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            "title": "UNLEASH Future Readiness Summit",
            "description": "<p>Future readiness is a team sport, not an individual pursuit. Preparing organizations for what comes next requires people leaders to work together in new ways.</p>\n<p>The Future Readiness Summit is an immersive workshop experience designed for the leaders responsible for building the future workforce. Bringing together leaders from across HR, talent, learning, operations and technology, the summit combines practical frameworks, collaborative working sessions and guidance on building capability within your teams.</p>\n<p><strong>Agenda at a Glance:</strong></p>\n<p>09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome Address</p>\n<p>09:15 – 09:45 | Keynote: Succession in Uncertain Times</p>\n<p>09:45 – 10:15 | Spotlight Discussion: Building the Future-Ready Organization</p>\n<p>10:15 – 10:45 | Panel Discussion: Getting Technology Embedded and Future-Ready</p>\n<p>10:45 – 11:00 | Short Break</p>\n<p>11:00 – 11:25 | Case Study: Inside a Three-Year Transformation With Fixed Deadlines, Public Scrutiny and No Pause Button</p>\n<p>11:30 – 12:00 | Case Study: Learning as the Engine of AI Readiness</p>\n<p>12:10 – 12:30 | Morning Synthesis: From Challenges to Decision Priorities</p>\n<p>12:30 – 14:00 | Executive Networking Lunch</p>\n<p>14:00 – 14:15 | Getting Future Ready: Decision Lab Roundtable Briefing</p>\n<p>14:15 – 15:15 | Future Readiness Decision Labs: Co-Creation in Action</p>\n<p>15:15 – 15:30 | Short Break</p>\n<p>15:30 – 16:00 | Our Collective Intelligence Session: What Have We Learned?</p>\n<p>16:00 – 16:30 | Closing Session: Building the Future Readiness Blueprint</p>\n<p><strong>09:00–09:15 am OPENING REMARKS: WELCOME AND THE FUTURE READINESS IMPERATIVE</strong></p>\n<p><i>What separates organizations that adapt from those that struggle to keep pace?</i></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why future readiness is now a business-critical capability</li>\n<li>The gap between transformation ambition and execution</li>\n<li>Why future-ready decisions require HR, technology, finance and business leaders to work differently together</li>\n<li>What the pre-event Future Readiness Pulse tells us about the challenges already emerging across the group</li>\n<li>Live polling to test those findings in the room and identify the issues participants most want to work on during the afternoon</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>Live output: Shared decision lens and initial Future Readiness Summit challenge framework</strong></p>\n<p><strong>09:15–09:45 am KEYNOTE: SUCCESSION IN UNCERTAIN TIMES - BUILDING LEADERSHIP PIPELINES FOR AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD</strong></p>\n<p>As AI reshapes decision-making, leadership expectations and organizational structures, succession planning can no longer rely on traditional assumptions about future roles and capabilities.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redefining leadership potential for an AI-enabled business environment</li>\n<li>Balancing digital capability, human judgment and adaptability</li>\n<li>Building leadership resilience through disruption and continuous change</li>\n<li>Testing whether today's succession assumptions remain valid against plausible future scenarios</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Naomi Haefner, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, IMD Business School</p>\n<p><strong>09:45 am – 10:15 am SPOTLIGHT DISCUSSION SESSION: BUILDING THE FUTURE-READY ORGANIZATION - HOW LEADING ENTERPRISES ARE TURNING STRATEGY INTO ACTION</strong></p>\n<p>Global executives share practical lessons from transformation at scale, framed around the decisions they made, the stakeholders they had to influence and what they would do differently.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building the skills, capabilities and culture required for an AI-enabled organization</li>\n<li>Preparing leaders and employees as work, roles and decision-making evolve</li>\n<li>Turning AI investment into measurable workforce capability and business impact</li>\n<li>Identifying the decision or coalition that unlocked progress when transformation stalled</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Andrew Davis, EVP &amp; Global Chief People Officer, Sony Music Entertainment</p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Richard Skellett, Chief Analyst, Research &amp; Design, Global Reset, Bloor Research</p>\n<p><strong>10:15 –10:45 am PANEL DISCUSSION: GETTING TECHNOLOGY EMBEDDED AND FUTURE READY</strong></p>\n<p>The challenge is no longer simply collecting more data or deploying more technology. It is making better decisions about where friction sits, who needs to act and how to build organizational commitment.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying workforce, leadership and organizational barriers slowing transformation</li>\n<li>Using workforce analytics and AI insights to make faster, evidence-based decisions</li>\n<li>Connecting people, technology and business data to improve execution</li>\n<li>Building the coalition of stakeholders required to move from insight to action</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Syed Ali Abbas, Vice President People, Global Business Units, HelloFresh</p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Chetna Manglik, SVP HR Digital, Analytics, Services &amp; Strategy &amp; HR Global Functions, Danone Group</p>\n<p><strong>10.45 – 11:00 am Short Break</strong></p>\n<p><strong>11.00 – 11.30 am CASE STUDY: WHEN IS READY REALLY READY?</strong></p>\n<p><i>The Three-Year Journey to Transform The National Lottery While Keeping The Nation Playing</i></p>\n<p>Most transformation programs can shift a timetable or quietly manage disruption behind the scenes. This one could not. Over three years Sam Sheriff and Mark Smith worked on one of the most complex transformations in the UK, rebuilding the technology, operations, people and supplier relationships behind the National Lottery, while the service kept running in full public view.</p>\n<p>Sam and Mark will talk honestly about what that journey actually felt like: how they judged whether the organization was ready to move forward, the moments plans fell apart, the decisions made without certainty, and how they kept moving when the deadline could not.</p>\n<p>Attendees will hear:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What it is like leading change when the destination and deadline are fixed but the route keeps shifting</li>\n<li>How they judged readiness at different points across a three-year transformation</li>\n<li>How they held people, technology, suppliers, and regulation together as one effort instead of separate programs</li>\n<li>What happened when plans met reality and how they adapted in the moment</li>\n<li>What three years of transformation taught them about whether an organization is ever truly ready</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Sam Sheriff, Chief People and Places Officer, Allwyn (National Lottery UK)</p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Mark Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Allwyn (National Lottery UK)</p>\n<p><strong>11:30 am – 12:00 pm CASE STUDY: BUILDING THE CAPACITY TO EXPERIMENT</strong></p>\n<p><i>How Ericsson Is Turning AI Exploration into Organizational Learning and Future Capability</i></p>\n<p>As AI continues to evolve at a pace that outstrips traditional learning cycles, organizations face a new challenge: how do you prepare people for technologies, roles and ways of working that are still emerging?</p>\n<p>At Ericsson, Pauline Rebourgeon's work sits at the intersection of learning, emerging technology and AI adoption. Through a combination of experimentation, community-led innovation, simulations, coaching, peer learning and hands-on exploration, Ericsson is helping people discover where AI creates value while building the confidence and judgment needed to use it responsibly.</p>\n<p>This case study explores how learning can become a mechanism for experimentation, adaptation and capability building, helping people navigate uncertainty and prepare for an increasingly AI-enabled future.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating safe environments where people can test, question and learn through using AI</li>\n<li>Moving beyond formal AI training towards experimentation, simulations, role plays and practical problem solving</li>\n<li>Using community-led innovation to identify and test new approaches to learning, practice, coaching and capability development</li>\n<li>Identifying where AI creates meaningful value for learning, capability building and performance support</li>\n<li>Bringing together Learning, Talent, IT and AI teams to enable responsible experimentation and adoption</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Pauline Rebourgeon, Head of Learning Technology &amp; Innovation, Ericsson</p>\n<p><strong>12:00–12:30 pm MORNING SYNTHESIS: FROM CHALLENGES TO DECISION PRIORITIES</strong></p>\n<p>What is the room telling us and where should we focus next?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Areas of consensus, disagreement and uncertainty</li>\n<li>Which challenges will move into the afternoon labs</li>\n<li>Formation of small peer working groups based on shared priorities</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>12:30–2:00 pm EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LUNCH</strong></p>\n<p><strong>2:00–2:15 pm GETTING FUTURE READY: DECISION LAB ROUNDTABLE BRIEFINGS - FROM CHALLENGE TO DECISION</strong></p>\n<p>Gary introduces and welcomes roundtable workshop leaders and outlines the process for the afternoon: define the challenge, identify the barrier to future readiness, understand the stakeholder system, test assumptions, build a coalition, and commit to action for fast-tracking progress and growth:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Objectives, roles and success measures</li>\n<li>How the table recordings and anonymized insight capture will work</li>\n<li>Stakeholder role-play through the lens of the CFO, COO, CEO and other critical functions</li>\n<li>Ground rules for a candid, high-trust working environment</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>2:15 – 3:15 pm FUTURE READINESS DECISION LABS — CO-CREATION IN ACTION!</strong></p>\n<p>Small groups of approximately 6-8 delegates work together on the priority challenge clusters identified during the morning. The labs are practical and adaptive rather than a second series of panel discussions.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenge definition: what is the real decision that needs to be made?</li>\n<li>Stakeholder role-play: what would the CFO, COO, CEO, technology leader or employee challenge?</li>\n<li>Coalition of the willing: who must be aligned and how can leaders create shared ownership?</li>\n<li>Solved-case exchange: what has another organization already tried and what can be transferred?</li>\n<li>Black Swan stress test: how robust is the proposed approach when assumptions or external conditions change?</li>\n<li>Action design: what should be tested, stopped, accelerated or decided next?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>3.15 – 3.30 pm - Short Break</strong></p>\n<p><strong>3.30 – 4.00 pm OUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE SESSION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?</strong></p>\n<p><i>Turning the Day's Collective Experience Into Practical Lessons for Future Readiness</i></p>\n<p>After a day of sharing experiences, testing challenges, and working through decisions together, this session brings the room back together to identify what we have learned.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What did we learn that could change how we approach our own challenges?</li>\n<li>Which barriers and readiness gaps appeared consistently across organizations?</li>\n<li>What approaches have organizations already tried and what can others learn from them?</li>\n<li>Where did different perspectives challenge our assumptions or change the way we saw the problem?</li>\n<li>Which practical actions, experiments or approaches are worth taking back into our organizations?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>4:00 – 4.30 pm CLOSING SESSION: BUILDING THE FUTURE READINESS BLUEPRINT</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each delegate leaves with three commitments:</li>\n<li>One decision to make</li>\n<li>One action or experiment to launch within 30 days</li>\n<li>One capability or coalition to strengthen over the next year</li>\n</ul>\n<p><i>Every contribution from the day will be synthesized into the <strong>Future Readiness Blueprint Report 2026</strong> sent out to all attendees shortly after the event.</i></p>\n<p><strong>Moderator: Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</strong></p>",
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              "Mark Smith (Chief Technology Officer, Allwyn UK)",
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            "title": "UNLEASH HR 2030 Summit",
            "description": "<p>This workshop will take participants through an immersive exercise where we envision HR in 2030 and then examine key components that will be needed to bring the vision to reality.  Topics will include:  Understanding Agents, the Role of Humans, Operating Model, Performance Management, and other associated topics. The team will use real-life examples to help participants understand how HR 2030 will be impacted.</p>\n\n<p>Walk away with research-backed frameworks, real-world case studies, and a clear roadmap for building an HR function that's leaner, smarter, and built for what's next.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Agenda at a Glance:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>09:00 - 09:30| Registration and Coffee</li>\n<li>09:30 - 09:45| Welcome Address</li>\n<li>09:45 - 10:10| Keynote</li>\n<li>10:10 - 10:25 | Coffee & Networking Break</li>\n<li>10:25 - 11:55 | Immersive Workshop </li>\n<li>11:55 - 12:30 | Closing Remarks </li>\n<li>12:30 - 13:00 | Lunch break sponsored by UKG </li>\n</ul>\n<p>In this summit, you'll discuss:</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Big Transformation Picture and the Impact of Agents</strong></p>\n<p>The HR profession is facing its most significant shift in a generation. Josh opens with the HR 2030 vision - unpacking what agentic AI really means for HR, why superagents are a fundamentally different bet than point solutions, and how the world's most forward-thinking companies are already pulling ahead.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Where AI Is Driving Real Transformation - Right Now</strong></p>\n<p>AI isn't disrupting every corner of HR equally. Learn how the seven HR superagents are reshaping the function end to end, and how to find the right starting point for your organization - no matter where you are today.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Learning Revolution: From Content Library to Dynamic Enablement</strong></p>\n<p>The era of pushing courses and hoping something sticks is over. Understand how AI is transforming L&D into a real-time, hyper personalized capability engine - embedded directly in the flow of work. Including a look at digital twins, the four maturity levels reshaping the field, and what it actually takes to become an AI-first learning organization.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Talent Acquisition and Contact Centers: The Agentic Takeover</strong></p>\n<p>Recruiting and HR service delivery are being completely reinvented. Learn how AI superagents are compressing weeks-long hiring processes into minutes, what the recruiter role looks like when it's truly empowered by AI, and how the best organizations are delivering frictionless employee experiences at scale.</p>\n\n<p><strong>HRBPs and Digital Twins: The Strategic Upgrade</strong></p>\n<p>Contrary to popular fear, the HRBP role isn't disappearing - it's becoming more powerful than ever. Explore how digital twins and AI are elevating HR Business Partners into high-impact strategic advisors, and why organizations tackling the most complex transformations are betting big on this evolution.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The New HR Operating Model: Ratios, Metrics, and the Role of Humans</strong></p>\n<p>What does the HR org chart actually look like in 2030? Dive deep into the hard numbers - new headcount ratios, structural shifts, the roles that are emerging, and the success metrics that will replace the old ones. Plus: a clear-eyed look at where human judgment remains irreplaceable, and how to design for it.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Open Q&A and Closing Remarks</strong></p>",
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            "description": "We are thrilled to partner with ExecTASocial to bring an elite, global gathering of Talent Acquisition leaders to Paris this October.\n \nThe Orbit Tour is a fully immersive, collaborative experience designed specifically for senior Heads of TA. There are no wrong rooms and no mismatched levels; you will be on your feet, working directly alongside global peers who face the exact same strategic pressures and leadership challenges that you do.\n \nInstead of generic concepts, the focus is entirely on real action plans. We are diving straight into problem-solving, ensuring you leave not just with inspiration, but with a concrete, actionable \"HOW-TO\" to add to your roadmap the very next day. While this event proudly celebrates the official launch of the new ExecTASocial Paris community, we are opening the doors to leaders joining us globally from San Francisco to Singapore, Sydney, and beyond. After an impactful morning of strategy at the Shangri-La, you will step straight into the epicenter of HR innovation at UNLEASH World for the next two days.",
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            "title": "Workhuman Forum",
            "description": "<p>This exclusive, complimentary event brings together 300+ executives from leading organizations to explore the ideas, technologies, and strategies defining what's next in work. No fluff. Just substance.</p>\n<p><b>Agenda at a Glance:</b></p>\n<p>12:15 - 13:00 | Registration and Networking Lunch</p>\n<p>13:00 - 13:15 | Welcome Address</p>\n<p>13:15 - 13:55 | Keynote</p>\n<p>13:55 - 14:40 | Keynote</p>\n<p>14:40 - 16:00 | Coffee & Networking Break</p>\n<p>16:00 - 16:40 | Panel Discussion</p>\n<p>16:40 - 17:25 | Fireside Chat</p>\n<p>17:30 - 19:00 | Book Signing & Networking</p>\n<p><b>Detailed Agenda:</b></p>\n<p>12:15 - 13:00 | Registration and Networking Lunch</p>\n<p>13:00 - 13:15 - Welcome Address by Holly Ramson</p>\n<p>13:15 - 13:55 - Humanizing Leadership to Grow Through Change</p>\n<p>Transformation rarely fails because leaders lack a clear vision or a sound strategy. It fails because their organizations struggle to bring the vision to life and put the strategy to work. While they might understand the rationale for transformation, people cannot muster the focused energy to challenge and change habits, norms, and familiar ways of working. Trust erodes, connections loosen, performance falters, and the transformation effort stalls.</p>\n<p>The reason that happens so often, INSEAD professor Gianpiero Petriglieri believes, is that traditional, somewhat mechanical models of leadership get in the way of understanding and working with the human layers of transformations. We must humanize leadership - how we understand, portray, and practice it - if we aspire to get what human work is and do it well. The leaders who bring transformation to life are those who come alive first.</p>\n<p>In this interactive session, Gianpiero will share a blueprint for humanizing leadership to foster the development of people, communities, organizations, and cultures as a whole.</p>\n<p>Together, you'll explore:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Common reactions to the imperative to transform</li>\n<li>The difference between mechanistic and humanistic views of leadership</li>\n<li>Why humanizing leadership is the key that unlocks lasting transformation</li>\n<li>How we can develop and sustain that kind of leadership in our daily work</li>\n</ul>\n<p>You'll leave with a clearer sense of what it means to build work relations, teams, and organizations that don't just cope well with change but truly grow through it.</p>\n<p><b><i>Speaker: Gianpiero Petriglieri, Expert on Leadership & Learning in the Workplace and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD</i></b></p>\n<p>13:55 - 14:40 - The Human Signals Shaping the Next Era of Work</p>\n<p>AI has flattened the workforce landscape even faster than expected. Tools, skills, and AI capabilities are converging, and yet execution gaps are widening. In this keynote, Workhuman Founder and CEO, Eric Mosley, argues that most organizations are rich in data but poor in signal, especially when it comes to understanding how work gets done, where leadership is emerging, and whether people are truly aligned around strategy. In a world where technical capabilities are increasingly interchangeable, competitive differentiation has shifted to human contribution: collaboration, judgment, influence, and leadership in motion.</p>\n<p><b><i>Speaker: Eric Mosley, Founder, CEO & Board Member, Workhuman</i></b></p>\n<p>14:40 - 16:00 - Coffee & Networking Break</p>\n<p>16:00 - 16:40 - The Change-Capable Organization: Chief People Officers on Leading Transformation</p>\n<p>The principles are clear. The pressure to apply them is mounting fast.</p>\n<p>In this moderated panel, the Wall Street Journal Chief People Officer Council brings together leaders for a candid conversation about what it takes to build a change-capable organization right now – one where trust runs deep, people stay at the center, and agility becomes a lived reality rather than a buzzword.</p>\n<p>This panel will explore:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What change-capable leadership demands from the CPO seat today</li>\n<li>How people leaders are building the human skills and cultures that make transformation stick under pressure</li>\n<li>Where change stalls, and what separates organizations that adapt quickly from those that fall behind</li>\n</ul>\n<p>These leaders will leave you with a ground-level view of how they are building organizations ready to move now, before the next disruption hits.</p>\n<p><b><i>Speakers: KeyAnna Schmiedl, Chief Human Experience Officer, Workhuman</i></b></p>\n<p><b><i>Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds, SVP & Head of Content, WSJ Leadership Institute</i></b></p>\n<p><b><i>Amanda Poole, Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb</i></b></p>\n<p>16:40 - 17:25 - Where Transformation Breaks or Builds: A Conversation with Dr. Susan David</p>\n<p>Technologies advance. Markets shift. Yet organizations still too often approach change as a series of initiatives rather than a permanent operating reality. The result? Burnout, stalled transformation, and teams left wondering whether they can do it all again.</p>\n<p>In this in-conversation session, Harvard Medical School psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Susan David will discuss why, while everyone’s talking about the AI revolution, the real competitive advantage is Emotional Agility – a science-backed, learnable set of skills that enables people to navigate complexity with courage, adapt to uncertainty, and turn strategy into sustained organizational capability. Because agile organizations are built by agile people.</p>\n<p>Susan will share:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why transformation succeeds or fails at the human level</li>\n<li>What Emotional Agility is and why it matters more than ever</li>\n<li>How to lead with courage, steadiness, and values when circumstances are uncertain</li>\n<li>Why agile people are the foundation of agile organizations</li>\n</ul>\n<p>By the end, you’ll have a practical understanding of why Emotional Agility is the human capability behind every successful transformation and how you can begin cultivating it within yourself, your teams, and your organizations.</p>\n<p><b><i>Moderator: Holly Ramson, Leadership Expert, Bestselling Author, and CEO, Emergent Global</i></b></p>\n<p><b><i>Speaker: Dr. Susan David, Leading Management Thinker, Bestselling Author & Award-Winning Psychologist, Harvard Medical School</i></b></p>\n<p>17:30 - 19:00 - Book Signing & Networking</p>",
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            "title": "UNLEASH AI Summit",
            "description": "<p>Artificial intelligence is moving quickly, but many organizations are still trying to answer the same questions. Where should we focus? What should we prioritize? How do we move from experimentation to scale? And what does successful AI transformation actually require in the mid to long term?</p>\n<p>The UNLEASH AI Summit is an immersive, workshop-led experience designed for leadership teams responsible for AI strategy, workforce transformation and business outcomes. Bringing together leaders across HR, technology, data and digital transformation, the summit creates space to learn, work and make decisions together.</p>\n<p>Combining practical frameworks, peer discussion and hands-on sessions, attendees will refine their own roadmap for AI transformation, building capability and deploying AI at scale.</p>\n<p>Because AI transformation is not a technology project. It is a leadership challenge.</p>\n<p><strong>Agenda-at-a-glance</strong></p><ul>\n<li>12:30 – 13:00 | Grab &amp; Go Lunch</li>\n<li>13:00 – 13:15 | Welcome Address</li>\n<li>13:15 – 15:00 | Immersive Workshop</li>\n<li>15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee &amp; Networking</li>\n<li>15:15 – 16:30 | Immersive Workshop</li>\n<li>16:25 – 16:30 | Closing Remarks</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "L'Oréal Expedition: Creating Beauty, Connecting People, Shaping the Future: How Does L'Oréal Champion Social Innovation After 100 years?",
            "description": "Discover how L'Oréal, the global beauty leader, fosters an inspiring and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. Explore our innovative HR initiatives focusing on social impact, youth empowerment, and staying true to our culture of a people-driven organization. \n\nStep inside L'Oréal's global Research & Innovation headquarters and our advanced laboratories, spaces designed to encapsulate our culture, and experience how a company with a century-long legacy stays at the forefront of social impact. This is an opportunity to talk with L’Oréal’s top HR executives who are driving change from within. Engage in conversations about their vision, challenges, and innovative approaches, including empowering youth and shaping the future of work. This is your chance to glean actionable insights, forge lasting connections, and leave inspired to ignite positive change within your own organization. \n\nAddress: 9 Rue Pierre Dreyfus, 93400 Clichy ",
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            "title": "Danone Expedition: The Human Edge in the Age of AI: How Danone is Reinventing Leadership and Skills",
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            "description": "<p>As work transforms faster than ever, leading organizations are moving beyond traditional job frameworks. Schneider Electric has redesigned its entire workforce model around skills—bringing clarity to roles, accelerating development, and enabling people to navigate careers with greater agility and impact.</p>\n<p>In this session, we will cover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shift from static job descriptions to dynamic, skills-based roles</li>\n<li>Multi-dimensional project and change management</li>\n<li>The new backbone: Global Career Architecture and Career Hub</li>\n<li>Transparency, clarity and ownership for Employees</li>\n</ul>\nSpeaker: Dominique Laurent, Human Resources Senior Vice President, Europe Operations, Schneider Electric, Member of the Europe Executive Committee\n\nAddress: 35 rue Joseph Monier, 92500 Rueil‑Malmaison",
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            "title": "AXA Expedition: Lead from Within: Igniting Leadership to Drive Sustainable Transformation",
            "description": "This practice, delivered in-house by our internal professionals, ensures that leadership development remains deeply rooted in AXA's context and culture.\n \nAt the heart of this journey lies a dilemma-based approach: rather than offering ready-made answers, together we explore the real tensions the leaders face in their daily role, for example, balancing short-term performance and long-term transformation, or individual autonomy and collective alignment. By using these tensions as a mirror, we invite authentic reflection on how they personally navigate trade-offs, making them more conscious of their choices, their impact, and their alignment with AXA's purpose.\n \nBeyond individual reflection, we conduct a collective assessment of our organizational culture offering a mirror on our leadership effectiveness. This collective intelligence transforms personal insights into shared understanding, revealing patterns in how we lead, where our cultural strengths converge, and where development opportunities emerge across the organization. By aggregating individual journeys, we gain a systemic view of our leadership landscape, identifying both the collective mindsets that drive our performance and the blind spots that may hinder our transformation.\n \nCulture change fails when it is preached from the top but not embodied. Starting with our leaders' own self-awareness reverses that pattern: it makes transformation credible, contagious, and measurable. Deployed systemically from the top, this approach accelerates our ability to adapt to a changing world. Leaders become the role models of the mindset shift we want to see across the organization, turning individual insight into collective momentum.\n \nIn a context of rising complexity and societal expectations, leaders who can navigate dilemmas with clarity and humility become AXA's most valuable strategic asset and the fastest route to a resilient, aligned, high-performing culture.\n\nSpeakers:\nKarima Silvent, Group HRD, AXA\nEmmanuel Touzeau, Group Deputy HRD, AXA\n\nAddress: 21 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris, France",
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            "title": "Thales Expedition: Thales’ global Skills-Based Learning Company to create trust and performance",
            "description": "<p>50,000 new recruits over the last 5 years and a fast-growing market amidst geopolitical tensions and technologies evolving at speed; Thales had to rethink how to develop and retain critical skills.</p>\n<p>This interactive session will allow you to get a view of Group's strategic outlook, its technological priorities and the HR transformation that underpins both.</p>\n<p>Thales leaders will share how the company, through its Skills Management System, its 40 academies and its learning methods, has driven its transformation, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing, embedded into every part of the business.</p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insight into the strategic and technological context shaping Thales</li>\n<li>Thales's HR roadmap to 2030</li>\n<li>Learning company ecosystem: Skills Management System, academies and learning methods at the heart of business entities; how does it work?</li>\n<li>Lessons learnt from a company rolling out a skills-based approach at scale and defining large-scale investment priorities</li>\n<li>The ROI of a skills-based learning company: how to leverage the data and what it tells us about the link between development, retention and innovation</li>\n</ul>\nSpeakers:\nPierre Schaeffer, Thales\nPierre Fossier, Thales\nClément de Villepin, Thales Group\n\nAddress: 4 rue de la Verrerie, 92190 Meudon sur Seine ",
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            "title": "ENGIE Expedition: Inside ENGIE: Building the Workforce Behind the Best Energy Transition Utility",
            "description": "Join ENGIE as they reveal their practical \"recipe\" for a future-ready workforce. Discover how the combination of AI, data-driven planning, and streamlined operations supports their ambition to lead the energy transition.\n\nThis exclusive session brings together leading HR executives to share how ENGIE is building a future-ready workforce. We will unveil our practical “recipe” combining AI, data-driven workforce planning, and streamlined HR processes, designed to support our ambition to become the best energy transition utility by 2030. A space to exchange, challenge, and co inspire on what truly works in shaping the workforce of tomorrow.\n\nSpeaker: Jean Sebastien Blanc, Executive VP in charge of Human Resources and Corporate, Engie\n\nAddress: 67 Rue Jules Ferry, 92250 La Garenne-Colombes ",
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            "title": "Sanofi Expedition: Building Healthcare's Next Generation of Innovators: How Sanofi is Evolving its People & Culture Function ",
            "description": "<p>Step inside Sanofi's Paris headquarters and discover how one of the world's leading biopharmaceutical companies is continuously evolving its People &amp; Culture function to stay future-fit and deliver value to the business. In this immersive half-day experience, you'll explore Sanofi's shift to a skills-based organization, see how AI is transforming people analytics and the R&amp;D workforce, and engage in honest peer-to-peer exchange on what it takes to lead a modern, agile HR function.</p>\n<p>Speakers:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florence Cauvet (Chief Labor Strategy &amp; Social Innovation Officer)</li>\n<li>Alexandra Masanes (Global Head of People, General Medicines)</li>\n<li>Véronique Jaillet (Chief People Officer ad interim)</li>\n<li>Audrey Clegg (Chief Talent &amp; Learning officer)</li>\n<li>Rohit Joshi (Head of Senior Executives, Talent Management)</li>\n<li>Henrik Håkansson (Global Head of People Insights &amp; AI)</li>\n<li>Daniele Raugi (Global Head of People, R&amp;D)</li>\n<li>Anne Olivier (Head of Organizational Development R&amp;D)</li>\n<li>Christian Airiau (Global Head of CMC Data Sciences &amp; Analytics)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Address: 46 Avenue de la Grande Armée, 75017 Paris, France</p>",
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            "title": "Sodexo Expedition: The Experience Advantage: Winning the Talent Battle Through Workplace Experience",
            "description": "<p>Workplace experience is no longer just a facilities issue—it is a talent strategy. Join HR leaders to discuss how organizations can create environments that strengthen attraction, engagement, retention, and business performance.</p>\n<p>HR leaders invest heavily in culture, leadership, learning, and wellbeing—but how often do we consider the role workplace experience plays in shaping them all?</p>\n<p>Through a real-world case study, <strong>Agnes Park</strong>, Group CHRO, and <strong>Inna Lim</strong>, Global Head of Strategic Marketing, will facilitate an interactive discussion on how workplace experience influences attraction, engagement, retention, and performance. Drawing on insights from Sodexo WRX, participants will exchange perspectives, compare approaches, and reflect on how their own organizations can better connect culture, workplace, wellbeing, and employee experience. Participants will be invited to share experiences, challenge assumptions, and identify practical actions they can apply within their own organizations.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why workplace experience is emerging as a critical factor in attracting, engaging, and retaining talent.</li>\n<li>Which elements of workplace experience have the greatest impact on employee engagement, belonging, and performance.</li>\n<li>How leading organizations are connecting culture, workplace design, wellbeing, and services into a cohesive employee experience.</li>\n<li>Examples and practical approaches being used today to create workplaces that people actively choose to be part of.</li>\n<li>The one or two actions participants can take back to their organizations to strengthen workplace experience and talent outcomes.</li>\n</ul>\nSpeakers:\nAgnes Park, Chief Human Resources Officer, Board Member, Sodexo\nInna Lim, Global Head of Strategic Marketing, Sodexo\n\n<p>Address: 255 quai de Stalingrad, 92866 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Cedex 9</p>",
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            "title": "Accor Expedition: The Future of Guest Experience: What Must Remain Human in the AI Era",
            "description": "<p>As AI becomes increasingly embedded in customer experiences, organizations must decide what technology should automate and what must remain human. This immersive Learning Expedition at an Accor hotel explores how people, processes and technology shape the guest journey, revealing how organizations can automate the ordinary while humanizing the moments that matter most.</p>\n\nAddress: Novotel: 4 avenue de la Porte de la Plaine, 75015 Paris\n<p><b>Participants will:</b></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience hospitality through the eyes of a guest</li>\n<li>Observe how AI, automation and human interaction intersect across the guest journey</li>\n<li>Identify opportunities to reduce friction and enhance personalization</li>\n<li>Explore the uniquely human capabilities that drive exceptional experiences</li>\n<li>Reflect on how to balance efficiency, empathy and connection in the AI era</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "UNLEASH Kickoff Party",
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            "title": "Employees First in the Age of AI",
            "description": "<p>When Vineet Nayar inverted the corporate pyramid at HCL Technologies putting employees above customers, transparency above hierarchy and trust above control it challenged how organisations think about value creation.  Today, as AI reshapes work that question becomes more urgent where does value actually sit and what is HR responsible for building. Vineet is the author of the forthcoming book <b>'Humans First, Machines Second: 30 Sparks to Reimagine Winning in the Age of AI'</b> (released mid-2026). The book is anchored in the idea that \"AI will not transform organizations until leaders are willing to redesign how humans create value.\" His previous book, <span>Employees First, Customers Second, published by Harvard Business Press, was a global bestseller with over 100,000 copies sold.</span></p>\n<p>This keynote will draw on large scale transformation experiences across both enterprise and education. The session focuses on what it takes to design organizations where people do the work AI cannot and where HR plays a central role in shaping that system.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarify where value sits in your organization and decide what HR must own versus influence as AI reshapes decision making</li>\n<li>Redesign work beyond roles and tasks shifting towards capability systems that prioritize judgment, problem solving and adaptability</li>\n<li>Define what human advantage means in your business and where to invest in skills that AI cannot replicate at scale</li>\n<li>Rethink frontline leadership and transparency enabling managers to act as decision makers not just executors of central strategy</li>\n<li>Make the shift from reskilling to capability strategy deciding what to stop, start and fundamentally redesign to stay competitive</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "How Ryanair Is Deploying AI at Scale While Competing in One of Europe's Toughest Markets",
            "description": "<p>In this keynote, CEO Eddie Wilson shares how Ryanair has moved beyond experimentation to implementing optimization and machine learning solutions along with the deployment of AI agents across the business, which is driving greater efficiency, productivity, and faster decision-making. This is a story of execution at scale, and the continuous development for next level productivity which is critical as the business continues to grow.</p>\n\n<p>For HR leaders, it raises critical questions: Is your organization AI ready and enabled? How do roles and operating models evolve? And what does leadership look like when humans and AI work side by side? This session cuts through the hype to explore what's working in practice and what type of organization it takes to embed AI at scale in a fast-moving, operational business.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>An AI journey which has only just started: Building a 'second workforce' of AI agents that complements, rather than replaces, human capability</li>\n<li>Making AI investments deliver measurable business value in a tighter economic and highly competitive environment</li>\n<li>Balancing shareholder expectations, operational efficiency and customer experience throughout AI transformation</li>\n<li>Controlling the narrative and leading organizational change so AI becomes part of the business, not a standalone technology project</li>\n<li>Redesigning roles, decision-making and operating models for a workforce of people and AI</li>\n<li>The Key Lessons to enable success: beyond experimentation to enterprise-wide execution</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "AI Transformation: In Theory and Practice",
            "description": "<p>To fuel an AI transformation, leaders must balance not only how technology shifts but how people, processes, and culture adapt. In this fireside chat, we will map macro world trends directly to the messy reality of how Google is navigating this shift. We will explore how the role of the leader must evolve from an expert who holds all the answers to an explorer who fosters rapid experimentation. We will share practical lessons on embedding AI fluency, rethinking organizational workflows, and building a culture that rewards courageous failure.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>World and work trends: Understanding the geopolitical, demographic, and environmental forces accelerating the AI shift</li>\n<li>Google's unique POV: How one of the world's largest tech organizations serves as customer zero</li>\n<li>The human side of transformation: Why continuous reinvention is required to keep pace with technology</li>\n<li>Evolving leadership mindsets: How to shed the 'expert' label, reward the attempt, and redesign the system</li>\n<li>Co-intelligent teams: Integrating AI workflows to augment durable human skills like empathy, judgment, and collaboration</li>\n<li>Actionable takeaways: Practical moves you can make to accelerate adoption across your workforce</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "How to be Prepared for What Comes Next? ",
            "description": "<p>As AI accelerates, most organisations remain focused on technology deployment rather than organisational preparedness. Yet the biggest determinant of future performance may not be the quality of the tools being implemented, but the readiness of the organisation itself. Leadership teams are now confronting far bigger questions than software selection. <p>\n<p>This session examines how leading organizations are redesigning governance, workforce models, decision-making structures and technology ecosystems to create organizations that are genuinely prepared for a fundamentally different world of work.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which assumptions about work, management and organizational design are becoming obsolete?</li>\n<li>What capabilities, roles and leadership behaviors will define competitive advantage over the next decade?</li>\n<li>How do we impassion the rest of the organization and particularly the team leaders across the business?</li>\n<li>Where should organizations automate, augment or redesign work entirely?</li>\n<li>How can HR leaders gather support, data and initiatives which reshape governance, accountability and decision rights?</li>\n<li>What must be modernized now and what should organizations stop investing in altogether?</li>\n<li>How do you measure organizational readiness before transformation programs fail to deliver value?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:00:00",
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              "Samantha Sheriff (Chief People & Places Officer, Allwyn UK (National Lottery UK))",
              "Eric Knauf (Senior Fellow, Human Capital Practice, The Conference Board)",
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            "title": "Workforce Readiness Starts with Skills Intelligence: From Data to Strategic Decision-Making",
            "description": "<p>Most organizations have workforce plans. Few have the skills intelligence needed to make them actionable. As business priorities shift and AI accelerates workforce change, leaders need a clearer understanding of the capabilities they have today and the skills they'll need tomorrow.</p>\n<p>Discover how skills intelligence is enabling organizations to turn talent signals into strategic decisions before the market forces your hand.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build workforce plans that are grounded in real skills data rather than assumptions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify, map and activate workforce skills to support changing business priorities and future capability needs?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create a connected skills intelligence foundation that enables more agile workforce planning and better strategic decision-making?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how 365Talents and Docebo bring skills detection, workforce readiness, and strategic decision-making together, with a live demonstration of skills intelligence in action.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:25:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T09:40:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "Vidhi Abbi (Lead Solutions Consultant, Docebo)",
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            "title": "Orchestrating Outcomes: Transforming Noise into Harmony",
            "description": "<p>Global work has become more connected and more complex. Organizations are balancing distributed workforces, changing regulations, AI-enabled processes and rising employee expectations, all while trying to operate with greater speed and confidence. Success increasingly depends on how well HR can orchestrate these moving parts into a single, connected operating model.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are simplifying workforce complexity by bringing people, data and operations together to create more agile, resilient and human-centered organizations.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an HR operating model that can adapt continuously to changing business and workforce demands?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we connect HR, payroll, workforce management and compliance to reduce complexity and improve organizational agility?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create the trusted data and technology foundations needed to support global work with greater confidence, security and consistency?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how ADP Lyric HCM brings together HR, payroll, workforce management, compliance and AI to help organizations orchestrate global work and respond more effectively to change.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:25:00",
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            "title": "From Essential Work to Strategic Impact",
            "description": "<p>HR leaders are under growing pressure to deliver strategic value while continuing to manage the operational work that keeps organizations running. As expectations increase, the opportunity is not simply to automate individual tasks, but to redesign how HR operates freeing teams to focus on the decisions that have the greatest impact on people and business performance.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using AI to simplify the employee lifecycle, reduce administrative burden and enable HR to become a more strategic partner across the business.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we reduce operational complexity while increasing HR's strategic contribution?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which HR activities can be automated through AI, and where does human expertise deliver the greatest value?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an HR operating model that combines intelligent automation with trusted people data to improve employee and business outcomes?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Personio supports the full employee lifecycle through AI-powered recruiting, payroll, pay fairness and self-service, helping HR teams automate routine work while empowering managers and employees to do more independently.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:25:00",
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            "title": "Moving Beyond ‘The Uncertainty Principle’: Leading When Everything Changes at Once",
            "description": "<p>We are living through a once-in-a-generation acceleration. Not change that arrives every few years change that compounds every few weeks. The Never Normal isn't coming. It's already here, and it's moving faster than most leadership teams are willing to admit.</p>\n<p>As an exclusive for UNLEASH Paris, Peter Hinssen unveils new thoughts and insights for a radical and necessary reframe for HR leaders standing at the edge of a generational shift. With characteristic clarity, provocation and humor, Hinssen maps what happens when the cost of doing collapses to near zero, when scalable learning replaces scalable efficiency, and when entire industries are reshaped not over decades but over quarters. This is not a keynote about surviving disruption. It is a keynote about what you build when disruption is the permanent condition.</p>\n<p>A Silicon Valley founder recently told Peter Hinssen he had 300 employees. 30 of them are human. That moment says everything about where we are right now.</p>\n<p>In this keynote, Peter Hinssen introduces The Uncertainty Principle: the idea that in a world of quantum leaps and industry-wide reinvention, the leaders who win aren't the ones who manage uncertainty they're the ones who weaponize it. Volatility becomes velocity. Complexity becomes creative fuel. Disruption becomes the only real strategy.</p>\n<p>For HR and business leaders gathered in Paris, the question is urgent and uncomfortably simple: are you building a company designed for relentless change, or one that will be swallowed by it? Because by 2040, the organizations still standing won't be the strongest or the smartest. They'll be the ones who picked up the signals before they were obvious and moved before they had permission.</p>\n<p><i>Peter Hinssen confronts the moment we can no longer ignore. This isn't disruption as usual. This is a once-in-a-generation acceleration and most organizations are still asking the wrong questions.</i></p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why this is a once-in-a-generation acceleration moment - and what that actually demands of leaders</li>\n<li>How to weaponize uncertainty before your competitors do</li>\n<li>Why the 300/30 reality is closer than most boardrooms want to believe</li>\n<li>Scalable learning as the new competitive moat</li>\n<li>Building organizations wired for anticipation, adaptability, and resilience - not transformation as a one-time event</li>\n<li>The holy trinity of the Never Normal: what it means in practice in 2026 and beyond</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:30:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T10:00:00",
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            "title": "From Mission Critical to Business Critical:  What NASA Can Teach Us About AI, Talent and Human Judgement",
            "description": "<p>From recruiting astronauts who can spend months together in isolation to assembling teams capable of landing on the Moon, exploring Mars and solving problems no one has encountered before, NASA has spent decades answering questions that every organization is now beginning to face.</p>\n<p>The future of talent isn't simply about hiring faster. It's about identifying potential before it is visible, building teams that thrive under pressure, preparing for jobs that don't yet exist and ensuring people and AI work together when the stakes are highest. After all, if little green men did appear tomorrow, your hiring process probably isn't ready for them.</p>\n<p>Join former NASA Associate Administrator Robert Gibbs as he explores what every business can learn from one of the world's most mission-critical organizations.</p>\n<p>In this session, you'll discover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What 'mission critical thinking' looks like and how leaders can apply it to building future-ready organizations on Earth</li>\n<li>Why hiring for curiosity, adaptability and judgment increasingly matters more than hiring for experience alone</li>\n<li>How NASA identifies talent for missions that may not launch for another decade and what this teaches us about Strategic Workforce Planning</li>\n<li>Where AI agents can transform sourcing, workforce planning and talent decisions and where human judgment must remain firmly in control</li>\n<li>What recruiting astronauts reveals about resilience, collaboration, trust and leadership under extreme pressure</li>\n<li>How to build teams capable of solving problems that have never existed before in an age where AI is changing every role</li>\n<li>Why the organizations that thrive won't simply automate recruitment, but will redesign how humans and AI make better decisions together</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:30:00",
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            "topics": [
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            "title": "From Experimentation to Enterprise Execution",
            "description": "<p>Agentic AI becomes much more consequential when it moves beyond experimentation and into the systems organizations depend upon every day. Across HR, payroll and finance, agents are beginning to move from answering questions and generating insights towards initiating workflows, identifying exceptions and helping people take action.</p>\n<p>But moving from experimentation to execution creates a new set of choices. Should organizations build their own agents, buy capabilities embedded within existing platforms or extend what they already have? Where does customization create genuine advantage and where does it simply add complexity, cost and risk?</p>\n<p>These decisions become particularly important in business-critical environments where accuracy, trusted data, controls and accountability matter. As agents become more capable, organizations also need to determine where they can act independently and where human judgment needs to remain in the loop.</p>\n<p>In this session you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where agentic AI can genuinely improve HR, payroll and finance operations beyond simple automation</li>\n<li>How to approach the build, buy or extend decision and determine where bespoke capability is worth the investment</li>\n<li>What changes when AI moves from providing information to initiating actions across interconnected systems</li>\n<li>Why trusted data, integration, governance and system architecture are important foundations for agentic AI</li>\n<li>How organizations can move from isolated experimentation towards scalable enterprise execution while maintaining appropriate human oversight</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:30:00",
