Three days at the Fontainebleau in Miami, a thousand attendees, and one topic HR leaders could no longer keep to themselves: skills intelligence.
Inspire is Docebo's annual flagship learning conference — three days of keynotes, breakouts, hands-on labs and customer panels that bring together HR leaders, talent strategists, partners and industry analysts. This year, around 1,000 of them gathered at the Fontainebleau in Miami.
Back in April, part of our team flew out to join them. A booth set up in front of the main stage, gem pins in their bags, two customers ready to take the spotlight. It was our 1st Inspire since 365Talents joined the Docebo family — and they came home with the same feeling: skills are no longer just a topic. They're the conversation.
Here's what they experienced, what our customers said and how ready we are for the future.
A bigger stage for skills intelligence
The opening keynote set the tone right away. Loïc Michel, Co-Founder & CEO of 365Talents, was on the main stage to unveil the most significant release in Docebo's history: a unified hub where learning and skills intelligence finally come together in one closed loop. Docebo AgentHub, Enterprise Knowledge, Companion, AI Tutor, MCP — and at the center of all of it, the skills intelligence engine powered by 365Talents.
This wasn't a product update. It was confirmation of what we've believed for years: learning only creates value when an organization knows who needs what, when and why. Skills intelligence is the connective tissue that makes everything else work harder. Hearing that idea echo through a room of 1,000 L&D leaders was a moment we won't forget.
And the cherry on top? Celebrity chef José Andrés walked on stage on Day 2 wearing one of our gem pins. The hidden gems of the conference, indeed.
Day 1 — Greg Cornman and the question we keep coming back to
At 11am on Tuesday, our customer Greg Cornman, Head of HR at Infinite Campus, took the breakout stage with Julie Asselin, VP Marketing at 365Talents, for a fireside chat. The room filled up fast.
"For 35 years," Greg told the room, "we organized around titles, we built frameworks, we tried to standardize definitions. But we struggled to answer one simple question in a useful way."
What broke the pattern, Greg explained, wasn't a better title or a smarter framework. It was a different unit of measurement. Infinite Campus moved from organizing around job descriptions to organizing around capability in motion — what people have demonstrated, what they're learning, how they apply it. With 365Talents in place, his team identified 27 internal candidates for three director-level roles, none of whom would have surfaced through the normal ladder. Turnover is under 7%. Nearly every role is filled at entry level. "Those people were already here. We just couldn't see them."
That sentence stayed with us. It's exactly the work we wake up to do.
Day 2 — Gabriela Gomez and a workforce of 12,000 hidden gems
Wednesday afternoon, our customer Gabriela Gomez, HR & Internal Communications Director at Provident Mexico, stepped onto the closing keynote panel: Never Stop Evolving: Skills, Learning, People and the Future You're Building Now. Facilitated by Megan Beane Torres (VP Employee Success, Docebo), the panel also featured Dani Johnson (Co-founder & Principal Analyst, RedThread Research) and Bekah Cooper (Director, Talent Development, Jack Henry).
Gabriela brought the case study the audience was waiting for. With more than 12,000 people distributed across an entire region, traditional talent approaches were running out of room. The team needed a new way to see and deploy talent — one that wasn't built on assumptions inherited from job titles. That's where the partnership with 365Talents began, and where Provident started building a skills-based view of its people.
Her message to the room was simple: you don't need a perfect skills architecture to start. You need a use case, real data and the courage to begin.
What we're carrying home
Inspire 2026 reminded us why we do this. Skills are no longer optional, but they're also no longer abstract. They're a decision-making layer that lets organizations move people, fill gaps, mobilize internally and prepare for whatever AI rewrites next.
To Greg, Gabriela, Enrique, Docebo, our partners and every single person who stopped by our booth — thank you. You made our 1st Inspire as part of the Docebo family unforgettable.
