Celebrating Charity Learning

Google’s Global Head of Learning Technologies, Sudhir Giri , will open the first Charity Learning Conference & Awards on 15 September, London, with a keynote speech. This exciting new event has been designed to both celebrate Charity Learning and inspire members of the Consortium in the invaluable work that they do.

Understanding how learners and ‘teachers’ interact is critical to the successful use of learning technologies says Sudhir Giri, the global head of learning technologies at Google. He’ll be talking about how Google enables a learning ‘ecosystem’ in his keynote speech at the first Charity Learning Conference on 15 September, London.

Sudhir has been using Google technologies to support the learning needs of the more than 20,000 employees, or ‘Googlers’, around the world in the famously non-hierarchical company.

Martin Baker, founder and CEO of the Charity Learning Consortium, said he was looking forward to welcoming Sudhir to open the Conference: “Our members said they would like to hear some good corporate examples of innovative L&D which they could emulate, and so we are thrilled that Sudhir could share his knowledge with us in this way.

“Google is one of the most admired companies in the world, renowned for its creativity and innovation, growing rapidly to the worldwide phenomena that it is today, so it’s a great way to start our first conference!”
The 1st Charity Learning Conference & Awards has been designed to both celebrate L&D in the Third Sector and inspire members of the Consortium in the invaluable work that they do.

The exciting conference line-up includes a workshop with creativity and innovation specialist Nigel Paine and the event is being steered by renowned eLearning expert Clive Shepherd as the chairman. Laura Overton, the MD of Towards Maturity, will be leading an interactive discussion and revealing early highlights of her latest study into the effective use of learning technologies. While Iain Napier, BT’s Learning Technology Consultant, will be talking about BT's dare2share initiative, the successful 'How To' video forum used within the company – he’ll be suggesting ways to engage employees using both social learning and technology.

The Conference & Awards on 15 September, London is a complimentary event exclusively for the 100 charities which are members of the Consortium - but if you work within a charity or not-for-profit L&D team, are interested to find out more about the work of the Consortium and would like to be invited to the Conference, then do please get in touch by emailing gallan@charitylearning.org