Speexx Exchange:
Learning Transformationin HR and L&D
Join top industry experts and thought leaders to discuss learning transformation in HR and L&D at Speexx Exchange Berlin, the hands-on reality check on ed-tech and talent management practices, on December 2nd.
Speexx Exchange
Join us at Speexx Exchange, the hands-on reality check on ed-tech and talent management practices, on December 2nd. Register now and meet top industry experts and thought leaders to discuss learning transformation, AI, and technology in HR and L&D.
Register now for Speexx Exchange 2020
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This is Speexx Exchange
This is Speexx Exchange
The Speexx Exchange Agenda from 2019
- 9.00 am – Registration & Breakfast
Bellevue Room | Hotel InterContinental Berlin - 10.00 am – Kick-off & Reality Check
Laura Overton and the Speexx team - 10.30 am – 10.50 am Keynote
Definition of Transformation – A Complete/ Radical/ Fundamental Change in Appearance or Character
Learning transformation is a must: Add value back to individuals, and cultural and experiential changes to make
Laura Overton | International Speaker & Analyst - 10.50 am – 11.10 am
What Does a Transformed Leadership Development Experience Look like?
How is impact increased in the future of leadership development?
Dr. Stefan Marose | VP of Corporate Partnerships & and Meike Gil Román | Corporate Partnerships | Headspring - 11.10 am – 11.30 am
Learning Technologies to Scale Access to Learning, Strategic Transformation to Increase Human Engagement
Atish Gonsalves | Global Innovation Director | Humanitarian Leadership Academy - 11.30 am – 11.50 am Coffee Break & Networking
Get to know other participants
- 11.50 am – 12.10 am
The Role of AI in High Performing Learning Culture
Jane Daly | Chief Insights Officer | Towards Maturity - 12.10 am – 12.30 pm
How is Natural Language Processing and AI Shifting the Experience?
Philippe Wacker | Executive Director | LT-Innovate - 12.30 pm – 12.50 pm
Changing the Experiences Changes the Culture
Ramona Rösler | Teamlead Talent Management Solutions | Liebherr IT Services - 12.50 pm – 1.50 pm Lunch Break
- 1.50 pm – 2.00 pm Reality Check #2
Data, Facts, Interactive Session
Laura Overton | International Speaker & Analyst - 2.00 pm – 2.20 pm Best Practice
Learning Transformation to Scale Using Curation
Tom Turnbull | Co-Founder & VP, Partnerships and Legal Affairs | OpenSesame - 2.20 pm – 2.40 pm Best Practice
Steps to Shaping Culture Change at Scale
Hannelore Kolb | Learning Program Manager | Hager Group - 2.40 pm – 2.50 pm Interactive Session
- 2.50 pm – 3.10 pm Coffee Break & Networking
- 3.10 pm – 3.30 pm
Changes to The CEFR 2020 Framework
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rüschoff | Professional Network Forum | Council of Europe - 3.30 pm – 3.45 pm Best Practice
How is the L&D Role Changing?
Laura Overton | International Speaker & Analyst - 3.45 pm – 4.45 pm Round Tables Workshop
Interactive Exercise – Changing You – What Can You Do Differently?
Laura Overton | International Speaker & Analyst- 4.45 pm – Summary & Conclusions
- 5.00 pm – Drinks Reception
The Speakers of Speexx Exchange 2019
Moderator Laura Overton | International Speaker & Analyst
Laura is an experienced international speaker, author and facilitator with a passion for exploring, challenging and sharing. Founder of Towards Maturity- the expert learning analysts, her focus has always been on bringing a community together to investigate how learning innovation builds business impact. Laura has authored/ co-authored of over 40 major research reports and, as a regular contributor to industry publications she has written over 300 articles. She has also received several pretigious awards, among which the Learning and Performance Institute’s Colin Corder Award for outstanding achievement, the Learning Technology Award for outstanding achievement.
