Pola Papadopoulou | Collaborative Learning Strategy and AI at Spotify & Inriver

Описание: What does it take to turn a traditional teaching background into a high-impact L&D career across global tech, universities, and fast-growing SaaS companies? For Pola Papadopoulou, it comes down to curiosity, collaboration, and a willingness to do it scared.

Her path led her to Stockholm and into Spotify’s engineering onboarding team just months before COVID-19, where she helped transform a global in-person program for 80–100 engineers per month into a fully virtual experience. Today, as a Learning Partner at inriver, she applies that experience to external-facing customer and partner training—combining strategy, needs analysis, backwards design, and emerging AI tools to build learning that solves real business problems.

You’ll hear about:

✅ How Pola transitioned from solo teaching to large-scale collaborative learning environments
✅ Her experience rapidly converting Spotify’s engineering onboarding online during COVID
✅ Why “start with why” is her core principle for learning strategy
✅ How she uses backwards design and real case studies to assess learner capability
✅ The rising role of AI as a co-designer in L&D—and why it makes experiences more human
✅ Why production quality matters more in external-facing learning (and how she upleveled her skills)
✅ Her career philosophy: “Do it scared.”

Whether you’re building learning systems inside a global tech company or designing training for customers and partners, Pola’s journey offers practical insight into what makes learning strategic, collaborative, and impactful.

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