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AGENDA

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The HR Tech Asia 2026 agenda is here. Please note that the agenda, programme, and speakers are subject to change. Kindly refer to this website for the latest updates.

 

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09:00
  1. 495 mins

    Leading AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Empowering HR to Shape Culture, Drive Change, and Achieve Measurable Impact

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  2. 495 mins

    Making Metrics Matter: Elevating HR Through Analytics

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  3. 495 mins

    Safeguarding the Modern Workplace: Empowering HR to Protect Data, Strengthen Security, and Build Organizational Trust

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  4. 495 mins

    Mastering AI's impact on jobs and automation.

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08:00
  1. Grand Plenary
    60 mins
09:00
  1. Grand Plenary
    10 mins
09:30
  1. Grand Plenary
    45 mins
    • AI doesn’t replace people—it rewrites what people are finally free to do.

    • The smartest organisations aren’t digitising work; they’re redesigning it from the ground up.

    • When algorithms make decisions, trust becomes your most valuable workforce asset.

10:15
  1. Networking Coffee Break & Expo Hall Discovery
    45 mins
12:00
  1. Grand Plenary
    30 mins
12:30
  1. Networking Lunch & Expo Hall Discovery
    90 mins
14:15
  1. Conference Room A
    30 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
    • Why CHROs are now founders of talent ventures
    • Engineering living, breathing cultures that flex, pivot, and flourish in the face of perpetual uncertainty
    • Turning rapid testing, bold learning, and fearless iteration into the engine of continuous evolution
  2. Conference Room B
    30 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
    • Designing job roles to complement agentic AI and automation, not just replace tasks
    • Balancing efficiency gains with fairness, transparency, and trust
    • Creating policies and support systems to prevent burnout, maintain engagement, and preserve a sense of purpose during AI-driven transformation
  3. Conference Room C
    30 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
    • Measuring Growth Instead of Gaps 

    • Beyond the Dashboard: What Would You Measure If You Truly Trusted Your People 

    • The Era of Real-Time Recognition and Feedback Loops 

14:45
  1. Conference Room A
    30 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
    • AI as Your Work Ally:  Sentient systems that anticipate needs, solve problems, and spark ideas before you even ask 

    • Crafting workflows where intuition and algorithms play in perfect harmony. 

    • Ethics in the Circuitry – Embedding fairness, transparency, and trust into every smart decision a system makes 

  2. Conference Room B
    30 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
    • The multi-gen mandate: Unifying expectations and bridging communication gaps across five generations
    • Implementing reverse-mentoring to encourage fresh perspectives
    • Leverage the collective wisdom to drive innovation, resilience, and a sense of shared purpose
  3. Conference Room C
    30 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
    • Letting algorithms handle the repetitive and the risky while humans focus on the creative and the complex
    • Skill Synergy: Building blended teams where human intuition and machine precision spark breakthrough results
    • Embedding AI into workflows in ways that boost morale, productivity, and shared wins
15:15
  1. Conference Room A
    30 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
    • Converting workforce data into bold strategic plays that shift market position, not just HR dashboards
    • Engineering values, behaviours, and trust into assets that rivals can’t replicate
    • Anticipating disruption, shaping the narrative, and making the first move before the boardroom even asks
  2. Conference Room B
    30 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
    • Bridging digital‑literacy and technical skill gaps in line with AI integration
    • Creating continuous learning pathways tailored to evolving job roles
    • Promoting credentialing, internal mobility, and competency-based talent systems
  3. Conference Room C
    30 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
    • Dismantling rigid, all-in-one systems in favour of nimble, customizable tech stacks
    • Allowing data pulse effortlessly through a living, breathing network of connected platforms.
    • Upgrade Without Uproar – Swapping and evolving components with zero disruption to the flow of work
15:45
  1. Networking Coffee Break & Expo Hall Discovery
    30 mins
16:15
  1. Conference Room A
    30 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
    • Why CHROs Are Now Founders of Talent Ventures 