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "From AI Readiness to AI Capability",
            "description": "<p>Many organizations are investing heavily in AI technologies while underinvesting in the human capabilities needed to make those investments successful. The challenge is no longer access to AI. It is creating the conditions, skills, operating models and leadership behaviors required to scale its impact.</p>\n<p>Join two of the world's leading learning and workforce transformation leaders as they discuss how organizations can move beyond experimentation and create sustainable capability at enterprise scale.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Embedding an AI-ready mindset before automation makes the decision for you</li>\n<li>Why literacy alone is not enough and how to develop workforce judgment</li>\n<li>Importance of cross-functional partnerships.</li>\n<li>Overcoming misalignment between HR, IT and business leaders</li>\n<li>Redesigning roles, teams and operating models for human and AI collaboration</li>\n<li>Creating a culture of continuous reinvention without overwhelming employees</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:35:00",
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            "speakers": [
              "Brian Glaser (Vice President & Chief Learning Officer, Google)",
              "Jess Von Bank (Co-Founder, Now To Next)",
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            "title": "Employees Expect Personalization. Why Are We Still Offering Static Benefits Platforms?  ",
            "description": "<p>Employees increasingly expect workplace experiences that are as personalized as the services they use every day. Yet many organizations still rely on static benefits platforms that treat every employee the same, limiting engagement and reducing the impact of reward investments.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using AI and workforce data to create more personalized Total Rewards experiences, helping employees make better decisions while enabling employers to maximize the value of their investment in people.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond one-size-fits-all benefits to create more personalized reward experiences?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can AI help employees make better decisions while improving engagement with Total Rewards?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a reward strategy that combines personalization, data and technology to deliver greater value for both employees and the business?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how AI-powered Total Rewards platforms are helping organizations deliver personalized experiences at scale, increase engagement and transform benefits into a more strategic driver of workforce performance.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:45:00",
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "Cut the Hidden Cost of the HR and IT Platforms You Already Own",
            "description": "Enterprise platforms cost more to run than their license fee. Manual configuration, drift, and audit prep quietly drain budgets. See how automation cuts that hidden cost across SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, Workday, and ServiceNow .\n\nMost organizations track license cost, but the real spend on SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, Workday, and ServiceNow is the manual work behind configuration, change, and compliance. This spotlight shows how CodeBot and ConfigBot automate documentation, impact analysis, and audit readiness, cutting risk and reclaiming time. Jonathon Luplow shares a few real production examples related to SAP SuccessFactors and Dayforce.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:45:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T10:00:00",
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            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
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            "moderators": []
          },
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            "title": "When the CV Dies: Hiring for Signal in a World of Infinite Applications",
            "description": "<p>Application volumes are rising, but hiring confidence isn't. As AI transforms recruitment, traditional indicators of candidate fit are becoming less reliable, leaving talent acquisition teams with more applications to review but less certainty about who to progress.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are rethinking hiring for the AI era, using agentic AI to reduce screening complexity, improve decision-making and enable recruiters to focus on the moments where human judgment has the greatest impact.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify genuine candidate potential when the CV is no longer a reliable indicator of fit?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where should AI support screening and shortlisting, and where does human expertise deliver the greatest value?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a hiring strategy that improves quality, reduces inefficiency and balances automation with better recruitment outcomes?</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T09:45:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T10:00:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 5 | Impact Stage",
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            "decisionPillarId": "aiautomationgovernance",
            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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              "HR Technology & Digital Adoption",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Nathan Perrott (SVP, Global Customer Strategy & Advisory, Radancy)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Leading by Example at Every Level: The CHRO in the Human + AI Era",
            "description": "<p>How can leaders model change at every level? Join Schneider Electric CHRO Charise Le and Valence CEO Parker Mitchell to explore role modeling and manager initiative, drawing on Schneider's rollout of Valence's AI coach, Nadia, to all 12,000 managers.</p>\n<p>Explore Schneider Electric's approach to leadership in the human + AI era.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modeling curiosity and learning from the top</li>\n<li>Equipping managers to turn shared priorities into everyday action</li>\n<li>Using AI to connect these efforts across talent programs, strengthening both human judgment and performance</li>\n<li>At its heart is a question for every CHRO: how can we make better leadership part of how work happens, every day?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T10:30:00",
            "roomName": "UNLEASH Lounge",
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            "track": "unleashlounge",
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            "topics": [
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            "speakers": [
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            "moderators": []
          },
          {
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            "title": "The New Leadership Skillset: What Becomes More Valuable for Humans as AI Becomes More Capable?",
            "description": "<p>AI is beginning to compress the journey from junior work to more sophisticated work. Analysis that once took years of experience can be accelerated, expertise can be accessed almost instantly and employees expected to operate at a higher level much earlier in their careers.</p>\n<p>This creates an important challenge for organizations. If AI accelerates capability, how do we ensure people also develop the judgment, confidence and experience that traditionally came with time? It also changes what we value in leadership. As technology becomes more capable, the advantage may increasingly lie in distinctly human strengths: critical thinking, curiosity, imagination, influence, empathy and the ability to navigate ambiguity and make sense of complexity.</p>\n<p>For HR, this raises a bigger question than simply adding AI skills to existing leadership programs. Join the debate to find out how the next leaders are identified, developed and given the experiences that prepare them to lead?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How organizations develop judgment amongst automation silos</li>\n<li>Which leadership capabilities become more valuable, not less, as AI becomes more capable</li>\n<li>What happens when people are expected to exercise strategic thinking much earlier in their careers</li>\n<li>How will our next leaders develop foresight, critical thinking and systems thinking when technological, geopolitical and workforce increasingly collide</li>\n<li>Will traditional leadership programs become obsolete? Which competency models and career pathways need to be developed for the next generation of leaders</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:00:00",
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            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
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            "topics": [
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              "Leadership & Workforce Strategy"
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            "speakers": [
              "Natalie Wintermark (Chief Human Resources Officer, Erasteel)",
              "Johanna Hummer (Vice President, Global People & Culture, Opella)",
              "Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures)",
              "Rebecca Wettemann (CEO and Principal Analyst, Valoir)"
            ],
            "moderators": []
          },
          {
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            "title": "The New CHRO Mandate: Leading Human Advantage Through Uncertainty",
            "description": "<p>As technology accelerates decision-making and AI becomes embedded across every function, the value of human leadership becomes even greater. AI can identify patterns, model scenarios and enable organizations to respond faster than ever before, but it cannot replace judgment, trust, empathy or the ability to unite people behind difficult decisions. In periods of uncertainty, organizations need both: the speed and intelligence of technology alongside the wisdom and leadership that only humans can provide.</p>\n<p>Today, boards are asking different questions. They need leaders who can distinguish between short-term disruption and structural change, understand where AI and emerging technologies should strengthen decision-making, mitigate workforce risk before it becomes business risk, and create stability without slowing transformation.</p>\n<p>This fireside explores why the next five years may represent the biggest shift in the CHRO role for a generation and whether AI can best amplify those decisions?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the role of the CHRO is evolving from people leader to enterprise risk partner, architect of organizational stability and champion of human leadership</li>\n<li>Which uncertainties are most likely to reshape organizations and create workforce risk over the next five years?</li>\n<li>Where should AI and emerging technologies strengthen decision-making and improve organizational responsiveness</li>\n<li>Turning workforce intelligence, AI insights and external trends into strategic decisions that resonate in the boardroom and across the whole organization</li>\n<li>The Next Five years: From uncertainty to competitive advantage: How do we find the optimum mix of people, technology and organizational capability</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T10:30:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 1 | Humans x AI",
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            "decisionPillarId": "datatrustpeopleinfrastructure",
            "decisionPillar": "Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure",
            "topics": [
              "Leadership & Workforce Strategy"
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            "speakers": [
              "David Green (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Insight222)",
              "Natalia Wallenberg (Chief Human Resources Officer, Ahold Delhaize)",
              "Amanda Poole (Chief People Officer, Bristol Myers Squibb)",
              "Andrew Davis (EVP & Global Chief People Officer, Sony Music Entertainment)"
            ],
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          {
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            "title": "Redesigning End to End Work Through Agentic AI Across the Enterprise: Moving from AI Ambition to Operational Realization at Scale Across HR  ",
            "description": "<p>Drawing on the experience of re-designing people management and organization development work and deploying agentic AI across a workforce of 63,000, Alexis Saussinan explains how Merck is building the foundations for AI at enterprise scale. He will explore why success depends on solving real business challenges, creating the conditions for trusted workflow re-design and using agentic AI to unlock capacity for higher value work that strengthens outcomes for patients, customers and colleagues.</p>\n\n<p>In this session, you'll discover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start with business problems that deliver measurable outcomes rather than AI for its own sake</li>\n<li>Build the data, governance and operating foundations that enable trusted agentic AI at scale</li>\n<li>Think end-to-end work redesign and shift work to higher value activities that improve impact for patients, customers and colleagues</li>\n<li>Translate agentic AI investment into financial and operational outcomes that resonate with the board</li>\n<li>Design the right incentives, ownership and accountability to accelerate adoption and sustainable value</li>\n<li>Learn and build from failures, busting several myths along the way</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "The New Talent Advantage",
            "description": "<p>Every company will have access to the same AI models, platforms and tools. The real differentiator will be how quickly organizations can develop people, build new capabilities and continuously adapt as work evolves and the organizations that get this right will be the ones that never lose sight of what makes work human.</p>\n<p>The organizations pulling ahead are shifting their investment from simply deploying technology to creating cultures where learning, mobility and human potential accelerate faster than the pace of technological change. This is where the next generation of talent strategy will be won.</p>\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why learning agility is becoming a greater competitive advantage than technical expertise</li>\n<li>Moving beyond hiring skills to building organizations that continuously create new capability</li>\n<li>How AI should strengthen human judgment, creativity and employee experience rather than simply automating work</li>\n<li>Why internal mobility, leadership and manager capability will matter more than even in a human-AI driven enterprise</li>\n<li>The new role of HR in leading the business to adapt faster than technology changes and in doing so, driving positive change well beyond the organization</li>\n<li>What tomorrow's talent strategy looks like when the pace of change becomes the only constant</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:00:00",
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            "title": "From AI Use Cases to Organizational Decisions: The Nuts and Bolts of Continuous Transformation at SAP",
            "description": "<p>Together with SAP, we will discuss why Organizational Design becomes the foundation of the Autonomous Enterprise and how organizations can continuously adapt structures, roles, workforce and AI agents to changing business needs.</p>\n<p>Discover how Organizational Intelligence, Org Design and Strategic Workforce Planning enable leaders to make faster, better, data-driven decisions, including:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong>: How do I understand where work, roles and AI agents should sit in the organization?</li>\n<li><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong>: How do we adapt structures, responsibilities and workforce plans as business needs change?</li>\n<li><strong>The decisions your company needs to make</strong>: How do we build an organization that is future ready - resilient, adaptable and ready for continuous transformation?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:05:00",
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            "title": "Beyond Listening: Activating Change at Scale",
            "description": "<p>Join Georgina who will explore how Perceptyx's latest innovations across Discover, Develop and Activate are helping organizations move from employee listening to meaningful action and measurable change.</p>\n<p>She'll also be joined by Romy Desmarais, Colleague Listening Manager at Harrods, who'll share how Harrods is putting this into practice. Using Perceptyx Discover for point-in-time and lifecycle listening, Harrods is turning employee insight into action through Activate's intelligent nudges, helping translate feedback into meaningful, everyday behavior change.</p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Harrods is turning employee listening into measurable organizational change using Perceptyx Discover and Activate.</li>\n<li>How to move beyond collecting employee feedback and use insight to drive meaningful action across the organization.</li>\n<li>How behavior change helps close the loop, connecting personalized development with Perceptyx's People Activation System, from Discover through Develop to Activate.</li>\n<li>How to build a continuous approach to organizational change that connects employee insight, capability development and measurable business outcomes.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:05:00",
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            "title": "From Insight to Action: Discover People Science at Scale with AI Coach",
            "description": "<p>Most managers want to lead better - they just need the right support at the right moment. Join Justin Angsuwat, CPO at Culture Amp, as he shows how AI Coach accelerates high performance through instant insights and expert coaching.</p>\n<p>High performance is built through clarity, action, and expert guidance. Culture Amp's AI Coach brings all three together - delivering instant insights, personalized action plans, and coaching grounded in people science and 1.5 billion data points. Justin Angsuwat, CPO at Culture Amp, shows how AI Coach empowers every manager to lead with confidence and drive measurable impact.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>See AI Coach in action - an expert coach and assistant in every manager's workflow, powered by people science</li>\n<li>Discover how instant insights and tailored action plans help managers drive change quickly and confidently</li>\n<li>Learn how proven coaching methodologies and frameworks turn workforce data into stronger team outcomes</li>\n<li>Explore how AI Coach helps leaders craft communications tailored to every audience, from teams to executives</li>\n<li>Understand why people science, grounded in 1.5 billion data points, is Culture Amp's key differentiator</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:05:00",
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            "title": "How GSK Built a Skills-Based Organization for Human & AI Collaboration",
            "description": "By connecting a live skills taxonomy, personalized learning, and AI coaching, GSK gives leaders real-time visibility into capability gaps, empowering HR to redesign roles and plan for a blended workforce where humans and AI agents collaborate to deliver value at scale.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:25:00",
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Recognition as a System of Influence",
            "description": "<p>Recognition is no longer simply about celebrating great work. Every moment of appreciation creates a signal about the behaviors an organization values, the culture it is building and the outcomes it wants to reinforce. As AI makes it easier to connect these signals at scale, recognition is becoming a powerful source of workforce intelligence.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using recognition data to influence behavior, strengthen culture and give leaders the insights they need to drive meaningful organizational change.</p>\n<p><b>What could this mean for you?</b></p>\n<p><b>The decisions you need to make</b></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond recognition as a program and use it to reinforce the behaviors that matter most?</p>\n<p><b>The decisions your team needs to make</b></p>\n<p>How can recognition data reveal workforce trends, engagement patterns and emerging opportunities for action?</p>\n<p><b>The decisions your organization needs to make</b></p>\n<p>How do we embed recognition into everyday ways of working so that culture, performance and strategic priorities become more visible and measurable?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Achievers combines AI-powered recognition, workforce intelligence and behavioral insights to help organizations translate everyday moments of appreciation into measurable business impact.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:25:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "Rewards, Payroll & Benefits"
            ],
            "speakers": [
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Breaking AI Paralysis: A Showcase of Small AI HR Experiments to Steal From",
            "description": "<p>The hardest part of AI is to gain the confidence to actually get started with building. Superside shares how a fully remote People team broke the paralysis by building one small, useful thing at a time.</p>\n<p>Every People team is under pressure to do something meaningful with AI, and the constant noise of what everyone else has supposedly already built makes it easy to freeze. Feeling behind is normal. Staying frozen is optional. The real challenge is rarely the technology. It is deciding where to start, and trusting that a small, deliberate experiment is enough to begin.</p>\n<p>This session follows how Superside's People team turned that mindset into momentum. Instead of waiting for a perfect enterprise strategy, they built one small thing at a time: AI-mapped employee journeys, custom assistants, vibe-coded internal tools, and storytelling dashboards that put people data to work. It is a practitioner's honest, inspiring account of how to stop reading about AI and start building with it, in your own context.</p>\n<p><strong>What you will take away:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize that feeling behind on AI is normal, and learn how to move from paralysis to momentum.</li>\n<li>Set your team up for AI success: The right mindset and the right team setup.</li>\n<li>Start with small, low-risk experiments that generate real evidence instead of waiting for the perfect strategy.</li>\n<li>Get inspiration from real People team AI experiments.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:25:00",
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            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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            "title": "Why Recognition Is HR's Most Effective Tool for Driving High -Performing Cultures",
            "description": "<p>Culture doesn't disappear overnight. It weakens when the experiences that reinforce it stop showing up in everyday work. As organizations become more complex, distributed and culturally diverse, how do leaders keep culture alive? Drawing on new State of Recognition research, discover why recognition is emerging as one of the most effective ways to build trust, create connection and reinforce culture at scale.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How is recognition reinforcing the culture you want employees to experience every day?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can managers consistently recognize the behaviors that strengthen culture and performance?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How will you scale meaningful recognition across a growing, distributed and diverse workforce?</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T10:45:00",
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            "description": "<p>Explore how SAP SuccessFactors HCM helps organizations of all sizes build a connected HR foundation that supports employee experience, career development, learning and skills, and the data confidence needed to put AI to work. HR leaders at companies of all sizes are under pressure to deliver the kind of employee experiences, career development opportunities, and learning strategies that attract and retain talent while also preparing their organizations for AI and data-driven innovation. But too often, those priorities are held back by disconnected systems, inconsistent people data, and HR processes that were never designed to support agility at scale.</p>\n\n<p>This show floor tour brings together SAP SuccessFactors, an industry analyst, and ecosystem partners to explore why getting the HR core right is the critical first step, no matter where an organization is in its growth journey. Attendees will hear how a connected core HR foundation helps simplify complexity, improve employee experience, and create the trusted data needed to support talent decisions, skills strategies, and practical AI innovation.</p>\n\n<p>You will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why a connected HR core is the foundation for employee experience, career growth, and learning initiatives</li>\n<li>How to simplify HR complexity while building a platform for growth and innovation</li>\n<li>Why trusted people data is essential for making AI and analytics meaningful in HR</li>\n<li>How SAP SuccessFactors HCM helps unify HR processes and experiences across the employee lifecycle</li>\n<li>How ecosystem partners accelerate time to value with the right strategy and implementation approach</li>\n<li>What HR leaders should prioritize first to create a more agile, future-ready HR function without overengineering transformation</li>\n</ul>",
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              "Thorsten Teltscher (Director, Strategic Partnerships, G-P / Globalization Partners)",
              "Nick Holmes (Global Head of Partner Ecosystem - HCM, SAP SuccessFactors)",
              "Peter Brown (PwC Global Workforce Leader, PwC)",
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            "title": "Recognition Without Borders: Lessons from a Global Program",
            "description": "How do you create a recognition culture that resonates across different countries, cultures and employee groups? Hear how Suntory launched a global program, navigated adoption challenges and continues to evolve recognition locally.\n\nCreating a global recognition program requires more than technology. It requires cultural understanding, employee buy-in and continuous evolution. Join Suntory as they share their journey of building recognition across multiple countries, supporting deskless employees, navigating local expectations and balancing global consistency with local relevance. Leave with practical insights on adoption, engagement and long-term program success.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T11:05:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T11:30:00",
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            "title": "From AI Hype to Workforce Reality",
            "description": "As AI becomes a core workplace capability, organizations need a practical approach to understanding and developing AI skills. This session introduces a framework for assessing AI capabilities, supporting fair talent decisions, and creating a shared language around AI proficiency. Discover how managers and employees can align on expectations, readiness, and success in an AI-enabled workplace.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T11:05:00",
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            "title": "Millions Spent on AI. Why Are Managers Still Drowning?",
            "description": "<p>Organizations are investing heavily in AI, yet many managers still spend too much of their time navigating administration, fragmented systems and growing organizational complexity. The challenge is no longer adopting AI—it's ensuring AI removes work rather than creating more of it.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are redefining the relationship between people and AI, enabling managers to spend less time coordinating processes and more time applying the judgment, coaching and leadership that only humans can provide.</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure AI reduces management complexity rather than adding another layer of technology?</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which responsibilities should be handled by specialized AI assistants, and which should remain firmly in human hands?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create the governance, operating model and employee experience needed for people and AI to work together effectively?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how specialized AI assistants and a unified manager experience can simplify day-to-day work, reduce administrative burden and help managers focus on the decisions and relationships that matter most.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T11:05:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "Leadership & Workforce Strategy",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Future Readiness And The AI Mindset Divide",
            "description": "<p>Call it culture if you like. It's also the choices leaders make every day.</p>\n<p>At IMD's Future Readiness Center, I have been tracking more than 400 companies across seven industries. The ones pulling ahead share three habits. You can put all three to work <a href=\"https://howardyu.substack.com/about\">without knowing what comes next</a>.</p>\n<p>One story starts with a crop-dusting business in Louisiana. It grew into Delta.</p>\n<p>Another begins at a McDonald's drive-thru, where AI added bacon to a sundae. Oops! We'll read the corporate memo that ended the trial and thanked the partner.</p>\n<p>The third follows a junior engineer at a candy factory. He emailed a chief digital officer he'd never met, and ended up in the boardroom.</p>\n<p>You'll leave my keynote with:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two boxes, \"money now\" and \"money next,\" to help you choose what your team must learn to do next.</li>\n<li>A way to shift the AI conversation from \"fewer jobs\" to \"better work,\" so people feel ready to use it.</li>\n<li>The \"+1\" skill: one extra skill that can make a payroll specialist, recruiter or HR business partner harder to replace.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>A 30-minute keynote with a two-minute chat with the person next to you. You'll get a free template to use with your team. Bring your phone to scan the QR code.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T11:15:00",
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            "roomName": "Stage 1 | Humans x AI",
            "format": "keynote",
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            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
            "decisionPillar": "Workforce, Skills & Intelligence",
            "topics": [
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              "Organizational Design, Change & Transformation",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Building Cross-Functional Foundations For AI",
            "description": "<p>As AI moves from experimentation into everyday work, some of the most important decisions are no longer technology decisions alone. They require People, Data, IT, Finance and business leaders to agree on what should be automated, where human judgment remains essential and how to equip people to adopt new ways of working.</p>\n<p>At Cardinal Group Companies, this approach is built around <strong><span>Extreme Digital + Extreme Analog: Extreme Digital builds the technology and scale; Extreme Analog equips our people to adopt it and thrive.</span></strong></p>\n<p>Peter Lynch and Rachel Ibarra will explore how Cardinal is putting this approach into practice by bringing its HR and Data/Innovation leadership teams together and embedding operational expertise directly into the development process. A key part of that model is dedicated \"Fellows\"—operations leaders with smaller portfolios who spend 50% of their time supporting the technical build team with human and operational expertise.</p>\n<p>From identifying the right problems and redesigning workflows to establishing governance and accountability, the session will examine how closer collaboration helps teams build AI that reflects the realities of the work and the people doing it.</p>\n<p><strong><span>Possible areas to explore:</span></strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How bringing HR and Data/Innovation leadership together helps connect technology priorities with business needs and the employee experience</li>\n<li>How Cardinal's Fellows model gives operations leaders dedicated time to shape what gets built, surface practical challenges and support adoption</li>\n<li>How to decide what should be automated, what should be augmented and where human judgment needs to remain central</li>\n<li>How to translate Extreme Digital + Extreme Analog into practical decisions about workflow design, change management and team readiness</li>\n<li>How to establish clear accountability, decision rights and guardrails, including when human intervention is required</li>\n<li>How People, Data, IT, Finance and operations can work through different perspectives on risk, speed and opportunity while redesigning work end to end</li>\n<li>How to scale AI while preserving the operational expertise, relationships and trust that make it effective</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T11:15:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T11:45:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay",
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            "title": "Turning Capability Risk into Business Advantage",
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            "title": "Turn HR Ambition Into Real Impact",
            "description": "<p>Every HR transformation begins with the right ambition. Delivering it is another challenge entirely. As organizations modernize their HR technology, prepare for new regulation and build more skills-based workforces, leaders are looking for ways to accelerate change without compromising quality, governance or long-term success.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are reducing complexity, strengthening decision-making and creating the foundations for lasting HR transformation through proven implementation approaches and AI-ready operating models.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we accelerate HR transformation while maintaining confidence in the decisions we make along the way?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which capabilities should we prioritize first to create the greatest long-term impact—from technology and pay transparency to job architecture and workforce planning?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build the trusted foundations that enable AI, compliance and future workforce transformation to scale successfully?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how PwC's HR transformation accelerators help organizations implement SAP SuccessFactors more quickly, prepare for US Pay Transparency, establish robust job architectures and build the workforce capabilities needed for the future.</p>",
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            "title": "The Cognitive Bottleneck in Digital Transformation",
            "description": "Organizations are investing heavily in AI and digital transformation, yet many programs lose momentum once implementation begins. The challenge is rarely the technology. It is the growing gap between the pace of technological change and the human capacity to absorb complexity, make sound decisions and lead transformation effectively.\n \nExplore why organizational performance has become the defining challenge of the AI era, and how developing leadership capability can help organizations overcome the cognitive bottlenecks that slow execution and limit business impact.\n \nThe decisions you need to make\nHow do we ensure our leaders can make better decisions as AI accelerates the pace and complexity of change?\n \nThe decisions your team needs to make\nHow can leadership development and coaching strengthen judgement, collaboration and execution under sustained pressure?\n \nThe decisions your organization needs to make\nHow do we design organizations where human performance scales alongside AI, enabling transformation to deliver lasting business value?",
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            "title": "The Recognition Data Advantage: How Workhuman Delivers Strategic Insight",
            "description": "<p>Captured at scale, recognition data gives a real-time, unfiltered view of collaboration, performance, and culture that surveys and reviews can't produce. This session covers how Workhuman's recognition platform ties to measurable business outcomes, how that data sharpens decisions on talent and performance, and where it is headed next, including new capabilities for future leaders, deskless workers, and years of service.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to get a real-time, more objective view into how work happens, using signals surveys and reviews can't capture alone.</li>\n<li>How to tie recognition to measurable business outcomes so it becomes a defensible driver of retention and performance.</li>\n<li>What's next on Workhuman's roadmap, including future leader identification, deskless worker support, and more personal ways to mark years of service.</li>\n</ul>",
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            "topics": [
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            "title": "How Can AI Strengthen Human Capability? ",
            "description": "<p>Tasks are shifting, roles are evolving, operating models are being challenged, and AI agents are starting to execute work across workflows and domains. The real question is no longer what can be automated, but how organizations design human-in-the-loop work where people and agents create value together.</p>\n<p>For HR leaders, this is a strategic workforce moment. How do we clarify role shifts, build the right capabilities, and help employees learn and grow as work changes? How do we redesign teams, processes, and operating models for hybrid human-agent collaboration — without losing the judgment, accountability, and creativity that make work truly human?</p>\n<p>Join this fireside chat to explore how AI can become a catalyst for better work: evolving roles, strengthening human capability, and enabling organizations to move from task automation to meaningful workforce transformation.</p>\n<p>Key questions include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does it mean for work, roles, and operating models to be disrupted by AI?</li>\n<li>How will AI agents change tasks, workflows, and end-to-end execution?</li>\n<li>What does effective human-in-the-loop collaboration look like?</li>\n<li>How can strategic workforce management guide role evolution, development, and enablement?</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Reskilling at Scale and Speed",
            "description": "<p>Organizations are no longer reskilling for efficiency: they are reskilling for survival. As business models shift under AI, automation, and new market demands, the real challenge is not identifying skills gaps, but closing them fast enough to remain competitive.</p>\n<p>This session explores how leading global organizations such as Philip Morris International have executed large-scale workforce reskilling programs to support a complete strategic pivot moving thousands of employees into entirely new capability areas while continuing to operate at scale. The focus is not on learning programs, but on how reskilling becomes an enterprise execution system.</p>\n<p>In this session, you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to move from static job architectures to dynamic capability-based workforce models<br>\nWhat it takes to reskill large populations quickly without disrupting business performance</li>\n<li>How to prioritize which skills to build vs buy vs automate — and at what speed</li>\n<li>Embedding reskilling into transformation programs, not running it as a parallel HR initiative</li>\n<li>The role of leadership in driving adoption, accountability, and cultural shift</li>\n<li>How to connect learning, internal mobility, and workforce planning into a single system</li>\n</ul>",
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            "topics": [
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              "Frederic Patitucci (Group Chief People & Culture Officer, Philip Morris International)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "The New Talent Advantage: Turning Workplace Sentiment into Measurable Impact ",
            "description": "<p>Employee listening can reveal where organizations need to act, but insight alone does not create change. The real challenge is helping managers understand what matters most, choose the right response for their teams and turn feedback into sustained action.</p>\n\n<p>This practical Hays conversation explores how people science is being used to bridge the gap between workplace sentiment and manager action, including where AI can provide targeted support while managers retain the context and judgment needed to act effectively.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>How managers can move more quickly from survey insight to meaningful action</li>\n<li>How people science helps identify priorities and gives managers greater confidence in what to focus on</li>\n<li>Bridging the gap between engagement results and hyper localized manager support</li>\n<li>Real examples of how managers have been upskilled through embedded nudges, recommendations and micro learnings</li>\n<li>Where AI supported guidance can help managers act sooner while still applying their own judgment</li>\n<li>How this approach can scale consistently across teams and countries without adding extra pressure to HR</li>\n<li>What Hays is learning about adoption, impact and which interventions make a measurable difference</li>\n<li>Ensuring AI guidance is credible, safe and grounded in people science rather than generic AI output</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T11:45:00",
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            "topics": [
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "A New Operating Model for Work: How HR Can Orchestrate People, AI Agents, and Outcomes",
            "description": "<p>AI is changing the work equation, not just by helping people complete tasks faster, but by reshaping how work is planned, executed, governed, and measured.</p>\n<p>As intelligent systems take on more coordination, analysis and routine execution, business leaders face new decisions about where human expertise creates the greatest value.</p>\n<p>Join Oracle as they explore how leading organizations are operationalizing the human-agent workforce and turning AI-driven capacity into measurable business impact through Oracle Cloud HCM.</p>\n\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>The decision you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you connect skills, roles, and workforce planning to improve execution as business needs change?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do I create workforce capacity by connecting people, skills, roles, plans, and AI-enabled execution?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you turn AI-created capacity into lasting gains in productivity, agility and resilience?</p>\n<p>Leave with practical insights into building a workforce where people and AI work together to deliver better business outcomes.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T11:45:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "Learning Over Knowledge: How Nestlé Is Building a Learning-First Culture",
            "description": "As AI accelerates the pace of change, competitive advantage increasingly comes from learning agility rather than accumulated knowledge. Discover how Nestlé is building a learning-first culture across 270,000 employees and 188 countries.\n\nAs AI reshapes work, what people know today matters less than how quickly they can learn tomorrow. Discover how Nestlé is building a learning-first culture across 270,000 employees and 188 countries through large-scale upskilling, AI-enabled capability building, and the development of world-class brand-building capabilities to drive business performance, adaptability, and future readiness.",
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            "roomName": "Stage 3 | Talent",
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            "title": "Who Really Owns The Employer Brand?",
            "description": "<p>Employer brand has never been more visible or harder to control. Candidates compare the promise with employee reviews. Employees test corporate messages against their everyday experience. Leaders want evidence that investment in reputation is actually improving attraction, retention and performance.</p>\n<p>The challenge for HR is that it is often held accountable for an employer brand shaped by decisions made across the entire organization.</p>\n<p>This panel gets beyond campaigns and messaging to examine what it takes to build an employer reputation that stands up to scrutiny and delivers measurable value.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the strongest employer brands are built through business decisions and everyday experience, not communications campaigns</li>\n<li>How organizations close the gap between what they promise candidates and what employees actually experience</li>\n<li>Where accountability should sit when HR, Marketing, Technology, Finance and business leaders all shape the employer proposition</li>\n<li>How to identify the moments across hiring, onboarding, careers, leadership and reward where trust is won or lost</li>\n<li>How HR can connect employer reputation to hiring quality, retention, productivity and business performance and demonstrate its value to the executive team</li>\n</ul>",
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              "Monica Murer (VP People Experience & Services, Tommy Hilfiger & PVH)",
              "Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures)",
              "Janaina Tavares (Global Head of People and Culture, ActionAid International)"
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            "title": "How Skills Strategies Have Grown up in the AI Era  ",
            "description": "<p>For years, organizations have invested in skills frameworks, taxonomies and increasingly sophisticated skills databases. But the real test of a skills strategy is not how accurately it describes the workforce. It is whether it changes the decisions the organization makes.</p>\n<p>AI is making skills intelligence much more granular and dynamic. Rather than relying on job titles, resumes and self-reported skills, organizations can increasingly identify capabilities through the work people actually do, uncover transferable skills that might previously have been overlooked and identify potential matches between people and opportunities that conventional career paths would never have surfaced.</p>\n<p>This begins to change workforce planning itself. Instead of periodically identifying gaps against predefined roles, organizations can build a continuously evolving picture of capability, demand and opportunity, connecting skills intelligence with hiring, learning and internal mobility before capability gaps begin to affect performance.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How skills intelligence changes decisions about where to hire, build, develop and redeploy talent</li>\n<li>How AI can uncover hidden and transferable capabilities that job titles, resumes and traditional career paths miss</li>\n<li>Moving from periodic workforce planning towards a dynamic view of how capability and demand are changing</li>\n<li>How internal workforce data and external labor market signals reveal emerging skills, scarcity and changing market value</li>\n<li>What happens to skills intelligence when AI itself changes what people are capable of doing</li>\n<li>What separates skills strategies that genuinely inform workforce decisions from those that simply create better skills databases</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T12:15:00",
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              "Marci Paino (VP & Chief Learning Officer, Cisco)",
              "Zaka Farhat (Global SVP, Talent, Learning and Capability Development, GSK)",
              "Vincent Belliveau (Chief International Officer, Cornerstone OnDemand)",
              "Nigar Huseynova (Group Head of Learning and Development, PASHA Holdings)"
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            "title": "The People Investment Paradox: The Investment Decisions That Will Define Tomorrow's Winners",
            "description": "<p>Many organisations are reporting impressive productivity gains, yet employees are working longer hours, handling more tasks and struggling to disconnect. As AI accelerates the pace of work, organisations face a fundamental investment challenge: how do you balance spending on technology with investment in the leadership, skills, workforce capability and organisational redesign needed to turn efficiency into sustainable competitive advantage?</p>\n<p>The biggest risk may not be underinvesting in AI. It may be investing heavily in technology without fundamentally improving how work is designed, measured and experienced.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is AI genuinely making work better, or simply enabling organisations to do more with the same people?</li>\n<li>Where should organisations invest next: AI, automation, leadership, workforce capability, skills or redesigning work itself?</li>\n<li>Which investments deliver immediate productivity gains, and which create long-term competitive advantage?</li>\n<li>How should organisations measure success beyond efficiency, including innovation, decision quality, resilience and sustainable performance?</li>\n<li>How can HR help boards make smarter investment decisions that balance short-term returns with long-term enterprise value?</li>\n</ul>\n</div>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T12:15:00",
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            "topics": [
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
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              "Gary Bolles (Emeritus Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University)"
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            "title": "Using People-Powered Tech:   Where Human Judgement Creates More Value Than AI Alone",
            "description": "<p>AI is rapidly becoming embedded across every aspect of HR technology, but the real challenge is no longer deciding whether to adopt AI. It is deciding where AI creates the greatest value, where human judgment remains essential and how to build technology ecosystems that improve decision making, trust and business performance. As organizations rethink their HR technology strategies, the conversation is shifting from AI capability to better outcomes.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are organizations automating too much too quickly and where should human judgment remain non-negotiable?</li>\n<li>What does great Human AI collaboration actually look like and which decisions consistently deliver better outcomes when people stay in the loop?</li>\n<li>As AI becomes embedded into every platform, what will separate the HR technology leaders from the rest over the next five years?</li>\n<li>Looking back from 2030, which technology decisions will prove to have created the greatest long term value and which will organizations regret?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T12:15:00",
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Steve Boese (President & Co-Founder, H3 HR Advisors)",
              "Lara Albert (Chief Marketing Officer, SAP SuccessFactors)",
              "Arnim Wahls (Executive Vice President, Europe, Radancy)",
              "Philipp Richter (Chief People Officer, Personio)"
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            "title": "Choosing the Right Talent Technology: Making Smarter Decisions in an AI Driven Market",
            "description": "<p>As AI transforms the talent technology landscape, the challenge is no longer finding solutions but choosing the right ones. With new vendors, capabilities, and categories emerging at speed, HR and talent leaders need better intelligence to compare options, understand trade-offs, and make smarter technology decisions with confidence</p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting out a clearer view of your existing technology stack before deciding what comes next</li>\n<li>How to separate meaningful innovation from market noise</li>\n<li>What do smarter talent technology decisions look like now... and how have they changed</li>\n<li>Which technology has the potential to genuinely solve your workforce challenges - and which add to complexity</li>\n<li>Building a strong framework for what you need to achieve before making technology investment decisions</li>\n<li>How best to compare vendors, capabilities, and emerging technology categories</li>\n<li>Where research, analyst intelligence, and practitioner insight strengthen decision-making</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Speaker Meet & Greet: An open conversation with Howard Yu",
            "description": "Bring the skill you circled in the two-box exercise, or the AI project you’re unsure whether to stop. Ask a question, challenge an idea or share what’s happening in your company.\n\nPlease note that capacity is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T12:50:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T13:15:00",
            "roomName": "UNLEASH Lounge",
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            "access": "inviteonly",
            "track": "unleashlounge",
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            "title": "UNLEASH Startup Award powered by Playroll",
            "description": "Five startups, selected by an expert judging panel, will pitch live at UNLEASH Paris 2026 in front of an audience of HR leaders, investors, analysts, media and technology buyers. Each finalist will have four minutes to present their business, followed by four minutes of questions from the judging panel.\n \nFor HR leaders, it is an opportunity to discover the ideas, technologies and companies that could shape the next chapter of workforce transformation. For investors and analysts, it is a chance to hear directly from the founders building the category leaders of tomorrow and understand where innovation in HR technology is heading next.\n \nOne company will be awarded the UNLEASH Startup Award and receive a €50,000 UNLEASH Sponsorship Package to accelerate its growth and visibility within the global HR technology market.",
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            "speakers": [
