Plan your Shift experience

Learn

Learn

Expand your knowledge:

  • Interactive workshops
  • Expert-led demos
Connect

Connect

Build meaningful relationships:

  • Breakout sessions
  • Networking and curated dinners
Discuss

Discuss

Gain transformative insights:

  • Customer panels
  • Strategic discussions
Go deeper

Go deeper

Engage with expert perspectives:

  • Shared Author Summit experiences
  • Exclusive sessions

Agenda at a glance

Monday, October 12

Registration open2 p.m.
Welcome reception5 – 7 p.m.

Tuesday, October 13

Registration open and breakfast8 a.m.
Roadmap and vision: Product, content, and solutions9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Fireside Chat with Kimberly-Clark
10:45 – 11 a.m.
Keynote speaker
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sessions and workshops1:30 – 5 p.m.
Evening event5 – 8 p.m.

Wednesday, October 14

Registration open and breakfast8 a.m.
Best in Tech awards and panel9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Sessions and workshops11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Lunch12 – 1 p.m.
Sessions and workshops1 – 3:15 p.m.
Closing keynote 3:15 – 4:15 p.m.

The Future of the Tech Workforce

AI is changing what skills matter, as well as how people access knowledge, synthesize information, and make decisions. This closing panel explores the questions that don't yet have clean answers: how to build readiness around a moving target, why human judgment may be the most underinvested capability in the AI era, and what it actually takes to ensure your organization is built to deliver on what's coming.

Thursday, October 15

Departure

Sessions and workshops

Day one

Tuesday, October 13

Sessions and workshops · 1:30 – 5 p.m.
A Block A 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Establish a Skills Foundation Develop Your Tech Skills Learning Strategy for the AI Age

Learn how to evolve your learning strategy in an AI-assisted world by choosing the right modalities and depth based on the why-to-do, what-to-do, and how-to-do behind each skill.

Establish a Skills Foundation Skill IQ Suite: Measure Skill Growth and Prove Readiness

Discover how the expanded Pluralsight Skill IQ Suite helps leaders understand team readiness. Explore how four assessment types measure skill development and validate whether teams can apply critical capabilities.

Establish a Skills Foundation Architecting Skill Progression: How Wells Fargo Keeps Thousands of Employees Learning

Wells Fargo mapped 61 technical roles into a transparent, data-driven framework for skill progression and career mobility. Find out how they built a program strategy to keep it alive, structured enterprise-wide role clarity, and sustained high engagement long after the initial rollout.

Break
B Block B 2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Establish a Skills Foundation Assess your Enterprise AI Strategy and Governance

Assess your organization’s AI maturity with a structured approach to AI strategy and governance. You’ll identify gaps in accountability, risk, and readiness, and leave with a clearer view of where to focus next.

Establish a Skills Foundation The Missing Line Item: Why Cloud ROI Depends on Upskilling

Cloud and AI transformations fail not from lack of technology or budget, but from lack of people ready to operate what gets built. Learn why workforce readiness is systematically undervalued in cloud business cases—and leave with a framework for making it a first-class line item.

Establish a Skills Foundation Build Custom Learning Paths in One Unified Platform

Explore how to bring your own content into Pluralsight and enable teams to organize internal knowledge, build custom learning paths, track completion, and create a unified view of learning.

Break
C Block C 4 – 5 p.m.
Build Teams to Deliver at Scale 2026 Tech Skills Report: Data-backed Strategies to Build Tech Readiness

Get a data-backed view of tech skills readiness. Find out what the Pluralsight Tech Skills Report reveals about current skills gaps, upskilling challenges, and how organizations can build learning cultures that keep pace with change.

Establish a Skills Foundation Measure What Matters With the New Analytics Experience

Explore the new Pluralsight Analytics experience, including duration-weighted progress, expanded learning time metrics, and a new learner view. See how to get a more accurate picture of learning investment, then take a guided tour of the learner experience.

Build Teams to Deliver at Scale Gamifying AI at Scale: BMO's Journey from Pilot to 1,500 Copilot Users

Learn how BMO scaled AI adoption by turning GitHub Copilot access into real engineering engagement—from a targeted pilot to a Summer Quest that reached 1,500 users—and what it takes to sustain effectiveness after initial momentum fades.

