Tuesday June 10
All times are in Central European Summer Time / GMT + 2
10:00 - 10:30
Kick off LXDCON'25
Kick off: 10 years of LXDCON
Your host and LXD pioneer Niels Floor shares the key take-aways from a decade of LXDCON.
10:30 - 12:00
Marion Trigodet
Workshop: Learning Design System.
Learning design Systems is all about providing coherency in learners journeys, supporting teams in system thinking and creative tasks as well as increasing teams collaboration and shared knowledge!
15:00 - 15:30
Caio Albernaz & Ana Lídia Pereira
Talk: Lecturing to Learning: Pre-Service (Re)Designed.
Embark, once a teacher-centred and lecture-based pre-service training program for consultants at IS Education, was redesigned with focus on the learning experiences, student-centredness, and active methodologies, achieving an NPS of 9.88.
15:30 - 16:00
Stoney Gaddy & Andrea Weissenbuehler
Talk: A Learning Architecture Schema for the Future.
The world of education is filled with theories, frameworks, models, and taxonomies. What began as a simple desire to compare instructional design constructs quickly turned into a potentially groundbreaking hierarchical schema for educators.
16:00 - 16:30
Julie Dirksen
Talk: Talk to the Elephant: Designing Learning for Behavior Change.
We will explore how to design with principles and models from behavioral science. We will examine behavior change from a number of different angles, using techniques from the fields of neuroscience, behavioral economics, behavioral psychology, persuasive technology, and user experience design.
19:00 - 20:30
Saad Tariq
Workshop: Brick by Brick: Co-Creating the Evolution of LXD.
Join this hands-on LEGO Serious Play workshop to map LXD’s past, present, and future. Through play, storytelling, and co-creation, we’ll uncover insights, reimagine learning, and build a shared vision for what’s next in LXD; brick by brick.
Wednesday June 11
10:00 - 10:30
Marosh Kulhavy
Talk: Designing Smarter Learning with AI.
Exploring how AI agents (tutors, co-pilots and mentors) are reshaping Learning Experience Design (LXD) to create smarter, human-centered learning experiences for the future.
10:30 - 12:00
Bernd Gibson
Workshop: The LXD Time Traveller.
Focus is around change management for lxd professionals to embrace the future of LXD by incorporating AI where logical and helpful. To understand where AI is an enabler but could also be an inhibitor. Everyone should swipe right.
13:00 - 13:30
Wendy Erwin
Talk: The courtship of AI and LXD, how would you swipe?
Focus is around change management for lxd professionals to embrace the future of LXD by incorporating AI where logical and helpful. To understand where AI is an enabler but could also be an inhibitor. Everyone should swipe right.
13:30 - 14:30
Lily Lu Vaz
Workshop: The sensory experience.
Let’s explore how engaging senses and emotions transforms learning. We’ll blend neuroscience and design to create immersive, memorable experiences that go beyond content—making learning something to feel, sense, and truly experience.
14:30 - 15:00
Geneviève Raîche-Savoie
Talk: The LXD process as a scientific methodology.
16:00 - 16:30
Sarah Mercier
Talk: Design for all learners
In this session, we’ll explore how shifting from individual action to collaborative strategy leads to more sustainable, scalable accessibility. You’ll learn practical ways to advance your organization’s accessibility maturity, foster cross-functional accountability, and build learning experiences that are inclusive by design.
16:30 - 17:00
Susi Miller
Talk: Accessibility for learning experience design.
Accessibility is important for learners, but not always easy for designers. It's often seen as an afterthought while it should be top of mind. Join Susi to find out what you can do to make learning experiences more accessible.
17:00 - 17:30
Panel discussion
Continue the conversation with Sarah, Susi and participants from around the world.
Thursday June 12
15:00 - 16:00
Moe Ash
Workshop: PENTA Deck
Experience a design thinking tool about binding behavioural science, systems and learning experience design in one simple framework that LXD designers can use to brainstorm upon possible learning solutions using a deck of cards.
16:00 - 16:30
Laura Seth
Talk: Finding the balance to help learning happen.
A case study of designing learning experiences for football coaches - combining regulations, learner insight, task & challenges of the role and professional judgement, in a multi mode concept.
16:30 - 17:00
Kars Alfrink
Talk: Designing learning experiences in a post-ChatGPT world.
Let's look beyond the hype of artificial intelligence and think about possible scenarios for the future of learning.
17:00 - 17:30
Niels Floor
Wrap Up: What have we learned?
Together with Niels we wrap up LXDCON'25 and celebrate the lessons we've learned and friends we've made!