Looking Forward With Conversational AI

Designed for both technical and non-technical users, this no-code solution allows anyone to create conversational AI avatars with human-like faces that users can speak with in a face-to-face conversation. Imagine engaging with digital people who understand natural speech and respond like real people. These intelligent assistants utilize the latest advancements in AI, including Large Language Models (LLM), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Natural Language Generation (NLG) and Retreival Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies, to comprehend your environment and respond to you accurately and intelligently. 

How Does D-ID Agents Work?

As a cutting-edge addition to the Creative Reality studio suite, D-ID Agents empowers users to craft personalized digital people capable of holding dynamic conversations. These intelligent AI avatars stand out by answering queries with unparalleled accuracy and speed, leveraging a knowledge base curated by the agent’s owner. 

Creating a personalized agent is an easy process. Ownersselect their preferred avatar, choose the agent’s voice and intonation, and decide how they want the agent to respond to queries. They then upload up to five PDFs or text documents, providing source knowledge that is not available to the LLM used by the agent. For example, uploaded documents may have recent news or non-public information that would be pertinent to the agent’s knowledge base and desired function.

Once the agent is generated, users can interact with it by typing in a question in the text input box or by clicking the microphone icon and speaking with their voice. The agent-building process is quick, simple, and hassle-free!

What Sets D-ID Agents Apart?

D-ID Agents sets a new standard in the realm of digital interaction, distinguishing itself with a unique array of features accessible via the Studio website or API. This innovative platform simplifies the process of creating and managing digital agents, making it easy for users to build and customize their AI assistants. A standout feature is the ability to construct a knowledge base in multiple languages, enhancing the versatility and global reach of these agents. Additionally, D-ID Agents offers the flexibility of seamless integration, allowing users to embed their digital assistants on external websites or directly within the Studio environment.

At the core of D-ID Agents is the cutting-edge Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, which ensures not only swift but also highly accurate responses, boasting over 90% accuracy delivered in under two seconds. This technology transcends the limitations of traditional language models, providing up-to-date and refined information.

Impact of D-ID Agents

D-ID Agents is set to revolutionize industries by offering an enhanced level of customer interaction. These advanced AI bots are not just about providing information; they are about creating connections, thereby significantly improving engagement rates, customer satisfaction, and conversion rates. D-ID Agents can help users with anything from studying astronomy, to querying documents, to chatting with their followers. Each agent is an expert in a different area or has access to some specific knowledge. You can talk with an agent to find out exactly who they are and what their role is.

Practical Applications of D-ID Agents:

Enhancing Customer Experience: D-ID Agents are poised to redefine the customer experience (CX) landscape. Imagine a world where customers interact with digital representatives who not only answer queries but also understand emotions and provide tailored responses. D-ID Agents can serve as the first point of contact, offering personalized 24/7 support and improving customer satisfaction rates.

Sales and Marketing: Agents can be equipped with product descriptions and guides, enabling them to be a valuable resource for customers when they are ready to make a purchase. Your AI sales agent has the ability to make recommendations based on given feedback, suggest complimentary products, and answer any questions that a customer may have – thereby increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Digital Twins for Influencers and Celebrities: In the world of entertainment and influence, digital twins can offer a unique way for celebrities to connect with their audience. These AI-powered avatars can engage with fans, answer FAQs, and even represent influencers on various digital platforms, extending their reach and presence.

Educational Applications: The use of D-ID Agents in education can bring history to life. Students can interact with digital recreations of historical figures like George Washington or Maya Angelou, gaining insights and learning in an engaging, conversational manner. This immersive learning experience can transform traditional education methods and create a connection between the student and the subject in a way we haven’t experienced before.

The launch of D-ID Agents represents not just a technological advancement in AI videos, but also an invitation to both businesses and individuals to step into a future where digital communication is as intuitive and engaging as face-to-face conversations.

If you want to make an agent of your own, sign up to the waitlist of our limited release.

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We work in the field of education, and D-ID opens up exciting creative possibilities. It enables educators to breathe life into historical characters, transforming static textbook descriptions into vivid, interactive experiences. Students can witness historical figures speak and move, making history come alive like never before. Moreover, for us, D-ID allows for the creation of video guides in our virtual worlds. These provide immersive learning experiences in subjects like geography, science, and literature.

By allowing students to voice their own AI constructs, the app encourages creativity and active participation in the learning process. Here at Edumetaverse, we’ve harnessed the power of D-ID to create immersive and informative experiences within our virtual worlds. Being able to add your own audio files has been a massive plus point for us. This allows us to create human-sounding avatars. One such example is the ‘Ancient Egypt’ experience, where multiple animated characters come to life and drive the narrative for students. As students explore the virtual world, they can interact with these characters, gaining valuable insights and information about the ancient civilization.

These AI-generated guides provide historical context, making the learning experience engaging and interactive. D-ID is now a big part of our content creation process and should be a first stop for anyone looking at generative AI.

