Carla has been working in the Human Resources field for over two decades, having worked for companies in the Logistics, Insurance, Steel, and Mining sectors. With 18 years of experience at Vale, she now serves as a Learning Leader, with her latest challenge being to reposition the area and support the development of a strong Learning Culture. Carla is a psychologist, from Rio de Janeiro, a Sagittarius, a nature lover, and a mother to Pedro and Gabriel.

The designer and researcher Srishti Sehgal defines herself as a learning nerd. She currently leads the learning design team at NextLeap, in addition to publishing a newsletter called Learning Nerd’s Diary about how to learn and teach better.

For the last 25 years Agustín Couto has been working at the intersection of people and profitable businesses. Proficient in translating business strategy into people development priorities, creating and implementing cutting-edge learning solutions, Agustín has led transformative learning programs for leaders and executives of Fortune 500 companies, boosting organizational effectiveness around the globe. He has founded and led Learning and Development consulting firms, held executive positions at Meta/Facebook and holds a master’s degree in Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University.

With solid experience accumulated in Latin America, Europe, and the USA, Moisés Marques is accustomed to leading teams in complex environments. As an HR executive, he has worked for several multinational companies, such as General Motors, Unilever, Mondelez, Kimberly Clark, Novo Nordisk, and Coca Cola FEMSA.

As the person in charge of Algar’s Cultural Evolution Program since 2016, Thais Pazini sees self-directed, social, and informal learning as a powerful tool for transformation within companies. As an expert in Corporate Culture and Learning Architecture, she argues that both the longevity of organizations and the democratization of knowledge are inseparable from a culture focused on learning.

Rossana is the People Development Manager at Sicredi, where she led the construction and implementation of a Learning Ecosystem. She has been working in the Corporate Learning field for over 10 years, focusing on topics such as talent management, career and succession planning, attraction and recruitment, performance management, and organizational and digital transformation.

With a Marketing degree, Camilla migrated to the Human Resources field in 2013. Since then, she has worked on major T&D projects, such as the construction of Crotonville Rio, the first GE Learning Center in Latin America. With experience in organizations such as Diversey and Vale, she now leads the construction of the Gerdau Leaders Academy.

With over 10 years of experience, Illana Kern is currently the Director of People Attraction and Development for South America at Ambev. She graduated in International Relations and started her career in the organization in 2013, having worked in several units in Brazil. Her greatest professional challenge today is to leverage the group’s capabilities.

Moritz is part of the task force created by the German government to deal with the problem of skills shortage. He is a familiar face at major European corporate events, where he participates as a moderator or speaker. As a co-founder of Forever Day One, Moritz creates cutting-edge learning experiences for companies such as Viessmann, VW, and Hornbach.

Aaron Appleton leads learning design at On Deck for startups programs. Before this Aaron spent the last decade working as a learning designer for several education organizations that are pioneering new forms of learning: ranging from the world’s first game-based learning school in NYC to a startup scaling a network of modern universities across Africa. He is a graduate of Harvard University.

Carol Morita is a lifelong learner on human behavior, besides being a psychologist, coach with a degree from Ecosocial and founder of the podcast “Discover Your Talent”. She has been working with the corporate world for over 18 years as HR in big companies like SulAmérica and Ultragaz. She’s currently leading the development area of C&A.

Energy and determination are the words that most tell Jack Camillo’s story. She is a woman, mother of two beautiful girls who are her inspiration, a black person and 37 years of age. She’s got more than 19 years of experience in HR in People Development and BP in industry, products, services, university, telecommunications and technology.

Marília Senne starter her career in HR transformation projects, experience that she maintained alive acting in corporate areas of people management. For the past two years, she’s been part of the team that leads the journey of culture transformation at Globo, mobilizing and empowering leaders and coworkers to assume the main role in the new culture.

Anamaria Dorgo combined several years of working experience as HR Business Partner and Learning & Development Manager with her passion to build communities. Her work lies at the intersection between learning experience design, communities of practice and self-directed learning. She focuses on designing spaces where like-minded people get together to connect, exchange ideas, collaborate, and learn from each other. She is the Head of Community at Butter and the Founder of L&D Shakers.

Alex Bretas is a writer, speaker and one of the main references of self-directed and lifelong learning in Brazil. After completing a research about new ways of learning and publishing various books on the topic, such as “Informal Doctorate” and “Core Skills”, Alex has been creating digital communities and given talks at events like TEDx, ITA, Museu do Amanhã and others.

Co-founder and learning architect at Offbeat, Lavinia Mehedințu is innovating the way learning and development professionals learn through a professional development acceleration platform and her weekly curation via newsletter, both dedicated to the T&D universe. At the Festival, she brings the new roles of HR and the main trends in T&D.

Christopher Lind is recognized globally as a digital-first leader in workplace learning and technologies. He built a career at the intersection of people performance, business operations and technology. Founder of Learning Sharks, host of the Learning Tech Talks podcast and CLO (Chief Learning Officer) at ChenMed. He is a devoted husband and father of six children.

Nina Bressler believes that continuous learning, leadership that is founded on individual autonomy and curiosity unleashes people, teams, organizations and their potential. The practice of systems thinking and collaboration that she acquired by executing large scale enterprise transformation allows her to build today environments conducive to transformation, where the focus is on people and cultures in complexity. She lives in Prague and is most energized when she can help create opportunities to experiment and evolve.