    • Strategic Fluency for All: Equipping employees to see beyond their roles and align their actions with the organisation's vision 

    • Workforce Without Walls: Breaking down traditional hierarchies and geographic boundaries to enable flexibility, autonomy, and collaboration 

  2. Conference Room B
    30 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
    • Deploy talent where it's needed most with internal gigs and agile redeployment
    • Use scenario planning and predictive talent forecasting to anticipate business needs before they hit
    • Track agility with clear metrics on speed, quality, and employee engagement
  3. Conference Room C
    30 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
    • From Zoom Fatigue to Flow State: Designing digital interactions that energize rather than drain
    • Mastering asynchronous work so global teams can move fast without burning out
    • Leveraging tech that fosters trust, connection, and team chemistry across screens
16:45
  1. Conference Room A
    75 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP

    The HR Tech Awards spotlight organisations and solutions redefining how people and performance connect in the digital age. Be inspired by a stunning electronic violin performance by Jocelyn Ng—a seamless fusion of art, energy, and music to celebrate the innovators transforming HR through technology and close Day 1 on a high note.

  2. Conference Room B
    30 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
    • Align workforce restructuring with long-term business strategy
    • Retain critical roles, skills and talent for competitiveness
    • Maintain employee trust and morale
  3. Conference Room C
    30 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
    • Reimagining structures as living blueprints where AI agents spark entirely new forms of human–machine teamwork
    • Equipping people to lead, coach, and quality-check AI partners, mastering the skills that unlock their highest performance
    • Training agents to reflect and reinforce organisational values while executing tasks at scale
17:15
  1. Conference Room A
    75 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
  2. Conference Room B
    15 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
  3. Conference Room C
    15 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
09:30
  1. Conference Room A
    45 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
    • Embedding empathy into strategy so care becomes a driver of talent attraction, retention, and performance
    • Architecting policies, spaces, and experiences that make inclusion a daily reality, not a yearly initiative
    • Care-Driven KPIs: Measuring the impact of well-being, connection, and trust with the same rigor as revenue and productivity
  2. Conference Room B
    45 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
    • Defining and embedding your company’s unique capability or mission as a talent magnet
    • Aligning talent strategy with sustainable, values-driven culture
    • Empowering employees to take ownership through mission-led hiring and engagement
  3. Conference Room C
    45 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
    • Ensuring AI earns belief through clarity, control, and consistent performance
    • Creating AI that amplifies human strengths instead of automating them away
    • Listening Machines: Engineering AI that evolves through human feedback, not just raw data streams
10:15
  1. Conference Room A
    30 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
  2. Conference Room B
    30 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
  3. Conference Room C
    30 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
10:45
  1. Networking Coffee Break & Expo Hall Discovery
    45 mins
11:30
  1. Conference Room A
    60 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
    • The Myth-Busting Mission: Blowing up tired generational clichés to uncover the truths that actually shape collaboration
    • Teaching Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z to speak each other’s “work language” fluently
    • Generational Alchemy: Transforming age diversity into a goldmine of ideas, energy, and adaptability
  2. Conference Room B
    60 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
    • Translating organisational vision into actionable workforce initiatives
    • Aligning change management with talent development strategies
    • Embedding transformation into daily culture and processes
  3. Conference Room C
    60 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
    • The Faith-or-Fear Divide: Why leaders either over-rely on AI hiring tools or reject them outright
    • How machine judgment is already shaping promotions, pay, and performance reviews
    • Turning AI from a mysterious gatekeeper into a visible, accountable partner in people decisions
12:30
  1. Networking Lunch & Expo Hall Discovery
    90 mins
13:59
  1. 1 mins

    Geared towards addressing some of the most pressing challenges and complexities in today’s operating landscape, these 60mins Strategy Roundtables will convene HR practitioners from across diverse sectors to discuss and share insights, leveraging upon the collective wisdom of industry leaders and peers to push the boundaries of strategic thinking and practice.

