Executive Technology Strategies
Forward-thinking executives are aligning technology investments with learning goals, leveraging platforms and data ecosystems to drive workforce readiness and business agility.
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AI Success Depends on Human Skills & Critical Thinking
AI represents a fundamental shift in how work is done. Organizations now face two paths: One is focused on automation, where AI replaces human tasks, and the other on augmentation, where AI enhances human capabilities.
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AI & Organizational Learning: Beyond Hype, Toward Work
The organizations that will benefit most from AI are not the ones adopting it fastest. They are the ones thinking most clearly about what learning actually is.
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Human Skills Key to Connecting AI Adoption with Organizational Performance
In the AI economy, the leaders who elevate performance will be the ones who elevate humanity.
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DevLearn Announces 2026 Keynote Speakers Exploring AI, Leadership, and Workplace Resilience
NEW YORK, NY, JULY 16, 2026 – The Learning Guild announced the keynote speakers for DevLearn Conference & Expo 2026, its annual conference for learning professionals, taking place November 4 – 6, 2026, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The keynote lineup brings together leading voices in business, learning, technology, and organizational psychology to explore the trends reshaping workplace learning. Through sessions focused on artificial intelligence, leadership, career adaptability, and resilience, attendees will gain practical strategies for leading through change and preparing for the future of work. The 2026 keynote speakers are: Dan Pontefract Award-winning author, adjunct professor, and former CLO and customer education leader Dan Pontefract will present The Courage to Think Differently: Purpose & Possibilities. Drawing on lessons from his career…
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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…
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Architecting What’s Next: How L&D Can Lead in the Age of AI
As AI reshapes how we work, learning has never been more essential to staying relevant — and L&D professionals are at the heart of it. In this keynote, Yulia Barnakova, Accenture’s AI Innovation and Learning Advisor, explores how L&D can turn AI disruption into new opportunities for learning. From AI coaches and knowledge assistants to synthetic learners, the same technologies reshaping work are now enabling new ways to build skills and enhance performance. With practical insights and dynamic, AI-enhanced storytelling, Yulia offers a bold, energizing vision for how the learning profession can lead with greater impact and help shape a…
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Learning Leaders as AI Change Agents
Michelle Lentz didn’t open her session with a demo or a prompt. Instead, she started with a question about emotion. At The Learning Guild’s 2026 Trends & Strategies Online Conference (Dec. 3–4, 2025), Lentz—founder of Innovate & Elevate Strategies—asked attendees to name the feeling AI most often triggers for them. The responses came fast and varied: “wow,” “hesitant,” “suspicious,” “stress,” “skeptical but enthusiastic,” “inappropriate expectations.” The point wasn’t to take the room’s temperature for novelty. It was to establish what Lentz sees as the real starting point for AI transformation: the human experience of change. Overwhelmed by the Pace of Change For learning leaders, she…
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Rethinking Work Design for the AI Era: A Conversation with Alex Kalish, Amazon Global Ops GenAI
The real value [of AI] shows up when teams become willing to challenge legacy assumptions and when they stop asking how to do the same process faster and start asking why the process exists at all!
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Agentic AI at Work: What L&D Must Be Ready for in 2026
Everyone’s waiting for AI to get “better.” For hallucinations to disappear. For the system to finally be perfect. Spoiler: it won’t. GenAI is probabilistic, which means it will always make mistakes. And agentic AI? That just means we’re giving those mistakes legs. It’s error on the move. Which, let’s be honest, makes AI less like a tool and more like… us. By 2026, that’s the workplace: every leader suddenly a leader of leaders, every IC managing a squad of AI ICs, and error baked into every layer. It’s messy. It’s unpredictable. And if L&D thinks the answer is “more content,…
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Igniting Critical Thinking, Curiosity & Creativity in the Workplace
It is time for a revolution in L&D! In an age where innovation and adaptability determine the survival of organizations, superficial skill-building is no longer enough. Organizations must shift toward understanding how to encourage employees to challenge outdated paradigms, embrace curiosity, and use critical thinking and collaboration as the foundation of every project. In this session, you will explore AI-enhanced learning tools, curriculum design, and change management techniques to drive meaningful workplace transformation. This session is more than a workshop, it’s a movement. It’s a call to action for learning leaders to invest in thinking beyond tasks and empower the…