3|4|5 august 2020
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3|4|5 august 2020
An online conference created by Learning Designers for Learning Designers!
Connecting like minded, passionate learning designers to help take your skills to the next level.
A place of inspiration for learning designers around the world who have a desire to create better learning experiences.
Find out how solutions are created by exploring real examples. You'll not be left wondering, “How did they do that?”.
Our sessions are filled with practitioners like you, not vendors. The only investment you'll make is in yourself.
Don’t expect a passive experience where you’re talked at.
Here’s how your learning experience will happen.
Walk away with a ton of new practical skills and processes in your toolkit, which you can apply immediately to your learning solutions.
In the build up to our conference we will run a competition called 'The Show'!
64 participants will battle one another to win the Best Learning Designer Award.
The learning community will choose who they want to win this exciting prize.
We're so excited to offer you some of the most exciting practitioners from our industry.
Learning & Performance Strategist
Above all, Arun is a curious, empathetic and geeky human.
Beyond that, he’s an experienced learning, performance and innovation strategist, having developed solutions for some of Australia’s largest companies.
He was recognised by the AITD as Australia’s Learning Professional of the Year in 2017 and has a strong reputation for his work in enabling learning agility and using design thinking to co-design innovative performance solutions.
Internationally recognized Training Designer
Cathy is an internationally recognized training designer dedicated to saving the world from boring instruction. She’s a passionate advocate for improving business performance by respecting and deeply challenging people.
Her advice and designs have been used by organizations that include Microsoft, Pfizer, the US Army, Barclays, and the US Department of the Interior. She’s the creator of the action mapping model of training design used to improve performance by companies worldwide.
Consultant to Creative Professionals
A brutally honest consultant, Emily Cohen has been honored to consult and work with many leading design firms across the country. She loves sharing her expertise through speaking engagements, guest posts, her courses on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com and Skillshare, her industry activism, and, most recently, in her new business book for creatives, Brutally Honest: No-bullshit business strategies to evolve your creative business. Emily Cohen is also fast-talker, a designer by degree, an avid reader, a trend-spotter, a connector, and her client’s advocate.
Award Winning Director of Interactive Films
Martin Percy is a director of immersive and interactive educational films for digital devices. For this, he has won a BAFTA British Academy Award, six Webby Awards, a Grand Clio, three Emmy nominations, four gold e-Learning Awards, given a TEDx talk, etc. His work includes Lifesaver, Lifesaver VR, Real Talk About Suicide, Heart Class, A Conversation with Sir Ian McKellen, etc.
He has created immersive/interactive films for the Tate Gallery, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, British Film Institute and National Theatre.
Journalist and creator of the podcast Trace
Rachael Brown is a journalist for the ABC based in Melbourne. Rachael started her career as the ABC's Melbourne cadet in 2002. In 2008, she won the Walkley award for Best Radio Current Affairs Report. She is the host and creator of the ABC's true crime podcast Trace.
Creative Writer and Digital Learning Designer
Bianca is a Senior Education Developer at Deakin University with 13-years’ experience in digital
learning, design and assessment.
With professional experience across corporate, government, not-for-profit and tertiary learning
environments, Bianca specialises in digital pedagogy and course design, including expertise in
narrative-based learning, digital storytelling, writing, editing and multimedia production.
Product Designer
With over 20 years digital and education experience, Cameron is a passionate design professional focused on delivering engaging, meaningful and effective products and experiences.
From the trenches to strategy and back again, Cameron has led the successful design, development and implementation of multiple large scale applications and education programs, and is passionate about helping people through creative, innovative and human-centred solutions.
Learning Experience Designer
Cath Ellis is a Freelance Learning Experience Designer at Cath Ellis Learning Design, a boutique eLearning company in Victoria, Australia.
She has more than two decades of experience creating award-winning learning experiences for clients across the globe.
She lives in the Dandenong Ranges with her Wife and three puppies.
Senior Instructional Designer
Colin is an experienced learning professional, passionate about learning design, media production, and product management. For the past five years he’s been working in Melbourne, in a number of roles across higher education as well as the private sector.
Originally from Scotland, he’s recently returned to the United Kingdom and is currently working with Kings College London in setting up an academic preparation course for fully online delivery.
Multimedia Developer
Dale holds degrees in Multimedia Design and Computer Science and worked in Motion graphics and Instructional animation for over 10 years before refocusing on web development. Dale also has over 10 years' experience teaching After Effects and continues to teach animation while working as a developer. His animation work has been shortlisted in the Qantm Create Design Awards and his development work has been shortlisted as well as won Best Website. As a teacher, designer, and coder, Dale's experience makes him well positioned to solve and simplify everyday development tasks.
eLearning Consultant
Learning Consultant
Egle Vinauskaite is a learning consultant and director of Skillbright Labs, an edtech product development consultancy. She has experimented her way through digital learning mediums as diverse as courses, apps, platforms, academies, MR/VR, and worked with such brands as Facebook, Google, HSBC, ACCA as well as some of the most exciting startups around.
Egle has an Ed.M. from Harvard and is the Rising Star Award winner at the LPI’s Learning Awards 2020.
