is Vice President On-Line Solutions at eMonitor, a business unit of the Cambridge, MA based strategy consulting Monitor Group. An expert in human and organizational performance, learning and knowledge management he leads technology development at eMonitor. His current work is focused on four related areas:
* Enabling organizational performance by coding leading-edge
business methods into applications that support individual
and organizational performance
* Integrating learning across business processes using web
services, to enable seamless enterprise wide learning
* Applying social technologies such as social tagging and
social search to generate dynamic, user-driven taxonomies, to
provide learning environments that are learner centric
and adaptive
* Applying semantic technologies to learning solutions,
to link learning, knowledge and integration
Steven is currently the chair of WSIL (Web Services in Learning)
a group of leading vendors of learning solutions that is working
together to develop advanced web services solutions that can be
used across enterprises and applications. He also leads an industry-academic
research team KM2 that is developing new methods for modeling
organizational knowledge.
Prior to his current engagements Steven was a founder and the
CTO of Recombo, a leading provider of content integration middleware.
He is also the founder of the contextual advertising company
Qumana (where he remains a director) and the media production
company DNA Media. He was identified by the ASTD’s magazine
Training as one of the emerging leaders of learning in the 21st
century. Steven has been a member of the Canadian Government’s
Sectoral Advisory Group Industry and Trade for the IT and Cultural
industries, a Governor of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and
Design, an Industry Curriculum Advisor for Simon Fraser University
and a director of the Vancouver Knowledge Management Community
of Practice.
is Chief Operations Officer of eMonitor at Monitor, where she provides strategic management and guidance for the creation of online content around Monitor intellectual property. Amelia was previously the Director of Technology and Product Development for Harvard Business School Publishing’s Corporate Learning division. While at Harvard, she founded the revenue generating Customization and Implementation arm of the business and was responsible for significant cost-saving innovations in both XML product development and language translation work. Prior to joining Harvard, Amelia was the Assistant Director for Cornell University’s Office of Distance Learning where she was an instrumental part of creating an award winning world-class distance learning facility and creating the for-profit venture, eCornell, which spun out of the University in 1999. While at Cornell, Amelia launched the first virtual Medical Grand Rounds program and partnered with Microsoft to launch Windows Media Player and create the first use of Windows Media Player in an online learning setting. Amelia currently holds a patent for the Advanced Content Distribution Platform, jointly created with Jonathon Levy, and has a second patent pending for a User Interface Framework — allowing content to be easily displayed and navigated in a user-centric and personalized way.