Philippe Wacker | Executive Director | LT-Innovate.org
Philippe Wacker is currently Executive Director of LT-Innovate, the Association of the Language Technology Industry. Language Technology makes the world intelligent, multilingual and interactive. LT is at the core of AI-driven multilingual ambient intelligence, a set of technologies encompassing deep meaning processing, multilingual communication & cognition and speech interaction. Human-centric AI based on Language Technology is profoundly transforming the way humans and machines interact with each other, creating myriads of new opportunities. Philippe has spent the last 30 years in the high tech sector as a manager of leading digital technology networks.
Hannelore Kolb | Learning Program Manager | Hager Group
Hannelore Kolb is an HR Generalist with professional experience of +18 years as executive in HR Business Partnering and Talent Management. She is also a certified management coach & 360° coach, with leadership experience in the international business environment, within organizations of different size and legal structure, leading international teams. She is currently responsible for group wide learning programs in terms of designing and implementing learning formats, for all employees of the Hager Group and global functions such as Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, supporting transformation by enhancing Hager’s global learning offer.
Jane Daly | Chief Insight Officer | Towards Maturity
As a Learning & OD strategist and expert analyst, Jane leads Towards Maturity’s dynamic strategic insight unit and analyst services portfolio. She is a leading influencer in the People industry and champions the voice of People Development professionals. Jane has led and transformed all areas of OD, Talent, Learning & Development. Before joining Towards Maturity, Jane was the Global Head of Learning & Development for Marks & Spencer and created an award-winning business-led Academy model to impact business performance and mitigate critical capability risks. Since leaving M&S , Jane has supported over 1,000 global organizations to transform their impact.
Tom Turnbull | Co-Founder & VP Partnerships | OpenSesame
Tom has served in a variety of leadership roles in education and technology companies including Knowledge Universe, the LA Times, Internet Brands and Arthur Andersen. Throughout these experiences, he consistently saw the gap in existing corporate learning resources and the needs of developing teams. Tom was excited to join the founding team at OpenSesame with the goal of making educational resources more widely available in order to help build the world’s most productive and admired workforces. When Tom isn’t focused on corporate education, he’s out in the community providing educational experiences volunteering legal and business advice with the global, humanitarian aid organization.
Meike Gil Román | Corporate Partnerships | Headspring
Meike Gil Román is responsible for Corporate Partnerships DACH at Headspring. She has 20 years of cross-cultural experience in Corporate Learning, Management Consulting, Business Development, Live Communication and Tourism. She is experienced in designing corporate learning programmes with a focus on strategic planning always aiming a holistic approach. She has comprehensive knowledge of business management, particularly around change and project management. The thread running through Meike’s work is a passionate commitment to helping organizations develop their people. Meike has a proven ability within international markets and has worked across the world.
Dr. Stefan Marose | VP of Corporate Partnerships | Headspring
Dr. Stefan Marose burns for lifelong learning. Starting his education with a Doctor in Chemistry and Biotechnology, he became MBA and certified business coach. He worked in academic and corporate research, project management, service and sales in industries as diversified as Biotech, Life Science, IT and Business Education. At Headspring Executive Development he is responsible for corporate leadership development in DACH and the Netherlands. As a VP of Corporate Partnerships, he makes sure to tailor the right fit for the specific learning needs, in a team of experts selecting appropriate methodology, content, educators and learning technologies.
Atish Gonsalves | Global Innovation Director | Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Atish Gonsalves is a social technologist, entrepreneur and the Global Innovation Director of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy. With a background in software engineering, AI and human-computer interaction, Atish’s experience includes leadership roles at technology and international non-profit organisations. Atish has consistently implemented successful educational-technology (edtech) solutions that have helped democratize learning for thousands of learners in difficult contexts. Atish is also the founder of Gamoteca, a collaborative digital platform that enables organisations create their own mixed-reality learning games.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rüschoff | Professional Network Forum | Council of Europe
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rüschoff has a research focus on technology enhanced learning systems and has participated in numerous international projects dealing with the development and assessment of digital tools and multi-media resources in language learning. His research addresses a wide range of issues in the field of applied linguistics, such as language & culture, bilingual education, and data-driven learning. Member of the Professional Network Forum, a think tank of the Council of Europe’s European Centre for Modern Languages, and of a Council of Europe expert group involved in the current launch of the revised CEFR and its Companion Volume.
