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Speaker · Author · Designer

A different way to see learning.

Talks on cinematic learning, AI-era design, and the person on the other side of the experience.

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Keynote
30–45 minutes
Workshop
90 minutes to half day
Panel
Panelist or moderator
Guest lecture
50–75 minutes · live or virtual

Talks & conversations

One question. A new lens.

Three starting points. Each can be shaped around your audience and format.

01 · Signature talk

The Other Person in the Room

What changes when we design the counterpart, not just the learner’s choices?

Audience & takeaways

Practice scenarios vary what the learner says. They rarely vary who the other person is. This talk explores designing the counterpart with a hidden state the learner has to read, and what that changes about a simulation’s learning possibilities.

Best for: Leadership development, learning design conferences, and keynote audiences.

Take away: A way to examine counterpart design, readable cues, and the decisions a practice scenario asks learners to make.

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02 · AI & evaluation

Measure the Film, Not the Dailies

Separate performance with AI support from learning that lasts.

Audience & takeaways

AI can raise performance in a session without building skill that lasts. This talk examines a practical evaluation rule: without the support, after a delay, in a case the learner hasn’t seen.

Best for: L&D and AI enablement conferences, evaluation tracks, and learning teams.

Take away: Questions for planning unsupported, delayed, and unfamiliar-case assessments alongside in-session measures.

Ask about this talk : Measure the Film, Not the Dailies

03 · AI ethics & design

Telling Them It’s AI Isn’t Enough

Design disclosure into the experience, not just its opening label.

Audience & takeaways

What does a learner need to understand before an AI-mediated scene, during it, and after? This talk explores disclosure as an experience-design decision, with attention to learner expectations, boundaries, and transparency.

Best for: Ethics panels, university courses, HR, compliance, and learning-design teams.

Take away: A before, during, and after lens for examining how an AI experience explains itself to learners.

Ask about this talk : Telling Them It’s AI Isn’t Enough
Jonathan Iker Zamarripa, wearing blue glasses and a charcoal sweater

About the speaker

Learning, with a director’s eye.

Jonathan Iker Zamarripa designs learning the way a director builds a scene. A learning experience designer and the founder of Cinematic Learning Systems, he created the Cinematic Learning Production Framework: an openly published framework for designing learning through cinematic grammar and AI. His work connects enterprise learning, leadership development, technology enablement, and creative production.

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Short bio

Jonathan Iker Zamarripa is a learning experience designer and the founder of Cinematic Learning Systems. He created the Cinematic Learning Production Framework, an openly published framework for designing learning through cinematic grammar and AI, and writes about cinematic learning on LinkedIn.

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