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Dani is Co-founder and Principal Analyst for RedThread Research. She has spent the majority of her career writing about, conducting research in, and consulting on human capital practices and technology.

Before starting RedThread, Dani led the Learning and Career research practice at Bersin, Deloitte. Her ideas can be found in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, CLO Magazine, HR Magazine, and Employment Relations.

Dani holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.

Heather is a senior analyst at RedThread Research. Trained in conflict resolution and organizational development, Heather has spent the past ten years in various capacities at organizational culture and mindset change consultancies as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

She holds a masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a bachelors degree in history from Princeton University. She has lived in Germany, China, Japan, and India and was, for one summer, a wrangler on a dude ranch in Colorado.

Alexander Roche, BSc MA App Ling, Founder and Principal Educational Technologist of Edutech infrastructure and services specialist Androgogic Alexander has more than 25 years of experience with online learning in higher education, VET, government and corporate arenas including deploying, hosting, maintaining and supporting educational technologies as well as online educational design and quality assured courseware production. Alexander has led online learning companies since the late 1990s including executive posts at NextEd (Vice President, IT), the University of New South Wales (CTO ETC), e-cademy (CTO and Public Company Board Director).

Dr Samson Tan is the head of the Centre for Innovation in Learning. He helms innovation in learning at the National Institute of Education (NIE). NIE is an autonomous institute of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Ranked 10th in the world and 2nd in Asia by the QS World University Rankings in the subject of Education in 2015, the institute is the sole teacher education institute for teachers in Singapore. At his vantage point, Samson advises the Teaching and Learning Committee and IT Governance Committee in awarding grants for learning innovation projects.

Prior to joining NIE, Samson was involved in the SkillsFuture movement, spearheading the lifelong learning and workplace learning initiatives in Singapore. He worked closely with the Logistics, Hotel and Biomedical industries in providing research, consulting, and training in workplace learning. At Republic Polytechnic, Samson provided advice in pedagogical innovation for various industries including the aviation engineering and management programmes.

Samson graduated with a Doctor of Education (EdD) from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2007. His research interest is in learning innovation and transformation. Currently, he is a member of the Executive Board of Association for Problem-based and Active Learning, (http://www.panpbl.org/about/#board), the Executive Committee on Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS http://eras.org.sg/about-us/executive-committee-current/) and RMIT’s Singapore Aviation Industry Advisory Committee.

Ajay is a successful consultative business leader with 20+ years of experience developing and nurturing long-term client relationships. He currently serves as VP of India, South East Asia, & Middle East at Degreed. Prior to Degreed, he served as a Country Manager (India) at Lynda.com and AVP: Consulting Services at Right Management.

Senior Level Global Learning Architect & Strategist
Over 20 years in the learning and talent fields, Brent has successfully initiated and optimized development ecosystems and training programs during his career in the HR, Utilities and Energy industries. Notable accomplishments include being recognized by WebEx as their “Innovator of the Year” in 2005 and by Skillsoft as the “2007 Learning Leader of the Year.”

Vinisha Jayaswal is a seasoned learning & Organizational Development professional with about 20 years of experience across various industries.

A result driven OD & Service orientation specialist valued for designing and facilitating change interventions, she believes and excels in seamlessly aligning stakeholders and achieving results through focus on customer centricity. She has helped organizations & individuals thrive with best in the Learning Strategy.

Vinisha is a motivational speaker and facilitator of high repute. Her facilitation programs and executive coaching sessions are widely appreciated for their high quality content coupled with a unique thought provoking, stimulating and entertaining style of delivery and an enduring commitment towards excellence.

Her core competencies lie in Organization Development, Employee Engagement, Customer Service, Leadership & Behavioural facilitation and a renewed passion for achieving success.
She is a very determined, focused and delivery oriented professional.
Her programs are incredibly insightful and inspire action by unleashing innate energies within the participants.

The many awards & citations she has won are proof of her delivery capability and her understanding of complex situations which need to be overcome through facilitation, training and learning methodologies.

She has also been the Past President of the International Association of Facilitators – India Chapter; a non-profit voluntary organisation.

