Submit Your Sponsored Session Details

Share your knowledge and peer-tested strategies from learning and development leaders like you will help the life sciences training community prepare for tomorrow’s challenges. LTEN seeks sessions that reflect sound adult learning principles and the best thinking in the field, informed by theory, research and practice.

Note: One Learning Lab included in the Platinum PIP package. Available for $500 for other PIPs and exhibitors.

Learning Lab details and reservations will be shared later this fall.

Submission Process

LTEN Annual Conference Workshop & Learning Lab Guidelines

Please read this document carefully.
All guidelines and information requested is supplied within.
  • Workshops are 60 minutes in length
  • Learning Labs are hosted in the Exhibit Hall and are 20 minutes in length
  • Workshops and Labs will take place on June 13-14, 2023 at the JW Desert Ridge, Phoenix, AZ.

Description and Learning Objectives

The session description and learning objectives are critical since they are the basis for how conference attendees will choose which sessions to attend.

  • The description should be specific and succinct so that readers can quickly grasp what the session is about and how it will help them.
  • The learning objectives should be concise and clear and offer achievable goals that will give participants new information or ideas.

Workshop Formats

You will need to select one of the following formats upon submission:

  • Interactive Discussion: Sessions should be interactive, providing innovative content without the excessive use of PowerPoint or lecture style format. Sessions should provide in-depth coverage on a particular topic rather than trying to cover too much general material.
  • Skills Development: Sessions provide the “nuts and bolts” on a variety of issues in learning. The format may incorporate hands-on learning or be discussion focused.
  • Case Study: Pharma, bio, device, and diagnostic companies share their first-person accounts of strategies and programs that work.
  • Thought Leader Panel: Experts and practitioners offer similar and opposing views on relevant topics in training. Includes meaningful Q&A time.
  • Best Practice Roundtable: Informal format provides the opportunity to network and share challenges, resources, and approaches to tackling a hot topic or specific area of interest.

You will be asked to supply the following information for each workshop:

For the Presenter/Primary Speaker:

  • Name
  • Job Title
  • Company Name
  • Phone Number
  • Email Address
  • LTEN Membership

For each Co-Presenter (only two for Learning Labs):

  • Name
  • Job Title
  • Company Name
  • Phone Number
  • Email Address

For each workshop that you would like to submit, we will request the following information:

  • Session Title (100 characters or less)
  • Session Description (500 words or less)
  • Session Format (see descriptions above): Best Practices Round Table, Case Study, Thought Leader Panel, or Skills Development
  • Session Length (60 minutes)
  • Learning Objective 1 (100 words or less)
  • Learning Objective 2 (100 words or less)
  • Learning Objective 3 (100 words or less)

For each Learning Lab that you would like to submit, we will request the following information:

  • Session Title (100 characters or less)
  • Session Description (500 words or less)
  • Session Format: Micro-Learning Session
  • Session Length (20-minutes)
  • Learning Objective 1 (100 words or less)
  • Learning Objective 2 (100 words or less)

NOTE: The submission form will provide a link for editing the submission if needed.

Questions? Email Christine Gaudet, LTEN director of events, at cgaudet@L-TEN.org.

Workshop Formats

Workshops – 1 Hour

Workshops will be 60 minutes in length. These learning sessions are meant to facilitate in-depth discussion and provide participants with practical, actionable tactics.

You will need to select one of the following formats upon submission:

Interactive Discussion: Sessions should be interactive, providing innovative content without the excessive use of PowerPoint or lecture style format. Sessions should provide in-depth coverage on a particular topic rather than trying to cover too much general material.

Skills Development: Sessions provide the “nuts and bolts” on a variety of issues in learning. The format may incorporate hands-on learning or be discussion focused.

Case Study: Pharma, bio, device, and diagnostic companies share their first-person accounts of strategies and programs that work.

Thought Leader Panel: Experts and practitioners offer similar and opposing views on relevant topics in training. Includes meaningful Q&A time.

