In my many years in the industry, I’ve witnessed numerous transformations in the learning technology landscape. However, none has been as profound or as rapid as what we’re currently experiencing with artificial intelligence (AI). The acceleration is unprecedented and it’s separating the true innovators from those merely trying to keep up.
Innovation at an Unprecedented Pace
I recently attended Docebo Inspire and I’d like to reflect on Docebo’s technology announcement. The announcement was not just an impressive array of AI-powered features, but a testament to Docebo’s velocity of innovation. As an analyst who has evaluated hundreds of learning platforms, I’ve developed a discerning eye for distinguishing between flashy demos and substantive advancements. What I see from Docebo is the latter — genuine innovation delivered at a pace that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
Docebo has established itself as an “AI First” learning platform. They have delivered more innovation in the past 12 months than in the previous three years combined. This acceleration is directly attributable to their strategic AI investments and the strength of their product team. For large-scale enterprise learning platforms with established customer bases, this level of agility is remarkable.
Innovation Showcase: Transformative Technologies
The Docebo announcement features several groundbreaking technologies:
- AI Creator
This is a powerful feature designed to enable users, regardless of their technical expertise, to rapidly generate engaging and effective learning content. It leverages AI to automate and simplify the content creation process, making it faster and more scalable.
- Effortless content generation:Users can create structured courses, interactive assessments, and dynamic learning paths in minutes. It autonomously handles many of the instructional design elements.
- Democratization of content creation: It empowers anyone within the organization to become a learning content creator, unlocking collective expertise and saving time for dedicated instructional designers.
- Faster time-to-value:By significantly speeding up content creation, organizations can launch learning programs more quickly and address training needs promptly.
- Versatile content formats: Creator can generate various types of learning content, including text-based lessons and interactive activities. It also supports the integration of multimedia.
- AI-powered enhancements, including:
- Text revision: Adjusting text for length, tone, and phrasing.
- Assessment generation: Automatically creating quizzes and knowledge assessments based on the lesson content.
- Text translation: Providing multilingual support for the created content.
- Collaboration features:AI Creator supports multi-user collaboration, allowing teams to collaborate on content creation in real time.
- Integration with AI Video Presenter:It works seamlessly with the AI Video Presenter feature (see below), enabling the generation of video content from written scripts.
- Future capabilities:Docebo plans to add features like AI podcast creation to the AI Creator.
AI Creator acts as an intelligent authoring tool within Docebo, streamlining content creation, enhancing engagement and making it easier for organizations to scale their learning initiatives. It aims to transform how training content is created and delivered by making the process more efficient and accessible to everyone.
Docebo’s decision to include Creator as a core part of their platform for all customers demonstrates their commitment to democratizing access to powerful generative AI.
2. AI Video Presenter
AI Video Presenter transforms static lesson content into dynamic, multilingual video experiences using customizable avatars and voices—no cameras, actors, sets, or editing required. Key benefits include:
- Accelerated content creation: High-quality videos can be produced in minutes, significantly reducing costs and production time.
- Enhanced learner engagement: Video-based content increases interactivity and knowledge retention, making training more effective.
- Effortless localization: Built-in translation features enable seamless content localization for global learners, enhancing accessibility and inclusivity.
By streamlining video production and embedding rich, personalized media into training, AI Video Presenter helps deliver compelling learning experiences at scale.
3. AI-Powered Translations
This feature within Docebo utilizes AI, specifically Natural Language Processing (NLP), to automatically translate learning content into multiple languages. This offers significant benefits for organizations with a global workforce or learners in diverse linguistic environments.
- Scalability:It can translate vast amounts of content much faster than human translators, making it easier to offer learning materials in numerous languages.
- Cost-effectiveness:While human translation is crucial for nuanced and highly sensitive content, AI translations can significantly reduce the cost and time associated with localizing learning materials.
- Accessibility:It ensures that learners can access and understand crucial information in their preferred language, fostering inclusivity and improving comprehension.
- Real-time possibilities:It can offer real-time translation of live training sessions or webinars.
AI-Powered Translations break down language barriers, making learning content accessible to a wider audience efficiently and affordably.
4. AI Neural Search
Docebo’s AI Neural Search employs neural networks and machine learning algorithms to understand the meaning and context of search queries. This leads to more relevant and accurate search results.
- Semantic understanding:Instead of just looking for exact keyword matches, AI Neural Search can understand the intent behind the search query, even if the exact words aren’t present in the content. For example, searching for “how to give feedback” might also return results related to “performance reviews” or “constructive criticism.”
- Content understanding:It analyzes the content itself to understand its meaning and relevance to various topics.
- Improved discoverability:Learners can find the information they need more easily and quickly, leading to a better learning experience and increased efficiency.
- Personalized results:Over time, the AI Neural Search can learn individual user preferences and search patterns, further refining the relevance of search results.
AI Neural Search makes finding relevant learning content within Docebo more intuitive and effective by understanding the nuances of language and the context of the content.
