Conference Agenda
Transform your organization at the nation’s leading L&D corporate training event, featuring 200+ sessions from the world’s most comprehensive learning technologies conference. DevLearn provides the keys to practical skills in project and program management, instructional design, AI, and much more, helping you create innovative experiences and drive impactful results.
701: BYOD: Investigate Performance Impact with the AI-Powered L&D Detective Kit
Organizations invest heavily in training and development, yet many cannot credibly reveal how those efforts influence business and human performance. The issue is not a lack of data. It is how we investigate performance. Artificial…
Topic/Track: Data & MeasurementLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: BYOD (60 Min.)
702: BYOD: Personalize & Streamline Learning in Rise & Storyline Using Pre‑Assessments
Annual compliance training often requires every learner to complete the same lengthy content year after year, even when many already know the material. This leads to disengagement, wasted time, and lower motivation. Adaptive learning paths…
Topic/Track: Instructional DesignLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: BYOD (60 Min.)
704: Reframe Career Growth Progression: From Ladder to Lattice
In today’s hybrid and remote work environment, employees expect visible growth opportunities, yet many organizations struggle to move beyond traditional “career ladder” models. Engagement data often reveals a common pattern: Employees feel unsure about internal…
Topic/Track: Leadership & StrategyLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
705: From Passive to Playable: Designing Interactive Video That Teaches
Video is one of the most common training formats, but it is also one of the most passive. Even high-production videos often become “watch and forget” experiences because learners have little agency beyond play, pause,…
Topic/Track: Video & MediaLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
706: Leveraging Limitations: Lessons Learned from Corrections & Higher Ed
Too often, the “best” design solution is one that assumes you have access to unlimited time, budget, staffing, and technology. These conditions do not exist; we all work within constraints. Yet some of the strongest…
Topic/Track: Higher EducationLevel: BeginnerFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
707: Upgrade Your LMS Relationship Status From Glitchy to Great
Still stuck in an "It’s complicated" relationship with your LMS? You’re not alone! LMS administration can be a challenging task—every system has its quirks. But improving your relationship with your LMS is possible, and doing…
Topic/Track: Tools & PlatformsLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
708: Practical AI Prompts that automate and accelerate your Instructional Design Processes
Instructional designers are being asked to move faster than ever - yet quality, assessment integrity, and marketing still matter. While AI tools promise efficiency, many teams struggle to move beyond basic prompting or trust the…
Topic/Track: Customer EducationLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
709: Coaching the Modern Learning Experience Designer: Skills, Mindsets & Behaviors
Instructional design teams are operating in a new reality. As the pace of organizational accelerates, stakeholder expectations are rising, and learning functions must demonstrate measurable value. In this environment, instructional designers can no longer focus…
Topic/Track: Team & Project ManagementLevel: Intermediate/AdvancedFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
710: The Strategic Learning Architect: Driving Real Business Results
L&D is at a crossroads: We can either use AI to build content faster—fueling an "AI Hangover" of low-quality, disengaged learning—or we can use it to evolve into strategic learning architects. Many teams are currently…
Topic/Track: Leadership & StrategyLevel: BeginnerFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
711: Leadership Under Pressure: When Strengths Become Overextensions
While building and scaling a global learning and leadership function during periods of rapid growth, pressure, and organizational ambiguity, one pattern became impossible to ignore: strong leaders rarely struggle because they lack capability. More often,…
Topic/Track: Leadership & StrategyLevel: Intermediate/AdvancedFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
712: Creating Effective Performance Support Content with AI Augmentation
AI can generate content in seconds. That’s the good news. The bad news? Most organizations are drowning in auto-generated articles, chat responses, SOP summaries, and micro-courses that are technically “correct” but practically unusable in the…
Topic/Track: Micro & Workflow LearningLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
801: BYOD: Vibe Coding with APIs: Rapidly Building Integrated L&D Tools for Non-Technical People
Are you ready to move beyond basic prompts and start building functional, integrated learning tools? Welcome to the era of Vibe Coding, where natural language and API connectivity empower non-technical professionals to create sophisticated applications,…
Topic/Track: AI & AutomationLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: BYOD (60 Min.)
802: BYOD: From Calculator to Coworker: The Art of AI Delegation
Most people use AI the way they use Google: type a question, get an answer, move on. That’s not collaboration. That’s search with better grammar. The gap between using AI as a calculator and working…
Topic/Track: Team & Project ManagementLevel: Intermediate/AdvancedFormat: BYOD (60 Min.)
803: Purpose-Paced Leadership: A Practical Framework for Leading Learning in the Age of AI and Overload
Learning leaders are under intense pressure—AI adoption, skills-based strategies, and rising expectations for speed are colliding with limited capacity. In response, many L&D teams fall into constant execution mode, where overloaded strategies, burnout, and false…
Topic/Track: Leadership & StrategyLevel: Intermediate/AdvancedFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
804: Not Ideal But Oh, So Real: After-the-Fact Measurement Hacks
Come explore a simple, "3-step logic chain" you can use to retroactively construct credible impact stories. Do this without targets, when data is incomplete (real), and even if your stakeholder didn't provide target KPIs or…
Topic/Track: Data & MeasurementLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
805: Ignite Employee Engagement: A Gamified Approach to Staff Development
Participants will explore the power of gamification in employee learning and development programs. After an overview of key principles of game learning theory and examples of how to incorporate general gamification principles into employee learning…
Topic/Track: Games & GamificationLevel: BeginnerFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
806: Beyond Click-and-Next: Designing Learning Experiences with 360 Video, Escape Room Elements and more
Immersive learning can have a huge impact when it’s built around learner performance and not the technology. You don't just want high engagement; you also want high learning transfer. We’ve all seen it. Learners love…
Topic/Track: Higher EducationLevel: Intermediate/AdvancedFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
807: Prompting Together: Collaborative GenAI Practices That Transform Learning Design
Are you ready to take your instructional design and learning development processes to the next level with GenAI? Too often, GenAI experimentation happens in isolation—leading to missed opportunities, inconsistent results, and extra effort. This session…
Topic/Track: Instructional DesignLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
808: The Power of Connections in Customer Education
L&D traditionally focuses on internal audience, often delivering required and compliance training. While some marketing helps “sell” their solutions, but when L&D enters the world of customer education, everything changes. Suddenly, L&D operates in a…
Topic/Track: Customer EducationLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
809: Digital Learning Without Centralization: How Leaders Gain Visibility, Alignment, and Impact
As organizations scale, digital learning teams often grow more capable—and more fragmented. Work emerges across functions, priorities collide, and leaders struggle to see where effort is going or what impact it’s having. The result is…
Topic/Track: Team & Project ManagementLevel: Beginner/IntermediateFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)
810: Mastering Skill Assessment: Adding Rigor to Your Evaluation
Research on skill assessment highlights several problems, such as overreliance on learner satisfaction and knowledge checks or limited focus on soft skills, that can limit the effectiveness and accuracy of these evaluations. These issues span…
Topic/Track: Data & MeasurementLevel: BeginnerFormat: Standard Session (60 Min.)