Today I returned from the 20th conference of the Academy for Human Resource Development in Arlington, in the Washington DC area, in the USA. Having been active in the Academy during its early years, it was good to see many old colleagues and friends, and learn that the Academy is going strong. With its around 600 members and a conference attendence of I guess around 300 delegates, it is one of the main academic networks specifically dedicated to theory and research on HRD. I have not been attending the AHRD conference since 2000, and it was interesting to see that many young colleagues are now involved. Two PhD students of ECS, Hasse Cox and Eghe Osagie, shared their research and made good contacts with colleague researchers in their field of 1. HRD and sustainable development and 2. innovation and multi-level learning. The next AHRD conference: February 19-22, 2014, Houston, Texas.
