OEB 2026

Craig Weiss is an e-learning expert, blogger, analyst and speaker. He is the founder and CEO of E-Learning 24/7, which provides LMS consulting services to buyers and advisory and analyst services to e-learning vendors. In 2015, he was named the most influential person in the world for e-learning. Craig writes the E-Learning 24/7 blog, which is read every week in 154 countries, territories and colonial territories. Since he launched the blog in late 2009, his forecasts and projections on e-learning have been over 90% accurate. Additionally, Craig launched a think tank for corporate online learning in May 2015. It is the first of its kind in the industry. He speaks around the world, with recent presentations in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Craig holds a Master of Science degree in Mass Communications from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Rhode Island. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Sarah is an accomplished British stage and screen actress, director, writer and workshop leader. In the theatre she has performed on London’s West End, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and toured with productions across North America and Europe. She regularly appears in TV productions on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and international channels and has many film credits. Sarah directs for the theatre in the UK and Italy. She is a founder member of The Lions Part touring company with whom she devised, directed and starred in the highly successful productions ‘Lilies on the Land’ and ‘Yours Ever Jane’. In the field of education and training, Sarah runs workshops and theatre courses all over the world. She has taught at Florida State University, the Universities of Ohio/ Miami and Drew. She runs the Shakespeare Course at Cuba’s National Drama School and leads workshops with young people in Jamaica as part of the ‘Strong without Violence’ project. Her workshops also take her regularly to Italy, Morocco and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Sarah is passionate about using workshops to build confidence, clear communication and the skills of performance.

I am a playful academic developer in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom and a PhD student in open education.

Jane Hart is an independent workplace learning and collaboration advisor who has a long track record of helping businesses modernise their approaches to workplace learning. She is the Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - one of the world’s most-visited learning sites on the Web - which offers free resources that focus on current and emerging trends, technologies and tools, and where Jane compiles the very popular, annual Top 100 Tools for Learning List - now in its 9 th year. Jane is also the author of a number of books, including the Social Learning Handbook 2014 and Modern Workplace Learning: A resource guide for L&D.

Dr. Charlotte Webb, is an artist, researcher and Chief Leopard of the Feminist Internet , a movement addressing gender equality, feminisms and the internet. Feminist Internet is part of UAL Futures , a University of the Arts London initiative inventing the futures of education by connecting students and industry partners, and enabling them to creatively respond to social issues they care about. Her PhD, Noodle, Noodle, Cat: Extra-Subjective Agency in Web-based Art practice explored the complexities of artistic authorship under the production conditions of the web. She is Digital Learning Coordinator, University of the Arts London, and co-authored ‘ Discovering the Post-Digital Art School ’ with Professor Fred Deakin. She writes for the Huffington Post and Furtherfield Gallery . Recent art commissions and projects include We Are All Addicts Now, a series of GIFS reflecting on social media addiction for Furtherfield Gallery and artist Katriona Beales , ‘What Happens If We Push This’ ‐ a participatory workshop for Tate Exchange exploring post-work society, and The Work We Want , a participatory project funded by The Space , exploring digital labour and the future of work.

Maurice de Hond is a Dutch businessman, entrepreneur and founder member of the organisation “Education for a new era (04NT)”, which is responsible for the first “Steve JobsSchools”. He is known in the Netherlands as a prominent election opinion poller and internet guru, regularly invited to speak at events and provide advice to organisations and the Government on future development.

Iva Matasic is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Consulio, Inc., Zagreb, Croatia and Palo Alto, California, and a founding member of the global e-learning Think Tank ‘Company of Thought’. She has more than 10 years of e-learning, knowledge management and technology consulting experience and is a networker with clients and colleagues worldwide. Iva implements e-learning and connects e-learning implementation and project management. She is a graduate of the Founder Institute and the author/ co-author of publications presented at numerous conferences. Her expertise includes entrepreneurship, e-learning consulting and training (a focus on innovation in e-learning, personalized learning and big data analytics), future learning, loyalty marketing and motivational speaking.

