Build Your Design Thinking Tool Kit

This workshop will walk you into Design Thinking (DT) and prepare you to apply it to your daily practice after you leave. A range of different DT tools will be taught hands-on, and help you to apply them in your learning organization. 

In this session, you will learn:

What Design Thinking is

Mindsets necessary for success

Processes to apply DT

A range of DT tools to apply

Best practices, tips, and tricks to bring DT to practice

How to apply additional tools and practices

About your Facilitator: Mike Hruska

Michael Hruska is a technologist and design thinking (DT) practitioner with experiences spanning across standards, emerging technologies, learning, and science. He is a former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Mike provides technology, business model and innovation solutions to Fortune 500, government and startups. He researches, strategizes, designs, and makes advanced technology solutions and products. His team has built award-winning products and delivered solutions that support millions of users and billions of hits of daily web traffic.

Michael’s experience spans the continuum between advanced research on adaptive learning ecosystems and emerging technology solution/product design in a variety of industries. He is the pioneer of Design Thinking processes and tools for learning ecosystem design and xAPI system instrumentation.

Michael is a member of the e-Learning Guild, the Association for Training and Development (ATD), the Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT), and the National Defense and Industrial Association (NDIA) and regularly presents at industry events internationally.

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Doors Open - 5:30 PM (Networking, Food, etc.)

Program Begins -5:30 PM

Program Ends - 7:30 PM

Door Close - 8:00 Pm