Keynote Speaker Prof. Dr. Wim Veen, Professor für Learning Systems, Technische Universität Delft
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Prof. Dr. Wim Veen has been leading the learning and technology group at the System Engineering Department at Delft University of Technology. Together with a professor in systems engineering and a professor in artificial intelligence, he is researching and exploring in a multidisciplinary team of scientists how learning will take shape in the coming decades. Veen is a well-known national and international keynote speaker on learning and teaching in corporate and educational settings.
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In addition, he is a consultant for educational institutions as well as for private companies and governmental authorities in his country and beyond.
About the keynote lecture:
Homo Zappiens: How learning at the workplace can be changed by future employees
Organizations are facing multiple challenges today, some of which are knowledge management, talent retention, and professional development. New generations of employees currently enter the labour market and show quite different values and approaches requiring new HR strategies and ways how to manage knowledge sharing and professional development. Goodbye checklists for formal training of employees; new tools will make e-learning, as we know it, obsolete and ineffective. Reputation systems, P2P tools, games, and mediated reality will become facilitating tools for professional development, knowledge sharing and innovation. And with these tools current organizational cultures of ‘planning and control’ will be replaced by cultures of ‘checks and balances’. Hierarchical structures will evolve towards flatter organizations and networked structures able to flexibly respond to the market’s needs.
Keynote Speaker Robert B. Rosenfeld, President and CEO of Idea Connection Systems, Inc. (ICS), Co-founder of the Association for Managers of Innovation (AMI), Innovator in Residence Emeritus – Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
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For over 40 years, Robert “Bob” Rosenfeld has been a leader and practitioner in human dynamics that make innovation happen inside organizations. In 1978 he created the first Office of Innovation ever to be successfully implemented in Corporate America for the Eastman Kodak Co. In 1988, Bob formed Idea Connection Systems (ICS), a global innovation consulting firm with the goal of serving and partnering with clients for the creation of breakthrough solutions.
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His first book is, “Making the Invisible Visible: The Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation” (2006) and his second book “The Invisible Element: A Practical Guide for the Human Dynamics of Innovation,” is co-authored with Gary Wilhelmi and will be available in late 2011.
About the keynote lecture:
Making the Invisible Visible
Innovation is the very lifeblood of every organization. The most critical success factor for nurturing and sustaining that which is new, lies in an organization’s ability to maximize the potential of its people. In his keynote speech Robert Rosenfeld will explain how innovation achievements are based on an innovation continuum, from evolutionary to expansionary to revolutionary and that different people prefer to work on different areas of the innovation continuum. Presenting best practices from companies at all levels, he will outline different types of innovation systems that have proven to be successful. Rosenfeld will also illustrate how HR professionals can check the innovation preferences and strengths of an employee and how people with different innovation preferences interact with one another. He will address the question how companies can find the right people for the right roles at the right time. Additionally, the innovation expert will comment on the logistic elements of innovation like culture, goals, people and innovation systems. Rosenfeld’s keynote presentation will go beyond an academic talk on corporate innovation; it will focus instead on everyday applications in the life of the HR professional.
Keynote Speaker Prof. Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Learning Technology, University of Plymouth, UK
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Steve Wheeler is Associate Professor of learning technology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Plymouth. He chairs the Plymouth E-Learning Conference, convenes the University's E-Learning research network and co-ordinates technology mediated learning for the Faculty of Education. He serves on the editorial boards of ten international journals, and is the co-editor of the journal Interactive Learning Environments.
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He is also the chair of the UNESCO funded IFIP WG 3.6 (Distance Education) and a Fellow of the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN). His research interests include e-learning, distance education, creativity and Web 2.0 social software.
About the keynote lecture:
Lifelong Learning in a Digital Age: A look into the future
In his presentation Steve Wheeler will discuss some of the emerging technologies that are starting to have an impact on professional learning. What will Web 3.0 – the Semantic web – bring us? And how will it add to our use of social media? Might we be using smart mobile and extended technologies such as augmented and mixed reality in the future? And what will new technologies such as facial recognition, natural gesture interfaces and speech activated devices do for the learner?
Wheeler will showcase some of the ways people are learning in new and innovative ways both inside and outside the classroom, collaborating in new and inspirational settings, as they develop new and transferrable skills for lifelong learning in a digital, information driven economy. He will also explore some issues of concern for training professionals. For example, how do training professionals adapt to the changes? What new skills and literacies will trainers and learners require to effectively use the new technologies? How can trainers adapt and innovate to meet the demands of a new generation of tech-savvy learners?
