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-Each moderator will make Day 2 morning announcements

• Track: Training Techniques "The Practicals" - Engagement by Design: The Three Keys to Lasting Learning
-- Tommy Nipp, HASC
This topic is essential for any trainer aiming to develop courses with lasting impact. Engagement should begin in the design phase, rather than trying to make it interesting after it’s built. As facilitators, we must guide the audience to grasp the concepts in a memorable way.

• Track: AI Track - (REPEAT) Productivity, Accelerated: How AI is Revolutionizing Personal and Work Management
-- Timothy Chappell, ExxonMobil
AI assistants are no longer just tech novelties; they are fundamental tools for personal and professional growth. By learning to leverage them effectively and ethically, you can accelerate your learning, boost your productivity, and strategically advance your career in a rapidly changing world.

• Track: Leaders/Leadership - Enhancing Leadership Through HOP: Coaching & Feedback on Error Precursors
-- Alaryn Callihoo, BrandSafway
Strong safety performance starts with strong leadership, and that means knowing how to identify and respond to the conditions that make errors more likely. This session explores how leaders can use the principles of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) to recognize and coach around error precursors in craft work environments. Participants will learn to define HOP and the most common error-precursors seen in the field. We’ll break down real-world examples to uncover the underlying contributing factors and explore how small, proactive coaching conversations can prevent those conditions from escalating into incidents.

• Track: Training Techniques "The Practicals" - Facilitation: How to Ensure Your Training Impacts Performance
-- Robert Cocheu, CVR
Facilitation is the key to making training truly be performance orientated and it is what really separates true training from just teaching. The ability to hold well designed facilitations is what truly can increase the performance level of our employees. In this session learners will discover techniques they can use to engage participants and how to move from a "death by PowerPoint" lecture method to a true facilitation that engages the learners and can increase their performance on the job.

• Track: AI Track - Is AI an A+ for Training? (REPEAT)
-- Maureen Brody, Becht
The presentation discusses areas in which the human eye, human engagement, and human interaction with instructors will always be necessary and will allow for training to be more effective and relevant to trainees. While this presentation discusses a certain level of skepticism of AI in training, it will also point to areas in which AI can help advance training efforts and how it can be used as an effective tool to enable trainers to track and adapt to data in real time. Finally, the presentation discusses how to build an AI model to support trainers that follows instructional best practices and provides support that is practical, easily implemented, and correct.

• Track: Leaders/Leadership – Let It Go: The Art of Delegation
-- Amy Abdallah
Join this interactive session to learn and experience ways to thoughtfully and intentionally develop those you lead through delegation.

- Each moderator will make TF25 event wrap up announcements (pad 5-10 min)

• Track: Training Techniques "The Practicals" - Bye Bye Boring
-- Rico Maranto, Phillips 66
Tired of training sessions that feel more like nap time than learning time? Say goodbye to boring and hello to bold! In this energizing session, Rico Maranto, a learning and development professional with over 30 years’ experience, will show you how to break free from the traditional teach-activity-evaluate rut and transform your learning environments into dynamic, brain-friendly experiences that make learning stick!
Grounded in the science of how adults learn best, this session will explore how to design engaging, activity-based learning that sparks curiosity, energizes the learners, deepens understanding, and boosts retention. You’ll walk away with practical, ready-to-use methods that you can implement immediately—no overhaul required.
Whether you're a new trainer learning the craft or a seasoned facilitator hoping to breathe new life into your sessions, this is your invitation to reimagine learning so you can say, “Bye bye boring!”
Upon completion of this session, you will be able to:
Reorder the traditional learning model to optimize learning.
Shift thinking from “What do I say?” to “What can they do?”
Resolve to never teach a list!
Apply brain science to make learning stick!

• Track: AI Track - AI for Training (WIP title)
-- Brent Railey, CPChem
As is obvious to everyone, AI is all the buzz and the hype these days. This brings both excitement at the possibilities and frustration with the hype and overselling of current capabilities. In this session, Brent Railey will distill what’s hype and what’s reality, discuss present capability (and limitations) from future vision, and outline how to evaluate possible vendors for AI capability in the domains of training, learning, and development.

• Track: Leaders/Leadership – Human Performance: The importance of getting to know the work. (REPEAT)
-- Antonio Amador, Chevron Phillips Chemical
By adopting a Human Performance (HP) perspective, organizations can create a more supportive and safer work environment that acknowledges human limitations and leverages them to build stronger, more resilient systems.