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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, May 24, 2023
  • 12:30 AM - 1:00 PM PST
    Author Meet and Greets
  • 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM PST
    Registration, Networking Night Desk, and Information Desk Open (Lobby D)
  • 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM PST
    ATD Central, ATD Store, ATD Theater, and Career Center Open
  • 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM PST
    Global Village Open
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    4 Core Principles of Negotiations
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    A Training Geek Lands in Afghanistan: Strategies for Impacting Learners
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Building Belonging: Currency of the Inclusive Leader
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Create a Learning Value Proposition: Align Learning and Performance
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Discuss CSR Events With the Creators of Bike-Build and Build-a-Hand
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Eliminate Apathy: How Genuine Curiosity Sparks Loyalty and Retention
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Hacking the Brain for Behavior Change
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    How Learning to Write Songs Improves Your Ability to Innovate
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    How to Use a Scenario Grid to Develop Award-Winning Training
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Immersive Training: From Pilot to Company Roll Out
    Are you thinking about including VR in your training program portfolio? Join this session to hear a panel discussion about strategies for successfully deploying VR deployment—pilot to enterprise launch. You’ll gain best practices for involving others in the organization to ensure a successful enterprise-wide launch and receive a checklist to use immediately in your organization.
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Intelligent Automation: The “Dirty Little Secret” of AI in L&D
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Ozemio Exhibitor Solution Session
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Reflection: The Secret Accelerator to Retention and Performance
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Success Metrics for L&D
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    The Future of Learning and Its Role in Transforming Governmental Capabilities
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    The Monumental Impact of ChatGPT and AI on L&D
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    The New CV: Micro-Credentials and the Future of Learning
    As more organizations adopt micro-credentials as currency for demonstrating skills, the need to validate progression and competency become fundamental to ensure credibility. This session will look at real-world examples of incorporating authentic assessment principles into course strategy to ensure learners are performing at the desired standard.
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Unleash Skills Intelligence to Gain a Winning Edge
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
    Using Play and Improvisation to Maximize Resilience at Work
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    DEI & Your Talent Development Career
  • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST
    EXPO Open
  • 9:10 AM - 9:40 AM PST
    Co-Creating the Employee Experience of the Future
  • 9:10 AM - 9:40 AM PST
    Effective Video SOPs Anyone Can Create
  • 9:10 AM - 9:40 AM PST
    Gamified Learning Journeys: If You Build Them, They Will Come!
    Do you want to quickly and easily create gamified learning journeys that are digestible, fun, motivating, rewarding, and trackable? Join this session to find out how to craft learning journeys using a variety of formats—including games, videos, SCORM, PDFs, websites, images, and Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora courses—that encourage learners to keep coming back.
  • 9:10 AM - 9:40 AM PST
    Skills Gap Equals Billions Lost! How Are Companies Adapting?
    In a post-pandemic world, IT certifications are more valuable than ever. The tech industry stands to lose billions in revenue unless it finds—or trains—more high-tech workers to fill the skills gap. How are companies adapting and what are they doing to resolve it? Join this session to learn what’s behind the pursuit of certifications and why businesses are investing in upskilling.
  • 9:10 AM - 9:40 AM PST
    Training Your People in Real Time
    Are you personalizing training across the employee life cycle? Join this session to see how Teleperformance quickly creates engaging microlearning content that’s tailored to specific learner cohorts and delivered in the flow of work. Sponsored by Centrical, the leader in training engagement.
  • 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM PST
    Recertification 101
  • 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM PST
    Adaptive or Artificial Intelligence? What You Need to Know Now!
    Adaptive learning allows the learner to guide their own experience based on performance, while AI can provide a learning experience curated from existing big data based on contextual inputs. Join this session to explore a blend of adaptive and AI-based learning and see how to harness modern learning tech to craft the right solution.
  • 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM PST
    Drive Business Outcomes Through Skills and Career Development
  • 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM PST
    Rethinking Accountability: How to Drive Better Results
  • 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM PST
    Take Corporate Training From Blah to Wow
    Take your corporate training content to the next level using Nearpod! Join this session to discover how you can increase participant engagement, connectivity to the content, and track learning outcomes and targets in real time and in post-session reports.
  • 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM PST
    Take the Test! Is Your Learning Function Healthy?
    Every organization has had to transform to meet today's changing environment. How do you know if your learning and development function is keeping up? This session will provide questions and examples to test your organization's fitness on STEAM: strategy and alignment, technology, learner experience, administration and operations, and measurement.
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST
    ATD Education Experience
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Community Conversation: Hybrid Training Challenges
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Core Components of Successful Digital Learning Engagement
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Courageous Careers: Practical Ways to Be More Daring
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Creating Self-Aware Leaders
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Designing Collaborative Learning Programs at Scale
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Effective Strategies for Hiring Your Digital Learning Team
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Expert Learning: Fire Up Your People for Organizational Success
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Five Powerful Improv Exercises for Stronger Teams
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Game Changer: Learning Experiences Redesigned
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Game On: How to Create and Deliver Training Game Shows
    Game shows are a powerful way to prepare learners for a training topic you’re about to cover or to lock in content you’ve already covered. That is . . . unless the games are complicated, hokey, no-fun, too easy, too long, or boring. (Yikes!) In this session, you’ll discover exactly how not to do that.
