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Chris Kocher is a dynamic solutions strategist who masterfully bridges the worlds of education and enterprise technology. As a Senior Solutions Architect at MadCap Xyleme, he leverages over two decades of experience as a professional educator and instructional coach to transform complex technical concepts into actionable, relatable solutions for organizations seeking to revolutionize their learning ecosystems. Drawing from his extensive background in education and technology, Chris excels at fostering consultative partnerships that transcend traditional vendor relationships. His approach combines deep technical expertise with an educator's insight, enabling him to guide enterprises through their content transformation journeys with clarity and purpose. As a regular presenter at industry events, including the Xyleme Customer Summit and related webinars, Chris contributes to the conversations around scalable, engaging, and personalized enterprise learning solutions. In his role at MadCap Xyleme, Chris collaborates with diverse organizations across multiple verticals, architecting solutions that address complex content challenges while ensuring alignment with each client's unique vision and objectives. His distinctive blend of educational acumen and technical proficiency makes him particularly adept at helping organizations reimagine their approach to enterprise learning and content strategy. 

Chris Kocher 

Join MadCap Software's Xyleme expert, Chris Kocher, senior solutions architect, as he demonstrates the seamless integration of personalized content into your workflow. Discover how this innovative approach elevates learning experiences by efficiently tracking and managing complete courses, documents, and individual components for valuable insights. Gain unparalleled control over content management with exceptional granularity, versioning, and tracking capabilities, empowering your team to access the most relevant information.
During this event you will learn:

Effective strategies to deliver content through omni-channel publications for timely access.
Insights on efficiently tracking and delivering various types of content while gathering detailed analytics for improved understanding.
Knowledge to maintain full control over content management by utilizing versioning and tracking features to ensure up-to-date and relevant information for your team.  


DEMO: Unlocking Productivity: Streamlining Learning in the Flow of Work

What is Demo Day?

This free, half-day event offers you the opportunity to see live demos from five leading learning tech solutions. Each 30-minute demo allows you to see the solution in action, ask questions, and request additional information. Selecting new technologies for your organization is a tough decision and a big investment. Let ATD Demo Day help you learn about the benefits of a variety of options at once.

Who is it for?
Anyone who is currently searching for innovative solutions, interested in transforming their L&D workflow with generative AI, or scaling and automating enterprise training programs.

Demo Day Agenda: (All times below are Eastern Standard Time)

11:55-12:00 pm  ATD Introduction & Welcome:
12:00-12:30 pm  Use Generative AI to Multiply Talent Management’s Impact (Strategy AI)
12:45-1:15 pm    How Siemens Healthineers Automates Instructor-Led Training (Administrate)
1:30-2:00 pm      Content Chaos Cripples AI: Level Up Your Content IQ Now (Xyleme)
2:15-2:45 pm      “Boost!” Sales with Comprehensive Online Learning (Porter Henry)

Session Descriptions:
 
 
12:00-12:30 pm
Use Generative AI to Multiply Talent Management’s Impact
Strategy AI is an industry-leading artificial intelligence platform that empowers talent management teams with private, secure, and powerful AI tools to deliver personalized training to employees within their daily workflow. Discover how to leverage AI to dramatically enhance the value delivered by your team.
Join this session to:

Learn how to use generative AI to deliver a superior learning experience.
Explore how AI can transform the L&D process, freeing up 75% of your time.
Understand how you can deliver AI in the normal flow of work: via Workday, SharePoint, etc.


Speaker: Andrew Leong-Fern, Founder and CEO, Strategy AI
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12:45-1:15 pm
How Siemens Healthineers Automates Instructor-Led Training
Instructor-led training is far more difficult to manage than elearning. You have to manage special equipment, facilities, instructors, staff, and more. Siemens Healthineers uses Administrate to automate instructor-led training across their global training network. In this demo, John Peebles, Administrate CEO shows you exactly how this works and demos powerful automations.
During this session you will:

Understand how Siemens Healthineers automated training management.
Learn the real ROI for automating training management.
Discover why an LMS can’t deliver this sort of automation.


Speaker: John Peebles, CEO, Admininstrate
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1:30-2:00 pm
Content Chaos Cripples AI: Level Up Your Content IQ Now
Is your content ready for AI? AI’s potential to boost efficiency and productivity is portrayed as a silver bullet for content teams. What is getting lost in all the hype is the realization that to fully harness the power of AI, organizations must wrangle their content chaos. Leaving content unstructured and inconsistent only causes further chaos that cripples AI systems. Mitigate the risk of AI hallucination—AI is only as smart as your content!
Join this session to:

Learn how content components can enable AI to curate targeted content for your audiences at the right time and place.
Evaluate ways to retain full governance, versioning, and tracking capabilities to make your content AI-ready.
Uncover AI processes of generation, retrieval, analysis, and assistance centered around learning content.

