Speaking Engagements
Jay speaks at events both in person and virtually, although he prefers to think of it as leading meaningful conversations. The audience determines the subject matter; no two presentations are alike. Here’s a sample of his talks over the past dozen years:
Thriving in the Net-Work Era
Panel: New Rules for Leadership
Keynote, Enterprise Learning Summit, Alexandria, March 2012
Now Is the Time for India to Democratize Education
EDGEx, The Disuptive Educational Research Conference, Delhi, March 2012
Learning Language Informally
ExpoLangues, Paris, February 2012
Working Smarter
Iventiv, the Leading in Learning, San Francisco, December 2011
Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today
Preparing for the Future of Work
Online Educa Berlin 2011
Knowledge in the 21st Century: You Should Know Better
DevLearn, Las Vegas, November 2011
Creative Learning
Keynote, Associação Industrial Portuguesa, Lisbon, October 2011
Controversy in the Fishbowl
CLO Symposium, Laguna Niguel, October 2011
KM Brasil
Keynote, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2011
Informal Learning Workshop
Affero, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2011
Why eLearning is No Longer Enough
International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace, June 2011
Working Smarter in the Enterprise
CLO Executive Network, Mountain View, April 2011
Learning Smarter
Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Media & Education, February 2011
Informal Learning
Cisco Public Services Summit, Stockholm, December 2010
Working Smarter with Learning Networks
Business Educa, Berlin, December 2010
The Impact and Inevitability of Informal Learning
European Commission Learning Day, Brussels, November 2010
Working Smarter: Learning is the REAL Work
Social Media Camp
Dev Learn 10, San Francisco, November 2010
Debate on informal learning at the Oxford Union
Oxford Union, October 2010
A Conversation about Informal Learning
Rede de Conversações Informas, Sao Paulo
Ivan Illich and Informal Learning
Seminário a Sociedade em Rede e a Educação, September 15-16, Sao Paulo
Conversation with Jane Hart on Informal Learning
Irish Learning Showcase, Dublin, August 2010
Working Smarter…with Workscapes
Learning and Skills Group, London, June 2010
El aprendizaje informal
Congreso EDO/CEJFE, Madrid, May 2010
Learning and Working are Becoming the Same
Swiss eLearning Conference, Zurich, April 2010
The Inmates are Taking Over the Learning Asylum
Human Capital Institute Webinar, April 2010
What Is Informal Learning and Why Should I Care?
Inaugural UMBC ISDnow Webinar, April 2010
Learning + Web 2.0 = Social Learning Breakthroughs
The Great Training Robbery
Unconferences
Pecha Kucha
The Future of Leader Development
Online Educa, Berlin, December 2009
Meta-Learning: the Process of Learning in the Network Era
Open Social Learning, UNESCO, Barcelona, November 2009
Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer
DevLearn, San Jose, November 2009
Reflecting on the Nature of Time
Ignite, Gnomedex, August 2009
Business Impact of Learning in the Real World
Learning and Skills Group, London, June 2009
Redefining Instructional Design
IADIS eLearning, Algarve, Portugal, June 2009
PowerPoint is Tyranny
Spaces for Interaction, AACE, February 2009
eLearning Must Become Social Learning
Learning Technologies, London, January 2009
Representative in-house presentation:
National Australia Bank, Melbourne, 2009
Future of the Book
NextNow Collaboratory, Berkeley, California, July 2008
Profiting from Web 2.0 Learning
CLO Symposium, Orlando, April 2008
Everything Flows
Learning Technologies, London, January 2008
The Future of Corporate Learning
Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation, November 2007
Free-Range Learners in the Age of the Ubiquitous Chicken House
Seriously Mobile Summit, June 2007
Informal Learning: the Unworkshop Experience
ASTD TechKnowledge, February 2007
No More Teachers, No More Books
Training Solutions, December 2006
Informal Learning in the Corporation
Informatology Forum, Reuters, London, November 2006
An Unpresentation on Informal Learning (with Harold Jarche and Robin Good)
ASTD TechKnowledge, June 2006
Informal Workplace Learning: the Other 80%
FuturTex, Montreal, 2006
Natural Learning: It Never Stops
eMerging eLearning, Abu Dhabi, September 2005
What Comes After eLearning: F-learning
DAU/George Mason University, June 2005
Decision-Making Memes: Putting a Value on Learning
eLearning Producer, March 2005
Education without Borders
Abu Dhabi, February 2005
Trends in Collaborative Learning
Collaborative Learning, 2004
The Debut of Workflow Learning (with Gloria Gery)
Online Learning, November 2004
Global Approaches to Blended Learning
eMerging eLearning, Abu Dhabi, September 2004
A Pocketful of Memes
I-KNOW, Graz, Austria, July 2003
Envisioning eLearning
Online Educa, Berlin, November 2002
Implementing eLearning (with Lance Dublin)
TechLearn, Orlando, November 2002
Collaboration Supercharges Performance
ASTD, 2001
Learning on Internet TIme
Web Training, November 2000
The Internet Time Machine
TechLearn, Orlando, October 1998
Podcast
Kineo, 2008
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In-house presentations
for Cisco, Diageo, Intel, IBM, Sun, Eaton, Genentech, CIGNA, Smartforce, HP, Raytheon, Reuters, National Australia Bank, San Francisco State University, Harvard Business School Association, Novartis, UBS, Reed Learning, TULSER, Affero, and more.
Topics
Jay will tailor a presentation, intervention, or campaign to what you are trying to accomplish. Often, he mixes and matches aspects of these topics:
- How to leverage the informal learning in your organization that is already taking place “under the radar.”
- How to transform your organization with Tweets, blogs, wikis, and internet culture.
- How to profit from your organization’s perspective on time and readiness.
- Recent discoveries in neuroscience and what they imply for business and learning.
- Kill your training department — and focus on strategically-driven meta-learning by creating a Workscape
- Prototype your organization’s success with design thinking
Books and handouts
- Jay frequently reinforce his messages with books and handouts.
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