Join our opening general session featuring:

• Opening keynote with Pluralsight CEO Erin Gajdalo
• Fireside chat with Alexander Lindstrand, VP, Head of Learning & Development at Saab
• Pluralsight product keynote with Pluralsight VP of Product, River Brandon
• Guest keynote and audience Q&A with Dr. Simone Ahuja, CEO, Innovation Expert, Bestselling Author

The 2025 Best in Tech Awards honor the teams who are redefining what’s possible with skill, strategy, and innovation. Come be inspired by the stories of this year’s winners and see how they’re shaping the future of technology.

Creating new tech onramps: Building a strategy for bridging the talent gap
Discover how organizations are closing the talent gap by investing in under-represented communities and creating less traditional onramps into technology careers.
Featuring Gary Flowers, YearUp United; Emily Hughes, Bank of America; and Cheryl Minella, Pluralsight

Building skills at scale
Learn how leading organizations are tackling the complex challenge of building tech skills across their entire workforce. Uncover real-world strategies and best practices for effectively scaling tech literacy and expertise within your enterprise.
Featuring Navid Azadi, Saab; Mayara Lucio Farche, Wex; Micah Carioto, Expeditors

Building a Learning Ecosystem: Integrating Formal, Informal, and Experiential Learning
No single learning approach is sufficient. This interactive session focuses on how to create a holistic learning ecosystem that blends structured courses, collaborative informal learning, and on-the-job experiential development to maximize skill acquisition and retention.
Featuring Jill Cason, Southwest Airlines & Heather MacDonald, Pluralsight

From consumers to creators: Building a digital-first talent engine
Join us to hear directly from Amy Huth, Director, Chief of Staff at Kimberly-Clark, about their journey from being a consumer of technology to becoming a creator of digital capabilities. She’ll share how a skills-first approach enabled them to develop proprietary solutions, win a "Best in Tech Platinum Award," and create an award-winning talent engine built for speed and resilience.

Copilot Can’t Fly Solo: Beyond the Vibes of Enterprise AI
From proof-of-concept to production, the last 20% of GenAI adoption is where the real work—and real value—lives. This session dives into what happens after the demo, when hallucinations, integration friction, and missing context collide with real-world engineering systems. We’ll share practical strategies for embedding GenAI in sociotechnical environments—via hands-on customization, prompt playbooks, and immersive team enablement. Along the way, you’ll see how teams are weaving AI into platforms like MCP, GitHub, and Kubernetes—without breaking flow. Expect war stories, not wonderland. If you’re serious about shaping culture, architecture, and feedback loops to make GenAI stick, this talk is for you.
Featuring Eric Chapman, Grainger; and Patrick Egan, Grainger

The Blueprint: A CTO's strategy for building modern engineering teams
Join us to hear from a CTO who has successfully leveraged tech learning solutions to build and scale high-performing engineering teams and influence the learning culture across three different enterprises. In this session, he will share his proven playbook, successes and challenges, and how his hands-on approach drove business outcomes. Learn how he plans to implement this strategy at his new company to prepare for future growth and innovation. This is a must-attend for anyone looking to build a future-ready technology organization.
Featuring Anaf Durrani, Ford Motor Company

The big shift from skills to outcomes
Every company is now a technology company, and the tech skills required to enable outcomes are now boardroom discussions. To earn a seat at the table, leaders must connect their talent strategy with technology investments and value realization. Join this session for actionable advice on strategies for building workforce development programs that shift skills into business outcomes.
Featuring Carlye Greene, GM Financial; Laura Hume, Kyndryl Consulting; and Drew Firment, Pluralsight

Thriving in a multicloud world
Unlock competitive advantage with multicloud. Learn why using multiple cloud providers isn't just a technical choice—it's a business strategy. Explore how to leverage AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to boost flexibility, reduce risk, and drive innovation.
Featuring Joseph Lowery, Principal Author, Cloud, Pluralsight

The Secrets to Supercharging Learning Engagement
Get the inside scoop from Kate Taylor, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, as she pulls back the curtain on her strategies for building a thriving learning culture. She'll share her proven tips and tricks to boost engagement across a large organization, turning passive learners into active participants, and practical methods for measuring the impact of learning initiatives.
Featuring Kate Taylor, Morgan Stanley

Trust is the most valuable KPI you’re not tracking
Trust isn’t just a soft skill — it’s a measurable, strategic asset that drives performance, engagement, and loyalty. In this session, Victoria Pelletier explores how leaders can build, measure, and manage trust as a core KPI to fuel growth and resilience across their organizations.

