Full Programme

• The 2030 Workforce Compass – Navigating demographic shifts, generational priorities, and fluid career identities
• Embedding meaning, sustainability, and societal impact at the heart of work design
• Symbiosis over Substitution – Designing human–machine collaboration models that amplify talent rather than replace it

• Beyond People Analytics: Decoding insight without dehumanising the workforce
• Crafting a fluid, skills-powered enterprise where talent flows to opportunity, letting the business pivot and surge ahead
• Cultivating curiosity, empathy, and systems thinking so leaders can chart bold courses and spark waves of innovation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The architects of flow: Building systems and tech that create frictionless collaboration across a borderless enterprise
• Make values tangible by embedding them into daily rituals, communication platforms, and the employee tech stack
• Talent as a product: Treat talent strategies like MVPs—test, learn, and scale what works quickly

• Align workforce restructuring with long-term business strategy
• Retain critical roles, skills and talent for competitiveness
• Maintain employee trust and morale

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Translating organisational vision into actionable workforce initiatives
• Aligning change management with talent development strategies
• Embedding transformation into daily culture and processes

• 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

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.

A - Beyond Best Practice: Reimagining the Center of Excellence as the Engine of Transformation

B - Mental Wealth: From Burnout Prevention to Energy Activation

C - Talent Portfolios, Not Pipelines: Rethinking Succession and Mobility in 2026

D - The CHRO as Venture Architect: Building, Buying, or Incubating Talent Solutions

E - Culture as an API: Can Values Be Embedded into Tech and Code?

F - From EVP to EEP: Designing an End-to-End Employee Promise

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

H - The Rise of the Gig and Project-Based Workforce

I - Workforce Longevity: Redesigning work journeys for a workforce that’s contributing longer

J - Turning Employee Experience into the ultimate differentiator through hyper-personalised engagement

K - Embedding DEI into workforce transformation strategies

L - Reskilling and Redeployment at Scale

M - GenAI-Powered L&D: Designing a Workforce that Learns at the Speed of Change

N - The Shadow Workforce: Managing Freelancers, Bots and Borderless Teams

O - Neurodivergent by Design: Architecting Truly Inclusive Workflows

P - Hacking Performance Reviews: Radical Transparency or Radical Care?

Q - The Autonomous Workforce: Managing Talent in a Self-Directed World

R - Storytelling with People Data: From Dashboards to Boardroom Decisions

• Decoding how scaling transforms your cultural blueprint - for better or worse
• Leaders as Cultural Geneticists: Engineering the right balance between preserving DNA and adapting to new environments
• Soulproof Scaling: Embedding rituals, symbols, and stories that make culture unshakable at any size

• 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

From 9am - 4pm

Key takeaways from this site tour include: 

• A cohesive approach to translating workplace requirements and recommendations into a cutting-edge office design that caters to the diverse work and lifestyle needs of every employee
• Development of flexible workspaces that foster employee health, well-being, and a thriving corporate culture
• Strategic integration of technology and sustainability principles in creating an employee-centric workplace
• Establishment of new workplace standards as a means to attract and retain top talent in a competitive global market
• Achievement of enhanced productivity, efficiency, and employee experience through the elimination of departmental silos and the transition to collaborative and flexible work arrangements