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Mike Song is one of the world’s leading technology and time management experts. His keynote speeches and workshops motivate participants to get organized, prioritized, and energized to excel. In addition to  Zip! Tips: The Fastest Way to Get More Done, he’s the lead author of the bestselling email and meeting effectiveness book  The Hamster Revolution,which has sold more than 150,000 copies in 12 languages. Mike is CEO and founder of GetControl.net, an internationally renowned productivity training company. He has given interviews with  Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal. Mike has been awarded a United States patent for his universal organizational system, called COTA. He has even helped the Secret Service, FBI, Navy, and Army to communicate and manage information more effectively. Mike has presented to a wide range of companies and organizations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has provided training and e-learning to 20 percent of the Fortune 500, including Mercedes, Capital One, Novartis, Microsoft, and McDonald’s.

Mike Song

What is Demo Day?

This free, half-day event offers you the opportunity to see live demos from five leading AI-augmented learning tech solutions. Each 30-minute demo allows you to see the solution in action, ask questions, and request additional information. Selecting new technologies for your organization is a tough decision and a big investment. Let ATD Demo Day help you learn about the benefits of a variety of options at once.

Who is it for?
Anyone who is currently searching for innovative solutions using AI, interested in transforming their L&amp;D workflow with generative AI, or scaling and automating enterprise training programs.

Demo Day Agenda: (All times below are Eastern Standard Time)

11:55 a.m.–12 p.m.— ATD Introduction &amp; Welcome
12–12:30 p.m.—Practical AI Solutions for Real Business Impact (Strategy.AI)
12:45–1:15 p.m.—Critical Reskilling: AI Workforce Transformation (Ascendient Learning)
1:30–2 p.m.—Be An AI Ninja – Must Try Tips! (Get Control)
2:15–2:45 p.m. —The Human Side of AI: Building Resilience Through Change (ELB Learning)
3–3:30 p.m.—AI &amp; Learning and Development: Beyond the Button (MadCap Software)


Session Descriptions:

12–12:30 p.m. ET – Strategy.AI Demo

Practical AI Solutions for Real Business Impact


Transform your L&amp;D function with AI! Discover how to identify skills gaps, personalize training, and measure impact to prove your value to business leaders. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your capabilities!


Join this session to:


	Discover how, in just 15 minutes, you can use AI to identify skill gaps and recommend personalized solutions for thousands of employees—scaling L&amp;D impact faster than ever before.
	Uncover how AI fosters cross-department collaboration, transforming siloed teams into knowledge-sharing powerhouses.
	Use AI to transform how learners engage with PowerPoint presentations—what used to be a boring reading exercise can now become a personalized, two-way experience!


Speaker: Andrew Leong-Fern, Founder and CEO, Strategy AI

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12:45–1:15 p.m. ET

Critical Reskilling: AI Workforce Transformation

AI is creating change across the workforce, with the World Economic Forum estimating that 59% of workers will need significant upskilling or reskilling by 2030; however, most organizations lack the training resources or strategies to adapt to these challenges. Ascendient Learning leverages over 60 years of IT training experience to deliver instructor-led training solutions customized to your business needs, ranging from company-wide awareness training to highly technical multi-week bootcamps.

Join this session to:


	Understand the impact that AI will have on the technical workforce.
	Identify key skills needed for AI-enabled job roles.
	Learn how to develop and implement an upskilling strategy that develops in-house talent to fill these growing requirements.


 

Speaker: Brian Carlson, Alliances and Strategic Accounts, Ascendient Learning

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1:30-2:00 p.m.

Be An AI Ninja – Must Try Tips!

Unleash your inner AI Ninja with our action-packed session for L&amp;D professionals! Join bestselling author Mike Song and the Get Control Training team as we countdown the top 10 AI tips for ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and more. Discover hidden features, best practices, and essential tools embedded in MS Teams and Windows, including time-saving tricks like using Collections for prompt templates. Boost efficiency, streamline workflows, and maximize the potential of AI in your organization. Trusted by 20% of the Fortune 500, this session delivers high-impact insights designed to empower you and your team. Don’t miss this game-changing experience!


Join this session to:


	Build More Effective Prompts.
	Discover Hidden ChatGPT &amp; Copilot Features.
	Save 20 minutes a day.


Speaker: Mike Song, Get Control

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2:15-2:45 p.m.

