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The Online Events Archive provides access to hundreds of online sessions covering critical topics in learning and development. This is where you will learn from the learning industry’s leading thinkers and practitioners about best practices, tips and tricks, and proven strategies in the learning technologies space.
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How Immersion Transforms Learning From Knowing to Doing
In many learning experiences, learners acquire knowledge but rarely get the chance to use it in ways that feel real. The session explores immersion as the missing link between knowing and doing and shows how ethnographic research can help instructional designers close that gap. By grounding learning in the lived experiences, decisions, and challenges of real people, you can move beyond abstract content and create environments where learners actively engage, experiment, and apply new skills. Drawing on applied anthropology, experiential learning research, and practical design examples (including game-inspired approaches), we’ll examine why immersion drives engagement and performance and what it…
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Kick Off Panel: Where We Get Game-Based Learning Right & Wrong
This expert panel brings together experienced practitioners to examine where game-based learning succeeds and where it falls short in real-world instructional design. Our panelists will explore the underlying factors that make game elements engaging and effective, as well as common missteps that can limit impact or create barriers for learners. Through candid discussion and practical examples, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of how to thoughtfully integrate game mechanics, design for accessibility and inclusion, and make informed decisions about when (and when not) to use game-based approaches in your learning solutions.
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Fortifying the Foundation: A Guide to Secure Open Source Hosting
Modern applications are 90% open source and 10% proprietary code—yet we spend 90% of our budget securing the 10%. It’s time to flip the script. This session provides a practical roadmap for hosting and managing open-source dependencies securely. We cover the “Three Pillars of OSS Security”: Supply Chain Transparency (SBOMs), Isolated Infrastructure (Containers), and Proactive Maintenance. Learn how to foster innovation without the “maintenance tax” or the security debt that keeps IT leaders awake at night.
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What Your Training Misses: The Signals That Actually Drive Performance
Join us as we will discuss how and why traditional training misses the signals that impact real-world performance, and where gaps show up in conversations. We will identify the nonverbal and behavioral signals (tone, timing, facial expression, response patterns) that separate knowledge from readiness. Explore how practice-based learning makes these signals visible and measurable. In this session, you will learn how to move beyond completion rates and quiz scores to measure what matters: behavior change, competency, and readiness.
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Operational AI for L&D
Join us to see how a training management system uses operational A.I. to solve scheduling, reporting, and process automation for complex L&D tasks. Operational A.I. is artificial intelligence that uses a set, deterministic input to give you the same outputs with the same inputs – every time. No hallucinations or confidently wrong answers. This is great for solving complex problems that go beyond content generation. We will demo: Scheduler, a tool that solves hundreds of live training events in minutes; Automator: a tool anyone can use to build custom automations & integrations; and Insights, a powerful AI-powered reporting engine.
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Canvas Career by Instructure: AI-Powered Skills LMS for Modern L&D
L&D teams have more opportunities than ever to build programs that directly connect with what learners need and what organizations are trying to achieve. The challenge is finding the time and capacity to do it well when content production, reporting, and administrative work fill most of the calendar. This demo shows how Canvas Career by Instructure, a skills-based LMS built for workforce learning, uses AI across the full workflow. We’re showcasing an end-to-end AI workflow that does the heavy lifting for you; from an AI Learning Assistant that personalizes engagement to an Authoring Agent that builds high-impact content from scratch.…
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JoySuite: The AI Platform for Teams to Work Smarter and Learn Faster
JoySuite is an AI-powered platform that unifies knowledge management and personalized learning to help teams work smarter. By centralizing organizational data, JoySuite provides instant, cited answers and automates workflows with 70+ pre-built commands. It transforms static documents into interactive coaching and quizzes, allowing companies to eliminate training backlogs and scale internal expertise 24/7 through a secure, enterprise-grade AI assistant.
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AI-Native Course Authoring, Not Bolted On
You’ve tried AI for course development. The drafts came back generic, the interactions felt scripted, and somewhere along the way you wondered whether you were saving time or making new work for yourself. That’s the gap Mindsmith was built to close. As the first AI-Native eLearning authoring platform, our agent isn’t a wrapper around a general-purpose model. It’s built on instructional design principles, with structure, interaction, and visual craft as first-class concerns. In this live session, Ethan will start with raw source material like SME notes, a slide deck, or a PDF, and build a finished, interactive, instructionally sound course…
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From B2C Engagement to B2B Outcomes
In the early days of a great learning program, magic often comes from one-to-one moments. There is real connection, relevance, and a clear link between learning and personal growth or career advancement. Engagement matters because it helps learners stay with the experience long enough to reach those outcomes. But as programs grow from serving individual learners to supporting learners within organizations, it becomes harder to hold onto what made them work in the first place. In this session, we will explore how learning organizations move from B2C learning models to B2B environments without losing effectiveness by grounding their approach in…
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Transforming Content into a Strategic AI Growth Asset: Building a Unified Content Fabric
As organizations expand, their audiences diversify—employees, customers, partners, distributors, and now AI agents all rely on consistent, high quality content. The shift from an access focused world to an answer focused one means Learning & Development teams must ensure their content is not only accurate and up to date at scale, but also structured and ready for both human and agentic consumption. In an intelligence driven landscape, content becomes a strategic growth asset rather than a static library. This session explores how the learning environment is evolving and what it takes to build a unified content fabric that supports people…