- New ideas: I love going to sessions that are talking about cutting edge technology and practices. I've taken ideas from several of the sessions and incorporated them into my current work. The conference is a consolidation of all of the best ideas in one place that I can immediately take back to my job to make my work better. I always come out of these conferences energized and ready to push myself to do amazing work.
- Networking: Real talk. I don't like networking. It's weird. But, at the ATD conference, it's different. It's a bunch of people who have the same goals, values, and work challenges. You can connect really easily and find out what they do and how maybe you can leverage those ideas in your own life.
- Accessibility: The session that stuck with me the most was one that covered accessibility. We've been working on being accessible all year, and this session brought up some topics I hadn't even thought of. It had real, side-by-side comparison examples of bad, better, best accessibility options. It talked about accessibility in training sessions, live and virtual, which I hadn't even considered before. Mind. Blown.
Did anyone else out there attend? What were your favorite sessions?