Learnovation is a Global Learning Tech Summit
Discover the latest in learning technology innovation at the virtual 2020 Learnovation Summit on 13–15 October. Join us at our leading global annual event to find out how to transform learning experiences for employees, students and customers in online learning’s biggest year. International experts will explore this year’s theme: Living and Learning in a Changing Workplace – evolving to meet the challenge of remote working and learning. Empower your organisation with the latest learning technology strategies, tools and solutions. Register today.
Event Format
2020's virtual summit comprises 3 hours x 3 days with international keynotes, expert panels, Q&A sessions, interactive chat and real-time polling. On Tuesday, 13 October, and Wednesday, 14 October, the event starts at 9.45am and ends at 1pm. On Thursday, 15 October, the event starts at 1.45pm and ends at 5pm. After the live event, attendees gain exclusive access to a 'boxset' with video presentations and speaker slides to watch and re-watch in your own time.
Powered by The Learnovate Centre, Trinity College Dublin
The Learnovation Summit is organised by the Learnovate Centre, a leading learning technology research centre in Trinity College Dublin and a technology centre funded by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland to support organisations developing solutions for our society's current and future learning challenges.
Speakers

Daniel Hulme
Daniel Hulme is the CEO of Satalia, a London-based company that provides Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to solve industry’s hardest problems. He is also the Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc, applying AI to solve business, governmental and social problems.

Gilly Salmon
Professor Gilly Salmon is founder and CEO of Education Alchemists, a company formed around her life’s work.This includes Carpe Diem learning design methodology, pedagogical transformation, online teaching, technology enhanced learning, the 5 stage model and e-tivities.

Bob Mosher
Bob has been an active and influential leader in the learning and training industry for over 30 years, winning two lifetime achievement awards. Renowned worldwide for his pioneering role in new approaches to learning, he is co-author of ‘Training for Results’ and ‘Innovative Performance Support: Tools and Strategies for Learning in the Workflow’.

Abi Williams
Abi leads the Corporate & Business Development team for EMEA at Udemy. She is inspired by the transformational power of an Edtech business such as Udemy and its mission to improve lives through learning.

Olivier Crouzet
Olivier Crouzet is Head of Pedagogy at ‘42’ the IT school created in 2013 which promotes an advanced training methodology, called ‘Peer-Learning’. Olivier designed this model which uses 100% project-based methods, without any teachers, lectures, or knowledge transfers.

Bob Regan
Bob Regan is the Director of Education at Gates Ventures. Based in Seattle, Bob divides his time between building products, advising other education efforts and thinking about the future of education. His efforts include leading the Big History Project and the World History Project.

Janet Benson
Janet brings over 15 years of industry experience to Learnovate. Prior to this she worked in Learning & Development with major companies and holds a Masters in Digital Education. Her role in the Learnovate Centre is to work with clients and members to apply best practices in relation to learning theory and learning design.

Aidan McCullen
Aidan is the host and founder of the Global Innovation Show, broadcast on RTE and the only English speaking show on Finland’s Business FM and writer of The Thursday Thought weekly blog. Aidan is a Change Consultant with Flow Consulting Group, where he works with organisations to improve how they engage with each other.

Emer Gilmartin
Emer Gilmartin is CEO of BelowHorizon, a startup creating language learning activities based on speech and dialogue technologies. She is a researcher in the ADAPT Centre, TCD, where her work focuses on building social and task-based conversational interaction into educational, entertainment and caring systems, which need to form a long term relationship with users.

Alex Gibson
Alex Gibson is a leading commentator, consultant and writer on augmented and virtual reality trends. He founded the ARVR INNOVATE conference in 2014, – this international conference has a focus on the business rationale for investment in AR and VR.

Ann Devitt
Dr Ann Devitt is a lecturer and researcher in language and literacy education at the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. She is currently Director of Research at the School and Academic Director for Learnovate, the Enterprise Ireland funded research and innovation centre focused on educational technology which is hosted in TCD.

Adam Coleman
Adam is the CEO and founder of HRLocker which he set up in 2014. His role is to develop strong partnerships and lead his teams in developing and implementing ‘best in class’ HR solutions.

Ciara Garvan
Ciara Garvan is the Founder of WorkJuggle.com. WorkJuggle connects highly skilled professionals with flexible, remote and contract roles. Ciara holds a Masters in Applied Computing and previously worked in organisations such as Accenture, Meteor & Symantec.

Michelle Fogarty
Michelle is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a Degree in HR & Accounting, a diploma in Spinal Maintenance, NCEF and a number of other qualifications.

Francis McKeagney
Francis McKeagney is an eLearning pioneer with a track record of innovation and commercial success. He has worked extensively in the United States as well as in Europe.

Erica Rivera
Dr. Erica Rivera brings deep experience in executive assessment and systemic human capital consulting, working with CEOs and senior management to get talent selection, development and succession planning right, helping companies scale leadership capability, link succession planning to strategy, evaluate and drive culture, and accelerate business performance.

Mary Collins
Mary is a Chartered Psychologist who has been working in the Leadership Development/Talent Management field for over 15 years. Her current role as Senior Executive Development Specialist with RCSI Institute of Leadership involves working with senior leaders in the healthcare sector to develop their management and leadership capabilities through a range of executive development and academic programmes up to PhD level.

Michelle McShortall
Michelle McShortall is the Advisory Services Manager in Intuition, a global knowledge solutions company developing and deploying learning products and services to many of the world’s leading corporate and public sector organizations for over 30 years.
Who Attends?
Learnovation attendees will join learning and development managers, educators, learning providers, entrepreneurs, innovators, trainers, startup founders, learning designers, policymakers, researchers, and people who are passionate about the design and delivery of learning now, and into the future.
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