Plenary
Metropolitan Ballroom
I4PL 2026 · Igniting The Capability Era
A programme with a point of view
Two days, four streams, and roughly 25 speakers. Follow one stream all the way through or move between them as your own work demands.
Programme transcribed from the live I4PL Whova schedule. Times, rooms and speakers are as Whova holds them and are subject to change; Whova remains the operational record.
Wednesday 25 November
- Exhibitor ShowcaseMetropolitan Ballroom
- RegistrationMetropolitan Foyer
- Breakfast BuffetMetropolitan Ballroom
SpeakerKeka DasGuptaFounder and PrincipalPrecision Marketing Group Inc. (& Art of Life-ing)
Keynote
Metropolitan Ballroom
The 63% Gap: What’s Really Blocking Capability in Your Organization
Three-quarters of Canadians want to re-skill to manage changing job needs, yet 63% do not feel comfortable enough to show up as themselves at work. You know how to design great learning experiences and build capable teams. This keynote is about what the research says is getting in the way.
- Exhibitor Showcase – Morning BreakMetropolitan Ballroom
Choose one of 4
Mastering the Learning Craft
Harbour B
From Training to Transformation: Instruction That Powers Performance
SpeakerSean ReaDirectorFriesen, Kaye and Associates
As workplaces evolve at an unprecedented pace, the skills employees need are shifting just as quickly. Traditional training models, built around teaching specific steps to complete specific tasks, are struggling to keep up. This session looks at what learning programmes need to become instead.
Human + AI
Harbour C
Turning Assessments into Learning Impact with AI and Smart Design
- SpeakerGilda MartinezDirector of OperationsArtha Learning Inc.
Most learning teams measure memorisation, not capability, and the assessment data they surface rarely earns the trust of the executives who fund the work. This session is about producing learning evidence that links directly to performance and business outcomes.
Generations & Momentum
Harbour A
Different Minds at Work: Enabling Neuroinclusive Leadership Through Learning
SpeakerHannah BrownLearning Strategist
Conservative estimates indicate one in five people identify as neurodivergent. Forward-thinking organisations recognise the value of environments where this population can thrive, yet many leaders struggle to translate policy into daily practice.
Designing the Capability Engine
Pier 2 & 3
Human Skills by Design: Building the Conditions for Use That Turn Skill Into Capability
SpeakerShawna ColeLearning and OD StrategistCole Educational Designs
- Exhibitor Showcase – Lunch BuffetMetropolitan Ballroom
SpeakerDr. David WeissPresident and CEOWeiss International Ltd.
VIP Experience
Pier 9
VIP Experience with Dr. David Weiss
Choose one of 4
Mastering the Learning Craft
Harbour B
The Yellow Brick Road to Leveled-Up Learning
SpeakerGinine CapozziTalent Development ConsultingKnowledgeForce Consulting LLC
A session about transforming ordinary training into extraordinary learning experiences, and about how talent development professionals level up the way they unlock employee potential.
Designing the Capability Engine
Pier 2 & 3
The Hidden Goldmine: Bridging the Capability Gap Through SME Enablement
SpeakerSukran (Shuky) BalabanLearning ConsultantWell-Instruct Consultancy
Organisations sit on a hidden goldmine of expertise, yet many struggle to translate it into consistent capability across teams and roles. Valuable knowledge stays informal, siloed, or dependent on a few experienced individuals while learning teams face rising pressure.
Generations & Momentum
Harbour A
Generations and Momentum Panel Discussion
Human + AI
Harbour C
Kill the Job Description: A Practical Framework for Building Skills-Based Capability in the Age of AI
SpeakerBianca BaumannVP, Learning Solutions and InnovationArdent Learning
Job descriptions describe the workforce you needed before intelligent tooling rewrote the rules of work. They are static documents in a dynamic environment, and organisations still hiring, developing and deploying people against them are already falling behind.
- Exhibitor Showcase – Afternoon BreakMetropolitan Ballroom
Choose one of 4
Mastering the Learning Craft
Harbour B
Beyond the Chatbot: How Canadian North Airlines Engineers Intelligent Adaptive Learning in Storyline
SpeakerArman KhakiSenior Instructional DesignerCanadian North Airlines
SpeakerPhilippe DesrochersTraining ManagerCanadian North
Most learning teams have bolted intelligent tooling onto their courses. Few have built courses that genuinely adapt. This session shows how Canadian North Airlines engineered a working adaptive learning experience inside Articulate Storyline, and the method behind it.
