General Sessions

General Sessions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday beginning at 8:15 a.m. showcasing keynote speakers with important messages for the e-learning practitioner.

	Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is considered one of the top technologists in eLearning and Performance Support. He’s known for his consulting, writing and speaking on these topics and is the author of the eLearningTech blog - named the top eLearning blog for 2007. He has twenty years’ experience leading development of software designed to improve human performance. Dr. Karrer also has eleven years experience as an associate professor of Computer Science. He has been the chief technologist for several start-up companies including eHarmony. He has a broad technical background that ranges from data mining to radar software. His work in eLearning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, and attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science.
	Bob Mosher Bob Mosher joined LearningGuide in November 2006 as Global Chief of Learning Strategy and Evangelism with a leading role in LearningGuide’s international management team. Bob has been an active and influential leader in the learning and training industry for over 23 years and is renowned worldwide for his pioneering role in e-learning and new approaches to learning. Bob joined LearningGuide from Microsoft, where he was Director of Learning Strategy and Evangelism, a global business at Microsoft Corporation featuring innovative learning products that help individuals and organizations learn more and go further using Microsoft technologies. Bob helped guide and communicate the direction of Microsoft Learning’s products both externally to their customers, and internally throughout Microsoft. Before that, Bob was the Executive Director of Education for Element K where he helped direct and influence their learning model and product. He has acted as an influential voice in the IT training industry by speaking at conferences and by being an active participant within industry associations such as CompTIA and ASTD. At one time he also served as the assistant executive director of the Information Technology Training Association (ITTA), now the Technology Learning Group (TLG) of CompTIA. Bob has received two lifetime achievement awards in the IT Training industry. In 1997, Bob received the ITTA's Eddy Award for Excellence, awarded to individuals who exemplify excellence in the IT education industry. And most recently he received the Institute for IT Training’s 2006 Colin Conder award presented to a person who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the IT training industry. He is the co-author of the book Training for Results. Bob also spent five years as a teacher in New York's public schools, and has a master's degree in computer education from Nazareth University in Rochester, NY.
	David Pogue Technology Columnist, New York Times Emmy Award Winning Tech Correspondent, CBS News David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. With 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 30 titles. David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.