Karie is a Workplace Futurist at SAP. She co-authored the award-winning bestseller, “The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today.” Now, Karie focuses on what we each can do to Stretch our talents in her newly released book titled, “Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace,” an Amazon Editor’s Pick in Business and Leadership for 2016.

Karie practices what she preaches. She has served as CLO at 5 Fortune 500 companies, and founded a collaborative software company, Jambok, which was acquired by SuccessFactors, a SAP Company. Jambok was the industry’s first video-based informal social learning software platform, which was acquired in 2011. Jambok is now incorporated into the SAP Jam product offering. As Chief Learning Officer for Sun Microsystems, Karie was responsible for employee, customer, partner, and Sun community learning. The customer business of Sun trained over 600,000 students a year in 125 countries. ATD named Sun the #1 BEST learning function in the world.

Since 2011, Joe has been part of the Elearning! Media Group editorial team. Joe has a strong background in the field of learning with roles on both the user and vendor sides. Joe has served as CEO for Interwise and Productivity Point International, as well as Chairman of KnowledgePlanet. Joe was also the VP of Worldwide Education for PeopleSoft, and VP of Americas Education for Oracle, in addition to serving as EVP and CTLO for CFC. Joe has a BA in Business from the University of Massachusetts.

Emma King is Vice President of Learning Strategy for INXPO. She brings over 16 years experience working with Fortune 1000 customers, providing strategic consulting to define, operate, and optimize learning initiatives utilizing emerging technologies. Prior to joining INXPO, Emma co-founded EscP Consulting and operated as a Research Associate for Brandon Hall Research, and as a consultative learning strategist for The Chapman Alliance Group. Her expertise includes comprehension measurement, generational learning styles, blended learning, knowledge management, innovations in software simulations, learning practices for small-to-medium sized businesses, and alignment of learning technologies with business strategies. Emma’s views on the status and future of technology-based learning have been shared in publications such as PCWeek and Elearning! Magazine and many learning industry events.

Margie helps organizations apply neuroscience to learning and human performance. Her experience demonstrates the application of advanced studies in education to analyze, build and deploy large scale adult learning systems to global audiences using a variety of learning technologies and tools. She helps people learn and improve performance by applying our evolving understanding of how the brain works, as revealed through neuroscience. Margie is a frequent speaker, writer and blogger in the learning industry

Ritchie Djamhur has over 20 years experience in buying, marketing, product management, presenting and training in the Australian consumer electronics space. By day, Ritchie is the Head Of Learning and Culture for Bing Lee retail stores, explaining technology and demystifying new products and concepts to customers and sales staff across television and online mediums. When the sun goes down, he is the host of the radio show Ritchie’s Room, website and Youtube channel of the same name garnering over 17 million views. Ritchie has a particular passion and expertise in virtual reality, wearables and the connected enterprise.

Mary Beth Micucci, DES, is the Director of Digital Events for HIMSS media. She has worked with HIMSS for over 14 years in various educational positions. She brings extensive knowledge and content experience to the HIMSS Media team, where she leads digital education business.

Darren Louie dedicated training professional with a well-rounded background and demonstrated success in managing talent programs and developing innovative learning solutions to solve complex business problems. Inducted into SAP’s High Potential Program in 2010, 2013, and recognized for excellence in education by winning the University of Sydney Outstanding Teaching Award and Training Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 Trainers in 2012. Maintains highest ethical standard and enjoys mentoring, coaching and helping other’s to succeed. Results oriented, reliable and able to build trust and foster strong relationships with team members and customers.

Charles Camarda received his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1974. Upon graduation, he began work at NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC), received his M.S. from George Washington University in Me- chanical Engineering in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1990.

He was Head of the Thermal Structures Branch at LaRC and led the structures and materials efforts of two national programs: The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) and the Single-Stage-to Orbit Program (SSTO). He was selected to be an Astronaut in 1996 and flew on the Return-to-Flight mission of the Space Shuttle following the Columbia Accident, STS-114, in 2005. He was selected as Director of Engineering at JSC in December 2005 and is now the Sr. Advisor for Engineering Development at NASA’s Langley Re- search Center.

Janne Hietala started his own consulting company at the age of 21. With Arcusys he has been leading the company’s commercial operations since 2008. Since 2010, he has been spearheading the Valamis – Learning Experience Platform development and commercialization of Finnish EdTech for global markets.

Janne was selected as a Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012. Currently he is working towards the Digital Transformation of Learning vision with leading global organizations by leveraging the most import- ant learning technologies like social learning, mobile learning, OpenBadges, Experience API, gamification and learning analytics.