The Learning & Development in Broadcasting Conference, 2010

The conference takes place on Monday 11 October 2010

Conference Programme

This year's conference is based around the themes of:

During the Day

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08:30

Breakfast meetings

09:00

Registration

Foyer Bar

Tea and coffee

10:00

Conference opens

Welcome by Maggie Philbin
and Stephen Whittle, BETR Chair

Princess Anne Theatre

10:05

Keynote speech
Dare to Share

Peter Butler Learning Director, Lloyds Banking Group

10:30

Plenary debate chaired by Maggie Philbin

Princess Anne Theatre

Training Departments are increasingly part of the problem not the solution
Panel: Donald Clark, Director of UFI
Laura Overton, Managing Director,
Towards Maturity
Claire Paul, Head of Business Engagement,
BBC Academy
Craig Jones MBE - Global Head of Diversity, Barclays Wealth

Is this a familiar proposition? How would you respond? This interactive panel debate will provide reasoned arguments, considered responses and robust defences. The mood of the audience will be monitored and interrogated with opportunities for short questions from the floor throughout.

11:20

Coffee

Foyer Bar

11:50

Workshops 1-4
1: New Directions: Learning Design, Rapid Development and Social Media

Nick Shackleton Jones, Manager, Online & Informal Learning, BBC Academy

Facilitated by Stephen Whittle.

In this session Nick Shackleton-Jones will describe the model for learning design that his team have developed, and how they are implementing this approach in areas ranging from traditional content development through to rapid development and social media.

Presentation material

2: Maximising the effectiveness of Social Media - Plugging HR into LinkedIn

Lincoln Coutts, Head of Knowledge Management, Research & Information, Savile Group and
Ben Chambers, Client Director, Savile Group

Facilitated by Enid Rowlands.

As employees and companies start to understand the value of networking online, this session will explore the key elements of LinkedIn which will affect your business and help you to understand the elements you need to know to best serve you and your company.

Presentation material

3: Steps to Achieving Engagement in Challenging Times

Steps Drama, lead by Richard Wilkes, Company Director

Facilitated by Craig Jones.

As the broadcast sector and the wider market begins to show signs of recovery, it's essential that teams are working cohesively and individuals are feeling valued within their roles. Join Steps Drama Learning Development, for an inspiring and thought-provoking experiential workshop, using drama and facilitated discussion to explore engagement and motivation.

No presentation material available.

4: The Immersive Technologies of Serious Games and Virtual Worlds

David Wortley, FRSA, Director, Serious Games Institute

Facilitated by Peter Block.

This workshop will use videos and live demonstrations to illustrate the influence and role of immersive technologies in learning and development. It will highlight the challenge of next generation learners and illustrate the importance of immersive technologies in driving innovation. This workshop will feature video clips of advances in simulations and animations linked to real world data, a live demonstration of a business simulation game and a virtual guided tour of Second Life.

Presentation material

12:45

Lunch

Foyer Bar and David Lean Room

14:00

Keynote speech
Skills ... What Skills?

Sonita Alleyne OBE Chair, Sound and Music

Princess Anne Theatre

14:30

Workshops 5-8
5: Developing 21 Century learning on a shoestring

Julie Wedgwood, Director, Productive Limited

Facilitated by Enid Rowlands.

In this workshop multi award-winning learning consultant Julie Wedgwood shares some of the tools and techniques that she used to transform a department of disenchanted public sector trainers into an award winning 21 century training team.

Presentation material

6: Twittering control of your career

Lyn Burgess, Life Coach, The Magic Key Partnership

Facilitated by Anthony Szynkaruk.

Which social media platform is best for you? Is it fad or fashion? This informative workshop will explode the myths for you to find out if you or your organisation is missing out and what to do about it.

Presentation material

7: How to harness social media for learning & performance enhancement of your organisation

Jane Hart, Founder & CEO, Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Facilitated by Craig Jones.

This workshop will help you understand how best to support social learning initiatives in your organisation and a process for achieving this.

Presentation material

8: Designing an approach to Open Educational Resources

Dr Tina Wilson and Dr Giota Alevizou, OLnet team, The Open University

Facilitated by Peter Block.

Offering resources freely and openly changes the way they are used. This workshop will look at what makes such resources reusable and how this impacts on the design of content and the design of activities that users build themselves.

Presentation material

15:20

Tea

Foyer Bar and David Lean Room

15:50

Workshops 9-12
9: Getting Noticed, Getting Buy-in

Laura Overton, Towards Maturity

Facilitated by Stephen Whittle.

L&D departments are under pressure to respond faster to changing business needs. This interactive workshop will draw on best practice, benchmark research findings to discuss practical ideas to help you engage stakeholders across the learning process and to get noticed.

Presentation material

10: Creative Thinking Techniques

Rachel Gilmore, Coach & Facilitator

Facilitated by Lyn Burgess.

A practical workshop to explore the use of creative thinking techniques on participants current and real-life challenges. The session will briefly identify what has made creative thinking so difficult to achieve in the workplace, what facilitators can do to readdress the balance and give participants an opportunity to play with and learn a technique or two.

No presentation material available.

11: Coaching Gen Y and beyond

Tim Hawkes, Managing Director, Unlimited Potential.

Facilitated by John Atkins.

As Generation Y starts to get its feet under the management table. How can coaching be a support mechanism for them and what will this ‘brave new world’ of coaching look like? This workshop is designed to demonstrate that many companies have completely the wrong attitude for welcoming Gen Y and they do not understand how to embrace technology for learning. Gen Y are wired to think differently and work differently. Companies must become magnetic employers if they are to stay competitive.

Presentation material

12: The BBC Academy beyond the BBC - BBC Academy Online

Myles Runham, Head of Online, BBC Academy

Facilitated by Alan Mackenzie.

Introducing the BBC Academy's online plans, priorities, the issues it faces and sharing next steps. Showing how it hopes to share what it does and make it a part of the industry. Debating other company insights, lessons learned and cross-industry potential, in the hope of making “the whole larger than the sum of the parts”.

Presentation material

16:40

Keynote speech
Innovation at the core of media and learning

Nigel Paine

Conference Roundup

Open discussion with Maggie Philbin

Princess Anne Theatre

17:15

Conference closes

The Broadcast National Training Awards Ceremony

17:30

Reception in David Lean Room

18:00

The Broadcast National Training Awards Ceremony

19:30

Close

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Comments from the 2009 conference

To get a flavour of the 2009 conference and hear more comments from delegates and speakers go to Youtube.

“I really enjoyed the conference, I thought it was very well organised, I picked up some great tips from the speakers, as well as being a great networking opportunity.”

Helen Witt, People Manager, Virgin Media Television

“We have done some business on the back of our attendance in 2008. We had good conversations with the delegates and I think these will lead to further business for CEGOS.”

Barry Woolven, ex-eLearning Business Development Manager, CEGOS

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BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly
London W1J 9LN

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