Tuesday June 16
We ar coming to you from Europe so, all times are in Central European Summer Time / GMT + 2.
10:00 - 10:10
Niels Floor
Kick off: Design with impact!
Your host and LXD pioneer Niels Floor kick's off the 11th edition of LXDCON!
10:10 - 10:30
Gijs van Bilsen
Talk: The most curious version of yourself.
Let's unlock the power of imagination and awaken the most curious version of yourself. You can summon it anytime during the conference to ensure you stay curious and keep learning!
10:30 - 12:00
Srishti Sehgal
Workshop: What Would a Designer Do?
Srishti came to learning from design, not from L&D. This workshop shares what that difference reveals: 3 moves that change how you frame a problem, understand your learner, and build experiences that stick.
15:00 - 15:30
David Phipson
Talk: The Matter of Meaning
The Matter of Meaning provides a practical framework and scorecard to help LX designers understand why people engage at work and design learning experiences that deliver impact while actively strengthening meaning at work.
15:30 - 16:00
Henriette Paula Mugisa
Talk: Design That Exposes the Gap
Our first entrepreneurship course didn’t fail: it exposed deeper gaps in mindset, identity, and context. This session explores how learning design surfaces better questions that lead to more impactful, transformative learning experiences.
16:00 - 16:30
Networking session
With a diverse global audience it's exciting to get to know each other a bit better. Join us for an interactive networking session, it going to be fun!
19:00 - 20:30
Kayla Jutzi & AJ Durand
Workshop: Igniting Impact - Unlearning Rules for Engagement
Shift your mindset from delivering presentations to architecting experiences. Adults need active participation, not top-down lectures. Let’s unlearn old rules, intentionally design activities, debunk the charisma myth & engineer impact.
Wednesday June 17
10:00 - 10:30
Marit Blaak
Talk: LX Design That Survives Scale.
Designing for impact changes once learning must work at scale. Drawing on over a decade of learning experience design at Educate! in East Africa, this talk explores what breaks, what becomes non-negotiable, and how design leadership shifts.
10:30 - 11:00
Artem Ivanenko & Zhanna Maksimiuk
Talk: AI Upskilling at Scale: Two-Way Learning.
Humans learned through story, emotion, and peer exchange. AI learned through clean data, structure, and precision. Two different learners—revealing that learner-centric design is about who learns, not just what is taught.
16:00 - 16:30
Lily Lu Vaz
Talk: The aha moment isn't ours to give.
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.
16:30 - 17:00
Toby Newman
Talk: From workshop confidence to real-world composure
19:00 - 20:30
Bjorn de Wildt
Workshop: How to create online sessions with impact.
Theatre meets Learning Experience Design. A practical approach to online facilitation that makes sessions feel alive. Activate the speaker. Activate the learners. Design interaction that drives the content and supports the learning goal.
Thursday June 18
15:00 - 15:30
Neeve MacGregor
Talk: Designing Well with AI on Purpose
Designers are using AI without a methodology for it. This talk introduces 21 principles and 4 philosophies from 16 established frameworks to help you know what to give AI, what to keep, and how to tell if the result is good.
15:30 - 16:00
Jonathan Lau & Cindy Tsoi
Talk: Designing Experiences to help students persist
Can designing memorable experiences improve students’ motivation to persist and graduate? This project addresses one of the KPIs of post-secondary institutions—graduation rate—by testing the concept of experiences.
16:00 - 17:30
Romy Alexandra
Workshop: Experience > Explanation - Neuroscience of Learning
Experiential Learning is more than a buzzword, it’s how the brain learns best. In this interactive and experiential session, Romy Alexandra shares a neuroscience-backed framework to design transformative learning experiences that drive real change.
17:30 - 18:00
Niels Floor
Wrap Up: What have we learned?
Together with Niels we wrap up LXDCON'26 and celebrate the lessons we've learned and friends we've made!