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              "Juliette Moortgat (VC Investor, Clover VC)",
              "Audrey Handem (Principal, Acadian Ventures)",
              "Syed Ali Abbas (Global VP of People, HelloFresh)",
              "Matt Pietsch (Chief Revenue Officer, Immediate)",
              "Ralf Philipp Hofmann (Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Drake Star)",
              "François Rouhban (Founder, Convergence HR Tech)",
              "Benjamin Visser (CEO & Founder, allygatr)",
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            "title": "HR’s Time to Lead is Here. So is the Data",
            "description": "<p>AI is rewriting work faster than organizations can adapt. Roles are redesigned quarter by quarter, skills age in months, and competitors hire for roles you haven't even posted. What's missing is a trusted data foundation that unites what your people can do, how their work is changing, and where the labor market is heading. All of this in an increasingly agentic world.</p>\n<p>In this session, discover what it takes for HR to lead your organization through the AI era of work:</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you? </strong><br>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong><br>\nHow do you build a trusted, always-current view of workforce capability while redesigning work, roles and skills?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong><br>\nHow do you connect skills, work, and labor market intelligence to drive better talent and planning decisions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you build a data layer that powers AI, workforce intelligence, and agility, fully compatible with your existing systems and agents?</p>",
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            "title": "Five Things HR Leaders Wish They'd Known About AI in Employee Experience",
            "description": "<p>AI in employee experience sounds straightforward until you're in the middle of it. Frank Wolf draws on real implementation experience to share what HR and comms leaders consistently underestimate - and what actually moves the needle. Five lessons, fifteen minutes, built for practitioners who are past the hype.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the biggest blockers in AI rollouts are rarely where teams expect them</li>\n<li>What needs to be in place before AI can work in an intranet or employee app</li>\n<li>Where the gap between expectation and reality tends to show up</li>\n<li>What business impact AI in employee experience actually delivers - and how to make the case to leadership</li>\n<li>What good implementation looks like in practice</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "How Hirevue's AI Interviewer Brings Predictive, Skills-Based Hiring to Every Role",
            "description": "<p>As AI transforms recruitment, traditional hiring signals are becoming harder to trust. CVs can be optimized in seconds, applications are growing rapidly, and recruiters face increasing pressure to identify genuine ability while maintaining fairness, quality and speed.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are moving from inference to evidence by combining proven hiring science, skills-based assessments and AI, to make confident hiring decisions at enterprise scale.</p>\n<p>What could this mean for you?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify the skills and behaviors that accurately predict success in an AI-driven hiring market?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can AI improve quality of hire while maintaining fairness, governance and a positive candidate experience?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a skills-based hiring strategy that scales confidently as application volumes grow and traditional hiring signals become less reliable?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Hirevue's AI Interviewer solves all these hiring challenges by using natural conversations to cut through the noise and validate what candidates can actually do against hiring criteria. AI Interviewer gives every candidate the opportunity to interview, improves hiring outcomes and enables recruiters more time to focus on the moments that matter most.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T13:20:00",
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            "title": "Accelerate Hiring at Agent Scale with Eightfold",
            "description": "Enterprises are hitting the limits of human scale. Agentic AI introduces a new model: autonomous digital workers working together with people to unlock the Infinite Workforce. Learn how organizations bring agents into hiring with Eightfold and explore how this shift expands capacity, improves fairness, and frees teams to move “above the loop” to focus on strategy, judgment, and persuasion.",
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            "title": "Human-AI Collaboration: Measuring AI Skills When the AI Keeps Changing",
            "description": "<p>AI keeps changing, so how do you assess whether people have the skills to keep up? Clevry and AMS explore the science of human-AI collaboration, how to measure potential for a digital workplace, and what this looks like in practice.</p>\n<p>AI tools are evolving faster than the skills needed to use them. So how can organizations assess whether people have the potential to adapt, grow and work effectively alongside AI?</p>\n<p>Clevry and AMS have partnered across a range of client projects to identify talent ready for the demands of an increasingly digital workplace. Drawing on organizational psychology, assessment science and practical experience with HR teams, Alan and Claudia will explore how organizations can move beyond assessing today's AI knowledge to understand the human capabilities that underpin effective human-AI collaboration.</p>\n<p>A real-world case study from the AMS Skills Creation team will show how this approach is being applied in practice. The session will cover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What the science tells us - research and emerging frameworks for understanding human-AI collaboration skills.</li>\n<li>How these skills can be assessed - Clevry's Collab assessment and its approach to measuring human-centric skills and potential.</li>\n<li>What it looks like in practice - case study data from AMS Skills Creation programs for digital roles using Collab.</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "How to Use ChatGPT and Claude to Get Performance Insights — and Act on Them",
            "description": "Teams use AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude every day to get work done. Now your performance data can live there too. Join to see how the Betterworks MCP helps managers prepare faster, surface insights, and take action all from the same workflow.\n\nWhat if ChatGPT had all the context you need to prep for a 1:1, identify at-risk goals, or create a leadership update? In this demo, Betterworks shows how MCP securely connects ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools to live goal, feedback, and skills data. See real-world examples of how teams can simplify performance work, surface insights faster, and take action from the tools they already use.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T13:40:00",
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            "title": "Activating Hidden Talent: Using Skills to Power Learning & Career with Galileo® Suite",
            "description": "This workshop immerses you in a company shifting to a skills-first approach to development and careers, using the Galileo® Suite —including Galileo™ Agent and Galileo™ Learn—to bring that strategy to life. You’ll see how skills insight can reveal hidden capabilities, clarify critical gaps, and inform a more connected approach to learning and internal mobility. We’ll stay high-level and strategic, focusing on how Galileo® Suite can simplify skills intelligence, support more personalized development, and make career paths more transparent across the organization. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to access the Galileo® Suite and follow along as we illustrate the end-to-end experience.",
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            "title": "SAP Explorer Tour - Skills at Scale: Build and Develop a Workforce that Drives Your Business Forward",
            "description": "<p>See how SAP SuccessFactors helps large-scale organizations use skills to maximize workforce potential. Get a clear view of the capabilities you have, how to grow and develop them, and align people, skills, and roles to keep your business moving forward. Roles are changing faster than most organizations can retrain for them, and the gap is widening rapidly for large, highly-complex workforces. The talent is usually already there. What is missing is a single source for the skills people have, a fast way to build the ones the business needs, and a path for moving employees into new roles before they look elsewhere.</p>\n<p>This show floor tour brings together SAP SuccessFactors, an industry analyst, and ecosystem partners to walk through what a skills-first talent strategy looks like in practice: how to build a holistic skills foundation that intelligently surfaces the capabilities you already have, provides guided career growth through proactive learning and development, and empowers people to advance into the roles the business needs most.</p>\n<p>Attendees will explore how to accelerate their skills-first strategy by powering the entire talent lifecycle with a single skills framework, AI-driven talent intelligence and insights, and agentic experiences that enable large enterprises to unlock employee potential at scale.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How ecosystem partners help you stand up a skills program that shows results quickly</li>\n<li>How to create a skills framework that provides a clear, current view of the skills your workforce already has</li>\n<li>How to bring intelligence, insights, and agentic experiences into your talent processes</li>\n<li>How internal mobility fills critical roles from within and keeps your best people engaged</li>\n<li>How to reskill people for the roles AI and automation are reshaping, without starting over</li>\n</ul>",
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              "Donald Ross (Head of Integrated Talent, Learning, Skills & Business AI, SAP SuccessFactors)",
              "Daniel Torrens (Head of Partnerships, TechWolf)",
              "Sandeep Nahata (CEO, TalenTeam)",
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            "title": "Rewiring Total Rewards for Cost Pressure, AI and Talent Scarcity",
            "description": "<p>Rising costs, accelerating AI adoption and persistent skills shortages are forcing organizations to rethink how they invest in their people. Reward strategies designed for a more stable environment are increasingly under pressure, leaving leaders to balance affordability with fairness, flexibility and the ability to attract and retain critical talent.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are redesigning Total Rewards to make better investment decisions, strengthen their employee value proposition and create reward strategies that are more transparent, data-driven and responsive to changing workforce needs.</p>\n<h4>What could this mean for you?</h4>\n<h4>The decisions you need to make</h4>\n<p>How should we rebalance our reward investments to support business performance while remaining competitive for talent?</p>\n<h4>The decisions your team needs to make</h4>\n<p>How can data help us create more personalized, transparent and flexible reward experiences without increasing complexity?</p>\n<h4>The decisions your organization needs to make</h4>\n<p>How do we build a Total Rewards strategy that supports fairness, strengthens trust and adapts to changing workforce expectations?</p>\n<p>You'll also explore emerging approaches to pay, benefits and employee choice, including how organizations are using data to personalize rewards, strengthen pay transparency and shift investment towards the programs that create the greatest value for both employees and the business.</p>",
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            "title": "UNLEASH CHRO Summit",
            "description": "<p>The role of the CHRO has never been more important, or more demanding.</p>\n<p>The UNLEASH CHRO Summit is an invite-only experience for Chief People Officers, CHROs and EVPs of HR. It brings together a select group of senior leaders for candid, peer-to-peer conversations about the challenges they are facing today and the decisions they need to make next.</p>\n<p>Spend a day with peers asking the same questions, wrestling with the same tensions and sharing where they've failed and what they're learning. No presentations for presentation's sake. No theory without application. Just honest conversations with people who understand the realities of leading at the highest level.</p>\n<p><strong>Agenda at a Glance</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>14:00 – 14:05 | Welcome Address</li>\n<li>14:05 – 14:25 | Keynote</li>\n<li>14:25 – 14:50 | Fireside Chat</li>\n<li>14:50 – 15:05 | Coffee & networking</li>\n<li>15:05 – 16:00 | Roundtable Discussions</li>\n<li>16:00 – 16:30 | Networking Reception</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>2:05 pm - 2:30 pm - OPENING KEYNOTE:</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Why Does Your Company Still Exist?</strong></p>\n<p>What your company must keep doing for itself, and three choices every CHRO must help make?</p>\n<p>In 1931, a 20-year-old named Ronald Coase boarded a ship to America. He had a simple question: why do companies exist? Finding suppliers, striking deals and checking the work all take time and money. Sometimes it costs less to bring that work inside a company. That was his answer. The idea helped him win a Nobel Prize. It also helps explain your own org chart.</p>\n<p>Now AI agents can take on some of that work. In February, Alipay's AI payment service handled more than 120 million transactions in one week.</p>\n<p>As AI makes it cheaper to organize work, what should stay inside your company? At IMD, we track more than 400 companies across seven industries. The leaders <a href=\"https://howardyu.substack.com/p/three-charts-that-killed-the-asset\" target=\"_blank\">in our ranking demonstrate</a> why outsourcing fast-changing skills can cost more over time. Not building new skills in-house means your people miss out on learning how to do the future work.</p>\n<p>That puts the CHRO at the heart of three choices:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What must your company learn to do for itself? In Basel, dye makers became drug makers, then moved into gene research. Each shift meant hiring people with new skills before there could be new products.</li>\n<li>What can you build that others struggle to copy? Mercedes and BMW build cars with smooth rides and fine leather. Yet investors have valued Tesla far more highly. Then there's BYD, once dismissed as a copycat. It once made low-cost rechargeable batteries for Motorola and Nokia phones. How did it grow to outsell Tesla in fully electric cars?</li>\n<li>Who will you let help you build? Nvidia spent billions making its chips easier to program. It made those tools free for students, scientists and hobbyists, who helped fuel the AI boom. Roblox gave teenagers tools to make games, and they built them. Why do so many companies still reject ideas because they came from outside? A 60-second standing exercise will help you spot that habit.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>One global tech company I work with gave its engineers an AI coding assistant. Each engineer produced about 20% more work, yet customers didn't see the new product any sooner. The coding had sped up, but the teams still struggled to work together. You'll leave with the very tool to help your leadership team spot four reasons why people fail to work well across departments.</p>\n<p><i>A 20-minute keynote, with a free template to use with your colleagues. Bring your phone to scan the QR code.</i></p>\n<p>Speaker: Dr Howard Yu, LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation in the IMD Business School</p>\n<p><strong>14:25 - 14:50 Fireside Chat - Leading Without All the Answers: The Decisions CHROs Are Making Anyway</strong></p>\n<p>The assumptions shaping work, leadership and organizations are shifting faster than most companies can adapt. Yet CHROs are expected to guide transformation, build future capability and make high-stakes decisions, often without clear precedents or proven playbooks.</p>\n<p>In this candid fireside chat, will move beyond theory to share the realities they are navigating today. From balancing transformation with workforce stability to managing global complexity alongside local realities, they will unpack the trade-offs they cannot avoid and the risks they are prepared to take.</p>\n<p>This interactive session will invite the audience into the discussion to share perspectives, challenge assumptions and compare how different organizations are approaching similar dilemmas.</p>\n<p>An honest look at how experienced people leaders lead decisively through ambiguity and what happens when there is no obvious \"right\" answer.</p>\n<p><i>Speakers: Khadija Ben Hammada, Chief Human Resources Officer, Merck Group</i></p>\n<p><i>Gina Vargui-Breuer, Chief People Officer and Labor Director</i></p>\n<p><strong>15:05 – 16:00</strong> <strong>Roundtables</strong></p>\n<p><strong>#1. Reinventing Work in the Age of AI</strong></p>\n<p><i>Redesigning work, roles and operating models for the next era of productivity</i></p>\n<p>As AI adoption accelerates, leading organizations are shifting their focus from technology implementation to work redesign. This discussion will explore how CHROs are rethinking roles, workflows, and organizational structures to create sustainable productivity gains while preserving the uniquely human capabilities that drive innovation, judgment, and performance. Participants will share how they are balancing workforce transformation with employee trust, capability building, and long-term business value.</p>\n<p><strong>#2. Workforce Planning for Jobs That Don't Yet Exist</strong></p>\n<p><i>Preparing organizations for shifting work, skills and talent models</i></p>\n<p>Economic uncertainty, technological disruption, and changing workforce expectations are reshaping the nature of work faster than many organizations can adapt. This session will examine how enterprise organizations are evolving workforce planning beyond traditional headcount forecasting to anticipate emerging roles, future capability needs, and new workforce models. Participants will discuss how to align workforce investments with long-term business priorities while maintaining flexibility in an unpredictable environment.</p>\n<p><strong>#3. The Manager Advantage</strong></p>\n<p><i>Why middle managers will determine the success of transformation</i></p>\n<p>As organizations navigate AI adoption, workforce transformation, and evolving employee expectations, middle managers have become the critical link between strategy and execution. This discussion will explore how organizations are equipping managers to drive adoption, build trust, develop talent, and sustain performance during periods of change. Participants will share approaches for strengthening manager effectiveness and redefining leadership expectations in a rapidly evolving workplace.</p>\n<p><strong>#4. Human Capital as a Driver of Enterprise Value</strong></p>\n<p><i>Connecting people strategy to business performance and growth</i></p>\n<p>Boards, investors, and executive teams increasingly expect HR leaders to demonstrate the impact of workforce investments on business outcomes. This roundtable will explore how organizations are measuring and communicating the value of human capital, linking talent decisions to productivity, innovation, growth, and enterprise performance. Participants will discuss the metrics, frameworks, and leadership practices that elevate HR's role in driving business success.</p>\n<p><strong>#5. Building Capability Faster Than the Market</strong></p>\n<p><i>Creating the skills, judgment and adaptability organizations need to compete</i></p>\n<p>The demand for new capabilities is outpacing the ability of external talent markets to supply them. This session will explore how organizations are building critical skills internally, accelerating learning, and creating more agile workforce models. Discussion will focus on capability development, skills-based approaches, and the changing relationship between learning, performance, and business transformation.</p>\n<p><strong>#6. Trust as a Business Strategy</strong></p>\n<p><i>Creating the conditions for adoption, transparency and organizational resilience</i></p>\n<p>Transformation initiatives succeed or fail based on the level of trust employees have in their leaders and organizations. As businesses ask employees to embrace new technologies, new ways of working, and significant organizational change, trust has become a strategic business imperative. This roundtable will explore how leaders are fostering transparency, psychological safety, and organizational resilience while maintaining performance and accelerating change.</p>\n<p><strong>#7. Rethinking Talent Pathways</strong></p>\n<p><i>Preparing for the changing economics of entry-level talent and career progression</i></p>\n<p>Traditional career pathways are being reshaped by automation, changing skill requirements, and evolving workforce expectations. This discussion will examine how organizations are rethinking early-career talent, career development, and workforce entry points in a world where many traditional learning experiences are changing. Participants will explore new approaches to developing future talent pipelines while ensuring long-term organizational capability.</p>\n<p><strong>#8. The CHRO as Enterprise Architect</strong></p>\n<p><i>Shaping business strategy, organizational design and transformation at scale</i></p>\n<p>The role of the CHRO has expanded well beyond talent and workforce management. Today's HR leaders are increasingly expected to influence business strategy, organizational effectiveness, transformation, risk management, and long-term growth. This roundtable will explore how leading CHROs are strengthening their influence in the C-suite and boardroom while helping shape the future direction of their organizations.</p>",
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            "endDate": "2026-10-21T16:30:00",
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            "speakers": [
              "Howard Yu (LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation, IMD Business School)",
              "Brian Delle Donne (Co-Founder, Talent Tech Labs)",
              "Lara Albert (Chief Marketing Officer, SAP SuccessFactors)",
              "Bob Gibbs (Associate Administrator MSD, Chief Human Capital Officer, NASA (retired))",
              "Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures)",
              "Autumn Krauss (Chief Research Scientist, Future of Works Labs, SAP SuccessFactors)",
              "Stacia Garr (Co-founder and Principal Analyst, RedThread Research)",
              "Khadija Ben Hammada (Executive Board Member & Chief People Officer, Merck Group)",
              "Gina Vargiu-Breuer (Chief People and Culture Officer, Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE)"
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            "title": "Scaling Globally Without Slowing Down",
            "description": "<p>As organizations expand into new markets, the challenge isn't just finding talent - it's building an international workforce without adding unnecessary complexity, cost or compliance risk. Discover how leading organizations are rethinking global hiring to access the skills they need while supporting faster, more sustainable growth.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we expand internationally without creating legal and operational barriers to growth?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we balance compliance, payroll, cost and speed when hiring talent across multiple countries?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a scalable global workforce strategy that enables international growth without establishing local entities in every market?</p>\n<p>You'll also explore practical approaches used by fast-growing organizations to simplify international hiring while managing compliance and reducing operational overhead.</p>",
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            "title": "Re-inventing Organisations in an AI Era: The New Mandate for the CHRO ",
            "description": "<p>The AI revolution is no longer on the horizon - it's here. The real question is how we turn that disruption into value: for our organizations, our people and the communities we serve.</p>\n<p>If we're not reinventing our customer propositions, reshaping routes to market, redesigning how work gets done and radically upgrading the capabilities of our teams, we don't just fall behind - we miss the opportunity altogether.</p>\n<p>In this next chapter, the CHRO is uniquely placed to take a leading role in reinventing the organization for the future, in close collaboration with the CTO and the CFO. The question isn't whether this matters, it's whether we're ready to step into it. So what does that mean in practice?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What tectonic plates are shifting inside organizations and how are we reinventing work as a result?</li>\n<li>What's fundamentally different about the CTO, CHRO and CFO relationship in the AI era?</li>\n<li>And how do HR organizations get a match fit for skills, mindset, data and technology?</li>\n<li>Finding the optimum operating model for your organization which will take your business into the best position for what comes next?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T14:15:00",
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            "title": "The Adoption Gap: Building the Foundations for an AI-Ready Workforce",
            "description": "<p>As Global People leader across HelloFresh's international business, Syed Ali Abbas is helping shape AI adoption across a workforce spanning software engineers, corporate teams and thousands of frontline employees. His argument is simple: organizations do not have a model problem, they have a capability problem. The foundations of successful AI transformation are built on workforce readiness, skills, behavior change and the data that enables leaders to make better decisions.</p>\n<p>Drawing on HelloFresh's global transformation, Abbas explores why adoption is a capability that must be intentionally designed, how agentic AI is redefining jobs and workforce planning, and why the same role can now create dramatically different business value. He also examines how organizations can extend AI capability beyond knowledge workers to the frontline, where the majority of employees work today.</p>\n<p>You'll leave with practical insights to help answer some of HR's biggest AI questions: Where should you invest first? Is your organization truly ready for agentic AI? How should workforce planning and job design evolve? And what capabilities must be in place before AI can deliver measurable business value?</p>\n<p>A practical session for HR leaders looking to build the organizational foundations that turn AI investment into lasting business impact.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide where to focus investment by understanding why workforce adoption, supported by the right people data, is the biggest predictor of AI success.</li>\n<li>Identify the organizational foundations needed to scale AI, from workforce readiness and leadership to skills and behavior change.</li>\n<li>Understand how agentic AI is reshaping jobs, workforce planning and individual productivity, and what that means for future workforce decisions.</li>\n<li>Learn practical approaches to extending AI capability across frontline, deskless and knowledge workers alike.</li>\n<li>Know what to demand from AI systems before rollout to maximize adoption, improve decision-making and deliver measurable business value.</li>\n</ul>",
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            "description": "<p>Strategic Workforce Planning is no longer a theoretical exercise, it is the mechanism that connects business priorities to the people, skills, and roles required for future success. This session explores how to build a structured, data-led bridge between strategy and execution.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Translating business strategy into workforce implications: roles, skills, and capacity required to deliver</li>\n<li>Identifying future capability and FTE gaps using business drivers and workforce data</li>\n<li>Turning insight into action: prioritizing upskilling, reskilling, targeted hiring, and internal mobility</li>\n<li>Using scenario modeling to support strategic decision-making and stakeholder alignment</li>\n<li>Strengthening retention strategies to protect critical capabilities</li>\n<li>Converting workforce data into clear, actionable insight that drives execution</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Join the Club: A Practical Framework for Building Ownership, Trust and Collective Impact",
            "description": "<p>That's the idea behind <strong>Join the Club</strong>.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Not a campaign. Not a slogan. A leadership philosophy built on one simple belief: organizations grow faster when people don't just work for the company, they choose to build it together.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Drawing on the journey of transforming SD Worx from a Belgian payroll specialist into the European leading partner for HR, Pay and Time solutions, CEO Kobe Verdonck and CHRO Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens share the six principles behind <strong>Join the Club</strong>, a practical framework that helps leaders create ownership, trust and collective impact.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Grounded in decades of leadership experience and continuous reinvention, this session moves beyond theory to show how freedom and accountability reinforce each other, why trust outperforms control, and how colleagues are critical friends to one another, helping teams and businesses grow faster.</p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a workplace people genuinely want to be part of.</li>\n<li>Turn employees into owners, not just contributors.</li>\n<li>Build trust instead of control.</li>\n<li>Make feedback a catalyst for growth.</li>\n<li>Apply the six principles of <strong>Join the Club</strong> to build lasting impact.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T14:15:00",
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            "title": "Human Potential, AI-Reimagined: Customer Success Stories of Innovation and HR Transformation",
            "description": "As AI begins to shape the future of work, HR leaders are rethinking how they approach talent, skills, employee experience, and organizational transformation. This session will explore why leading organizations like Cargolux and SITA —trust Oracle to support their HR transformation.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T14:20:00",
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "Amplifying Human Capability in the Age of AI",
            "description": "CHROs sit at the center of this tension. The pressure to move fast with AI is real and urgent. But so is the responsibility to ensure that speed doesn't come at the cost of human capability, creativity, and connection. Neuroscience Research is already showing that most people using AI tools see their cognitive engagement collapse within minutes, their brains drifting from active thinking toward something closer to passive consumption.  This session asks the harder question: not just how to adopt AI boldly, but how to do so in a way that amplifies what is distinctly human. How do we build organizations where AI makes people sharper, not quieter? And how do CHROs lead that agenda?  The organizations that get this right will not just deploy AI well. They will build the kind of human capability that makes AI meaningful.\n\nFT journalist Vivien Chow and Sarah O'Connor, author of We Are Not Machines, are capturing a shift in how we think about work and technology: as AI reshapes how we work, the question of what human capabilities we lose and what we must fight to protect is becoming impossible to ignore.  CHROs sit at the center of this tension. The pressure to move fast with AI is real and urgent. But so is the responsibility to ensure that speed doesn't come at the cost of human capability, creativity, and connection. Neuroscience Research is already showing that most people using AI tools see their cognitive engagement collapse within minutes, their brains drifting from active thinking toward something closer to passive consumption.  This session asks the harder question: not just how to adopt AI boldly, but how to do so in a way that amplifies what is distinctly human. How do we build organizations where AI makes people sharper, not quieter? And how do CHROs lead that agenda?  The organizations that get this right will not just deploy AI well. They will build the kind of human capability that makes AI meaningful.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T14:20:00",
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              "Norman Nowak (VP HR IT & AI, Deutsche Telekom)",
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            "title": "Reinventing People Operations & Delivery",
            "description": "<p>Discover how Lonza is transforming People Operations & Delivery (or transforming to a Future Ready Organization – linked to People Strategy) through AI, automation and an integrated technology ecosystem to reduce administrative work, enhancing employee experience and enabling HR teams to focus on higher-value impact.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lonza's vision for AI-enabled People Transformation or People Strategy, the AI-roadmap approach and the role of \"NowAssist\".</li>\n<li>Managing People Operations for ~26,000 employees across 45 global locations through a connected HR technology ecosystem and a modern service delivery model.</li>\n<li>Using AI and automation to reduce repetitive work, minimize recurring issues and alleviate pressure on HR business partners.</li>\n<li>Lessons learned from preparing for the July 2026 Now Assist go-live including Value Case, change- and stakeholder management, adoption and expected business outcomes.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T14:45:00",
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            "title": "How Diageo Scaled Purposeful Performance ",
            "description": "Diageo turned fragmented recognition efforts into a unified global culture accelerator—embedding growth behaviors, improving retention, and aligning people strategy with business goals. Learn how the team reached over 85% of their global employee population—far surpassing their engagement targets, scaled peer-to-peer awards, and is now looking ahead to harness recognition data and technology to shape succession and performance. Leave with ideas to modernize culture and unlock workforce potential.",
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            ],
            "speakers": [
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            "moderators": []
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            "id": "840a2d23-5371-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86",
            "title": "Rethinking Modern Work - How to Shift From Control to Curiosity",
            "description": "The organisations that outperform in an AI-driven world won't necessarily have the best technology, they'll make better decisions, faster. As complexity grows and certainty disappears, the challenge is no longer predicting the future but creating simple ways to learn your way through it.\n<p>In this thought-provoking keynote, neuroscientist and Ness Labs founder Anne-Laure Le Cunff explores why today's organizations have become over-engineered for optimization and under-equipped for decision-making. Instead of chasing certainty, she shows how \"tiny experiments\" help leaders simplify complexity, reduce risk and make smarter decisions through continuous learning.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why complexity is becoming the biggest barrier to effective decision-making, despite more data and more technology</li>\n<li>How tiny, low-risk experiments replace analysis paralysis with rapid learning and evidence</li>\n<li>Practical ways to simplify work, empower better judgment and build learning into everyday decision-making</li>\n<li>Why organizations that experiment, adapt and learn faster consistently outperform those that rely on planning and prediction alone</li>\n<li>What this means for HR leaders redesigning work, leadership and organizational capability in an AI-powered world</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T14:45:00",
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              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
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            "title": "You Have an AI Plan. Rethink it at this session.",
            "description": "<p>Agentic AI can have a long lead time to get started in HR - and willingness isn't to blame. The real blocker is helping stakeholders understand what's changing, how it's better than current state and the guardrails that keep you safe. Skip the generic hype and walk away with a proven playbook for turning agentic AI enthusiasm into actual execution.</p>\n<p>This session unpacks why many agentic AI pilots can't seem to get started in HR - and gives attendees a concrete playbook for getting and communicating clarity around change and getting past the governance and trust barriers that are holding execution back.</p>\n<p>Attendees will walk away with:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>A framework for identifying the right first use case: low-risk enough to earn trust fast, valuable enough to prove the case for scaling.</li>\n<li>The specific questions governance stakeholders will ask before they sign off - so you can prepare for them instead of being blocked by them.</li>\n<li>A model for building the internal coalition that can jump start a successful pilot and lead to an organization-wide rollout.</li>\n<li>Real patterns pulled from live enterprise deployments - showing what separates teams that get started with agentic AI from teams that stay stuck in approval purgatory.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T15:05:00",
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "The Fruit vs Donut Paradox: Why Your Best Metrics Might be Hiding the Truth",
            "description": "<p>Most organizations are not short of workforce metrics. They are measuring more than ever. But many of those measures were never designed to support decisions. A strong engagement score looks reassuring. A productivity metric looks stable. But like the donut vs fruit comparison, what looks right on paper does not always deliver real organizational health.</p>\n<p>This panel is not going to preach about your 'healthy choices' but a but it will challenge whether the metrics your organization relies on are genuinely helping leaders make better decisions.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why some of your healthiest-looking metrics may contain the biggest hidden risks</li>\n<li>The 'donut problem': when a metric looks reassuring but masks poor organizational performance</li>\n<li>Separating measures that simply report activity from those that actually influence decisions</li>\n<li>Identifying the hidden 'sugar' in workforce dashboards that create false confidence</li>\n<li>What leaders should stop measuring because it rarely changes behavior or business outcomes</li>\n<li>How to uncover better indicators in workflow, capability application and decision bottlenecks</li>\n</ul>",
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "How Talent Management Decisions Shape Your Culture",
            "description": "Every talent decision sends a message about what an organization truly values. Who gets hired, promoted, rewarded—or asked to leave—shapes culture more powerfully than corporate statements. This panel brings together three CEOs to explore how these choices translate strategic ambitions into everyday behaviors. \n\nThey will discuss how to recruit for shared values while welcoming people who challenge established thinking. The conversation will examine how performance management and succession decisions influence trust, collaboration and accountability. It will address difficult trade-offs, including how to respond when high performers undermine the culture.\nPanelists will also consider how AI and changing skill needs are reshaping investment in people and career opportunities.\n\nDrawing on concrete examples, the CEOs will share successes, missteps and lessons from their own organizations. Participants will gain practical insights into how CEOs and HR leaders can align talent decisions with the culture they want to build.",
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              "André Lacroix (Chief Executive Officer, Intertek Group)",
              "Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris)",
              "Barbara Martin Coppola (Board Member, Patagonia)",
              "Jean-Dominique Senard (Chairman, Renault Group)"
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            "title": "AI Is Only As Strong as Your Frontline Leaders: Why Managers and Employees Will Determine Whether AI Delivers Business Value",
            "description": "<p>As AI becomes embedded into everyday operations, the role of frontline managers and employees is changing dramatically. They are no longer simply executing work; they are responsible for governing how people and AI work together, challenging recommendations, protecting decision quality and ensuring accountability never disappears behind automation.</p>\n<p>Ultimately, customers experience the quality of AI through the judgment of the people serving them. Organizations that invest only in technology risk creating faster decisions but poorer experiences.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investing in workforce capability, judgment and decision-making with the same commitment as AI technology</li>\n<li>Equipping frontline teams to confidently challenge, validate and improve AI recommendations rather than simply accepting them</li>\n<li>Why frontline managers have become the critical governance layer between AI strategy and customer experience</li>\n<li>Ensuring AI strengthens collaboration, employee confidence and service quality rather than creating dependency or detachment</li>\n<li>Creating governance frameworks that protect customers, build trust and enable innovation without slowing the business</li>\n<li>Measuring success through improved customer outcomes and higher-quality decisions - not simply productivity or automation</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T15:15:00",
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Sandrine Girszyn (Chief Human Resources Officer, GIE AXA)",
              "Rebecca Wettemann (CEO and Principal Analyst, Valoir)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "What Could HR Start Doing Differently with the Workforce Intelligence IT Already Has?",
            "description": "<p>For years, organizations have added new systems, processes and layers of technology intended to make work easier. Yet in many businesses, the technology and administration surrounding work have become work in themselves. AI creates an opportunity to rethink that model. But simply layering AI onto existing structures risks automating processes that should perhaps no longer exist.</p>\n<p>For HR leaders, the bigger opportunity is to combine workforce intelligence, AI and business data to understand where work creates value, where capability is being wasted and where unnecessary complexity is getting in the way of performance and growth.</p>\n<p>This is not about collecting more data. It is about using the intelligence organizations already have to make different decisions.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying where people are spending time on work that creates little value and deciding what to remove, automate or redesign</li>\n<li>Connecting workforce intelligence to business KPIs to understand where talent, skills and capacity genuinely drive performance</li>\n<li>Looking beyond existing jobs and processes to ask how work would be designed if organizations were starting again today</li>\n<li>Using better signals to uncover underused skills, internal talent and capacity that traditional HR systems miss</li>\n<li>Distinguishing between AI that simply makes existing processes faster and AI that enables fundamentally better ways of working</li>\n<li>Turning productivity gains and released capacity into growth, innovation, and higher value work rather than simply more activity</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T15:15:00",
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Jess Von Bank (Co-Founder, Now To Next)",
              "Tom Libretto (President, Workhuman)",
              "Lauren Tropeano (Chief People Officer, Docebo)",
              "Jayney Howson (Chief Learning Officer, ServiceNow)"
            ],
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            "title": "The Governance Question That Changes Everything: What Should AI Do? What Shound Humans Do?",
            "description": "<p><i>As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise, organizations face a fundamental question: not simply what can AI do, but what should AI do, what should humans do and who remains accountable for the outcomes?</i></p>\n<p>Most organizations are investing heavily in AI capability. Far fewer have established clear principles for where AI should act, where human judgment must remain and how responsibility should be divided between people, intelligent systems and the organization.</p>\n<p>The recent Hugging Face security incident brings this challenge into sharp focus: just because AI can do something does not mean it should. As increasingly capable systems take on more work and decision-making, unclear boundaries can quickly create blurred accountability and new organizational risk.</p>\n<p>This is ultimately a question of organizational design, governance and leadership. The choices leaders make now will determine what gets automated, which human capabilities become more valuable and how people and AI work together responsibly. Leveraging recent research on AI transformation and executive decision-making, this session explores how to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move beyond \"Can AI do this?\" to the leadership question: \"Should AI do this?\"</li>\n<li>Define what the organization, people and AI should each be responsible for</li>\n<li>Establish a clear Division of Responsibility between humans, AI and the organization</li>\n<li>Determine where human judgment, expertise and agency must remain protected as automation expands</li>\n<li>Restructure accountability: if AI performs or influences the work, who owns the outcome and who catches what it misses?</li>\n<li>Introduce AWARE, an operating approach for helping leadership teams make these decisions systematically as technology and work evolve</li>\n<li>Build governance that enables organizations to move faster with AI without sacrificing accountability, judgment or human oversight</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The competitive advantage in the AI era will belong to organizations that are clearest about where AI creates value, where humans matter most and how responsibility is shared between them.</p>",
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            "title": "Speaker Meet & Greet: Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff",
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            "title": "Think Different: How Costa Coffee Rebuilt Hiring at Scale",
            "description": "<p>Costa Coffee's store managers were drowning in CVs for 300,000 applications a year. Olivia Sarson, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Costa, joins Sapia.ai CEO Barb Hyman to share how replacing manual screening with structured AI chat interviews changed hiring outcomes, and gave precious time back to busy store managers.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why \"work harder, find more time\" isn't a fix for a hiring model built for the wrong scale</li>\n<li>How Costa cut early attrition: 23% fewer leavers in the first 30 days, 20% fewer at 90 days</li>\n<li>What 89% completion and 8.8/10 candidate satisfaction look like in a high-volume retail environment</li>\n<li>Why hiring for values is central to Costa's brand and how Sapia.ai enables that</li>\n<li>What's next: expanding beyond barista roles and where Costa's TA strategy goes from here</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Work Intelligence: Every Organization Wants AI-Driven Transformation",
            "description": "<p>Every organization is investing in AI, but few have a clear understanding of how work is actually performed across people, processes and technology. Without that visibility, AI investments risk automating the wrong work, overlooking opportunities and creating unintended consequences.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using work intelligence to understand how work flows across the enterprise, identify where AI will deliver the greatest value and make transformation decisions with greater confidence.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where will AI create meaningful business value, and where should work remain fundamentally human?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify the tasks, skills and workflows that are ready for AI-enabled transformation?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an evidence-based approach to AI investment that balances productivity, workforce capability and organizational risk?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Workday Work Intelligence maps work across the organization, models the potential impact of AI before deployment and helps leaders make more informed decisions about roles, skills, investments and transformation priorities.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:00:00",
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            "title": "The Last Mile of Transformation: How to Make your Biggest Strategic Bets Actually Change How People Work",
            "description": "This is the last mile of transformation: turning strategic intent into thousands of small, day-to-day changes in behavior and knowing whether they’re actually happening.\n\nIn this keynote, HowNow CEO and author of Learning at Speed, Nelson Sivalingam, explores why this last mile remains so difficult, why our traditional approaches to learning and change aren’t enough, and how AI creates a fundamentally new way to close the gap.\n\nYou’ll see what becomes possible when organizations can understand how work is actually happening, identify where change is getting stuck, intervene in the moment, and continuously measure whether performance is improving.\n\nThe next competitive advantage won’t be launching change faster. It’ll be getting better at making change happen.",
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            "roomName": "Stage 5 | Impact Stage",
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            "title": "From Ratings to Conversations: How Maersk Reimagined Performance, Talent and Learning",
            "description": "<p>Annual reviews, ratings and disconnected talent processes could not build the adaptable, skilled workforce the business would need.</p>\n<p>This session tells the story of Maersk's four year transformation to redesign performance, talent and learning around continuous conversations, shared accountability and capability growth. Anish Lalchandani shares their real journey: why change became essential, how the organization won support for a radically different approach, the barriers encountered along the way and the lessons that continue to shape the program today.</p>\n<p>You'll also hear how AI and people data are now helping enhance decision making without replacing the human conversations that remain at the heart of high performance.</p>\n<p>Whether you are redesigning performance management, building a skills based organization or preparing your workforce for the AI era, this session offers practical lessons from one of the world's largest transformation programs.</p>\n<p>How will this session help you in your role and future decisions:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should you redesign performance management? Understand the business signals that convinced Maersk it was time to move beyond ratings and annual reviews.</li>\n<li>Where should transformation begin? Learn how business strategy drove the redesign of performance, talent and learning rather than treating them as separate HR programs.</li>\n<li>How do you bring leaders with you? Explore the cultural barriers, resistance and change management lessons from implementing a new approach across a global workforce of more than 100,000 employees.</li>\n<li>What role should AI actually play? Discover where AI genuinely improves objective setting, talent insights and workforce intelligence and where human judgment and quality conversations remain irreplaceable.</li>\n<li>How do you know if it is working? Hear how Maersk measures adoption, business impact and continuous improvement when many of the most valuable outcomes cannot be captured through traditional metrics alone.</li>\n<li><strong>What would the team do differently today?</strong> Gain candid lessons from four years of implementation, including what surprised the team, what didn't work as expected and the advice they would give organizations starting the same journey.</li>\n</ul>",
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            ],
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Recovering From Failures & Roll-Backs: The Agentic AI Rollbacks Nobody Talks About",
            "description": "<p>Everyone talks about successful AI deployments. Far fewer talk about the pilots that stalled, the agents that created unexpected risks or the projects that had to be paused, redesigned or switched off altogether.</p>\n\n<p>This is a rare opportunity to hear honest accounts from organizations that have experienced setbacks and emerged with a stronger, smarter approach to Agentic AI. Discover the warning signs they wish they had spotted earlier, the decisions they would change and the practical lessons every HR leader should know before scaling AI across the enterprise.</p>\n\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why promising Agentic AI pilots failed and what organizations learned from getting it wrong</li>\n<li>The early warning signs leaders missed before trust, performance or governance started to break down</li>\n<li>How organizations successfully reset, redesigned or constrained AI to deliver better outcomes</li>\n<li>Knowing when to pause, switch off or ring fence AI agents without disrupting the business</li>\n<li>The practical governance, leadership and change strategies every HR team should put in place before scaling Agentic AI<",
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            "speakers": [
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              "Miriam Kugel (Director, AI Transformation Advisory, EMEA, Microsoft)",
              "Syed Ali Abbas (Global VP of People, HelloFresh)",
