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- 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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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