Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., is a professor of Instructional Design and Technology at Commonwealth University in Bloomsburg, PA and author of a dozen books on the convergence of learning, technology, games and interactive instruction including the best selling "The Gamification of Learning and Instruction" and the soon to be released "Action-First Learning: Instructional Design Techniques to Engage and Inspire."

Karl writes a popular LinkedIn Newsletter called "L&D Easter Eggs" and is a frequent international keynote speaker, workshop leader, moderator, and panelist at conferences as well as events for private corporations and universities. He is a TEDx speaker, author of ten LinkedIn Learning Courses, developer of digital and analog learning games, and passionate about action-first learning designs. His current passion projects are his YouTube series called "The Unofficial, Unauthorized History of Learning Games" and his series "How AI Helps L&D Professionals."

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David Metcalf has more than 20 years' experience in the design and research of web-based and mobile technologies converging to enable learning and healthcare.

Dr. Metcalf is Director of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL) at UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training. The team has built mHealth solutions, simulations, games, eLearning, mobile and enterprise IT systems for Google, J&J, VA, U.S. military and UCF's College of Medicine among others. Recent projects include Lake Nona’s Intelligent Home prototype and SignificantTechnology, a mobile-enabled online degree and eResource kit.

Dr. Metcalf encourages spinoffs from the lab as part of the innovation process and has launched Moving Knowledge and several other for-profit and nonprofit ventures as examples. In addition to research and commercial investments, he supports social entrepreneurship in education and health.

Dr. Metcalf continues to bridge the gap between corporate learning and simulation techniques and non-profit and social entrepreneurship. Simulation, mobilization, mobile patient records and medical decision support systems, visualization systems, scalability models, secure mobile data communications, gaming, innovation management and operational excellence are current research topics.

Dr. Metcalf frequently presents at industry and research events shaping business strategy and use of technology to improve learning, health and human performance. For more information see http://metil.org. He is the co-editor/author of Connected Health (2017), HIMSS mHealth Innovation (2014) and the HIMSS Books best-seller mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems (2012).

Anders Gronstedt, Ph.D., is president of The Gronstedt Group, which is instrumental in helping some of the world's largest employers, including the U.S. Navy, Walmart, Pfizer, Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Daikin improve performance with their custom-developed multi-player VR simulations and learning games. He is a frequent industry speaker and writer with articles appearing in the Harvard Business Review.