Rebecca Cuevas

Keynote: Practical aspects of implementing learning design

Rebecca Cuevas, founder and CEO of Learn and Get Smarter, Inc., holds a BA in English from Harvard University, as well as two master’s degrees in education. .
Rebecca Cuevas

Aisha Dani

Entrepreneurship education for transformative learning

Aisha Dani is currently a Program Manager - Entrepreneurship at Melbourne Polytechnic's Tech Schools, and is a co-founder of Sistrv8 - Australia's only business incubator for Muslim women with an award winning startup pre-accelerator program. Aisha has experience as an intrapreneur and entrepreneur, startups and operational scale-ups.
Aisha Dani

Aaron Dufall

Scaled mentorship through communities of practice

Aaron is a Founder, CTO, & Mentor, with a unique ability to enable teams of Junior developers to operate like Sr. Developers by ensuring that problems are clear and well defined.
Aaron Dufall

Alison Heller-Ono, PT, MSPT

Designing an Entire Online Academy

Alison Heller-Ono, PT, MSPT, CPE, president and CEO of Worksite International, Inc., is passionate about how people work! As an entrepreneur, pioneer, and bold industry leader in the ergonomics marketplace, Alison helps small to mid-size multi-national and global employers keep employees healthy so they can work to their maximum potential. Alison is a trusted advisor and consultant to clients who desire a safe, comfortable, and productive workforce. She is also a coach and mentor to professionals desiring to learn about occupational ergonomics. Alison is a veteran physical therapist combined with dual credentials as a Certified Industrial Ergonomist (CIE) and Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE), along with a Certified Disability Analyst. Her sought-after expertise is in preventing and managing work-related musculoskeletal disorders while finding reasonable solutions to drive change in organizations.
Alison Heller-Ono

George Joeckel - Summit Week Bonus Presenter

Optimizing Accessibility in Excel 365 Workbooks

George manages the online training program at WebAIM. He has a master’s degree in instructional psychology and technology, and over 20 years of teaching experience. He has developed online courses at Utah State University since 2008, and he joined the WebAIM team at the end of 2015. The Accessible Documents video-based course launched in July 2018, and over 5,000 participants have enrolled in this independent-study training. George also conducts pre-conference workshops and delivers presentations at national conferences. *Note this very special presentation is only available during the conference.

Kathyrn Goldman

How to Be the Guardian of Your Creations

Kathryn Goldman is an intellectual property and internet law attorney who helps creative professionals protect their work so they can profit from it. She believes sustainable businesses are built on properly protected creative assets.
Kathyrn Goldman

Laurie Pulido

How to make Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) an intentional focus of learning design

Laurie Pulido is the CEO of Ease Learning, a company she founded. Ease is focused on providing learning design services and technology solutions that transform the learner experience. Her company focuses specifically on innovative instructional design, customer-friendly helpdesk services, and Skillways, a cutting-edge SaaS platform that provides a structure for the incremental building and measurement of learner’s skills.
Laurie Pulido

Dr. Mauricio Cadavid

IDs: The New First Line of Defense

Dr. Mauricio Cadavid is the Sr. Instructional Designer with Academic Technologies and Innovation at CSUSB. Originally from Medellin, Colombia, he has lived in the US since ’92. Dr. Cadavid has a BA in Psychology (2004), MA in Education, in Reading/Language Arts (2008), and an EdD in Educational Leadership and Curriculum (2017). This year he completed 16 years as an Instructional Designer with Academic Technologies, and Innovation, during which time he has been the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award (2007) and the President's Service Award (2017), as well as being recognized as an expert in the field of online learning. He has also written and presented at national and international conferences. Some of his interest topics include Adult Learning, Project-Based Learning, Educational Technology, Information Technology, and Reading Education, among others. Aside from being an instructional designer, he has taught courses for Undergraduate Studies, College of Extended and Global Education, The College of Education Instructional Technology Masters Program, and currently for the Information and Decision Sciences department.
Dr. Mauricio Cadavid

Rebecca Cuevas

Introducing the Course Design Formula™

For fifteen years, she designed and delivered award-winning education programs for public utilities in Southern California, impacting over 150,000 students with hands-on learning experiences relating to water and energy conservation. Recipient of multiple Federal scholarships for international study, she brings a creative, multi-cultural perspective to her work in educational consulting, instructional design, and curriculum development. Her book, Course Design Formula™: How to Teach Anything to Anyone Online is available on Amazon. Learn more at her website, https://www.learnandgetsmarter.com/ or contact her directly at [email protected]

Sophie Lechner

How I Use Instructional Design Principles in Everything!

Sophie Lechner is the founder of The Global Growth Experience (G2Experience). Over the last 15 years she has built a large global network on LinkedIn that has led to speaking engagements in the US and abroad, podcast invitations and an interview in Forbes. She has created the LinkedIn MAGNET Method to help entrepreneurs, coaches and authors to grow their business by building meaningful relationships while staying aligned with their values and their personality.