There is increasing emphasis on learning, skills, and qualifications, and their acquisition is positioned at a high level on the UK's national education agenda. This places considerable responsibility on the learning and development profession to consider the ways in which new and potential learners can develop skills for their job or for career and leadership development in the workplace.

Conference topics include

• Strategic skills development
• Emotional intelligence
• Employee engagement
• Human capital
• Emerging trends in learning technology

Delegate profile

• Learning & Development professionals
• Companies and government organisations
• Professionals and practitioners in further and higher education
• Providers of vocational and work based learning
• All those offering learning and concerned with choices of media such aseLearning, mixed media, or classroom-based delivery, as well as other providers of training
• Learning & skills councils, chambers of commerce, sector skills councils, business links, and regional development agencies
• Organisations with learning centres, including those offering learndirect
• Local learning partnerships, adult and community learning practitioners, and curriculum-development professionals
• Business support and research organisations
• Individual practitioners and consultants

Cost for participation in the conference is £99 + VAT to BILD Members and £250 + VAT to non-members. This includes an optional one-year individual membership to the BILD.