Using brain-based strategies to learn new things and help your team do the same

Discover what happens in your brain when you learn and how to accelerate the process for yourself and others.

Apply neuroscience-backed strategies to make your knowledge transfer more effective and memorable.

Integrate LLMs strategically into your learning and teaching practices.

Ever had colleagues who seem to "get it" instantly while others struggle with concepts that seem obvious? The answer lies in understanding how the brain learns and how it changes as a result of this learning. This course takes you inside the fascinating world of how the brain processes, stores, and retrieves information, and shows you how to use these insights to become both a more effective teacher and learner yourself. For example, global learners thrive on seeing the big picture first, while sequential learners excel when information unfolds step by step. Instead of growing frustrated with colleagues who struggle to understand critical concepts or practices, you'll have the tools to identify how their brains process information and adapt your training approach accordingly.

Drawing on 20+ years of teaching in academia and industry, plus cutting-edge research on improving teaching in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus, Aino Vonge Corry bridges the gap between brain science and practical application, helping you transform your ability to teach and to learn by better understanding the science of how brains learn.

When we want to learn something new, we often observe how other people do it. We read about earlier, successful, like experiences. But we are often deceived. We hear only the good things, the things people did right. Join me for an adventure that did not always go well, where mistakes were made, people were hurt, and yet, the project was a success.

Learn together with me from Lord of the Rings, how to create a team, how to work together and how to finish a project against all odds.

We’re kicking off the final day of this year’s conference with something slightly different: Aino and Luxshan trying to make IT people laugh.

One of them has a PhD in Computer Science and wrote an entire book about everything that can go wrong in retrospectives. The other one spent more than a decade watching agility and reality collide, and turned the resulting trauma into comic strips.

Both have travelled the world with their own brand of “edutaining” talks. Now, the inevitable has happened, as they’re joining forces on the most humbling stage of them all, namely the stand-up comedy scene first thing in the morning at the last day of GOTO 2026.

What exactly will happen? You’ll have to show up and find out. But one way or another, there will (hopefully) be laughter.