ICELW was pleased to have two excellent keynote speakers for ICELW 2011: Informal learning expert and renowned keynote speaker Jay Cross, and knowledge management expert Dr. Jay Liebowitz.

Jay Cross

Chair, Internet Time Alliance, USA

Talk: Why eLearning Is No Longer Enough in Today's Workplace

eLearning was state-of-the-art when it first appeared on the scene in 1998. Our speaker was the first to use the term eLearning on the web and headed the prestigious eLearning Forum. Now he feels the twenty-first century has rendered the term obsolete. Join us to discuss how work, learning, and the environment have changed and what the future holds.

About Jay Cross
Jay Cross is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. The Internet Time Alliance, which he chairs, helps corporations and governments use networks to accelerate performance. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay's calling is to help people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in life. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. He literally wrote the book on Informal Learning. He is also co-author of Implementing eLearning and Working Smarter: Collaboration in the Cloud. His philosophies on the power of informal learning and net-work have fundamentally changed the world of learning in organizations. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Jay and his wife Uta live with their miniature longhaired dachshund in the hills of Berkeley, California.

Dr. Jay Liebowitz

Orkand Endowed Chair of Management
and Technology Graduate School of Management & Technology
University of Maryland University College (UMUC)

Talk: Knowledge Management and E-Learning: Putting Theory into Practice

Knowledge management and e-learning have synergistic effects. They both contain elements of leveraging knowledge internally and externally, and both could add to the strategic intelligence of the organization. The combination of these two areas is just starting to evolve, per the evidence of the Knowledge Management and E-Learning Journal and the recent book publication of "Knowledge Management and E-Learning" (Liebowitz and Frank, eds., Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2011). Closer attention is warranted in the integration of these fields in order to advance the current state-of-the-art. The presentation will talk about these areas from a strategic intelligence framework, and will show examples of how the theory can be translated into practice.

About Jay Liebowitz
Dr. Jay Liebowitz is the Orkand Endowed Chair of Management and Technology in the Graduate School of Management & Technology at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). He previously served as a Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He was ranked one of the top 10 knowledge management researchers/practitioners out of 11,000 worldwide. He was recently ranked #2 worldwide in KM Strategy, according to the January 2010 Journal of Knowledge Management. At Johns Hopkins University, he was the founding Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Competitive Intelligence and the Capstone Director of the MS-Information and Telecommunications Systems for Business Program, where he engaged over 30 organizations in industry, government, and not-for-profits in capstone projects.

Prior to joining Hopkins, Dr. Liebowitz was the first Knowledge Management Officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Before NASA, Dr. Liebowitz was the Robert W. Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Professorof Management Science at George Washington University, and Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Army

War College. Dr. Liebowitz is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems With Applications: An International Journal (published by Elsevier), which had about 1,600 paper downloads per day worldwide last year. He is a Fulbright Scholar, IEEE-USA Federal Communications Commission Executive Fellow, and Computer Educator of the Year (International Association for Computer Information Systems). He has published over 40 books and a myriad of journal articles on knowledge management, intelligent systems, and IT management. His most recent books are Knowledge Retention: Strategies and Solutions (Taylor & Francis, 2009), Knowledge Management in Public Health (Taylor & Francis, 2010), and Knowledge Management and E-Learning (Taylor & Francis, 2011). He has lectured and consulted worldwide. He can be reached at jliebowitz@umuc.edu.