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Incorporating Accessibility Into the Beginning Stages of Learning Design
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Leading Executive Conversations
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    New Hope for Learning Evaluation: LTEM and Performance-Focused Learner Surveys
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Normal Is Boring: Keys to Avoiding Normal and Presenting Powerfully
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Psychological Safety's Impact on Creativity and Innovation
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Scholar/Practitioner Research and Implications for Practice
    The University of Pennsylvania PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program cultivates scholar-practitioners who develop and implement evidence-based practices to support organizational strategy and strengthen human capital. Join this session to hear three distinguished program alums as they share their research findings and show you how to apply them to your practice.
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Speaking at ATD24: A Conversation With the ATD Program Advisory Committee
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Tending to Your Ecosystem: Unifying Content and Data Across Systems
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    The 6-Step Process to Solve Your Challenges and Achieve Your Goals
    Choose your biggest challenge—personal or professional—and use the six-step process to develop a clear path forward and an action plan of who will do what by when to solve it. When your entire team learns the six-step process, they have a simple way to focus on solutions rather than problems while fostering innovation and collaboration.
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Throwing Out the Business Suits: Redefining High-Potential Leadership
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Transcend Disruption: 5 Opportunity Spaces for the Future of Learning
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Unconscious Bias and Uncomfortable Conversations
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Why Most Diversity and Inclusion Programs Fail
    Too many organizational efforts to address diversity and inclusion focus on behaviors alone. When organizations engage in change efforts that do not address mindset, nothing changes. Join this session to gain powerful and practical tools that address both the mindset and the behaviors that get in the way of creating a truly inclusive culture.
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Why Should Anyone Follow You?
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
    ATD Education Experience
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST
    Lunch in the EXPO Hall
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST
    AI Translation in Action at Stanley Black & Decker
    Having access to information in the participant's native language is the single biggest determining factor in learning outcomes. Course materials need to be adapted to take regional needs into consideration. In this session, you’ll hear some examples of translation fails and receive guidelines for the right way to do L&D localization.
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST
    Experiential Learning: Discover AI Tools to Accelerate Design and Development
    With the growing demand for skill practice and targeted feedback, experiential learning has become an essential part of L&D. Join this session to discover how you can use AI tools can speed up the design and development of experiential learning content. You’ll see how it can enhance virtual instructor-led training and workshops, and potentially even replace traditional e-learning content.
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST
    Understanding How Modern LMS Experiences Drive Learners to Do More
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST
    Use AI to Make Training Videos in 120+ Languages
  • 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST
    Welcome to the Age of AI Video!
    Learn how text-to-video is the solution for creating impactful learning and development videos in a time of increasing demand and decreasing budgets.
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST
    Dessert Break
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PST
    Treasure Hunt Grand Prize Drawing
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PST
    APTD and CPTD Certification Preparation
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    AI in Talent Development: How Can You and Your Team Prepare?
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    AMPlify to Win the Talent War
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Break the Rules: An Unconventional Approach to Building Impactful Education
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Bring Strategic Leadership Initiatives to Life Through Custom Simulation Experiences
    How do you capture the organization’s attention when rolling out new leadership principles or launching strategic goals? Join this session to hear stories about clients who use custom simulation experiences to, in just four hours, bring the future to life, show leaders their call to action, and make visible the connection to business results.
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Building Your Talent Development Innovation Portfolio
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch: Strategic Implementation Sets the Table
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Defining and Designing the Modern Learning Organization
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Digital Learning Strategy
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Echo360 Exhibitor Solution Session
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Employee Retention and Attraction in the Modern Workplace
    To help organizations more effectively retain top talent, Gallup measures employee retention, attraction, and perceptions of their current job climate. Join this session to learn how you can use this trended data to help curtail turnover, attract top talent, and keep star employees.
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Friendly Skepticism: Protect Your Learners From Pseudoscience (Without Losing Friends)
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    From Theory to Results: Making Emotional Intelligence a Competitive Advantage
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Improve Learning Transfer Through Smart Nudges Delivered by a Chat Bot
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Learning Campaigns: The Principle of 7 Touches
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Level 4 Results: Make Learning a Strategic Driver
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Passion for the Platform
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Say Hello to the New Adobe Captivate
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    VR Soft-Skills Training Tactics and Lessons Learned
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Weaving a Psychological Safety Net for Your Learners
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    What’s Next? Creating Your L&D Career Path Blueprint
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    Closing General Session with Leslie Odom Jr.: Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning (In-Person and Live Streamed)