Technological Innovations in L&D for Organizational Excellence

It was indeed a privilege to be invited to be part of the Panel discussion in Northern Regional Conference on Smart Learning for Sustainable Entrepreneurship : Transformation and Growth organized by Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD) Delhi Chapter on Saturday, February 9 at Hotel The Park, Sansad Marg, New Delhi.

Our panel was chaired by Dr. Karthikeyan Ranganathan, National President, ISTD deliberating on "Technological Innovations in L&D for Organizational Excellence".

The deliberation amongst stalwarts and interface with conference participants has indeed added significantly to my experiential learning. 

During the conference, I touched upon, on shift in workplace dynamics amidst changing technological and business landscape where SMAC, acronym for Social, Mobile, Analytics, & Clouds alongside Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic process automation, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Virtual Reality, Chatbots is taking a centre stage and has made learning industry rethink its strategies. 

I also touched upon briefly on key trends including Gamification, Augmented Reality, Mobile Learning, significance of personalization and customization. 

The workforce dynamic are evolving keeping in view Gen Z, (also called Digital Natives) the generation born after millennial who is rapidly entering the workforce and in the next few years they would make bulk of working population.