5. AI Virtual Coaching
AI Virtual Coaching makes it possible to scale real one-on-one practice sessions, which are critical to successful skill development. This leads to improved learning outcomes, better performance, and more confidence. This feature uses similar AI avatars to the AI Video Presenter feature but makes them much more powerful:
- Real-life scenarios: The AI avatar can be given a distinct role and personality, based on real personas and ICPs. This creates an authentic training experience that mirrors real-world scenarios.
- Dynamic and interactive: The virtual coach responds to learners’ actual answers and behavior, creating a tailored learning environment.
- Instant feedback: Learners receive detailed breakdowns from the coach, covering accuracy, delivery, task completion, strengths, and areas for growth.
The efficacy of one-to-one coaching has long been recognized, but the bottleneck has always been scalability. AI Virtual Coaching finally makes it possible for every learner to have their own personalized coaching experience.
6. Harmony
Rather than a single AI model, Harmony operates as a collaborative framework where different AI layers and services work together. This enables real-time, contextual support and the automation of complex administrative tasks through natural language interaction. Harmony’s foundations are:
- Integrated intelligence: Harmony brings together a powerful suite of AI capabilities—including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and machine learning—natively embedded across the Docebo Platform.
- Coordinated ecosystem: These technologies operate cohesively to automate tasks such as user management, content creation, and compliance tracking, directly within the admin workflow. Features like the AI Video Presenter and AI-Powered Translations are modular components that plug into this broader AI ecosystem to elevate the learning experience.
- Foundation for future innovation: Designed to scale, Harmony lays the groundwork for launching an agentic AI marketplace that empowers users to build and deploy their own no-code AI agents. This ecosystem will support cross-platform automation and extend Harmony’s reach even beyond, paving the way for adaptive, autonomous learning environments.
Harmony is both the agent that streamlines work for Docebo users and the engine that drives Docebo’s AI capabilities, providing a unified and powerful platform for intelligent learning experiences.
7. Agentic Workflows
Agentic Workflows move learning toward a more personalized and adaptive learning experience. The workflows take a more active role in guiding and supporting the learner.
- Personalized learning paths:It can analyze a learner’s skills, knowledge gaps, learning style, and goals to automatically curate and recommend relevant learning content and activities.
- Adaptive learning: The system can adjust the difficulty and pace of learning based on the learner’s performance and progress.
- Automated support:AI-powered agents provide personalized feedback, answer questions, and offer guidance throughout the learning journey.
- Proactive recommendations:It proactively suggests learning resources or activities based on the learner’s role, team, or evolving needs.
Agentic Workflows aim to create a learning experience that feels tailored and responsive to each learner, maximizing engagement and knowledge retention.
These seven features highlight Docebo’s commitment to leveraging the power of AI to create a more intelligent, personalized and effective learning platform. They work together to enhance various aspects of the learning journey, from content consumption to content discovery and individual learning paths.
From Assisted to Autonomous Learning
What’s most compelling about this transformation is the fundamental shift in how enterprise learning functions. Docebo is leading the evolution from assisted to autonomous learning environments, and from administrative-heavy processes to AI-intelligent systems that dramatically reduce overhead while enhancing outcomes.
At Brandon Hall Group™, we’ve long advocated for learning experiences that adapt to individual needs rather than forcing learners into rigid, one-size-fits-all programs. The innovations unveiled at Docebo Inspire represent the practical realization of this vision – technology that can finally deliver on the promise of truly personalized learning at enterprise scale.
Leading with Purpose
The final piece that resonated with me in the announcement was the emphasis on purpose-driven innovation. In our research, we’ve consistently found that learning technology is most effective when developed with clear outcomes in mind, not just for the sake of having the latest features.
The message was clear: this company isn’t just incorporating AI to check a box or keep up with competitors. They’re leading AI innovation specifically for enterprise learning applications, with a clear understanding of how these technologies can address real organizational challenges.
The Future of Enterprise Learning
As I reflect on what I witnessed at Inspire, I’m increasingly convinced that we’re at an inflection point in enterprise learning. The combination of AI capabilities, purpose-driven design and enterprise-grade scalability is creating possibilities that simply didn’t exist before.
For learning leaders, this means rethinking what’s possible within your organization. The limitations that previously constrained learning programs – content development capacity, language barriers and personalization at scale – are rapidly disappearing. The question is no longer whether technology can support your learning vision, but whether your vision is ambitious enough to leverage what technology now makes possible.
At Brandon Hall Group™, we’ll continue tracking these developments closely, helping organizations understand how to strategically implement these innovations for maximum impact. The future of enterprise learning is arriving faster than expected, and it’s more powerful than many imagined possible.
The gap between leaders and followers in learning technology adoption is widening and the cost of falling behind has never been higher.
Docebo has willingly embraced this challenge by throwing down the gauntlet and stating to the world they are now the market leader in the AI learning platform arena.
My final thought is not technology but people. It’s easy to lose sight of the human element. Docebo is an industry icon in technology, but their most important attribute is their people. The level of passion, commitment, and unwavering drive to uniquely serve their clients, is at the heart of Docebo. People helping people. This philosophy is what sets Docebo apart in the industry.
