Debbie Richards is President of Creative Interactive Ideas, a firm that specializes in creating engaging and effective immersive learning experiences for businesses and organizations. Debbie Richards is also a Learning Guild Master, a prestigious title that recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the learning and development community. Debbie is the past president of the ATD Houston chapter and a past National Advisor for Chapters. Debbie is a director at L&D Cares.

JD Dillon is a veteran talent development leader, internationally respected speaker, digital workplace strategist and author of The Modern Learning Ecosystem. He became a learning and performance expert over 20 years working with companies like Disney, Kaplan and AMC Entertainment. Today, JD continues to apply his passion for helping people do their best work every day in his roles as Axonify's Chief Learning Officer and founder of LearnGeek, an insights and advisory practice.

Marek has been delivering services to the L&D industry since 1999. He has cooperated with more than 100 companies being responsible for design of learning strategies, development of learning environments, instructional design. As a Thought Leader he works with network of people involved in innovative initiatives in L&D space of Accenture. He is the author of 4 books – his recent one, published by ATD, discusses Moments that Matter in the learning space. Since 2021 he has been engaged in design and development of soft-skills VR training.

Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data, and ultimately performance. Megan has more than 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment, and consulting. Megan is the author of Data & Analytics for Instructional Designers, Agile for Instructional Designers, and 2 TD@Work publications.

Vince Han is the founder and CEO of Mobile Coach and a frequent speaker at conferences such as Training Conference, DevLearn, Learning Solutions, Masie’s Learning Conference, ATD ICE, ATD Techknowledge and others. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Vince is an industry thought-leader for learning and learning technology with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and chatbot technology. Vince has founded several successful technology companies and resides in Utah.

Katsura Ito has 30 years plus experience in Enterprise IT/Software Industry in various roles such as Systems Engineer, Marketing and Business Management. Her strong passion goes to how to transform legacy Japanese company/organization through Digital Transformation and diversity of the talent and has served as Chief Learning Officer in Microsoft Japan. In 2022, Katsura has been appointed as a Commissioner of National Personnel Authority (NPA) by Japanese Cabinet. Where she focuses on transformation of Government Officials through Digital skilling, Diversity and Work Style Innovation.

Gary Lipkowitz is the CEO for Vyond. Over the past 12 years he has crafted the company’s strategy and guided its growth. Prior to Vyond Gary was the COO for Wego.com, a leading travel search engine serving the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Gary also worked in feature film development for Mediacorp Raintree Pictures, and as a strategy consultant for Yahoo! Southeast Asia and MTV Asia. Before moving to Asia, Gary was an award-winning corporate television writer/producer in Chicago and Austin.

I leverage over 25 years of progressive experience in global roles to articulate and refine learning & development strategies. To ensure the success of my proposals, I partner with executive teams and cross-functional stakeholders, building coalitions around innovative approaches. A passion for continuous improvement leads me to embrace cutting-edge tools and methods.

Koko Nakahara is Talent Development consultant in Yokohama, Japan. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field. early 2002, she incorporated the company Instructional Design Inc. in Japan, based upon her career in developing training and performance management solutions for leading companies including Citibank and Microsoft, and her professional commitment to advancing this field of expertise to meet the critical needs of Japanese companies to develop and manage their strategic HRD.

Paul is passionate about helping leaders connect purpose, passion, and performance. He brings with him 20+ years of Organizational Development experience from various domestic and global organizations. In his work with all leadership levels, pre-supervisory all the way up to C-Suites, he helps leaders achieve individual and organizational success WITH people, not through people.

Manager at Talent Development and Learning practice based in Warsaw. 6+ years of business and consulting experience in the L&D area. Expert in digital learning technologies, instructional design, training content development and change management. Leading the team researching cutting-edge learning technologies focusing on the authoring tools and learning platforms. Recently engaged in managing the content development team delivering services in the soft-skills VR training space.

