It’s two days of Learning Technologies from tomorrow, and I’ll be chairing two sessions at Learning Technologies. Here’s what I’m watching, and what I’d tell you before you walk in.

On Wednesday it’s T1S2 with Markus Bernhardt on AI agents. Not the hype version, but the real question of what happens when AI starts acting on your behalf inside learning systems and whether L&D has the diagnostic capability to know if that’s working or not.

On Thursday, it’s T2S6 with Kenny Temowo on learning culture. Kenny’s framing is enablement over content. L&D as an operational partner that removes friction, not a team that produces courses and waits for someone to notice.

Both sessions are asking the same underlying question from different angles: what does L&D actually need to be good at now?

If you’re attending, there are a few things worth doing before you arrive tomorrow.

• Know what problem you’re trying to solve. The floor has 200+ exhibitors. Walk in without a specific question and you’ll collect freebies and leave with limited understanding.
• Set your agenda. Vendors will show you what their platform does, but you have to know what your organisation needs. Those are rarely the same conversation.
• Talk to other practitioners. Always, the best intelligence at LT is horizontal, not vertical. What’s working for someone in a similar context may be as valuable as the keynotes.
• Come with a position on AI. Not a final answer, but if you haven’t thought about where your team sits on the shift from content delivery to performance support, the next two days might feel like noise.

I’ll be sharing what comes out of both sessions. If you’re there and want to argue about any of it, find me.

Thanks to Sheena Whyatt for keeping the chairs’ team together.

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