DevLearn 2026

Event highlights

This year, Nebius Academy is heading to DevLearn 2026 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, North America’s largest learning-technology conference. We’ll join instructional designers, learning technologists, and L&D leaders to talk about the challenge most organizations now face. Rolling out AI was the easy part. The hard part is knowing whether it’s working.

Over two days, we’ll share practical ways to see how people really use AI on the job, help them build confidence with it, and connect team-level changes to results leaders already track. Find us at Booth 603 in the Expo hall, and join us on the Expo Stage for two sessions.

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Who this event is for

• L&D, learning-experience, and instructional-design leaders asked to prove AI training made a difference
• Engineering and AI-adoption leads deciding how much work their teams can safely hand to AI
• Executives who want a clear line from AI investment to team results

Talk: Autonomy Is a Competence, Not a Setting: Why L&D Owns the AI Delegation Ladder

Wed, Nov 4 · 3:45 – 4:15 p.m. · Expo Stage

Elise Deitrick

Head of Evolve at Nebius Academy

What we’ll cover

Most companies treat “how much should we let AI do?” as a technical setting that IT decides once and moves on from. But whether a team can safely hand work to AI depends on people: how clearly they instruct it, whether they spot its mistakes, and when they double-check versus let it run. That’s a skill, and building skills is what L&D does best.

Elise will walk through six stages of growing AI skill, from someone just watching AI work to someone who can responsibly oversee AI agents. She’ll show what readiness looks like at each stage, and how to spot it in people’s everyday work rather than through quizzes or self-ratings. The session draws on Nebius Academy’s experience building Evolve Coach, which coaches engineers inside the AI coding tools they already use.

Attendees leave with: the six-stage progression, the everyday behaviors behind each stage, and a template for putting AI autonomy on their L&D roadmap.

Talk: The AI Training Landed. Did the Work Meaningfully Change?

Thu, Nov 5 · 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. · Expo Stage · AI & Automation track

Parker Veroff

Nebius Academy

What we’ll cover

After two years of AI training, leaders are asking a fair question: what’s different now? Often the honest answer is that a few individuals got faster on their own tasks while the team works the same way it always has. Those wins are real, but they stay private and quietly go out of date.

Parker will argue that the step most organizations skipped is simply describing how the team does its shared work. He’ll introduce a five-level scale for how much of a workflow AI handles today, show how to find the safe limit for any workflow, and explain how to tie each change to a metric the team’s leader already reports. The session draws on Nebius Academy’s experience building Evolve Work, which maps how teams actually work and recommends where AI can help next.

Attendees leave with: the five-level scale, a way to find any workflow’s safe limit for AI, and a method for turning that assessment into a plan that names what to train and what result to measure.