View from the CLO: Hitchhikers Guide to the New Learning Ecosystem
Presenters: Charles Beckham and Karie Willyerd
This session will ignite your imagination on the power of informal learning and social equity. Learn how to measure and track social networks and informal learning in the learning domain.

Preparing New Leaders for Success: The Pepsi Bottling Group Story
Presenters: Marjorie Derven and Phil Golino
Whether new leaders are hired from the outside or promoted internally, they need to quickly master the critical requirements for success. Learn how the PBG, known for its emphasis on excellent execution, has focused on new leader onboarding

Five-Days' Training Converted Into Interactive Online Learning--It Works!
Presenters: Don Sobeski and Ginger Swope
Learn through the use of a case study how the IBM Center for Learning and Development converted a week-long, face-to-face training event into a combination of virtual classroom, online learning, and coaching that builds collaboration among team members and experts, and meets the project goals to deliver cost-efficient, effective learning that is replicable around the world!

Energizing Virtual Instruction
Presenter: Joel Gendelman
This session will provide a wealth of ideas that you may apply in your own environment: activities that gain attention, activities that establish relevance, activities that present information, demonstration activities, practice activities, discussions, assessment and evaluation activities, and activities that excite and motivate.

Web 2.0 and 3D-Powered Learning
Presenter: Anders Gronstedt
In this session, learn to redefine learning and energize training with the sprawling, vibrant 3D virtual worlds like Second Life; turn the morning commute into a learning experience with fast-paced, radio-style, podcasted audio feeds; help people learn by doing with game-based simulators; and facilitate ongoing communication and skill reinforcement with blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds.

Training a New Generation of Techno-Loving Learners
Presenter: Gina Schreck
This session describes ways organizations can engage learners of all ages using current technology. You will develop practical strategies using each of the more popular techno-tools, and walk away with strategies that you can implement immediately in your organization, as well as tips to navigate into the digital landscape.

Successfully Implementing E-Learning and Learning 2.0: It's About the People
Presenter: Lance Dublin
Ensuring the success of your e-learning—and now Learning 2.0—programs and initiatives requires more than just having the right content, great design, and effective technology. Find out what you can do to help your company become one of the stellar ones that truly maximize its return on its total e-learning investment.

Virtual Training via Web Conferencing at the World Bank Group
Presenter: Darlene Christopher
Are you looking for ways to efficiently train dispersed staff in a cost-effective manner? This session gives you a toolkit for designing and delivering live virtual training and for calculating carbon footprint reduction when face-to-face training is replaced with virtual training.

Building Partnerships: Delivering Learning to Global Audiences
Presenter: Maurice Rondeau
We will examine the areas that have led to success in partnering with external providers, as well as the items that are continuously in development to ensure that relevant and focused learning is happening across the enterprise.

Optimizing Your Sales Training Effectiveness in China
Presenter: c.j. Ng
This session will explore ways that you can achieve better training effectiveness for your China sales force and distributors, improving your sales and profits.

Staying Ahead in the Global Leadership Race
Presenters: Gabriella Goddard and Megan Tobin
This session explores the current trends in global leadership and what this means for learning and development functions within your organization.

Focusing our Organization on Consultative Selling: Organizational and Individual Development
Presenters: Colin Campbell and James Thompson
Learn how Scottish Development Inc., a leading governmental economic-development agency, applied best practices in organizational development, skills and behavioral training, and web-based performance support to refocus its sales model on consultative selling.

Democratizing Leadership Development: Unlocking Leadership Potential at the Base
Presenters: Lyndon Rego and Steadman Harrison
This session shares the Center for Creative Leadership's learning about democratizing leadership development from work in Africa, India, and North America by presenting an array of strategies, models, and tools that the Center is using to scale leadership development to underserved populations in corporations, communities, and public and private sectors.

The Management Crisis--What We Can Do About It
Presenter: Patricia McLagan
The speaker will engage you in a deep dialogue about what you can and must do to significantly raise the quality of management practice at all levels: one-on-one, in teams, in organizations, and ultimately globally. Be prepared to think outside of the box.

How to Identify and Develop Top Performers
Presenter: Paul Schempp
In this session, research will be combined with real-world examples of observable and critical characteristics used to detect and develop top performers.

Profiles of Effectiveness: What Does It Take for Managerial Success?
Presenters: Margaret Pettingell and Richard Lepsinger
This session will provide an overview of a study designed to validate the American Management Association’s (AMA) management competency model by identifying the competencies that differentiate exceptional managers from those whose overall performance is considered average.

Emotional Eloquence: The Lost Language of Leadership
Presenter: Doug Stevenson
This session shows leaders how to translate the qualities of emotional intelligence into presentations that motivate and inspire people, while communicating vital information.

Implementing Learning Scorecards: Tracking Activity, Efficiency and Impact
Presenters: Lynn Schmidt and Toni DeTuncq
The speakers will provide a methodology for designing and implementing a learning scorecard that tracks activity, efficiency and impact data from both a macro and micro-level perspective of success.

ROI for People (Who Think They) Hate ROI
Presenter: Patti Phillips
The return-on-investment (ROI) methodology has grown from a tool that few organizations used a decade ago to a standard part of the measurement process. This session will introduce the ROI methodology and explore progress made with its application, and the myths and mysteries of using ROI.

Training on Trial: Meeting the Needs of Business Stakeholders
Presenter: James Kirkpatrick
In this session, the speaker will show you practical ways to use the timeless Kirkpatrick four levels of evaluation to first create value for the business, and then to gather and offer compelling evidence that learning makes a significant impact on the bottom line.

New Metrics for the New World of Learning and Development
Presenter: Allison Rossett
A world with learning and support delivered online and at work via PDAs, streaming video, mobile phones, online knowledge bases, wikis, blogs, classrooms, communities, and workplace coaching demands new inquisitiveness. In what new ways might we approach analysis and evaluation?

Developing Valid Level 2 Evaluations 
Presenter: Ken Phillips
In this session, you will examine six guidelines for conducting Level 2 evaluations, assess the common mistakes made by many workplace learning and performance professionals in developing questions.