This spring is a special one, as conferences are back. Some people are still a bit hesitant about whether to join conferences, and if they do, how to behave? But, in general, those who do are very happy to have the opportunity again to meet in real life with peers and have a conversation over a cup of coffee or tea.
I had the opportunity to visit three different conferences recently and to deliver a presentation: NextLearning in the Netherlands, Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando/USA and VOV in Belgium. And I suffered from quite some FOMO not being at Learning Technologies in London; I visited that one for nine years in a row, but not this time. I’m a lucky guy because visiting conferences is part of my work, and I really like that.
It is also part of my job to share interesting content and insights from those conferences with the Learning Community via the Learning Notes. So for this episode, I curated a ‘video-only’ version in which you can watch videos of keynote speakers at the aforementioned conferences, videos in which they share (partly) the same message as on stage. I hope this will help you, minimising your FOMO.
The topic I covered at NextLearning and LSCon was about Jobs to be Done for learning experience design, for which you can find a previous Learning Notes episode here. At VOV in Belgium, I did a session on ‘the Skills-Obsession’ and the topic ‘everything skills’ will be at the centre of our attention at aNewSpring over the next weeks to come. My colleague, Jos Berden, wrote a nice introduction. Read about this here. Enjoy the videos, and I hope to meet you in person (again) at another wonderful upcoming conference soon.
