Jill Thompson’s Post

🎉A huge thank you to all IExpE Fellows and Past Presidents who attended our recent Dynamite Dinner.💥 We hope everyone enjoyed the enlightening discussions, valuable networking, and insights from our industry experts. 🔥 Save the date for the Dynamite Dinner 2024 which will take place on the 17th September 2024 at The Voco, Reading! #DynamiteDinner #NetworkingNights #ExplosiveInsights 🚀

🛫 Once again, it's time to board the plane! Next week, Alejandro Cimas and I will be heading to California 🌉 for an exciting road trip 🚗. We'll be in San Francisco and the Bay Area, and Los Angeles, visiting clients and some prospects 💼. 🎯 Our goal? To check in on how they're doing and hear their goals for 2024. In particular, what their expectations are from the market in 2024. We've noticed businesses reinvesting in product development - have they seen the same trend? This trip is also a fantastic opportunity to strengthen and expand our relationships. In addition to discussing current challenges and pains, we'll be excited to share what's new at Qualabs. They all know about our dedicated-teams. Ever heard about our engineering teams pools? Curious about our Labs and how we've expanded in 6 different engineering disciplines?💡 🚀 I'm thrilled about another journey with Ale. We're likely to share over 15 hours of driving in a week, which means plenty of time for discussions, reflections, and creativity. Watch out, Sales Plan 2024! On Saturday 10th, I'll be off to Denver 🏔️ to join Nicolás Levy for another year at Mile-High Video and SVTA Segments - two incredibly complementary conferences. 🎥🔬 Mile-High Video (MHV) focuses on academic production and the research of new video processing and distribution technologies. We're proud to sponsor MHV again, supporting the spread of knowledge in #videotech. I'm sure we'll bring back numerous ideas for our Video R&D Lab! 🧠✨ SVTA Segments is more hands-on, diving into the operational challenges of implementing video streaming technologies. Plus, big news: Nico will be a speaker at Segments, discussing the creation of the #CMCD course available at SVTA University 🎓. The coming weeks will be long, filled with meetings, content, and so much to learn. But most importantly, they will be weeks full of colleagues and friends who share our passion for this fascinating industry. 🤗 See you soon!

You have the fuel and fire-in-the belly: Where do you want to deploy it--Corporate markets or Startup market? Where do you get good returns for your talent fuel? .....and for many more questions like these...

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Just wanted to give you a friendly nudge and remind you to book your Blaupunkt meeting for CES in from 09.-12. January 2024 in LVCC Central Plaza, booth CP-22. Trust me, it's an event you don't want to miss if you're eager to learn about the fantastic Blaupunkt licensing opportunities. CES is the place where cutting-edge technology and innovation come alive, and it's the perfect platform to explore our licensing program. We have some exciting plans lined up, and setting up your meeting with us could potentially open doors to incredible business prospects. So, mark your calendar and make sure to secure your spot at CES – because you never know what amazing opportunities might be waiting for you there!   Book your meeting now under the following link (note that you have to set the meeting time to “Pacific Time Zone”): https://lnkd.in/ec3U2Xx7   Can’t wait to see you soon in LV! #ces2024 #licensing #brandlicensing #tradeshow #consumerelectronics #opportunity #businessdevelopment #meeting #blaupunkt

Frank Goergen is definitely your man to talk to at #ces2024 if you're in the #manufacturing business and thinking about #licensing but not sure where to start. I can assure you, when meeting Frank, there will be: ❌ No heavy sales talks at the first meeting, but ✅ A good, no-commitment conversation about available brands to license and what it takes to license them. ✅ And most probably a great coffee (of course, brewed with a Blaupunkt machine). P.S. You should try to book your meeting online with Frank. 👉 https://lnkd.in/ee8nPKDf Why? Because thanks to the tweak I suggested as their marketing consultant, it's smoother than ever, with IT's help! 🌬️😉 #NoPressureJustCoffee

I had a fantastic morning discussing with our customers and their fellow finance leaders. It's always exciting to showcase the innovative work the Kefron team is doing in the Accounts Payable space, leveraging AI to transform financial processes. The discussions were not only fascinating but also invaluable in gaining insights directly from those we serve. #FinanceLeaders #AccountsPayable #AIinFinance #KefronInnovates #CustomerEngagement #AP #AccountsPayableAutomation

There is a lot of scaremongering and flurry flying round the corridors of LinkedIn about generative AI (Chat GPT etc.) and cheating/advantage in assessment that is making me feel a bit matronly about the need to get some balanced messaging out about types of assessment, role of assessment and conduct in examination protocols. Cheating in exams is as old as the examination system itself and there are clear processes and protocols, such as invigilation or proctoring, to ensure this doesn´t happen. In the name of fair representation, I asked Chat GPT 3.5 what it thought about invigilation and proctoring, and it came up with a pretty good answer – check it out! So, the real question is what level of rigor do you want to apply to the conduct of an assessment within your organisation? Is assessment part of a qualitative discovery process, a starting point for talent benchmarking etc. or a quantitative examination? If assessment is a qualitative discovery process that helps you explore and model consensus about the look and shape of talent and team effectiveness within your organisation, then the use of generative AI by your candidates or workforce is nothing more than an augmented learning process to prepare them in navigating the assessment content based on what they have learnt and understand. Consider the exploration of subject matter in a classroom – are students allowed to research the content that they are being asked to understand so they understand it, digest it and then improve their performance based on this understanding? Generative AI is not completing the assessment for you, it acts as a research and learning tool (and if we understood it as such we would be banging the validity-of-the-data-it-is-run-on drum, rather than trashing it) and to some extent an access tool that supports disadvantage, especially where candidates or the workforce do not have access to a parent or colleague who can help them navigate information in the world of learning and work. On the other hand, if assessment is quantitative (1+1 = 2) then it is glaringly obvious, and not worthy of lengthy tabloid journalism, that generative AI can give you the correct answer. In these contexts, we need to be talking about conduct of examination processes, such as invigilation or proctoring, as stronger verification methods will need to placed around your candidates and workforce when they take these types of assessment. There is no bogeyman here, and it is certainly not generative AI. Rather, let us calmly educate ourselves about how assessment actually works and then we will understand better the value and risks that generative AI etc. poses. I cover a bunch of points in this webinar with Stephen below. @ Josh Bersin, Bill Boorman, Serge Boudreau, Ward Christman, Larry Cummings, Kennedy Cook, Kathi Enderes, Charles Epstein, Kate Graham, Paul Glover MIRP, Dani Johnson, Hung Lee, Jamie Leonard, Bob Pulver, Chad Sowash, Erin Spencer, William Tincup, Mackenzie Wilson

So many things to do and yet so little time to do it. Who is going to this year embedded world Exhibition&Conference? It would be great to meet you all and network. Just let us know where you are at. Also, what do you think what should not be missed? #embeddedworld2024