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 – 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

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.

Harsh Patel
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.

Chioma Agu
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.

Annie Xie
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.

Dr. Lyron Andrews
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.

John Elliott
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.

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.

Clearscale
AWS
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.

Eric Van Gorden
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.

Alan Arias
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.

Faye Ellis
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.

Adam Ipsen
Reset Change Management: Why Smart People Resist Tech Change

AI change can stall when it resets expertise and people feel their status slipping. The Reset Map helps you diagnose where resistance is coming from and gives you practical tools to lower the cost of change for your team and yourself.

Gamifying AI at Scale: BMO's Journey from Pilot to 3,000 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 3,000 users—and what it takes to sustain effectiveness after initial momentum fades.

Bank of Montreal

Speakers

Cassie Kozyrkov

Keynote speaker

CEO

Kozyr

Faye Ellis

Author Fellow, Cloud and AI

Pluralsight

John Elliott

Author Fellow, Cybersecurity and AI

Pluralsight

Dr. Lyron Andrews

Author Fellow, Cybersecurity and AI

Pluralsight

Harsh Patel

Sr. Product Manager

Pluralsight

Eric Van Gorden

Sr. Product Manager

Pluralsight

Chioma Agu

Principal Product Manager

Pluralsight

Alan Arias

Product Manager

Pluralsight

Annie Xie

Principal Product Manager

Pluralsight

Adam Ipsen

Sr. Content Strategy Manager

Pluralsight

Heather MacDonald

Director, Consulting Services

Pluralsight

Tim Warner

Principal Author, IT Ops

Pluralsight

Doug Hamor

Learning Product Lead

Bank of Montreal

Angel Jordan

VP Infosec Training and Awareness Leader

Synchrony

David Ernst

Director of Cloud Migrations

Clearscale

Drew Firment

VP of Global Partnerships

Pluralsight

Chris Hennesey

AWS Executive in Residence

AWS

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