Not all that long ago, a year without attending the Learning Technologies show would have seemed unfeasible. The exhibition (and occasionally the conference) was a key part of my annual networking, current awareness and personal development.
Instead I am now nearing a decade without attending – having attended the main exhibition in 2016 and the Summer Forum conference in 2017.
Covid has a played a role here in my low attendance of in-person events, but there has also been a shift in the focus of my roles to broader topics than learning (technology) as well as a move to webinars, podcasts (more on that coming in a future post), LinkedIn Learning, and other sources for personal development.
I post this as the end of day one of the conference/exhibition closes – predictably, from a quick look on LinkedIn, all the talk is about AI. That said, following events via LinkedIn is certainly not as good an experience as Twitter/TweetDeck used to be.
For those who are attending in April 2025: I hope you find it useful, and I will certainly try and be there in 2026 for my 10th anniversary of last time.
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