Andrew Wright is the Director and Lead Education Consultant at EDUmetaverse & iTeacher. Andrew has over 20 years of experience in the classroom, and ten years teaching in 1-1 schools.

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Artificial intelligence has arrived on the scene and is revolutionizing education at a surprising pace. We can no longer ignore its presence or fight against it, as it is here to stay and our students will use it in their daily lives. For this reason, it is important that we teachers take advantage of this technology to improve our educational work. Artificial intelligence offers us the opportunity to rethink many aspects of education and adapt to a new reality.

Traditional lesson plans and homework tasks that rely on tasks such as summarizing or writing essays are no longer sufficient. These tasks can be performed by artificial intelligence in a matter of seconds, so we must embrace change and adapt our classes to this new reality. In recent months, numerous AI-based tools have emerged with different purposes.

In training sessions for other professionals within the education field, I show my colleagues how to take advantage of these tools to optimize learning and create personalized learning experiences. I’d like to highlight three of these tools, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and D-ID.

The first and the one that so far created the biggest impact on society has been ChatGPT, the most powerful artificial intelligence I have seen to date. Teachers can ask ChatGPT to create completely personalized and original stories simply by offering a little information in the form of a prompt. All you have to do is write “Invent a story about pirates who hide a princess in their hold and take her to a distant kingdom. The pirates are named Peter and Frank. Princess Sophie.” In a matter of seconds, we have an original story that fits our premise.

Starting from the story, we can continue asking ChatGPT for things, such as translating it into another language, creating open questions about the text, true or false, filling in gaps, or multiple choice. We can even ask it to convert it to a CSV format so we can import it from other quiz platforms! As you can see, in just a few minutes teachers can have a personalized activity for a variety of different class levels.

Another tool that amazed me is Midjourney. It is an artificial intelligence that transforms text into amazingly well-designed images. With this tool, the teacher can ask students to describe a place or person and Midjourney will turn it into reality. It’s amazing when you see the faces of the students when they see how their words are transformed into images. In the same way, teachers can ask Midjourney to create images according to certain parameters. Do you want a maze? Do you want a character for your narrative? Do you want a castle on top of a mountain? Just ask!

Finally, another tool that I teach in the training sessions is D-ID. D-ID’s Creative Reality Studio allows you to create virtual avatars and give them movements through audio or written text. With this tool, any image will come to life with its own voice and will explain or speak about anything we want it to.

Teachers can use this tool to create characters for their gamified lessons, create threads for storytelling, explain concepts, tell stories, create scripts in other languages, and take advantage of different accents. Students, meanwhile, can bring their written work to life, create amazing stories, and create presentations for their projects.

Artificial intelligence has arrived to stay and it is important that we take advantage of it to improve our educational work and create personalized learning experiences for our students.

Norberto Cuartero has a degree in psychopedagogy and is a special education and foreign language teacher. He currently works as a teacher at the Teresiano del Pilar School in Zaragoza and is a teacher in the Master in Educational Technology and Digital Competences at UNIR. He is also part of the network of certified Google Innovators and Educators. In his daily work, he uses play in the classroom, supports the Flipped Classroom model, and uses gamification to achieve maximum student engagement.

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My Top Predictions for 2023 Based on the Latest Tech and Industry Trends

1. Get Ready for the Mainstream Arrival of Generative AI

While currently mostly used by researchers and developers, as well as a select few early adopters in the advertising, marketing, and creator industries, generative AI is on the brink of widespread adoption. In 2023, expect to see the technology become more refined and user-friendly, with a proliferation of platforms integrating these capabilities. Businesses and regular consumers alike will discover the immense potential of generative AI, which allows anyone to produce top-quality copy, animation, emails, sales pitches, product recommendations, concept art, manufacturing models, and so much more. No longer will you need to be a marketing expert or animator to create professional-grade content – generative AI has the power to democratize entire industries. Get ready to experience the transformative potential of this groundbreaking technology in the coming year!  

2. Generative AI: Coming Soon to a Business Near You

Generative AI is already an invaluable tool for creating marketing materials, generating product ideas, and crafting advertising messages. But soon, AI will be able to take things to the next level by engaging in two-way interactions with customers, understanding their needs and requests, and responding in a human-like manner.

By using AI to handle routine inquiries and requests, businesses can free up their human employees to tackle more complex tasks. Additionally, AI-powered customer service agents can handle a high volume of requests at once, making them an efficient and cost-effective solution. And in the realm of sales, generative AI can generate personalized recommendations and offers to improve conversion rates and drive more sales.

In 2023, I predict that businesses will embrace the use of AI for tasks such as marketing, customer service, sales, learning, and client retention with enthusiasm.

3. Governments will Introduce New Regulations on Generative AI

As generative AI becomes more prevalent in our lives, government and industry will be compelled to introduce regulations to ensure responsible use of the technology. While generative AI offers numerous benefits, there is also the risk of misuse, such as the distribution of misinformation, IP theft, or invasion of privacy.

