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• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Symposium - Full-Day Event

  • When
    01 Mar 2019
  •  
    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    The Norwalk Inn and Conference Center, 99 East Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851

  Register

  Friday, March 1, 2019

  8:00AM to 5:00PM

  ATD SCC PROUDLY PRESENTS . . .

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) Symposium

  
  

  Four years ago, the IBM Watson sales team was selling a product looking for a market.  Fast forward to today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the newest buzzword in industry and is everywhere.  According to LinkedIn, AI jobs are 12 times more in demand than other jobs. According to Josh Bersin’s “Talent, Technology and HR Predictions for 2019”:

  You’re going to be flooded with new tools and vendors this year…The fastest growing segment of the HR market today is tools and systems for learning. Why? Because everyone’s job is changing before our eyes and we all want to learn as fast as we can. From an HR and L&D standpoint, this means embracing learning experience platforms, virtual reality, design thinking, and agile learning methodologies. AI tools for learning are arriving, so you can soon buy systems that teach in the flow of work.

  The Southern Connecticut Chapter of the Association for Talent Development (ATD SCC) is sponsoring a full-day symposium designed to provide participants with an in-depth look at how AI is being used today and how it is anticipated to be used in the future.  We have assembled an all-star cast of speakers and facilitators from industry, academia, and consulting to share their insights and experiences with the technology with the goal that participants will leave with a deeper understanding of AI and how they might begin to experiment in deploying it in their own organizations.

  Don’t be left behind.  Come out and explore!  Come out and learn!

  Information-Packed Agenda

  8:00 – 8:30 AM       Registration, Networking, Breakfast

  Welcome and Opening Remarks

  8:30 - 9:30	AI Primer Session: Everything About AI You Were Afraid to Ask Hugh Seaton, CEO Aquinas Learning
  9:30 - 10:30	Opening Keynote:  Susan Steele – Sr. Vice President, HR; Reinvention Leader, IBM Global Talent & Engagement Center of Excellence, IBM  How AI Will Disrupt (and Improve) Talent Development AI is having profound results in enabling learning agility, empowering Talent Development leaders and enhancing the learner experience. IBM, an early adopter in the use of AI across the entire employee lifecycle, is known for transforming the efficiency and effectiveness of Talent Development through the pragmatic and innovative deployment of AI. Susan Steele, the HR Reinvention Leader in IBM’s Global Talent and Transformation Center of Competence, will discuss and demonstrate how AI is being used today to disrupt (and improve) Talent Development.
  10:30 – 10:45	Break
  10:45 – 11:30	Artificial Intelligence In Learning: State of the Industry Al Vazquez, Director of Technology, Success Academy The learning industry is just beginning to leverage AI. From early use of voice interfaces and chatbots, to recommendation systems to assessments, join Al Vazquez as he presents an overview of where we are, and what to expect in the coming years.
