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Chairs and speakers include:
Profiles:
Jack Wills
 Jack Wills is the Chairman of the British Institute for Learning
and Development (BILD). His first career was in the Army,
where his background was specialist training and he ended his
military career as an instructor at the Army Staff College. Since
then, Jack has started his own company, and is widely involved
in learning and training as well as speaking on the
international conference circuit.
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Donald Clark
 Donald Clark is a Board Member for the University for Industry.
He has been involved in games, simulations, mobile learning,
and informal learning. Donald has also won many awards for
the design and implementation of e-learning, and the ‘Outstanding Achievement in e-learning Award’ at the
World Open Learning Conference.
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Charles Jennings
 Charles Jennings is the Global Head of Learning at Reuters. He
has wide experience in e-Learning, especially in exploiting the
links between knowledge, learning and performance. Charles
has specific interest in how new technologies and
environments can support capability-building in organisations.
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Barry Sampson
 Barry Sampson is Learning Support Manager at B&Q, Europe's
largest home improvement retailer. His 9 years in HR and
Development were preceded by 10 years as a Retail Manager,
so he is very aware of the realities of delivering learning in an
operational environment.
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Ruth James
 Ruth James has been with TNT Express Services UK & Ireland as
Head of People Development since May 1998. She leads the
training and development strategy; ensuring business
objectives are met. This includes providing leading-edge
training and development for over 11,000 TNT employees in
management development, operations training, sales and
customer service training. TNT has received 4 National Training
Awards between 2000 and 2007.
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Mike Booth
 Mike Booth is the Learning Technologies Manager at
Cable&Wireless Europe, Asia & US, having joined in 1993.
Following the integration of Energis he wasted no time in
seamlessly migrating the learning infrastructure from a Global
LMS to a new performance support model. This has seen a
radical, fresh approach to the use of learning technology,
which is playing a key part in Cable&Wireless’ transformation
journey.
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Andy Wooler
 Andy Wooler is the HR Technology Manager at Legal & General
Assurance Group Plc. In 2007, Legal & General launched “The
Learning Network”, an LMS environment to manage and
deliver learning to all internal staff. During 2008, this will be
extended to use by Business Partners of Legal & General.
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Fiona Whitelaw
 Fiona has worked in the financial services industry since graduating in 1985. The first half of her career, in sales and marketing, saw Fiona gain experience in industries such as marine, leisure, agricultural and commercial asset finance. However, the focus for the past 10 years has been on training and development. She has enjoyed a variety of roles in most training disciplines, including induction, systems and most recently, personal, management and leadership development.
During the past 18 months, Fiona has developed an e-learning portfolio comprising both externally procured and internally designed self-development modules aimed at colleagues and managers within the Retail division of HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland ).
Her latest role will see her rolling this out to a wider pan-HBOS audience.
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Tim Culling
 Tim is a Learning and development professional, focusing on Leadership development, behavioural change and changing learning habits in organisations. He has spent most of his career in Financial Services and is currently director of Arena4management Ltd
He has over 15 years experience in developing leadership and learning capability in the Financial Services and Retail sectors, producing impacting, cost effective and original training and development solutions His past roles include Leadership development manager and managing the Aviva Leadership Academy. He has considerable experience in Leadership Development, Operational Management and Project Management and specialises in designing, delivering and managing blended, on-line solutions for large corporate clients.
He also specialises in facilitating Leadership Team Development for Executive and Middle Manager teams, as well as Coaching and is qualified in a range of Psychometric instruments.
Tim has featured in CIPD People Management discussing changing Training Attitudes and presented The People Summit 2006 ( Copenhagen ) on creating a leadership community and community Leadership learning.
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Caroline Croughan
 Caroline is Leadership Academy Manager at Norwich Union, the largest insurance services provider in the UK . She is responsible for improving leadership capability at all levels, within the UK . During 2007 Caroline successfully launched Norwich Union's Leadership Academy , deploying a rationalised curriculum of blended learning programmes. Commencing 2008 the Academy's programmes will be accessed using a new Learning Management System. The Academy has an important role to play in encouraging a 'self-service' learning culture in what has, until recently, been a traditional and predominantly formal learning environment.
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Alison Wright
 Alison Wright is the e-learning Development Facilitator for Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. She joined the trust in 2000 and since 2003 has led the development, implementation and delivery of e-learning services for Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust from scratch.
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Mike Newton
Mike has been working in the e-learning industry since 1987. Early on in his career, Mike worked on behalf of the UK Government and European Commission project managing, reviewing and trouble shooting technology-based training projects. He then moved on to developing, for winning and managing e-learning and Learning Management System implementation projects for multinational corporates operating in safety critical and compliance driven industries.
In late 1999, Mike founded the e-learning company Kognita, raising the venture capital required and has successfully managed the growth of the business over the past 8 years. Kognita recently merged with the Edvantage Group growing the company to £7M+ turnover with 80+ employees located in 6 countries. Mike has helped a wide range of corporate clients operating in the retail, energy, finance and transport sectors - recently including HBOS, Wm Morrisons Supermarkets and Experian - to fully exploit the benefits offered by existing and emerging learning technologies.
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