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3 December 2026 · Van der Valk Hotel Mechelen, Belgium
The programme · 26 sessions

Four stages. Choose focus over overload.

Every session ends with one verdict: adopt, wait, or ignore. Pick a stage, or read the whole day end to end.

S1

Main Stage

Strategy, regulation, the big calls.
09:3040 min

AI: we ain't seen nothing yet

A tech visionary's view on where AI is actually heading — and what that means for how organizations learn.

10:3040 min

Prompt, build, automate… but is it legal?

The EU AI Act reality check. L&D is quietly sitting on high-risk use cases.

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11:3040 min

Prompt, build, publish… but is it secure and compliant?

The data side. Where your prompts and learner data really go.

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13:3030 min

Is the course dead?

A provocation on formats. If content is generated on demand, what survives?

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14:1545 min

Turning into an AI-first learning organization

How a global biopharma is rewiring its learning function around AI — strategy, structure, and the hard parts.

15:1530 min

AI as your productivity super booster

A keynote on the productivity gains people actually capture — and the habits that make AI stick beyond the first week.

15:4530 min

Skills became the currency. Now what?

Skills intelligence and AI-inferred skills graphs — and the honest gap between the deck and the reality.

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16:3030 min

The perspective of the Enterprise CTO

Running AI across ~100k employees: what an industrial-scale CTO worries about, and what he tells his board.

S2

Use Case Stage

Real organisations, real constraints.
09:3030 min

How Brussels Airport handles aggression cases through avatar-based training

Frontline staff rehearsing high-stakes confrontations with AI avatars — with measurable behaviour change.

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10:1530 min

I am building my own learning stack

How a fast-moving tech company assembled a modern, lean L&D stack — and what got cut.

11:0030 min

From 400 SOPs to a knowledge assistant

Retrieval over internal documentation as performance support in the flow of work.

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13:3030 min

AI roleplay at scale: from one pilot to thousands of employees

The operational story behind simulation training — governance, rollout, and the unglamorous work between.

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14:1530 min

We replaced our authoring tool with a prompt

Rapid content generation in practice: brand voice, review workflow, quality assurance.

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15:0030 min

AI coaching: scaling the thing that never scaled

Leadership and manager coaching delivered through AI — and the honest line on the human in the loop.

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15:4530 min

The honest one: what we tried with AI that flopped

A single practitioner walking through a failed rollout. On purpose, mid-afternoon.

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16:3045 min

Panel — The learning reset: will all learning become generative?

A deliberately mixed panel, sceptic included. The room argues it out.

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S3

Workshop Stream 1

Build something. Beginner-friendly.
09:3060 min

AI as your productivity super booster — workshop

Hands-on session: leave with concrete prompts, workflows and shortcuts you can use tomorrow.

11:0060 min

Your first AI agent: idea to working tool in 60 minutes

The headline workshop. Everyone walks out with something that runs.

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13:3045 min

Generate a full microlearning module in 45 minutes

From a single learning objective to a finished interactive unit, built live.

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14:3045 min

Prompt engineering for instructional designers

Turning a fuzzy brief into reliable, on-brand, repeatable output.

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15:3060 min

Build your team's custom assistant

A no-code assistant grounded in your own materials, ready for Monday morning.

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S4

Workshop Stream 2

Go deeper. Intermediate, hands-on.
09:3060 min

I am building my own learning stack — workshop

Hands-on: map your current tools, identify what to replace, and sketch your own lean learning stack.

11:0060 min

Build an AI roleplay scenario from scratch

Scenario design, character, feedback rubric — then make it talk back.

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13:3060 min

Run an AI risk assessment on your own use case

Bring a real use case, leave with a completed risk register.

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14:4545 min

From messy data to a learning analytics dashboard

Use AI to actually measure impact, instead of reporting completion rates.

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15:4545 min

AI video & avatars: produce a training asset live

Script to talking-head module in a single session.

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