Annee has  20+ years in L&D, M&A and HR Technologies with international blue chips like Bosch, Alstom, General Electric and Danone. She has led learning design and delivery organizations including building centers of expertise around design, and digital transformation and HR efficiency. She was also the Chief Learning Officer at Danone with a huge focus on workforce capability and readiness. She currently serves as EdCast’s Chief Learning Strategist, where she proudly claims that she’s helping humans to stay relevant. Obsessed with innovation and new technology impacts on society, she spends her time evangelizing about the Future of Work to anyone who will listen. She is secretly afraid of robots taking over the world.

An Intelligent Solutions expert with 15+ years in improving and developing products and processes based on customer requirements and trends in the market. A comprehensive understanding of the education and edtech landscape, helping organisations understand the value of skills & learning and unlocking their digital transformations.

Andrea is an Education Researcher with a PhD in Educational Sciences from the Université de Lille. She has a special interest in educational technologies and competency building in collaborative and social learning environments. She also has 10 years of experience in higher education and corporate L&D with NC State University, the University of Technology of Compiegne, the University of Lille, Ubisoft and Danone. She currently serves as a Learning Strategist at EdCast where she supports organizations in building better and more effective learning experiences for their employees. Yes, her hair is that color on purpose.

With over 16 years of experience in the IT Industry, including 15 years of Pre-Sales, Project Management, Implementation, Consulting, Product Marketing in HR / Payroll domain in On-Premise / Cloud platform, worked with customers in multiple sectors like such as education, banking and Government sectors in Asia. Result-driven and dedicated Pre Sales consultant with an extensive experience in providing professional services, developing sales collaterals, and making sales proposals.

Georgina is a passionate about educational technology and its ability to effectively share knowledge and transform organisations.
This passion is coupled with an advocacy for using best learning practices to empower people to reach their potential. Georgina works closely with clients to ensure their vision for learning and development is realised through the use of technology.

Justin is the Director of Strategic accounts at Skillsoft (Asia), a market leading cloud-based learning and talent management solutions provider. For over 10 years, he has been working closely with senior executives across Management, HR, Operations and IT – helping them optimise people, time, resources and performance.
Passionate about providing on-demand digital programs that deliver strategic value, through enabling scalable learning at any time, any place and for any need.

Kwong Yue Yang works with companies from different cultures, countries, and industries to improve workplace efficiency and productivity through better communications.  Clients he’s worked with include Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Salesforce, Siemens, CBRE, Mercer and Maersk.

Joanne Hor the role of DBS Chief Learning Officer, Group Human Resources from 1 March 2021.

She brings with her 18 years of experience in Business HR, Resourcing, Talent Management and Organisational Development. Prior to joining DBS in 2015, Joanne was the Business HR lead for retail banking, wealth management, insurance and asset management at HSBC Singapore. Joanne’s HR experience spans a diverse spectrum of international roles across different portfolios, including postings to Dubai, Hong Kong, London and Singapore.

Benny Ramos is Skillsoft’s solution expert for business and leadership training serving Western North America, Oceania, and Asia (including India). A seasoned strategist in the Talent and Learning industry, Benny has over 17 years’ experience in the learning industry and brings relevant insights and practical experience to many of Skillsoft’s largest global enterprises.

In the Global Solution Practice, Benny collaborates with organizations to help them understand how to best utilize learning content and technology to drive performance and support talent management strategies. Benny has a keen understanding of leadership competencies and best practices and acts as the “Voice of the Customer” to help drive innovation and improvement of Skillsoft business and leadership learning solutions. He is also versant in technology and developer solutions to enable conversations on the importance of digital transformation by todays leaders.

Benny career spans various roles supporting learning including leadership development, consulting, and driving strategy around learning technologies, and social learning & talent management platforms. Prior to joining the Skillsoft team, Benny was a Skillsoft client working for a large Canadian telecommunications company whose learning program received many awards for its formal, informal, and social learning strategies. Benny’s past experience as a client helps him to provide strategic and tactical perspective. He is passionate about leveraging technology to improve the experience in all aspects of the employee life cycle.

Benny has been a featured speaker on the topic of online learning and authoring at various events sponsored by AACE, Conference Board of Canada, CSTD, EMG, and Skillsoft own Perspectives conferences both in Canada and US, and online with the Gronstedt Group, HR.com and HCI.