Best Practice Roundtable: Informal format provides the opportunity to network and share challenges, resources, and approaches to tackling a hot topic or specific area of interest. immediately.

Learning Labs – 20 Minutes

One Learning Lab included in the Platinum PIP package. Available for $500 for other PIPs and exhibitors.

Share knowledge on a variety of hot topics, latest technology trends, best practices and case studies.

20 Minute Micro-Learning session delivers bite-sized content to learners that they can consume all at once and apply the knowledge immediately.

Registration, Travel & Lodging

All accepted workshop presenters must register for the LTEN Annual Conference.

  • Each content leader must register for the conference and may use the discount code for $200 off the price of registration, which will be provided upon notification of selection.
  • Those registered at the time of selection will not be eligible for a refund for the speaker’s discount.
  • Presenters will be responsible for all individual travel and lodging costs. In the event of exceptions (such as Exhibitor staff) registration may be handled differently.
  • By registering for the 2023 LTEN Annual Conference, you:
    • Acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID exists in any public place where people are present and you voluntarily assume all risks related to potential exposure to COVID.
    • Certify that you are fully vaccinated against COVID. Proof of vaccination will be required onsite at the conference.

All presenters must complete our COVID liability waiver.

Event Participants

This year, hundreds of training professionals and leaders will attend workshops and Learning Labs with the hopes of finding smart, proven strategies to bring back to their own classrooms.

A Glance at LTEN Members

Titles/Positions of Members

  • Field Trainer – 10.29%
  • Trainer / Educator – 29.41%
  • Director/VP of Training – 35.29%
  • Other Life Science Company Training Professional (e.g., instructional designer, LMS admin, etc.) – 7.35%
  • Other – 5.15%

Areas of Focus

  • Medical Device or Diagnostics – 31.06%
  • Pharmaceutical or Biotech – 65.91%
  • Non-Commercial, Non-Sales Training – 5.3%
  • Commercial-Focused/Sales Training – 25%


Years in Training

  • Less than 1 year – 15.44%
  • 1-3 years – 14.71%
  • 3-5 years – 8.09%
  • More than 5 years – 61.76%

Training Team Sizes

  • 5 or fewer – 44.78%
  • 6-15 – 29.10%
  • 16-30 – 12.69%
  • 31-45 – 3.73%
  • 46 or more – 8.21%
  • Other – 1.49%

About the Conference

Five Decades Life Sciences Training Excellence

LTEN — Advancing Global Life Sciences Learning

The LTEN Annual Conference is a valued industry gathering, where event participants craft their personalized learning journeys with content-specific learning tracks, micro-Learning Labs, keynotes, LTEN Talks, an exhibit hall with top training partners and countless opportunities to connect with other life sciences L&D practitioners from across the globe.

We are excited to host our flagship event at the gorgeous JW Desert Ridge in Phoenix in 2023. As COVID-19 remain a relevant and global consideration, we are excited to provide an unmatched opportunity to source, network and learn together in person, in a safe environment.

About LTEN

Five Decades Life Sciences Training Excellence

LTEN — Advancing Global Life Sciences Learning

The Life Sciences Trainers & Educators Network (www.L-TEN.org) is the only global 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization specializing in meeting the needs of life sciences learning professionals. LTEN shares the knowledge of industry leaders, provides insight into new technologies, offers innovative solutions and communities of practice that grow careers and organizational capabilities.

Founded in 1971 , LTEN (originally the National Society for Pharmaceutical Sales Trainers, NSPST for short) has grown to more than 2,800 individual members who work in pharmaceutical, biotech, biopharma, medical device and diagnostic companies, and industry partners who support the life sciences training departments.

LTEN also serves a growing community of professionals in non-commercial disciplines including clinical, manufacturing, compliance, regulatory, quality and GxP training roles.

Questions about the LTEN call for workshops submission process, need help with submitting your application or have other questions, please email Christine Gaudet, LTEN director of events at cgaudet@L-TEN.org.