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            "title": "How UPS Cut Hiring Costs 21% While Hiring 300,000+ Seasonal Workers",
            "description": "Discover how UPS transformed seasonal hiring at scale. Learn how a centralized talent strategy, conversion events, and data-driven programmatic advertising helped reduce cost-per-hire by 21% and improve hiring efficiency by 62%.\n\nHiring more than 300,000 seasonal workers in just weeks requires speed, precision, and efficiency. In this case study, UPS shares how its Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence partnered with Radancy to optimize sourcing, engagement, and conversion. Learn how targeted events, automated programmatic advertising, and performance-driven insights reduced costs, increased efficiency, and improved hiring outcomes.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:15:00",
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            "roomName": "Stage 3 | Talent",
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              "Jesus Sanz (Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition, UPS)"
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            "title": "An AI Symphony: Orchestrating a Multi-Agent HR Workforce",
            "description": "Many HR teams have deployed a single, generic agent. The real shift is orchestration: multiple agents tuned to your industry, role, and market, for sourcing, screening, scheduling, onboarding, development and coaching, working together under one governance layer. In this live demo, see how Phenom coordinates precision-built agents from hire to retire, with full visibility into every decision.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:20:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T16:35:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 7 | Builder Stage",
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            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
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            "title": "The AI Hiring Revolution: Opportunity, Risk & What Comes Next",
            "description": "<p>AI is reshaping every stage of the hiring process from sourcing and assessment to decision-making and candidate engagement. At the same time, organizations face a new generation of challenges, including candidate authenticity, emerging fraud risks and growing expectations around transparency and responsible AI.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are adapting their hiring strategies for an AI-first world, balancing automation with human judgment to improve speed, quality and trust.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How should AI reshape your hiring strategy while maintaining confidence in every hiring decision?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where can AI improve recruitment outcomes, and where is human expertise essential to ensure fairness, trust and accountability?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we prepare recruitment processes, governance and operating models for a future where AI is embedded throughout talent acquisition?</p>\n<p>You'll explore how AI-powered recruitment intelligence is helping organizations hire more efficiently, respond to emerging risks such as candidate fraud and authenticity, and build hiring processes that combine automation with responsible human oversight.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:20:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Milena Warner (Principal Talent Partner, Talentful)",
              "Eleonora Rocca (Head of Marketing, TraqCheck)"
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            "id": "4a7d6790-4775-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86",
            "title": "Bridging the Gap: Making HR as Trusted as Finance",
            "description": "<p>HR has more workforce data than ever before, yet many business decisions are still led by finance because its numbers are trusted, consistent and immediately actionable. As organizations demand faster, evidence-based decisions, HR has an opportunity to become an equally credible strategic partner but only if leaders can trust the data behind every recommendation.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are building confidence in workforce data by making people insights transparent, auditable and aligned to the way the business makes decisions.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure workforce data is trusted enough to influence strategic business decisions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we present people data in the language of the business, with complete confidence in its accuracy and accountability?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an operating model where HR insights are as timely, reliable and decision-ready as financial information?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Crunchr enables HR teams to answer complex workforce questions with transparent, auditable data that supports faster, more confident decision-making.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:20:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T16:35:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage",
            "format": "product-spotlight",
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            "decisionPillarId": "datatrustpeopleinfrastructure",
            "decisionPillar": "Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure",
            "topics": [
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              "HR Technology & Digital Adoption",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Alexander Pyper (Strategic Lead, Crunchr)"
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            "moderators": []
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          {
            "id": "5f977672-cd85-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "Embracing Uncertainty – Why Human Creativity Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI",
            "description": "<p>Across boardrooms, CEOs are facing a growing dilemma. AI is advancing at unprecedented speed, business models are being disrupted, geopolitical uncertainty continues to reshape markets, and leaders are under pressure to improve productivity while preparing for an increasingly unpredictable future. Yet many organizations are approaching workforce transformation through a narrow lens of skills development alone.</p>\n<p>While investment in AI technology continues to accelerate, investment in the human capabilities required to navigate uncertainty often lags behind. The result is a growing learning void: organizations are becoming more technologically capable without becoming more adaptable, creative, resilient or innovative.</p>\n<p>For decades, learning strategies have been built around a simple assumption: identify the skills the business will need, train people to acquire them and prepare for a known future. AI is challenging that model. The question facing leaders today is not simply what skills people need, but how organizations develop the judgment, curiosity, initiative, creativity and learning agility required when the future cannot be forecast with confidence.</p>\n<p>This keynote explores why Learning and Development has a unique opportunity to help organizations close this gap, moving beyond training programs to become a strategic driver of adaptability, innovation and future readiness.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why CEOs are increasingly concerned about adaptability, resilience, innovation and decision quality rather than skills alone</li>\n<li>The emerging learning void between rapid AI adoption and the development of human capability</li>\n<li>Why judgment, initiative, creativity, curiosity and problem-solving are becoming critical sources of competitive advantage</li>\n<li>Moving beyond the traditional predict, train and deploy model towards continuous learning and reinvention</li>\n<li>Creating cultures where experimentation, challenge and intelligent risk-taking can thrive</li>\n<li>Building organizational capacity to respond to disruption, ambiguity and opportunities that cannot yet be predicted</li>\n<li>The opportunity for L&amp;D to become a strategic partner in helping organizations navigate uncertainty and build long-term future readiness</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:30:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T17:05:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 1 | Humans x AI",
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            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
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            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Dr. Margaret Heffernan (Author, CEO, Professor of Practice, playwright, University of Bath)"
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            "title": "AI Colleagues for HR — Agentic AI for Transforming Employee Experience",
            "description": "<p>HR teams don't need another tool to manage - they need capacity back. This session shows how agentic \"AI Colleagues\" move beyond answering questions to actually completing employee requests end to end, and what that shift means for service quality, cost, and the HR operating model.</p>\n\n<p>Most HR AI stops at deflection: it answers a question and hands the real work back to a person. Agentic AI changes the equation. An \"AI Colleague\" doesn't just respond; it reasons across systems, takes action, and closes the loop on employee requests without a ticket ever reaching your team. In this session, we share what separates genuinely agentic systems from dressed-up chatbots, where they create value first, and how HR leaders can adopt them without a multi-year transformation program. Expect a practical view of the operating-model shift, not a product pitch.</p>\n\n<p>Attendees will leave with:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>A clear, jargon-free definition of what makes AI \"agentic\" — and how to tell it apart from the chatbots already on the market</li>\n<li>The employee-experience use cases where AI Colleagues deliver value fastest, and why they're the right place to start</li>\n<li>A practical adoption path that delivers value quickly, without a multi-year transformation program</li>\n<li>What changes for the HR team itself: how roles, service levels, and workload shift when routine requests resolve themselves</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:40:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Dan Bagley (VP, Solutions Engineering, Leena AI)"
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            "id": "80847a54-3e7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "Developing Skills with a Human-Led, AI-Amplified Approach",
            "description": "<p>The most powerful learning experiences don't replace the human element - they amplify it. In this session, we'll share what's new and what's next across the Coursera + Udemy platforms, from immersive and personalized learning to AI-assisted skill development. Framed around the experiences that matter most to learners and organizations, this is a look at how smart product innovation can help your people build the skills they need, faster - without losing the depth that makes learning stick.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How AI-powered personalization helps learners discover the right content at the right time.</li>\n<li>How Coursera and Udemy combine expert-created content with AI to create engaging, scalable learning experiences.</li>\n<li>New capabilities that support skills intelligence, role-based learning pathways, and measurable outcomes. How organizations can accelerate workforce transformation while keeping learning human-centered.</li>\n<li>What's next on the product roadmap for enterprise learning.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:40:00",
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            "topics": [
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            "speakers": [
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            "moderators": []
          },
          {
            "id": "648f0ec2-427c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "Agentic HR in Production: A Live Session with Holcim & Gloat",
            "description": "<p>AI in HR is moving beyond pilots and proof of concepts. Leading organizations are now deploying AI agents to support critical workforce decisions in real operational environments. The challenge is no longer whether AI works - it's how organizations introduce agents that understand organizational context, act with confidence and remain accountable for the decisions they support.</p>\n<p>Join Holcim and Gloat for a live look at Agentic HR in production, exploring how AI agents are transforming succession, retention, hiring and skills by working from a connected understanding of the workforce rather than isolated data or individual tasks.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move from AI experimentation to AI agents that deliver measurable value in everyday HR operations?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which workforce decisions are ready for AI agents, and what information do those agents need to act with confidence and transparency?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an AI operating model where agents work alongside HR teams, integrate with existing systems and strengthen trust in workforce decision-making?</p>\n<p>You'll see Holcim's live deployment of Agentic HR, including AI agents supporting succession, retention, and skills, powered by a connected workforce model and embedded directly into the tools HR teams already use.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:40:00",
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            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
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            "speakers": [
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            "id": "71a0a7e5-263e-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320",
            "title": "High-Tech, High-Touch: Solving Recruitment at Scale ",
            "description": "</p>The organisations getting this right are not choosing between speed and experience; they are re-architecting hiring so both improve together. This means using automation deliberately to remove friction, not human connection, and building systems that continuously learn from both data and lived candidate experience. The advantage comes from knowing where human judgment truly matters and creating the space for recruiters to operate there. </p>\n<p>In this session:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove friction with automation so recruiters focus on high-impact human moments</li>\n<li>Redesign workflows for speed where it directly improves outcomes</li>\n<li>Test and scale through rapid, real-world iteration</li>\n<li>Combine data and feedback to understand bottlenecks and causes</li>\n<li>Build hiring journeys that are efficient, personal, and continuously improving</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:45:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T17:15:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 3 | Talent",
            "format": "case-study",
            "track": "stage3",
            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
            "decisionPillar": "Workforce, Skills & Intelligence",
            "topics": [
              "Talent Acquisition",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
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            "speakers": [
              "Jeroen Klerkx (People Lead, Picnic)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "id": "bb796f51-d181-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "From AI to Impact",
            "description": "<p>Many organizations have rolled out AI tools, but far fewer have succeeded in shaping how people actually think and work with AI.</p>\n<p>ABB shares how it is moving beyond traditional technology-focused AI upskilling to build an organization where AI becomes a partner in decision-making, problem-solving and continuous learning. The organization has created a holistic approach that does not focus on technology but actually combines leadership, learning, and communities to support employees to collaborate with AI. This approach leads to increased impact in changing mindsets and is boosting productivity, enabling creative exploration of ideas and encouraging people to own their self-development.</p>\n<p>You will learn about the quantifiable results of the efforts in upskilling and changing mindsets.</p>\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving beyond AI tool training to create lasting behavioral and cultural change</li>\n<li>Building employee confidence to use AI for productivity, exploration, and self-development</li>\n<li>Creating global AI communities, campaigns and learning experiences that accelerate adoption at scale</li>\n<li>The critical role of leadership and change management in making AI part of everyday work</li>\n<li>Sharing the early results of the mindset shift and adoption</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:45:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T17:15:00",
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Grettel Siegert (Senior Leadership Learning Architect & AI for People Lead, ABB)",
              "Nevra Oenal (VP, Global IS Consumer Engagement, ABB)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Research Briefing: HR Realities 2026 ",
            "description": "<p>Exclusive new research from Fosway Group reveals how enterprise HR leaders across EMEA are responding to the biggest reset in HR for over a decade. As AI, economic pressure and workforce transformation collide, driving organizational performance and the impact of AI as it reshapes the future of work have overtaken every other priority. Discover where HR investment is shifting, how AI is reshaping operating models, why traditional HR technology is being challenged, and what separates organizations preparing for the future from those struggling to keep pace.</p>\n\n<p>You'll discover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why organizational performance and profitability have become HR's number one priority</li>\n<li>How AI is moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation and what keeping the \"human in the loop\" really means</li>\n<li>Where HR budgets are rising, where investment is slowing, and how AI is reshaping HR operating models and workforce structures</li>\n<li>Why specialist technologies are disrupting traditional HR platforms across talent, learning, skills and employee experience</li>\n<li>What Europe's highest-performing HR teams are doing differently to build productivity, resilience and future workforce capability</li>\n<li>The strategic decisions HR leaders need to make today to secure their organization's competitive advantage tomorrow</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T16:45:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T17:15:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay",
            "format": "case-study",
            "track": "stage2",
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            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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            "speakers": [
              "David Wilson (Founder & CEO, Fosway Group)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Unlocking Borderless Business: The AI Blueprint for Global Expansion",
            "description": "<p>Navigating highly fragmented local labor laws, cross-border tax compliance, and disconnected payroll networks creates significant organizational friction. Historically, companies have relied on an inefficient web of disparate local vendors - sacrificing speed, driving up overhead, and increasing regulatory risk. True global agility requires a unified approach.</p>\n\n<p>In this session, G-P will share how its agentic AI global employment platform eliminates the operational hurdles of cross-border expansion. We will demonstrate how embedding intelligent automation into global HR infrastructure allows organizations to deploy international teams instantly while maintaining ironclad compliance.</p>\n\n<p>Key Learning Objectives for Attendees:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitigating Global Fragmentation: The hidden operational costs of managing disparate regional vendors and siloed systems.</li>\n<li>The Compliance-First AI Framework: How to leverage AI to automate hyper-local contracts, tax compliance, and cross-border payroll seamlessly.</li>\n<li>Accelerating Time-to-Market: Firsthand strategies from a global peer on scaling international talent pools without expanding internal compliance overhead.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T17:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T17:15:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 5 | Impact Stage",
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            "topics": [
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            "speakers": [
              "GK Gangadhar Konduri (Chief Product Officer, G-P)",
              "Kevin Gaskin (Senior HR Transformation Manager, Rackspace Technology)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "The Next Competitive Advantage: Understanding Work in the Age of AI ",
            "description": "<p>The first wave of AI has focused on making work faster. The next wave will be about understanding work better.</p>\n<p>As AI becomes embedded across every function, most organizations are using it to automate tasks, summarize information, and improve productivity. But those capabilities alone don't explain how work actually gets done, who people trust, where influence exists, which leaders develop talent, or why some employees become the people everyone depends on.</p>\n<p>In this fireside chat, Workhuman Founder and CEO Eric Mosley explores why competitive advantage is shifting from AI capability to human understanding. Drawing on 25 years of research at the intersection of recognition, behavioral science, and AI, he argues that the organizations creating lasting advantage in the age of AI will be those that capture the human signals traditional systems miss and use AI to make better decisions about their people.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why AI's greatest opportunity is understanding work, not simply automating it</li>\n<li>How CHROs can close the gap between AI ambition and meaningful business impact by making better use of the data they already have</li>\n<li>How AI can help organizations identify future leaders earlier and make better people decisions</li>\n<li>How trust, influence, collaboration and recognition reveal leadership long before organizational charts do</li>\n<li>Why the companies that win with AI will be the ones that build their strategy on better human data first</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T17:05:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "David Green (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Insight222)",
              "Eric Mosley (Founder, CEO & Board Member, Workhuman)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "HR on  Autopilot? Human Judgement vs Automation  ",
            "description": "<p>Decisions on hiring, pay and promotion are one of the most important things that HR makes. Increasingly however, HR is not the one making them. What are the short and longer implications of this and should we be dialing back on automation within HR?</p>\n<p>AI now shapes who gets hired, how people are paid and when they are promoted. The question is no longer whether HR should automate, but whether it still owns the rules once it has. When the workflow becomes the policy, authority quietly shifts to IT departments, vendors and the algorithm itself, and accountability becomes harder to locate just as the stakes for individual careers rise.</p>\n<p>This panel asks where automation genuinely improves fairness and where it erodes it, which decisions must always carry a human override, and how much transparency employees deserve about the systems judging them. At its heart is a sharper question about the function itself: is HR becoming the strategic architect of the enterprise, or merely the operator of machines it no longer controls?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is HR becoming a strategic architect of the enterprise – or just the operator of automated systems?</li>\n<li>Where does automation improve fairness</li>\n<li>If the workflow becomes the policy, who owns the rules of HR: HR, IT, vendors or the algorithm?</li>\n<li>When AI influences hiring, pay, and promotion, who is accountable for the outcome?</li>\n<li>What decisions should always require a human override – and what should be fully standardized?</li>\n<li>How much transparency do employees deserve about how decisions are made?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T17:15:00",
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            "roomName": "Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay",
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            "decisionPillarId": "aiautomationgovernance",
            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Steve Boese (President & Co-Founder, H3 HR Advisors)",
              "Mahe Bayireddi (CEO and Co-Founder, Phenom)",
              "Jamie Mackenzie (Partner, HR & Talent Transformation, IBM)",
              "Vincent Dupuis (VP HR Digital, Data & AI, Airbus Group)"
            ],
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            "title": "Closing The Human Capability Gap  ",
            "description": "<p>Transformation is cheap. Delivery is expensive. The gap between the two is capability</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why L&amp;D and skills leadership now sit at the center of enterprise performance - not the periphery</li>\n<li>The execution disciplines most consistently associated with transformation success</li>\n<li>How AI changes delivery: shorter cycles, more exceptions, and a higher premium on judgement</li>\n<li>Why the team layer remains the highest-return point of intervention</li>\n<li>The mechanics of scale: decision rights, escalation, focus, and workflow design</li>\n<li>The benchmark: measurable outcomes, not visible activity</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T17:15:00",
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            "roomName": "Stage 4 | Skills",
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            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
            "decisionPillar": "Workforce, Skills & Intelligence",
            "topics": [
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              "Organizational Design, Change & Transformation"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Jean-Côme Renaudin (Global AI & Data School Director, Schneider Electric)",
              "Zaka Farhat (Global SVP, Talent, Learning and Capability Development, GSK)",
              "Anish Lalchandani (Global Head of Talent Management, Maersk)"
            ],
            "moderators": []
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            "id": "83d48c1c-b273-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86",
            "title": "The Hiring Operating System: How AI, Data, Platforms and People Combine to Drive Better Talent Decisions",
            "description": "<p>As organizations respond to tighter labor markets, shifting skill demand and rising expectations from candidates, hiring is becoming a continuous, system-level capability rather than a reactive process. Following the design principles and real-world lessons explored in the previous sessions, this panel focuses on what it takes to build a hiring model that delivers speed, quality and trust at scale.</p>\n<p>Discussion focus:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving from tools to systems: how organizations connect AI, platforms and workflows into one coherent hiring model</li>\n<li>Where AI adds the most value within the broader stack and where other tools remain critical</li>\n<li>Hiring in challenging markets: how labor shortages and demographics are reshaping sourcing and selection strategies</li>\n<li>Hiring vs redeployment vs alternative talent models: how organizations are making these decisions in practice</li>\n<li>The real constraint: fragmented data, disconnected systems and inconsistent ownership across TA and the business</li>\n<li>What breaks at scale: adoption gaps between recruiters, hiring managers and leadership</li>\n<li>Designing workflows that balance automation, structure and flexibility across different hiring volumes and roles</li>\n<li>Building feedback loops: using hiring outcomes, candidate experience and performance data to continuously improve</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T17:15:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T17:45:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 3 | Talent",
            "format": "panel",
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            "decisionPillarId": "datatrustpeopleinfrastructure",
            "decisionPillar": "Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure",
            "topics": [
              "Talent Acquisition",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Meghna Punhani (Chief People Officer, Eightfold AI)",
              "Marilyn Pearson Hendricks (CEO, WorkTech Advisory)",
              "Lori Goldberg (Senior Vice President, Global Talent, Learning & Culture, Smith & Nephew)",
              "Kerstin Wagner (Executive VP Talent Acquisition, Deutsche Bahn)"
            ],
            "moderators": []
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            "id": "bd25f262-2c3e-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320",
            "title": "CEO–CHRO Partnership: Rebuilding a Global Enterprise for the Next Decade",
            "description": "This conversation explores how leadership alignment at the very top is enabling L’Oréal to rethink the structure of the organisation, the role of talent, and the balance between global scale and local responsiveness. It will examine how macro labour shifts, geopolitical realities and technological acceleration are being translated into a coherent enterprise architecture and workforce strategy. \n<p>The session offers a rare, inside view of how a global leader is redefining the CEO–CHRO partnership to navigate long-term transformation with precision, pace, and control.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The critical role of the CEO-CHRO partnership to drive the transformation of L'Oréal in the uncertainty resulting from AI exponential development, geopolitical risks, ecological challenges and demographic tensions.</span></li>\n<li><span>The impact of AI on the evolution of skills and competencies, particularly regarding the young generation for entry-level jobs. How HR can take a leadership position in the transformation with its strategic workforce planning expertise.</span></li>\n<li><span>The changing nature of leadership at the age of AI with the new leadership model implemented by L'Oréal.</span></li>\n<li><span>The balance between keeping historical L'Oréal cultural fundamentals and introducing new values towards more flexibility and resilience.</span></li>\n<li><span>The impact of the CEO-CHRO partnership to foster innovation, a key differentiator for L'Oréal, everywhere in the organization.</span></li>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T17:30:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-21T18:00:00",
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            "format": "fireside",
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              "Organizational Design, Change & Transformation"
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            "speakers": [
              "Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris)",
              "Nicolas Hieronimus (Chief Executive Officer, L'Oréal)",
              "Jean-Claude Le Grand (Chief Human Resources Officer, L'Oreal)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "UNLEASH Rooftop Party",
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            "startDate": "2026-10-21T18:00:00",
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              "Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing",
              "Leadership & Workforce Strategy"
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            "title": "UNLEASH Startup Drinks & Reception Powered by Playroll",
            "description": "<p>If you're a <b>startup founder looking to build meaningful connections across the HRTech ecosystem</b>, step away from the conference floor and join us for an evening of informal networking, drinks and conversations with the people shaping the future of work.</p>\n<p>Meet <b>fellow founders, investors, HR practitioners, ecosystem leaders and innovators</b> from across the global HRTech community. Whether you're looking to exchange ideas, explore potential collaborations, meet future partners, or simply connect with the people behind some of the most exciting companies in HRTech, this is your opportunity to expand your network and be part of the community.</p>\n<p>Expect <b>great conversations, drinks, new connections and plenty of inspiration</b> in a relaxed setting.</p>\n<p><b>Places are limited to just 75 guests.</b></p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>21 October 2026</b></li>\n<li><b>6:00 PM–9:00 PM</b></li>\n<li><b>Courtyard by Marriott Paris Porte de Versailles</b> 3–5–7 Rue Ernest Renan, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris Room: Hall 1-2-3</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This event is powered by Playroll.</p>\n<p><b>Come for the drinks. Stay for the connections.</b></p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-21T18:00:00",
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            "id": "a25264f8-62be-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba",
            "title": "The Skills AI Can't Commoditise: Why The Hardest Skills At Work Are The Ones We Still Call Soft ",
            "description": "<p>Judgment, curiosity, empathy, creativity, influence and the ability to interpret context become more valuable when everyone has access to increasingly powerful technology. So are organizations developing the capabilities that will actually matter next?</p>\n<p>Drawing on his latest thinking and his forthcoming book <i>Good Soil</i>, Dr. Marcus Collins will also challenge another assumption: what if some of what we call a skills gap is actually an environment gap? Talent does not flourish in isolation. Culture, leadership, incentives and the conditions people work within determine whether capability can actually translate into performance.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What becomes scarce and valuable in humans when increasingly sophisticated AI is available to everyone?</li>\n<li>Why the hardest skills to develop and measure may now matter most</li>\n<li>Moving beyond the artificial divide between hard and soft skills</li>\n<li>Why acquiring skills is only half the equation and organizations need the right conditions for people to use them</li>\n<li>How culture can either amplify human capability or quietly suppress it</li>\n<li>What this means for how organizations identify, develop and value skills in the AI era</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T09:30:00",
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            "format": "case-study",
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            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
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            "topics": [
              "Learning, Skills & Talent Development",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Marcus Collins (Clinical Associate Professor, University of Michigan)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "id": "d93af946-e363-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326",
            "title": "Connecting the Dots: How Reward Innovation, Transparency and AI Are Building the Future of Workforce Trust",
            "description": "Employees increasingly expect clarity around pay, progression and opportunity, while organizations are balancing fairness, governance and business performance in increasingly complex environments.\n<p>The opportunity is not simply to create greater visibility but to connect the dots across the organization: linking reward strategy, workforce planning, culture, leadership and employee trust into a more integrated and meaningful experience. At Baker Hughes, the focus is evolving from transparency as a compliance exercise toward creating stronger foundations around what organizations value, how contribution is recognized and how trust is built at scale.</p>\n<p>Find out how total rewards leaders are connecting strategy, technology and people to create more transparent, trusted and future-ready organizations.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Total Rewards is becoming a strategic driver of workforce confidence and business performance</li>\n<li>How AI is changing the way organizations understand, communicate and personalize rewards</li>\n<li>Why transparency is evolving from a reporting requirement into a leadership and culture opportunity</li>\n<li>How organizations can connect reward strategies with broader talent, engagement and workforce goals</li>\n<li>Lessons learned around governance, communication and creating trust at scale</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:00:00",
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            "topics": [
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              "Rewards, Payroll & Benefits",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology",
              "Risk, Compliance & Workforce Economics"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Nicoletta Iacullo (Total Rewards Senior Director, Baker Hughes)"
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            "moderators": []
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          {
            "id": "956b958c-f54d-f111-8ef3-6045bd9548dc",
            "title": "HR 2030: How The HR Tech Landscape Is Up For Grabs",
            "description": "<p>In this keynote, global industry analyst Josh Bersin projects to 2030 to show why the HR technology landscape is \"up for grabs\" and what that shift will mean for HR leaders. He will unpack the convergence of AI agents, skills intelligence, productivity platforms and employee experience tools, and how this is collapsing today's fragmented stacks into new ecosystem models.</p>\n<p>Drawing on fresh research, case studies and market data, Josh will explore which categories are being disrupted, where entirely new ones are emerging, and how buyers can avoid getting locked into the wrong architecture. He will show what high-performing organizations are doing now to future-proof their HR tech strategy and how HR can take the lead in designing a nimble, AI-native ecosystem that delivers real business value by 2030.</p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discover why the HR tech market is being fundamentally reshaped and which current categories are most at risk or ripe for reinvention</li>\n<li>Understand how AI agents, skills platforms, and EX solutions are converging into new, integrated ecosystems far beyond today's traditional \"HR systems of record\"</li>\n<li>Learn how leading organizations are rethinking their HR tech architectures, procurement approaches and data foundations to stay flexible in an uncertain market</li>\n<li>Explore the new rules of competition for HR tech vendors and what this means for suites, platforms, and best-of-breed solutions</li>\n<li>Walk away with a practical roadmap to de-risk your HR tech bets, position HR as a strategic technology buyer, and build an ecosystem that can adapt to whatever 2030 brings</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T09:50:00",
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            "track": "main-stage",
            "decisionPillarId": "datatrustpeopleinfrastructure",
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            "topics": [
              "HR Technology & Digital Adoption",
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            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company)"
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            "moderators": []
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          {
            "id": "20289b9a-407c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "Designing Fair Reward Systems After the EU Directive: AI & Pay Intelligence",
            "description": "<p>The EU Pay Transparency Directive is changing how organizations design, explain and govern reward. Pay decisions are becoming more visible, more accountable and subject to greater scrutiny, creating new expectations around fairness, transparency and evidence.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are rethinking their reward strategies, using pay intelligence and AI to identify structural bias, strengthen decision-making and build compensation frameworks that are equitable, defensible and fit for a new era of transparency.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure our reward strategy is fair, transparent and ready for increased regulatory scrutiny?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we identify and address structural bias before pay decisions are made?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a compensation model that supports compliance while strengthening trust, consistency and organizational fairness?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how PaySuite combines pay intelligence and AI to help organizations embed pay equity into compensation planning, optimize pay structures and support more transparent reward decisions.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:30:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T09:45:00",
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            "format": "product-spotlight",
            "track": "stage5",
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            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Clare Bonham (Chief Product Officer, beqom)"
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            "title": "Responsible AI Agents, Real Results: Smarter Hiring Starts Now",
            "description": "<p>Discover how responsible AI agents are reshaping talent acquisition, helping recruiting teams work smarter, navigate complexity and achieve better hiring outcomes while keeping transparency, trust, and governance at the core.</p>\n<p>AI is moving beyond assistance toward action. In this Product Spotlight, Lena Rogova, Product Portfolio Director, AI/ML at iCIMS, explores how responsible AI agents can transform talent acquisition while keeping transparency, explainability and trust at the center.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How agentic AI is changing the way recruiting teams work</li>\n<li>Where AI agents can drive efficiency across the talent acquisition lifecycle</li>\n<li>How to balance AI innovation with responsible governance and compliance</li>\n<li>Why transparency, explainability and auditability matter when deploying AI in hiring</li>\n<li>How organizations can turn AI innovation into measurable recruiting outcomes</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:30:00",
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            "title": "The Learning ROI Reckoning",
            "description": "<p>For years, Learning and Development has measured what is easy to count rather than what creates value. Courses completed. Hours consumed. Satisfaction scores. These are the metrics of a bygone era — a rigid, factory-era model built on standardization, control and predictable output. Yet in an era of AI disruption and relentless demands for productivity, executive teams are asking a different question: is learning actually making the organization more adaptable?</p>\n\n<p>As skills requirements shift faster than ever, the most adaptive organizations — what this conversation calls <i>Octopus Organizations</i> — no longer treat learning as a separate function bolted onto the business. They weave development into daily work, blur the line between running and changing the business, and build capability as a strategic asset and source of competitive advantage. The challenge is not simply to develop people, but to create distributed capability that drives measurable outcomes: faster execution, speed to competence, greater adaptability, innovation and workforce resilience.</p>\n\n<p>This high-level discussion explores how learning leaders can move beyond activity metrics to demonstrate their contribution to business outcomes, organizational adaptability and long-term enterprise value — and why the organizations that win treat learning not as a support service, but as part of the operating model of a continuously transforming enterprise.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Why traditional learning metrics are rapidly losing credibility with Boards and business leaders — and why \"watermelon\" reporting (green on the surface, red underneath) masks the real picture</li>\n<li>The uncomfortable truth behind the learning ROI debate, and why measures connected to value and purpose beat measures of consumption</li>\n<li>Shifting from measuring content consumption to measuring capability creation</li>\n<li>Why the most adaptive organizations weave development into daily work rather than isolating it in courses and academies — building tomorrow's critical skills in the flow of work</li>\n<li>How learning can accelerate productivity, speed to competence, workforce agility and business performance</li>\n<li>The role of experimentation, productive failure and validated learning in building future-ready organizations</li>\n<li>Creating stronger alignment between Learning, Operations, Finance and enterprise strategy — and why \"running\" and \"changing\" the business are no longer separate activities</li>\n<li>What the most progressive organizations are measuring, what they have stopped measuring altogether, and how to build an L&D function seen not as a support service but as a driver of organizational adaptability</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:30:00",
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              "Jess Von Bank (Co-Founder, Now To Next)",
              "Phil LeBrun (Executive in Residence, Amazon (AWS))"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "From Regulation to Reality – The First Lessons from EU Pay Transparency",
            "description": "<p>The EU Pay Transparency Directive is proving to be far more than a compliance exercise. As organizations move from preparation to implementation, pay transparency is exposing much deeper questions around job architecture, data quality, governance, leadership capability and employee trust.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The session opens with a strategic overview from Anita Lettink, one of Europe’s leading experts on pay transparency, before Ombline de Tissières and Claire Shortiss of AXA take us inside the reality of preparing a major international organization for this new era of transparency.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Together, they will explore what regulation looks like when it meets the complexity of a global workforce and the practical choices organizations now need to make.</p>\n<p></p>\n<ul>\n<li>What 2026 is revealing about the real organizational impact of EU Pay Transparency</li>\n<li>Building the job architecture, role leveling and pay governance needed to make transparency work</li>\n<li>Turning complex workforce and reward data into credible, defensible decisions</li>\n<li>How greater transparency changes recruitment, progression, reward and manager conversations</li>\n<li>Connecting HR, Reward, Finance, Legal, technology and business leadership around a common approach</li>\n<li>Navigating multiple systems, markets and regulatory requirements at enterprise scale</li>\n<li>Moving beyond compliance to strengthen employee trust, pay equity and workforce decision-making</li>\n</ul>\n<p></p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:30:00",
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            "title": "HR as Leaders of Change in a Technology World",
            "description": "<p>For decades, success was measured by building high-performing people functions, attracting talent and supporting organizational change. Those capabilities remain essential. But they are no longer sufficient.</p>\n<p>Today's executive teams and boards are looking for something different. Leaders who can anticipate disruption before it arrives. Translate uncertainty into business decisions. Build organizations that can continually adapt. Balance technology with human capability. And create the conditions for sustainable growth in an increasingly unpredictable world.</p>\n<p>This is not about HR becoming more technical. It is about HR becoming one of the principal architects of enterprise resilience, capability and long-term value creation.</p>\n<p>As organizations redefine leadership for a new era, what will distinguish the CHROs who shape business strategy from those who simply lead the people function?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which traditional strengths of HR have become more valuable than ever, and which are rapidly becoming obsolete?</li>\n<li>What capabilities will CEOs, boards and investors increasingly expect from HR leaders over the next five years?</li>\n<li>How should HR balance long-term workforce capability with relentless pressure for productivity, growth and transformation?</li>\n<li>Where should HR lead enterprise strategy rather than support it?</li>\n<li>How do you build organizations that thrive through continual disruption instead of repeatedly recovering from it?</li>\n<li>If appointing a CHRO in 2030, what qualities, experience and mindset would matter most?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:50:00",
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              "Priya Thaman (Chief Human Resources Officer, Clariant International Ltd)",
              "Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris)",
              "Clément de Villepin (Senior Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Thales Group)",
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            "title": "From Zero to Global: Scaling an HRBP Team That Executives Actually Call ",
            "description": "<p>Nadia Alaee shares her experience building and scaling Deel's Global HR Business Partnership team from the ground up. This session delivers a practical playbook for HR leaders ready to increase their influence, support business growth, and impact outcomes at every stage of the employee lifecycle.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reframe HR and Total Rewards as a strategic business lever, not an administrative function.</li>\n<li>Build deep partnerships and credibility with executive leadership and stakeholders across the organization.</li>\n<li>Implement the roadmap: from scaling operations to building a strategic partnership that supports business growth.</li>\n<li>Drive competitive advantage by ensuring the best employee experience from onboarding throughout their tenure.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Elevate your seat at the table and influence critical business decisions in a high-growth environment.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T09:50:00",
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            "title": "AI Workforce Readiness Is the Prerequisite for Every Transformation",
            "description": "As AI reshapes roles, workflows, and the way work gets done, organizations must move beyond AI literacy to build a workforce that can continuously adapt. In this session, Chetna Mangalik, Sr VP HR COE & HR Global functions at Danone Group, explores why workforce readiness is the critical prerequisite for every AI transformation and how leading organizations are aligning skills, capabilities, and business strategy to accelerate adoption, drive measurable outcomes, and create a lasting competitive advantage",
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            "title": "Your Recruiting Stack Was Built for the Last Era",
            "description": "<p>David Paffenholz explores how AI agents introduce a new operating model, where recruiters set the strategy and agents continuously source, research, and engage talent on their behalf.</p>\n<p>The modern recruiting stack was designed for a world of manual searches, disconnected tools, and repetitive workflows. Adding isolated AI features may make individual tasks faster, but it does not fundamentally change how recruiting operates.</p>\n<p>In this session, David Paffenholz, CEO at Juicebox, will explore how leading TA teams are moving beyond traditional software and building agentic workflows that expand what every recruiter can accomplish.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the traditional recruiting stack is reaching its limits</li>\n<li>What makes an AI agent different from another AI feature</li>\n<li>Which sourcing and outreach workflows are best suited for agents</li>\n<li>How recruiters can direct, refine, and collaborate with agents over time</li>\n<li>How to introduce agents without sacrificing quality, control, or candidate experience</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "EU Pay Directive Panel Discussion: The Pay Transparency Reality Check ",
            "description": "<p>This remains one of the hottest areas of interest across the whole agenda. This discussion brings together senior HR practitioners at the forefront of pay transparency with an analyst perspective that provides the bigger-picture view across organizations, markets and emerging practice.</p>\n<p>By combining first-hand implementation experience with research and insight drawn from a much broader organizational landscape, the panel has the best mix of outlook and insight. It will look beyond individual company experience to identify the common challenges, emerging patterns and lessons that matter most. Where are organizations consistently underestimating the complexity? What separates those making progress from those struggling to translate regulation into workable practice? And what can organizations still preparing learn from those already further ahead?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reality check: what has surprised organizations most once implementation begins?</li>\n<li>The hidden complexity: are job architecture, pay frameworks and legacy processes the real challenge?</li>\n<li>The data problem: what happens when regulation meets fragmented systems and imperfect data?</li>\n<li>Handling the conversation nobody wants: how do you explain pay differences to managers and employees?</li>\n<li>Compliance vs trust: can organizations become more transparent without creating new tensions?</li>\n<li><i>Looking ahead:</i> what are the organizations further ahead doing differently and what should everyone else learn now?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T10:00:00",
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              "Audrey Richard (Chief People Officer, Canal+)",
              "Marion Devine (Principal in Human Capital for Europe, The Conference Board)",
              "Konstantinos Karavidas (Group Total Rewards Manager, Ingka/IKEA)"
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            "title": "Play to Win: How the Best Companies Are Reimagining Learning for the AI Era ",
