What a whirlwind week at DevLearn 2025 — in the best possible way. My session at Articuland on Wednesday on Small Branches, Real Impact had an amazing turnout with genuinely great feedback. Right after that, we wandered through the Articuland Experience Room, which was a blast, and the Articulate-led sessions were packed, energetic, and full of practical gems — including a standout project from Ninja Tropics COO Carlos Alfaro on building a 360° virtual city for learning. T

TechLearn 2025 tackled some of the biggest challenges facing learning and development right now. AI readiness was a hot topic, naturally, but the conference also highlighted a return to basics — bringing back internal special interest groups to rebuild that sense of community we’ve been missing in a post-Covid world. Sessions covered practical concerns like succession planning and capturing knowledge from retiring employees, plus the somewhat surprising comeback and increased

"In a world shaped by AI and automation, Tristia will share strategic insights on how organizations can stay ahead by designing impactful upskilling initiatives. Learn how to build agile, future-ready talent ecosystems with instructional design at the core." Loved working with the crew at GSDC to put this on and look forward to future collaborations!

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My conference session, " Empowering L&D with Responsible AI Strategies " was a huge hit! We covered when and how to develop an AI policy for your L&D efforts with a worksheet and sample policy, what to focus your policy on, how to get buy-in and keep your policy up to date, plus some neat AI tools folks could try out right away! Here are the session materials . I had over 60 attendees, my biggest live audience. It was such a blast and the organizers did a great job of the con

I loved presenting at this conference and hope to have a chance to do so again! I received some very high praise from attendees and organizers alike. So very grateful for this experience and very thankful to Amany AlKhayat for inviting me to share and coordinating with the organizers. I shared the Horizon Worlds project that I worked on with several others from the XR in LXD meetup group, including Jay Yearley, Anil Sapotka, and Amany AlKhayat. In the presentation we covered

Alex Ryan and I presented on Drip Learning on the last day of Learning & HR Tech Solutions 2024 in Orlando on April 24th - and over 50 people showed up to our session! It was a huge success and a fantastic experience. Read the article here: https://evolve-sg.com/long-lasting-learning-combining-drip-spaced-and-microlearning/ Get the Drip Learning ebook here: https://evolve-sg.com/drip-learning-ebook/ Sign up for the Drip Learning campaign here: https://evolve-sg.com/drip-learn

Missed the conference? I attended the conference in person but presented for the online track, so it was recorded! Here's a link to the Google Drive with slides and presentation resources, and the recording below. Session materials & slides: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wZIoi7KwU4gj1Pnfm50Tp742sIk9etAv?usp=sharing Watch the recording:

June 20-22nd, Online generated with leonardo.ai model DreamShaperv6; prompt: a cute humanoid robotic alien speaking on a theatre stage in front of a wall to other aliens inside a spaceship, more aliens in the audience Register for the conference here: https://www.elearnmagazine.com/ai-in-learning-summit/ In my session I review 7 AI tools to help streamline training development, including: Google Bard Wordtune InVideo Whisper AI Soundraw.io 7taps AI WellSaidLabs After the con

As a member of the TLDC Community, last week I was invited on the podcast with Luis Malbas to talk about how I got started in Instructional Design, my windy, topsy-turvy career path, and my passion for simulations and immersive learning. https://www.thetldc.com/video/community-showcase-tristia-hennessey

And my session went GREAT! Audience turnout was twice what I expected, I got some excellent comments and feedback right away and it made the many many hours of preparation and content curation so well worth it. What's that, you say? You weren't able to make it? Don't worry, I got you fam. Here's a link to a google drive folder with the presentation materials including ppt, terms list, storyboarding templates and more, free for you to use and adapt for your needs: ...

Check out this little promo video I made:

DevLearn 2022 was the same wonderful whirlwind, drinking-from-the-firehose event we've come to expect from this annual Las Vegas event. Evolve Solutions Group covered a lot of ground this year: I spoke with Alex Ryan at the Articulate User Conference ("Simulation and Gamification - Blended Learning Strategy"), sharing some of our blended learning solutions including simulations and branching scenarios, for several of our restaurant and utility clients. Alex and James Oakley a

Alex Ryan and I spoke about "Simulation & Gamification as Part of a Blended Learning Strategy " at the DevLearn 2022 co-located event, the Articulate User Conference. We covered some case studies from past Evolve SG projects and lessons learned when creating simulations for learning. This is the pre-session recording we did in preparation for the event - the live session was so much better! I wish we had that recorded. Being in person presenting to real people is always more