Day One – Monday, 7th December 2026
Riyadh, KSA
08:00 - 08:50
Registration & Networking Coffee
08:55 - 09:00
Welcome Remarks by the Organiser
Sidh N.C
Director,
QnA International
09:00 - 09:25
Opening Keynote
Redesigning the L&D Blueprint: Leadership Strategies for the AI Era
Artificial Intelligence isn’t just changing the tools of workplace learning, it’s fundamentally rewriting the job description of the L&D leader. Let’s uncover with ATD global insights and trends on “What It Really Takes to Lead L&D in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?”
What You’ll Learn:
- How AI is changing the role of L&D leaders, from delivering training to shaping the capabilities, culture and workforce strategy of the organisation.
- To transform learning design, personalisation and productivity, while identifying the uniquely human skills that require stronger investment.
- Gain practical leadership principles for redesigning L&D around business priorities, emerging skills and AI, moving from reacting to change to actively shaping the future of work.
- How L&D professionals can prepare and adapt for the AI era
Speaker
Dr. Wei Wang
Senior Global Director,
Association for Talent Development, USA
09:30 - 10:05
International Keynote
The AI Conversations L&D Can’t Ignore in 2026 and Beyond
Strategic dialogue on where L&D will thrive and where it faces existential risk in the AI age. Learn about The Human-Machine Performance Analyst and leave with practical tips on the biggest opportunities that Ai bring to L&D
What You’ll Learn:
- Understand which parts of L&D will be transformed, replaced or elevated by AI.
- Discover the emerging role of the Human-Machine Performance Analyst and how people and AI can work better together.
- Take away practical ideas for using AI to improve learning, performance and workforce capability.
10:10 - 10:30
Expert Insights
Leading Through Agentic AI: The Human Edge in an Automated Workforce, sustaining empathy, judgment and trust as AI agents absorb operational L&D work
What You’ll Learn:
- How AI retaining human judgment, empathy and leadership at the centre as AI takes on more L&D work.
- Learn how leaders can create confidence, transparency and responsible adoption of AI agents.
- Discover how to combine AI efficiency with uniquely human capabilities to drive better learning and business outcomes.
Moderator
Saud Alomair
L&D Executive and Leadership Coach and Consultant,
Saudi Arabia
10:35 - 11:10
Discover How is Saudi Arabia leveraging AI as a strategic enabler to accelerate human capability development
11:15 - 11:45
Networking Break & Visit to the Boutique Exhibition Lounge
11:50 - 12:05
The Organisation that Learns:
Building a Culture Where Capability Grows Every Day
Key Learnings:
- Why do some organisations learn faster than others?
- How do you move from a “training culture” to a “learning culture”?
- How do you make learning visible in performance, promotion and leadership?
12:10 - 12:25
Coaching at Scale: How AI-Powered Matching Reaches Every Employee
Discover how AI-powered matching can connect employees with the right coaching, mentors and development opportunities at the right moment.
Explore how organisations can make personalised development accessible to everyone, not just the few.
12:30 - 13:00
Leadership Panel
The Great Capability Shift: Preparing the workforce for job that do not yet exist, and will be relevant in the future.
What You’ll Learn:
- How organisations develop confidence, not just competence in young Saudi talent and first-time leaders
- Mapping talent to create an intergenerational workplaces
- Maximizing outcome of the global talent working alongside Saudi talent
13:05 - 13:30
Networking Break & Visit to the Boutique Exhibition Lounge
13:35 - 14:00
Saudi Case Study
The Capability Scorecard: What Should Every CHRO and CLO Be Measuring in 2027?
What You’ll Learn:
- The critical indicators of organisational capability and workforce readiness.
- Linking skills, leadership, learning, mobility and performance data.
- Creating an executive dashboard that turns workforce capability into a strategic conversation.
Speakers
Abdulaziz Al Tamimi
HR Executive Director and Advisor,
Confidential Entity, Saudi Arabia
Faris Ahmed Al Abthan
Talent Development Director,
Development Authorities Support Center (DASC),
Saudi Arabia
Reem Algasim
Head of Human Resources,
Airbus, Saudi Arabia
Waleed Al Rashed
Senior Leader of People and Development,
Confidential Govt. Entity, KSA
Moderator
Dr. Marco Serrato
Vice President, Learning Enterprise,
Arizona State University, No.1 University in Innovation for 11 straight years, United States
14:05 - 14:30
The Big Closing Conversation: The Capability Equation of People, Skills, Learning, Technology, Performance
A high-level closing conversation bringing together a CEO/CHRO/CLO, government leader, L&D strategist and technology leader to answer one fundamental question:
What will it take for Saudi organisations to build workforces capable of delivering the ambitions of the next decade?
What You’ll Learn:
- The capabilities Saudi Arabia must build now to remain competitive through the next decade.
- What organisations need to stop doing, start doing and accelerate.
- How HR, L&D, business and technology leaders can collectively move from workforce transformation to workforce performance.
14:30 - 14:35
Closing Remarks
14:35 - 15:35
Networking Lunch and End of Day One
Day Two – Tuesday, 8th December 2026
Conference Day 2 | Riyadh, KSA
08:00 - 08:50
Registration and Networking Coffee
08:55 - 09:00
Opening Remarks
09:05 - 09:45
C LEVEL PANEL - From Generation Gap to Generation Advantage
How organisations can turn five generations in the workplace into a competitive advantage.
