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View the entire conference educational program with our online Program Guide. This feature allows you to view sessions chronologically as well as search by time, speaker name, and format. Looking for more information? Click on the session title for a complete session description. To read the speakers’ profiles, click on the name. Best of all, when you find something of interest to you, simply add it to your own personal calendar to help you keep track of the sessions you wish to attend.
Remember, conference sessions do not require advanced sign-up and are first-come, first-served. Using the online program guide to develop your personal schedule does not register you for a particular session.
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General Sessions are an opportunity for all conference participants to come together and learn from notable thought leaders whose work challenges our assumptions and widens our horizons. Presenters offer insight and inspiration on a range of topics of interest to participants.
Learn More about the General Session Speakers.
As a special feature in DC, we have invited pioneers of the field of workplace learning and performance to make presentations. This year's Legends met the following criteria: wide, international name recognition and stature in the field; enduring impact and influence; originality of ideas; a career of sustained currency: work done more than five years ago is currently discussed, applied, and adapted; a substantive body of published work; a contribution that raises the visibility, credibility, and stature of the field.
Learn More about the Legends Series sessions.
The 2009 conference will feature core content that attendees demand including Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels, Success Case Method, ROI, and many others. [more to come]
Click here to learn more about Featured Content sessions.
The View from the CLO series features leading CLOs from various industries and organizations. Each will share from his or her experience leading at the top of the profession. You will hear how they got there and what they’re doing in their organizations that make them so valuable.
Learn More about View from the CLO sessions.
For 2009 the Conference Planning Committee and ASTD staff combined their collective expertise with attendee evaluation feedback and results from a survey of past attendees to develop a comprehensive program of topics to meet your needs. The Topics listed are in one of nine tracks and mapped to the ASTD Competency Model Areas of Expertise.
- Career Planning and Talent Management
- Designing and Delivering Learning
- E-learning
- Facilitating Organizational Change
- Leadership and Management Development
- Learning as a Business Strategy
- Measurement, Evaluation, ROI
- Performance Improvement
- Personal & Professional Development
This layer is designed to focus the program at a greater depth within each track. See below for detailed descriptions of each.
BEST PRACTICE/AWARD WINNER
Includes topics that have been recognized by an outside body or been nominated or received an award including ASTD Award winners.
CASE STUDY
A Case Study is a first-person account of a project, initiative, or program from it’s inception to the end result.
COMPETENCY MODEL CONTENT
Sessions showing how organizations are applying the ASTD Competency model in part or in its entirety.
CORE TOPIC
Core Topics are those that are the nuts and bolts of the Workplace Learning and Performance field. These are the topics that make up the backbone of the field and speak to the new as well as the seasoned practitioner who wants a refresher or has changed roles.
EXPERIENTIAL/INTERACTIVE LEARNING
These are sessions which substantially depart from the lecture/presentation model and use creative ways to incorporate hands-on learning both as a topic and by modeling the concept being presented in the session.
FUTURE OUTLOOK/TRENDS
These sessions exemplify the most advanced thinking about the Workplace Learning and Performance field and discuss trends in an applied way—that is, showing how these trends and outlooks will likely have an effect on those who work in the field.
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