China has already announced that it will ban the publication of “deepfakes” without proper disclosure that they were created by AI, and other jurisdictions like the EU and the US have proposed legislation or guidelines. We predict that 2023 will bring the start of comprehensive regulation, providing much-needed clarity, a development that leaders in the space will wholeheartedly embrace as long as governments and lawmakers don’t over-regulate. By ensuring that the technology is used ethically and responsibly, governments and industry can help to mitigate any potential negative consequences and pave the way for a brighter future powered by generative AI.

4. Major Upgrades in Generative AI Content Quality are on the Way

One of the main criticisms of generative AI has been the lack of realism in its generated content. But we’re predicting a game-changing shift in 2023 as new, specialized software and tools, as well as improved hardware, allow for a drastic increase in the fidelity of AI-generated content.

Currently, the primary benefit of using generative AI is its ability to streamline repetitive or mundane tasks, saving time and resources. However, in the coming year, we expect to see a significant increase in quality thanks to advances such as increased data availability, sophisticated algorithms and models, optimization techniques, efficient training methods, and specialized software. When AI starts to surpass the capabilities it currently only replicates or enhances, it will truly become a disruptive force. Get ready for a whole new level of realism in generative AI content.

5. Generative AI Opens the Door to New Professions

As generative AI becomes more mainstream, it will create exciting job opportunities for those skilled in using the technology. Just as the camera spawned the profession of photography and the record player brought forth DJs, generative AI will introduce a host of new professions. For example, “prompt engineers” who excel at writing descriptions that produce desired results from generative AI tools could become highly sought-after.

Already, we’re seeing marketplaces emerge where talented prompters can sell their prompts or be hired to create custom ones. In addition, generative AI may lead to a higher demand for professionals with strong creative skills, such as storytellers, character creators, and visual directors. These professionals will play a crucial role in maximizing the potential of generative AI and producing top-quality results.

Contrary to popular belief, AI is not here to steal our jobs – we will still need talented humans with creative flair to make the most of what generative AI has to offer.

Gil Perry is the co-founder and CEO of D-ID. A version of this article was published by Fast Company

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As such, video is taking an increasingly important role in L&D strategies and curricula. So, we set out to understand the dynamics impacting considerations and decisions for L&D video learning in 2023, by going directly to the source.

About the survey

In October 2022 we conducted a survey of a representative sample of L&D professionals who influence training and learning and development decisions at US-based organizations across multiple industries and which have over 1,000 employees.

Respondent role distribution

Industries represented

The key takeaways

What follows are the main takeaways we gathered about the leading overall L&D priorities, the main video content needs, what’s top of mind when it comes to video content creation, and the tools that rank high for achieving relevant goals.

Leading overall L&D priorities

When asked about their priorities for the coming quarters respondents noted that the big three are – improving the quality of training content, enabling employee upskilling and reskilling, and improving internal mobility (along with employee retention).

Two additional priorities include controlling costs and keeping up with industry-related technology.

Video content needs

Video is broadly regarded as optimal for supporting the objective of improving the quality of training content and for increasing learner engagement.

Nearly 60% of respondents reported that they create such content in-house, with the remaining 40% outsourcing the work to third-party content providers.

Creating content in-house and with third parties

It’s also interesting to note that L&D is not alone in the video content creation effort. Other departments in the organizations that are deeply involved with creating video training materials include compliance, operations, and marketing among others.

Video needs across the organization

What’s top of mind for video creation

Costs, naturally, are first among the general L&D concerns as well as specifically for video content creation. The need is great, but budgets are often limited, coming in at an annual average of $50-100K.

Not having enough time to create such videos is another obstacle that is often difficult to overcome. L&D professionals are very busy and look for video creation solutions that will save them time and be hassle-free.

As for increasing learner engagement, videos with instructors who are natural and authentic make a positive impact on the learner’s experience.

Enabling tools

Tallying all this up, we can see why a broad majority of respondents agree that a video content creation tool that can help L&D create videos with ease, in less time, at a reduced cost, and with authenticity is most advantageous.

It is also agreed that AI-generated videos of humans that put instructors at the center are very effective at addressing these needs.

How D-ID can help

D-ID can help L&D (and any other department in the organization) address their needs, concerns, and goals with a tool that enables them to create compelling instructor-led learning and training videos quickly, hassle-free, cost-efficiently, and with authenticity.

Our offering is an AI-based solution that takes images of real faces, such as your employees, and turns them into high-quality, realistically natural videos.

It turns a single photo of a person into as many videos as you need. There is no need for video editing skills, nor for hiring an expensive production crew with a line-up of actors and complex equipment.

And with the human instructor at the center of your learning videos, you get more engagement than ever.

To learn how you can create person-led videos with ease and minimal time and cost, click here.

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Creative Reality Studio

Who is the Creative Reality Studio for?

