Megan Torrance is the CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data, and ultimately performance. Megan has more than 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment, and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning, so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about Agile project management for learning experience design and the xAPI.

Megan is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers, The Quick Guide to LLAMA, and two ATD TD at Work publications: Agile and LLAMA for ISD Project Management and Making Sense of xAPI. She is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide. TorranceLearning projects have won several Brandon Hall Group awards, the 2014 xAPI Hyperdrive contest at DevLearn, and back-to-back Learning Guild DemoFest Best-in-Show awards in 2016/2017 with xAPI projects. TorranceLearning is a 2018 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch.

A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Communications and an MBA, and an eCornell Facilitator in the Women's leadership curriculum, Megan lives and works near Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Bob Gerard, a 35-year industry expert and Director of Accenture's Learning Ingenuity team, heads up Accenture’s research and development team focused on internal learning.

From designing Accenture’s first learning management systems (LMS) in the late ‘90s to creating immersive game-based learning experiences, Bob's dedicated to transforming L&D experiences with the latest technologies. In response to the 2020 pandemic, Bob helped create "One Accenture Park," a virtual reality theme park for onboarding and connecting over 310,000 new joiners globally.

As the co-host of "The Learning Geeks" podcast, and a sought-after presenter at industry events, Bob is helping shape the future of learning. Bob's current focus explores the impact of generative AI on Accenture’s learning function, aiming to make content development more efficient and engaging.

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Dr. Wei Wang is responsible for managing ATD global markets outside the United States, managing partners in more than 20 countries and regions around the world, and overseeing the operations of the China office. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development from Pennsylvania State University, a master's degree in management from Nankai University, and a CPTD certification from ATD.

Prior to his career at Seoul National University, Professor Chan Lee worked at LG Electronics in the US as an HRD team leader. He holds a doctorate and master's degree in Human Resource Development from The Ohio State University. He contributed to the books such as Implementing On-the-Job Learning (ATD Press), part of the In Action Series (ATD Press) , and Destination Facilitation (ATD Press).

Jae Eun Kim, CEO of Incoaching, is a renowned coach and leader, celebrated for her transformative impact on organizations. Recipient of the 2023 Women Leaders of the Future Award in Korea and featured in Women Entrepreneur India, she has authored influential books on leadership and her coaching, focusing on behavioral change and communication, has brought proven success across multinational corporations.

With almost 20 years of experience and exposure in training field and in particular building and development of internal trainers, Marcy Hsiao sticks to create interesting, effective and efficient courses. Marcy graduated from Drexel University, Philadelphia PA USA with MBA. She holds the certificate in TWI TTT-Job Instruction (JI) and Job Relations (JR).

David brings close to 30-years of expertise in corporate learning, leadership & organisational development, human resource management, and pre-opening / start-up functions. In his new role, he leads the human resource development team to support the career development and capability building for the team of this newly set-up campus that focuses on developing a systemic population and preventive health care model for 1.5 million residents across Central North of Singapore, with the vision of adding 15 million years to healthy life.

Talent development professional with 15+ years of experience in both academic and corporate education, currently leading the Learning & Development Department at EPAM Systems, Asia East & Pacific. Bachelor, Master and PhD in Modern Languages and Linguistics (Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus), Bachelor of Finance (Belarusian State Economics University, Belarus), Fulbright Scholar (University of California, Berkeley), CELTA trainer, CPTD by ATD, Kanban Management Professional, SAFe Agilist.

Vice-Chairman of NPO CeFIL, Digital Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) Co-founder. Established in 2015, 30 Major Japanese large companies' membership organization. The total number of members of companies and employees is over 2.5 million. DBIC enhances DX activities through a new way of learning and experience. This new purpose of the organization is Learning Transformation (LX), and it will open the first LX Hub in central Tokyo. Hiroshi San is Part-time lecturer in Systems and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Information and Life Sciences, University of Tsukuba.

Dr. Barry Ip is a senior executive with over two decades of progressive experience in talent management across multiple global industries. He has held leadership positions at world-renowned organizations such as Microsoft, Jabil Circuit, and The Hong Kong Jockey Club. Dr. Ip's expertise in talent management, executive development, and organizational development has been widely recognized. He has earned a PhD, an MBA, and completion of the Executive Development Program in Innovation Management from Cambridge University.

Doctor of Business Administration, Senior Economist. Dr. Liu has 26 years of professional experience in human resource management and talent development. He joined GF Securities in 1998. He serves as a member of the Expert Committee of Financial Society of Guang Dong, a review expert for senior economists in Guangdong Province, a visiting professor of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, an extramural academic advisor of postgraduates majored in Finance for South China University of Technology, etc. His main research fields include management mechanisms, corporate culture, digitization, talent development，human resource management, etc.