Clark Quinn, Ph.D., helps organizations work smarter: aligning technology with how we think, work, and learn. He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to lead development of strategic solutions including award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as adaptive, mobile, and performance support systems. After an early academic career, Dr. Quinn has served as an executive in online and elearning initiatives and has an international reputation as a speaker and scholar, with four books on learning technology and strategy as well as numerous articles and chapters.

I work as the E-learning Coordinator in Innlandet Hospital Trust, which covers the region where the Lillehammer Olympic Games were hosted in 1994. Since 2013 I have been the Regional E-learning Coordinator for the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. The region has ten hospital trusts and five private non commercial hospitals. Together, 75.000 employees offer health services to 2,7 million people in the region, a total of 56 % of the population in Norway. The learning site in the region is identical in all Hospital Trust’s, and the e-learning Coordinators collaborate extensively on most aspects around the common learning site. It is my responsibility to lead this work. Before I started working for the Innlandet Hospital Trust in 2011, I worked ten years as a Communication Advisor, taught in High School two years, before I moved into higher education and was a Project Manager for Life-long Learning at the University College in Lillehammer.

Ineke Lam is connected to Utrecht University, the Netherlands since 1981. She has a background in sociology and a PhD. Since 1999 she has been involved in consultancy work in higher education, mainly in ICT-related projects. Her main field of interests are ICT, curriculum development and professional development of teachers and trainers, and VLE.

David works for Jigsaw Consult, a social enterprise based in London that works with a wide range of international development organisations. He has participated in eLearning Africa since 2007. David works with a variety of donors, governments, private sector and civil society organisations on issues of education, technology, partnership and impact assessment. He holds a PhD in evaluating the impact of ICT on education in Africa and also lectures on the MSc course in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is Chair of Trustees for Refugee Support Network, a London-based charity providing educational support to young people affected by displacement and crisis.

Miho is an interactive technologies consultant at Gumpp & Partners, where she is currently working on the product strategy for Mailiam.de – a secure email service for Mac and iOS. Prior to this she founded AirMarkr, a mobile app that lets you draw in the air. It was named one of the hottest startups in Germany by LeWeb, and The Next Web. Miho has won multiple awards as a digital concepter and UI/UX person, working for major clients such as Vodafone, MINI, and Sony-Playstation. She continues to share her passion for AR & VR as co-organiser of München Mixed realitz Meetup.

Peter Isackson has worked in France for over 30 years as a consultant, trainer, coach and trainer of trainers. A prolific author, producer and publisher of a wide range of multimedia and e-learning products, he has acquired a reputation as a pioneer in the use of new technology in training, collaborating with multiple publishers in Europe and the US. He has authored programs on sales techniques, foreign languages, intercultural skills, team management and sustainable development. He is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of SkillScaper, proposing next generation authoring tools, methods and content for learning in a Web 2.0 context. In 1995 Peter Isackson was a member of the steering committee that founded Online Educa Berlin. He is an expert with the European Commission in the area of TEL (technology enhanced learning).

Brian Mulligan is a Civil Engineer who originally worked in mathematical modelling and simulation and the application of information technology in engineering. He is currently on secondment as a Programme Manager responsible for online learning development in the Centre for Online Learning at the Institute of Technology Sligo where he has lectured since 1984. He has been the key driver in the rapid growth in online learning in IT Sligo since 2002 and significantly involved in the growth of e-learning in Ireland since 1999, organising the EdTech series of conferences since 2000 and as a founding member of the Irish Learning Technology Association in 2002. His main areas of expertise are now in web-casting, webinar management, synchronous online training, instructor-led online training, lecture capture, open education (MOOCs and OER) and the rapid development of online content. He currently is the leader of the Erasmus+ funded LoCoMoTion project on low-cost MOOC development.

Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary to Germany with extensive experience in international trade, European affairs, and diplomatic negotiations.

Martin Henrick Andresen is a Project Manager and mLearning Specialist at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway’s largest business school. With a business-development background from media, Andresen was challenged to use technology to disrupt existing methods of teaching. Andresen has explored the opportunities in mobile micro learning in the higher education industry. Learn more about microlearning from Martin Henrik Andresen.