Jennifer Homer is the Vice President of Content and Communications for the Association for Talent Development (ATD), a global association serving learning and talent development professionals. In this role, Jennifer leads multiple functions including communications, governance, research, and the association’s awards and recognition programs. She also works closely with ATD’s content team and the ATD Certification Institute’s credentialing programs. Jennifer has been with the association for 24 years having started at (then) ASTD to lead its public relations work.
She holds the Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) credential from the International Association for Business Communicators (IABC), for which she served on the international executive board and was president of IABC’s Washington, DC chapter. Previously a professor of PR Writing at Towson University, she is currently studying Organizational Leadership and Learning at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

Takehiko Tanabe has been involved in e-learning in general for more than a quarter of a century since the dawn of e-learning in Japan. Starting with the launch of Japan's first paid e-learning service for B to C, Takehiko has been involved in numerous e-learning projects. In recent years, as a digital learning evangelist, Takehiko has focused on enlightening the latest learning technologies and providing learning experience platforms.

Takehiko is a board member of ATD Member Network Japan and the member of the LDX study group in 2022.

Matt Kutz, Ph.D. is a Clinical Professor at Florida International University. He is an award-winning author, award-winning educator, and award-winning researcher. Matt earned his Ph.D. in Global Leadership, has written five books and been a featured guest on TV, podcasts, and radio (when that was a thing), and appeared on HGTV’s House Hunter’s International. He is a TEDx Speaker, and consults with Fortune 500 and multinational corporations on leadership development and Contextual Intelligence

Susan Fowler is the bestselling author of six books, including her latest, Why Motivating People Doesn't Work ... And What Does and Master Your Motivation. She is CEO of Mojo Moments, Inc., a global network delivering cutting-edge and empirically sound leadership development solutions. Susan is a senior consulting partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, lead developer of their Self Leadership product line, and co-author of three books with Ken Blanchard.

Experienced talent development professional in the pharmaceutical sector. Current head of learning at Novartis Pharma Japan. Before joining the corporate sector, worked in the public sector for the British Council, leading on numerous projects to promote increased exchange between Japan and the UK in the field of Higher Education. Driven by the purpose of supporting others in realizing their full potential.

Nobuaki Shimamura is a Chief Researcher at Recruit Management Solutions, a leading training firm in Japan. He has more than 30 years of experience in research and development in the L&D field in Japan and has led many program development and large scale projects for clients. He has published translations of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development (1998) and Adult Learning Basics (ATD Training Basics).

Jason Durkee is president of Tokyo-based workplace learning and performance consulting firm Idea Development and a director of ATD Japan. Since the ’90s, he's designed and delivered cross-cultural awareness, innovation, and communication development programs to more than 40,000 participants in Asia. Idea Development is a recognized leader in learning transfer, dynamic training design, and effective use of technology in Japan. Durkee regularly speaks at T&D-related events in Asia and has published several books on business communication.

Ryota Kurihara has been supporting corporate human resource development for more than 20 years, mainly through the implementation of LMS. Ryota Kurihara has experience from platform to delivery, including training planning, operations, and content planning and development. Kurihara is also the director of Secretariat of ATD Member Network Japan, a member of the Learning Dx Study Group, and a board member of the Talent Ecosystem Consortium.

Masayuki Imamura has been responsible for HRM/HRD for over 30 years. Masayuki has expertise in human resource development, organizational development, and people analytics. People Analytics Specialist (Certified by Academy to Innovative HR). Speaker at ATD 2018 Asia Pacific conference.

Masayuki is a board member of ATD Member Network Japan in 2022.

Hiromi Nohara has been working with corporate clients for their transformation in various situations, more than 15 years. Working closely with multinational clients to design their organizational change strategy, capability development system and training program. Organizational structure design, governance policy updates, digital capability and competency assessment, digital capability development initiative design, organizational culture change, and workstyle transformation have been focus areas these years.

Hiromi is the Chair of ATD Member Network Japan in 2022.