Austin: The Place

HOTBED OF TECH AND INNOVATION

BURSTING WITH CREATIVITY

FAMOUSLY WEIRD

 

Get insider access to AUSTIN’s innovative LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, LABS, AND PEOPLE

With one of America’s most innovative cities as your learning lab, this exclusive field trip (limited to 50) gives you insider access to cutting-edge learning organizations, people, and technology throughout Austin — and guides you through facilitated creative debriefs to adapt and apply these innovations in your organization.

If you work in learning and development — and are seeking new ways to design training and develop employees — don’t miss this immersive learning event.

Innovations in Training Austin is co-located with Training magazine’s TechLearn 2022 Conference. Additional fee applies, and includes two lunches, breaks, two dinners, and most transportation.

"In the past three days, I've felt like a kid in a candy store. This has been absolutely fantastic – all these tools and ways to use simulations and virtual environments."

— Rick McNamara, Siemens

 

Hands-on SITE VISITS

We will visit organizations in Austin that are leading the way for innovative approaches to designing, developing and delivering workplace training – both today and in the future – including The Dumpster Project, IBM Design Studio Austin, the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing’s Simulation and Skills Center, and Whole Foods. Plus, participate in an Immersive Lab featuring Revinax, Microsoft, VR, and more.

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INNOVATION CHATS

We will hear concrete examples of how leading innovators are changing their strategy and approaches to training innovation – including from IBM Design Studio, Whole Foods, and the University of Texas at Austin School of Design and Creative Technologies.

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Innovation Jams + CREATIVE DEBRIEFS

We will learn how to foster a mindset to innovate, and weave creative reflections throughout the experience. Then, after engaging with and hearing from a broad diversity of innovative examples, we will help you answer the question: So what? Through facilitated creative processes and design thinking, we will help you make connections, generate new ideas, and apply these insights to your organization. Innovation Jam facilitators will join us from The Dumpster Project, IBM Design Studio, the University of Texas at Austin School of Design and Creative Technologies, and Training magazine.

FEATURED Speakers

AMANDA MASINO, THE DUMPSTER PROJECT

ADAM CUTLER, IBM DESIGN STUDIO AUSTIN

LAURA STERLING, WHOLE FOODS

Who Comes?

Innovations in Training attracts people who want to push beyond traditional approaches to workplace learning and apply new ways to design and deploy more engaging training. Come and see the “state of the art”!