            "description": "And yet, the organizations winning the AI race right now aren’t the most automated; they’re the most deeply human. In this session, attendees will learn how to develop a centralized, reinvented strategy for L&D with a \"playground for learning\" approach. Hear how one F500 Chief Learning Officer is building an environment inside their global company that allows for failure, encourages experimentation with agentic AI and new pathways, and keeps human empathy, context, and belief at the core of the workforce.   ",
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            "title": "Inside Mirakl's Rollout of Mochi, Hiring’s First Conversational Skills Agent",
            "description": "<p>What happens when every candidate gets a conversation?</p>\n<p>Join Mirakl, the fast-growing ecommerce technology company with clients like Macy's, Decathlon, Carrefour, Asos, and Airbus Helicopters, as its leaders share how they're rethinking candidate screening while hiring for tech and business roles across a global, competitive talent market.</p>\n<p>They'll reveal how they replaced manual CV triage with skills-based conversations at scale using Emma, Maki's conversational hiring agent, to screen at scale, from a high-volume internship rollout to skills-based screening for roles worldwide.</p>\n<p>We'll dig into what this shift means for hiring efficiency and candidate experience.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decision you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>When should conversational, skills-based screening replace traditional CV triage?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you scale candidate screening without creating more manual work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you improve hiring efficiency while giving every candidate a better experience?</p>\n<p>Take a seat for practical insights into scaling skills-based hiring, reducing manual screening, and rethinking the role of AI in candidate evaluation.</p>",
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            "title": "The Skills Operating Model",
            "description": "<p>As organizations embrace AI, internal mobility and greater pay transparency, traditional job structures are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. A skills-based organization depends on something many businesses still lack: a trusted, continually evolving understanding of the work people do and the skills they need to succeed.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are building the foundations of a skills operating model, creating a dynamic view of jobs and skills that enables better workforce planning, talent decisions and organizational agility.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move from static job frameworks to a living skills architecture that evolves with the business?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create trusted job and skills data that supports workforce planning, internal mobility and pay transparency?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build the data foundations that enable every talent process to operate from a single, consistent view of skills?</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T10:10:00",
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            "title": "What Makes Recognition Human? New Research on Employee Experience, AI, and Rewards",
            "description": "New research from Awardco’s Center of Excellence explores what makes recognition meaningful across global cultures and in an AI-enabled workplace. Learn how HR leaders can design recognition strategies that scale while still feeling authentic, personal, and trusted.\n\nAs organizations scale recognition across global workforces and begin introducing AI into the employee experience, a new challenge is emerging: what makes recognition still feel real? This session explores new research on cultural differences, reward, and employee sentiment toward AI-assisted recognition, offering practical guidance for HR leaders designing programs that are scalable, trusted, and meaningful.",
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            "title": "Human by Nature. AI Powered. Leading through uncertainty: how HR is helping shape Givaudan's AI journey",
            "description": "<p>AI is moving fast, but the biggest challenge is not the technology itself. It's how leaders navigate a future that is still unfolding.</p>\n<p>In this session, Simon Halle-Smith, CHRO, and Martha Tracey, Head of Employee Experience, will share how Givaudan is approaching AI as a people and leadership transformation. Rather than starting with tools, they will explore how HR is helping the organization define the principles, guardrails and leadership conversations needed to navigate change responsibly.</p>\n<p>Through an honest and practical discussion, Simon and Martha will share lessons from Givaudan's journey so far, including how they developed their \"Human by Nature. AI Powered\" philosophy and the questions leaders are grappling with today: What should remain human? How do we build trust while moving quickly? And how do we prepare our workforce for an AI-enabled future?</p>",
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            "title": "Two Workforces, One Skills Language: Agentic HR at the Heart of Nationwide's Acquisition",
            "description": "<p>Hear how Nationwide turned the Virgin Money acquisition into the launchpad for agentic HR - AI agents that build living skills profiles and power internal-first careers. When Nationwide acquired Virgin Money, it faced a challenge every merged organization knows: two workforces, two overlapping skills and mobility systems, and no shared language for talent. Rather than re-running self-assessment surveys on a skeptical post-acquisition population, Nationwide and Gloat chose a different path - AI agents that proposes how people actually work, propose living skills profiles, and act in the flow of work. Mark Jackson, Head of Future Workforce, shares the journey from a governed AI Council pilot to merger-scale rollout - landing on stage the same month the integration completes.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the Virgin Money integration became the catalyst: one chance to give every colleague a validated, day-one skills profile instead of another survey</li>\n<li>From dashboards to agents: four purpose-built HR agents - profile enrichment, manager, career, and workforce planning - working as one agent</li>\n<li>Governing at pace: how an AI Council gates every phase, from bias audits to least-privilege data access, so colleagues feel enabled by AI, not replaced</li>\n<li>Early lessons from the pilot cohorts: what worked, what surprised, and what they'd do differently</li>\n<li>The road to an Agentic Talent Marketplace: shifting hiring internal-first and turning hidden skills into filled roles</li>\n</ul>",
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            "description": "This workshop immerses you in a real-life scenario of an organization under pressure to build a future-ready workforce, leveraging the Galileo® Suite —including Galileo™ Agent and Galileo™ Learn—to connect talent acquisition with strategic workforce planning. You’ll see how insight on demand, critical roles, and capabilities can guide where to hire, where to upskill, and where to redeploy talent. The focus will be on a clear, high-level view of how Galileo® Suite supports more coherent, capability-based workforce strategies rather than reactive headcount decisions. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop so they can log into the Galileo® Suite and follow the examples in real time. ",
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            "title": "The Real Reason L&D Doesn’t Have a Seat at the Table",
            "description": "<p>As AI transforms how learning is designed and delivered, L&amp;D leaders have an opportunity to redefine their role within the business. Those who focus solely on delivering learning risk becoming less influential, while those who demonstrate strategic value will help shape organizational capability in the AI era.</p>\n<p>Discover how to strengthen L&amp;D's position as a strategic business partner, communicate its impact more effectively, and use AI to enhance - not replace the value your function delivers.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do I position L&amp;D as a strategic driver of business performance rather than a provider of learning?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we use AI to increase our impact while preserving the expertise, influence and human judgment that organizations need most?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an L&amp;D function that is trusted to shape workforce capability and organizational performance in an AI-enabled future?</p>",
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            "title": "Meet Nadia: AI to Power Talent and Performance at Scale",
            "description": "Most AI in the enterprise operates in isolation. It speeds up or automates outputs, but doesn't understand the organization, the people in it, or how they work together. The most powerful thing AI can do is help people understand each other — surfacing dynamics, friction, and opportunity before they become invisible problems.  In this session you’ll meet Nadia, Valence’s AI platform for performance, development, and transformation.   Purpose-built for HR and powered by the most widely deployed AI coach in the Fortune 500, Nadia provides support to your organization where you need it most; from cost-effective AI coaching, to enabling new talent and learning initiatives alongside the tools already embedded in your enterprise.  Since 2023, Valence has helped hundreds of the world’s largest companies embrace AI-enabled employee development.   Learn how global organizations like Delta, UPS, Coca-Cola, CVS, and KraftHeinz are using Nadia to upskill their workforce, enhance critical people priorities, and empower employees with coaching at scale.",
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            "title": "Rebuilding the Enterprise: Taking Apart Legacy Work Structures to Design What Comes Next",
            "description": "<p>In this fireside conversation, Sanofi's Nate Lavoie joins Deloitte's Russell Klosk to unpack how Sanofi is making those calls in practice: where and when to deploy AI, and how that ripples into reskilling, job architecture, and how performance and productivity get measured in an AI-augmented workforce. They'll dig into why work redesign and workforce redesign have to happen together - not process change here, org change there - and share where Sanofi is building capability in-house versus bringing in outside expertise, and what drove those calls. The conversation closes on the role technology, and HR technology specifically, plays in making all of this real rather than aspirational.</p>\n<p><strong>Discover how to:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide where AI deployment creates real strategic value versus where it just automates the status quo, and how those decisions are being approached?</li>\n<li>Rethink job architecture and reskilling investment around AI-augmented work, not around today's org chart</li>\n<li>Redefine performance management and productivity metrics for a workforce working alongside AI</li>\n<li>Sequence process, workflow, and workforce redesign as one effort instead of two</li>\n<li>Know when to build AI-and-workforce capability internally versus when to bring in outside partners - and why</li>\n<li>Position HR technology as the enabler that makes continuous work redesign possible, not just a system of record</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "How People & Culture is Fuelling adidas’ Shift Towards Market Empowerment",
            "description": "<p>Being a global brand with a local mindset means shifting decisions closer to the consumer. Hear how Michelle Robertson drove this change across adidas, and how People &amp; Culture helped unlock speed, ownership, and stronger results.</p>\n<p>Michelle Robertson, Executive Board Member for Global Human Resources, shares first-hand insights on how People &amp; Culture is enabling adidas to operate as a global brand with a local mindset. She provides a candid, practical view on empowering decision-making at the front lines, aligning culture and performance globally, and introducing AI with HR leading the way, all to drive faster decisions, greater accountability, and sustainable growth.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gain practical insight into how adidas is navigating growth, complexity, and transformation across a global workforce</li>\n<li>Learn how people strategy can influence business performance, leadership alignment, and organizational agility</li>\n<li>Explore the realities of balancing global consistency with regional flexibility across markets and teams</li>\n<li>Understand how Adidas is evolving performance, culture, and workforce capability to support long-term growth</li>\n<li>Walk away with candid lessons on leading transformation through hard choices, operational change, and shifting workforce expectations</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Skills for Life: Turning Skills into Siemens’ Competitive Edge",
            "description": "<p>As AI, digitalization, and talent shortages reshape the world of work, Siemens is putting skills at the center of its people strategy. In this session, <strong>Bas Puts, Global Head of Learning &amp; Skill Architecture at Siemens</strong>, will share how Siemens is bringing its <strong>Skills for Life</strong> ambition to life: <strong>To continuously develop skills as competitive edge and strengthen the resilience of our people, organizations, customers and societies</strong>.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why this topic is so important for Siemens and what the desired outcomes are of the ambition</li>\n<li>How Siemens defines and leverages Siemens Strategic, Business-critical, and Foundational skills</li>\n<li>The role AI plays in Skills for Life</li>\n<li>Lessons learned from the Skills Tech Stack journey</li>\n<li>What it takes to prepare people—and organizations—for the future of work</li>\n<li>How to govern the skills ecosystem going forward and its implications for P&amp;O</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Longevity, Loneliness and LLMs –How These 3 Are Intersecting and Upending Work As We Know It",
            "description": "<p>Workforces are aging, social connection is collapsing and generative AI is rewriting the task map faster than most organizations can respond. Individually, each shift is manageable. Together, they are quietly dismantling the assumptions organizations are built on: that careers are finite, that teams form naturally, and that productivity gains automatically create better work.</p>\n<p>The evidence is already uncomfortable. 64% of workers aged 50+ report age discrimination, and 60% of older workers face financial instability after an unplanned career break. Loneliness now carries mortality risk comparable to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, with hours spent socializing down 30% for adults and 45% for teenagers. And roughly 40% of global employment is exposed to AI – closer to 60% in advanced economies – implying widening inequality without deliberate policy action.</p>\n<p>HEINEKEN's purpose is to brew the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world. They believe that truly living this purpose means building a resilient workforce with employment models that flex across a lifetime, workplace experiences built for genuine human contact, and an AI approach that protects autonomy and job quality rather than eroding it.</p>\n<p>Explore best practices to deliberately redesign the work, the workplace and the workforce around belonging, longevity and human agency.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the 65+ cohort is the fastest growing segment of the labor force – and what an employment continuum from gig worker to regular employee makes possible</li>\n<li>How social disconnection is showing up as absenteeism, disengagement and polarization, and what employers can practically do about it</li>\n<li>How to protect job quality and agency when AI implementation drifts towards monitoring and pace-setting</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Beyond Training: Closing The Gap Between Learning And Performance",
            "description": "<p>As roles and ways of working evolve, organizations are investing in new tools and workforce skills. But the leap from learning to performance can be costly. Employees need opportunities to apply new skills, build judgment and learn from mistakes before doing so in live work.</p>\n<p>This session explores the missing layer between learning and performance: realistic practice. Discover how organizations can create risk-free environments aligned to their workforce priorities, where employees build capability through authentic, hands-on work and personalized feedback.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where are gaps between learning and performance creating risk, slowing productivity or limiting workforce readiness?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which roles, workflows and capabilities would benefit most from realistic, hands-on practice?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we make practice a scalable part of workforce development, giving employees opportunities to build and refine new capabilities before applying them in work that affects business outcomes?</p>\n<p>You’ll also see a live demonstration of Forage Workspace Simulations, a fully immersive, browser-based, AI-powered work environment where learners take assignments from context to completion using the tools, information and resources the work requires, with personalized, real-time feedback along the way.</p>",
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            "title": "Off With Their Heads!",
            "description": "<p>As AI changes how people interact with technology, the future of work may no longer revolve around applications. Instead, employees will increasingly engage with intelligent agents that understand context, automate routine work and support better decisions. But that future depends on getting the fundamentals right.</p>\n<p>Explore why trusted workforce data, organizational context and human judgment are the foundations of Agentic HR—and why they're essential for organizations preparing for a future where intelligence, rather than applications, becomes the primary interface to work.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean fro you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we prepare our HR technology strategy for a future where AI agents become the primary way employees interact with work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure AI has access to the trusted data and organizational context needed to deliver reliable, meaningful outcomes?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we balance intelligent automation with human judgment to create an HR function that is both more efficient and more trusted?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Sage People is helping organizations build the trusted data foundations needed for Agentic HR and a headless future.</p>",
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            "title": "5 Million Learners Taught Us What Comes After the LMS",
            "description": "<p>After supporting more than 5 million learners across 73 countries, Rise Up uncovered a simple but powerful insight: learning happens in courses, but performance happens in the flow of work. As AI reshapes workplace learning, organizations must rethink how they enable employees to apply knowledge when and where it matters most.</p>\n<p>Discover why leading organizations are moving beyond content-first learning strategies and exploring AI-powered coaching to deliver more contextual, personalized support at scale.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond delivering learning content to improving performance in the flow of work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we provide employees with the right guidance, in the right context, at the right moment to accelerate capability and performance?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a learning ecosystem that combines content, context and AI to deliver measurable business impact rather than course completion?</p>\n<p>You'll also see a live demonstration of Forge, Rise Up's AI Performance Officer, showing how organizations can create personalized AI coaches using their own content and organizational context.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T11:40:00",
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            "title": "Multiplier Effect: The AI Equation for Building Workforce Readiness",
            "description": "Explore how AI can help create a more connected approach to workforce readiness, turning insight into action and helping organizations build capability continuously rather than reactively.\n\nWhat could this mean for you?\n \nThe decisions you need to make\nHow do we move from static talent strategies to a continuous model of workforce readiness?\n \nThe decisions your team needs to make\nHow do we connect workforce intelligence, skills, learning and performance to accelerate capability where it's needed most?\n \nThe decisions your organization needs to make\nHow do we build an AI-enabled workforce strategy that helps people continuously adapt to changing business priorities?\n\nYou'll also see how AI-powered workforce intelligence, adaptive learning, continuous performance and coaching can work together to create a more responsive and future-ready organization.",
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            "title": "How To Fix the Hiring Model in the AI Era",
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            "title": "Recognition as a Strategic Lever for Culture, Transformation and Business Success",
            "description": "<p>In this fireside chat, Schneider Electric CHRO Charise Le will share Schneider Electric's recognition journey, including the opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned along the way. The discussion will explore how recognition can help translate strategy into action by encouraging collaboration, accountability, and behaviors that support organizational goals.</p>\n<p>Attendees will gain an executive perspective on building a recognition-rich culture, the critical role leaders and managers play, and the questions many organizations continue to grapple with, including how to measure impact, leverage emerging technologies, and maximize the value of recognition programs.</p>\n<p><b>Key discussion topics include:</b></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why recognition has become an increasingly important focus at Schneider Electric</li>\n<li>The behaviors and ways of working recognition can help reinforce</li>\n<li>The critical role managers play in creating a culture of recognition</li>\n<li>Lessons learned and pitfalls organizations encounter when building recognition programs</li>\n<li>Emerging trends and the potential role of AI in shaping the future of recognition</li>\n<li>Key questions Schneider Electric is exploring as it continues to evolve its recognition strategy</li>\n<li>One action every leader can take to create greater impact through recognition</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Audience takeaway:</b> Gain insights into Schneider Electric's recognition journey, learn about the opportunities and challenges organizations face in creating meaningful recognition cultures, and explore how recognition can support culture, transformation, and business success.</p>",
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            "title": " From Strategic Workforce Planning to Strategic Workforce Intelligence",
            "description": "<p>For years, Strategic Workforce Planning has been viewed as a forecasting exercise. In a VUCA world, that model is reaching its limits: work changes faster than any plan can be revised, and predictability is no longer a safe assumption. AI changes the game entirely, not by making planning more accurate, but by replacing it with something more adaptive. As roles fragment, AI agents emerge and skills become obsolete faster than organizations can respond, Workforce Intelligence becomes the mechanism for continuously sensing change, modeling scenarios, and deciding what work humans should do, what AI should do, and what capabilities the business must build next.</p>\n<p>In this session, you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why traditional workforce planning models break down and how to transition from static headcount plans to dynamic, real-time intelligence.</li>\n<li>How AI is reshaping jobs, workflows, and organizational structures, with practical ways to plan around capabilities and tasks rather than fixed roles.</li>\n<li>How to use Strategic Workforce Intelligence to make better investment decisions when allocating budget across people, technology, and AI.</li>\n<li>How to connect workforce strategy with business strategy, technology roadmaps, and enterprise-wide transformation.</li>\n<li>The new capabilities leaders need to build and lead a modern Strategic Workforce Intelligence function in an AI-driven enterprise.</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "From System Sprawl To Strategic Decisions",
            "description": "<p>As organizations continue investing heavily in AI, platforms and workforce technologies, many are discovering that the challenge is no longer selecting new tools. The challenge is understanding which investments genuinely create value and which simply add another layer of complexity. Fragmented systems, disconnected data and limited visibility often prevent HR from operating as a strategic function, making it harder to scale transformation and demonstrate business impact. Many organizations are now taking a different approach. Rather than focusing solely on implementation, the emphasis is shifting toward simplifying technology ecosystems, creating stronger operational visibility and strengthening the connection between technology decisions and measurable business outcomes. This session explores how HR leaders are moving from technology ownership to technology stewardship, making decisions that balance innovation, operational efficiency, employee experience and long-term business value.</p>\n<p>Explore how organizations are redesigning HR systems and operating models to create greater simplicity, stronger data foundations and more strategic workforce decisions at scale.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The starting challenge: overcoming fragmented systems, disconnected processes and limited workforce visibility.</li>\n<li>Building a transformation roadmap and selecting the right partners, architecture and implementation approach.</li>\n<li>How better workforce data and integrated systems strengthen strategic decision making across HR and the business.</li>\n<li>Moving from isolated technology projects toward connected operating models and measurable outcomes.</li>\n<li>Lessons around governance, adoption and creating sustainable transformation at enterprise scale.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T11:45:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T12:15:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay",
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            "track": "stage2",
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            "decisionPillar": "Workforce, Skills & Intelligence",
            "topics": [
              "Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Scott Tuszkiewicz (Senior Director, Global Payroll Operations, Ford Motor Company)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Strategic Workforce Planning's Inflection Point ",
            "description": "<p>Strategic Workforce Planning is no longer simply about forecasting workforce demand. It is becoming the critical foundation that connects business strategy, technology, organizational design and workforce capability. As AI, economic uncertainty and accelerating change reshape organizations, the businesses that succeed will be those that use Strategic Workforce Planning to anticipate disruption, redesign work and build capability before change becomes unavoidable.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Strategic Workforce Planning is becoming the foundation for successful AI adoption, organizational resilience and long-term business transformation</li>\n<li>The next generation of SWP tools: workforce intelligence, scenario planning, skills inference, predictive modeling and digital twins</li>\n<li>Identifying the organizational friction that prevents AI, transformation and workforce strategies from delivering their full potential</li>\n<li>How should HR redesign work, not simply job, as AI reshapes teams, workflows and decision-making?</li>\n<li>Connecting workforce planning with finance, technology, operations and business strategy to make better investment decisions</li>\n<li>Building the capability, governance and leadership confidence to respond faster to whatever comes next</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T12:10:00",
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            "roomName": "Stage 1 | Humans x AI",
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              "Richard Skellett (Chief Analyst, Research & Design (CARD), Global Reset, Bloor Research)",
              "David Edwards (Chief Workforce Strategist, Dark Artistry)",
              "Laurent Aufils (Chief AI & Future of Work Officer, Orange Business)",
              "Mark Jackson (Head of Future Workforce, Nationwide Building Society)",
              "Stephen Childs (Chief Human Resources Officer, Panasonic Automotive)"
            ],
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            "title": "From AI Literacy to AI Capability",
            "description": "<p>AI capability is moving faster than the systems designed to teach it. Employees are experimenting, agents are entering workflows and roles are beginning to shift, while much of corporate learning is still focused on literacy, courses and yesterday's job descriptions. So what happens when the half-life of a skill becomes shorter than the time it takes to build the training?</p>\n<p>New global research from The Conference Board exposes a widening gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness. AI use is already outpacing formal training, yet the bigger challenge may be what comes next: moving millions of workers from knowing about AI to being able to apply it, question it, collaborate with it and create measurable business value from it. This research led session challenges the traditional L&amp;D playbook. If AI continuously changes tasks, workflows and eventually roles, organizations cannot simply train faster. They need a different learning architecture altogether, one that connects skills to real work, combines human judgment with AI capability and anticipates reskilling before disruption arrives.</p>\n<p>Matt Rosenbaum brings the latest evidence from The Conference Board into the room and asks a more urgent question for learning leaders: are we building AI skills for the jobs people have today, or the workforce the business will need next?</p>\n<p>What you'll explore:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The adoption gap: Why employee AI use is racing ahead of formal organizational training and what that means for L&amp;D</li>\n<li>Beyond prompting: Why AI literacy is becoming the baseline, while judgment, business acumen, critical thinking and the ability to work with increasingly sophisticated AI become the real capability challenge</li>\n<li>The death of one size fits all learning: Why episodic courses cannot keep pace with AI and how targeted, experiential and in the flow learning changes the model</li>\n<li>Skills for jobs that don't exist yet: How organizations can move from training people for today's roles towards capability pathways designed around what people may need to do next</li>\n<li>From learning metrics to business value: Why completion rates and AI usage tell you very little about whether skilling is actually improving productivity, decisions, innovation or organizational performance</li>\n<li>Reskill before you have to: How CHROs and learning leaders can use skills intelligence and scenario planning now to prepare for workforce disruption over the next two to three years</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T12:15:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T12:45:00",
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            "track": "stage4",
            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
            "decisionPillar": "Workforce, Skills & Intelligence",
            "topics": [
              "Learning, Skills & Talent Development",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Matt Rosenbaum (Principal Researcher, Human Capital, The Conference Board)"
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            "moderators": []
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            "title": "Using AI in Talent Acquisition Across The Enterprise, Mis-trust and Responsible AI in Practice",
            "description": "This session looks honestly at what happens when organisations move beyond pilot projects and begin embedding AI across hiring workflows, recruiter processes, and decision-making.\n<p>Drawing on real experience, it explores where adoption stalled, where trust weakened, what failed, and which Responsible AI measures proved essential to regain confidence and move forward.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What worked and what failed when scaling AI across talent acquisition at the enterprise level</li>\n<li>Why adoption often breaks down in practice across recruiters, hiring managers and business leaders</li>\n<li>Where mistrust in AI comes from and how to distinguish cultural resistance from valid operational concern</li>\n<li>How to introduce Responsible AI measures that strengthen fairness, transparency, accountability and confidence in hiring decisions</li>\n<li>Lessons learned in balancing automation, speed and efficiency with human judgment and oversight</li>\n<li>What TA leaders should do differently to improve adoption, rebuild trust and scale AI more responsibly</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T12:15:00",
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            "decisionPillarId": "aiautomationgovernance",
            "decisionPillar": "AI, Automation & Governance",
            "topics": [
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              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
              "Dominik A. Hahn (Global Head of Group Talent Acquisition, Allianz SE)"
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            "title": "The New Giants of the Industry",
            "description": "<p>AI is compressing the cost of building software, accelerating innovation cycles, and enabling HR organizations big and small to design and deploy their own solutions alongside or outside of traditional platforms. At the same time, bold claims about the \"death of SaaS\" are forcing a deeper question: What actually endures, what gets rebuilt, and who gets left behind?</p>\n<p>This panel brings together executives from the industry's largest and most influential platforms for a discussion of what it takes to lead in this next era.</p>\n<p>We'll explore how incumbents are responding to new competitive pressures, what lessons still matter from the shift to Cloud, and how AI is reshaping it all-- from products to business models, ownership, and the balance of power between vendors and their customers.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reality behind the \"death of SaaS\" and what's actually changing</li>\n<li>How AI is redefining product strategy, platform value, and differentiation</li>\n<li>The rise of customer-built solutions and what it means for vendors</li>\n<li>Lessons from the cloud era that still apply (and the mistakes we continue to make)</li>\n<li>Whether business models, pricing, and accountability need to evolve--and how</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T12:15:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T12:45:00",
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            "decisionPillar": "Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure",
            "topics": [
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            "speakers": [
              "Andreas De Neve (Co-founder & CEO, TechWolf)",
              "Max Wessel (Senior Vice President of Product, Workday)",
              "Camiel Schoonens (Chief Product Owner, ADP)",
              "Kyle Lagunas (Founder and Principal Analyst, Kyle & Co.)",
              "Rebecca Carr (HCM Product Leader, SAP, CEO, SmartRecruiters)"
            ],
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            "title": "Work Re-design in Action: Reimagining the Operating Model with AI and Workforce Analytics",
            "description": "<p>This practical session will unpack our innovative approach: utilizing a task-level work redesign approach using Beamible to map work against employee energy levels, AI potential, and offshoring suitability. Crucially, we will discuss how to upskill internal teams to collaboratively redesign their own work and operating models.</p>\n<p>Drawing on real-world applications of this methodology, the case studies will reveal critical insights into modern workforce challenges:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trapped capacity: How process bottlenecks can tie up significant organizational capacity, resulting in millions lost annually to operational friction.</li>\n<li>Fragmentation: Exposing the hidden cost of severe role fragmentation within management layers, how to identify and tackle it.</li>\n<li>Efficiency opportunities: How to identify substantial portions of time and activity that are ripe for automation, augmentation, or offshoring.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>What you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practical methodology: The step-by-step process of conducting a highly effective work design project.</li>\n<li>Data and analytics: The specific metrics and insights you can extract from task-level work analysis.</li>\n<li>Structural impact: How work redesign directly informs and shapes your operating model and organizational structure.</li>\n<li>Building future capability: How organizations are embedding work redesign skills internally to navigate an AI-augmented workforce.</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T12:30:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T12:55:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 5 | Impact Stage",
            "format": "case-study",
            "track": "stage5",
            "decisionPillarId": "datatrustpeopleinfrastructure",
            "decisionPillar": "Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure",
            "topics": [
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Harriet Western-Williams (Head of Talent Advisory, EMEA, Randstad Enterprise)",
              "Stephanie Reuss (Co-Founder, Beamible)",
              "Victoria Stuart (Co-Founder, Beamible)"
            ],
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            "id": "37dbd977-65ab-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d",
            "title": "Make Every Hire a Moment of Beauty",
            "description": "<p>Sephora receives around 1.4 million applications for its Beauty Advisor roles globally. The challenge at this scale isn't simply how to process more CVs – it's how to identify the people most likely to succeed without allowing volume to dictate who gets through the door.</p>\n<p>For organizations hiring at scale CVs can provide an increasingly limited view of what a candidate can actually do, while lengthy screening processes can create distance between employers and the people they most want to meet.</p>\n<p>Global TA Director, Giorgio Benassi and VP Global HRIS, François Vandevelde share why Sephora is moving from CV-based screening to skills-based, scientifically validated assessments, and how AI now supports that experience across every market Sephora operates in.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decision you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do I enable hiring managers to get face-to-face with the best candidates?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we identify and engage the strongest candidates at scale without allowing application volume to dictate the quality of our shortlist?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How should we move towards skills-based hiring while ensuring your assessment approach is scientifically robust, scalable and consistent across markets?</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T13:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T13:25:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 7 | Builder Stage",
            "format": "case-study",
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            "decisionPillarId": "workforceskillsintelligence",
            "decisionPillar": "Workforce, Skills & Intelligence",
            "topics": [
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            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Giorgio Benassi (Global Talent Acquisition Director, Sephora)",
              "François Vandevelde (VP Global HRIS, Sephora)"
            ],
            "moderators": []
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            "id": "431f60b5-e084-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "From Digital Chaos to a Digital Home: Reinventing Employee Experience with AI",
            "description": "Discover how Deutsche Telekom replaced fragmented portals with one AI-powered digital home, connecting people, services, knowledge and communication in a single intelligent platform. What does it take to create a digital home for a global workforce? Join Deutsche Telekom to learn how they're transforming employee experience by replacing a fragmented digital landscape with one intelligent, AI-powered platform. Discover how AI, personalization and integrated services simplify everyday work, strengthen governance and security, and create the foundation for the next generation of employee experience.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T13:00:00",
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            "roomName": "Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage",
            "format": "case-study",
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            "decisionPillarId": "datatrustpeopleinfrastructure",
            "decisionPillar": "Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure",
            "topics": [
              "Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology",
              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Norman Nowak (VP HR IT & AI, Deutsche Telekom)"
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            "moderators": []
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          {
            "id": "f8b5c3e3-3a75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86",
            "title": "Moving Beyond Traditional Training: How Meta Trains Support Agents with Simulation and AI Roleplay",
            "description": "Legacy training models aren't built for how work happens today. Employees are pulled into courses, expected to retain the information, and then apply it later in rapidly changing workflows. The result is low retention, inconsistent usage, and constant relearning. In this session, we’ll explore why traditional training falls short in a dynamic environment and how organizations can shift to delivering learning directly in the flow of work. Using AI-powered platforms like Whatfix, teams can provide contextual, real-time guidance inside applications, helping users learn while they work without disruption.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T13:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T13:25:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 5 | Impact Stage",
            "format": "case-study",
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            "decisionPillarId": "operatingmodelreadiness",
            "decisionPillar": "Operating Model & Readiness",
            "topics": [
              "Learning, Skills & Talent Development",
              "Talent Management & Performance",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
            ],
            "speakers": [
              "Samir Das (AI Learning & Knowledge Technology Architect, Meta)"
            ],
            "moderators": []
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            "id": "fb6e7485-417c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "You Can't Lead What You Can't See",
            "description": "<p>Global benefits have become one of the largest investments organizations make in their people, yet many leaders still lack a complete view of the data, costs and decisions that shape employee outcomes. As transparency requirements increase and employee expectations evolve, benefits are becoming a strategic governance issue, not simply an operational one.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are creating a single, trusted view of their global benefits landscape, enabling better decisions, stronger governance and a more connected employee experience.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create visibility across global benefits so leaders can make more informed strategic decisions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we connect fragmented data, processes and providers without increasing operational complexity?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build the governance, intelligence and reporting capabilities needed to support compliance, control costs and improve the employee experience?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Origin and ServiceNow are helping organizations create a single source of truth for global benefits through an integrated approach to visibility, governance and enterprise-wide benefits intelligence.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T13:40:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T13:55:00",
            "roomName": "Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage",
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            "decisionPillarId": "datatrustpeopleinfrastructure",
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            "topics": [
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              "Rewards, Payroll & Benefits",
              "AI, Automation & Emerging Technology"
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            "speakers": [
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            "id": "cbf831ad-e984-f111-b337-6045bd95467a",
            "title": "Five Guys Europe Spotlight: The Hidden Cost of Disconnected Frontline Employees",
            "description": "<p>For organizations with large frontline workforces, communication gaps quickly become business problems. Limited access to information, inconsistent manager communication and a lack of employee connection can drive higher turnover, weaker engagement and missed opportunities to develop talent.</p>\n<p>Join Five Guys Europe for a candid conversation about how creating a more connected frontline employee experience helped strengthen engagement, improve retention and build a more consistent experience for employees and managers alike.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create a frontline employee experience that strengthens connection, engagement and long-term retention?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we empower managers, improve employee communication and create more meaningful opportunities for employee voice?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a connected workforce where every employee has equal access to information, support and opportunities to grow?</p>\n<p>You'll also hear how Five Guys Europe connected 10,000 frontline employees, reduced employee turnover by 56% and transformed the frontline experience using Chatty Patty, with practical lessons from a rapid enterprise rollout.</p>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T13:40:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T13:55:00",
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              "Leadership & Workforce Strategy"
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            "title": "Speaker Meet & Greet: Louis Theroux",
            "description": "Join us for an exclusive, invite-only meet and greet with legendary broadcaster and triple-BAFTA-winning documentarian Louis Theroux. From Weird Weekends and My Scientology Movie to his acclaimed podcast and celebrity interviews, Louis has captivated audiences worldwide with his unmatched curiosity and signature charm. This private session offers a rare opportunity to meet and connect with him in person.\n\nPlease note that capacity is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T14:00:00",
            "endDate": "2026-10-22T14:45:00",
            "roomName": "UNLEASH Lounge",
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            "title": "Managers as Multipliers: Redesigning Performance, Pay & Manager Practices in Galileo® Suite ",
            "description": "This workshop immerses you in an organization evolving its approach to performance, rewards, and the role of managers, using the Galileo® Suite — including Galileo™ Agent and Galileo™ Learn—to explore what needs to change. You’ll see how insight into goals, outcomes, and pay patterns can inform simpler, fairer, and more impactful performance and reward designs. We’ll focus on the high-level connections between system design and everyday manager practices, and how Galileo® Suite can support both better decisions and targeted manager development. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to access the Galileo® Suite and follow along as we walk through practical, scenario-based examples. ",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T14:00:00",
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            "roomName": "Acceleration Labs | 721 & 722",
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            "title": "Scaling Beyond Borders: Compliant Talent Deployment in 2026",
            "description": "<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p>Finding the right skills shouldn't be limited by geography. This session explores how Employment of Record (EOR) strategies enable organizations to hire, onboard, and retain international talent instantly and compliantly — without the legal friction or cost of establishing local entities. At a time of increasingly stringent regulatory pressures, EOR infrastructure offers a smarter path to global talent deployment.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why businesses must hire for skills, not locations, in 2026</li>\n<li>How EOR strategies remove compliance barriers to international hiring</li>\n<li>Navigating key regulatory challenges including the EU Pay Transparency Directive and US day-one employment rights</li>\n<li>Deploying global talent without the overhead of local entity setup</li>\n<li>Practical steps to build a compliant, borderless workforce</li>\n</ul>\n</div>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T14:00:00",
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            "title": "Your HR Team Wasn't Hired to Chase Documents: AI-powered HR Document Intelligence for SAP SuccessFactors",
            "description": "According to Deloitte, HR teams lose up to 57% of their day to admin. Not to hiring, not to culture, not to the people work you were actually hired for, but to hunting down a missing document, keying the same data in twice, and waiting on a contract that's stuck in someone's inbox while your best candidate quietly accepts another offer.\n\nSAP SuccessFactors runs your people and your processes. Doxis runs everything those processes are made of: the contracts, files, certificates, and records that keep the employee lifecycle moving. Enhanced with the latest AI, Doxis reads, classifies, and extracts data from every document that comes in, so information files itself and flows straight into the processes that need it. Together, they close the gap where HR loses time.\n\nCome see how it works: a candidate says yes, and the contract is drafted from SuccessFactors data, routed for approval, and signed, without anyone opening a template. A new hire's personnel file assembles itself as they join. An employee requests a certificate and receives it through self-service while HR does nothing at all. And when the auditors come knocking, retention, access, and GDPR compliance are already handled, quietly, in the background.\n\nJoin Max Gerrard, our Head of Solution Engineering, for a live look at what SuccessFactors and Doxis make possible.\n\nDoxis is a fully certified SAP partner, available on SAP Store, and supports HR teams across EMEA's largest organizations. Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Document Management and the IDC MarketScape for Intelligent Content Services, and as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Content Platforms.",
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            "title": "What KFC Actually Did to Hit 84% Monthly Active Users in KFC’s Employee App — and What They'd Do Differently",
            "description": "<p>Real tactics, real data and honest lessons from a frontline transformation.</p>\n<p>Rolling out new technology is one thing. Getting people to use it consistently is another. The organizations that succeed don't just launch new tools they create the right conditions for adoption, remove friction from everyday work and continually learn from what works.</p>\n<p>Hear how KFC Queensway approached the rollout of its frontline employee app, the decisions that drove sustained engagement, and the lessons the team would apply differently if they were starting again today.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond technology deployment to achieve genuine workforce adoption and engagement?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which implementation strategies create lasting behavior change, reduce operational friction and improve the employee experience?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we scale digital transformation by learning quickly, measuring adoption and continuously improving the employee experience?</p>\n<p>You'll also hear how KFC Queensway used structured onboarding, digital HR workflows and AI-powered knowledge access to achieve 84% monthly active usage and the practical lessons learned along the way.</p>",
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            "description": "Two Workday customers, different industries and needs, different scales, one platform. Philips is simplifying the employee and manager experience across a complex 65,000-person landscape, while Accenture has turned AI into the equivalent of 300,000 extra people of capacity across its 750,000 workforce. Join us for a discussion on experience, skills, AI, agents and driving value with Workday.",
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            "roomName": "Stage 3 | Talent",
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            "title": "Why CEOs Are Betting on CHROs to Deliver Transformation:  Scaling transformation capability",