Graphic Artist / Video Creator
Digital Design Manager
James Ser is a digital design manager and an avid photographer at SAP Litmos. He has worked on several creative projects including advertising, multimedia design, e-learning and taught a number of digital design subjects at Swinburne University Faculty of Design. He is passionate about making e-learning experiences simple, effective and beautiful. When he’s not in front of his computer, he loves spending his time cycling on his road bike.
Games Developer
Jason Butler has worked in the creative digital industry since 2007, as a front end designer and developer. After a stint in the UK indie games sector as a games developer he brought his desire to create engaging and interactive experiences into digital learning when he joined Sponge in 2014. Since then he has been a champion for games based learning and gamification, creating innovative projects for global clients to create engaging and award winning content.
Senior Learning Experience Designer
Jason Reed is a Senior Learning Experience Designer who has worked on dozens of award-winning projects during his time at Croomo. He has managed teams, overseen projects involving branching storytelling, scenario-based learning, animation, and more. He regularly facilitates client workshops to analyse training needs, tailor solutions for their users, and find opportunities to connect with learners.
Award Winning Learning Designer
John Hinchliffe is an internationally recognised digital learning expert with over 10 years in the field.
This year he won ‘Learning Professional of the Year’ Silver at the LPI’s Learning Awards and has previously served on the board of directors for the eLearning Network, which is one of the biggest not-for-profits in the industry, helping over 4000 individuals.
Professor of Instructional Technology
Karl is known internationally for his work on gamification, games and game-thinking. He advocates for designing interactive, engaging and meaningful learning experiences through the intelligent convergence of game elements, evidence-based practice and a sprinkling of fun. He is a TEDx speaker, author or co-author of several books and is a LinkedIn
Learning/Lynda.com author. He teaches instructional technology to graduate students full-time at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA.
Chief Innovation Officer
A creative catalyst within digital learning, Kate’s work with global clients, (Tesco, Royal Mail, GSK, Axa, IKEA), harnesses the latest technologies and thinking to address real-world performance challenges.
Kate is committed to driving innovation in the sector. Her focus is delivering human-centered and cutting-edge work, and today she’s passionate about deeply enhancing creative learning experiences with advanced platforms and analytics.
In 2016, she was awarded Learning Designer of the Year and named Learning Professional of the Year in 2017.
Learning Experience Designer
Kim is a human-centred & performance-focused instructional designer & eLearning developer.
Kim is a passionate creator with a background in organisational development, training and graphic design. Kim likes to inspire through creative training solutions that solve real business problems.
Kim is the founding director of Belvista Studios.
Learning Experience Design Manager
Learning Consultant
With over two decades of real-life, in-the-trenches experience, designing and delivering learning experiences, Mike Taylor understands that effective learning isn’t about the latest fad or trendy new tools. Known for his practical, street-savvy style; Mike is a regular and highly rated speaker at industry events and helps clients with learning projects for Change 4 Growth in Columbus, Ohio. He also teaches in the Instructional Design & Learning Technology graduate program at Franklin University.
Technologist
Myra is an L&D thought leader who brings a unique mix of technical, business, and adult education expertise to the game. She is a TEDx speaker, author, and technical designer. Her superpower is her natural ability to make complex technical subjects easy-to-understand by breaking concepts down in a way that is easy to consume, process, and apply. Myra is passionate about empowering people to explore and develop themselves holistically. She strives to evoke transformation by doing her part to decolonize technology.
CEO & Founder
Learning Experience Designer
Nyla Spooner is a Learning Experience Designer who creates adult learning experiences for the digital space. She also enjoys mentoring new instructional designers and e-learning developers, and does so through her #100IDs program.
When she's not building courses and other learning experiences, she also creates content around learning and development - including her podcast, "I'm New Here" and YouTube videos.
Director
Richard is a Director at BrightCarbon, the specialist presentation and eLearning agency. He enjoys helping people create engaging content and communicate effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points, which is supported by plenty of resources and tips at www.brightcarbon.com.
Senior Learning Designer
Having worked in learning and development since 2010, Stefan excels in making content as accessible as possible for learner audiences, so that his solutions feel personal and representative for everyone.
In his time, he has designed, scripted and translated courses, programmes and blends for a range of companies including EDF Energy, Sainsbury’s, Barclaycard, P&G and many more. He lives in leafy Southeast London with his husband and his cat Sam.
Author & Freelance eLearning Designer
Tim Slade is a speaker, author, and award-winning freelance eLearning designer. Having spent the last decade working to help others elevate their eLearning and visual communications content, Tim has been recognized and awarded within the eLearning industry multiple times for his creative and innovative design aesthetics. Tim is also a regular speaker at international eLearning conferences, a recognized Articulate Super Hero, a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, author of The eLearning Designer’s Handbook, and creator of The eLearning Designer’s Academy.
Here's the latest news from the Learning Conference 2020.
We’ve got a variety of options available.
You can buy a one day pass (one time zone) or a three day pass (all time zones).
If you're serious about developing new skills through practical experiences, this is the conference for you!
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