David Kelly, Executive Director of a community of practice called The Learning Guild, speaks about the impact of the pandemic on corporate learning and development. He also addresses how the association has coped with not being able to hold in-person meetings. The November DevLearn conference was held in-person in Las Vegas and he highlights how it was done safely. He discusses the headline events like the Demo Fest where practitioners are able to show off their eLearning projects. Other important topics were discussed at Dev Learn such as the growing use of Virtual Reality and workshops on authoring systems and the ongoing interest in microlearning and XAPI for improved data collection. Lastly David addresses one of the key contributions the Learning Guild makes to the corporate Learning & Development Community and that is research. Reports come out monthly on topics such as using personality testing to using video to how to procure the right technologies.