A couple of weeks ago I attended MIT’s Second Machine Age Conference , an event inspired by the best-selling book of the same title published earlier this year by MIT’s Erik Brynjolffson and Andy McAfee. The conference was truly thought provoking. MORE
Next month at this time, I’ll be boarding a plane for Delhi. In the sixties I dreamed of visiting India but never made it. Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed. I’ll be taking part in EdgeX , an event that covers two important themes for education – Learning X.O (the MORE
The conference business is booming yet every participant has some major gripe about the way conferences are run. In the beginning of the year, I looked into the future of conferences. I concluded that: Flipping conference presentations can vastly improve learning outcomes. MORE
Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, check the specific conference website. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this selected conference list. crw Another source of major eLearning conferences is: Tom King's eLearning Google Calendar. MORE
Conference blogs NewsI started yesterday with a keynote address to the BCS Agile group. I'd accepted the booking some time ago on condition that I was on first so that I could get to Cardiff in time for certain important events but it made for a packed morning. MORE
conference in Boston recently, Ross Mayfield ( @ross ) opined on center stage the following: “Discover people through content. Conference over here. Conference itself, more sessions should be devoted to actually connecting people to people, rather than content to people. MORE
Wright has done his 28th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2012 , eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Middle East Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. MORE
I am just back from spending a few days in London where I keynoted the “ Future of Social ” Conference hosted by Social Misfits Media with a talk about Gen Z or as they say in the UK, Gen Zed. Conference Speakers: What I Learned. Photo by Social Misfits. MORE
I recently had the opportunity to attend and speak at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California along with roughly 8,000 other attendees. This was the first SharePoint conference since the Fall of 2009. Overall, it was a good conference. MORE
Go to face-to-face conferences. Attend online conferences. Looking at this ranked list, what stands out for me is the fact that people are taking formal training as infrequently as going to a conference – near the bottom of the list. MORE
In one of the most passionate talks of the conference, she told the audience how she got her staff to understand the value of paying attention to the patron experience, from the trash in the parking lot to checking out books to the feeling of the bathroom. MORE
It’s that time of year again… We’re running our annual end-of-the-year events sale and now is the time to save big on next year’s conferences and workshops. Conferences. MX: Managing Experience Conference. The Service Experience Conference. MORE
We expect keynote speaker Kerry Bodine, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, to have a few words to say about this at our upcoming Service Experience Conference this October. For now, enjoy her thoughts on the conference and why she thinks service design is relevant now. MORE
Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0 MORE
Tim Ogilvie , author of Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers, will share his perspective this October at our Service Experience Conference. JH: Why do you think a conference about service design and experience is relevant now? MORE
That is a slogan on a t-shirt, and while meant as a joke, it is all too familiar for many nonprofits. Meetings that waste your time! MORE
Tim Ogilvie , author of Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers, will share his perspective this October at our Service Experience Conference. JH: Why do you think a conference about service design and experience is relevant now? MORE
Twitter has become a pretty great tool to help with socializing at conferences. There is also an interesting effect that people who are not attending still hear quite a bit about the conference and have some level of tangential participation. MORE
It’s that time of year again… We’re running our annual end-of-year events sale and now is the time to save big on next year’s conferences and our Copenhagen UX Intensive workshop. Conferences. MX: Managing Experience Conference. MORE
Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Clayton R. MORE
Last week, I attended and presented at the DoGoodData Conference in Chicago. “Problems don’t start with data, they start with people.” ” - @deanmalmgren reminds us not to lose sight of the user’s humanity #DoGoodData2015. Plenty (@PlentyCo) May 1, 2015. MORE
Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. link] December 1-3, 2010 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), 8 th , Ayia Napa, Cyprus. MORE
I’m investigating the future of f2f conferences. Will conferences be disrupted à la newspaper business? What’s the future for L&D conferences, say five years out? How can we make conferences more effective? First of all, Why do people attend conferences? MORE
Well, as you well know, there used to be a time where I had enough time in my hands to live blog conference events that I would be attending from all over the place. Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0 MORE
As we approach the launch of our Service Experience Conference , we asked keynote Speaker Dave Gray, Founder and CEO of liminl, to tell us why he's excited to take part and what you will learn from his talk. JH: Why are you excited about speaking at the Service Experience Conference? MORE
That's why Adaptive Path puts on the MX: Managing Experience Conference. Managing and leading the delivery of great experiences seems like it should be so simple. Apply what you know about good user experience, mix in the basics of management, and voila!, results. MORE
In early February, I attended the Strata Conference in Santa Clara. I’ve had a bit of trouble carving out time to write concluding thoughts about the event (time deficiency is mainly due to last minutes activities related to our Learning and Knowledge Analytics Conference ). MORE
