Turbulent markets make it necessary for companies to adapt to new demands in a rapid way. Intelligent organisational and personnel development play a central role in coping with this strategic management task. 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 into relation the management of competences with the performance of the company and to adapt in-company learning and competence development processes appropriately.

The conference offers practitioners and developers a forum for the exchange of information and experiences from organisational and personnel development. On the agenda are new trends and challenges as well as solutions and practice 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, private and public sector, as well as application-oriented researchers.

Conference participants will benefit from the event by

• gaining an overview of the most important topics, challenges, trends, and solutions,
• meeting experts from research and industry and becoming familiar with their points of view,
• enlarging their own personal network in the international community,
• experiencing good-practice examples and solutions to get ideas for their own activities,
• sharing experience with speakers and other participants,
• receiving useful first-hand answers for implementation activities in organisations,
• finding partners for implementation projects from applied research and industry,
• understanding how to estimate the effectiveness of solutions outlined in the area of competence management with regard to factors of time, cost, and quality.

The main conference language is English. Additionally there will be numerous tracks and offerings in German.