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UN Learning Managers Forum
UN Learning Managers Forum (UN LMF) 2026 will convene learning professionals from across the UN system to strengthen collaboration and advance strategic approaches to learning and development. The forum will explore how data-informed learning, AI, and system-wide collaboration and co-creation can support more effective, responsive, and sustainable capability development during a period of evolving global demands.
The UN Learning Managers Forum, convened by UNSSC for over two decades, brings together professionals responsible for learning, training, and staff development across United Nations (UN) agencies, funds, programs, and other international organizations.
Its aim is to foster a spirit of collaboration and partnership within the learning community while driving the learning agenda forward across the UN system.
To deliver on their mandate effectively and thrive in complex, rapidly changing environments, the UN and international organizations must equip and empower their associates and leaders with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to navigate these complexities effectively. The learning and development function plays a pivotal role in this mission, particularly as the UN system transitions toward the vision of UN 2.0 and UN80, embracing innovation, digital transformation, and enhanced collaboration to address global challenges.
UN LMF is being co-created with staff from across the UN system. It is proposed that it will:
- Examine the shifts required of learning to better ensure learning delivery continuity, relevance and efficiencies;
- Examine practical data-driven approaches for learning to sustain and amplify UN 2.0 and UN 80, including through AI;
- Reflect on strategies to co-create, foster resilience and futureproof the learning function for the UN system.
This year UN LMF will take place in person in New York from Wednesday, 10 June to Thursday, 11 June.
The in-person forum will feature innovative and interactive:
- Keynote speakers
- Topical presentations
- Case studies
- Demonstrations and discussions
- Working groups with colleagues from across the learning community
With the increased emphasis on efficiencies, against the backdrop of constrained financial resources within the UN system, UN LMF serves as a timely opportunity for learning managers to pause, reflect, and action plan for adapting learning delivery to the unprecedented pace of change. Recognizing the present moment as an opportunity to build collective capacity, UN LMF also ties in and contributes directly to the objective of supporting more agile, responsive, and resilient UN.
Professionals responsible for learning, training, and staff development in UN agencies, funds, and programmes, as well as other international organizations.
To ensure broad representation across agencies, funds and programmes, we may ask individual entities to limit the number of participants they nominate.
There is no cost for participation in this UN LMF. Prior registration is essential as spots are limited.
Please note that attendees are responsible for covering their own travel and accommodation costs.