  11:30–12:30 PM	Applying AI to Your Business and the Future of HR:  An Interactive Session moderated by: Bryan Mattimore, Co-Founder, Chief Idea Guy, Growth Engine Innovation Agency Following the morning's talks, our moderator will guide us as we: Identify conceptual building blocks for understanding AI. Show how these building blocks can be used for individuals' businesses. Ideate as teams to create new potential uses and products. This session will be a hands-on way for attendees to discuss and really understand what AI means for HR and Learning & Development. After a morning of learning about what AI is, how it is being used, and how learning organizations can leverage AI, we’ll take a minute to think about how it might be used to solve problems attendees find in their work. Led by renowned creativity expert Bryan Mattimore, this session is your chance to apply AI to your own work!
  12:30-1:00	Lunch
  1:15 – 2:15	Practical AI - What It Takes to Make AI Work for Your Learning Organization Hugh Seaton, CEO Aquinas Learning AI holds great promise for learning organizations, in part because it is different from other software. Deeply dependent upon data, Artificial Intelligence implementations have their own challenges that, if understood, are easy to plan for and overcome.
  2:15 – 3:30	Deep-Dive Sessions 1.    From Data to AI in Learning        Prof. Mo Cayer, Univ of New Haven;       Prof. Armando Rodriguez, Univ of New Haven AI and Big Data @ Work (Even for Small Companies) Learn about AI and Big Data in talent learning and development. Hear and see examples of how some organizations use the abundant HR-related and other data they have (or could acquire) about their managers and employees: Including performance information, social and relationship interaction networks, training records, 360 multi-source data, emails/texts, demographics, personality and cognitive tests, project contributions, etc. to make and improve decisions, and design more effective learning experiences.   Get a brief overview with examples of some methods and tools that are being used today such as Predictive Analytics, Regression Analysis, R, Machine Learning, Random Forests, Python, etc.  Lastly, leave with suggested next steps to learn more about this rapidly emerging, high-impact approach to HR and Talent Management.  2.   Voice Agents for L&D       Cortney Harding, Founder & CEO, Friends with       Holograms 2018 saw significant advances in the area of natural language processing, with key functionality improved to the point where powerful voice interfaces are available to almost anyone. Join Cortney Harding as she explains how her team have used voice to bring a virtual reality experience to life. Among the topics Cortney will cover are: How to write a voice agent script Options for non-developers to create and deploy simple chat & voice agents Challenges for learning professionals Opportunities for the future 3.   Recommendation Systems in Learning      Hugh Seaton, CEO Aquinas Learning The holy grail for learning systems is the ability to send the right content, at the right time, to learners. This session will explore how that is being done with increasing impact in different systems, including challenges around data collection, privacy, and quality of recommendations. Much like voice and imagery, the technology behind recommendation systems has made great advances in recent years, making this an area to watch.
  4:00 – 4:15	Break
  4:15 – 5:00	Closing Keynote:  Getting Worked Up About AI: Reimagining the Role of Humans Joe O’Boyle, Principal Director, Accenture’s Talent & Organization In brief: ·         AI is triggering an urgent call to re-skill workers. But before re-skilling, businesses must first get to grips with reconfiguring work. ·         Nearly half of business leaders think traditional job descriptions are obsolete. ·         We will highlight how leading companies are reimagining work and preparing their people.
  5:00	Closing