Our highly advanced AI-powered platform allows users to access the full suite of D-ID technology, empowering business content creators – L&D, HR, marketers, advertisers, and sales teams – to seamlessly integrate video in digital spaces and presentations, generating more engaging content and employing customized corporate video narrators. 

The platform dramatically reduces the cost and effort of creating corporate video content and offers an unlimited variety of presenters (versus limited avatars), including the users’ own photos or any image they have the rights to use.

What does D-ID’s platform do?

Our studio was created to answer the needs of enterprises and SMBs seeking to upgrade their learning & development (L&D) content, internal and external communications, product marketing and sales enablement materials. Our unique technology enables users to choose the identity – ethnicity, gender, age, and even the language, accent and intonation – of the presenter, providing greater representation and diversity and leading to a stronger sense of inclusion and belonging, which in turn drives further engagement and interaction. 

Key Features:

• Choice of:
  • High definition Premium Presenters with life-like upper body and facial movements, including hand gestures. 
  • Additional option to create a Custom Premium Presenter (requires a short video shoot with the subject). 
  • Special Presenters with videos generated from any front-facing photo and text or audio. Just upload a picture and see it come to life.
• The Creative Reality Studio is capable of animating detailed illustrations, opening users up to a world of possibilities including portraits of historical figures, fictional characters or even integrate AI-generated faces produced by programs like DALL·E 2 or Midjourney
• Both the Standard and Premium presenters are easily generated, requiring only a few clicks to create
• Videos can be translated into multiple languages by simply changing the script, rather than engaging different presenters, each fluent in the target language
• Extensive neural voices across 119 languages and variants
• Audio input, allowing users to create a more personalized voice-driven digital presenter, as well as voice cloning to match a specific voice 
• Access to an exclusive plug-in for PowerPoint, allowing a customizable digital human to be placed directly into a presentation 
• API version available for enterprise users

Why employ a digital presenter?

The use of video has increased dramatically and businesses of all sizes are integrating it in their training, communications and marketing strategies, as a more immediate, retentive and engaging alternative to text. Accelerating this trend are the rapidly evolving worlds of avatars and the metaverse, both of which urgently demand a more creative, immersive and interactive content approach from digital creators. Production budgets, however, can be prohibitively expensive and require significant allocations of time and talent. Synthetic media offers the ideal solution. 

Recently D-ID unveiled its new corporate training solution which enables companies to create engaging video content. D-ID is currently partnering with many blue-chip companies and learning & development providers who want to take advantage of this AI-based technology. Some of these include Fort Mill-based SkillDora, which launched the first e-learning platform to deliver courses exclusively by AI Instructors, and Japanese e-learning company, Skill Plus.  Some of D-ID’s other customers include Warner Bros. Studios, Mondelēz, Publicis and MyHeritage, whom D-ID partnered with to create the viral sensation Deep Nostalgia.

Video reenactment technology for all

Creative Reality Studio brings the company’s patented deep learning technology into the hands of millions for the first time. Until now, D-ID’s video reenactment technology has only been available on the enterprise level. Creative Reality Studio represents a meaningful stepping stone for the company as it expands into the wider corporate market. 

“D-ID’s work has already generated more than 100 million videos. Now that we’re offering our self-service Creative Reality  platform, the potential is huge,” our CEO Gil Perry, said about the launch. “The studio enables larger enterprises, smaller companies and freelancers to produce personalized videos for a range of purposes at massive scale, with the potential to engage audiences in learning and development, sales training and more. Our technology cuts through the headache of corporate video production to effortlessly create high-quality, cost-effective, professional videos in any language at the click of a button.” 

Who is D-ID? 

We are a Creative Reality company specializing in patented video reenactment technology using AI and deep learning. Our products range from animating still photos to facilitating high-quality video productions and creating viral user experiences. With funding from tier 1 VCs, D-ID aims to radically disrupt the time, effort and costs involved in video production, allowing for the creation of highly personalized media using AI, specifically in e-learning, corporate training, marcoms, AI assistants, history and the Metaverse. With international customers, D-ID’s core competencies in the human face and deep learning technology enable its partners to create exciting and engaging content that was until now unimaginable.

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What is Learning and Development?

Most simply put, Learning and Development (L&D) is the process of helping people acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to perform their jobs effectively. L&D can take many forms, but one of the most common methods is employee training videos.

The use of video in training programs is on the rise

The use of video for employee training in L&D is becoming more and more popular. And it’s no wonder why. Videos are a great way to provide engaging and interactive content that can be easily accessed by learners at any time in their training programs.

Not only that, but videos can also be used to create a more personal learning experience by featuring faces and voices of instructors and other real people. This can help to create a connection with learners and make the content more relatable.

The power of presence

People need people. This is scientific fact, not just the inspiration for sentimental songs and new-age discourse.

As noted by Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD, the Science Director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, “human beings are an ultra-social species — and our nervous systems expect to have others around us”. We are designed to need the presence of other humans.

And being in each other’s presence, whether ‘live’ or virtually, doesn’t only make us feel more at ease, and even healthier in both body and mind, it also helps us learn better.

