Learning Technologies 2026: AI in learning - From potential to practice
The focus shifts from potential to real use, with vendors and analysts pointing to where AI is delivering value now. We hear from providers building AI into products and those tracking how it is being used.
AI continues to dominate the conversation in workplace learning, but how is it being applied in practice?
At Learning Technologies 2026, Learning News asked exhibitors how AI features in their products, strategies and roadmaps.
This programme brings those responses together, offering a cross-section of how vendors are using AI today, where they see impact and how this is shaping the direction of learning technologies.
Views from market analyst, Dani Johnson
Alongside this Special Feature, Learning News spoke with market analyst Dani Johnson, Principal Analyst at RedThread Research, on the evolving learning tech landscape. Dani explains how the content intervention ‘event’, long the mainstay of people’s experiences of workplace learning, is being added to with new technologies enabled by AI: such as skills and assessments beforehand, and measurement, performance tracking and analytics afterwards, and that these are high growth areas in the learning tech industry.
Watch the interview with Dani Johnson...




