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Abbazia dell'Annunziata, Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio, 16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy

Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com

17th October 2008

Giunti Labs presents, at two major US conferences, its new Online and Mobile learning content management solutions.

Leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, Giunti Labs, is playing a key role in this year's 'Learning 2008' conference, being held in Orlando, Florida, from 26th to 29th October. The event - which has attracted over 1,600 delegates - is organised by the corporate learning think tank, The Masie Center, and chaired by Elliott Masie, an internationally recognised futurist, analyst, researcher and humorist on technology, business, learning and workplace productivity.

At Learning 2008, Giunti Labs - via Bryan Eldridge, Chief Solutions Architect of Giunti Labs North America and Michael Wallace, Area Manager, Giunti Labs North America - will be moderating two sessions at the conference: 'A comprehensive mobile learning strategy for your organisation' and 'Better business objectives for enterprise learning'.

"We will be discussing how translating business objectives, such as increased revenues, process improvements, enhanced client relations and competitive advantage, into the learning organisation vernacular can provides a baseline of accepted approaches and a framework with which to measure learning outcomes," said Eldridge.

Wallace added: "Nearly every organisation sees the potential in using mobile devices for their learners yet many questions and concerns are keeping some of them stuck at the starting gate. These questions include, 'will my learners accept learning content on a mobile device?', 'What types of learning are best suited for mobile delivery?', 'Will I be able to track mobile learning on my LMS?' and 'Will I have to recreate existing content so that it can be displayed on a mobile device?'.

"This session will cover these questions and more as part of a discussion on identifying the key elements for creating a mobile learning strategy for organizations."

Simultaneously, Giunti Labs' CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is giving a keynote presentation at the NACOL Virtual School Symposium (VSS), being held in Phoenix, Arizona, on 27th October. This event, being held on 27th and 28th October, brings together over 800 representatives from national, state, district, private and other virtual school programmes to attend the industry's leading event in K-12 online learning.

Cardinali, who is also joint-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), a group which encompasses all major European Union (EU) stakeholders in the learning industry innovation cycle, is addressing 'Innovating e-learning for the knowledge society - global challenges, threats and opportunities'.

According to Cardinali, the EU faces many of the same challenges that are also facing the United States.

In his presentation, he will offer an overview of the future of learning and how the EU is approaching educational strategies in dealing with globalisation and a knowledge-based economy. Specifically, he will discuss new trends in digital learning resources, from online content to embedded assessment, as well as new delivery models through online learning distribution systems.

For further details of Cardinali's keynote presentation visit:

http://www.virtualschoolsymposium.org/speakers.php

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About Giunti Labs

Giunti is unique in the international publishing industry.

In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, together with others in Venice, began modern book manufacturing. Over the years Giunti has built a 'historical catalogue' of huge dimensions, through a gradual process of 'fusion' of different publishers, but also through the creation of new brands, including Giunti Labs. Giunti Editore now includes 20 companies in the publishing sector.

Giunti Labs, which has its global headquarters in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden) and in Boston (US), provides a wide range of services, in response to any content, learning and knowledge management need, covering:

• Content production

• Research and development

• Technological solutions for content, learning & knowledge management

• Architectural and technological solutions for mobile & wireless

• Training and consulting

Giunti Labs provides the learn eXact® suite, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology. This suite is interoperable with all major vendor-driven and open source LMS and VLE solutions in the market including Plateau, Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, LRN and Moodle.

Moreover, Giunti Labs does not just adhere to the international standards relating to the LMS/LCMS world, it is one of the organisations that helps to determine and drive these standards: co-writing and developing them. Giunti Labs plays a key role in most of the international institutions for the definition of eLearning specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI).

Further information from:

Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405