This is where instructor-led learning videos come into play. Simply put, and true to its name, ‘instructor-led’ learning videos are those that feature an instructor who delivers information to learners.

“Human beings are an ultra-social species — and our nervous systems expect to have others around us”

Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD, Science Director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Having the presence of a human instructor in a training and development program is very important for assuring employee engagement and, ultimately, its efficacy. This can be seen in the fact that instructor-led videos are among the most common types of training videos that are found in online learning programs.

Focus on the face

But it’s not just about the person’s presence. It’s also about their face.

And the power of having people present in video content, with a focus on the human face, has long been recognized by the marketing and advertising industry.

In fact, it’s been shown that ads that feature a person’s face get nearly 92% more attention than those that don’t.

We crave connection. We are drawn to people’s faces, their eyes, and their smiles. So, just as advertising that is face-centric is more engaging and impactful, so is a face-centric employee development learning video.

The innate lure of the human face

One of the primary reasons that the human face is so essential to learning engagement is that it’s “one of the richest and most powerful tools in social communication,” according to Rachael E. Jack and Philippe G. Schyns, from the School of Psychology and the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, both at Scotland’s University of Glasgow.

Faces capture our attention automatically. Even as babies, we process faces long before we recognize other objects. This was demonstrated by a study conducted at the Stanford Vision and NeuroDevelopment Lab, in which brain-monitoring technology was used by the university’s psychology researchers to determine that infant brains respond to faces just as those of adults, even when the rest of the infant visual system lags behind.

Evidence shows we process faces long before we recognize other objects

Scientists agree

In another study, also conducted at Stanford University, researchers set out to determine just how important the instructor’s face is to engaging viewers of person-led learning videos.

From the evidence that they gathered from two large-scale field studies, they found that online learners going through development programs, who saw the instructor’s face, reported having a better and more effective learning experience than those who didn’t.

They also noted that constantly presenting the instructor’s face actually enhanced learning and motivation.

Moreover, learners surveyed for the study expressed a strong preference for instruction with a human face, claiming that it was easier to follow a training video and pay attention to the content being delivered when there was a human face doing the delivery.

The Benefits of a Human Face in L&D Videos

Faces create more employee engagement because they are:

1. The center of emotional communication
2. A source of personal connection
3. Attention-grabbing
4. A vehicle for non-verbal communication

When training and development programs are instructor-led, and focus on the face of the instructor, learners are more engaged and report having a more memorable and effective learning experience.

After all, as it’s been said many times before, there really is nothing more engaging than the human face. And how this truth can benefit your employee training, and learning and development videos.

How D-ID can help

From all this evidence, it’s obvious that the human face is essential to creating employee training and development programs that are more engaging and effective.

D-ID can help anyone in the organization produce such compelling people-led, face-centric learning videos easily, quickly, and cost-efficiently.

We empower corporate employee training and development teams to create learning videos that feature the human face, for more effective learning videos, and all with a simple click of a button.

Our offering is an AI-based solution that takes your script and turns it into high-quality, realistic videos. Output as many videos as you need simply and quickly.

Whether it’s soft skills, leadership skills, onboarding, regulatory or compliance training, we can help you build a training and development program that puts people at the heart of employee development.

And with the human face at the center of your employee training video, you will get higher than ever levels of engagement, effectiveness and memorability.

The bottom line is that the human face is essential for more engaging, memorable, and effective learning videos. L&D professionals looking to bridge skill gaps in their training and development programs should keep this in mind when creating their next instructional video project.

To learn how you can create person-led videos that maximize learning by leveraging the engagement value of the human face, click here.

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Going to these events, whether streaming, on demand, or live – is always enriching, instructive, and inspiring. That’s why it’s important for your development team to know what our industry has to offer, and which events they should consider attending.

After all, this is the best way to hear about new and evolving trends and best practices, in talent enrichment, employee engagement, virtual classrooms, and professional development. It is also a wonderful way to get insights from experts, learn from real-life case studies, and network with peers.

After all, better learning means better business performance and means your company will be more likely to hit its key performance indicators.

To help you make the decision about which events to attend, we’ve compiled a list of the top 13 learning and development meetups coming up over the next 12 months.

TechLearn Austin

TechLearn, where “technology empowers learning,” presents L&D professionals with content and insights about how to best leverage the latest in learning and training technologies and engaging with employees.

The event is comprised of keynote speeches, a ‘training tech kitchen’ – where attendees rotate among 10 tables with demos and treats, breakout sessions and a mixer event. Conference topics include e-learning, the virtual classroom, compliance training, professional development, augmented reality, and more.

The event is tailored for professionals in the domains of training, learning, and performance from both the public and private sectors, as well as CLOs, L&D practitioners and leaders, and anyone who’s charged with leveraging online learning technologies to drive workplace performance and increase personal skills.

To learn more, click here.

