Content & Experiences
A deeper look at the curated content tracks, hands-on Tech@Learning sessions, and In-Depth Learning Intensives shaping this year's program.
Three content pillars,
one connected experience.
Learning 2018 builds on three coordinated tracks so attendees can move between inspiration, application, and experimentation throughout the week.
Content & Experiences
Curated sessions and In-Depth Learning Intensives focused on how learning is changing across organizations.
Tech@Learning
Hands-on explorations of the technologies, platforms, and tools reshaping how learners engage with content.
Curation & Learning LAB
A working space for collaboration, prototyping, and turning emerging ideas into practical learning approaches.
A modern learning conference thrives on the meeting point between inspiration and application, and the curated program reflects that balance through three coordinated tracks. Attendees can move fluidly between sessions that surface new ideas, workshops that translate those ideas into practice, and experimental spaces where emerging approaches are tested in real time. The result is a week shaped less by passive listening and more by active engagement with the forces reshaping how organizations grow talent and share knowledge across roles, regions, and generations. The Content and Experiences track gathers curators, designers, and senior practitioners who are rethinking what learning itself looks like inside complex organizations. Conversations move across formats, audiences, and business priorities, drawing on case studies from global teams and smaller chapters alike. Participants explore how content is sourced, sequenced, and refined, and how curation can elevate the signal inside an overwhelming flow of information, so that learning moments feel intentional rather than incidental. Tech at Learning invites attendees into hands-on explorations of the tools, platforms, and data practices changing the field. Sessions examine how experience layers, smarter interfaces, and conversational systems are quietly reshaping the day-to-day rhythm of development programs. Discussions also reach into compliance, talent strategy, and the practical realities of budgeting for new technologies, helping learning leaders connect innovation with the operational expectations of the organizations they serve. In-Depth Learning Intensives offer a slower, more focused setting for sustained conversation around themes such as gamification, apprenticeships, career paths, diversity, and inclusion. These longer formats are designed for participants who want to leave with shared language, working frameworks, and a sense of where their own practice fits within a wider community of innovators approaching the future of learning together.
Learning 2018 is built around the idea that learners, formats, and systems are all shifting at once, and the conference is designed to reflect that momentum. Rather than offering a single track, the program weaves together curated content experiences with hands-on exploration, giving participants room to move between inspiration, application, and reflection. The result is a week that treats learning as something to be lived rather than observed, with sessions, intensives, and shared conversations all contributing to a more connected, responsive way of thinking about how people grow inside organizations and beyond.
At the heart of the agenda are three coordinated tracks that share a common thread. The Content and Experiences track gathers curated sessions and in-depth intensives focused on how learning is changing across teams, roles, and industries. The Tech@Learning track invites attendees to get hands-on with emerging tools and platforms, turning abstract ideas into working experiments. Together with featured keynoters and special-topic forums, these tracks create a layered program where ideas introduced in one setting can be tested and extended in another throughout the week.
What sets the experience apart is the balance between structure and openness. Carefully curated tracks provide focus, while design labs, innovation showcases, and supplier demonstrations add room for discovery. Participants can follow their own path through the schedule, choosing where to dive deep and where to scan broadly, supported by alumni networks, chapter gatherings, and informal learning towns that extend the conversation beyond the formal agenda. The overall feel is less about passive attendance and more about active engagement with the future of learning.
Going deeper with Learning Intensives.
Alongside keynotes and breakout sessions, Learning 2018 increases its focus on Experiences and In-Depth Learning Intensives. These are extended, hands-on formats for attendees who want to work through a topic with peers and practitioners.
- Extended working sessions on emerging learning approaches
- Small-group formats with colleagues, experts, and innovators
- Practitioner-led discussions tied to real organizational change
- Tracks connected to the Curated Content program
Where learning meets the work.
Tech@Learning sessions explore how new tools and platforms are changing the way learning is designed, delivered, and measured. Topics draw on trends tracked by the Learning 2018 curation team.
Expect formats that move between demonstrations, small-group discussion, and shared reflection on what these shifts mean for learning teams.
See how it all comes together.
Browse the full schedule of sessions, keynotes, and the evening celebration, or return to the home page for an overview of Learning 2018.