Ramona Rösler | Teamlead Talent Management Solutions | Liebherr IT-Services
As the team leader for Talent Management Solutions, Ramona Rösler and her team drive and support learning and development across all Liebherr locations, worldwide. The team not only provides IT solutions, but also advises on processes and applications based on existing use-cases. Ramona has over eight years of experience in L&D, digital learning, life-long learning and LMS management. Established in 1949 Liebherr Group today is a leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, but also supplies innovative user-oriented products and services in many other fields. The family-owned enterprise employs 46,000 worldwide.
The Speakers of Speexx Exchange 2019
Laura is an experienced international speaker, author and facilitator with a passion for exploring, challenging and sharing. Founder of Towards Maturity- the expert learning analysts, her focus has always been on bringing a community together to investigate how learning innovation builds business impact. Laura has authored/ co-authored of over 40 major research reports and, as a regular contributor to industry publications she has written over 300 articles. She has also received several pretigious awards, among which the Learning and Performance Institute’s Colin Corder Award for outstanding achievement, the Learning Technology Award for outstanding achievement.
Philippe Wacker is currently Executive Director of LT-Innovate, the Association of the Language Technology Industry. Language Technology makes the world intelligent, multilingual and interactive. LT is at the core of AI-driven multilingual ambient intelligence, a set of technologies encompassing deep meaning processing, multilingual communication & cognition and speech interaction. Human-centric AI based on Language Technology is profoundly transforming the way humans and machines interact with each other, creating myriads of new opportunities. Philippe has spent the last 30 years in the high tech sector as a manager of leading digital technology networks.
Hannelore Kolb is an HR Generalist with professional experience of +18 years as executive in HR Business Partnering and Talent Management. She is also a certified management coach & 360° coach, with leadership experience in the international business environment, within organizations of different size and legal structure, leading international teams. She is currently rsponsible for group wide learning programs in terms of designing and implementing learning formats, for all employees of the Hager Group and global functions such as Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, supporting transformation by enhancing Hager’s global learning offer.
As a Learning & OD strategist and expert analyst, Jane leads Towards Maturity’s dynamic strategic insight unit and analyst services portfolio. She is a leading influencer in the People industry and champions the voice of People Development professionals. Jane has led and transformed all areas of OD, Talent, Learning & Development. Before joining Towards Maturity, Jane was the Global Head of Learning & Development for Marks & Spencer and created an award-winning business-led Academy model to impact business performance and mitigate critical capability risks. Since leaving M&S , Jane has supported over 1,000 global organizations to transform their impact.
Tom has served in a variety of leadership roles in education and technology companies including Knowledge Universe, the LA Times, Internet Brands and Arthur Andersen. Throughout these experiences, he consistently saw the gap in existing corporate learning resources and the needs of developing teams. Tom was excited to join the founding team at OpenSesame with the goal of making educational resources more widely available in order to help build the world’s most productive and admired workforces. When Tom isn’t focused on corporate education, he’s out in the community providing educational experiences volunteering legal and business advice with the global, humanitarian aid organization.
Meike Gil Román is responsible for Corporate Partnerships DACH at Headspring. She has 20 years of cross-cultural experience in Corporate Learning, Management Consulting, Business Development, Live Communication and Tourism. She is experienced in designing corporate learning programmes with a focus on strategic planning always aiming a holistic approach. She has comprehensive knowledge of business management, particularly around change and project management. The thread running through Meike’s work is a passionate commitment to helping organizations develop their people. Meike has a proven ability within international markets and has worked across the world.
Dr. Stefan Marose burns for lifelong learning. Starting his education with a Doctor in Chemistry and Biotechnology, he became MBA and certified business coach. He worked in academic and corporate research, project management, service and sales i