What You’ll Learn:
- What does cross generational workforce expect from leadership?
- How do younger employees learn differently?
- How do organisations transfer institutional knowledge before experienced employees leave?
Speakers
Ibrahim Alyahya
Human Capital Executive Director,
Misk Foundation, Saudi Arabia
Moderator
Mariana Ignatov
General Manager,
LEORON Institute, Saudi Arabia
09:50 - 10:20
International Keynote Case Study
Human + AI Leadership: Trust, Coaching and the Age of Intelligent Growth
What You’ll Learn:
- Explore how leadership and coaching evolve when AI becomes part of everyday work and decision-making.
- Learn how trust, curiosity and continuous learning can help people adapt confidently to intelligent technologies.
- Discover how leaders can use AI to unlock individual potential, strengthen performance and accelerate capability development.
10:25 - 10:45
AI Governance in L&D:
Building Trustworthy AI as a Core Skill, ethical use, data transparency, and dual AI fluency
What You’ll Learn:
- Understand the principles for using AI responsibly in learning, talent and people decisions.
- Learn how to balance AI innovation with privacy, transparency and employee confidence.
- Develop the right mix of AI fluency and human judgment to use AI safely and effectively.
10:50 - 11:05
The Reflective Manager: Turning People Managers into Skill Enablers
Making Managers the Most Powerful Learning Infrastructure in the Organisation
What You’ll Learn:
- Why managers often have more influence on capability than the L&D function itself.
- Building coaching, reflection and feedback into everyday management.
- Creating manager ecosystems that sustain learning long after formal programmes finish.
11:10 - 11:40
Networking Coffee Break and Visit to the Exhibition Lounge
11:45 - 12:00
Interactive Team-Dynamics Engagement
12:05 - 12:20
Executive Hot-Seat: The Three Uncomfortable Questions
A candid leadership conversation where an executive faces three difficult questions that leaders often avoid, but must confront in today’s changing workplace.
Expect honest perspectives, bold answers and practical insights that challenge how we think about people, performance and leadership.
What You’ll Learn:
- What Are We Still Doing That No Longer Creates Value? Challenge outdated L&D practices, processes and assumptions.
- Are We Really Building Capability or Just Delivering Training? Examine whether learning is changing behaviour, performance and business outcomes.
- What Will We Need to Stop, Start and Rethink for 2030? Leave with bold questions that can reshape the future role of L&D.
Speaker
Abeer Qumsieh
Founder,
Khibraty, Better Business,
United States
12:25 - 12:40
Beyond AI: The Reflective L&D Leader Redefining Growth in the Age of Intelligent Transformation
How data, AI, and self-awareness are reshaping what it means to learn, lead, and stay relevant.
As technology accelerates, the greatest challenge for L&D professionals isn’t keeping up with AI ; it’s keeping up with ourselves.
Dina K. AlAlami, Harvard MC/MPA graduate and CPTD-certified L&D strategist, shares her journey of growth and reinvention; from designing intelligent learning systems for government to redesigning her own learning identity.
Using the ATD Capability Model as her compass, she reveals how L&D leaders can move beyond dashboards and automation to cultivate reflective intelligence; the human capacity to learn faster than change itself.
Take away practical insights to turn analytics into awareness, technology into empathy, and metrics into meaning
What You’ll Learn:
- How to evolve from L&D professional to “learning strategist” using AI not as a replacement but as a reflection tool.
- How to integrate adaptive leadership and ATD capabilities to guide your own professional reinvention.
- How to measure what matters: personal growth, learning agility, and the human skills that make AI meaningful.
- How to build a reflective growth dashboard: transforming data from performance tracking into self-awareness and development insight.
Speaker
Dina K. AlAlami
Senior Specialist, Learning Design & Development,
Abu Dhabi Gov. Academy, UAE
12:25 - 12:45
Featured Talk + Poll: The Reflective L&D Leader in the Age of Intelligent
Transformation — using AI as a reflection tool through the ATD Capability Model, plus a live audience poll.
12:45 - 13:15
Networking Coffee Break and Visit to the Exhibition Lounge
13:20 - 14:10
Roundtable Hackathon
Idea Roulette 2026 — Three themed tables: Agentic AI with a Human Core · Skills Marketplaces & Internal Mobility · Manager as Skill Enabler · Capability Ecosystems & Learning Analytics
Idea Roulette 1: The Workforce We Need Next
How do we build the capabilities Saudi organisations will need in the next 3–5 years?
- Which capabilities should we build, buy or borrow?
- How can L&D connect national priorities with real workforce needs?
- What should the future skills roadmap look like?
Idea Roulette 2: From Learning to Performance
How do we make learning change what people actually do — and prove it?
Participants explore:
- How can managers turn learning into everyday behaviour?
- What prevents learning from transferring into the workplace?
- Which metrics genuinely demonstrate business impact?
Idea Roulette 3: The L&D Function of 2030
If we were building L&D from scratch today, what would we keep, stop and reinvent?
Participants explore:
- What should L&D stop doing, and become more strategic?
- Where should technology and AI play a role, and where should humans remain firmly in control?
- What will the L&D leader of 2030 actually be responsible for?