Keynote Speakers
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates
From Learning to Mission Effectiveness: PMD Pro Forward
Hilary Haddigan
Chief of Mission Effectiveness, Heifer International
Hilary Haddigan has worked with Heifer since October 1999. As Chief of Mission Effectiveness, she leads the development of organization strategy, as well as cross-cutting intitiatives that advance change. Prior to Heifer, Hilary worked with Christian Aid in the UK, Volunteer Missionary Movement in Zimbabwe and as a teacher in the northwest of England – her homeland.
Social Media: Building a Learning Community
David Kelly
Vice President of Program Development at The eLearning Guild
David Kelly is the Vice President of Program Development at The eLearning Guild. He has been an internal learning and performance consultant and training director for over 15 years. David is active in the learning community, and often speaks at industry conferences and events around the world. In 2011, the eLearning Council voted him one of the 10 most influential eLearning bloggers for his blog, davidkelly.me. He is also known for his curation efforts, especially related to conferences and events for learning and performance professionals. In his role at The eLearning Guild, David plans and organizes a number of conferences for learning and performance professionals each year.
Beyond 2015: Collaborating to Build the Talent and Workforce the Sector Will Need
Chris Proulx
CEO of LINGOs
Chris Proulx is the CEO of LINGOs, leading the team toward a vision of where “everyone working to improve lives and communities in the developing world has the skills to make a positive impact.”
Chris has been working at the intersection of technology and learning for over twenty years. Prior to LINGOs, Chris was the CEO of eCornell from 2004-2014 during which time eCornell developed over 30 online certificate programs that reached over 100,00 working professionals in 180+ countries. Chris has developed online and blended learning solutions for the non-profit, higher education, and corporate sectors and speaks regularly at conferences in each sector. Chris lives with his family in Ithaca NY where he has recently served on the City Council and was formerly the board president of the Finger Lakes Land Trust, a regional land conservation organization.
Mobilizing Organizations for Innovation, Collaboration, and Impact
Sam Bacharach
Director of Cornell’s Institute for Workplace Studies & the Smithers Institute, Founder, The Bacharach Leadership Group
Samuel B. Bacharach is the co-founder of the Bacharach Leadership Group, an organization that specializes in leadership development programs, with an emphasis on specific behavioral skills such as leading for change and innovation, political skills to move agendas, coaching skills to enhance individuals and teams, and leading through negotiations. He is also the McKelvey-Grant professor in the department of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s ILR School. Among his books are Get Them on Your Side andKeep Them on Your Side. His latest volume, A Good Idea Is Not Enough: Leading for Change and Innovation,will be published by BLG in July 2015.
MOOCsforDev: Beyond the hype to best practice
Chris Pirie
General Manager of Sales, Marketing and Services Group Readiness at Microsoft; Chairman, LINGOs Board of Directors
As General Manager of Microsoft’s Sales, Marketing and Services Group Readiness (SMSG-Readiness) organization, Chris Pirie leads the group delivering field readiness and training for 42,000 field employees worldwide.
Through Chris’ leadership, the SMSG-Readiness team delivers 190,000 days of conference, classroom, online and virtual training each year, and manages over 2.4 million hours of social and online learning for Microsoft Consultants, Sales, and Marketing professionals. After joining Microsoft in 2004 as Senior Director of Learning Product Development, he later served as General Manager for Microsoft Learning where he led the worldwide effort to drive deep customer engagement and to build personal, organizational and regional capability through technology learning and technical certification.
Prior to Microsoft, Chris worked at Oracle Corporation as VP of eLearning, and at a division of Lloyds Bank in his native UK. He has a passion for technology and education and building capacity at scale through learning technologies.
He serves as Chairman of the LINGOs Board of Directors.
Sheila Jagannathan
E-Learning Program Manager at the World Bank Institute
Sheila Jagannathan is Lead Learning Specialist and Program Manager of the e-Institute, at the World Bank Institute in Washington DC and serves as the organization’s focal point on elearning and issues at the intersection of technology use and education in emerging countries. She is an innovative and strategic educational leader with over 28 years experience in designing and managing distance learning programs/knowledge products and transforming the use of online and classroom pedagogies and technology. Sheila also provides policy advice and technical assistance to World Bank country-level capacity building programs (both government and training institutes seeking to introduce technologies in their educational systems) in, East Asia, China, the Middle East and North Africa, Africa and South Asia Her current areas of interest and activity include: MOOCs, experiential pedagogy, online/hybrid strategies, development of rich multimodal and social learning environments, big data and learning analytics, LMS and learning ecosystems. She is on the advisory board and planning committees of major professional associations of elearning such as the E-learning Africa, (Annual International Conference for developing E-learning capacities in Africa), International Conference on e-learning (ICEL) etc.
Nick Martin
Founder & CEO, TechChange
Nick Martin is an educator, technologist, and social entrepreneur with over ten years of international development and peacebuilding experience. He is the founder and CEO of TechChange, a Washington DC-based social enterprise that provides tech training for social change. The TechChange model for technology training has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Economist, Fast Company and more. Nick is a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow (2013), an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow (2014), and an International Youth Foundation Global Fellow (2009). He was also the runner-up for the Society for International Development’s prestigious Rice Award which honors an outstanding young innovator in the field international development under the age of 32 (2014). Nick is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and George Washington Universities where he teaches graduate courses on Technology for Social Change, Technology for International Crisis Response, and Mobile Phones for International Development. Nick received his BA with honors from Swarthmore College and holds an MA in Peace Education from the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE).
Jen Hu
Account Manager at NovoEd
Jen Hu is Account Manager at NovoEd, an e-learning company powering leadership development online with the latest social learning technology. She serves as project lead for Philanthropy University, a first-of-its kind educational initiative for change makers in the social sector created in collaboration with the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and built by NovoEd. Jen has over a decade of experience in education, focused on furthering diversity, equity, and global citizenship in K-12 school communities. Most recently, she consulted with A.T. Kearney, a global consulting firm, helping public and private sector clients develop and execute strategic initiatives to transform their organizations, operating models, and culture. She has experience with schools, nonprofits, governmental agencies, and companies across several industries. Jen attained her MBA from the University of Michigan and her BA and MA in English from Stanford University.