  Speakers Biographies

  Hugh Seaton is CEO of Aquinas Learning, a software company that utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver learning on the job via Slack, mobile voice and chat, or simple messages. Hugh is founder of the nationwide Practical AI community, with monthly events in NYC, SF, Toronto, and Boston. An avid technologist, Hugh has also created events around IoT and VR/AR, including the NYVR Expo at Javits Center in NYC.

  	Susan Steele, HR Reinvention Leader, IBM Global Talent & Engagement Center of Excellence  Susan Steele advises C-Suite leaders on how to address today’s most pressing talent issues. Known for integrating cognitive technology into the HR domain, Susan has played a key role in reinventing the recruitment, learning and HR functions of many global enterprises.  Her background includes Chief HR Officer, Chief Learning Officer and Chief Talent Acquisition Officer roles at WPP, Deloitte and global law firm, Linklaters. Susan’s early career was in P&L leadership roles at investment banks JPMorgan Chase and HSBC and with the NASDAQ/PHLX derivatives exchange. Susan is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, completed further education at the London Business School and received her Executive Coaching Certification from the UK's Tavistock Institute.  Susan is a frequent commentator on the growing impact of AI, automation, IoT and blockchain on both the Talent function and employee experience.  Susan’s personal comments on the future workplace can be found on Twitter @TalentTalking and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/steelesusan Susan, who lives in New York, serves on the boards of New York HR People & Strategy, Carnegie-Mellon University’s Dietrich College and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
  	Al Vazquez is the Director of Software Development at Success Academy Charter Schools.  He is a big-picture technologist: servant-leader executive, solutions architect, product owner, engineer, sys admin, DBA, process analyst, team builder, trainer, and mentor. He has worn numerous hats including CTO, advisor, senior software architect, business process analyst, lead engineer, account manager, deal maker, partner, and co-founder. Previously, he was Vice President, Engineering at Benchmark Education Company.  He holds a BS in Computer Science from SUNY Genesco.
  	Bryan Mattimore is Chief Idea Guy of Growth Engine Innovation Agency, an innovation agency he cofounded in 1999. Growth Engine, has managed over two hundred successful innovation projects, generating over $3 billion in new sales for a wide variety of Fortune 500 clients including Kraft, Unilever, Ford, AT&T, BNY Mellon, LVMH, Merck, and Pepsi. Growth Engine also conducts creative problem-solving training, war gaming, and strategic leadership innovation workshops. Bryan is the author of three books on applied creativity and business innovation, as well as the inventor of the creativity training game, Bright Ideas. Bryan’ newest book, 21 Days to a Big Idea, will be published this November by Diversion Books.
  	Mo Cayer is a career-long applied industrial/organizational psychologist. Mo has extensive industry and corporate experience improving organizational and human resource effectiveness. His corporate/consulting career includes: Training Portfolio Leader at the American Management Association (AMA). Head of Organizational & Leadership Development for Bayer Healthcare/ Pharmaceutical, NA. GE Capital Corp. (the financial services business within General Electric) for six years, Mo was the Leader, Best Practices & Program Development, designing and consulting on a wide variety of Organizational and Leadership Development interventions. R.H. Macy & Co., as its Vice President, Leadership, Organizational Development & Executive Compensation. Development Dimensions Int’l., Consultant for Service Excellence; and KRC Research and Consulting, VP Organizational Research & OD Consulting. JC Penney Co in various Human Resource leadership roles over 10 years. Mo continues consulting to private and public sector organizations, sometimes collaborating with Pivotal Resources, Inc., a global change leadership firm. Mo is a full-time faculty member at the University of New Haven, with a joint appointment in the Psychology Department and Management Department, and teach courses to MBAs, and graduate students in I/O psychology: strategic management, human resource management, HR development, psychological testing in industry, performance management, and talent management among others. Mo earned a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from New York University.
  	Armando Rodriguez is an authority on forensic economics, competition policy and regulation, and an expert on discerning key information from published economic performance rankings by using machine learning algorithms.  Dr. Rodriguez is the founder of the University’s Economics Collective, an online, student-run blogging and teaching space and social network that aims to be a catalyst for creative solutions to today's economic challenges, and the New Haven Economic Performance Laboratory, which publishes the New Haven Economic Performance Index. He created the University of New Haven’s bachelor’s degree program in business analytics and the behavioral economics concentration as part of the University’s B.A. in economics.
  	Cortney Harding is the Founder and CEO of the Friends with Holograms, a full-service virtual and augmented reality agency. She has created groundbreaking voice-activated VR experiences for Accenture and is currently advising Coca-Cola on its augmented reality strategy. Other agency clients include Verizon, Unity, and the Air Force. Prior to founding Friends with Holograms, she led business development at VR production company Moth+Flame, working with clients like AT&T, Ram Trucks, and Discovery Communications.

  Joe O’Boyle is a Principal Director in Accenture’s Talent & Organization practice focused on helping clients navigate large-scale enterprise change and transformation.  He helps to lead Accenture’s Workforce Transformation offering in North America helping clients navigate the impacts of AI and digitalization on their workforce.  He conducts research on emerging workforce treads.  Over Joe’s 17+ year career, he has focused on strategic, cross-functional transformation programs, specifically at the intersection of Sales Operations, Finance, Customer and Professional Services, Shared Services and Information Technology.   His global client experience includes, but is not limited to, regulated and non-regulated businesses in the High Tech, Humanitarian, Energy and Defense industries. Joe studied Management Information Systems at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  He is based out of Accenture’s Boston Office and is an avid student of technology.

  EVENT DETAILS:
  

  Location: The Norwalk Inn & Conference Center, 

  99 East Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851
  

  Date:  Friday, March 1, 2019

  Time: 8:00AM to 5:00PM

  
  

  Continental Breakfast: Assorted muffins and bagels, coffee and tea.