World of Learning

The World of Learning conference and exhibition is an event that delivers thought leadership insights, as well as networking opportunities, and inspiration for learning and development professionals.

The conference features speakers who are among the industry’s leading thinkers and practitioners, who come to share case studies and lead interactive seminars and discussion forums.

Moreover, the exhibition showcases a wide range of solutions for the virtual classroom, learning management, experiential learning, lifelong learning, safety training and more.

To learn more, click here.

Training Industry Conference & Expo (TICE)

The Training Industry Conference & Expo (TICE) is an online event focused on delivering insights into leadership development in the domain of corporate learning and development.

The event provides an interactive experience, enables networking opportunities with company professionals dedicated to developing learning programs around talent development, and offers ideas and solutions for advancing a career in learning and hitting your business goals.

There are multiple tracks and over 25 breakout sessions that offer valuable insights, live product demonstrations of the latest adaptive learning solutions, roundtable discussions, and a virtual expo hall aimed at the learning function.

To learn more, click here.

DevLearn

The mission of DevLearn is to “unearth the future of learning and technology,” while focusing on innovative thinking and emerging technologies in learning and development.

Attending this event provides participants an opportunity to see where the industry is headed, discover best practices for enhancing everyday work, and learn about strategies for personal development.

The lineup of keynote speakers and topics is impressive, including “The Future Of The Mind” with Michio Kaku, renowned physicist and co-founder of string theory, and the program covers a wide range of engaging topics aimed at different business units, such as AR and VR, data and measurement, emerging tech, video and media, project management and more.

To learn more, click here or stop by and meet us at Booth 1322!

Web Summit

Forbes calls it “the best technology conference on the planet,” and in November it will bring together more than 70,000 people to experience first-hand the companies, business leaders and offerings which are redefining the tech industry.

The event offers educational content, informative masterclasses, and roundtables that endow participants with valuable skills that they can take back for immediate implementation during their day-to-day.

Web Summit has 26 tracks, which cover 30 tech topics, including AI and machine learning, content creation, education, human resources and recruitment and much more.

To learn more, click here.

OEB

Now in its 28th year, OEB attracts a wide range of attendees from global enterprises, SMEs, higher education, and more. The conference program is designed to present and discuss how technology opportunities and challenges are transforming the world of learning.

There is an exhibition, keynote plenaries from world-class speakers, and networking opportunities, each aimed at creating a better digital learning world.

Among the topics covered are learning design for talent development, online teaching/learning, L&D capability and leadership, using learning technologies to structure the learning experience, making decisions with data, initiating and implementing digital transformation, and more.

To learn more, click here or stop by and meet us at Booth D40!

Training 2023 Conference & Expo

Training magazine’s Training Conference & Expo has been bringing together learning experts and professionals from multiple industries and experience levels for 45 years.

This is a train-the-trainer conference with a trainer certificate program that enhances the L&D professional’s career. Attendees from every business unit, including training directors and managers, chief learning officers, learning directors and managers, e-learning managers, designers, developers, business leaders and more.

To learn more, click here.

People Development Summit

PDS is an exclusive gathering of senior L&D decision-makers who come together live in person to discuss and uncover the best solutions for achieving learning and development goals.

The event features 40 L&D solution providers including innovators in learning technology and leadership and talent development programs. Among the attendees are 80 senior L&D professionals representing development teams from top corporations from the UK and Ireland.

The benefits of attending include gaining insights on the future of work, virtual training, driving inclusive culture and more.

To learn more, click here.

ASU GSV Summit

This annual summit is produced by Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV). Its objective is to bring learning professionals together to collaborate on the training programs and learning/work transformation that will give everyone equal access to the future.

The event attracts top-tier speakers, such as Barack Obama, the 44th President Of The United States, Sandra Day O’Connor, former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States, Bill Nye, renowned scientist, inventor, and television personality, Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer, and many more.

To learn more, click here.

Learning Technologies

With more than 9,000 visitors, 200 free L&D seminars, and over 200 exhibitors, Learning Technologies is one of the biggest workplace-learning exhibitions in Europe.

At the upcoming event, there will be 90 speakers presenting at over 30 conference sessions, covering topics such as AI, data, and analytics, tools and technologies – which are actually being used, who is using them and what can we learn from them, and more. In addition, there will be collaborative sessions that are designed for interaction, and an exhibition that will showcase the latest technologies, learning solutions, training programs and other best practices.

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ATD

ATD is the largest organization for corporate training and learning development in the US. They hold several conferences throughout the entire year and this one is considered to be its biggest.

The event is relevant for new and veteran L&D practitioners alike, certified TD professionals, team leaders, chief talent officers, and more. The learning tracks include career development, future readiness, instructional design, leadership development, learning technologies, training programs, talent strategy and change management.

ATD also claims to have the largest training products expo in the industry, featuring a broad variety of solutions, services, and techniques.

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CIPD Festival Of Work

The Festival of Work is an event focused on topics such as employee engagement and wellbeing, and learning, development, and skills.