I have been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the past year on organizing a grant, whitepaper, and conference on MOOCs. The Conference. As part of this work, we are organizing a conference at University of Texas Arlington December 5-6, 2013: MOOCs and Emerging Educational Models: Policy, Practice, and Learning. Basically, this conference will be an outstanding opportunity to get a pulse of MOOC trends and trajectories. MORE
At this year’s Service Experience Conference , it was clear: playtime is over. The theme of this year’s conference seemed to hang on that question. You can find full videos of speaker’s presentations on our Service Experience Conference Vimeo channel. MORE
This is the case for an entry that came out today, How to Get the Most out of the Conference. By 'the Conference' I assume they mean one of the EDUCAUSE conferences, but even that useful tidbit is missing from the entry. I once started a post, How to Attend a Conference. MORE
Over the last few years I have attended quite a few technical conferences and time and time again the main issue I keep bumping into is not having enough time to converse with fellow attendees to continue learning from one another. but also for the overall conference. MORE
Most conference follow a traditional pattern: Keynote talks, general sessions, panels, and break out sessions. And that’s what a new type of conference is offering. they have begun to change the way we think about conferences. His conferences are called TRUs, often labeled as TRU LONDON, or TRU BOSTON or TRU WHATEVER. People and ideas that wouldn’t get accepted at a traditional conference now have a place to go. SLIDESHOW FROM A RECENT TRU LONDON. MORE
Over the past six months, we’ve been working on pulling together a conference to evaluate, highlight, explore, and engage with prominent trends in wearable technologies in the educational process. The aWEAR conference will be held Nov 14-15 at Stanford. If you have questions or are interested in sponsoring or supporting the conference, please send me an email. The 2016 aWEAR conference is the first international wearables in learning and education conference. MORE
I attend somewhere in the range of 30-50 education/technology/learning conferences annually. These conferences range from local conferences with a 100 or so attendees to large international events with over 2000 attendees. WISE is a global event, though the organizers describe it as a movement and platform rather than a conference. I am not aware of the total investment in WISE conference and related education projects by the Qatar Foundation. MORE
On the dates of 25 January through 26 January, 2012, I had the opportunity to participate for the first time in the Learning Without Frontiers “ Future of Learning Conference and Festival ” held at Olympia in London, England. It was far too weird and off topic to the conference themes. MORE
The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) was the 12th conference that I have attended (it had earlier reiterations). Every year it is like attending a family reunion. I have some many friends and colleagues that I only get to see once a year at the NTC. Conferences MORE
I have been to about a dozen conferences this year in various countries and four continents. And in fact, conferences have been a core part of my life, education and professional work for more than a decade. So what makes a good conference? MORE
As we approach the launch of our Service Experience Conference , we asked keynote Speaker Dave Gray, Founder and CEO of liminl, to tell us why he’s excited to take part and what you will learn from his talk. JH: Why are you excited about speaking at the Service Experience Conference? JH: Why do you think a conference about service design and experience is relevant now? JH: What would make the conference a great service experience for you? MORE
Our edtech innovation conference, held in Calgary May 1-3, is now more or less planned: [link]. I don’t think I’m overstating things when I say that there won’t be an edtech innovation conference in Canada this year that will have as stellar a line up of keynote speakers and panels: [link]. MORE
This is brilliant from TEDX Edmonton. Green. Social. Creative. I’m going to steal- um- borrow this idea! Thanks for blogging about it, Mack Male ! Lunch was next on the schedule and as with the rest of TEDxEdmonton it was anything but ordinary. MORE
I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. This conference has been run for a few years now and is tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year. This is my attempt to collect some of what we’ve learned over the years doing those conferences. MORE
The conference theme was entitled “Managing Complexity” yet I don’t think it did justice to the presentations, banter and discussions that transpired. He helped kick off the conference with a cutting observation that set the tone for almost all interactions thereafter. MORE
Australasian Talent Conference. Just back from our 5 th Talent Management Conference in Sydney. So we enjoyed our brief 3-day sojourn and headed back to Melbourne to plan for next year’s ATC Sydney conference and all the ones inbetween. MORE
Conference Related Topics Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Clayton R.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Wright has done his 28th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2012 , eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Middle East Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Adaptive Path
DECEMBER 3, 2015
At this year’s Service Experience Conference , it was clear: playtime is over. The theme of this year’s conference seemed to hang on that question. You can find full videos of speaker’s presentations on our Service Experience Conference Vimeo channel.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. link] December 1-3, 2010 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), 8 th , Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
Adaptive Path
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
In one of the most passionate talks of the conference, she told the audience how she got her staff to understand the value of paying attention to the patron experience, from the trash in the parking lot to checking out books to the feeling of the bathroom.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 6, 2015
I’m investigating the future of f2f conferences. Will conferences be disrupted à la newspaper business? What’s the future for L&D conferences, say five years out? How can we make conferences more effective? First of all, Why do people attend conferences?
