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Learn
Expand your knowledge:
- Interactive workshops
- Expert-led demos
Connect
Build meaningful relationships:
- Breakout sessions
- Networking and curated dinners
Discuss
Gain transformative insights:
- Customer panels
- Strategic discussions
Go deeper
Engage with expert perspectives:
- Shared Author Summit experiences
- Exclusive sessions
Agenda at a glance
Monday, October 12
Tuesday, October 13
Wednesday, October 14
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
Sessions and workshops
Tuesday, October 13
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.

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.
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.

Wednesday, October 14
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.
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.

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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