ASTD international conferences and exhibitions are the most important training and development activities in the world. It has been held continuously for more than 60 years, attracting representatives from many countries every year. 20 10 ASTD international conference and exhibition attracted more than 9000 delegates from all over the world, 340 leading enterprises participated in the exhibition, and * * * organized 350 special lectures. Japanese, Korean, China and other Asian countries all sent delegations to attend the meeting.
20 1 1 The theme of the annual meeting is "learn to lead". We hope to cooperate with training and development professionals all over the world to lead the development of enterprises and individuals with learning. Under such a big theme, ASTD 20 1 1 Conference has nine major themes, including leadership development, talent management, performance improvement, organizational efficiency, personal ability development, enterprise learning strategy, learning design and implementation, learning technology and
ASTD representatives come from different industries, including financial industry, manufacturing industry, medical and social security institutions, pharmaceutical industry, universities, consulting institutions and government departments. Some well-known enterprises with the largest number of participants are Apple, Boeing, BP, Cisco, US Department of Defense, IBM, Intel and so on. Every year, ASTD conference attracts many professionals, such as enterprise presidents, chief learning officer, human resources directors, training managers and trainers. In the past few years, we have seen more and more professionals from China attend this grand event. The delegation of China has become a beautiful scenery at the conference.
At least five points can be gained from attending such a grand event: First, it is a rare opportunity to listen to the speeches of the world's top trainers. For example, Don kirkpatrick, the founder of Koch's four-level evaluation method, will give his last speech before retirement at ASTD 20 1 1 annual meeting; Secondly, the keynote speeches in nine directions will bring the latest international training concepts and methods; Third, there will be more than 300 exhibitors at the conference, which is an excellent platform for us to train managers to choose solutions with problems; Fourth, it is conducive to establishing diversified cooperative relations, communicating with training and development experts all over the world, and bringing about the expansion of global vision; Fifth, you can experience the American training culture and local customs.