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Most associations don’t have a technology problem; they have a “none of it talks to each other” problem. Moira Edwards, President of Ellipsis Partners and Chair of the ASAE Technology Council, has spent years helping association leaders decide which tech headaches are worth fixing. She tells Tejas Pitkar how to get a stack working as one, now that AI is changing what members expect.
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Tech stackAssociationsMost associations don’t have a technology problem; they have a “none of it talks to each other” problem. Moira Edwards, President of Ellipsis Partners and Chair of the ASAE Technology Council, has spent years helping association leaders decide which tech headaches are worth fixing. She tells Tejas Pitkar how to get a stack working as one, now that AI is changing what members expect.
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AI and membersAssociationsErica Salm Rench was using AI to personalize association email before ChatGPT existed. Now CMO at Sidecar, the AI education company for associations, she tells Tejas Pitkar where associations are getting real value from AI, what holds others back, and why the members they serve are now being courted by influencers, YouTube and AI search.
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Digital learningAssociationsChristi Jones was an IAAP member before she joined its staff: a leadership course she found after a performance review changed her career. Now Programs Manager at the International Association of Administrative Professionals, she tells Tejas Pitkar how IAAP moved textbooks and in-person training into digital formats, what keeps a global membership engaged, and how it is teaching admins to work with AI.
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Learning scienceLearning & developmentAmy Duvernet is an industrial-organizational psychologist and VP of Learning at Training Industry. She tells Tejas Pitkar why the 70-20-10 model shouldn’t be taken literally, how any L&D team can measure impact beyond smile sheets, what skills keep learning professionals relevant, and the one thing most training rollouts forget: marketing.
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StakeholdersLearning & developmentCaner Akova went from teaching language at the University of Toronto into learning and development, and found the two had less in common than he expected. Now at Olympus EMEA, he tells Tejas Pitkar why L&D gets cast as an order-taker, how to talk to finance and HR in their own terms, and why relationships, not better slides, close the stakeholder gap.
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Security industryLearning & developmentMary O’Sullivan spent a decade in higher education before realizing much of it had been security work. Now Learning and Development Manager at PSA Security Network, she runs PSA University, more than 200 free courses for the network’s integrators, and tells Tejas Pitkar what learners actually use, how she builds courses with AI, and why “fully baked” is a red flag.
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Training analyticsLearning & developmentTom Whelan is an industrial-organizational psychologist and Director of Corporate Research at Training Industry, where he watches the whole training market. He tells Tejas Pitkar why “analytics” has to mean several things for several audiences, how few organizations follow the evaluation models they praise, where microlearning works, and how to define ROI the way each stakeholder does.
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Customer storyLearning & developmentJed Collins left the NFL as a certified financial planner determined to teach teenagers the language of money. Money Vehicle now delivers financial literacy to schools nationwide as an interactive textbook through KITABOO. Jed and his VP of Operations tell Tejas Pitkar how they went from one classroom to thousands of students per school without adding work, and how AI will take the curriculum into new languages.
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Training ROILearning & developmentSomya Dwivedi Burks works where learning design meets performance and employee experience. She tells Tejas Pitkar why most new content shouldn’t be made, why learning belongs inside the tools people already work in, how to tell AI augmentation from automation, and the four questions every L&D initiative has to answer to win leadership buy-in.
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AI in trainingLearning & developmentJenessa Jacobs trained in dance, became a medical coder, and fell into L&D when she wrote the manuals that got Medicare claims approved. Now VP of development and growth strategy at Aspen Sales and an author, she tells Tejas Pitkar how to blend digital and traditional training, build learning into the work itself, and use AI as an extra member of a lean team.
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AI in trainingLearning & developmentJames Robles is a fifth-generation educator: he taught English in China and special education before choosing L&D on purpose. Now a training and enablement specialist at HID, he tells Tejas Pitkar how to pick between online and in-person training, build career ladders people believe in, design content like Lego, and pilot AI without compromising your values or your data.
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Run the KITABOO B from print to digital. Dodge anything red: print stacks, flat PDFs, pirates, audit barriers and 404 gaps. Grab anything that glows green: pages, and the KITABOO product that clears each obstacle. Can you last two minutes?
Space or tap to jump, again in the air to double jump
Turns print stacks into eBooks
Makes flat PDFs interactive
KITABOO DRM
Blocks one hit. Every run starts with one
WCAG 2.2 AA
Lifts audit barriers and ramps 404 gaps
Jumps every obstacle for you
Slows the run to a read-along pace
Five modules earn a certificate
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