ATD Demo Day: Learning Platforms for Skills, Enablement, and Growth

Learning platforms and LMS solutions are no longer just repositories for courses. Today's solutions support skills development, career growth, AI-powered content creation, compliance management, enablement, content distribution, and workforce readiness.

Join us for a free, half-day event featuring live demonstrations from leading learning technology providers. In one afternoon, you'll explore a range of approaches for developing skills, managing learning content, supporting business growth, and improving learning operations at scale.

Whether you're evaluating new platforms, researching future options, or gathering information to support internal recommendations and business cases, Demo Day provides an efficient way to compare solutions side by side.

12:00-12:30pm - Using AI and SME Collaboration to Scale Enablement

360Learning helps learning leaders scale enablement by combining AI-driven content creation with collaborative learning workflows. Instead of relying solely on centralized L&D teams, organizations can empower subject matter experts to rapidly create, update, and improve training in real time. In this session, we’ll explore how modern enablement teams use AI and collaborative learning to accelerate onboarding, improve product readiness, and keep distributed teams aligned in fast-changing environments.

Key Takeaways:

Peer-to-peer learning delivers better outcomes
AI enables anyone to become an author of a course
Internal proprietary skills are harder to develop

Speaker: Graham Knowles, GTM Engineer, 360Learning

12:45-1:15pm - Built for Careers, Not Courses: Inside Canvas Career by Instructure

Skills development is the top priority every L&D leader is tasked to deliver, yet most platforms only solve part of the equation. Canvas Career by Instructure was built to close that gap: aligning learning to the skills your organization needs, leveraging AI to lift the administrative burden off your team, and giving leaders the visibility to prove that your training is working.

Join Benjie Messinger-Barnes, Solutions Engineer Specialist at Instructure, for a live walkthrough of Canvas Career in action. You will see how skill mapping directly connects learning to internal career pathways, how embedded AI accelerates content creation, and how centralized analytics give you a single source of truth for skill mastery and program performance.

In this demo, you’ll learn how to:

Align skill building directly with critical business objectives and career pathways
Utilize AI-driven workflows to build content faster and reduce manual administrative work
Track learner progress and demonstrate L&D return on investment from a unified dashboard

Speaker: Benjie Messinger-Barnes, Solutions Engineer Specialist, Instructure

1:30-2:00pm - An LMS That Grows With You, Not Against You

Most learning management system (LMS) platforms grow with you at first, then start to grow against you. As learning needs get more complex, with more audiences, more requirements, more use cases, and more pressure to support new strategies, a once-adequate system can quickly become harder to manage. Workarounds increase, administrative effort rises, and frustration builds. What started as a fit becomes something you have to fight.

Hosted by ExpertusONE, this session will be led by Greg Bashar and Ferik Ferizaj, two learning technology veterans with deep knowledge of how learning platforms are evaluated, implemented, and used in practice. They will examine why so many LMS platforms stop keeping pace as programs expand, and how to tell whether a platform will grow with your organization instead of against it.

The session will also include a live demo of ExpertusONE, the all-in-one LMS, LXP, and Skills platform for organizations that refuse to choose between powerful and easy. You'll see how one platform supports employees, customers, and partners across roles and regions, automates compliance so every learner stays ready and certified, and adapts as you change. And it does all of this while staying easy for administrators to manage and intuitive for learners to use.

As a bonus for attending, you'll receive our new guide, How to Build LMS RFP Requirements Without Losing Your Mind (Even When It Feels Like Herding Cats). It offers practical advice for handling one of the toughest parts of LMS selection: building the right requirements without the usual chaos and delays.

Key Takeaways:

How to recognize when your LMS starts working against you, including rising admin effort, workarounds, and gaps in supporting new audiences or use cases
How ExpertusONE runs employee, customer, and partner programs in one platform, with no disconnected tools or manual workarounds
How automated compliance keeps employees and external learners ready, certified, and compliant
Why you no longer have to trade power for ease of use, and how ExpertusONE stays easy to run as your programs grow

Speakers: Greg Bashar, Senior Learning Advisor, ExpertusONE and Ferik Ferizaj, Learning Transformation Advisor, ExpertusONE

2:15-2:45pm - Managing Global Content Delivery with Content Controller

Struggling with version updates, mismatched standards, or multi-LMS delivery? Discover how L&D teams use Content Controller to simplify course distribution to internal platforms and third-party stakeholders. Learn how centralizing your library in Content Controller mitigates interoperability issues, streamlines multi-language learner experience, and provides the rich reporting and licensing control needed to scale training effortlessly.

Key Takeaways:

Streamline Multi-Platform Distribution: Discover how centrally managing content simplifies sharing across internal departments, external clients, and third-party platforms.
Eliminate Compatibility Bottlenecks: Learn how to mitigate common technology and standards barriers to maintain seamless course flow and prevent vendor lock-in.
Leverage Centralized Control: Explore how content analytics, licensing management, and granular data tracking optimize ROI and drive smarter learning decisions.

Speaker: Andy Whitaker, Inside Sales Lead, Rustici Software

3:00-3:30pm - From Audit-ready to Job Ready

When learning is slow, manual, or disconnected from what a role requires, onboarding drags, skill gaps widen, and the business feels it in productivity and retention. The organizations pulling ahead treat time-to-proficiency as a strategic lever.

This 30-minute live demo shows how Cornerstone Learning solutions deliver personalized, audit-ready learning at scale without adding admin work or stitching together multiple systems.

In this demonstration, you’ll see how Cornerstone Learning solutions enables you to:

Identify and close risks on a compliance dashboard before they become findings
Connect personalized required and self-driven learning in one place without manual curation
Improve learning retention, role readiness, and skill confidence with conversational and adaptive learning

Speaker: Clarice Fairchild, Senior Solution Consultant, CSOD

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