At the event, industry thought leaders present the latest innovations, case studies, research, and strategies for succeeding in the future world of work.

Attendees get insights on how to make learning part of the organization’s DNA, and how they can create training programs and an environment that works better for people and the business.

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EduLearn

The 15th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies provides knowledge on how technology is influencing the learning and teaching experience and how education is changing in the world and developing talent.

Among the program’s topics are innovations in education, curriculum design and development, career development and training, project outcomes and conclusions, collaborative virtual environments (CVEs), e-learning, emerging technologies, and more.

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See you there!

We’re very excited about the insights, engagement, and experiences that await attendees at these events.

Create Training Videos Using D-ID

We’re also looking forward to attending some in-person to present our solution, which empowers learning and development teams and other business units to create cutting-edge, engaging, compelling, and effective learning and training videos at the click of a button and a fraction of the cost – boosting business performance.

The D-ID offering is an AI-based solution that takes images of faces and turns them into high-quality, realistic videos. It turns a single photo of a person into as many learning and training videos as you need, without having to engage with the typical (costly) production process.

This way, anyone in L&D can create and update video content, as often as they want, in less time, and at a lower cost and effort than ever.

If you want to hear more, be sure to come and meet us in person at:

• DevLearn, booth # 1322
• OEB, booth #D40

Looking forward to seeing you there!

In the meantime, to learn more about how you can create as many learning and development videos as you want and need, at the click of a button and a fraction of the cost, here.

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Executive Summary

Key trends in the modern workplace, post-Covid are placing great demands on Learning & Development, and adding effective training video to your training program is the key to overcoming them.

Global workplace trends

• Remote & hybrid work model
• The skills gap is greater than ever
• Continuous introduction of new rules and regulations

Demands on L&D

• Online learning must be accessible to every employee everywhere.
• New learning materials must be engaging to generate comprehension and retention.
• Large volumes of new learning content must be continually produced.

Training video is supremely placed to address these needs because:

• As a digital medium it is inherently designed for easy and long-reaching distribution.
• It far outperforms text and images for capturing and keeping the attention of learners.

And when training video is instructor-led, the learner is all the more engaged.

Yet, with all the benefits, it has been difficult for L&D to produce their own training videos cost-effectively and at scale. Moreover, recruiting employees from within the organization to be the face of talking-head training video can be very challenging.

In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at some of L&D’s toughest challenges today, how video can help them address these challenges, and how D-ID enables the production of talking-head learning and corporate training videos without all the time, cost, and effort that come with video production, benefiting employee development, and making for effective training programs.

Global trends impacting the workplace

Around the world, many people are  finally taking a deep sigh of relief and cautiously entering the (mostly) post-Covid era.

Yet, the impact of the pandemic will still be felt across so many different areas of our lives, for a long time to come.

The world of work is one such domain. Among the key new-normal trends that we are seeing in the global workplace are:

The extensive transition to a remote and hybrid work model

To illustrate, many Fortune 100 companies including Fujitsu, Cisco, and PwC have implemented a remote first policy. As for employees, they’re all in. According to recent research, 97% say that they want to continue to work remotely, at least some of the time.

A skills gap that has never been greater

In a survey by McKinsey, 87% of executives reported to be experiencing or are expecting to experience a skills gap in their workforce. And according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) half of all employees worldwide will need to be reskilled by 2025.

The continuous introduction of new rules and regulations

Many industries are profoundly challenged by the ongoing development of new rules and regulations that demand strict adherence to avoid regulatory fines or other non-compliance penalties.

The implication for L&D

What this new world of work means for the organization’s learning and development leaders, teams and training programs is that they now need to be able to:

• Create content that can be effectively and efficiently distributed to any employee anywhere, driving online training
• Accelerate the introduction of learning materials that are engaging enough to generate comprehension and retention,  to close the skills gap, remain competitive, and drive growth.
• Achieve scale in continuously producing large volumes of new learning content to align the workforce with the corporate training objectives

And, to complicate matters even more, all this needs to be done with superlative cost efficiency.

But doing all this isn’t easy:

Delivering learning content to any and every employee wherever they are in the world can be a logistics nightmare for training programs.

Assuring that this content is compelling and engaging, when people are working from home, finding themselves beset by a severe case of ‘Zoom fatigue,’ is likewise a tough hurdle to overcome.

Maintaining learner engagement is so challenging, in fact, that it’s been identified as the top area of improvement for e-learning.

And without engagement, comprehension and retention are surely out of reach, where the average employee will have forgotten 65% of the material covered in a learning session. 90% after six months.

Furthermore, creating learning content in innovative ways comes with a high price tag. Budgets these days are not increasing in direct proportion to the increase in need, especially as organizations brace for an economic downturn.

It’s time to evolve

So, on the one hand L&D understands that it has a key, strategic role in advancing the success of the business (and avoiding risk) both in the near and long term.