            "description": "<p>As the pace of change inside organizations accelerates, CEOs are increasingly turning to their Chief Human Resources Officers to help deliver transformation at speed and scale. Today's CHRO is no longer expected to simply support change but to architect it to include bridging strategy, talent, culture, and execution.</p>\n<p>This keynote explores why so many transformation efforts stall despite strong intent, how CEO expectations of HR leadership are evolving, and why building internal change capability has become a strategic imperative. Drawing on a real-world case study from Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (PASA), the session highlights how the organization implemented an Organization Development & Transformation Management (ODXM) model and certified more than 200 internal leaders as change practitioners, shifting transformation from a centralized function to a distributed enterprise capability.</p>\n<p>This session is designed for HR leaders who are ready to step beyond traditional boundaries and embrace their role as architects of sustainable, enterprise-wide transformation. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the CHRO role is evolving in response to accelerating change.</li>\n<li>Why building internal change capability is now a strategic imperative.</li>\n<li>What it takes to move transformation from concept to execution.</li>\n<li>Practical lessons for scaling change without burning out leaders or the organization.</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "From AI Deployment to Agentic Organisation: Why HR Must Lead the Biggest Redesign of Work in a Generation",
            "description": "<p>The real transformation begins when AI agents move beyond supporting work to executing it within clearly defined boundaries. At that point, the challenge is no longer technology. It is redesigning how work happens, how decisions are made, and how accountability is shared between people and AI.</p>\n<p>The organizations moving fastest are not simply introducing new tools. They are fundamentally rethinking every people process, redefining the relationship between humans and AI, and positioning HR at the center of enterprise transformation.</p>\n<p>This conversation explores why agentic AI is not an HR technology program but an organizational redesign challenge and why HR will become the architect of how humans and AI work together across the business.</p>\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the biggest opportunity is not AI inside HR but HR shaping AI transformation across the enterprise</li>\n<li>The organizations moving fastest give HR ownership of governance, decision rights, and people processes</li>\n<li>Why HR must stop thinking in jobs and start redesigning work activity by activity, defining what should be done by people, rules, or AI agents</li>\n<li>As AI agents contribute to business outcomes, what does performance management, accountability, and leadership look like?</li>\n<li>Lessons from organizations moving beyond pilots to enterprise scale</li>\n<li>Building governance, trust, and operating models that evolve as AI capabilities continue to mature</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "Launching AI to the Frontline",
            "description": "<p>AI is transforming how work gets done, but most of today's tools were built for employees with desks, laptops and company email addresses. Frontline organizations face a different reality: shared devices, high turnover, complex operations and workforces spread across thousands of locations. After years spent partnering with some of the world's largest frontline employers, Blink has seen a consistent pattern emerge: the most valuable AI opportunities look very different on the frontline than they do in the office.</p>\n\n<p>In this product spotlight, Laura Howard, VP Product at Blink, shares what the world's leading frontline organizations are learning about AI adoption and unveils Blink's vision for the future of frontline work.</p>\n\n<p>Attendees will get a first look at:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>How AI can become a natural part of frontline workflows, not another disconnected tool</li>\n<li>New approaches to delivering trusted AI experiences at enterprise scale</li>\n<li>The infrastructure required to make AI accessible to every worker, regardless of role or device</li>\n<li>How leading organizations are preparing for the next wave of AI adoption</li>\n<li>Blink's vision for the future of frontline work</li>\n</ul>",
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            "title": "HR Reimagined: Automating Employee Information Management",
            "description": "HR leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver better employee experiences while managing growing volumes of information, compliance requirements and administrative work. Yet too much time is still spent searching for documents, managing fragmented records and maintaining manual processes that slow down the organization.\n \nExplore how leading organizations are modernizing employee information management by connecting HR systems, automating routine administration and creating a single, trusted view of employee information across the entire workforce lifecycle.\n \nThe decisions you need to make\nHow do we reduce administrative effort while improving the quality, security and accessibility of employee information?\n \nThe decisions your team needs to make\nHow can we automate document-intensive HR processes without compromising compliance, governance or employee experience?\n \nThe decisions your organization needs to make\nHow do we build the digital foundations that allow HR to spend less time managing paperwork and more time creating value for the business?\n \nYou'll also see how the integration of SAP SuccessFactors and Doxis automates employee document management, strengthens compliance and delivers a more connected HR experience from recruitment through to offboarding with insights from a global customer transformation.\n",
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            "title": "Trust Your Data. Change with Confidence. Run Better.",
            "description": "<p>Every HR transformation depends on one critical capability: confidence in your data. Whether organizations are adopting AI, modernizing payroll or migrating to the cloud, success depends on trusted information, controlled change and the ability to validate that systems are ready before change reaches the business.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are strengthening the operational foundations that enable faster transformation, reduce risk and improve confidence in every stage of change.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create the level of trust in our people data needed to support AI, compliance and future transformation?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we improve testing, validation and governance while reducing the manual effort involved in day-to-day operations?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an HR and payroll environment that supports continuous change without increasing operational risk?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how organizations are improving data quality, validating system changes and preparing for cloud migration, payroll transformation and AI adoption through stronger testing, auditing and operational governance.</p>",
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            "title": "People, Technology, and Global Growth: How AI Is Shaping the Future of International Teams",
            "description": "Global growth is no longer just about entering new markets—it’s about supporting people wherever they are. As workforces become more distributed, international hiring is now business as usual, creating new expectations around speed, scale, and consistency. Join Pebl as we explore the possibilities of international hiring and how AI is enabling teams to hire faster, work smarter, and better navigate the complexities of cross-border hiring worldwide.",
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              "Ian Fuller (Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager, Pebl)",
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            "title": "How CISCO is Rebuilding Work Across 80,000 Employees: From AI Curiosity to Enterprise Capability",
            "description": "<p>Cisco's transformation demonstrates that before organizations can plan the workforce of the future, they first need to understand how work itself is changing. By redesigning tasks, embedding AI into everyday workflows and enabling employees to experiment safely at scale, Cisco is creating the foundations for the next generation of workforce strategy.</p>\n<p>This session explores what it really takes to move from isolated AI pilots to organization-wide behavioral change and why redesigning work is becoming the first step towards Strategic Workforce Planning.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why transforming 80,000 employees starts with redesigning work rather than deploying technology</li>\n<li>Helping employees understand where AI creates value across everyday tasks, decisions and workflows</li>\n<li>Building confidence through experimentation, leadership support and practical adoption rather than top-down mandates</li>\n<li>How AI is changing roles, creating new capabilities and reshaping the skills organizations need next</li>\n<li>What organizations learn about future workforce needs when AI is deployed at enterprise scale</li>\n<li>Why today's workplace innovation becomes tomorrow's Strategic Workforce Planning</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T14:40:00",
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            "title": "How S&P Global Is Using Talent Intelligence to Build a Connected Workforce",
            "description": "<p>In this session, S&amp;P Global will share the real story behind building a connected talent ecosystem spanning Lightcast, Workday, Eightfold and SHL — and what it actually takes to turn measured skills data into decisions that stand up across hiring, onboarding, development and mobility. No theory — just an honest conversation about governance, AI-enhanced CVs, candidate authenticity, proctoring, and the hard lessons learned along the way, including what talent leaders need to stop doing, start doing, and take seriously right now.</p>\n\n<p>Key takeaways:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What it takes to build a connected Talent Intelligence ecosystem across multiple technologies and teams.</li>\n<li>How to create trustworthy talent decisions in a world of AI-enhanced CVs, candidate fraud and increasing governance expectations.</li>\n<li>How to turn measured skills data into action across hiring, onboarding, development and mobility.</li>\n</ul>",
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              "Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence"
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            "title": "The Future of AI-Native Employee Experience Is Deeply Personal",
            "description": "<p>The next generation of employee experience won't be built around portals or static content. As AI becomes embedded into everyday work, organizations have an opportunity to create experiences that adapt to each employee's role, context and needs making it easier to find information, complete tasks and stay productive.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using AI to create more personalized, intuitive and connected employee experiences that strengthen engagement while reducing friction across the digital workplace.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we redesign employee experience for a world where AI becomes the primary interface between people and work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can AI deliver more personalized support while maintaining trust, transparency and consistency?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an employee experience that evolves with every employee while connecting seamlessly with existing systems and ways of working?</p>\n<p>You'll also see a live demonstration of how AI-native employee experience platforms deliver deeply personalized interactions, helping employees find information, complete tasks and navigate work more effectively.</p>",
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            "title": "HR’S Strategic Partnerships across the Business  — Funding and Scaling AI in Talent Acquisition",
            "description": "<ul>\n<li>Putting the Right People in the Right Roles with the Right Investment Strategy</li>\n<li>Will AI replace recruiters — or redefine where talent and capital create the most value?</li>\n<li>Aligning talent strategy with financial outcomes: linking hiring decisions to productivity, growth, and margin impact</li>\n<li>Joint prioritization of AI investments: where automation drives efficiency vs where human judgment protects quality and brand</li>\n<li>Building credible, board-level business cases: cost-per-hire, time-to-productivity, and workforce ROI as shared metrics</li>\n<li>Avoiding \"over-tooling\": rationalizing platforms and ensuring adoption delivers return on investment</li>\n<li>Governing AI responsibly: balancing speed, cost efficiency, risk, and compliance across the hiring lifecycle</li>\n<li>Re-engineering the hiring model together: redefining recruiter roles, operating models, and spend allocation</li>\n<li>Creating a single view of value: CFO visibility on cost and CHRO ownership of outcomes, aligned through shared data</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T14:45:00",
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            "decisionPillarId": "rewardpayfairnesssystems",
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            "title": "HR Industry Discussion:  The Jobpocalypse",
            "description": "<p>AI is transforming how organizations find, hire and develop talent. But as companies race to automate work and recruitment, are they also creating a new set of workforce problems?</p>\n<p>Never before has there been so much to support recruitment, but somewhere along the line it has broken the very thing it wished to support. With entry-level roles disappearing and employers facing critical skills shortages, how can the HR industry fix it? We know that AI-generated applications are flooding recruitment systems, making genuine potential harder to identify. Candidates are using AI to navigate automated hiring processes while employers deploy more AI to screen them. And as technology takes over the junior work through which people traditionally learned their professions, organizations risk weakening the very pipelines that produce tomorrow's specialists and leaders.</p>\n<p>The challenge extends beyond graduates. Young people, career changers, returners, displaced workers and existing employees all need new routes to skills, experience and opportunity.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The AI talent paradox: Automating work today, but could those productivity gains create tomorrow's shortages of experienced talent and future leaders?</li>\n<li>Are recruitment systems finding the right people or simply the best applications?</li>\n<li>Who gets locked out when the traditional career ladder disappears?</li>\n<li>What happens to young people, non-graduates, career changers, returners and displaced workers when fewer roles provide a first or second route into a profession?</li>\n<li>What could replace experience as the currency of recruitment?</li>\n<li>Can skills-based hiring, assessment for potential, internal mobility and alternative pathways help organizations find talent they might otherwise overlook?</li>\n<li>Can AI become part of the solution rather than the problem? How can AI coaching, simulations, personalized learning and supervised copilots accelerate development while preserving the human experience required to build expertise?</li>\n</ul>",
            "startDate": "2026-10-22T14:45:00",
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            "title": "Two Visions - Two AI Strategies One Extraordinary Conversation",
            "description": "In this closing session, Louis Theroux brings his signature curiosity and probing style to explore these diverging approaches and the decisions behind them. Through an open and thought-provoking conversation, he examines what’s driving these choices and what they mean for organisations, employees, and society. \n\nThis is not about easy answers. It’s about understanding the trade-offs, tensions, and consequences shaping the future of work and reflecting on which path you would choose. ",
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            "title": "Utilize Workforce Data to Make Better Decisions: How Framatome Empowers Leaders at Scale",
            "description": "<p>In this practical case study, Framatome will show how Workforce Analytics, intuitive dashboards, and meaningful KPIs create transparency across a highly complex organization and help managers focus on the decisions that matter most.</p>\n<p>Discover how Framatome GmbH uses workforce data to support data-driven leadership across its German organization, including:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can leaders identify emerging workforce risks, capacity gaps, and trends earlier?</li>\n<li>Which KPIs provide managers with the clarity they need to prioritize action?</li>\n<li>How can complex HR data be translated into intuitive insights for faster decision-making?</li>\n<li>How can organizations create greater consistency and transparency across sites and business units?</li>\n<li>The end goal: enabling leaders to make better workforce decisions and strengthen Organizational Performance at scale.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>With more than 22,000 employees worldwide, Framatome operates in a highly complex international environment. This session takes a closer look at Framatome GmbH and its German organization, which includes one of Framatome's largest engineering sites worldwide, and explores how workforce data and analytics can create greater transparency and support better decision-making at the management level.</p>",
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            "decisionPillar": "Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure",
            "topics": [
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            "speakers": [
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              "Benjamin Detzel (Global VP Customer Success, Ingentis)"
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            "title": "Succession in Uncertain Times: Building Leadership Pipelines for an AI Driven World",
            "description": "<p>As AI reshapes decision-making, leadership expectations and organizational structures, succession planning can no longer rely on traditional assumptions about future roles and capabilities. Organizations must identify and develop leaders who can navigate uncertainty, lead alongside intelligent technologies, and build resilience through periods of rapid transformation.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redefined leadership potential and succession criteria for an AI-driven business environment</li>\n<li>Built leadership pipelines that balance digital capability, human judgment and adaptability</li>\n<li>Developed future-ready successors capable of leading through disruption and continuous change</li>\n<li>Applied succession planning strategies across complex, global, and family-owned organizations</li>\n<li>Strengthened leadership resilience while preserving culture, values, and long-term organizational continuity</li>\n<li>What changed: stronger leadership benches, increased organizational resilience, improved readiness for future disruption and greater confidence in long-term leadership continuity from manually accessing talent to continuously discovering and engaging it through AI-enabled systems</li>\n</ul>",
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    "markdown": "# Agenda Content (UNLEASH in Paris)\n\nGenerated: 2026-10-05T13:37:33.914Z\n\n## Where the HR World Meets\n- Slug: /events/unleash-paris\n- Agenda page: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule\n- Event ID: 45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24\n- Session count: 182\n- Decision pillars: AI, Automation & Governance; Workforce, Skills & Intelligence; Operating Model & Readiness; Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure; Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n\n### UNLEASH Future Readiness Summit\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=27afa5d8-6571-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-20T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T16:30:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Shangri-La | The Salon Roland Bonaparte\n- Format: summit\n- Track / sub-event: futurereadinesssummit\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Richard Skellett (Chief Analyst, Research & Design (CARD), Global Reset, Bloor Research), Mark Smith (Chief Technology Officer, Allwyn UK), Syed Ali Abbas (Global VP of People, HelloFresh), Gary Bolles (Emeritus Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University), Ian Bailie (VP, People Technology, Process and Insights, Dynatrace), Chetna Mangalik (SVP HR COE & HR Global Functions, Danone Group), Samantha Sheriff (Chief People & Places Officer, Allwyn UK (National Lottery UK)), Andrew Davis (EVP & Global Chief People Officer, Sony Music Entertainment), Naomi Haefner (Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, IMD Business School), Pauline Rebourgeon (Head of Learning Technology and Innovation, Ericsson)\n- Description: <p>Future readiness is a team sport, not an individual pursuit. Preparing organizations for what comes next requires people leaders to work together in new ways.</p>\n<p>The Future Readiness Summit is an immersive workshop experience designed for the leaders responsible for building the future workforce. Bringing together leaders from across HR, talent, learning, operations and technology, the summit combines practical frameworks, collaborative working sessions and guidance on building capability within your teams.</p>\n<p><strong>Agenda at a Glance:</strong></p>\n<p>09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome Address</p>\n<p>09:15 – 09:45 | Keynote: Succession in Uncertain Times</p>\n<p>09:45 – 10:15 | Spotlight Discussion: Building the Future-Ready Organization</p>\n<p>10:15 – 10:45 | Panel Discussion: Getting Technology Embedded and Future-Ready</p>\n<p>10:45 – 11:00 | Short Break</p>\n<p>11:00 – 11:25 | Case Study: Inside a Three-Year Transformation With Fixed Deadlines, Public Scrutiny and No Pause Button</p>\n<p>11:30 – 12:00 | Case Study: Learning as the Engine of AI Readiness</p>\n<p>12:10 – 12:30 | Morning Synthesis: From Challenges to Decision Priorities</p>\n<p>12:30 – 14:00 | Executive Networking Lunch</p>\n<p>14:00 – 14:15 | Getting Future Ready: Decision Lab Roundtable Briefing</p>\n<p>14:15 – 15:15 | Future Readiness Decision Labs: Co-Creation in Action</p>\n<p>15:15 – 15:30 | Short Break</p>\n<p>15:30 – 16:00 | Our Collective Intelligence Session: What Have We Learned?</p>\n<p>16:00 – 16:30 | Closing Session: Building the Future Readiness Blueprint</p>\n<p><strong>09:00–09:15 am OPENING REMARKS: WELCOME AND THE FUTURE READINESS IMPERATIVE</strong></p>\n<p><i>What separates organizations that adapt from those that struggle to keep pace?</i></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why future readiness is now a business-critical capability</li>\n<li>The gap between transformation ambition and execution</li>\n<li>Why future-ready decisions require HR, technology, finance and business leaders to work differently together</li>\n<li>What the pre-event Future Readiness Pulse tells us about the challenges already emerging across the group</li>\n<li>Live polling to test those findings in the room and identify the issues participants most want to work on during the afternoon</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>Live output: Shared decision lens and initial Future Readiness Summit challenge framework</strong></p>\n<p><strong>09:15–09:45 am KEYNOTE: SUCCESSION IN UNCERTAIN TIMES - BUILDING LEADERSHIP PIPELINES FOR AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD</strong></p>\n<p>As AI reshapes decision-making, leadership expectations and organizational structures, succession planning can no longer rely on traditional assumptions about future roles and capabilities.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redefining leadership potential for an AI-enabled business environment</li>\n<li>Balancing digital capability, human judgment and adaptability</li>\n<li>Building leadership resilience through disruption and continuous change</li>\n<li>Testing whether today's succession assumptions remain valid against plausible future scenarios</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Naomi Haefner, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, IMD Business School</p>\n<p><strong>09:45 am – 10:15 am SPOTLIGHT DISCUSSION SESSION: BUILDING THE FUTURE-READY ORGANIZATION - HOW LEADING ENTERPRISES ARE TURNING STRATEGY INTO ACTION</strong></p>\n<p>Global executives share practical lessons from transformation at scale, framed around the decisions they made, the stakeholders they had to influence and what they would do differently.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building the skills, capabilities and culture required for an AI-enabled organization</li>\n<li>Preparing leaders and employees as work, roles and decision-making evolve</li>\n<li>Turning AI investment into measurable workforce capability and business impact</li>\n<li>Identifying the decision or coalition that unlocked progress when transformation stalled</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Andrew Davis, EVP &amp; Global Chief People Officer, Sony Music Entertainment</p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Richard Skellett, Chief Analyst, Research &amp; Design, Global Reset, Bloor Research</p>\n<p><strong>10:15 –10:45 am PANEL DISCUSSION: GETTING TECHNOLOGY EMBEDDED AND FUTURE READY</strong></p>\n<p>The challenge is no longer simply collecting more data or deploying more technology. It is making better decisions about where friction sits, who needs to act and how to build organizational commitment.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying workforce, leadership and organizational barriers slowing transformation</li>\n<li>Using workforce analytics and AI insights to make faster, evidence-based decisions</li>\n<li>Connecting people, technology and business data to improve execution</li>\n<li>Building the coalition of stakeholders required to move from insight to action</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Syed Ali Abbas, Vice President People, Global Business Units, HelloFresh</p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Chetna Manglik, SVP HR Digital, Analytics, Services &amp; Strategy &amp; HR Global Functions, Danone Group</p>\n<p><strong>10.45 – 11:00 am Short Break</strong></p>\n<p><strong>11.00 – 11.30 am CASE STUDY: WHEN IS READY REALLY READY?</strong></p>\n<p><i>The Three-Year Journey to Transform The National Lottery While Keeping The Nation Playing</i></p>\n<p>Most transformation programs can shift a timetable or quietly manage disruption behind the scenes. This one could not. Over three years Sam Sheriff and Mark Smith worked on one of the most complex transformations in the UK, rebuilding the technology, operations, people and supplier relationships behind the National Lottery, while the service kept running in full public view.</p>\n<p>Sam and Mark will talk honestly about what that journey actually felt like: how they judged whether the organization was ready to move forward, the moments plans fell apart, the decisions made without certainty, and how they kept moving when the deadline could not.</p>\n<p>Attendees will hear:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What it is like leading change when the destination and deadline are fixed but the route keeps shifting</li>\n<li>How they judged readiness at different points across a three-year transformation</li>\n<li>How they held people, technology, suppliers, and regulation together as one effort instead of separate programs</li>\n<li>What happened when plans met reality and how they adapted in the moment</li>\n<li>What three years of transformation taught them about whether an organization is ever truly ready</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Sam Sheriff, Chief People and Places Officer, Allwyn (National Lottery UK)</p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Mark Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Allwyn (National Lottery UK)</p>\n<p><strong>11:30 am – 12:00 pm CASE STUDY: BUILDING THE CAPACITY TO EXPERIMENT</strong></p>\n<p><i>How Ericsson Is Turning AI Exploration into Organizational Learning and Future Capability</i></p>\n<p>As AI continues to evolve at a pace that outstrips traditional learning cycles, organizations face a new challenge: how do you prepare people for technologies, roles and ways of working that are still emerging?</p>\n<p>At Ericsson, Pauline Rebourgeon's work sits at the intersection of learning, emerging technology and AI adoption. Through a combination of experimentation, community-led innovation, simulations, coaching, peer learning and hands-on exploration, Ericsson is helping people discover where AI creates value while building the confidence and judgment needed to use it responsibly.</p>\n<p>This case study explores how learning can become a mechanism for experimentation, adaptation and capability building, helping people navigate uncertainty and prepare for an increasingly AI-enabled future.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating safe environments where people can test, question and learn through using AI</li>\n<li>Moving beyond formal AI training towards experimentation, simulations, role plays and practical problem solving</li>\n<li>Using community-led innovation to identify and test new approaches to learning, practice, coaching and capability development</li>\n<li>Identifying where AI creates meaningful value for learning, capability building and performance support</li>\n<li>Bringing together Learning, Talent, IT and AI teams to enable responsible experimentation and adoption</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Pauline Rebourgeon, Head of Learning Technology &amp; Innovation, Ericsson</p>\n<p><strong>12:00–12:30 pm MORNING SYNTHESIS: FROM CHALLENGES TO DECISION PRIORITIES</strong></p>\n<p>What is the room telling us and where should we focus next?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Areas of consensus, disagreement and uncertainty</li>\n<li>Which challenges will move into the afternoon labs</li>\n<li>Formation of small peer working groups based on shared priorities</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>12:30–2:00 pm EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LUNCH</strong></p>\n<p><strong>2:00–2:15 pm GETTING FUTURE READY: DECISION LAB ROUNDTABLE BRIEFINGS - FROM CHALLENGE TO DECISION</strong></p>\n<p>Gary introduces and welcomes roundtable workshop leaders and outlines the process for the afternoon: define the challenge, identify the barrier to future readiness, understand the stakeholder system, test assumptions, build a coalition, and commit to action for fast-tracking progress and growth:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Objectives, roles and success measures</li>\n<li>How the table recordings and anonymized insight capture will work</li>\n<li>Stakeholder role-play through the lens of the CFO, COO, CEO and other critical functions</li>\n<li>Ground rules for a candid, high-trust working environment</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>2:15 – 3:15 pm FUTURE READINESS DECISION LABS — CO-CREATION IN ACTION!</strong></p>\n<p>Small groups of approximately 6-8 delegates work together on the priority challenge clusters identified during the morning. The labs are practical and adaptive rather than a second series of panel discussions.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenge definition: what is the real decision that needs to be made?</li>\n<li>Stakeholder role-play: what would the CFO, COO, CEO, technology leader or employee challenge?</li>\n<li>Coalition of the willing: who must be aligned and how can leaders create shared ownership?</li>\n<li>Solved-case exchange: what has another organization already tried and what can be transferred?</li>\n<li>Black Swan stress test: how robust is the proposed approach when assumptions or external conditions change?</li>\n<li>Action design: what should be tested, stopped, accelerated or decided next?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>3.15 – 3.30 pm - Short Break</strong></p>\n<p><strong>3.30 – 4.00 pm OUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE SESSION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?</strong></p>\n<p><i>Turning the Day's Collective Experience Into Practical Lessons for Future Readiness</i></p>\n<p>After a day of sharing experiences, testing challenges, and working through decisions together, this session brings the room back together to identify what we have learned.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What did we learn that could change how we approach our own challenges?</li>\n<li>Which barriers and readiness gaps appeared consistently across organizations?</li>\n<li>What approaches have organizations already tried and what can others learn from them?</li>\n<li>Where did different perspectives challenge our assumptions or change the way we saw the problem?</li>\n<li>Which practical actions, experiments or approaches are worth taking back into our organizations?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</p>\n<p><strong>4:00 – 4.30 pm CLOSING SESSION: BUILDING THE FUTURE READINESS BLUEPRINT</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each delegate leaves with three commitments:</li>\n<li>One decision to make</li>\n<li>One action or experiment to launch within 30 days</li>\n<li>One capability or coalition to strengthen over the next year</li>\n</ul>\n<p><i>Every contribution from the day will be synthesized into the <strong>Future Readiness Blueprint Report 2026</strong> sent out to all attendees shortly after the event.</i></p>\n<p><strong>Moderator: Gary Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University</strong></p>\n\n### UNLEASH HR 2030 Summit\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=2c00fb37-e43f-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-20T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-20T12:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Shangri-La | Le Grand Salon\n- Format: summit\n- Track / sub-event: joshbersinmasterclass\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Sara Pelster (Senior Manager, Solutions & Advisory, The Josh Bersin Company), Christoph Bonert (Senior Advisory, UK & EMEA, The Josh Bersin Company), David Morris (Senior Advisor, UK & EMEA, The Josh Bersin Company), Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company), William Pelster (Co-Founder, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: <p>This workshop will take participants through an immersive exercise where we envision HR in 2030 and then examine key components that will be needed to bring the vision to reality.  Topics will include:  Understanding Agents, the Role of Humans, Operating Model, Performance Management, and other associated topics. The team will use real-life examples to help participants understand how HR 2030 will be impacted.</p>\n\n<p>Walk away with research-backed frameworks, real-world case studies, and a clear roadmap for building an HR function that's leaner, smarter, and built for what's next.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Agenda at a Glance:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>09:00 - 09:30| Registration and Coffee</li>\n<li>09:30 - 09:45| Welcome Address</li>\n<li>09:45 - 10:10| Keynote</li>\n<li>10:10 - 10:25 | Coffee & Networking Break</li>\n<li>10:25 - 11:55 | Immersive Workshop </li>\n<li>11:55 - 12:30 | Closing Remarks </li>\n<li>12:30 - 13:00 | Lunch break sponsored by UKG </li>\n</ul>\n<p>In this summit, you'll discuss:</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Big Transformation Picture and the Impact of Agents</strong></p>\n<p>The HR profession is facing its most significant shift in a generation. Josh opens with the HR 2030 vision - unpacking what agentic AI really means for HR, why superagents are a fundamentally different bet than point solutions, and how the world's most forward-thinking companies are already pulling ahead.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Where AI Is Driving Real Transformation - Right Now</strong></p>\n<p>AI isn't disrupting every corner of HR equally. Learn how the seven HR superagents are reshaping the function end to end, and how to find the right starting point for your organization - no matter where you are today.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Learning Revolution: From Content Library to Dynamic Enablement</strong></p>\n<p>The era of pushing courses and hoping something sticks is over. Understand how AI is transforming L&D into a real-time, hyper personalized capability engine - embedded directly in the flow of work. Including a look at digital twins, the four maturity levels reshaping the field, and what it actually takes to become an AI-first learning organization.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Talent Acquisition and Contact Centers: The Agentic Takeover</strong></p>\n<p>Recruiting and HR service delivery are being completely reinvented. Learn how AI superagents are compressing weeks-long hiring processes into minutes, what the recruiter role looks like when it's truly empowered by AI, and how the best organizations are delivering frictionless employee experiences at scale.</p>\n\n<p><strong>HRBPs and Digital Twins: The Strategic Upgrade</strong></p>\n<p>Contrary to popular fear, the HRBP role isn't disappearing - it's becoming more powerful than ever. Explore how digital twins and AI are elevating HR Business Partners into high-impact strategic advisors, and why organizations tackling the most complex transformations are betting big on this evolution.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The New HR Operating Model: Ratios, Metrics, and the Role of Humans</strong></p>\n<p>What does the HR org chart actually look like in 2030? Dive deep into the hard numbers - new headcount ratios, structural shifts, the roles that are emerging, and the success metrics that will replace the old ones. Plus: a clear-eyed look at where human judgment remains irreplaceable, and how to design for it.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Open Q&A and Closing Remarks</strong></p>\n\n### ExecTASocial Orbit Tour\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d8040ba6-6771-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-20T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-20T13:30:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Shangri-La | Le Salon de Famille\n- Format: summit\n- Track / sub-event: exectasocialorbit\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition\n- Speakers: Dionne Atwill (CEO & Founder, ExecTASocial), Kevin Blair (SVP Talent Orchestration DDN, Co Founder ExecTASocial & Neurovirse)\n- Description: We are thrilled to partner with ExecTASocial to bring an elite, global gathering of Talent Acquisition leaders to Paris this October.\n \nThe Orbit Tour is a fully immersive, collaborative experience designed specifically for senior Heads of TA. There are no wrong rooms and no mismatched levels; you will be on your feet, working directly alongside global peers who face the exact same strategic pressures and leadership challenges that you do.\n \nInstead of generic concepts, the focus is entirely on real action plans. We are diving straight into problem-solving, ensuring you leave not just with inspiration, but with a concrete, actionable \"HOW-TO\" to add to your roadmap the very next day. While this event proudly celebrates the official launch of the new ExecTASocial Paris community, we are opening the doors to leaders joining us globally from San Francisco to Singapore, Sydney, and beyond. After an impactful morning of strategy at the Shangri-La, you will step straight into the epicenter of HR innovation at UNLEASH World for the next two days.\n\n### Workhuman Forum\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=8e688df1-777f-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-20T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-20T19:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Terminal 7\n- Format: summit\n- Track / sub-event: workhumanforum\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Holly Ransom (Leadership Expert, Bestselling Author, and CEO, Emergent Global), Gianpiero Petriglieri (Expert on Leadership & Learning in the Workplace and Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD), Dr. Susan David (Leading Management Thinker, Bestselling Author & Award-Winning Psychologist, Harvard Medical School), KeyAnna Schmiedl (Chief Human Experience Officer, Workhuman), Wendy Bounds (SVP & Head of Content, WSJ Leadership Institute), Amanda Poole (Chief People Officer, Bristol Myers Squibb), Eric Mosley (Founder, CEO & Board Member, Workhuman)\n- Description: <p>This exclusive, complimentary event brings together 300+ executives from leading organizations to explore the ideas, technologies, and strategies defining what's next in work. No fluff. Just substance.</p>\n<p><b>Agenda at a Glance:</b></p>\n<p>12:15 - 13:00 | Registration and Networking Lunch</p>\n<p>13:00 - 13:15 | Welcome Address</p>\n<p>13:15 - 13:55 | Keynote</p>\n<p>13:55 - 14:40 | Keynote</p>\n<p>14:40 - 16:00 | Coffee & Networking Break</p>\n<p>16:00 - 16:40 | Panel Discussion</p>\n<p>16:40 - 17:25 | Fireside Chat</p>\n<p>17:30 - 19:00 | Book Signing & Networking</p>\n<p><b>Detailed Agenda:</b></p>\n<p>12:15 - 13:00 | Registration and Networking Lunch</p>\n<p>13:00 - 13:15 - Welcome Address by Holly Ramson</p>\n<p>13:15 - 13:55 - Humanizing Leadership to Grow Through Change</p>\n<p>Transformation rarely fails because leaders lack a clear vision or a sound strategy. It fails because their organizations struggle to bring the vision to life and put the strategy to work. While they might understand the rationale for transformation, people cannot muster the focused energy to challenge and change habits, norms, and familiar ways of working. Trust erodes, connections loosen, performance falters, and the transformation effort stalls.</p>\n<p>The reason that happens so often, INSEAD professor Gianpiero Petriglieri believes, is that traditional, somewhat mechanical models of leadership get in the way of understanding and working with the human layers of transformations. We must humanize leadership - how we understand, portray, and practice it - if we aspire to get what human work is and do it well. The leaders who bring transformation to life are those who come alive first.</p>\n<p>In this interactive session, Gianpiero will share a blueprint for humanizing leadership to foster the development of people, communities, organizations, and cultures as a whole.</p>\n<p>Together, you'll explore:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Common reactions to the imperative to transform</li>\n<li>The difference between mechanistic and humanistic views of leadership</li>\n<li>Why humanizing leadership is the key that unlocks lasting transformation</li>\n<li>How we can develop and sustain that kind of leadership in our daily work</li>\n</ul>\n<p>You'll leave with a clearer sense of what it means to build work relations, teams, and organizations that don't just cope well with change but truly grow through it.</p>\n<p><b><i>Speaker: Gianpiero Petriglieri, Expert on Leadership & Learning in the Workplace and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD</i></b></p>\n<p>13:55 - 14:40 - The Human Signals Shaping the Next Era of Work</p>\n<p>AI has flattened the workforce landscape even faster than expected. Tools, skills, and AI capabilities are converging, and yet execution gaps are widening. In this keynote, Workhuman Founder and CEO, Eric Mosley, argues that most organizations are rich in data but poor in signal, especially when it comes to understanding how work gets done, where leadership is emerging, and whether people are truly aligned around strategy. In a world where technical capabilities are increasingly interchangeable, competitive differentiation has shifted to human contribution: collaboration, judgment, influence, and leadership in motion.</p>\n<p><b><i>Speaker: Eric Mosley, Founder, CEO & Board Member, Workhuman</i></b></p>\n<p>14:40 - 16:00 - Coffee & Networking Break</p>\n<p>16:00 - 16:40 - The Change-Capable Organization: Chief People Officers on Leading Transformation</p>\n<p>The principles are clear. The pressure to apply them is mounting fast.</p>\n<p>In this moderated panel, the Wall Street Journal Chief People Officer Council brings together leaders for a candid conversation about what it takes to build a change-capable organization right now – one where trust runs deep, people stay at the center, and agility becomes a lived reality rather than a buzzword.</p>\n<p>This panel will explore:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What change-capable leadership demands from the CPO seat today</li>\n<li>How people leaders are building the human skills and cultures that make transformation stick under pressure</li>\n<li>Where change stalls, and what separates organizations that adapt quickly from those that fall behind</li>\n</ul>\n<p>These leaders will leave you with a ground-level view of how they are building organizations ready to move now, before the next disruption hits.</p>\n<p><b><i>Speakers: KeyAnna Schmiedl, Chief Human Experience Officer, Workhuman</i></b></p>\n<p><b><i>Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds, SVP & Head of Content, WSJ Leadership Institute</i></b></p>\n<p><b><i>Amanda Poole, Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb</i></b></p>\n<p>16:40 - 17:25 - Where Transformation Breaks or Builds: A Conversation with Dr. Susan David</p>\n<p>Technologies advance. Markets shift. Yet organizations still too often approach change as a series of initiatives rather than a permanent operating reality. The result? Burnout, stalled transformation, and teams left wondering whether they can do it all again.</p>\n<p>In this in-conversation session, Harvard Medical School psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Susan David will discuss why, while everyone’s talking about the AI revolution, the real competitive advantage is Emotional Agility – a science-backed, learnable set of skills that enables people to navigate complexity with courage, adapt to uncertainty, and turn strategy into sustained organizational capability. Because agile organizations are built by agile people.</p>\n<p>Susan will share:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why transformation succeeds or fails at the human level</li>\n<li>What Emotional Agility is and why it matters more than ever</li>\n<li>How to lead with courage, steadiness, and values when circumstances are uncertain</li>\n<li>Why agile people are the foundation of agile organizations</li>\n</ul>\n<p>By the end, you’ll have a practical understanding of why Emotional Agility is the human capability behind every successful transformation and how you can begin cultivating it within yourself, your teams, and your organizations.</p>\n<p><b><i>Moderator: Holly Ramson, Leadership Expert, Bestselling Author, and CEO, Emergent Global</i></b></p>\n<p><b><i>Speaker: Dr. Susan David, Leading Management Thinker, Bestselling Author & Award-Winning Psychologist, Harvard Medical School</i></b></p>\n<p>17:30 - 19:00 - Book Signing & Networking</p>\n\n### UNLEASH AI Summit\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=27929e64-d73f-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-20T12:30:00 -> 2026-10-20T16:30:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Shangri-La | Le Grand Salon\n- Format: summit\n- Track / sub-event: unleashaisummit\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Stacia Garr (Co-founder and Principal Analyst, RedThread Research)\n- Description: <p>Artificial intelligence is moving quickly, but many organizations are still trying to answer the same questions. Where should we focus? What should we prioritize? How do we move from experimentation to scale? And what does successful AI transformation actually require in the mid to long term?</p>\n<p>The UNLEASH AI Summit is an immersive, workshop-led experience designed for leadership teams responsible for AI strategy, workforce transformation and business outcomes. Bringing together leaders across HR, technology, data and digital transformation, the summit creates space to learn, work and make decisions together.</p>\n<p>Combining practical frameworks, peer discussion and hands-on sessions, attendees will refine their own roadmap for AI transformation, building capability and deploying AI at scale.</p>\n<p>Because AI transformation is not a technology project. It is a leadership challenge.</p>\n<p><strong>Agenda-at-a-glance</strong></p><ul>\n<li>12:30 – 13:00 | Grab &amp; Go Lunch</li>\n<li>13:00 – 13:15 | Welcome Address</li>\n<li>13:15 – 15:00 | Immersive Workshop</li>\n<li>15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee &amp; Networking</li>\n<li>15:15 – 16:30 | Immersive Workshop</li>\n<li>16:25 – 16:30 | Closing Remarks</li>\n</ul>\n\n### L'Oréal Expedition: Creating Beauty, Connecting People, Shaping the Future: How Does L'Oréal Champion Social Innovation After 100 years?\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=9d2b47ca-c0a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Description: Discover how L'Oréal, the global beauty leader, fosters an inspiring and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. Explore our innovative HR initiatives focusing on social impact, youth empowerment, and staying true to our culture of a people-driven organization. \n\nStep inside L'Oréal's global Research & Innovation headquarters and our advanced laboratories, spaces designed to encapsulate our culture, and experience how a company with a century-long legacy stays at the forefront of social impact. This is an opportunity to talk with L’Oréal’s top HR executives who are driving change from within. Engage in conversations about their vision, challenges, and innovative approaches, including empowering youth and shaping the future of work. This is your chance to glean actionable insights, forge lasting connections, and leave inspired to ignite positive change within your own organization. \n\nAddress: 9 Rue Pierre Dreyfus, 93400 Clichy \n\n### Danone Expedition: The Human Edge in the Age of AI: How Danone is Reinventing Leadership and Skills\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c112b1a7-d4a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Tami Nutt (Principal Advisor, Tami Nutt Advisory)\n- Description: <p>How do you reinvent leadership, capabilities and employability in an AI-powered world? Discover how Danone is transforming into a skills-based organization, equipping leaders and employees to thrive through continuous upskilling, AI adoption and responsible leadership.</p>\n<p>As AI reshapes industries at unprecedented speed, organizations must rethink leadership, skills, and workforce transformation. Join Danone's HR leaders for an inside look at how a global company is building a future-ready workforce where leadership, continuous learning and AI-powered capabilities become key drivers of business performance and long-term employability.</p>\n<p><strong>Participants will explore:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Danone is transforming into a Skills-Based Organization, making skills the backbone of talent, workforce and business decisions.</li>\n<li>How leadership is evolving from managing people to enabling adaptability, learning and transformation in an AI era.</li>\n<li>How Danone is accelerating AI literacy and capability building through dedicated Digital, Data &amp; AI Academies and partnerships with technology leaders.</li>\n<li>How continuous upskilling, reskilling and internal mobility strengthen employability while supporting business growth.</li>\n<li>What it takes to foster a culture where Performance AND Responsibility remain at the heart of leadership and innovation.</li>\n</ul>\nSpeakers:\nDessislava Miteva,  SVP HR EMEA Zone, Danone\nEmmanuelle Tingaud, SVP HR Global Functions, Danone\nAxel de Billy, SVP, Total Rewards, HR Corporate Governance & OD, Danone\nNora Iskandar, VP Global Talent, Danone\nChetna Mangalik, SVP HR COE & HR Global Functions, Danone Group\n\nAddress: 59-61 Rue LaFayette, Paris\n\n### Schneider Electric Expedition: From Jobs to Skills: Reinventing Careers at Scale\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c7ed3dd1-d5a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Description: <p>As work transforms faster than ever, leading organizations are moving beyond traditional job frameworks. Schneider Electric has redesigned its entire workforce model around skills—bringing clarity to roles, accelerating development, and enabling people to navigate careers with greater agility and impact.</p>\n<p>In this session, we will cover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shift from static job descriptions to dynamic, skills-based roles</li>\n<li>Multi-dimensional project and change management</li>\n<li>The new backbone: Global Career Architecture and Career Hub</li>\n<li>Transparency, clarity and ownership for Employees</li>\n</ul>\nSpeaker: Dominique Laurent, Human Resources Senior Vice President, Europe Operations, Schneider Electric, Member of the Europe Executive Committee\n\nAddress: 35 rue Joseph Monier, 92500 Rueil‑Malmaison\n\n### AXA Expedition: Lead from Within: Igniting Leadership to Drive Sustainable Transformation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=043b0ca9-d6a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing\n- Speakers: Rebecca Wettemann (CEO and Principal Analyst, Valoir)\n- Description: This practice, delivered in-house by our internal professionals, ensures that leadership development remains deeply rooted in AXA's context and culture.\n \nAt the heart of this journey lies a dilemma-based approach: rather than offering ready-made answers, together we explore the real tensions the leaders face in their daily role, for example, balancing short-term performance and long-term transformation, or individual autonomy and collective alignment. By using these tensions as a mirror, we invite authentic reflection on how they personally navigate trade-offs, making them more conscious of their choices, their impact, and their alignment with AXA's purpose.\n \nBeyond individual reflection, we conduct a collective assessment of our organizational culture offering a mirror on our leadership effectiveness. This collective intelligence transforms personal insights into shared understanding, revealing patterns in how we lead, where our cultural strengths converge, and where development opportunities emerge across the organization. By aggregating individual journeys, we gain a systemic view of our leadership landscape, identifying both the collective mindsets that drive our performance and the blind spots that may hinder our transformation.\n \nCulture change fails when it is preached from the top but not embodied. Starting with our leaders' own self-awareness reverses that pattern: it makes transformation credible, contagious, and measurable. Deployed systemically from the top, this approach accelerates our ability to adapt to a changing world. Leaders become the role models of the mindset shift we want to see across the organization, turning individual insight into collective momentum.