Book Rob Alvarez: Keynote Speaker & Gamification Workshop Leader
Rob Alvarez helps organizations, educators, and event audiences understand what drives real engagement beyond points, badges, and superficial motivation. As Head of Engagement Strategy, Europe at The Octalysis Group and host of Professor Game, he combines strategic consulting, workshop facilitation, and hundreds of expert conversations into sessions that are practical, relevant, and immediately applicable.
He is also an international TEDx speaker, educator, and gamification expert. His public speaking and facilitation work includes institutions and events such as IE Business School, EFMD, Online Educa Berlin, Serious Play, The Case Centre, and Gamification Europe.
- Head of Engagement Strategy, Europe at The Octalysis Group
- Host of Professor Game, the world’s #1 gamification podcast
- TEDx speaker, workshop facilitator, and educator
- Trusted by institutions, conferences, and innovation-focused teams across Europe and beyond
Bring Rob to your event, team, or classroom
If you are looking for a speaker, workshop facilitator, or guest for a panel, podcast, or learning experience, this is the best place to start the conversation.
Rob works with conferences, universities, companies, and innovation-focused teams looking for practical, engaging sessions on gamification, motivation, learning, and behavioral design.
Past talks and appearances
Below is a selection of Rob Alvarez’s previous talks, workshops, conference sessions, panels, and invited appearances across education, gamification, innovation, and learning design.
- Interactive Learning Materials – North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Oct. 2020, Online.
- 5 Steps for a Gamified Learning Experience – Serious Play Conference Jun. 2020, Online.
- Effective Gamification in Executive Education – ProEd Jun. 2020, Online
- Game Not Over: Gamification as a Key to Engagement in Today’s Classroom – Workshop with EFMD Jun. 2020, Online
- The Power of Gamification – The Game Just Started – COVID 19 Global Summit, May 2020 Cairo (Egypt) / Online
- Host of Day 1 at Gamification Europe 2019, Dec. 2019 Berlin (Germany)
- Just-in-time Gamification for Learner Engagement – Online Educa Berlin (OEB) 2019, Berlin (Germany).
- Final Boss: Disinformation – Media Literacy as a Power Up? Nov. 2019, Brussels (Belgium)
- Interactive Cases – North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Oct. 2019, Tempe (Arizona).
- Use of Gamification and Simulation to Address Personal Capabilities – EFMD EOCCS Learning Community Symposium Sept. 2019, HEC Paris (France).
- Serious Games and Gamification For Short Term Engagement – Business Learning Games Sept. 2019, Lisbon (Portugal).
- Business Learning Games Expert Panel – Panel Leader – Business Learning Games Sept. 2019, Lisbon (Portugal).
- Learn How to Use IE Business School Multimedia Cases – The Case Centre Sept. 2019, Online.
- Serious Games and Gamification For Short Term Engagement in Learning – Serious Play Conference July 2019, Orlando (Florida).
- Gamification issues, opportunities and risks? Panel Discussion – Education et formation April 2019, Paris (France).
- Interactive Learning Tools to Spice Up Your Class – EFMD 2019, Online.
- Learn How to Use IE Business School Multimedia Cases – The Case Centre Feb. 2019, Online.
- The Present and Future of the Gamification Industry (video) – Panel Leader – Gamification Europe 2018, Amsterdam (Netherlands).
- Learn How to Use IE Business School Multimedia Cases – The Case Centre Nov. 2018, Online.
- Leverage Engagement with These Proven Learning Experiences (Training Test Kitchen) – Online Learning Conference 2018, Chicago (Illinois).
- Multiply Your Learning Impact with Gamified Learning Materials (video) – Gamicon 2018, Chicago (Illinois).
- Mastering Multimedia Cases – Expert Panel – The Case Centre 2018, Geneva (Switzerland).
- Death by badges: how superficial gamification turned my project into something else (video) – Gamification Europe 2017, Brighton (UK).
- The Brazil Case Simulation – CLADEA 2017, Riverside (California).
- Mastering Multimedia Cases – The Case Centre 2017, Madrid (Spain).
- Engagement in MOOCs? How Designing for Fun and Elements of Gamification Changes the Perspective – Online Educa Berlin (OEB) 2016, Berlin (Germany).
- Gamificación: ¿cómo usamos esto en una clase? (In Spanish) – Seminario de Docencia Universitaria de la Universidad de Andorra 2016, Andorra.
- Gamification: Learning vs. Engagement aka Boring Knowledge or Empty Showbiz, where is the Tradeoff? – Online Educa Berlin (OEB) 2015, Berlin (Germany).
- Engaging Learning Experience? Try Gamification on Trending Topics! Gamification in Higher Education: Case Study at IE Business School – INTED2015, Madrid (Spain).