The Human Side of AI: Building Resilience Through Change


ELB Learning can help you empower your team to thrive in an AI-driven world. This session will explore how we can help you raise your team’s AI literacy, craft custom AI solutions, and guide your organization through change with tailored adoption plans. You’ll learn how we can help you create AI roadmaps, deploy cutting-edge tools, and foster a culture of innovation. By understanding the human side of AI adoption, you can seamlessly integrate technology into your workflows and align it with your business goals for lasting success.


Join this session to:


	Discover practical ways to integrate AI tools into daily workflows and upskill teams.
	Learn how to design and deploy AI-enabled solutions to meet your unique business needs.
	Identify effective change management strategies for smooth AI adoption and sustained growth.


Speaker: Josh Penzell, VP of AI Innovations and Solutions, ELB Learning

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3:00-3:30 p.m.

AI &amp; Learning and Development: Beyond the Button

AI is more than a simple tool for generating text—it’s reshaping how organizations manage, control, and deliver their content. As learning and development teams navigate the challenges of content proliferation, consistency, and proprietary control, they must carve out a strategic role in the enterprise AI ecosystem. Join us as we explore a smarter approach to AI—one that goes beyond automation to empower organizations with vetted, reliable, and controlled content. Discover how MadCap’s intentional AI strategy is rethinking learning content's role in an accelerating AI environment.


Join this session to:


	Explore how AI is transforming how organizations manage, control, and deliver content.
	Discover why learning and development teams must take a strategic role in AI adoption to address content challenges.
	Learn why a smarter AI strategy goes beyond automation to ensure vetted, reliable, and controlled content.



Speaker: Chris Kocher, MadCap Software

ATD Demo Day: Augment L&D with AI 

Join bestselling author Mike Song in this dynamic and engaging webinar as he demonstrates how to harness AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to revolutionize content creation. When an unexpected challenge arises, watch as Mike uses AI to craft a class, workbooks, and even a song live! Master great prompts and discover incredibly useful shortcuts that save L&amp;D professionals up to two hours a day while boosting content quality. Transform your workflow and ignite creativity in this unforgettable session.

7 ChatGPT & Copilot Hacks Every L&D Pro Must Know

Tech Quotient: The Most Critical Work-From-Home Skill

October 2009 - TD Magazine

Taming Meeting Monsters

Our connection to music is emotional, almost visceral. In your learning sessions, songs can help set a mood, reinforce learning, and maintain participant's energy levels. Review the questions in this resource to help select and use music best suited to your training activity.

Use Music to Make Your Learning Sing

    One of the biggest challenges e-learning designers face is how to add dynamic, engaging interactivity to courses without needing any advanced programming skills or a bigger budget. With Articulate Engage, anyone can quickly and easily build polished, professional interactions that transform learners from passive viewers into active participants.In a single window, Engage allows you to add text, record audio, and insert images, videos, or characters. By filling out the simplest of forms, you can build an interaction in minutes—instead of the hours, days, or even weeks it could take to program a custom interaction.Engage also provides a wide variety of options for breathing new life into boring content. Choose from 20 interactions that guide you with intuitive, easy-to-use forms to produce brilliant, engaging material.Here are just a few of the many ways you can use Engage to add interactivity to your online courses.Quick knowledge checksIf you want learners to apply or repeat back what they’ve learned without breaking the flow of your course, try creating a quick knowledge check using the Quick Choice interaction. It’s a great alternative to a full-fledged quiz or assessment because it keeps learning momentum going. View the Quick Choice InteractionInteractive scenariosOne of the best ways to add meaningful interactivity to your courses is to challenge your learners with realistic scenarios. Check out how the Tabs interaction enables you to apply the Three Cs of Scenario Building. All on one slide, it presents a challenge, offers some choices, and outlines the consequences of each choice.View the Tabs InteractionMedia galleriesIf you ever need to present a collection of media-rich content, Engage can help you create a professional-looking media gallery in no time.The Media Panel interaction makes it easy to present a series of images or videos, and it also leaves you plenty of room for text-based information.View the Media Panel InteractionThe Media Tour interaction is another way to create an interactive experience that guides learners through a collection of related multimedia content.View the Media Tour InteractionYou can use Engage interactions as either a stand-alone activity, like the examples above, or integrated into the content of your e-learning course.These are just a few of the many ways Engage can help you build more interactive courses. Once you see how quick and easy it is to create visually compelling e-learning content, you’ll never settle for dull again.If you’d like to try this yourself but don’t have Articulate Studio ’13, you can grab a fully functional, free 30-day trial.