\n \nIn a context of rising complexity and societal expectations, leaders who can navigate dilemmas with clarity and humility become AXA's most valuable strategic asset and the fastest route to a resilient, aligned, high-performing culture.\n\nSpeakers:\nKarima Silvent, Group HRD, AXA\nEmmanuel Touzeau, Group Deputy HRD, AXA\n\nAddress: 21 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris, France\n\n### Thales Expedition: Thales’ global Skills-Based Learning Company to create trust and performance\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f605f861-d7a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development\n- Speakers: Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures)\n- Description: <p>50,000 new recruits over the last 5 years and a fast-growing market amidst geopolitical tensions and technologies evolving at speed; Thales had to rethink how to develop and retain critical skills.</p>\n<p>This interactive session will allow you to get a view of Group's strategic outlook, its technological priorities and the HR transformation that underpins both.</p>\n<p>Thales leaders will share how the company, through its Skills Management System, its 40 academies and its learning methods, has driven its transformation, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing, embedded into every part of the business.</p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insight into the strategic and technological context shaping Thales</li>\n<li>Thales's HR roadmap to 2030</li>\n<li>Learning company ecosystem: Skills Management System, academies and learning methods at the heart of business entities; how does it work?</li>\n<li>Lessons learnt from a company rolling out a skills-based approach at scale and defining large-scale investment priorities</li>\n<li>The ROI of a skills-based learning company: how to leverage the data and what it tells us about the link between development, retention and innovation</li>\n</ul>\nSpeakers:\nPierre Schaeffer, Thales\nPierre Fossier, Thales\nClément de Villepin, Thales Group\n\nAddress: 4 rue de la Verrerie, 92190 Meudon sur Seine \n\n### ENGIE Expedition: Inside ENGIE: Building the Workforce Behind the Best Energy Transition Utility\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=2439070f-d8a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Anita Lettink (Managing Partner, HRTechRadar)\n- Description: Join ENGIE as they reveal their practical \"recipe\" for a future-ready workforce. Discover how the combination of AI, data-driven planning, and streamlined operations supports their ambition to lead the energy transition.\n\nThis exclusive session brings together leading HR executives to share how ENGIE is building a future-ready workforce. We will unveil our practical “recipe” combining AI, data-driven workforce planning, and streamlined HR processes, designed to support our ambition to become the best energy transition utility by 2030. A space to exchange, challenge, and co inspire on what truly works in shaping the workforce of tomorrow.\n\nSpeaker: Jean Sebastien Blanc, Executive VP in charge of Human Resources and Corporate, Engie\n\nAddress: 67 Rue Jules Ferry, 92250 La Garenne-Colombes \n\n### Sanofi Expedition: Building Healthcare's Next Generation of Innovators: How Sanofi is Evolving its People & Culture Function \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=6e50d2b8-d8a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Kyle Lagunas (Founder and Principal Analyst, Kyle & Co.)\n- Description: <p>Step inside Sanofi's Paris headquarters and discover how one of the world's leading biopharmaceutical companies is continuously evolving its People &amp; Culture function to stay future-fit and deliver value to the business. In this immersive half-day experience, you'll explore Sanofi's shift to a skills-based organization, see how AI is transforming people analytics and the R&amp;D workforce, and engage in honest peer-to-peer exchange on what it takes to lead a modern, agile HR function.</p>\n<p>Speakers:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florence Cauvet (Chief Labor Strategy &amp; Social Innovation Officer)</li>\n<li>Alexandra Masanes (Global Head of People, General Medicines)</li>\n<li>Véronique Jaillet (Chief People Officer ad interim)</li>\n<li>Audrey Clegg (Chief Talent &amp; Learning officer)</li>\n<li>Rohit Joshi (Head of Senior Executives, Talent Management)</li>\n<li>Henrik Håkansson (Global Head of People Insights &amp; AI)</li>\n<li>Daniele Raugi (Global Head of People, R&amp;D)</li>\n<li>Anne Olivier (Head of Organizational Development R&amp;D)</li>\n<li>Christian Airiau (Global Head of CMC Data Sciences &amp; Analytics)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Address: 46 Avenue de la Grande Armée, 75017 Paris, France</p>\n\n### Sodexo Expedition: The Experience Advantage: Winning the Talent Battle Through Workplace Experience\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c5a8b0fb-d9a2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing\n- Speakers: Agnes Park (Chief Human Resources Officer, Board Member, Sodexo), Inna Lim (Global Head of Strategic Marketing, Sodexo)\n- Description: <p>Workplace experience is no longer just a facilities issue—it is a talent strategy. Join HR leaders to discuss how organizations can create environments that strengthen attraction, engagement, retention, and business performance.</p>\n<p>HR leaders invest heavily in culture, leadership, learning, and wellbeing—but how often do we consider the role workplace experience plays in shaping them all?</p>\n<p>Through a real-world case study, <strong>Agnes Park</strong>, Group CHRO, and <strong>Inna Lim</strong>, Global Head of Strategic Marketing, will facilitate an interactive discussion on how workplace experience influences attraction, engagement, retention, and performance. Drawing on insights from Sodexo WRX, participants will exchange perspectives, compare approaches, and reflect on how their own organizations can better connect culture, workplace, wellbeing, and employee experience. Participants will be invited to share experiences, challenge assumptions, and identify practical actions they can apply within their own organizations.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why workplace experience is emerging as a critical factor in attracting, engaging, and retaining talent.</li>\n<li>Which elements of workplace experience have the greatest impact on employee engagement, belonging, and performance.</li>\n<li>How leading organizations are connecting culture, workplace design, wellbeing, and services into a cohesive employee experience.</li>\n<li>Examples and practical approaches being used today to create workplaces that people actively choose to be part of.</li>\n<li>The one or two actions participants can take back to their organizations to strengthen workplace experience and talent outcomes.</li>\n</ul>\nSpeakers:\nAgnes Park, Chief Human Resources Officer, Board Member, Sodexo\nInna Lim, Global Head of Strategic Marketing, Sodexo\n\n<p>Address: 255 quai de Stalingrad, 92866 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Cedex 9</p>\n\n### Accor Expedition: The Future of Guest Experience: What Must Remain Human in the AI Era\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=233c3cd5-b6aa-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-20T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T21:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Other\n- Format: expedition\n- Track / sub-event: unleashexpeditions\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris)\n- Description: <p>As AI becomes increasingly embedded in customer experiences, organizations must decide what technology should automate and what must remain human. This immersive Learning Expedition at an Accor hotel explores how people, processes and technology shape the guest journey, revealing how organizations can automate the ordinary while humanizing the moments that matter most.</p>\n\nAddress: Novotel: 4 avenue de la Porte de la Plaine, 75015 Paris\n<p><b>Participants will:</b></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience hospitality through the eyes of a guest</li>\n<li>Observe how AI, automation and human interaction intersect across the guest journey</li>\n<li>Identify opportunities to reduce friction and enhance personalization</li>\n<li>Explore the uniquely human capabilities that drive exceptional experiences</li>\n<li>Reflect on how to balance efficiency, empathy and connection in the AI era</li>\n</ul>\n\n### UNLEASH Kickoff Party\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=4ac221a2-7da0-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-20T18:00:00 -> 2026-10-20T20:00:00\n- Day: Tuesday 20 October 2026\n- Room: Le Perchoir Porte de Versailles\n- Format: networking\n- Track / sub-event: other\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Description: Get ready for an unforgettable start to UNLEASH in Paris! On 20 October, we’re transforming the Paris skyline into the backdrop for an exclusive party, bringing together 150 HR trailblazers from around the world.\n\nThanks to Personio, we’re kicking off UNLEASH in style!\n\n### UNLEASH 100  Summit\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=470ed9cd-e8b8-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Terminal 7\n- Format: summit\n- Track / sub-event: unleash100summit\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Ronni Zehavi (CEO, HiBob), Andreas De Neve (Co-founder & CEO, TechWolf), Chris Bruce (CEO and Co-founder, Origin), Rebecca Carr (HCM Product Leader, SAP, CEO, SmartRecruiters), Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: <p>This is not about long speeches, advertorial content, or disruptive audience Q&amp;A. It is an opportunity to take a break from the show floor and spend a focused two hours with direct peers. Together, the group will assess the state of the market and determine the business-critical decisions for the next 12 months.</p>\n<p>Are incumbents genuinely being displaced, or is the \"SaaS apocalypse\" mostly noise, layering, and aggressive marketing? How can we grasp the reality of the situation? In that context, what must every CEO build, buy, partner around, rebuild - or stop doing - before 2027?</p>\n<p>This is the purpose of the UNLEASH 100: the right people in the room driving the right conversations to inform the right decisions.</p>\n<p><strong>Agenda at a glance:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>09:00-09:30 | Café d'accueil et viennoiseries</li>\n<li>09:30-10:00 | Panel one - The SaaS apocalypse: who has actually been replaced?</li>\n<li>10:00-10:30 | Panel two - Build, buy, partner - or stop</li>\n<li>10:30-11:00 | Networking and curated introductions</li>\n<li>11:00 | Close</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>09:30-10:00 Panel Discussion: The SaaS apocalypse: who has actually been replaced?</strong></p>\n<p>Our opening 30-minute panel will centre on the incumbents, the insurgents, and the evidence behind the noise. This is about defining genuine market disruption and what that really means for incumbents. It is about demystifying AI positioning and realizing AI revenue. And it is about recognizing intercontinental challenges and opportunities as we look from UNLEASH in Paris to UNLEASH in Miami. Critically, our panellists will conclude the session by stating where they see the next threat coming around the corner.</p>\n<p>Speakers:</p>\n<p>Thomas Otter, General Partner, <strong>Acadian Ventures</strong></p>\n<p>Chris Bruce, Co-founder and CEO, <strong>Origin</strong></p>\n<p>Andreas De Neve, Co-founder and CEO, <strong>TechWolf</strong></p>\n<p><strong>10:00-10:30 Panel Discussion: Build, buy, partner - or stop</strong></p>\n<p>Following directly from the first panel, this second session has an explicit remit: based on the conclusions already made in the room, what decisions must be made now to ensure sustained success in 2027 and beyond? Our second set of panellists will frame the six decisions every work-technology CEO must make for 2027, including: what we must own, what we should buy or partner for, and what we must stop doing.</p>\n<p>Speakers:</p>\n<p>Josh Bersin, Founder and CEO, <strong>The Josh Bersin Company</strong></p>\n<p>Rebecca Carr, CEO, <strong>SmartRecruiters</strong></p>\n<p>Ronni Zehavi, Co-founder and CEO, <strong>HiBob</strong></p>\n\n### Employees First in the Age of AI\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cfeeb661-c443-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T09:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris), Vineet Nayar (Founder, Sampark Foundation)\n- Description: <p>When Vineet Nayar inverted the corporate pyramid at HCL Technologies putting employees above customers, transparency above hierarchy and trust above control it challenged how organisations think about value creation.  Today, as AI reshapes work that question becomes more urgent where does value actually sit and what is HR responsible for building. Vineet is the author of the forthcoming book <b>'Humans First, Machines Second: 30 Sparks to Reimagine Winning in the Age of AI'</b> (released mid-2026). The book is anchored in the idea that \"AI will not transform organizations until leaders are willing to redesign how humans create value.\" His previous book, <span>Employees First, Customers Second, published by Harvard Business Press, was a global bestseller with over 100,000 copies sold.</span></p>\n<p>This keynote will draw on large scale transformation experiences across both enterprise and education. The session focuses on what it takes to design organizations where people do the work AI cannot and where HR plays a central role in shaping that system.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarify where value sits in your organization and decide what HR must own versus influence as AI reshapes decision making</li>\n<li>Redesign work beyond roles and tasks shifting towards capability systems that prioritize judgment, problem solving and adaptability</li>\n<li>Define what human advantage means in your business and where to invest in skills that AI cannot replicate at scale</li>\n<li>Rethink frontline leadership and transparency enabling managers to act as decision makers not just executors of central strategy</li>\n<li>Make the shift from reskilling to capability strategy deciding what to stop, start and fundamentally redesign to stay competitive</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How Ryanair Is Deploying AI at Scale While Competing in One of Europe's Toughest Markets\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1b5a07e8-ea84-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T09:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: keynote\n- Keynote session: yes\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Eddie Wilson (CEO, Ryanair)\n- Description: <p>In this keynote, CEO Eddie Wilson shares how Ryanair has moved beyond experimentation to implementing optimization and machine learning solutions along with the deployment of AI agents across the business, which is driving greater efficiency, productivity, and faster decision-making. This is a story of execution at scale, and the continuous development for next level productivity which is critical as the business continues to grow.</p>\n\n<p>For HR leaders, it raises critical questions: Is your organization AI ready and enabled? How do roles and operating models evolve? And what does leadership look like when humans and AI work side by side? This session cuts through the hype to explore what's working in practice and what type of organization it takes to embed AI at scale in a fast-moving, operational business.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>An AI journey which has only just started: Building a 'second workforce' of AI agents that complements, rather than replaces, human capability</li>\n<li>Making AI investments deliver measurable business value in a tighter economic and highly competitive environment</li>\n<li>Balancing shareholder expectations, operational efficiency and customer experience throughout AI transformation</li>\n<li>Controlling the narrative and leading organizational change so AI becomes part of the business, not a standalone technology project</li>\n<li>Redesigning roles, decision-making and operating models for a workforce of people and AI</li>\n<li>The Key Lessons to enable success: beyond experimentation to enterprise-wide execution</li>\n</ul>\n\n### AI Transformation: In Theory and Practice\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=8303e30f-5648-f111-8ef3-6045bd9548dc\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T09:35:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: keynote\n- Keynote session: yes\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Brian Glaser (Vice President & Chief Learning Officer, Google)\n- Description: <p>To fuel an AI transformation, leaders must balance not only how technology shifts but how people, processes, and culture adapt. In this fireside chat, we will map macro world trends directly to the messy reality of how Google is navigating this shift. We will explore how the role of the leader must evolve from an expert who holds all the answers to an explorer who fosters rapid experimentation. We will share practical lessons on embedding AI fluency, rethinking organizational workflows, and building a culture that rewards courageous failure.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>World and work trends: Understanding the geopolitical, demographic, and environmental forces accelerating the AI shift</li>\n<li>Google's unique POV: How one of the world's largest tech organizations serves as customer zero</li>\n<li>The human side of transformation: Why continuous reinvention is required to keep pace with technology</li>\n<li>Evolving leadership mindsets: How to shed the 'expert' label, reward the attempt, and redesign the system</li>\n<li>Co-intelligent teams: Integrating AI workflows to augment durable human skills like empathy, judgment, and collaboration</li>\n<li>Actionable takeaways: Practical moves you can make to accelerate adoption across your workforce</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How to be Prepared for What Comes Next? \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=4cb5043b-ab73-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T09:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Syed Ali Abbas (Global VP of People, HelloFresh), Samantha Sheriff (Chief People & Places Officer, Allwyn UK (National Lottery UK)), Eric Knauf (Senior Fellow, Human Capital Practice, The Conference Board), Monica Murer (VP People Experience & Services, Tommy Hilfiger & PVH)\n- Description: <p>As AI accelerates, most organisations remain focused on technology deployment rather than organisational preparedness. Yet the biggest determinant of future performance may not be the quality of the tools being implemented, but the readiness of the organisation itself. Leadership teams are now confronting far bigger questions than software selection. <p>\n<p>This session examines how leading organizations are redesigning governance, workforce models, decision-making structures and technology ecosystems to create organizations that are genuinely prepared for a fundamentally different world of work.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which assumptions about work, management and organizational design are becoming obsolete?</li>\n<li>What capabilities, roles and leadership behaviors will define competitive advantage over the next decade?</li>\n<li>How do we impassion the rest of the organization and particularly the team leaders across the business?</li>\n<li>Where should organizations automate, augment or redesign work entirely?</li>\n<li>How can HR leaders gather support, data and initiatives which reshape governance, accountability and decision rights?</li>\n<li>What must be modernized now and what should organizations stop investing in altogether?</li>\n<li>How do you measure organizational readiness before transformation programs fail to deliver value?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Workforce Readiness Starts with Skills Intelligence: From Data to Strategic Decision-Making\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1bea1d3a-ad90-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T09:40:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Vidhi Abbi (Lead Solutions Consultant, Docebo), Eric Janin (VP Product, 365Talents)\n- Description: <p>Most organizations have workforce plans. Few have the skills intelligence needed to make them actionable. As business priorities shift and AI accelerates workforce change, leaders need a clearer understanding of the capabilities they have today and the skills they'll need tomorrow.</p>\n<p>Discover how skills intelligence is enabling organizations to turn talent signals into strategic decisions before the market forces your hand.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build workforce plans that are grounded in real skills data rather than assumptions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify, map and activate workforce skills to support changing business priorities and future capability needs?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create a connected skills intelligence foundation that enables more agile workforce planning and better strategic decision-making?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how 365Talents and Docebo bring skills detection, workforce readiness, and strategic decision-making together, with a live demonstration of skills intelligence in action.</p>\n\n### Orchestrating Outcomes: Transforming Noise into Harmony\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f5c5a509-3f7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T09:40:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Risk, Compliance & Workforce Economics\n- Speakers: Sam Finley (Vice President / General Manager, ADP Lyric HCM, ADP)\n- Description: <p>Global work has become more connected and more complex. Organizations are balancing distributed workforces, changing regulations, AI-enabled processes and rising employee expectations, all while trying to operate with greater speed and confidence. Success increasingly depends on how well HR can orchestrate these moving parts into a single, connected operating model.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are simplifying workforce complexity by bringing people, data and operations together to create more agile, resilient and human-centered organizations.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an HR operating model that can adapt continuously to changing business and workforce demands?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we connect HR, payroll, workforce management and compliance to reduce complexity and improve organizational agility?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create the trusted data and technology foundations needed to support global work with greater confidence, security and consistency?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how ADP Lyric HCM brings together HR, payroll, workforce management, compliance and AI to help organizations orchestrate global work and respond more effectively to change.</p>\n\n### From Essential Work to Strategic Impact\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d5542d12-427c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T09:40:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Diana Nazarov (Senior Solutions Engineer, Personio), Lee Komeda (VP Product Marketing & Brand, Personio)\n- Description: <p>HR leaders are under growing pressure to deliver strategic value while continuing to manage the operational work that keeps organizations running. As expectations increase, the opportunity is not simply to automate individual tasks, but to redesign how HR operates freeing teams to focus on the decisions that have the greatest impact on people and business performance.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using AI to simplify the employee lifecycle, reduce administrative burden and enable HR to become a more strategic partner across the business.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we reduce operational complexity while increasing HR's strategic contribution?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which HR activities can be automated through AI, and where does human expertise deliver the greatest value?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an HR operating model that combines intelligent automation with trusted people data to improve employee and business outcomes?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Personio supports the full employee lifecycle through AI-powered recruiting, payroll, pay fairness and self-service, helping HR teams automate routine work while empowering managers and employees to do more independently.</p>\n\n### Moving Beyond ‘The Uncertainty Principle’: Leading When Everything Changes at Once\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1bf7e4a6-b155-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: keynote\n- Keynote session: yes\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation\n- Speakers: Peter Hinssen (Co-founder & Partner, nexxworks)\n- Description: <p>We are living through a once-in-a-generation acceleration. Not change that arrives every few years change that compounds every few weeks. The Never Normal isn't coming. It's already here, and it's moving faster than most leadership teams are willing to admit.</p>\n<p>As an exclusive for UNLEASH Paris, Peter Hinssen unveils new thoughts and insights for a radical and necessary reframe for HR leaders standing at the edge of a generational shift. With characteristic clarity, provocation and humor, Hinssen maps what happens when the cost of doing collapses to near zero, when scalable learning replaces scalable efficiency, and when entire industries are reshaped not over decades but over quarters. This is not a keynote about surviving disruption. It is a keynote about what you build when disruption is the permanent condition.</p>\n<p>A Silicon Valley founder recently told Peter Hinssen he had 300 employees. 30 of them are human. That moment says everything about where we are right now.</p>\n<p>In this keynote, Peter Hinssen introduces The Uncertainty Principle: the idea that in a world of quantum leaps and industry-wide reinvention, the leaders who win aren't the ones who manage uncertainty they're the ones who weaponize it. Volatility becomes velocity. Complexity becomes creative fuel. Disruption becomes the only real strategy.</p>\n<p>For HR and business leaders gathered in Paris, the question is urgent and uncomfortably simple: are you building a company designed for relentless change, or one that will be swallowed by it? Because by 2040, the organizations still standing won't be the strongest or the smartest. They'll be the ones who picked up the signals before they were obvious and moved before they had permission.</p>\n<p><i>Peter Hinssen confronts the moment we can no longer ignore. This isn't disruption as usual. This is a once-in-a-generation acceleration and most organizations are still asking the wrong questions.</i></p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why this is a once-in-a-generation acceleration moment - and what that actually demands of leaders</li>\n<li>How to weaponize uncertainty before your competitors do</li>\n<li>Why the 300/30 reality is closer than most boardrooms want to believe</li>\n<li>Scalable learning as the new competitive moat</li>\n<li>Building organizations wired for anticipation, adaptability, and resilience - not transformation as a one-time event</li>\n<li>The holy trinity of the Never Normal: what it means in practice in 2026 and beyond</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From Mission Critical to Business Critical:  What NASA Can Teach Us About AI, Talent and Human Judgement\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=3ac1c64b-5b7f-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Bob Gibbs (Associate Administrator MSD, Chief Human Capital Officer, NASA (retired))\n- Description: <p>From recruiting astronauts who can spend months together in isolation to assembling teams capable of landing on the Moon, exploring Mars and solving problems no one has encountered before, NASA has spent decades answering questions that every organization is now beginning to face.</p>\n<p>The future of talent isn't simply about hiring faster. It's about identifying potential before it is visible, building teams that thrive under pressure, preparing for jobs that don't yet exist and ensuring people and AI work together when the stakes are highest. After all, if little green men did appear tomorrow, your hiring process probably isn't ready for them.</p>\n<p>Join former NASA Associate Administrator Robert Gibbs as he explores what every business can learn from one of the world's most mission-critical organizations.</p>\n<p>In this session, you'll discover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What 'mission critical thinking' looks like and how leaders can apply it to building future-ready organizations on Earth</li>\n<li>Why hiring for curiosity, adaptability and judgment increasingly matters more than hiring for experience alone</li>\n<li>How NASA identifies talent for missions that may not launch for another decade and what this teaches us about Strategic Workforce Planning</li>\n<li>Where AI agents can transform sourcing, workforce planning and talent decisions and where human judgment must remain firmly in control</li>\n<li>What recruiting astronauts reveals about resilience, collaboration, trust and leadership under extreme pressure</li>\n<li>How to build teams capable of solving problems that have never existed before in an age where AI is changing every role</li>\n<li>Why the organizations that thrive won't simply automate recruitment, but will redesign how humans and AI make better decisions together</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From Experimentation to Enterprise Execution\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=92d66397-4175-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Speakers: James Proctor (Chief Commercial Officer, Phase 3)\n- Description: <p>Agentic AI becomes much more consequential when it moves beyond experimentation and into the systems organizations depend upon every day. Across HR, payroll and finance, agents are beginning to move from answering questions and generating insights towards initiating workflows, identifying exceptions and helping people take action.</p>\n<p>But moving from experimentation to execution creates a new set of choices. Should organizations build their own agents, buy capabilities embedded within existing platforms or extend what they already have? Where does customization create genuine advantage and where does it simply add complexity, cost and risk?</p>\n<p>These decisions become particularly important in business-critical environments where accuracy, trusted data, controls and accountability matter. As agents become more capable, organizations also need to determine where they can act independently and where human judgment needs to remain in the loop.</p>\n<p>In this session you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where agentic AI can genuinely improve HR, payroll and finance operations beyond simple automation</li>\n<li>How to approach the build, buy or extend decision and determine where bespoke capability is worth the investment</li>\n<li>What changes when AI moves from providing information to initiating actions across interconnected systems</li>\n<li>Why trusted data, integration, governance and system architecture are important foundations for agentic AI</li>\n<li>How organizations can move from isolated experimentation towards scalable enterprise execution while maintaining appropriate human oversight</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From AI Readiness to AI Capability\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=181284c0-ae85-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:35:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Brian Glaser (Vice President & Chief Learning Officer, Google), Jess Von Bank (Co-Founder, Now To Next), Marci Paino (VP & Chief Learning Officer, Cisco)\n- Description: <p>Many organizations are investing heavily in AI technologies while underinvesting in the human capabilities needed to make those investments successful. The challenge is no longer access to AI. It is creating the conditions, skills, operating models and leadership behaviors required to scale its impact.</p>\n<p>Join two of the world's leading learning and workforce transformation leaders as they discuss how organizations can move beyond experimentation and create sustainable capability at enterprise scale.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Embedding an AI-ready mindset before automation makes the decision for you</li>\n<li>Why literacy alone is not enough and how to develop workforce judgment</li>\n<li>Importance of cross-functional partnerships.</li>\n<li>Overcoming misalignment between HR, IT and business leaders</li>\n<li>Redesigning roles, teams and operating models for human and AI collaboration</li>\n<li>Creating a culture of continuous reinvention without overwhelming employees</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Employees Expect Personalization. Why Are We Still Offering Static Benefits Platforms?  \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=6ddd95f4-407c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Jon Bryant (Global Head of Employee Experience, Aon)\n- Description: <p>Employees increasingly expect workplace experiences that are as personalized as the services they use every day. Yet many organizations still rely on static benefits platforms that treat every employee the same, limiting engagement and reducing the impact of reward investments.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using AI and workforce data to create more personalized Total Rewards experiences, helping employees make better decisions while enabling employers to maximize the value of their investment in people.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond one-size-fits-all benefits to create more personalized reward experiences?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can AI help employees make better decisions while improving engagement with Total Rewards?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a reward strategy that combines personalization, data and technology to deliver greater value for both employees and the business?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how AI-powered Total Rewards platforms are helping organizations deliver personalized experiences at scale, increase engagement and transform benefits into a more strategic driver of workforce performance.</p>\n\n### Cut the Hidden Cost of the HR and IT Platforms You Already Own\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d9708802-4784-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Jonathon Luplow (Senior Manager – HRIT, WillScot)\n- Description: Enterprise platforms cost more to run than their license fee. Manual configuration, drift, and audit prep quietly drain budgets. See how automation cuts that hidden cost across SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, Workday, and ServiceNow .\n\nMost organizations track license cost, but the real spend on SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce, Workday, and ServiceNow is the manual work behind configuration, change, and compliance. This spotlight shows how CodeBot and ConfigBot automate documentation, impact analysis, and audit readiness, cutting risk and reclaiming time. Jonathon Luplow shares a few real production examples related to SAP SuccessFactors and Dayforce.\n\n### When the CV Dies: Hiring for Signal in a World of Infinite Applications\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=292ed1bb-2f75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T09:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Nathan Perrott (SVP, Global Customer Strategy & Advisory, Radancy)\n- Description: <p>Application volumes are rising, but hiring confidence isn't. As AI transforms recruitment, traditional indicators of candidate fit are becoming less reliable, leaving talent acquisition teams with more applications to review but less certainty about who to progress.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are rethinking hiring for the AI era, using agentic AI to reduce screening complexity, improve decision-making and enable recruiters to focus on the moments where human judgment has the greatest impact.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify genuine candidate potential when the CV is no longer a reliable indicator of fit?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where should AI support screening and shortlisting, and where does human expertise deliver the greatest value?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a hiring strategy that improves quality, reduces inefficiency and balances automation with better recruitment outcomes?</p>\n\n### Leading by Example at Every Level: The CHRO in the Human + AI Era\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=3c3dee15-66be-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: UNLEASH Lounge\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: unleashlounge\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Charise Le (Executive Vice President, Global Human Resource, Schneider Electric)\n- Description: <p>How can leaders model change at every level? Join Schneider Electric CHRO Charise Le and Valence CEO Parker Mitchell to explore role modeling and manager initiative, drawing on Schneider's rollout of Valence's AI coach, Nadia, to all 12,000 managers.</p>\n<p>Explore Schneider Electric's approach to leadership in the human + AI era.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modeling curiosity and learning from the top</li>\n<li>Equipping managers to turn shared priorities into everyday action</li>\n<li>Using AI to connect these efforts across talent programs, strengthening both human judgment and performance</li>\n<li>At its heart is a question for every CHRO: how can we make better leadership part of how work happens, every day?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The New Leadership Skillset: What Becomes More Valuable for Humans as AI Becomes More Capable?\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=358dce26-e69a-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Natalie Wintermark (Chief Human Resources Officer, Erasteel), Johanna Hummer (Vice President, Global People & Culture, Opella), Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures), Rebecca Wettemann (CEO and Principal Analyst, Valoir)\n- Description: <p>AI is beginning to compress the journey from junior work to more sophisticated work. Analysis that once took years of experience can be accelerated, expertise can be accessed almost instantly and employees expected to operate at a higher level much earlier in their careers.</p>\n<p>This creates an important challenge for organizations. If AI accelerates capability, how do we ensure people also develop the judgment, confidence and experience that traditionally came with time? It also changes what we value in leadership. As technology becomes more capable, the advantage may increasingly lie in distinctly human strengths: critical thinking, curiosity, imagination, influence, empathy and the ability to navigate ambiguity and make sense of complexity.</p>\n<p>For HR, this raises a bigger question than simply adding AI skills to existing leadership programs. Join the debate to find out how the next leaders are identified, developed and given the experiences that prepare them to lead?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How organizations develop judgment amongst automation silos</li>\n<li>Which leadership capabilities become more valuable, not less, as AI becomes more capable</li>\n<li>What happens when people are expected to exercise strategic thinking much earlier in their careers</li>\n<li>How will our next leaders develop foresight, critical thinking and systems thinking when technological, geopolitical and workforce increasingly collide</li>\n<li>Will traditional leadership programs become obsolete? Which competency models and career pathways need to be developed for the next generation of leaders</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The New CHRO Mandate: Leading Human Advantage Through Uncertainty\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=00484a10-6944-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: David Green (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Insight222), Natalia Wallenberg (Chief Human Resources Officer, Ahold Delhaize), Amanda Poole (Chief People Officer, Bristol Myers Squibb), Andrew Davis (EVP & Global Chief People Officer, Sony Music Entertainment)\n- Description: <p>As technology accelerates decision-making and AI becomes embedded across every function, the value of human leadership becomes even greater. AI can identify patterns, model scenarios and enable organizations to respond faster than ever before, but it cannot replace judgment, trust, empathy or the ability to unite people behind difficult decisions. In periods of uncertainty, organizations need both: the speed and intelligence of technology alongside the wisdom and leadership that only humans can provide.</p>\n<p>Today, boards are asking different questions. They need leaders who can distinguish between short-term disruption and structural change, understand where AI and emerging technologies should strengthen decision-making, mitigate workforce risk before it becomes business risk, and create stability without slowing transformation.</p>\n<p>This fireside explores why the next five years may represent the biggest shift in the CHRO role for a generation and whether AI can best amplify those decisions?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the role of the CHRO is evolving from people leader to enterprise risk partner, architect of organizational stability and champion of human leadership</li>\n<li>Which uncertainties are most likely to reshape organizations and create workforce risk over the next five years?</li>\n<li>Where should AI and emerging technologies strengthen decision-making and improve organizational responsiveness</li>\n<li>Turning workforce intelligence, AI insights and external trends into strategic decisions that resonate in the boardroom and across the whole organization</li>\n<li>The Next Five years: From uncertainty to competitive advantage: How do we find the optimum mix of people, technology and organizational capability</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Redesigning End to End Work Through Agentic AI Across the Enterprise: Moving from AI Ambition to Operational Realization at Scale Across HR  \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=5d950f02-1755-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Alexis Saussinan (Global Head, People Insights & Effectiveness, Merck Group)\n- Description: <p>Drawing on the experience of re-designing people management and organization development work and deploying agentic AI across a workforce of 63,000, Alexis Saussinan explains how Merck is building the foundations for AI at enterprise scale. He will explore why success depends on solving real business challenges, creating the conditions for trusted workflow re-design and using agentic AI to unlock capacity for higher value work that strengthens outcomes for patients, customers and colleagues.</p>\n\n<p>In this session, you'll discover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start with business problems that deliver measurable outcomes rather than AI for its own sake</li>\n<li>Build the data, governance and operating foundations that enable trusted agentic AI at scale</li>\n<li>Think end-to-end work redesign and shift work to higher value activities that improve impact for patients, customers and colleagues</li>\n<li>Translate agentic AI investment into financial and operational outcomes that resonate with the board</li>\n<li>Design the right incentives, ownership and accountability to accelerate adoption and sustainable value</li>\n<li>Learn and build from failures, busting several myths along the way</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The New Talent Advantage\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cd32266d-0959-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Cecilia Crossley (Founder, Uplifting People), Andy Doyle (Chief People and Agent Officer, Kantar), Katarina Berg (Chief Human Resources Officer, On)\n- Description: <p>Every company will have access to the same AI models, platforms and tools. The real differentiator will be how quickly organizations can develop people, build new capabilities and continuously adapt as work evolves and the organizations that get this right will be the ones that never lose sight of what makes work human.</p>\n<p>The organizations pulling ahead are shifting their investment from simply deploying technology to creating cultures where learning, mobility and human potential accelerate faster than the pace of technological change. This is where the next generation of talent strategy will be won.</p>\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why learning agility is becoming a greater competitive advantage than technical expertise</li>\n<li>Moving beyond hiring skills to building organizations that continuously create new capability</li>\n<li>How AI should strengthen human judgment, creativity and employee experience rather than simply automating work</li>\n<li>Why internal mobility, leadership and manager capability will matter more than even in a human-AI driven enterprise</li>\n<li>The new role of HR in leading the business to adapt faster than technology changes and in doing so, driving positive change well beyond the organization</li>\n<li>What tomorrow's talent strategy looks like when the pace of change becomes the only constant</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From AI Use Cases to Organizational Decisions: The Nuts and Bolts of Continuous Transformation at SAP\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=304cbe8f-3f7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:20:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Joachim Rotzinger (CEO, Ingentis), Clemens Siegfanz (Senior Director People & Culture – Organizational Design & New Work, SAP SE)\n- Description: <p>Together with SAP, we will discuss why Organizational Design becomes the foundation of the Autonomous Enterprise and how organizations can continuously adapt structures, roles, workforce and AI agents to changing business needs.</p>\n<p>Discover how Organizational Intelligence, Org Design and Strategic Workforce Planning enable leaders to make faster, better, data-driven decisions, including:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong>: How do I understand where work, roles and AI agents should sit in the organization?</li>\n<li><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong>: How do we adapt structures, responsibilities and workforce plans as business needs change?</li>\n<li><strong>The decisions your company needs to make</strong>: How do we build an organization that is future ready - resilient, adaptable and ready for continuous transformation?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Beyond Listening: Activating Change at Scale\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=fbf18799-3e75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:20:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Georgina Ledward (VP, Global Solution Consulting, Perceptyx)\n- Description: <p>Join Georgina who will explore how Perceptyx's latest innovations across Discover, Develop and Activate are helping organizations move from employee listening to meaningful action and measurable change.</p>\n<p>She'll also be joined by Romy Desmarais, Colleague Listening Manager at Harrods, who'll share how Harrods is putting this into practice. Using Perceptyx Discover for point-in-time and lifecycle listening, Harrods is turning employee insight into action through Activate's intelligent nudges, helping translate feedback into meaningful, everyday behavior change.</p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Harrods is turning employee listening into measurable organizational change using Perceptyx Discover and Activate.</li>\n<li>How to move beyond collecting employee feedback and use insight to drive meaningful action across the organization.</li>\n<li>How behavior change helps close the loop, connecting personalized development with Perceptyx's People Activation System, from Discover through Develop to Activate.</li>\n<li>How to build a continuous approach to organizational change that connects employee insight, capability development and measurable business outcomes.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From Insight to Action: Discover People Science at Scale with AI Coach\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=8b454542-4875-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:20:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Justin Angsuwat (Chief People and Customer Engagement Officer, Culture Amp)\n- Description: <p>Most managers want to lead better - they just need the right support at the right moment. Join Justin Angsuwat, CPO at Culture Amp, as he shows how AI Coach accelerates high performance through instant insights and expert coaching.</p>\n<p>High performance is built through clarity, action, and expert guidance. Culture Amp's AI Coach brings all three together - delivering instant insights, personalized action plans, and coaching grounded in people science and 1.5 billion data points. Justin Angsuwat, CPO at Culture Amp, shows how AI Coach empowers every manager to lead with confidence and drive measurable impact.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>See AI Coach in action - an expert coach and assistant in every manager's workflow, powered by people science</li>\n<li>Discover how instant insights and tailored action plans help managers drive change quickly and confidently</li>\n<li>Learn how proven coaching methodologies and frameworks turn workforce data into stronger team outcomes</li>\n<li>Explore how AI Coach helps leaders craft communications tailored to every audience, from teams to executives</li>\n<li>Understand why people science, grounded in 1.5 billion data points, is Culture Amp's key differentiator</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How GSK Built a Skills-Based Organization for Human & AI Collaboration\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=9cc54ceb-1f84-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:50:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Zaka Farhat (Global SVP, Talent, Learning and Capability Development, GSK)\n- Description: By connecting a live skills taxonomy, personalized learning, and AI coaching, GSK gives leaders real-time visibility into capability gaps, empowering HR to redesign roles and plan for a blended workforce where humans and AI agents collaborate to deliver value at scale.\n\n### Recognition as a System of Influence\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=fdc40c15-e284-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:40:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Jordan Ekers (VP, Product Marketing & Commercial Strategy, Achievers)\n- Description: <p>Recognition is no longer simply about celebrating great work. Every moment of appreciation creates a signal about the behaviors an organization values, the culture it is building and the outcomes it wants to reinforce. As AI makes it easier to connect these signals at scale, recognition is becoming a powerful source of workforce intelligence.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using recognition data to influence behavior, strengthen culture and give leaders the insights they need to drive meaningful organizational change.</p>\n<p><b>What could this mean for you?</b></p>\n<p><b>The decisions you need to make</b></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond recognition as a program and use it to reinforce the behaviors that matter most?</p>\n<p><b>The decisions your team needs to make</b></p>\n<p>How can recognition data reveal workforce trends, engagement patterns and emerging opportunities for action?</p>\n<p><b>The decisions your organization needs to make</b></p>\n<p>How do we embed recognition into everyday ways of working so that culture, performance and strategic priorities become more visible and measurable?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Achievers combines AI-powered recognition, workforce intelligence and behavioral insights to help organizations translate everyday moments of appreciation into measurable business impact.</p>\n\n### Breaking AI Paralysis: A Showcase of Small AI HR Experiments to Steal From\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c2cbcc6a-5a75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T10:50:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Joaquin Migliore (Director of People Experience, Superside)\n- Description: <p>The hardest part of AI is to gain the confidence to actually get started with building. Superside shares how a fully remote People team broke the paralysis by building one small, useful thing at a time.</p>\n<p>Every People team is under pressure to do something meaningful with AI, and the constant noise of what everyone else has supposedly already built makes it easy to freeze. Feeling behind is normal. Staying frozen is optional. The real challenge is rarely the technology. It is deciding where to start, and trusting that a small, deliberate experiment is enough to begin.</p>\n<p>This session follows how Superside's People team turned that mindset into momentum. Instead of waiting for a perfect enterprise strategy, they built one small thing at a time: AI-mapped employee journeys, custom assistants, vibe-coded internal tools, and storytelling dashboards that put people data to work. It is a practitioner's honest, inspiring account of how to stop reading about AI and start building with it, in your own context.</p>\n<p><strong>What you will take away:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize that feeling behind on AI is normal, and learn how to move from paralysis to momentum.</li>\n<li>Set your team up for AI success: The right mindset and the right team setup.</li>\n<li>Start with small, low-risk experiments that generate real evidence instead of waiting for the perfect strategy.</li>\n<li>Get inspiration from real People team AI experiments.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Why Recognition Is HR's Most Effective Tool for Driving High -Performing Cultures\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bd031210-737f-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T10:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Caroline Alderman (Senior Culture Strategist, O.C. Tanner)\n- Description: <p>Culture doesn't disappear overnight. It weakens when the experiences that reinforce it stop showing up in everyday work. As organizations become more complex, distributed and culturally diverse, how do leaders keep culture alive? Drawing on new State of Recognition research, discover why recognition is emerging as one of the most effective ways to build trust, create connection and reinforce culture at scale.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How is recognition reinforcing the culture you want employees to experience every day?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can managers consistently recognize the behaviors that strengthen culture and performance?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How will you scale meaningful recognition across a growing, distributed and diverse workforce?