Today is my last day at the American Society of Training & Development International Conference and Exposition. With so many big words, you can see why we call it ICE!

It was my first time at ICE, and I knew I would be overwhelmed, and that I would love it. I was right. Today I just want to capture some highlights here, both to share with you, and so that I remember them too.

I stumbled onto a Trader Joe’s my first evening here. If you don’t know why that is a highlight of my time here, then you must not have one of their stores in your area.

I met Gina Schreck, goddess of the game of learning. And, in her session, I was so busy writing down ideas for my job, I didn’t have time to compose any tweets!

I cofacilitated a session with Trish Uhl on Sunday about leveraging the ASTD Competency Model in building Learning Organizations. They made an audiopoint file of it. If you ‘ve seen that, let me know how it worked out.

Dan Pink! I got to hear Dan Pink speak in person. Oh wow! And I have a favorite phrase from him now – Humans are engagement seeking missiles. My action item from his keynote is to compose my life purpose in one sentence. I challenge you to do the same.

I roomed with Debb Hibbs, CPLP, and we talked late into the night most nights. She also introduced me to Gino’s Deep Dish Pizza. Incredible – I will never think about pizza the same way again.

Last night, there was a conference party at the Museum of Science and Industry. It was a wild atmosphere, complete with mimes and dancing. But perhaps the coolest thing was discovering their interactive chemistry exhibit, where you could pull atoms off of the periodic table, and see how they interacted. Can I have one of those for Christmas, please?

I’m out of time this morning – but one more highlight of the conference is that I have a much better idea of what stories and information I have that are worth sharing. So check back, or grab me on RSS. I’ll be writing…