Speakers: Chris Kocher, Senior Solutions Architect, Xyleme and Kathy Bernardino, Enterprise Account Executive, Xyleme
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2:15-2:45 p.m.
“Boost!” Sales with Comprehensive Online Learning
Everyone is exploring options for online blended learning these days. How do you make this purchase decision confidently and mitigate the risks of online training? This session will explore and pros and cons of blended learning and preview SalesAbility “Boost!”, a new sales training program for sales newbies and veterans alike. “Boost!” is based on years of validated customer research with over 70 top global sales organizations and, unlike many other programs, is easy and straightforward to administer.
Join this session to:

Discover why simpler yet comprehensive online sales training is the best option.
Explore why selling your solution’s “total value” outweighs traditional product benefits training.
Identify how and why cost-effective “Boost!” training is supported by Sales and Coaching Playbooks.


Speaker: Will Voelkel, Senior Sales Consultant, Porter Henry & Company, Inc.
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ATD DEMO DAY: Emerging Technologies in L&D

When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, it turned the mobile world on its head. It eliminated the physical keyboard, untethered the internet, democratized photography, and let you pick the apps. Why was this so genius? Because they didn’t just iterate on the mobile device concept; they gave you an “everything machine.” They weren’t selling functions; they were providing possibilities. The iPhone wasn’t a contented improvement over existing technology; it was a reimagining of what’s possible. Before the iPhone hit the market, the device-du-jour was arguably the Motorola Razr. Its slim, dark lines screamed coolness when opened one-handed. But you simply had a Razr. Just like everyone else. And 4-4-3-3-5-5-5-5-5-5-6-6-6 just spelled "hello." The iPhone destroyed that overnight. You made the iPhone what you wanted it to be. You took your own photos and made them backgrounds. You installed and used the apps of your choice. You defined the device instead of it defining you. So, why this trip into digital nostalgia? Because we are again at a time when the scales are about to tip and the world shifts. Artificial intelligence (AI)—call them bots, enhancements, or features—is showing up in nearly every piece of software. Even my browser now tries to predict and write for me. (Don’t fret; a real-breathing human wrote this piece.) Likewise, the learning and development space is seeing a rising tide of features like content generation, tone analysis, writing improvements, question creation, and more. While these remarkable functions make designers’ work easier and more efficient, I would argue they are the “default apps” of our day. Put another way, they are akin to the “Snake” game on my original Razr. Before your hackles flare, let me clarify. I loved that Snake game. I spent more hours chasing apples than I care to confess because the app was simple and fun and provided exactly what it was designed to do—just like the AI features showing up in our software. There is unquestionably a desire and necessity for features and functions like these. Sometimes you just need an easy button; sometimes generating 10 questions is the perfect starting place. But what happens when information technology approves a different LLM than the one leveraged in your software? What happens when the generated content is only marginally helpful? What happens when your security team questions the data privacy behind the provided features? These questions drive me to beg for possibilities instead of just features. Because we deal in proprietary content in the corporate learning space, and the need for security, governance, and accountability are paramount, we cannot be satisfied with only single-function, pre-defined solutions. Nor can we continue with right-conscious to secretly copy/paste into the LLM of our preference before the cobra-like questions above rear their heads. So, what is the solution? A rethinking. A reimagining. By no means am I calling for a replacement of single-function solutions. I love the default apps on my phone. What I’m asking for is that software companies also start thinking about possibilities. I appreciate easy buttons, but as an organization, I want to be able to choose and define which AI features show up. I want to bring the services most useful to my team into their workflow. I want to fine tune the results from these tools for a better fit. And I want to choose the LLM that empowers these features. Essentially, I want to determine the best solutions instead of having the software determine them for me. For an example of this type of forward-thinking, look at Xyleme’s Sidekick implementation. It is all about empowering organizations through possibilities. L&D recognizes the value behind personalized learning, and that the best way for someone to improve is to meet their learning needs. That’s all I’m asking for in how we continue the rush of AI implementation. Don’t let your vision be clouded by where we’ve been. Be brave enough to offer possibilities—because the software solution that allows me to choose the AI, determine and meet the needs of my employees, and leverage the services we need, just iterated on the same type of magic that made the iPhone so revolutionary.Now, please excuse me. I must go beat my high score on Snake.

From Features to Possibilities: Why AI in Learning & Development Needs an iPhone Moment

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