Welcome!


Robin Hoyleon what to expect at – and how to gain the most from – the World of Learning Summit 2023


Bring your voice!


curse goes: “May you live in interesting times” and well … we do! The current turbulence has had a massive impact on organisations in general, and L&D teams in particular. The shock of a global pandemic slowly faded to reveal an even more confusing landscape, one riven with economic uncertainty, widening inequality and all its attendant challenges – whether that’s industrial action or a labour market more volatile than I can ever remember – each affect our industry and workplaces. While it would be perfectly reasonable


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to curl up under a duvet and wait for it all to pass, L&D folks are made of sterner stuff. So, I hope that this summit provides practical and pragmatic insights into how we can make sense of our role amidst the current uncertain environment. New challenges for leaders are front and centre of our programme. Of course, it would be madness to ignore the fact that money is tight and budgets constrained. There are sessions focused on upskilling and, I’m pleased to say, a focus on learning beyond the classroom or digital module


elcome to the World of Learning Summit, 2023! As the oft- quoted Chinese


and into the workplace. If we need people to apply new skills and change ways of working, our support needs to go beyond providing increasingly whizzy content and be more involved in the ‘pointy’ end of work. In fact, maybe we need less content? Certainly, we can’t be the only people sharing knowledge and experience with our colleagues? The summit will investigate that too.


them. Whether it is helping people to adapt to new roles, work with new technologies or harness the myriad talents of a diverse workforce, we’ll spend some time making sense of where we are now and where we are going. Where I think World of Learning


I n s ig h t s into how we can make sense of our role amidst the current u n c e rt a in e n v iron m e n t


Finding the right people to perform the


roles we need has never been harder, and so I’m also delighted that the programme reects the crca re f D n th helping people develop their skills and keeping them in roles once they have the new capabilities they need. Finally, we’ll take a helicopter view of


the forces at work that impact our people and our role in supporting and developing


events differ from other conferences and summits is that we’re not preaching a single mantra. We have assembled a terrfic st f cntrtrs  se speakers, some facilitating more collaborative sessions – they all have much to add. But one thing I can be sure of is that they won’t all agree! However, we want the challenge of constructive disagreement! We want our contributors to challenge the audience to think bigger. To think differently and do differently. But most of all, we want you to challenge them.


Bring your beefs, bring your experience and bring your voice. The Word of Learning Summit exists not because of the great folks on the podium, but because of the great folks in the audience. I hope you enjoy the Summit with us, but most of all I hope you learn some new things – and help others learn them too.


Robin Hoyle is Chair of World of Learning Summit 2023


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