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AI for Learning Summit

Tuesday, November 11

The future of work is rapidly changing, and the need to incorporate AI into your L&D strategies is becoming increasingly crucial.

Ready to lead L&D AI Implementation? The AI Summit at DevLearn is designed to prepare you to advance AI for learning in your organization. This strategy-forward one-day event immerses you in expertise, demonstrations, collaboration, and discussions to better position you to lead the conversation and influence direction.

From the opening minutes, you and your peers will be introduced to a strategic canvas designed to help you address all the key activities and considerations to ensure more seamless AI for learning implementation efforts. Whether you’re seeking to impact a single team, a program, or a company-wide strategy, you will engage with industry experts experienced with AI and emerging technology implementation. You’ll move through the day cycling between obtaining new insights from a host of experts and contextualizing those insights through cooperative work with colleagues from diverse organizations and roles.

You’ll leave with a prioritized action map, a deeper understanding, and a new network of like-minded peers. You’ll be ready to advance emerging AI capabilities into measurable learning impact. Return to your organization equipped to connect innovation to outcomes, anticipate obstacles, and guide every stakeholder conversation with clarity and confidence.

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Topics we’ll cover include:

  • How to align AI-for-learning initiatives with business strategy and clearly articulate value
  • Assessing AI readiness—data quality, workforce skills, and leadership sponsorship
  • Workforce impact planning: role redesign, upskilling, and talent redeployment in an AI era
  • Embedding, scaling, and integrating AI solutions for sustained organizational impact
  • Change-management tactics that foster adoption and mindset shifts across teams
  • Building AI literacy and fluency for both L&D professionals and the wider workforce

Schedule

8:30 am – 8:40 am

Framing of the Day

Kick off the summit with a warm welcome and an overview of the day’s agenda, setting the stage for a dynamic and innovative day.

Josh Cavalier
JoshCavalier.ai

Megan Torrance
TorranceLearning

9:00 am – 9:45 am

The Untapped Edge: Turn Your Knowledge into a Force for Transformation

Discover how Learning & Development can become the driving force behind responsible, strategic AI adoption, aligning people, processes, and purpose. This keynote will explore how to activate your organization’s untapped expertise to accelerate readiness, scale innovation, and lead a human-centered transformation with measurable impact.

Jeff Fissel
GP Strategies

9:45 am – 10:00 am

Working Session

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am – 11:00 am

The AI North Star: Guiding Your Enterprise L&D Readiness Journey

Even if you already have initiatives in place, it’s crucial to define your organizational “North Star” for AI; this unified vision cuts through complexity and avoids fragmented efforts across large companies. You’ll learn how to clarify the vital “why” for your AI initiatives, ensuring they’re aligned with business goals and securing the essential executive sponsorship. We’ll explore AI readiness as an adaptive journey, focusing on assessing data and skill maturity while also cultivating the essentials of having a flexible mindset and continuous learning culture.

Debbie Richards

Debbie Richards
UnDesto AI®

11:00 am – 11:15 am

Working Session

11:15 am – 11:45 am

Strategic & Tactical Change Management Steps for Deploying AI in Your Enterprise

Adjusting, enabling and deploying AI solutions for your L&D team is Not about the technology. Your success must align to converting your current state of design, development and measurement. Learn more about the Five Change Models for a successful AI-optimized deployment.

Marc Ramos
ServiceNow

11:45 am – 12:00 pm

Working Session

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch Break

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Experimentation to Scale: Avoiding Random Acts of AI

As AI gains momentum in L&D, many teams are testing new ideas—but scaling those efforts can feel messy or uncertain. This session explores how experimentation can lead to practical integration, without falling into scattered or one-off initiatives. Join the conversation on shaping AI efforts that are intentional, effective, and built to last.

Danielle Wallace

Danielle Wallace
Beyond the Sky Custom Learning

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Working Session

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm

Building AI Skills to Power Organizational Transformation

Is your workforce AI-ready? Every aspect of your business has the potential to be disrupted by AI, and your workforce can embrace and adopt new technologies or resist and risk your company getting left behind. In this session, we’ll review the AI skills maturity model and the role that L&D plays in getting the humans in your company ready to take advantage of the benefits of AI.

Koreen Pagano

Koreen Pagano
Isanno

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Working Session

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

From Intent to Impact: Measuring the Real Value of AI

Leaders are under intense pressure to prove the value of their AI investments, but the path to a credible ROI is often unclear. This session provides a complete, evidence-based framework to guide the journey. First, learn how to use a strategic compass to define your initiative’s true purpose. Then, discover a multi-layered methodology for moving beyond simple metrics to measure what truly matters: tangible business impact, human capability uplift, and demonstrable financial value.

Markus Bernhardt
Endeavor Intelligence

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Working Session

3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

Panel: AI at Work & Closing Remarks

Perspectives on AI implementation from those leading or influencing efforts and seeing first-hand the challenges, opportunities, and approaches.

Megan Torrance
TorranceLearning

Jen Solberg
Quantum Improvements Consulting

Lauren LePage
Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Nick Floro
Sealworks Interactive Studios

Zsolt Olah
Intel

Josh Cavalier
JoshCavalier.ai