CLO Symposium Spring 2020

The #1 Conference the Learning and Development Professionals

AI & Automation: How to Prepare Your Workforce

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  • Day 1: 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm CT

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    Advances in AI and automation that will dramatically change the workforce are coming, but most HR leaders aren’t actively preparing for it. Join Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) and a panel of industry leaders to review the current state of artificial intelligence, automation, how they’re impacting the workforce, and the hurdles to training on a mass scale. Gain insights as we share SNHU’s most recent research on HR executives to uncover what’s being done and what isn’t. And finally, we’ll explore real-world experiences and how tools like education can be leveraged to future-proof your business.

    •  The fundamental impacts of AI & Automation across industries
    • The challenges of training and upskilling at scale
    • Stories of success and failure from industry leaders
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    At DeVryWORKS, we understand that it's important to address specific learning objectives for business leaders, and offer personalized talent management support to fuel the growth of our strategic partners and their employees. An organization can thrive with an engaged workforce prepared to meet its current and future needs, as well as developed leaders who can deliver on strategic priorities. The right talent initiatives can help you energize a business growth strategy—that’s why a DeVryWORKS partnership is strategic, too. We're here to help you build the workforce you need to contribute to the success of your organization. We strive to understand your business goals and objectives so we can help empower your employees with skills they need to grow along with your organization.

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    Saba is a global leader in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management. The company helps organizations transform the way they work by enabling the continuous learning, engagement and development of their people network. Supporting the new world of work, Saba delivers learning, performance, succession, career development, workforce planning and compensation solutions that incorporate modern technologies such as social, collaboration, mobile and gamification. Saba solutions are based on the Saba Cloud platform, a highly scalable architecture that exceeds industry scalability, performance, and security standards. Saba currently supports over 31 million users from 2,200 customers across 195 countries and in 37 languages.

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    Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution providing high quality, affordable and workplace-relevant education since 1932. With over a quarter-million students and alumni, SNHU meets diverse learner needs online and on-campus with hundreds of programs. SNHU’s Workforce Partnerships team collaborates with employers to attract, develop and retain top talent at every level of the organizational chart. Contact SNHU’s Workforce Partnerships team at partnerships@snhu.edu.

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    Uniquely scalable and completely full-service, we leverage machine learning and the latest research across the behavioral sciences to deliver the world’s most effective approach to sustainable behavior change. To ensure alignment with your business goals, competencies, and values, our coaches become steeped in what is unique about your organization. And they diagnose and close hidden cultural and behavioral gaps, measurably connecting transformation to targeted business outcomes and ROI.

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    Bluepoint provides award-winning leadership development programs. Our leadership development facilitators and trainers are some of the most experienced and highly sought-after practitioners in the field, bringing you one-on-one coaching and on-site workshops. And, if you are looking for a custom program, our internal instructional designers have decades of experience to help you build a program to meet your business needs. Our in-house subject matter experts work closely with our instructional designers to help you build a training program suited for your unique organizational goals. Our parent company, Simplify Compliance also produces online training courses covering topics such as human resources, workplace safety, health care (including clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and coding), and workplace harassment.

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    – The most flexible buying options to maximize your budget
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    Leading organizations depend on OpenSesame to train millions of employees. An entirely new and better way—easier, more economical, with less risk—to access the best on-­demand training. With thousands of business, safety, technology, and compliance courses, OpenSesame helps train organizations of any size.

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    University of Maryland University College was founded more than 70 years ago specifically to serve the higher education needs of working adults and service members. Today, UMUC continues that tradition online and offers more than 90 degrees, certificates, and specializations backed by the reputation of a state university and the University System of Maryland.

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    Degreed is a workforce learning and skills tracking platform. We integrate and curate all the resources people use to learn, all in one place — including learning management systems and millions of courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts from thousands of sources. Then we use behavioral and data science to analyze everyone's strengths and opportunities, and to automatically personalize development based on their skills, roles, and goals. Founded in 2012, Degreed is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, New York and Amsterdam.

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    At Ceresa, we’re democratizing access to truly transformative leadership development. Our Leadership Accelerator program combines a structured curriculum, executive coaching, and high-impact, external mentorship, delivered virtually via an easy-to-use platform.   It is designed to address the many and common failure points of typical mentoring and coaching programs, and it’s fully virtual and turnkey. We help develop high-impact leaders from Fortune 500 companies to startups, from San Francisco to London to India, across technology and professional services to healthcare and non-profits.

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    SumTotal provides a unified, comprehensive and flexible HCM solution spanning the entire employee lifecycle. Our award-winning solution for attracting, retaining, developing and engaging today’s multi-generational workforce is grouped into four HR Suites – Talent Acquisition, Learning Management, Talent Management and Workforce Management – all on a common platform.

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