"Sovereign Learning: Trust, Agency & the Education Reset"

From 02 - 04 December 2026, OEB returns to the Hotel InterContinental Berlin, bringing together a global community of senior decision makers, innovators, practitioners, policymakers and industry leaders shaping the future of learning and work. Known for its high-level exchange, cross-sector perspective and uniquely international audience, OEB has become one of the key annual meeting points for those driving transformation in education, training and workplace learning.

This is your opportunity to share your expertise, innovations and perspectives with an influential international audience spanning education, workplace learning & development, lifelong learning and governmental organisations.

Under this year’s theme, “Sovereign Learning: Trust, Agency & the Education Reset”, OEB 2026 will explore how learning systems are evolving in response to rapid technological, economic, and institutional change. The programme will examine how organisations and institutions can embrace innovation and AI-driven transformation while strengthening trust, human agency, and social resilience.

The agenda for the event is set to cover a wide range of subjects, including:

• System Reset: Structural Transformation of Learning
• Technology in Practice: Implementation, Data and Impact
• Beyond Personalisation: Agentic Learning and the Human Role
• Learning & Work: Skills, Productivity and Economic Resilience
• Higher Education in Reset: Research, Relevance and Advanced Capability
• The Evolving Role of Educators: Agency, Workload and Professional Identity
• Assessment, Credentials and the New Architecture of Trust
• Open, Sustainable and Inclusive Learning Ecosystems
• Learners, Youth and Individual Pathways in the Reset
• Sovereignty, Governance and Public Value