Remember Loble's ill-fated hotel room in LA? The second room wasn't much better, he told me. "When I went into that room, it was two seconds before I knew the room was also a no-go," he remembers.

CanvasConnect Philippines, which took place last Aug. 22 at the Manila Hotel in Ermita, ... Ms. Loble also explored the growing focus on lifelong learning, the growing importance of data analytics, ...