Toolbox Tip: Build Interactive E-Learning with Articulate Engage

Federal agencies face a unique paradox: the mandate to modernize rapidly, while upholding the highest standards of security, compliance, and operational continuity. With digital transformation accelerating across the public sector, traditional training approaches are struggling to keep pace.The systems have changed. The training must evolve, too.Whether it’s implementing updated HR platforms, launching new procurement tools, or transitioning to modern case management systems, today’s federal workforce needs more than access to information. They need hands-on, system-specific practice that builds real-world confidence, without the risk of live environments.The Case for Secure, Scenario-Based TrainingIn the private sector, onboarding and upskilling often happen in fast, iterative cycles. In government, the stakes are different. A single misstep in a mission-critical system can affect millions of people. This is why more agencies are investing in scenario-based training that allows employees to safely engage with realistic simulations of the tools they will use on the job.This approach offers several key benefits:Risk-free immersion: Employees can make mistakes, learn, and improve in a secure environment before ever logging into a production system.Accelerated onboarding: New hires ramp up faster when they can practice, not just follow instructions or review videos.Agility during change: When systems or policies shift, simulations can be quickly updated to reflect new processes.Audit-ready insights: Systems that track training usage and completion provide documentation to support compliance.Balancing Security With ScalabilityOne of the biggest challenges in federal training is not just content. It is deploying that content securely and at scale. Cloud-based tools can offer flexibility and speed, but they must also meet strict federal security standards, especially when dealing with sensitive data.That is why many agencies are looking for platforms that align with FedRAMP or similar frameworks. These standards ensure training solutions meet the same security expectations as any other mission-critical government technology.Training can no longer be treated as a final step. It must be part of the transformation strategy from the beginning.As agencies work to build a more agile and adaptable federal workforce, training must become more immersive, more flexible, and more secure. It is not just about sharing knowledge. It is about building operational confidence in the very tools that drive service delivery.ATD’s Government Workforce Conference is the perfect opportunity to explore what the next chapter of federal workforce development should look like. Whether your agency is focused on HR modernization, compliance, remote operations, or large-scale system rollouts, one principle applies: Secure and scalable training is essential to mission success.

Training for Complexity: Building a Future-Ready Federal Workforce in a Secure World

(Alexandria, VA), March 5, 2018 – The Association for Talent Development (ATD) welcomes Tara Deakin, Senior Vice President, Talent & Organization Effectiveness for TD Bank Group, as the 2018 chair of its board of directors. Charles Fred, founder of The Reignite Group, is serving as ATD chair-elect, and three new members are also joining the 2018 board of directors.Tara Deakin has more than 16 years of progressive experience in the field of organizational development and learning. As the lead for TD’s enterprise talent and organization development strategy, Ms. Deakin’s mandate is to grow the power of TD’s 85,000 employees and attract new colleagues to ensure the bank's future growth and ongoing delivery of legendary customer experiences. Talent acquisition, talent management, organizational effectiveness, learning and development, diversity, and inclusion are the core components of Ms. Deakin’s portfolio.Charles Fred is a best-selling author and a serial entrepreneur. He has devoted over three decades of his life discovering new ways for professionals to acquire skills necessary to compete in today’s knowledge-thirsty economy. Considered a pioneer in the e-learning industry, Mr. Fred has founded and led several successful companies that provide learning technologies and services. His best-selling book, Breakaway, is credited with transforming learning strategies within service organizations across the globe.Three members have joined ATD’s 2018 board, including Desmond Atkins, Vice President, People & Organization, at Sony Pictures Entertainment; Michael Nehoray, VP, Global Talent Development for Mattel; and Rose Velez-Smith, Global VP, Human Resources, Business Groups and Workforce Services for Pitney Bowes. They join current board members:• Wendy Gates Corbett, CPLP, President and Lead Visualist, Refresher Training• Catherine (Cat) Lang, VP, Global Education Services, ServiceNow• Jessica Neal, Chief Talent Officer, Netflix• Ted Smith, CEO, REVON Systems• Mike Williams, Getting Things Done Enterprise Architect, ZapposTony Bingham, ATD President and CEO, is also a member of the board.About ATDThe Association for Talent Development (ATD) is the world’s largest professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees, improve performance, and help to achieve results for the organizations they serve. Established in 1943, the association was previously known as the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).ATD’s members come from more than 120 countries and work in public and private organizations in every industry sector. ATD supports talent development professionals who gather locally in volunteer-led U.S. chapters and international member networks, and with international strategic partners. For more information, visit www.td.org.

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