Chief Learning Officers from IBM, Accenture, Hewlett Packard, Marriott International and GEM Corp. Participate in Panel Discussion Today at TechLearn.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Elliott Masie, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of The MASIE Center and founder of the TechLearn Conference, which is taking place this week at the Marriott Marquis in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , will lead a dialogue featuring five of the most influential learning officers and executives in the industry. The session will take place at 1:30 p.m. today in the Broadway Ballroom on the 6th floor of the hotel. The Chief Learning Officers Panel will include Ted Hoff, CLO CLO See: Collateralized Loan Obligation. of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ; Jill Smart, CLO of Accenture; Steven Teal, Vice President Learning Services, Marriott International; Bill Wiggenhorn, Vice Chairman, GEM Corp.; and Daisy Ng, Vice President, Hewlett Packard. The dialogue will explore their expectations and challenges within their organizations and the industry. This morning's keynote speakers included Don McMillian, visionary and humorist hu·mor·ist n. 1. A person with a good sense of humor. 2. A performer or writer of humorous material. humorist Noun a person who speaks or writes in a humorous way , who discussed the humorous side of learning and technology, and Tom Davenport, best-selling business author and thought-leader, who explored some of the fundamental truths about business knowledge and the people and processes that transform ideas into results. Also taking place at the Marriott is the Learning Officers Forum, a separate two and a half-day workshop of personal development and leadership training for top-level learning and human resource executives. Attendees have the opportunity to visit the Learning Showcase, where many of the industry's leading vendors are demonstrating their newest products and services serving the HR management, learning training, organizational development, and performance management disciplines. Among the products and services featured are e-Learning Technology, HRIT HRIT Human Resource Information Technology HRIT High Rate Information Transmission , HRMS HRMS Human Resource Management System HRMS High Resolution Microwave Survey (SETI, Project Phoenix) HRMS High Resolution Mass Spectroscopy HRMS High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy HRMS Human Resources Management Specialist , Recruitment Services, Assessment and Benchmarking Tools, Benefits Programs, and much more. Platinum Sponsors of the event include Accenture Learning and SAP. Gold Sponsors are: Centra Software, Inc., IBM, Knowledge Planet, Saba, SkillSoft, SumTotal, TEDS, a Fidelity Investment Company, Thomson NETg, and THINQ Learning Solutions. ABOUT TECHLEARN TechLearn 2004 brings corporate learning, e-learning, training, HR and executive management from across all industries together to compare corporate learning practices, share key strategies for employees, and review and evaluate the latest in technology-based and traditional learning methodologies, tools and strategies. TechLearn is produced by Advanstar Technology Events. TechLearn 2004 is taking place Sunday, November 14 through Wednesday, November 17, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. For information on the conference, please call 1-800-839-3400 or visit the official conference website at www.techlearn.com. |
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