  Lunch:  Deli Buffet - A variety of salads, cold cuts, cheeses, fruit salad, bread etc.

  
  

  $79 Chapter Members; $99 Non-members 

  
  

  Preferred Registration Deadline no later than

  Wednesday, February 27th, 2019

  There will be a $5 additional administrative charge for walk-ins 

  with no prior online registration and payment.

  
  

  No refunds can be granted within 48 hours of event.

  SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE!
  

  For more information, contact: 

  John Weidner, ATD SCC President at: jweidner@cornellglobal.com or 203-762-0730.

  Friday, March 1, 2019

  8:00AM to 5:00PM

  ATD SCC PROUDLY PRESENTS . . .

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) Symposium

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• Coaching CoP: The Business of Coaching: How to Transform from "Soft Touch" to Game Changing

  • When
    07 Mar 2019
  •  
    9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Norwalk Public Library, 1 Belden Avenue, Norwalk CT
  • Spaces left
    33

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  Coaching Community of Practice (CoP) Meeting

  The Business of Coaching: 

          How to Transform from "Soft Touch"   

  
  

                           to Game Changing

  Thursday, March 7th, 2019 - 9:15 am 

  Presented by:

          
  

  Tina Clements, VP, US Team for the

  Retail Performance Company, LLC and

  Keri-Lynne Shaw, HR & Business Coach, formerly  VP, Human Resources, Coty, Inc.

  Please join us for an interactive presentation as we explore:

  ·         How to capture the attention of decision makers.

  ·         How to structure engagements and align with ROI.

  ·         What makes a coach marketable and which mishaps

         turn clients off.

  ·         How are successful engagements evaluated.

  Location: Norwalk Public Library, 2^nd floor

  1 Belden Avenue, Norwalk CT

  PARKING: There is a small lot behind the building (first driveway on Mott, on right as you enter from corner of Belden and Mott.) There is also a parking garage across the street and around the corner, across from the Mall, behind the post office. 
  

     

  Our group's mission is to share best practices and explore trends and new approaches in the field of coaching within an organizational setting.

  Speaker Bios:
  

  Tina Clements serves as Vice President, US Team for The Retail Performance Company, LLC (rpc), an international retail consultancy that she helped launch in 2013.  Prior to working at rpc, Tina worked for 10+ years at BMW where she led performance management, professional development and training.  Tina has worked in the learning & development industry since 1996, helping to grow talent at organizations including HBO, Volkswagen, BMW/MINI, IBM and WVIP Radio/Cable Systems. 

  Keri-Lynne Shaw works as an HR and business coach, previously serving as Vice President of Human Resources at Coty Inc, a multinational beauty company.  Prior to joining Coty, Keri-Lynne worked for 10+ years at BMW of North America where she most recently served as Director of Human Resources.

  Tina and Keri-Lynne both completed coach training at iPEC in 2015, a framework that uniquely positions them as business leaders, consultants and talent developers who appreciate the value of coaching, who can translate it into a language that resonates with decision makers and who know how to frame an engagement to produce the bottom line results that businesses are seeking.   

  Please register by Friday, March 1, 2019, to reserve your spot. Don't miss this chance to expand your knowledge, connect with colleagues and discuss important trends in our industry!
  

   Chapter Members: FREE  

  Note:  Chapter Members must login first for the system to recognize you as a member.  GIG members (formerly Hartford CT Chapter) should register accordingly.

  Non-Members:  $10 (Must register and pay online only.)    

  For questions, contact:
  

  Ellen Keithline Byrne and Lara Siegel
  

  ellen@ellepartners.com; lsiegel@openicoaching.com

  Co-Chairpersons, Coaching CoP 

  These events are sponsored by ATD Southern Connecticut Chapter (ATD SCC) and are open to all interested practitioners.  There is no cost for participation in the Coaching Communities of Practice for members or GIG (formerly Hartford Chapter) of this chapter.
  

   www.atdscc.org

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