Nuernberg (GER), April 2022 - Küchen Quelle GmbH, a Nuremburg-based company whose name means "Kitchen Source", specializes in the retail sale of state-of-the-art kitchens, from planning to installation. Besides its Nuremberg salesroom, the firm offers free planning assistance in the client’s home - anywhere in Germany - supported by 3D and mixed reality technologies. Gabriele Doerfert is Head of Küchen Quelle’s Marketing Academy and Product Management Mixed Reality. In this capacity, she is responsible for training the sales consultants, as well as for the "Digital Academy", which was established in 2020. Despite Corona, the digital training continued because, as Doerfert observes, "for a decentralized sales company, this is the ideal solution even in normal times". Gabriele Doerfert will be speaking at the LEARNTEC Congress, 31 May at 17.15 about "Digital Performance Support: Workflow Learning for Home Consultation."

Munich (GER), April 2022 - Professor Eberhard Steiner is the Director of Munich’s Institute for Enterprise and Change Management (UVM Institute), which advises companies and agencies on strategy and innovation processes, change management, agile methods, and work 4.0, as well as aspects of digitalization. He is the editor and co-author of several specialist publications, including "Managing Home Office Employees". Prof. Steiner will be speaking on his area of specialization at the LEARNTEC 2022 Congress, 31 May, at 12:15.

Salzburg (A), April 2022 - Michael Fally and his "Digital Education and Training" department have been working on the advancement of a modern educational concept at SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG, Austria’s largest grocery retailer, for more than ten years. His co-presenter, Astrid Dürnberger, and he will give a talk entitled "Five Countries, Five Languages, Five Faces: Implementing an LMS for 90,000 Employees at the SPAR Group" at the LEARNTEC congress, 31 May at 16.30.

Huddersfield (UK), November 2021 - Rupert Ward is a former Special Adviser to the Royal Household and Project Lead for iDEA, one of the world's most successful free educational technologies. He is Director of Strategic Partnerships for the International Council on Badges and Credentials, a National Teaching Fellow, and an international keynote speaker. At OEB Global, he will speak about "Learning Fitness: Getting Learning Fit".

Bonn (GER), November 2021 – GIZ is a German governmental agency that supports international development through capacity development across the world. The organization is increasingly harnessing learning platforms and platform ecosystems to increase scale and effectiveness of these efforts. At OEB Global, GIZ’s Dominic Orr and Franziska Seiffarth will make a presentation entitled "Innovating along the learning to earning journey - How to empower the next generation – Insights from the atingi and yoma digital platforms".  

Berlin (GER), January 2021 - A new era of mobile communication is about to begin: the transmission of a whole terabit of data, one thousand gigabits, per second. Dr. Ivan Ndip, specialist for antenna and high-frequency systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Berlin speaks about current progress with 6G and its many possible applications.

Saarbrücken (GER), January 2020 - Learning Technologies is a leading European workplace  learning exhibition and conference. Since 2019, Learning Technologies has taken place in February at ExCel London. It’s a great chance to discover the latest eLearning trends and technology. Entry to the exhibition is free.

Karlsruhe (GER)/Augsburg (GER), December 2019 - Jörg Prohaszka is convinced that learning should be fun. Prohaszka is Head of Digital Qualification at the Augsburg based Training Centre of the DB Bahnbau Gruppe, the German Railways Construction Group subsidiary. One of the Centre’s projects, "Serious Games in the Building Trade - Apprentices Turn Into Avatars", strives to stimulate the trainees’ drive to learn through the use of well-known avatars. On 30 January 2020 at 11.30, he will report on the results of this learning project at the LEARNTEC Congress.

Karlsruhe (GER)/Würzburg (GER), December 2019 - Michael Bräuer is the Chief Fire Officer and deputy head of the Würzburg branch of the federal state of Bavaria’s Fire Brigade School. The "Fire Brigade Learning Bar", which the school developed, was launched in 2018 and bundles all the State Fire Brigade Schools’ digital media. The central component is a lexicon that provides technical terms and related information in a structured, visualised form and is state certified. Michael Bräuer will present this learning project at the LEARNTEC Congress on 28 January at 17.15.

Salzburg (A), October 2019 – Everyone is talking about data and analytics in learning, but who is actually doing anything and why does it matter? This session demonstrates what can be done with analytics and data to guide your learning implementations. Nicole Müller from Geislinger GmbH, Austria, will speak about "Industry 4.0: Implementation and Management of a Skills-Based Production Planning System" on Thursday, 28 November, from 14.30 to 15.45. Nicole Müller is Training Manager at Geislinger, a global market leader for torsional vibration dampers for large engines.