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Leading AI-Driven Workforce Transformation: Empowering HR to Shape Culture, Drive Change, and Achieve Measurable Impact
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Making Metrics Matter: Elevating HR Through Analytics
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Safeguarding the Modern Workplace: Empowering HR to Protect Data, Strengthen Security, and Build Organizational Trust
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Mastering AI's impact on jobs and automation.
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In this session, Jason Averbook brings the Hype to Habit framework to the question every leadership team is quietly carrying.
- AI doesn't replace people — it rewrites what people are finally free to do
- The smartest organizations aren't digitizing work, they're redesigning it from the ground up
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When algorithms make decisions, trust becomes your most valuable workforce asset
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Networking Coffee Break & Expo Hall Discovery
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Grand Plenary
- 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
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Grand PlenaryThis session explores how employers can future-proof their workforce amid challenges like an ageing population and rapid technological change. It covers practical tools and government-supported programmes — from Jobs Transformation Maps to Career Conversion Programmes — to support their enterprise and workforce transformation journey.
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Theatre 1Attendees will walk away with actionable insights on:
- The ROI of Human-AI Collaboration: Why the 18% of companies balancing AI with a people-first mindset outpace peers in revenue and profit growth .
- The 'Talent Reinventor' DNA: The core traits that set leaders apart, from intelligent teaming to dynamic, AI-driven talent mobility .
- AI in Action: A showcase of how global enterprises are actively embedding AI into daily workflows to rewire collaboration and upskill their workforce .
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Theatre 2- Designing job roles to complement agentic AI and automation, not just replace tasks
- Balancing efficiency gains with fairness, transparency, and trust
- Pioneering the Agentic Talent Cycle: Navigating the wins, hurdles, and the essential human element in large-scale AI adoption at IBM.
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Measuring Growth Instead of Gaps
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Beyond the Dashboard: What Would You Measure If You Truly Trusted Your People
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The Era of Real-Time Recognition and Feedback Loops
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Theatre 1- Culture is the engine – agility and resilience start with values, not tech
- Skills fuel the journey – continuous learning keeps talent future-proof
- AI is the accelerator – smart adoption aligns people and technology for impact
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Theatre 2- 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
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Theatre 3- 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
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Human-Centric Leadership in an AI Era: Discover how to maintain authenticity and lead with heart as you navigate the complexities of automation and algorithms.
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Fostering Resilience Through Connection: Build a culture of innovation and respect by utilizing "celebration mindsets" to spark transformation and find joy amidst organizational change.
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Value-Driven Growth: Learn practical ways to continuously add value for both employees and customers while rediscovering professional passion and personal resilience.
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Theatre 2- 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
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Human-Centric AI Strategy: Shifting from pure automation to "AI-Native" systems that amplify human judgment, preserve psychological safety, and keep accountability firmly in human hands.
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Purpose-Led Implementation: Moving beyond efficiency-driven tools toward purposeful co-evolution, where AI acts as a vigilant co-worker solving real-world challenges in healthcare, retail, and social impact.
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Navigating C-Suite Tensions: Balancing the critical trade-offs between speed and integrity, automation and agency, and data measurement and cultural trust to build resilient, adaptable organizations.
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Why CHROs Are Now Founders of Talent Ventures
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Strategic Fluency for All: Equipping employees to see beyond their roles and align their actions with the organisation's vision
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Workforce Without Walls: Breaking down traditional hierarchies and geographic boundaries to enable flexibility, autonomy, and collaboration
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Theatre 2- 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
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Theatre 3- 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
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Theatre 1The HR Tech Awards spotlight organisations and solutions redefining how people and performance connect in the digital age. Opening the celebration is a high-energy performance, presented in special collaboration with Fuzzie, Singapore’s leading corporate wellbeing club, featuring six exceptionally talented individuals with special needs.
Led by vocalist Herru, who lives with congenital blindness, the group will perform A Million Dreams — an inspiring showcase of resilience, passion, and extraordinary talent. This uplifting performance sets the tone for an evening dedicated to honouring HR innovators and brings Day 1 to a memorable close on a high note.
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Theatre 2- Align workforce restructuring with long-term business strategy
- Retain critical roles, skills and talent for competitiveness
- Maintain employee trust and morale
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Theatre 3- 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
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Theatre 1- Organisations are investing in AI tools, yet a critical asset quietly erodes: trust. This session makes the case for why trust and people engagement are the most critical aspects of AI transformation.
- The gap between AI deployment and real transformation is a leadership problem. Leaders who learn to orchestrate human judgment alongside AI will outperform those who simply automate.
- A practical operating system for the decade ahead, including the Four Conductor Capabilities and ways to build enterprise value.
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Theatre 2- 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
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Theatre 3- 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
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Theatre 1- Leading a multigenerational workforce through AI-driven change with empathy and inclusion
- Engaging employees, fostering belonging, collaboration, and resilience across generations
- Using technology strategically to connect, not overwhelm, and drive measurable cultural impact
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Theatre 3- Why so many organisations are still navigating workforce decisions with outdated maps - and the blind spots this creates
- The hidden risks of delayed, static data: from skill gaps to burnout, what leaders can't see is already slowing them down
- How AI is replacing reactive guesswork with live navigation - enabling faster, smarter decisions at scale
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Theatre 1- 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
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Theatre 2- Translating organisational vision into actionable workforce initiatives
- Aligning change management with talent development strategies
- Embedding transformation into daily culture and processes
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Theatre 3- 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
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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.
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- 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
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A pragmatic, evidence-based closing session on the specific moves HR leaders make to drive AI transformation. We'll cover the culture contradictions killing adoption, how to build organisations of 10x Humans, why incentive structures are the most underused lever in any transformation, and why the Chief AI Evangelist your organisation needs is probably already in this room.
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Registration begins at Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre (Meet at Ground Level) in front of LED Wall.
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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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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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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.
*Lunch will be provided during this session
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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.