of-the-art when it first appeared on the scene in 1998. Traditional eLearning is evolving into a new and more powerful solution that combines learning, performance tools, data, collaboration and change management on a single integrated platform. Flowing from a new conceptual model called eWorking, this innovative approach seamlessly supports contextual mashups of many disparate functions, resulting in a support platform that evolves and grows in value over time. Created for the time-constrained business world in which companies struggle to compete, the new platform addresses the increasing knowledge and performance demands of the workplace that have only intensified with the global economic melt-down. Free-standing eLearning programs could not on their own respond to the increasing pressures of time and reduced workforce faced by today's knowledge workers. The result is a powerful new user-centric paradigm called "eWorking" in which global expertise of the enterprise is captured and repurposed, and the time and distance between learning and doing has been reduced to zero. Learning takes place as an intrinsic part of the workflow, with social networking, data and expert knowledge available in context as needed in the smallest coherent chunk. We'll hear and see how this solution is being tested and measured at some of the largest companies in the world, how it activates their previously untapped intellectual capital, and how it helps them to prepare for an uncertain future with real-time risk management software that sees around corners to prepare for change that has not yet arrived.
About Jonathon Levy
Jonathon Levy is a hands-on futurist and corporate learning expert. He is President and Chief Strategy Officer of LeveragePoint Innovations Inc.(www.LeveragePoint.com), a spin-out from the international consulting company Monitor Group—where he provides vision and leadership. At Monitor Group he provided guidance and vision for the creation of a new paradigm in online performance support called "eWorking." That solution—designed to activate, embed and evolve business methods—has been deployed with great success by Monitor's clients throughout the world. Formerly the Vice President at Harvard Business School's Publishing Corporation, he helped to create the first profitable business for online learning in the soft skills market. Under his stewardship HBSP's online "performance support for busy executives," a new model of online learning providing real time performance support for 2 million managers and executives worldwide, won an unprecedented nine industry awards in a single year. Before coming to Harvard he was Founding Executive Director of Cornell University's Office of Distance Learning, and was founder of the Ivy-Plus Distance Learning Consortium. He has consulted to and advised corporations and universities on six continents and has presented nearly 100 keynote speeches and featured presentations at major conferences in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has conducted visionary leadership sessions "for CEOs only" in the U.S., China, and in Latin America. An acknowledged thought leader in the field of learning and technology, he has published numerous articles in professional management and education journals, including: ASTD's T+D, Chief Learning Officer's CLO Magazine, Distance Educator, HR.com, and many management journals throughout the world. He is author of a series focusing on next steps in the converging field of e-Learning, knowledge management and technology in Chief Learning Officer Magazine. He authored a column on "Sustainability" for Distance Learning, published by the United States Distance Learning Association.
Dr. Tony O'Driscoll
Professor of the Practice
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University
Talk: How Web 2.0 and the Immersive Internet are Changing the Game for Learning
Technology is relentless in its ability to transform all it touches. The Web browser, only about 5500 days old, has fundamentally reshaped the business landscape and redefined how work is accomplished—in virtually every industry, around the world. Over time, the web has evolved from a one way information transfer or "Read-Only" web to an interactive and participatory "Read-Write" web creating a user-generated media machine that allows netizens to be both producers and consumers of digital content in real time. On the heels of the Web 2.0 participatory web, the application of 3D technology ushers in the age of the "Immersive Internet," where web pages become spaces and cursors become avatars that can interact in much more intuitively consistent ways. In short, the evolution of the web is changing how we live, work, play.....and learn.
If the evolution of the web from "Internet" to "Immernet" has fundamentally reshaped business over the past decade, can learning be far behind?This session will explore the impact that web 2.0 and emerging Immersive Internet Technologies, like avatar-mediated virtual worlds and 3D social platforms, are having on enterprise learning and collaboration by sharing examples from leading companies who have successfully integrated these new technologies into their learning strategies.
About Tony O'Driscoll
Tony O'Driscoll is a Professor of the Practice at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business where he also serves as Executive Director of Fuqua's Center for IT and Media; a research center dedicated to understanding the strategic, structural, operational and business model issues associated with these vibrant and volatile sectors. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Information Sciences Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He has also written for respected professional journals such as Harvard Business Review, Strategy and Business, Supply Chain Management Review and Chief Learning Officer Magazine.
Dr. O'Driscoll is a frequently invited speaker for both corporate and academic conferences. He has been a keynote speaker, workshop leader, moderator, speaker and panelist at over 100 national and international conferences. Representative conference engagements include: TED, Vizthink, Virtual Worlds, Engage, the Human Resource Planning Society's (HRPS) Global Conference, Nielsen's Training Leadership Summit, the Society for Information Management's (SIM) Advanced Practices Council and Business Week's Breakthrough Conference. Tony also frequently provides expert analysis and interviews to media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Wired Magazine, Virtual Worlds News, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Training Magazine and for industry analysts such as Gartner and Forrester.