Before becoming a Skillsoft Solution principal, Benny led a team of Skillsoft Customer Success Managers in North America with clients across a spectrum of industries and sizes including state and higher education. His group supported clients by providing advice and guidance on learning strategies, marketing, and measurement of their learning initiatives. Success is measured by the impact Skillsoft learning solutions had on their clients’ learning initiatives.

Benny is a huge advocate of community involvement as a member of his local community board. He graduated from University in his hometown in Calgary, Alberta at University of Calgary- the same city he calls home, and completed a marketing management development program from Kenan-Flagler.

One of Asia’s Top-10 Women in IT, Dr. Meadows leads a Design Thinking & Innovation Center at a Forbes Top-20 International Business School, creating growth initiatives at the intersection of IT, business strategy, and design. Her research, consulting, and coaching focus on Leadership & Creativity. She co-founded an Advanced Technology Think Tank & Tinker Lab, envisioning the Future of Work (FoW) and Education, applying AI, biometrics, and other advanced technologies to leadership development, team productivity, and group innovation. She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration & IT from Harvard Business School and has over 20 years’ experience in Asia, Europe, and North America as a consultant, coach, entrepreneur, dot-com builder, innovation lab co-founder, and Accenture IT & Business Strategy consultant.

Kwong Yue Yang works with companies from different cultures, countries, and industries to improve workplace efficiency and productivity through better communications.  Clients he’s worked with include Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Salesforce, Siemens, CBRE, Mercer and Maersk.

Roby is a HR Professional with more than 14 years of working experiences in various industries for both multinational as well as large local conglomerates. He started his career as a Head Hunter back in 2006 in an Executive Recruitment Firm to become the Head of Recruitment in fortune 500 company. Aside from recruitment, he is also experience in handling the development strategy for Management Trainee as well as Managerial Development Program in both recruiting and program development. Since 2018, he joined Sinar Mas Land (the largest property developer company in Indonesia). His current role is as the Head of Learning and Development.

As Regional People team at Shopee, Jean oversees the company’s talent acquisition, learning & development, and employee engagement strategy across the region. She taps on her skills and knowledge in consulting, design thinking, psychology, organisational development & program development, to attract talent and engage Shopee employees. Jean holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences, Psychology from the National University of Singapore. She also graduated summa cum laude with a Masters in Psychology from the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Justin is the Director of Strategic accounts at Skillsoft (Asia), a market leading cloud-based learning and talent management solutions provider. For over 10 years, he has been working closely with senior executives across Management, HR, Operations and IT – helping them optimise people, time, resources and performance.
Passionate about providing on-demand digital programs that deliver strategic value, through enabling scalable learning at any time, any place and for any need.

An Intelligent Solutions expert with 15+ years in improving and developing products and processes based on customer requirements and trends in the market. A comprehensive understanding of the education and edtech landscape, helping organisations understand the value of skills & learning and unlocking their digital transformations.

Andrea is an Education Researcher with a PhD in Educational Sciences from the Université de Lille. She has a special interest in educational technologies and competency building in collaborative and social learning environments. She also has 10 years of experience in higher education and corporate L&D with NC State University, the University of Technology of Compiegne, the University of Lille, Ubisoft and Danone. She currently serves as a Learning Strategist at EdCast where she supports organizations in building better and more effective learning experiences for their employees. Yes, her hair is that color on purpose.

With over 16 years of experience in the IT Industry, including 15 years of Pre-Sales, Project Management, Implementation, Consulting, Product Marketing in HR / Payroll domain in On-Premise / Cloud platform, worked with customers in multiple sectors like such as education, banking and Government sectors in Asia. Result-driven and dedicated Pre Sales consultant with an extensive experience in providing professional services, developing sales collaterals, and making sales proposals.

Georgina is a passionate about educational technology and its ability to effectively share knowledge and transform organisations.
This passion is coupled with an advocacy for using best learning practices to empower people to reach their potential. Georgina works closely with clients to ensure their vision for learning and development is realised through the use of technology.

Kwong Yue Yang works with companies from different cultures, countries, and industries to improve workplace efficiency and productivity through better communications.  Clients he’s worked with include Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Salesforce, Siemens, CBRE, Mercer and Maersk.