And on the other hand, it is also clear that achieving strategic goals and overcoming challenges, means that L&D needs to evolve. The same old same old just won’t do anymore. And this is reflected in the fact that

• 70% of L&D professionals say their blend of job training delivery methods will change.
• There is a 71% increase in demand for digital learning.
• 73% of learning leaders plan to develop more custom content.

So how can L&D overcome some of its toughest challenges and improve ever training program?

With video.

Video to the rescue

As a digital medium, video can be broadcast, distributed, and consumed anywhere, overcoming the remote consumption challenge.

It is also perfect for securing engagement. The visual and auditory nature of videos sparks millions of neurons that don’t light up with other types of learning content.

Moreover, human beings have an innate preference for video. We can see this in the fact that in 2020, 96% of consumers watched more video online than ever. As for learners, 92% report that video has a positive impact on their learning experience.

And as we have seen from our colleagues in Marketing, they have long leveraged the fact that 95% of a message is retained when watched in a video, as compared with 10% when reading the message as text.

We want video. And we want video not only when we’re scrolling through our social feeds or researching products to buy online. We want at work, and we want video to help us learn at work.

According to Forrester, 75% of employees agreed that they were more likely to watch a job training video than look through documents or scroll through emails and web articles.

In terms of comprehension and retention, the use of short video clips in training video allows for more efficient processing and memory recall in general, and specifically for L&D videos can make employee training more effective.

And there is evidence to prove it. Namely, the human brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text, resulting in higher retention rates as compared with other learning media.

But not just any video will do

For a corporate learning video to be effective, a key element is the instructor. This is why instructor-led training video is among the most common type of corporate training video found in corporate training programs.

People respond to people. And this is where the talking head video comes into play. This is the kind of video where, true to its name, an instructor – our talking head – is on screen delivering the learning content.

Making talking head training videos a part of your training programs can boost interactive training, active learning, boost career development, soft skills, and other meet business goals. Creating videos is easy with D-ID.

When people want to learn more about a product or service, 96% of them seek out a talking head explainer video.

The benefits of talking head videos in corporate training programs are many. And especially in a remote and hybrid model, it helps employees to experience the human connection that they often feel they are missing.

And when the talking head is someone from within the organization, the learner gains an otherwise unavailable opportunity to become familiar with people in the company they might not get to meet.

What about scale and costs?

Yes, training video addresses the key challenges of remote distribution, and learner engagement, comprehension, and retention.

And instructor-led, talking head training videos can take this even further in e-learning and corporate training.

But how is it possible to scale and enable the production of large volumes of learning content in your corporate training program? And what about costs?

Training video production is not known for being a cost and time efficient endeavor. Rather, the path to create training videos is notorious for having a high price tag, often requiring a professional agency for scripting, production, crew, equipment and video editing software.

As for talking head videos, it isn’t always easy to find employees who are willing to ‘go on stage’ and be the face of your corporate training program.

There has to be another way

Imagine you could create the video we see below at the touch of a button, where all you’d need to do is upload an image, then audio or text, and click to transform the image into an engaging, compelling, effective learning or training video to build into your training programs.

D-ID’s creative AI technology takes images of faces and turns them into high-quality, photorealistic videos to use as training videos in your learning program.

You could create:

• As many engaging talking head training videos as you want.
• New corporate training courses and updated onboarding materials on-the-fly, whenever needed.
• Personalized, engaging, and compelling learning content for any required topic or domain, hard or soft skills.
• And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Well, the great news is that you don’t have to imagine.

How D-ID is helping L&D deliver value

D-ID is bringing a way to reduce the time, cost, and effort of producing, personalizing, and revising corporate learning and training video content, and specifically talking head corporate training video.

We empower employee training and development teams to create more videos than ever, that are more effective and engaging than ever, at the click of a button and at a mere fraction of the cost.

• Compliance training and other mandatory training
• Corporate training programs
• Employee development and development programs
• Online training and remote learning
• Sales team training and online learning
• On-boarding content for new employees

There is no need for video editing skills, video editing software, nor for hiring an expensive production crew with actors and tons of complex equipment.

With D-ID anyone can create and update talking head training video for their corporate training. Our offering is an AI-based solution that takes images of faces and turns them into high-quality, realistic videos. It turns a single photo of a person into as many videos as you need, without having to recruit an in-house volunteer to be filmed.

And with these highly personal videos you get increased levels of engagement, comprehension, learning session completion, and knowledge retention of almost any corporate training program.

Ultimately, with D-ID, L&D can meet its strategic objectives of:

• Distributing cutting-edge learning content to anyone, anywhere in a world of remote work and online training
• Bridging the growing skills gap with compelling and effective learning and training contents
• Achieving scale to produce as many new learning content as needed, on-the-fly for your training program
• Securing unprecedented cost efficiency

And this is how L&D can meet its strategic objectives and drive value for employees and the organization in the modern workplace.

To learn more about how you can create as many talking head videos for your corporate training content as you need, at the click of a button a fraction of the cost, with no video editing software, get started here.

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