CERTPOINT Systems forecasts the future of mobile and social learning

Roslyn, NY. January 10, 2013. Mobile and social are no longer a bolt on to learning strategy – they are becoming the main learning channels in today’s workplace. Award-winning global learning technologies innovator, CERTPOINT Systems will explore the challenges of the new business and new learning landscape in a series of seminars at this year’s Learning Technologies Conference, Europe’s leading L&D forum.

Ara Ohanian, CERTPOINT Systems Chief Happiness Officer and CEO and his team will also showcase their Learning Management System CERTPOINTVLS8.0(TM) which landed Gold in Brandon Hall Group’s 2012 Excellence in Technologies Awards along with mobile sales enablement platform K-Tango – noted as “one to watch” in Chief Learning Officer magazine.

The Learning Technologies Conference sees sponsor CERTPOINT Systems continue its tradition of showcasing innovative clients. Following a succession of leadership presentations from L’Oréal, Toyota, Stanley Black & Decker, Techtronic Industries, for 2013 CERTPOINT Systems invites America’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants, SONIC, to share its success in mobile learning. SONIC has over 3,500 drive-ins coast to coast and serves approximately three million customers every day.

Comments Ara Ohanian, Chief Happiness Officer and CEO CERTPOINT Systems, “2013 is a tipping point for the learning and development industry led by rapid changes in technologies. There are great opportunities to be seized to prove the business impact of learning. In our fast-changing world Learning and Technologies is a perfect platform to share innovation, best practice and creative solutions. It’s a great show to be part of.”

Seminars include:

Six L&D Challenges for 2013
Ara Ohanian CERTPOINT Systems Chief Happiness Officer and CEO navigates the challenges of the new business world as 21st century technologies change the way we think and learn. Ara identifies six steps to prove L&D business impact and propel L&D to its seat at the C-suite. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/2013-fs-d1t1-1230/

Venue: Theatre 1

Moving to mobile for learning and performance.
Maria van Vlodrop, CERTPOINT Systems General Manager EMEA, joins Donald Taylor, Learning Technologies Chairman, and Stephany Wilson of US fast food chain SONIC to examine how SONIC has deployed mobile to provide learning, information and performance support to its franchises nationwide. They offer practical steps on how to get content right, how to maximise user experience across devices and how to gain executive support. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/2013-fs-d2t1-1230/

Venue: Theatre 1

Mobile performance support: How smart mobility puts knowledge at your fingertips.
Stephany Wilson, E-Learning Manager, SONIC, America’s largest chain of drive-ins, shares her experience in providing information and performance support across a nationwide franchise and explains steps recently taken to provide managers with time sensitive product and brand information. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/2013-t2s3/

Venue: Conference hall

CERTPOINT Systems will be hosting stand 7 at the show, with live demonstrations of the award-winning LMS CERTPOINTVLS8.0, and mobile sales enhancement platform K-Tango.

About The Learning Technologies Conference
For over a decade, Learning Technologies (now in association with Learning and Skills) has been Europe’s leading conference for organisational learning and the technology used to support learning at work.
http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/conference/

About CERTPOINT Systems Inc
CERTPOINT Systems is an award-winning global learning technologies Innovator. Its all-in-one learning management systems are used by more than 1,200 organizations in 80+ countries and 40+ languages to manage performance, deliver knowledge and track business results.

Global leaders such as L’Oréal, Toyota, Honda and Stanley Black & Decker partner with CERTPOINT to arm employees and partners with the business-led knowledge they need to win and retain customers. The SaaS-based CERTPOINTVLS(TM) platform is multilingual and integrates authoring, reporting, mobile delivery and social collaboration tools into a single LMS and LCMS solution. It quickly drives productivity across the extended enterprise and deep into sales and service channels. CERTPOINTVLS is easy to use, rapid to deploy and cost effective.

Founded in 1996, CERTPOINT Systems has consistently developed and evolved the CERTPOINTVLS platform to provide clients with cutting-edge tools that incorporate the most recent developments in the rapidly changing online learning environment. Please visit the company at http://www.certpointsystems.com.

Please contact:
Sarah Hazell
sarah.hazell(at)hotmail(dot)com
+ 44 7900 227 200

Cathryn McCarthy
cmccarthy(at)certpointsystems(dot)com
+ 516. 390. 8800 x 221