Anderson Cooper to Keynote Learning 2016!

We are pleased to announce that Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, will be the Featured Keynoter at Elliott Masie’s Learning 2016 Conference, to be held in Orlando, Florida from Oct 23 to 26th.

Anderson Cooper will be interviewed by Host, Elliott Masie, for an in-depth conversation on “A 360-Degree Look at World Events.”

Other keynoters for Learning 2016 include Astronaut Scott Kelly, Actor George Takei, and a range of Learning and Human Resource Leaders.

Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, a nightly newscast that goes beyond the headlines – keeping politicians and policy makers honest with in-depth reporting and investigations. The show airs weeknights at 8:00pm ET on CNN.  

Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has covered nearly all-major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. Most recently, he has extensively covered the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Egypt, the riots in Baltimore, MD and Ferguson, MO, Pope Francis’s U.S. visit and the terror attack at Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

Cooper has also played a pivotal role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential debates and town halls. In addition to his shows on CNN Cooper is also a regular correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes.

At CNN and 60 Minutes Cooper has won numerous major journalism awards. Cooper helped lead CNN's Peabody Award winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and DuPont award winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami. Additionally, he has been awarded numerous Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, and an Edward R Murrow award.
 
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son Talk about Life, Love, and Loss – a collection of correspondence between Anderson and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was published April 2016. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper’s memoirs about covering wars and disasters, topped the New York Times' bestseller list and other bestseller charts.
 
Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and host of the network's reality program The Mole. Cooper anchored ABC's off-beat overnight newscast World News Now, and was a correspondent for World News Tonight as well as 20/20.  Cooper joined ABC from Channel One News, where he served as chief international correspondent. During that time, he reported and produced stories, often on his own, from conflicts in Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Israel, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and South Africa. Channel One News was a school television network seen daily in more than 12,000 classrooms nationwide.
 
Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. Cooper is based in New York City.