Rebuilding your job architecture for an AI‑native workforce
A skills-based approach to upskilling can help you identify the right person for each project, plus create accurate career development paths. In this workshop, you'll learn how to build a skills architecture for your teams and identify skills gaps.
Featuring Sam Peña, Pluralsight

The next wave of GenAI
From domain-specific models to fine-tuning and AI agents, AI continues to evolve rapidly. AWS Machine Learning Hero Kesha Williams breaks down key technologies and shares how to ride the wave of AI innovation and optimize AI use within your organization.
Featuring Kesha Williams, Slalom

Join our featured guest speaker, Steven Kotler, for a deep dive into his research and expertise as a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of The Alliance as well as the Flow Research Collective. Be ready with your questions as you'll have a chance to ask Steven at the conclusion of his keynote!
We’ll close out our session with insights from Gregory Scott Henson, visionary entrepreneur, angel investor, and Founder/CEO at Cloud Veterans.

How to power your upskilling strategy with AI
Not sure how to leverage AI in an L&D role? In this hands-on workshop, you'll uncover learning patterns from best-in-class organizations and learn how to use synthetic participants, or AI-generated profiles, to design effective upskilling campaigns for your people. You'll walk away armed with new AI skills and a campaign you can use in your organization. Bring a laptop if you have one—if not, we'll pair you up so everyone can participate.
Featuring Sarah Nicholl, applied behavioural scientist and Author of Learning Habits, Pluralsight; Sam Franco, Pluralsight

From Pilot to Powerhouse: Building AI systems your team actually uses
Most AI projects die in the pilot phase. And it's not always because the technology isn't ready. Your people are often not ready. In this talk, we'll explore how building production-ready AI systems starts with your most important users: your own employees.
We will discuss strategies for transforming your team from skeptical observers to engaged champions by creating internal systems they can see, touch and learn from. Why disconnected systems breed confusion, how visualization drives adoption and the untapped potential of passive learning through enablement.
Featuring Zak Hoover, FactSet

Roundtable discussions
Join your peers in one of our interactive roundtables to explore shared challenges in AI, cloud, and upskilling. It’s a great opportunity to exchange ideas, learn from one another, and spark new inspiration.

Channeling change: UKG's Pluralsight story
Join us for a deep dive into UKG's remarkable transformation to create a unified engineering force and the different ways they used Pluralsight to execute this strategic shift. This is a great session for anyone interested in a real-world case study about organizational change, engineering management, and innovative approaches to skill development.
Featuring Susan Ramey, Kim Chambers, and Saray Bailey, UKG

Building a soft skills strategy
Soft skills may be harder to build than technical skills, but they’re just as important. Learn which soft skills are essential for today’s workforce, how to build them in your teams, and how to tell if upskilling has made a difference.
Featuring Casey Ayers, Pluralsight Author

Roundtable discussions
Join your peers in one of our interactive roundtables to explore shared challenges in AI, cloud, and upskilling. It’s a great opportunity to exchange ideas, learn from one another, and spark new inspiration.

Intuit Playbook: Building an AI-Ready Workforce
Discover how Intuit, an AI-driven expert platform, strategically built its "AI Academy" from the ground up. In this session, Meredith will share their journey, from establishing a common language with foundational skills to launching a scalable program that fosters deep AI proficiency across their entire technology organization.
Featuring Meredith Swinney, Intuit

Obsess on the why
This session explores how to spark curiosity and understand the deeper "why" behind learning which can drive personal and professional growth throughout life. It emphasizes the importance of aligning learning opportunities with real needs, fostering a culture of continuous development, and measuring the true impact of training beyond just acquiring new tools or skills.
Featuring Andrew MacLean, Deluxe