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0
George Siemens
APRIL 5, 2013
Our edtech innovation conference, held in Calgary May 1-3, is now more or less planned: [link]. I don’t think I’m overstating things when I say that there won’t be an edtech innovation conference in Canada this year that will have as stellar a line up of keynote speakers and panels: [link].
Dave Snowden
MARCH 17, 2013
Conference blogs NewsI started yesterday with a keynote address to the BCS Agile group. I'd accepted the booking some time ago on condition that I was on first so that I could get to Cardiff in time for certain important events but it made for a packed morning.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
This is the case for an entry that came out today, How to Get the Most out of the Conference. By 'the Conference' I assume they mean one of the EDUCAUSE conferences, but even that useful tidbit is missing from the entry. I once started a post, How to Attend a Conference.
Dan Pontefract
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
The conference theme was entitled “Managing Complexity” yet I don’t think it did justice to the presentations, banter and discussions that transpired. He helped kick off the conference with a cutting observation that set the tone for almost all interactions thereafter.
George Siemens
MAY 28, 2016
Over the past six months, we’ve been working on pulling together a conference to evaluate, highlight, explore, and engage with prominent trends in wearable technologies in the educational process. The aWEAR conference will be held Nov 14-15 at Stanford. If you have questions or are interested in sponsoring or supporting the conference, please send me an email. The 2016 aWEAR conference is the first international wearables in learning and education conference.
Luis Suarez
JUNE 14, 2011
Over the last few years I have attended quite a few technical conferences and time and time again the main issue I keep bumping into is not having enough time to converse with fellow attendees to continue learning from one another. but also for the overall conference.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 2, 2013
I have been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the past year on organizing a grant, whitepaper, and conference on MOOCs. The Conference. As part of this work, we are organizing a conference at University of Texas Arlington December 5-6, 2013: MOOCs and Emerging Educational Models: Policy, Practice, and Learning. Basically, this conference will be an outstanding opportunity to get a pulse of MOOC trends and trajectories.
Adaptive Path
DECEMBER 17, 2013
It’s that time of year again… We’re running our annual end-of-the-year events sale and now is the time to save big on next year’s conferences and workshops. Conferences. MX: Managing Experience Conference. The Service Experience Conference.
Dan Pontefract
JANUARY 29, 2012
On the dates of 25 January through 26 January, 2012, I had the opportunity to participate for the first time in the Learning Without Frontiers “ Future of Learning Conference and Festival ” held at Olympia in London, England. It was far too weird and off topic to the conference themes.
Adaptive Path
DECEMBER 1, 2014
It’s that time of year again… We’re running our annual end-of-year events sale and now is the time to save big on next year’s conferences and our Copenhagen UX Intensive workshop. Conferences. MX: Managing Experience Conference.
Luis Suarez
JUNE 17, 2012
Well, as you well know, there used to be a time where I had enough time in my hands to live blog conference events that I would be attending from all over the place. Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Next month at this time, I’ll be boarding a plane for Delhi. In the sixties I dreamed of visiting India but never made it. Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed. I’ll be taking part in EdgeX , an event that covers two important themes for education – Learning X.O (the
Nancy White
JULY 1, 2011
This is brilliant from TEDX Edmonton. Green. Social. Creative. I’m going to steal- um- borrow this idea! Thanks for blogging about it, Mack Male ! Lunch was next on the schedule and as with the rest of TEDxEdmonton it was anything but ordinary.
Beth Kanter
JUNE 23, 2015
I am just back from spending a few days in London where I keynoted the “ Future of Social ” Conference hosted by Social Misfits Media with a talk about Gen Z or as they say in the UK, Gen Zed. Conference Speakers: What I Learned. Photo by Social Misfits.
Adaptive Path
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Tim Ogilvie , author of Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers, will share his perspective this October at our Service Experience Conference. JH: Why do you think a conference about service design and experience is relevant now?
