Matt Kurtin
Matt Kurtin, Innovative Learning Group’s senior director of technology and visual design, provides leadership for ILG’s programmers, animators, and graphic designers who make every learning solution more robust.
His deep understanding of technologies connects ILG’s project teams to creative, innovative ideas for truly interactive, engaging client learning experiences. Matt is consultative with clients and consistently applies the latest advances in digital capability with practical application in learning.
Recognized throughout the industry for his technology leadership — and has been named a Learning! Champion Thought Leader by Elearning! magazine — Matt is in constant demand to share his knowledge. For nearly 30 years, he has advised client organizations on their overall technology strategy for learning and performance improvement. Matt provides insight into leading best practices for use of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, gamification, serious games, learning portals, and learning management systems. Matt is also proficient in Unity, C#, HTML, JavaScript, Articulate, and Captivate, and he has led the authoring of thousands of e-learning courses.
Matt’s team supports the programming of courses that have been translated in more than 20 languages and provides integration services for courses deployed to numerous SCORM/AICC/xAPI compliant learning management systems and many proprietary management systems. In a nutshell, Matt makes everything work seamlessly.
In 2021, Matt was recognized as one of Michigan’s Most Valuable Professionals by Corp! magazine. In 2022, he received a VR developer certificate demonstrating proficiency in the use of the Unity engine, based on experience working on several VR projects.
Matt is a member of The Learning Guild and is a frequent speaker at this and other national and local professional associations. He has presented at the Detroit, Central Ohio, and Greater Cincinnati chapters of the Association for Talent Development (ATD), ATD TechKnowledge, Realities360, the Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase, the Association for GXP Excellence Conference, FocusOn Learning, DevLearn, the Online Learning Conference, and the Central Indiana ATD Learning Summit. Additionally, he is the co-host of ILG’s podcast series “LT2: Let’s Talk Learning Technology” and is a published author, with articles appearing in Training Industry.
Matt has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
