The first international keynote is Michelle Parry-Slater (UK) is a senior learning and development business strategist, author, and organisation development practitioner. An award-winning workplace learning innovator, Fellow of the CIPD, the LPI and the RSA, Michelle heads up Kairos Modern Learning, a boutique consultancy which specialises in supporting organisations embrace change for more impactful people development. Moving the profession forward, Michelle has brought her years of Learning & Development practice and consultancy to people in her book, The Learning and Development Handbook, published by Kogan Page.

Michelle is on a career mission to drive cultural shift from ‘Injection Education’ traditional courses to embrace the best of digital, social and face to face workplace learning by supporting clients to create effective, efficient, enjoyable and engaging everyday learning cultures. Michelle offers a rare mix of a practical, pragmatic people professional who really ‘gets it’ when it comes to business impact and strategy.

A second keynote is Andrew Jacobs (UK). Andrew is ...

Another international keynote is Teemu Patala (FIN). Teemu is ...

For the past NN years, Mirjam Neelen (IRL) ...

Academic-turn-consultant Dr. Stella Lee(CAN) is an ed-tech strategist, international speaker, startup advisor, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and technology columnist for the Training Industry Magazine. She is the founder of Paradox Learning Inc., a boutique consulting firm based in Calgary, Canada. With over 20 years of experience in digital learning, Stella combines her passion, academic background, and knowledge in visual art, human-computer interaction, adult education, and computer science with her unique global insights for her work with clients such as the United Nations, Asian Development Bank, The Open University, Government of Yukon, WorkSafeBC, TransLink, and InnoEnergy.

Still firmly keeping one foot in academia, Stella continues to research, collaborate, mentor, and teach with universities and institutions worldwide. Stella’s research interests include AI applications for education, ed-tech ethics, personalized and adaptive learning systems, and learning analytics.

The sixth keynote is Zsolt Olah (USA). Zsolt is a Sr. Learning Technologist at Amazon with 20 years of corporate learning and development experience in the intersection of technology, digital learning, and creative storytelling with data. He’s a frequent speaker at national (DevLearn, ATD International Conference & Expo, TechKnowledge) and international learning conferences; blogger at elearningindustry.com, and author of an ATD@Work publication, Game Thinking: From Content to Action, a guide to using game thinking for problem-solving. Zsolt is an advisory board member on the Workforce Development Edtech Board along with a group of Chief Learning Officers, practitioners, and academics looking at where L&D is heading in the future. Previously, he worked as a Digital Learning & Experience Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In his free time, Zsolt has also published a book, written two screenplays, completed the HarvardX Data Science certification, and played mostly mediocre soccer.