    Structured to maximise interaction and in-depth focus on a topical subject matter, attendees will have the opportunity to select a roundtable session of their choice, which has close relevance to their area of expertise and/or scope of responsibilities. We will conclude with a 15mins sharing session, where each Roundtable Leader will present key highlights and takeaways from the group discussion.

14:00
  1. Conference Room A
    60 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP

    Reserved for Orgvue

  2. Conference Room A
    60 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
  3. Conference Room A
    60 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
  4. Conference Room A
    60 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
  5. Conference Room A
    60 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
  6. Conference Room A
    60 mins
    • C-SUITE LEADERSHIP
  7. Conference Room B
    60 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION

    G - From Skills Gaps to Skills Maps – Building agile skills frameworks for a fast-changing business environment

  8. Conference Room B
    60 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
  9. Conference Room B
    60 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
  10. Conference Room B
    60 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
  11. Conference Room B
    60 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
  12. Conference Room B
    60 mins
    • WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION
  13. Conference Room C
    60 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
  14. Conference Room C
    60 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
  15. Conference Room C
    60 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
  16. Conference Room C
    60 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
  17. Conference Room C
    60 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
  18. Conference Room C
    60 mins
    • WORKTECH & AI
15:00
  1. Networking Coffee Break & Expo Hall Discovery
    30 mins
15:30
  1. 60 mins
    • What does true CHRO–CIO/CTO collaboration look like when employee adoption becomes the engine of tech design?
    • How can CHROs position culture as the hidden OS of change, with CEOs embedding it into digital strategy?
    • The CXO dilemma: Redefining ROI to measure workforce value, not just savings
16:30
  1. 45 mins
    • Talent in Flux: Navigating a restless, skills-fluid workforce that chooses purpose and flexibility over permanence.
    • Tech: Friend or Frenemy? – Harnessing AI and automation without sacrificing the human heartbeat of work
    • Recasting the CHRO as the designer of transparency, fairness, and cultural credibility
08:30
  1. 15 mins
    Registration begins at Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre (Meet at Ground Level) in front of LED Wall.
09:00
  1. 120 mins

    The AWS Asia Pacific Innovation Hub in Singapore is a first-of-its-kind facility globally, built to accelerate innovation and digital transformation for public and private sector organizations across Asia Pacific. It offers immersive experiences for business leaders to interact with AWS and Amazon-wide technologies including generative AI, quantum computing and virtual reality. It is inspired by and aims to inspire customers with Amazon’s Leadership Principles – Learn and Be Curious, Invent and Simplify, Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility, and most importantly, Think Big.

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11:00
  1. 75 mins

    Ubisoft Singapore is the largest AAA game development studio in Southeast Asia, known globally for technical innovation in games like Assassin's Creed and Skull and Bones™. With a multicultural team of over 30 nationalities, the studio’s strategic focus is on shaping the Future of Work through a commitment to Employee Experience (EX), ensuring a dynamic, flexible, and supportive environment for high-stakes creative production.

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12:15
  1. 135 mins

    Catapult is Southeast Asia's first shared executive training hub, purpose-built to groom Asia's next generation of leaders. It cultivates a dynamic community of emerging and established leaders by inspiring curiosity, collaboration, and experimentation. Its learning philosophy is grounded in the belief that leadership is best developed through play, purpose, and bold exploration.

    *Buffet lunch will be provided during this session

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14:00
  1. 120 mins

    NTT DATA Business Solutions is a leading global SAP partner, helping midsize and large enterprises transform their business through SAP solutions, consulting, and managed services. The Singapore office is a key hub for driving digital transformation across Asia, where the focus is on a Human Experience Management (HXM) approach to the Future of Work, enabling a culture where people can Work Where it Works to accelerate both client and employee success. The company has been recognized as a Global Top Employer for its exceptional HR practices.

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