Designing the Capability Engine
Pier 2 & 3
From Pressure to Performance: Translating Competencies into Capability for the Nonprofit Context
- SpeakerRashmi BiswasCo-OwnerLake and Associates
SpeakerPerri TermineDirector of ResearchLake and Associates
Nonprofit leaders are navigating technological disruption, shifting workforce expectations, funding volatility and rising community needs. In that environment, learning that merely informs is not enough.
Human + AI
Harbour C
Gameworlds, Compassionate AI Design and Connectedness: Toward a New Model of Learning
- SpeakerDavid ChandrossInterprofessional EducatorPallium Canada and Ontario Tech University
How to build experiential online learning set in fantasy worlds with a deep narrative tied to purpose and meaning, using a suite of intelligent tools and simple code embedded in an LMS such as Rise.
Generations & Momentum
Harbour A
Mastery in Facilitation: Elevate Your Training Delivery Capabilities
SpeakerMoe PoirierFounding PartnerShift Facilitation
What are the unique gifts you bring as a facilitator, and what human imprint do you leave with every group you meet? An interactive session on naming your strengths and recognising your signature style.
- Travel to Concurrent Session 4
Choose one of 4
Mastering the Learning Craft
Harbour B
What’s New in PowerPoint Copilot for Effective Visual Storytelling
SpeakerRichard GoringDirectorBrightCarbon
Intelligent tooling is reshaping how everyone works, but PowerPoint feels too embedded to be cast aside. Microsoft and others have built those tools into PowerPoint, and the capabilities keep changing. This session covers what is new and what is genuinely useful.
Designing the Capability Engine
Pier 2 & 3
Friction as Fuel: Why Your Most Hostile Participants Are Your Greatest L&D Asset
SpeakerErika SkitaFounder and Principal ConsultantBrave Era
In the Capability Era, learning must move beyond information delivery to real organisational transformation, and transformation is inherently messy. Practitioners face accumulated mistrust and change fatigue in a shifting workforce.
Generations & Momentum
Harbour A
Five Costly Training Mistakes, and How to Fix Them
SpeakerDanielle WallaceChief Learning StrategistBeyond Role Plays
Most training delivers knowledge, but that does not mean people perform better at work. Programmes often focus on engagement, content and quizzes while cutting the very elements that drive behaviour change. A high-energy, no-lecture session.
Human + AI
Harbour C
Human + AI: The New Workforce Equation Panel Discussion
SpeakerRobin YapChief Executive and Learning Innovation OfficerPoint North
- Networking ReceptionMetropolitan Ballroom
Thursday 26 November
The Thursday programme is being transcribed from Whova and will be published here shortly.
Mastering the Learning Craft
Sharpen your instructional edge.
Craft still decides whether learning lands. This stream goes deep on the practice itself: instructional design that respects how people actually learn, facilitation that holds a difficult room, accessible and inclusive design as a default rather than a retrofit, and evaluation you can stand behind. Directly relevant to CTDP and CTP certification holders maintaining their professional practice.
Who this is for
- Instructional designers and developers
- Facilitators and trainers
- CTDP and CTP certification holders
Designing the Capability Engine
Build systems, not just sessions.
Most learning functions are still organised around delivery. This stream is for the people rebuilding them around capability: skills architecture, workforce planning that survives a reorganisation, and measurement a CFO will actually read. You leave with the structural questions worth asking when you get back to your own organisation.
Who this is for
- Heads of learning and talent
- Capability and workforce strategists
- Learning leaders rebuilding a function
Human + AI: The New Workforce Equation
Lead the shift. Do not just react to it.
Intelligent tooling has moved from pilot to payroll, and the honest questions are no longer technical. What work is genuinely changing? Which skills gained value overnight, and which quietly lost it? How do you retrain a workforce without pretending the disruption is smaller than it is? For practitioners who need a defensible position, not a keynote.
Who this is for
- Practitioners facing a reskilling mandate
- Change and transformation leads
- Anyone asked to have an answer by Q1
Generations and Momentum
Learning that works for every generation in the room.
Five working generations, one learning strategy, and a great deal of lazy generalisation in between. This stream looks at what the evidence actually supports: inclusion and neurodiversity as design inputs, knowledge transfer before retirement takes it, early-career development that does not condescend, and mentorship that runs in both directions.
Who this is for
- Talent and succession planners
- Mentorship programme owners
- Teams spanning wide age ranges
Make Monday different
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Two days for practical learning, genuine connection, and the work that moves capability forward.
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