I’m reblogging this post from Ryan Tracey from his eLearning Provocateur website as it may be of interest to those who are following this blog. (It’s highly unlikely I’ll ever attend a conference like these ever again as a participant or even as a presenter). However, I’ll still be writing about lifelong learning!

Has our conference attendance rate returned to pre-pandemic levels? I’m not sure. I attended several last year, and while there seemed to be plenty of attendees at each one, most combined L&D with HR to bump up the numbers. Which is fine, given they’re allied professions, so long as the content pitched to the latter…
— Read on ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/lampd-conferences-in-australia-in-2023/