Adaptive Path
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Tim Ogilvie , author of Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers, will share his perspective this October at our Service Experience Conference. JH: Why do you think a conference about service design and experience is relevant now?
Kevin Wheeler
JUNE 10, 2011
Australasian Talent Conference. Just back from our 5 th Talent Management Conference in Sydney. So we enjoyed our brief 3-day sojourn and headed back to Melbourne to plan for next year’s ATC Sydney conference and all the ones inbetween.
Dan Pontefract
JUNE 24, 2011
conference in Boston recently, Ross Mayfield ( @ross ) opined on center stage the following: “Discover people through content. Conference over here. Conference itself, more sessions should be devoted to actually connecting people to people, rather than content to people.
Beth Kanter
APRIL 6, 2012
The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) was the 12th conference that I have attended (it had earlier reiterations). Every year it is like attending a family reunion. I have some many friends and colleagues that I only get to see once a year at the NTC. Conferences
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 30, 2009
Twitter has become a pretty great tool to help with socializing at conferences. There is also an interesting effect that people who are not attending still hear quite a bit about the conference and have some level of tangential participation.
George Siemens
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
I attend somewhere in the range of 30-50 education/technology/learning conferences annually. These conferences range from local conferences with a 100 or so attendees to large international events with over 2000 attendees. WISE is a global event, though the organizers describe it as a movement and platform rather than a conference. I am not aware of the total investment in WISE conference and related education projects by the Qatar Foundation.
Kevin Wheeler
SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
I have been to about a dozen conferences this year in various countries and four continents. And in fact, conferences have been a core part of my life, education and professional work for more than a decade. So what makes a good conference?
Adaptive Path
AUGUST 16, 2013
As we approach the launch of our Service Experience Conference , we asked keynote Speaker Dave Gray, Founder and CEO of liminl, to tell us why he's excited to take part and what you will learn from his talk. JH: Why are you excited about speaking at the Service Experience Conference?
Adaptive Path
AUGUST 28, 2013
We expect keynote speaker Kerry Bodine, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, to have a few words to say about this at our upcoming Service Experience Conference this October. For now, enjoy her thoughts on the conference and why she thinks service design is relevant now.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 5, 2010
I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. This conference has been run for a few years now and is tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year. This is my attempt to collect some of what we’ve learned over the years doing those conferences.
Jane Hart
MAY 14, 2012
Go to face-to-face conferences. Attend online conferences. Looking at this ranked list, what stands out for me is the fact that people are taking formal training as infrequently as going to a conference – near the bottom of the list.
Beth Kanter
MAY 5, 2015
Last week, I attended and presented at the DoGoodData Conference in Chicago. “Problems don’t start with data, they start with people.” ” - @deanmalmgren reminds us not to lose sight of the user’s humanity #DoGoodData2015. Plenty (@PlentyCo) May 1, 2015.
Kevin Wheeler
SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
Most conference follow a traditional pattern: Keynote talks, general sessions, panels, and break out sessions. And that’s what a new type of conference is offering. they have begun to change the way we think about conferences. His conferences are called TRUs, often labeled as TRU LONDON, or TRU BOSTON or TRU WHATEVER. People and ideas that wouldn’t get accepted at a traditional conference now have a place to go. SLIDESHOW FROM A RECENT TRU LONDON.
George Siemens
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
In early February, I attended the Strata Conference in Santa Clara. I’ve had a bit of trouble carving out time to write concluding thoughts about the event (time deficiency is mainly due to last minutes activities related to our Learning and Knowledge Analytics Conference ).
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 2, 2009
Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, check the specific conference website. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this selected conference list. crw Another source of major eLearning conferences is: Tom King's eLearning Google Calendar.
Beth Kanter
JULY 20, 2015
That is a slogan on a t-shirt, and while meant as a joke, it is all too familiar for many nonprofits. Meetings that waste your time!
Adaptive Path
JANUARY 14, 2013
That's why Adaptive Path puts on the MX: Managing Experience Conference. Managing and leading the delivery of great experiences seems like it should be so simple. Apply what you know about good user experience, mix in the basics of management, and voila!, results.
Adaptive Path
AUGUST 16, 2013
As we approach the launch of our Service Experience Conference , we asked keynote Speaker Dave Gray, Founder and CEO of liminl, to tell us why he’s excited to take part and what you will learn from his talk. JH: Why are you excited about speaking at the Service Experience Conference? JH: Why do you think a conference about service design and experience is relevant now? JH: What would make the conference a great service experience for you?
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