Digital Transformation
in HR and L&D
The HR and L&D community meets again in Berlin for Speexx Exchange, the annual hands-on reality check on ed-tech and talent management practices in large corporations. And, it’s absolutely free for friends and customers of Speexx.
Speexx Exchange in a Nutshell
5 December | On the eve of Online Educa Berlin | From 9 am to 5.30 pm |Hotel Intercontinental Berlin
Hosted by learning industry legend Laura Overton of Towards Maturity.
On the program: networking, latest industry research, best practice presentations on global digital transformation projects.
Attended by experts and thought leaders from the global HR and L&D community from more than 20 countries
Plenty of time to mingle and enjoy the best food served by the renowned Hotel InterContinental cuisine
Free for friends and customers of Speexx.
Speaker line-up
Moderator Laura Overton | CEO & Founder | Towards Maturity
Laura is the Managing Director of Towards Maturity, a not-for-profit benchmark practice that provides independent expert research and advice in using learning innovation to accelerate business performance. Her work is based on more than 25 years of practical experience looking at learning innovation for business advantage, backed by her independent research with over 5,500 organisations and 25,000 learners since 2003. She is the author of more than 40 major research reports including “Live Online Learning”, “Bridging the Gap – Integrating learning and work”, “The Transformation Curve” and over 200 articles.
Brian Murphy | Head of Learning | Citi Bank EMEA
Brian is the Head of Learning & Development for Citi, in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He leads a team of learning and engagement professionals who support learning experiences which help drive individual, leadership and organisational performance. Brian also leads global efforts to develop a culture of workplace learning across Citi’s 200,000 employees in over 100 countries. Brian believes passionately that the L&D profession is at a historical crossroads. It can choose a traditional approach which is increasingly irrelevant to the ‘real work’, or it can become a key enabler for business performance, innovation and culture change.
Anca Iordache | Head of Digital & Social Learning | Citi Bank EMEA
Anca Iordache is the Head of Digital & Social Learning at Citi EMEA Region. In her everyday work, Anca helps employees and teams across the organization become more effective at how they learn and perform. She creates value by enabling better conversations and collaboration at all levels of the organization. Anca has been with Citi for almost 15 years, and together with her team, she thrives to develop a culture of workplace learning at Citi, with social and digital at its heart. Anca helps leaders utilize new learning and collaboration technologies and platforms, as well as advising on large scale culture and change initiatives.
Britta Scholten | Director CARE Learning | Vistaprint
Britta Scholten and her CARE Learning Team are responsible for all Vistaprint customer service and design support learning solutions. She joined Vistaprint in 2012 as training manager for the Berlin office. In the following years, her responsibility became more and more global, since 2016 she heads a global team with 50 employees, at 8 locations. The passion for customer service and learning is the central theme of Britta’s career. The most exciting question for Britta and her team: how can we support the transformation of our company into a learning culture?
Marzia Baldassari | Learning Resources Specialist | UN
Marzia Baldassari is a Learning Resource Specialist in the United Nations, based in Bonn, Germany, where she coordinates and delivers learning initiatives for 6500+ UN Volunteers across the globe through the design, development, delivery of e-learning courses, blended learning programmes and face-to-face training activities. In her role, she has coordinated the development of the first UNV online learning platform, UNV eCampus, that has grown to 35,000 users in just over 20 months, as well as prepared the content for specific e-learning courses.
Anne Doose | Senior Specialist Digital Skills & Literacy | GIZ
Anne Doose is an international cooperation specialist. She currently works within GIZ’s corporate academy AIZ, on the strategic development of competencies, to address the challenges and seize the opportunities of the digital age. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is one of Germany’s agencies for international cooperation and a government-owned company. GIZ provides advice to governments, the private sector, civil society organizations and academia in more than 130 countries worldwide.
Daniel Redondo | Head of Staff L&D | International Organization for Migration
Daniel Redondo is the Head of Staff Development & Learning at the United Nations leading Agency on Migration, IOM. Daniel has more than 10 years’ experience with IOM, having worked in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. He has served as project manager and migration law training officer on a wide variety of projects supporting the needs of migrants. Over the past four years, he has been leading IOM’s Staff Development and Learning Unit (SDL) based in Geneva, Switzerland, targeting 11.000+ staff members.
Charlene Berneau | Corporate Digital Learning Manager | Saint-Gobain
With over 10 years of Learning and Development experience, Charlene’s passion is creating learning ecosystems that engage learners, drive business performance and deliver the best experience. As the Corporate Learning manager at Saint-Gobain, she contributes to HR transformation by applying the latest in innovative workforce tools, learning technologies and strategies. Charlene is committed to promoting learning, driving adoption for learning, and building a learning culture.
Geoffroy de Lestrange | Associate Director Product Marketing EMEA | Cornerstone OnDemand
Geoffroy de Lestrange is an international B2B marketing professional, with over 20 years of experience in IT, in various European countries, as marketing manager and CRM project manager. He is now in charge of product marketing and analyst relations at Cornerstone OnDemand for Europe. The impact of technology on Human Capital Management is one of his favourite speaking topics. On a more private note, he loves languages, history and graphic novels.
This is Speexx Exchange
“Great mix of presentations. No product “push”. The conference created space for real connections.”
“Here I have the opportunity to meet key speakers from L&D and fellow professionals from different parts of the world. It helps me understand how they tackle the same problems that we encounter.”
“I was keen on participating in the Exchange conference because of the high profile speakers – and the strong relevance of selected topics.”
“I find it highly valuable that at Speexx Exchange in am enabled to get in touch with other people; it is very inspiring to see things from so many different perspectives.”
“Good, realistic benchmarking. Interesting and robust research findings from Laura Overton. Good networking and a good mix of people.”
“What I liked about Speexx Exchange? The stories of the various speakers, very inspiring! Networking with the other participants and the fact that this is not a commercial event.”
“Speexx enables you to meet other colleagues from the L&D Society – I liked the variety of speakers and topics, the atmosphere in general, very open, and even interactive.”