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Gabe Zichermann      

Technology Strategist: Employee & Customer Engagement, Tech-Life Balance

Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur, author, public speaker, mentor and teacher. His 3 books and dozens of workshops on Gamification and Behavioral Design have set the standard in teaching how to build for engagement across many industries and countries. Zichermann has co-founded 6 high-tech companies in his career, always at the forefront of emerging technologies such as gaming, artificial intelligence, machine learning and their interface to human behavior. His latest project, Failosophy, looks closely at why people, companies and industries fail, and the lessons from those that have positively leveraged their mistakes to foster a true culture of innovation.

Zichermann is a polyglot and frequent, expert keynoter with a culinary streak. Originally from Canada, he’s visited over 100 countries and counting and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Speech Topics

Gamification and Employee Engagement:

Employees are more distracted than ever due to increased workplace demands and our always-on tech culture. At the same time, organizational technology and processes are designed to assume a “captive” audience of compliant workers when today’s most valuable team members are expected to be highly autonomous, independent and entrepreneurial. Set against this backdrop, smart organizations are using the power of games to bridge the gap between the 20th and 21st century workforce, using gamification and engaging technology to drive learning, teamwork, productivity and recruitment to new heights. In this talk, you’ll learn the secrets of driving sustained employee engagement and how gamification can transform your organization to be ready for the future based on examples, neuroscience and practical data.

Employee Digital Wellness and Productivity in the Distracted Age:

Technology has profoundly improved our lives, while also creating completely new challenges for engagement, productivity and wellness. Modern apps and devices are driving an explosion in addictive and distracting behaviors whose major workplace impacts are starting to be felt across all sectors, and by employees at all career / life stages. Learn the best practices used by leading organizations to give people control back over their distracted brains and improve productivity, satisfaction and happiness. Discover how technology holds the key to both the problem of distraction and its cure and what breakthrough approaches have been successful across industries and the world. Explore the workplace and employee of the future when we’ve achieved techlife balance

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