To keep companies competitive in this challenging environment, it is necessary to build up, maintain, and develop the competences of employees and organisational units. The challenge is to bring the management of competences into relation with the performance of the company and to adapt in-company learning and competence- development processes appropriately.

The current developments and topics are the subject of the international Professional Training Facts conference, which is being organised by Fraunhofer IAO for the fifth time in succession. The conference offers practitioners and developers a forum for the exchange of information and experience from organisational and personnel development.

On the agenda are new trends and challenges, as well as solutions and practical examples from a company perspective. Speakers from companies and research institutions will present methods, concepts, and strategies how to design the "Learning - Competence - Performance" triad for today and the future.

The Professional Training Facts conference is most appropriate for in-company experts dealing with further training and competence management. Other target groups are:

• organisational decision-makers,
• experts from the educational sector as well as from the private and public sector and
• application-oriented researchers.