Day two

Wednesday, October 14

Sessions and workshops · 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 – 3:15 p.m.
D Block D 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Build Teams to Deliver at Scale MCP: Deliver Learning in the Flow of Work

Get a practical look at Model Context Protocol (MCP) and find out how Pluralsight delivers personalized recommendations and AI intelligence through tools like ChatGPT and Claude, making learning easier to access where technical teams already work.

Establish a Skills Foundation Choose the Right AI Solutions for Your Business

There's no single AI tool that wins for every organization. Learn the decision factors for building a multi-vendor AI strategy and why AI success relies on building strong cloud skills within your organization.

Build Teams to Deliver at Scale Beyond the AI Pilot: Turn Technology Investment into Workforce Impact

Learn what separates AI initiatives that deliver lasting value from those that stall after the pilot, with insights from Microsoft's learning director and industry experts on identifying scalable use cases, measuring the ROI that matters, closing skills gaps, and building the workforce readiness needed to turn AI investment into measurable outcomes.

Lunch · 12 – 1 p.m.
E Block E 1 – 2 p.m.
Build Teams to Deliver at Scale Develop AI Fluency at Scale: Where Broad Literacy Meets Deep Capability

Learn how to build an AI-ready workforce with the broad fluency that enables governance, risk management, and informed decision-making across the organization, and the deep technical capability for the people who need it—from organizations who have already done both.

Build Teams to Deliver at Scale Operationalize AI Safety with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Build safer generative AI solutions on AWS with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. Learn how configurable controls help protect sensitive information, reduce prompt injection risk, and enforce organizational policies.

Build Teams to Deliver at Scale Accelerating Workforce Transformation: The Academy Ecosystem Blueprint

Learn how Expeditors built beyond the curriculum by combining Pluralsight academies with the Academy Ecosystem Blueprint, creating an immersive learning experience that accelerated skill development, learner engagement, and organizational change.

Break
F Block F 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Establish a Skills Foundation Drive Success Through Engagement: How IRS Criminal Investigation Built a Culture of Learning

Learn how IRS Criminal Investigation doubled down on its investment in people and drove a 99% engaged user rate for a full year through executive accountability, team-specific learning paths, and programs employees wanted to participate in.

Build Teams to Deliver at Scale Turn AI Investment into Measurable Business Outcomes

Join us for a practical look at Pluralsight AI Academy and AI Ready. Learn how AI Academy helps organizations build workforce-wide AI capability tied to measurable outcomes, and how AI Ready gives developers a structured path to become agentic AI engineers.

Speakers

Cassie Kozyrkov

Keynote speaker

CEO

Kozyr

Brent Blawat

AI strategist and author

Lisa Boening

Executive Director, Learning & Development Senior Manager

Wells Fargo

Micah Carioto

Global Technology Training & Personnel Development

Expeditors International

Tia Doyle

Manager of Learning Innovation and Strategy

David Ernst

Director of Cloud Migrations

Clearscale

Doug Hamor

Learning Product Lead

Bank of Montreal

Chris Hennesey

AWS Executive in Residence

AWS

Angel Jordan

VP Infosec Training and Awareness Leader

Synchrony

Carlos Pardo

Director, Learning & Skilling Management

Microsoft

Molly Poeschl

Director, Enterprise Supply Chain Product Management

Kimberly-Clark

Glen Stinson

VP Chief Information Security Officer

James River Insurance

Aliyah Torrance

Global Director of Talent Development

Akamai

Chioma Agu

Principal Product Manager

Pluralsight

Dr. Lyron Andrews

Author Fellow, Cybersecurity and AI

Pluralsight

Alan Arias

Product Manager

Pluralsight

Faye Ellis

Author Fellow, Cloud and AI

Pluralsight

John Elliott

Author Fellow, Cybersecurity and AI

Pluralsight

Drew Firment

VP of Global Partnerships

Pluralsight

Nancy Goodman

Director, Product Management

Pluralsight

Adam Ipsen

Sr. Content Strategy Manager

Pluralsight

Racheal Killian

Director, Product Management

Pluralsight

Harsh Patel

Sr. Product Manager

Pluralsight

Sam Pena

SVP Global Presales

Pluralsight

Eric Van Gorden

Sr. Product Manager

Pluralsight

Tim Warner

Principal Author, IT Ops

Pluralsight

Beckey Woodard Cole

Chief People Officer

Pluralsight

Annie Xie

Principal Product Manager

Pluralsight

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