</p>\n\n### Designing the Future HR Engine: Reimagining the Operating Model & Employee Experience with Galileo® Suite \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f819f986-eda2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Acceleration Labs | 721 & 722\n- Format: boardroom\n- Track / sub-event: joshbersinaccelerationlabs\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: This workshop immerses you in a real-world HR transformation, using the full Galileo® Suite —including Galileo™ Agent and Galileo™ \nLearn—to rethink how HR operates and how employees experience it. We’ll explore, at a strategic level, how Galileo® Suite can illuminate pain points, highlight “moments that matter,” and inform choices about roles, services, and governance. You’ll see how an insight-driven HR engine can better align with business needs and deliver a more seamless employee experience. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop so they can access the Galileo® Suite during the session and follow along with key demonstrations. \n\n### SAP Explorer Tour - Building the HR Foundation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=143055e6-73b2-f111-a6a7-000d3a20b67c\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: UNLEASH Lounge\n- Format: tour\n- Track / sub-event: unleashlounge\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Sergio Graziano Marin (Workforce Management Presales Director, SD Worx SAP Solutions), Thorsten Teltscher (Director, Strategic Partnerships, G-P / Globalization Partners), Nick Holmes (Global Head of Partner Ecosystem - HCM, SAP SuccessFactors), Peter Brown (PwC Global Workforce Leader, PwC), William Pelster (Co-Founder, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: <p>Explore how SAP SuccessFactors HCM helps organizations of all sizes build a connected HR foundation that supports employee experience, career development, learning and skills, and the data confidence needed to put AI to work. HR leaders at companies of all sizes are under pressure to deliver the kind of employee experiences, career development opportunities, and learning strategies that attract and retain talent while also preparing their organizations for AI and data-driven innovation. But too often, those priorities are held back by disconnected systems, inconsistent people data, and HR processes that were never designed to support agility at scale.</p>\n\n<p>This show floor tour brings together SAP SuccessFactors, an industry analyst, and ecosystem partners to explore why getting the HR core right is the critical first step, no matter where an organization is in its growth journey. Attendees will hear how a connected core HR foundation helps simplify complexity, improve employee experience, and create the trusted data needed to support talent decisions, skills strategies, and practical AI innovation.</p>\n\n<p>You will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why a connected HR core is the foundation for employee experience, career growth, and learning initiatives</li>\n<li>How to simplify HR complexity while building a platform for growth and innovation</li>\n<li>Why trusted people data is essential for making AI and analytics meaningful in HR</li>\n<li>How SAP SuccessFactors HCM helps unify HR processes and experiences across the employee lifecycle</li>\n<li>How ecosystem partners accelerate time to value with the right strategy and implementation approach</li>\n<li>What HR leaders should prioritize first to create a more agile, future-ready HR function without overengineering transformation</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Recognition Without Borders: Lessons from a Global Program\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=23bab45e-aa90-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Mourad Lahdil (Global Culture & Engagement Lead, Suntory)\n- Description: How do you create a recognition culture that resonates across different countries, cultures and employee groups? Hear how Suntory launched a global program, navigated adoption challenges and continues to evolve recognition locally.\n\nCreating a global recognition program requires more than technology. It requires cultural understanding, employee buy-in and continuous evolution. Join Suntory as they share their journey of building recognition across multiple countries, supporting deskless employees, navigating local expectations and balancing global consistency with local relevance. Leave with practical insights on adoption, engagement and long-term program success.\n\n### From AI Hype to Workforce Reality\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=e29b54b9-1575-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:20:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Toby Hough (VP of People & HR Strategy, HiBob)\n- Description: As AI becomes a core workplace capability, organizations need a practical approach to understanding and developing AI skills. This session introduces a framework for assessing AI capabilities, supporting fair talent decisions, and creating a shared language around AI proficiency. Discover how managers and employees can align on expectations, readiness, and success in an AI-enabled workplace.\n\n### Millions Spent on AI. Why Are Managers Still Drowning?\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=0a3475be-4f75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:20:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Hitesh Tailor (Global Head HRSD GTM, ServiceNow)\n- Description: <p>Organizations are investing heavily in AI, yet many managers still spend too much of their time navigating administration, fragmented systems and growing organizational complexity. The challenge is no longer adopting AI—it's ensuring AI removes work rather than creating more of it.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are redefining the relationship between people and AI, enabling managers to spend less time coordinating processes and more time applying the judgment, coaching and leadership that only humans can provide.</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure AI reduces management complexity rather than adding another layer of technology?</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which responsibilities should be handled by specialized AI assistants, and which should remain firmly in human hands?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create the governance, operating model and employee experience needed for people and AI to work together effectively?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how specialized AI assistants and a unified manager experience can simplify day-to-day work, reduce administrative burden and help managers focus on the decisions and relationships that matter most.</p>\n\n### Future Readiness And The AI Mindset Divide\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=dca8fea2-3e3e-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: keynote\n- Keynote session: yes\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Howard Yu (LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation, IMD Business School)\n- Description: <p>Call it culture if you like. It's also the choices leaders make every day.</p>\n<p>At IMD's Future Readiness Center, I have been tracking more than 400 companies across seven industries. The ones pulling ahead share three habits. You can put all three to work <a href=\"https://howardyu.substack.com/about\">without knowing what comes next</a>.</p>\n<p>One story starts with a crop-dusting business in Louisiana. It grew into Delta.</p>\n<p>Another begins at a McDonald's drive-thru, where AI added bacon to a sundae. Oops! We'll read the corporate memo that ended the trial and thanked the partner.</p>\n<p>The third follows a junior engineer at a candy factory. He emailed a chief digital officer he'd never met, and ended up in the boardroom.</p>\n<p>You'll leave my keynote with:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two boxes, \"money now\" and \"money next,\" to help you choose what your team must learn to do next.</li>\n<li>A way to shift the AI conversation from \"fewer jobs\" to \"better work,\" so people feel ready to use it.</li>\n<li>The \"+1\" skill: one extra skill that can make a payroll specialist, recruiter or HR business partner harder to replace.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>A 30-minute keynote with a two-minute chat with the person next to you. You'll get a free template to use with your team. Bring your phone to scan the QR code.</p>\n\n### Building Cross-Functional Foundations For AI\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1b7b9d87-1855-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Rachel Ibarra (Vice President, Data and Innovation, Cardinal Group Companies), Peter Lynch (Chief People & Innovation Officer, Cardinal Group Companies)\n- Description: <p>As AI moves from experimentation into everyday work, some of the most important decisions are no longer technology decisions alone. They require People, Data, IT, Finance and business leaders to agree on what should be automated, where human judgment remains essential and how to equip people to adopt new ways of working.</p>\n<p>At Cardinal Group Companies, this approach is built around <strong><span>Extreme Digital + Extreme Analog: Extreme Digital builds the technology and scale; Extreme Analog equips our people to adopt it and thrive.</span></strong></p>\n<p>Peter Lynch and Rachel Ibarra will explore how Cardinal is putting this approach into practice by bringing its HR and Data/Innovation leadership teams together and embedding operational expertise directly into the development process. A key part of that model is dedicated \"Fellows\"—operations leaders with smaller portfolios who spend 50% of their time supporting the technical build team with human and operational expertise.</p>\n<p>From identifying the right problems and redesigning workflows to establishing governance and accountability, the session will examine how closer collaboration helps teams build AI that reflects the realities of the work and the people doing it.</p>\n<p><strong><span>Possible areas to explore:</span></strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How bringing HR and Data/Innovation leadership together helps connect technology priorities with business needs and the employee experience</li>\n<li>How Cardinal's Fellows model gives operations leaders dedicated time to shape what gets built, surface practical challenges and support adoption</li>\n<li>How to decide what should be automated, what should be augmented and where human judgment needs to remain central</li>\n<li>How to translate Extreme Digital + Extreme Analog into practical decisions about workflow design, change management and team readiness</li>\n<li>How to establish clear accountability, decision rights and guardrails, including when human intervention is required</li>\n<li>How People, Data, IT, Finance and operations can work through different perspectives on risk, speed and opportunity while redesigning work end to end</li>\n<li>How to scale AI while preserving the operational expertise, relationships and trust that make it effective</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Anticipating Tomorrow's Skills\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d88f9606-7086-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation\n- Speakers: Isabelle Quainon (CHRO, Veolia)\n- Description: <p>Veolia didn't run a skills pilot. They ran a transformation. Veolia's CHRO shares what it took — and what it delivers — when skills intelligence meets a 215,000-person global workforce.</p>\n<p>Veolia operates in 54 countries, in 7 geographies and across dozens of business lines, with a workforce where the gap between skills today and skills needed tomorrow is not theoretical — it's operational. When you manage 215,000+ people in environmental services, talent agility isn't an HR initiative. It's a competitive necessity. In this session, Isabelle Quainon (CHRO, Veolia) shares the story behind Veolia's skills intelligence program — from the decision to build a unified, multilingual skills framework across multiple languages to the deployment of AI-powered skills detection at scale, fully integrated with their learning ecosystem via Docebo.</p>\n<p>What you'll take away:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Veolia architected a skills taxonomy that works across cultures, languages and business units</li>\n<li>What it takes to move from skills data to skills decisions — mobility, workforce planning, learning prioritization</li>\n<li>The measurable outcomes: where transformation shows up in the numbers</li>\n<li>The next steps for Veolia in this skills transformation</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Turning Capability Risk into Business Advantage\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bfd5c530-578a-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Gill Aggus (Workforce Planning Lead, Jaguar Land Rover), Adam Gibson (Practice Director, Workforce Strategy & Skills Advisory, LHH)\n- Description: <p>Skills data does not create advantage unless leaders can turn it into workforce decisions. This session explores how SWP helps organizations identify capability risk, prioritize investment and sequence skills interventions planning for the future workforce with clarity and confidence.</p>\n<p>Skills transformation fails when organizations treat skills as a taxonomy exercise rather than a strategic workforce decision. In this session, Jaguar Land Rover will examine how Strategic Workforce Planning can help leaders understand future capability demand, assess workforce supply, and make sharper choices on where to build, buy, borrow and deploy talent. Planning well for your future workforce also builds something wider: the competitive strength and employer brand that come from knowing exactly who you need to attract, and why they should choose you.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to move from skills visibility to actionable workforce decisions</li>\n<li>How SWP helps leaders identify which skills are genuinely strategic, scarce or at risk</li>\n<li>How to model future skills demand when business strategy, technology and market demand are moving</li>\n<li>How to sequence skills interventions across build, buy, borrow, bind, bounce, balance and bot</li>\n<li>What it takes to embed skills intelligence into strategic planning, not just HR reporting</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Turn HR Ambition Into Real Impact\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=be8e9665-ab7e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:55:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, HR Technology & Digital Adoption\n- Speakers: Peter Brown (PwC Global Workforce Leader, PwC)\n- Description: <p>Every HR transformation begins with the right ambition. Delivering it is another challenge entirely. As organizations modernize their HR technology, prepare for new regulation and build more skills-based workforces, leaders are looking for ways to accelerate change without compromising quality, governance or long-term success.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are reducing complexity, strengthening decision-making and creating the foundations for lasting HR transformation through proven implementation approaches and AI-ready operating models.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we accelerate HR transformation while maintaining confidence in the decisions we make along the way?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which capabilities should we prioritize first to create the greatest long-term impact—from technology and pay transparency to job architecture and workforce planning?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build the trusted foundations that enable AI, compliance and future workforce transformation to scale successfully?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how PwC's HR transformation accelerators help organizations implement SAP SuccessFactors more quickly, prepare for US Pay Transparency, establish robust job architectures and build the workforce capabilities needed for the future.</p>\n\n### The Cognitive Bottleneck in Digital Transformation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=0e7aaceb-567f-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:25:00 -> 2026-10-21T11:40:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Virginie Laurent (Head of Coaching Science, Speexx), Anne de Solages (President, ICF France)\n- Description: Organizations are investing heavily in AI and digital transformation, yet many programs lose momentum once implementation begins. The challenge is rarely the technology. It is the growing gap between the pace of technological change and the human capacity to absorb complexity, make sound decisions and lead transformation effectively.\n \nExplore why organizational performance has become the defining challenge of the AI era, and how developing leadership capability can help organizations overcome the cognitive bottlenecks that slow execution and limit business impact.\n \nThe decisions you need to make\nHow do we ensure our leaders can make better decisions as AI accelerates the pace and complexity of change?\n \nThe decisions your team needs to make\nHow can leadership development and coaching strengthen judgement, collaboration and execution under sustained pressure?\n \nThe decisions your organization needs to make\nHow do we design organizations where human performance scales alongside AI, enabling transformation to deliver lasting business value?\n\n### The Recognition Data Advantage: How Workhuman Delivers Strategic Insight\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=b3cd7467-3c7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Jesse Harriott (Head of Data Science and Executive Director, WHiQ, Workhuman)\n- Description: <p>Captured at scale, recognition data gives a real-time, unfiltered view of collaboration, performance, and culture that surveys and reviews can't produce. This session covers how Workhuman's recognition platform ties to measurable business outcomes, how that data sharpens decisions on talent and performance, and where it is headed next, including new capabilities for future leaders, deskless workers, and years of service.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to get a real-time, more objective view into how work happens, using signals surveys and reviews can't capture alone.</li>\n<li>How to tie recognition to measurable business outcomes so it becomes a defensible driver of retention and performance.</li>\n<li>What's next on Workhuman's roadmap, including future leader identification, deskless worker support, and more personal ways to mark years of service.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How Can AI Strengthen Human Capability? \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=57bfa4bd-1c84-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David Green (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Insight222), Gina Vargiu-Breuer (Chief People and Culture Officer, Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE)\n- Description: <p>Tasks are shifting, roles are evolving, operating models are being challenged, and AI agents are starting to execute work across workflows and domains. The real question is no longer what can be automated, but how organizations design human-in-the-loop work where people and agents create value together.</p>\n<p>For HR leaders, this is a strategic workforce moment. How do we clarify role shifts, build the right capabilities, and help employees learn and grow as work changes? How do we redesign teams, processes, and operating models for hybrid human-agent collaboration — without losing the judgment, accountability, and creativity that make work truly human?</p>\n<p>Join this fireside chat to explore how AI can become a catalyst for better work: evolving roles, strengthening human capability, and enabling organizations to move from task automation to meaningful workforce transformation.</p>\n<p>Key questions include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does it mean for work, roles, and operating models to be disrupted by AI?</li>\n<li>How will AI agents change tasks, workflows, and end-to-end execution?</li>\n<li>What does effective human-in-the-loop collaboration look like?</li>\n<li>How can strategic workforce management guide role evolution, development, and enablement?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Reskilling at Scale and Speed\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=988b82b7-c485-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development\n- Speakers: Frederic Patitucci (Group Chief People & Culture Officer, Philip Morris International)\n- Description: <p>Organizations are no longer reskilling for efficiency: they are reskilling for survival. As business models shift under AI, automation, and new market demands, the real challenge is not identifying skills gaps, but closing them fast enough to remain competitive.</p>\n<p>This session explores how leading global organizations such as Philip Morris International have executed large-scale workforce reskilling programs to support a complete strategic pivot moving thousands of employees into entirely new capability areas while continuing to operate at scale. The focus is not on learning programs, but on how reskilling becomes an enterprise execution system.</p>\n<p>In this session, you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to move from static job architectures to dynamic capability-based workforce models<br>\nWhat it takes to reskill large populations quickly without disrupting business performance</li>\n<li>How to prioritize which skills to build vs buy vs automate — and at what speed</li>\n<li>Embedding reskilling into transformation programs, not running it as a parallel HR initiative</li>\n<li>The role of leadership in driving adoption, accountability, and cultural shift</li>\n<li>How to connect learning, internal mobility, and workforce planning into a single system</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The New Talent Advantage: Turning Workplace Sentiment into Measurable Impact \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bfc0a385-598a-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Hannah Sargeant (Global Director of Colleague Experience, Hays PLC), Rachel Bourne (Vice President, AI Transformation, Jacobs)\n- Description: <p>Employee listening can reveal where organizations need to act, but insight alone does not create change. The real challenge is helping managers understand what matters most, choose the right response for their teams and turn feedback into sustained action.</p>\n\n<p>This practical Hays conversation explores how people science is being used to bridge the gap between workplace sentiment and manager action, including where AI can provide targeted support while managers retain the context and judgment needed to act effectively.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>How managers can move more quickly from survey insight to meaningful action</li>\n<li>How people science helps identify priorities and gives managers greater confidence in what to focus on</li>\n<li>Bridging the gap between engagement results and hyper localized manager support</li>\n<li>Real examples of how managers have been upskilled through embedded nudges, recommendations and micro learnings</li>\n<li>Where AI supported guidance can help managers act sooner while still applying their own judgment</li>\n<li>How this approach can scale consistently across teams and countries without adding extra pressure to HR</li>\n<li>What Hays is learning about adoption, impact and which interventions make a measurable difference</li>\n<li>Ensuring AI guidance is credible, safe and grounded in people science rather than generic AI output</li>\n</ul>\n\n### A New Operating Model for Work: How HR Can Orchestrate People, AI Agents, and Outcomes\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=a3e389ad-1875-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Nancy Estell Zoder (GVP, Outbound Product Management , Product Strategy, Cloud HCM, Oracle)\n- Description: <p>AI is changing the work equation, not just by helping people complete tasks faster, but by reshaping how work is planned, executed, governed, and measured.</p>\n<p>As intelligent systems take on more coordination, analysis and routine execution, business leaders face new decisions about where human expertise creates the greatest value.</p>\n<p>Join Oracle as they explore how leading organizations are operationalizing the human-agent workforce and turning AI-driven capacity into measurable business impact through Oracle Cloud HCM.</p>\n\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>The decision you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you connect skills, roles, and workforce planning to improve execution as business needs change?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do I create workforce capacity by connecting people, skills, roles, plans, and AI-enabled execution?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you turn AI-created capacity into lasting gains in productivity, agility and resilience?</p>\n<p>Leave with practical insights into building a workforce where people and AI work together to deliver better business outcomes.</p>\n\n### Learning Over Knowledge: How Nestlé Is Building a Learning-First Culture\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=078fd3b0-5675-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Markus Graf (Corporate Head of Talent, Nestlé)\n- Description: As AI accelerates the pace of change, competitive advantage increasingly comes from learning agility rather than accumulated knowledge. Discover how Nestlé is building a learning-first culture across 270,000 employees and 188 countries.\n\nAs AI reshapes work, what people know today matters less than how quickly they can learn tomorrow. Discover how Nestlé is building a learning-first culture across 270,000 employees and 188 countries through large-scale upskilling, AI-enabled capability building, and the development of world-class brand-building capabilities to drive business performance, adaptability, and future readiness.\n\n### Who Really Owns The Employer Brand?\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=086147d3-ac85-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation\n- Speakers: Johanna Hummer (Vice President, Global People & Culture, Opella), Monica Murer (VP People Experience & Services, Tommy Hilfiger & PVH), Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures), Janaina Tavares (Global Head of People and Culture, ActionAid International)\n- Description: <p>Employer brand has never been more visible or harder to control. Candidates compare the promise with employee reviews. Employees test corporate messages against their everyday experience. Leaders want evidence that investment in reputation is actually improving attraction, retention and performance.</p>\n<p>The challenge for HR is that it is often held accountable for an employer brand shaped by decisions made across the entire organization.</p>\n<p>This panel gets beyond campaigns and messaging to examine what it takes to build an employer reputation that stands up to scrutiny and delivers measurable value.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the strongest employer brands are built through business decisions and everyday experience, not communications campaigns</li>\n<li>How organizations close the gap between what they promise candidates and what employees actually experience</li>\n<li>Where accountability should sit when HR, Marketing, Technology, Finance and business leaders all shape the employer proposition</li>\n<li>How to identify the moments across hiring, onboarding, careers, leadership and reward where trust is won or lost</li>\n<li>How HR can connect employer reputation to hiring quality, retention, productivity and business performance and demonstrate its value to the executive team</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How Skills Strategies Have Grown up in the AI Era  \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=29b48093-c685-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development\n- Speakers: Robert Praas (Head of Applied AI, AI World), Marci Paino (VP & Chief Learning Officer, Cisco), Zaka Farhat (Global SVP, Talent, Learning and Capability Development, GSK), Vincent Belliveau (Chief International Officer, Cornerstone OnDemand), Nigar Huseynova (Group Head of Learning and Development, PASHA Holdings)\n- Description: <p>For years, organizations have invested in skills frameworks, taxonomies and increasingly sophisticated skills databases. But the real test of a skills strategy is not how accurately it describes the workforce. It is whether it changes the decisions the organization makes.</p>\n<p>AI is making skills intelligence much more granular and dynamic. Rather than relying on job titles, resumes and self-reported skills, organizations can increasingly identify capabilities through the work people actually do, uncover transferable skills that might previously have been overlooked and identify potential matches between people and opportunities that conventional career paths would never have surfaced.</p>\n<p>This begins to change workforce planning itself. Instead of periodically identifying gaps against predefined roles, organizations can build a continuously evolving picture of capability, demand and opportunity, connecting skills intelligence with hiring, learning and internal mobility before capability gaps begin to affect performance.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How skills intelligence changes decisions about where to hire, build, develop and redeploy talent</li>\n<li>How AI can uncover hidden and transferable capabilities that job titles, resumes and traditional career paths miss</li>\n<li>Moving from periodic workforce planning towards a dynamic view of how capability and demand are changing</li>\n<li>How internal workforce data and external labor market signals reveal emerging skills, scarcity and changing market value</li>\n<li>What happens to skills intelligence when AI itself changes what people are capable of doing</li>\n<li>What separates skills strategies that genuinely inform workforce decisions from those that simply create better skills databases</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The People Investment Paradox: The Investment Decisions That Will Define Tomorrow's Winners\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f3f7f1ea-9c73-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Marcus Collins (Clinical Associate Professor, University of Michigan), Gary Bolles (Emeritus Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University)\n- Description: <p>Many organisations are reporting impressive productivity gains, yet employees are working longer hours, handling more tasks and struggling to disconnect. As AI accelerates the pace of work, organisations face a fundamental investment challenge: how do you balance spending on technology with investment in the leadership, skills, workforce capability and organisational redesign needed to turn efficiency into sustainable competitive advantage?</p>\n<p>The biggest risk may not be underinvesting in AI. It may be investing heavily in technology without fundamentally improving how work is designed, measured and experienced.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is AI genuinely making work better, or simply enabling organisations to do more with the same people?</li>\n<li>Where should organisations invest next: AI, automation, leadership, workforce capability, skills or redesigning work itself?</li>\n<li>Which investments deliver immediate productivity gains, and which create long-term competitive advantage?</li>\n<li>How should organisations measure success beyond efficiency, including innovation, decision quality, resilience and sustainable performance?</li>\n<li>How can HR help boards make smarter investment decisions that balance short-term returns with long-term enterprise value?</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n### Using People-Powered Tech:   Where Human Judgement Creates More Value Than AI Alone\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=8b12af16-ac73-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Steve Boese (President & Co-Founder, H3 HR Advisors), Lara Albert (Chief Marketing Officer, SAP SuccessFactors), Arnim Wahls (Executive Vice President, Europe, Radancy), Philipp Richter (Chief People Officer, Personio)\n- Description: <p>AI is rapidly becoming embedded across every aspect of HR technology, but the real challenge is no longer deciding whether to adopt AI. It is deciding where AI creates the greatest value, where human judgment remains essential and how to build technology ecosystems that improve decision making, trust and business performance. As organizations rethink their HR technology strategies, the conversation is shifting from AI capability to better outcomes.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are organizations automating too much too quickly and where should human judgment remain non-negotiable?</li>\n<li>What does great Human AI collaboration actually look like and which decisions consistently deliver better outcomes when people stay in the loop?</li>\n<li>As AI becomes embedded into every platform, what will separate the HR technology leaders from the rest over the next five years?</li>\n<li>Looking back from 2030, which technology decisions will prove to have created the greatest long term value and which will organizations regret?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Choosing the Right Talent Technology: Making Smarter Decisions in an AI Driven Market\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=6882c574-e0b0-f111-a6a7-000d3a20b67c\n- Time: 2026-10-21T12:30:00 -> 2026-10-21T12:55:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Brian Delle Donne (Co-Founder, Talent Tech Labs)\n- Description: <p>As AI transforms the talent technology landscape, the challenge is no longer finding solutions but choosing the right ones. With new vendors, capabilities, and categories emerging at speed, HR and talent leaders need better intelligence to compare options, understand trade-offs, and make smarter technology decisions with confidence</p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting out a clearer view of your existing technology stack before deciding what comes next</li>\n<li>How to separate meaningful innovation from market noise</li>\n<li>What do smarter talent technology decisions look like now... and how have they changed</li>\n<li>Which technology has the potential to genuinely solve your workforce challenges - and which add to complexity</li>\n<li>Building a strong framework for what you need to achieve before making technology investment decisions</li>\n<li>How best to compare vendors, capabilities, and emerging technology categories</li>\n<li>Where research, analyst intelligence, and practitioner insight strengthen decision-making</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Speaker Meet & Greet: An open conversation with Howard Yu\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c2b1eece-4fac-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-21T12:50:00 -> 2026-10-21T13:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: UNLEASH Lounge\n- Format: networking\n- Track / sub-event: unleashlounge\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Speakers: Howard Yu (LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation, IMD Business School)\n- Description: Bring the skill you circled in the two-box exercise, or the AI project you’re unsure whether to stop. Ask a question, challenge an idea or share what’s happening in your company.\n\nPlease note that capacity is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.\n\n### UNLEASH Startup Award powered by Playroll\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=039b6e64-0497-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-21T13:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: competition\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David Guérin (Partner, Brighteye), Juliette Moortgat (VC Investor, Clover VC), Audrey Handem (Principal, Acadian Ventures), Syed Ali Abbas (Global VP of People, HelloFresh), Matt Pietsch (Chief Revenue Officer, Immediate), Ralf Philipp Hofmann (Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Drake Star), François Rouhban (Founder, Convergence HR Tech), Benjamin Visser (CEO & Founder, allygatr), Amanda Nolen (Board member, advisor, investor, Amanda Nolen & Partners)\n- Description: Five startups, selected by an expert judging panel, will pitch live at UNLEASH Paris 2026 in front of an audience of HR leaders, investors, analysts, media and technology buyers. Each finalist will have four minutes to present their business, followed by four minutes of questions from the judging panel.\n \nFor HR leaders, it is an opportunity to discover the ideas, technologies and companies that could shape the next chapter of workforce transformation. For investors and analysts, it is a chance to hear directly from the founders building the category leaders of tomorrow and understand where innovation in HR technology is heading next.\n \nOne company will be awarded the UNLEASH Startup Award and receive a €50,000 UNLEASH Sponsorship Package to accelerate its growth and visibility within the global HR technology market.\n\n### HR’s Time to Lead is Here. So is the Data\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=267be656-1675-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T13:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T13:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Yasamin Karimi (Chief Product Officer, TechWolf)\n- Description: <p>AI is rewriting work faster than organizations can adapt. Roles are redesigned quarter by quarter, skills age in months, and competitors hire for roles you haven't even posted. What's missing is a trusted data foundation that unites what your people can do, how their work is changing, and where the labor market is heading. All of this in an increasingly agentic world.</p>\n<p>In this session, discover what it takes for HR to lead your organization through the AI era of work:</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you? </strong><br>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong><br>\nHow do you build a trusted, always-current view of workforce capability while redesigning work, roles and skills?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong><br>\nHow do you connect skills, work, and labor market intelligence to drive better talent and planning decisions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you build a data layer that powers AI, workforce intelligence, and agility, fully compatible with your existing systems and agents?</p>\n\n### Five Things HR Leaders Wish They'd Known About AI in Employee Experience\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=7f1b7d76-1775-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T13:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T13:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Frank Wolf (Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Staffbase)\n- Description: <p>AI in employee experience sounds straightforward until you're in the middle of it. Frank Wolf draws on real implementation experience to share what HR and comms leaders consistently underestimate - and what actually moves the needle. Five lessons, fifteen minutes, built for practitioners who are past the hype.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the biggest blockers in AI rollouts are rarely where teams expect them</li>\n<li>What needs to be in place before AI can work in an intranet or employee app</li>\n<li>Where the gap between expectation and reality tends to show up</li>\n<li>What business impact AI in employee experience actually delivers - and how to make the case to leadership</li>\n<li>What good implementation looks like in practice</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How Hirevue's AI Interviewer Brings Predictive, Skills-Based Hiring to Every Role\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=22586683-b97e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T13:20:00 -> 2026-10-21T13:35:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Dina Taylor (Chief Evangelist, Hirevue)\n- Description: <p>As AI transforms recruitment, traditional hiring signals are becoming harder to trust. CVs can be optimized in seconds, applications are growing rapidly, and recruiters face increasing pressure to identify genuine ability while maintaining fairness, quality and speed.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are moving from inference to evidence by combining proven hiring science, skills-based assessments and AI, to make confident hiring decisions at enterprise scale.</p>\n<p>What could this mean for you?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify the skills and behaviors that accurately predict success in an AI-driven hiring market?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can AI improve quality of hire while maintaining fairness, governance and a positive candidate experience?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a skills-based hiring strategy that scales confidently as application volumes grow and traditional hiring signals become less reliable?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Hirevue's AI Interviewer solves all these hiring challenges by using natural conversations to cut through the noise and validate what candidates can actually do against hiring criteria. AI Interviewer gives every candidate the opportunity to interview, improves hiring outcomes and enables recruiters more time to focus on the moments that matter most.</p>\n\n### Accelerate Hiring at Agent Scale with Eightfold\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=fc18ee04-b58c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T13:20:00 -> 2026-10-21T13:35:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Kartik Dadwal (GM/VP, Product, Eightfold)\n- Description: Enterprises are hitting the limits of human scale. Agentic AI introduces a new model: autonomous digital workers working together with people to unlock the Infinite Workforce. Learn how organizations bring agents into hiring with Eightfold and explore how this shift expands capacity, improves fairness, and frees teams to move “above the loop” to focus on strategy, judgment, and persuasion.\n\n### Human-AI Collaboration: Measuring AI Skills When the AI Keeps Changing\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=33e468e9-4ba1-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-21T13:40:00 -> 2026-10-21T13:55:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Dr. Alan Redman (Chief Science Officer, Clevry), Claudia Nuttgens (Director of Assessment & Selection Consulting, AMS, a Korn Ferry company)\n- Description: <p>AI keeps changing, so how do you assess whether people have the skills to keep up? Clevry and AMS explore the science of human-AI collaboration, how to measure potential for a digital workplace, and what this looks like in practice.</p>\n<p>AI tools are evolving faster than the skills needed to use them. So how can organizations assess whether people have the potential to adapt, grow and work effectively alongside AI?</p>\n<p>Clevry and AMS have partnered across a range of client projects to identify talent ready for the demands of an increasingly digital workplace. Drawing on organizational psychology, assessment science and practical experience with HR teams, Alan and Claudia will explore how organizations can move beyond assessing today's AI knowledge to understand the human capabilities that underpin effective human-AI collaboration.</p>\n<p>A real-world case study from the AMS Skills Creation team will show how this approach is being applied in practice. The session will cover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What the science tells us - research and emerging frameworks for understanding human-AI collaboration skills.</li>\n<li>How these skills can be assessed - Clevry's Collab assessment and its approach to measuring human-centric skills and potential.</li>\n<li>What it looks like in practice - case study data from AMS Skills Creation programs for digital roles using Collab.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How to Use ChatGPT and Claude to Get Performance Insights — and Act on Them\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=65c8210c-3d7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T13:40:00 -> 2026-10-21T13:55:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Rhys Kirby (Senior Solutions Engineer, Betterworks)\n- Description: Teams use AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude every day to get work done. Now your performance data can live there too. Join to see how the Betterworks MCP helps managers prepare faster, surface insights, and take action all from the same workflow.\n\nWhat if ChatGPT had all the context you need to prep for a 1:1, identify at-risk goals, or create a leadership update? In this demo, Betterworks shows how MCP securely connects ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools to live goal, feedback, and skills data. See real-world examples of how teams can simplify performance work, surface insights faster, and take action from the tools they already use.\n\n### Activating Hidden Talent: Using Skills to Power Learning & Career with Galileo® Suite\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=19f14502-0da5-f111-9b32-000d3a20b1f9\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Acceleration Labs | 721 & 722\n- Format: boardroom\n- Track / sub-event: joshbersinaccelerationlabs\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development\n- Speakers: Raven Evans (Consultant, The Josh Bersin Company), Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: This workshop immerses you in a company shifting to a skills-first approach to development and careers, using the Galileo® Suite —including Galileo™ Agent and Galileo™ Learn—to bring that strategy to life. You’ll see how skills insight can reveal hidden capabilities, clarify critical gaps, and inform a more connected approach to learning and internal mobility. We’ll stay high-level and strategic, focusing on how Galileo® Suite can simplify skills intelligence, support more personalized development, and make career paths more transparent across the organization. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to access the Galileo® Suite and follow along as we illustrate the end-to-end experience.\n\n### SAP Explorer Tour - Skills at Scale: Build and Develop a Workforce that Drives Your Business Forward\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=379906bd-74b2-f111-a6a7-000d3a20b67c\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: UNLEASH Lounge\n- Format: tour\n- Track / sub-event: unleashlounge\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development\n- Speakers: Michael Rochelle (Chief Strategy Officer & Principal Analyst, Brandon Hall Group), Donald Ross (Head of Integrated Talent, Learning, Skills & Business AI, SAP SuccessFactors), Daniel Torrens (Head of Partnerships, TechWolf), Sandeep Nahata (CEO, TalenTeam), Peter Brown (PwC Global Workforce Leader, PwC)\n- Description: <p>See how SAP SuccessFactors helps large-scale organizations use skills to maximize workforce potential. Get a clear view of the capabilities you have, how to grow and develop them, and align people, skills, and roles to keep your business moving forward. Roles are changing faster than most organizations can retrain for them, and the gap is widening rapidly for large, highly-complex workforces. The talent is usually already there. What is missing is a single source for the skills people have, a fast way to build the ones the business needs, and a path for moving employees into new roles before they look elsewhere.</p>\n<p>This show floor tour brings together SAP SuccessFactors, an industry analyst, and ecosystem partners to walk through what a skills-first talent strategy looks like in practice: how to build a holistic skills foundation that intelligently surfaces the capabilities you already have, provides guided career growth through proactive learning and development, and empowers people to advance into the roles the business needs most.</p>\n<p>Attendees will explore how to accelerate their skills-first strategy by powering the entire talent lifecycle with a single skills framework, AI-driven talent intelligence and insights, and agentic experiences that enable large enterprises to unlock employee potential at scale.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How ecosystem partners help you stand up a skills program that shows results quickly</li>\n<li>How to create a skills framework that provides a clear, current view of the skills your workforce already has</li>\n<li>How to bring intelligence, insights, and agentic experiences into your talent processes</li>\n<li>How internal mobility fills critical roles from within and keeps your best people engaged</li>\n<li>How to reskill people for the roles AI and automation are reshaping, without starting over</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Rewiring Total Rewards for Cost Pressure, AI and Talent Scarcity\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c6abbb06-4f7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David Payet (Global Vice President, Total Rewards, L’Oréal), Assia Dahamna (EMEA Human Capital Commercial Leader, Aon), Liliane Spiridon (CEO, Aon France)\n- Description: <p>Rising costs, accelerating AI adoption and persistent skills shortages are forcing organizations to rethink how they invest in their people. Reward strategies designed for a more stable environment are increasingly under pressure, leaving leaders to balance affordability with fairness, flexibility and the ability to attract and retain critical talent.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are redesigning Total Rewards to make better investment decisions, strengthen their employee value proposition and create reward strategies that are more transparent, data-driven and responsive to changing workforce needs.</p>\n<h4>What could this mean for you?</h4>\n<h4>The decisions you need to make</h4>\n<p>How should we rebalance our reward investments to support business performance while remaining competitive for talent?</p>\n<h4>The decisions your team needs to make</h4>\n<p>How can data help us create more personalized, transparent and flexible reward experiences without increasing complexity?</p>\n<h4>The decisions your organization needs to make</h4>\n<p>How do we build a Total Rewards strategy that supports fairness, strengthens trust and adapts to changing workforce expectations?</p>\n<p>You'll also explore emerging approaches to pay, benefits and employee choice, including how organizations are using data to personalize rewards, strengthen pay transparency and shift investment towards the programs that create the greatest value for both employees and the business.</p>\n\n### UNLEASH CHRO Summit\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=2000fa14-6271-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Terminal 7\n- Format: summit\n- Track / sub-event: chrosummit\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Howard Yu (LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation, IMD Business School), Brian Delle Donne (Co-Founder, Talent Tech Labs), Lara Albert (Chief Marketing Officer, SAP SuccessFactors), Bob Gibbs (Associate Administrator MSD, Chief Human Capital Officer, NASA (retired)), Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures), Autumn Krauss (Chief Research Scientist, Future of Works Labs, SAP SuccessFactors), Stacia Garr (Co-founder and Principal Analyst, RedThread Research), Khadija Ben Hammada (Executive Board Member & Chief People Officer, Merck Group), Gina Vargiu-Breuer (Chief People and Culture Officer, Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE)\n- Description: <p>The role of the CHRO has never been more important, or more demanding.</p>\n<p>The UNLEASH CHRO Summit is an invite-only experience for Chief People Officers, CHROs and EVPs of HR. It brings together a select group of senior leaders for candid, peer-to-peer conversations about the challenges they are facing today and the decisions they need to make next.</p>\n<p>Spend a day with peers asking the same questions, wrestling with the same tensions and sharing where they've failed and what they're learning. No presentations for presentation's sake. No theory without application. Just honest conversations with people who understand the realities of leading at the highest level.</p>\n<p><strong>Agenda at a Glance</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>14:00 – 14:05 | Welcome Address</li>\n<li>14:05 – 14:25 | Keynote</li>\n<li>14:25 – 14:50 | Fireside Chat</li>\n<li>14:50 – 15:05 | Coffee & networking</li>\n<li>15:05 – 16:00 | Roundtable Discussions</li>\n<li>16:00 – 16:30 | Networking Reception</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>2:05 pm - 2:30 pm - OPENING KEYNOTE:</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Why Does Your Company Still Exist?</strong></p>\n<p>What your company must keep doing for itself, and three choices every CHRO must help make?</p>\n<p>In 1931, a 20-year-old named Ronald Coase boarded a ship to America. He had a simple question: why do companies exist? Finding suppliers, striking deals and checking the work all take time and money. Sometimes it costs less to bring that work inside a company. That was his answer. The idea helped him win a Nobel Prize. It also helps explain your own org chart.</p>\n<p>Now AI agents can take on some of that work. In February, Alipay's AI payment service handled more than 120 million transactions in one week.</p>\n<p>As AI makes it cheaper to organize work, what should stay inside your company? At IMD, we track more than 400 companies across seven industries. The leaders <a href=\"https://howardyu.substack.com/p/three-charts-that-killed-the-asset\" target=\"_blank\">in our ranking demonstrate</a> why outsourcing fast-changing skills can cost more over time. Not building new skills in-house means your people miss out on learning how to do the future work.</p>\n<p>That puts the CHRO at the heart of three choices:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What must your company learn to do for itself? In Basel, dye makers became drug makers, then moved into gene research. Each shift meant hiring people with new skills before there could be new products.</li>\n<li>What can you build that others struggle to copy? Mercedes and BMW build cars with smooth rides and fine leather. Yet investors have valued Tesla far more highly. Then there's BYD, once dismissed as a copycat. It once made low-cost rechargeable batteries for Motorola and Nokia phones. How did it grow to outsell Tesla in fully electric cars?</li>\n<li>Who will you let help you build? Nvidia spent billions making its chips easier to program. It made those tools free for students, scientists and hobbyists, who helped fuel the AI boom. Roblox gave teenagers tools to make games, and they built them. Why do so many companies still reject ideas because they came from outside? A 60-second standing exercise will help you spot that habit.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>One global tech company I work with gave its engineers an AI coding assistant. Each engineer produced about 20% more work, yet customers didn't see the new product any sooner. The coding had sped up, but the teams still struggled to work together. You'll leave with the very tool to help your leadership team spot four reasons why people fail to work well across departments.</p>\n<p><i>A 20-minute keynote, with a free template to use with your colleagues. Bring your phone to scan the QR code.</i></p>\n<p>Speaker: Dr Howard Yu, LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation in the IMD Business School</p>\n<p><strong>14:25 - 14:50 Fireside Chat - Leading Without All the Answers: The Decisions CHROs Are Making Anyway</strong></p>\n<p>The assumptions shaping work, leadership and organizations are shifting faster than most companies can adapt. Yet CHROs are expected to guide transformation, build future capability and make high-stakes decisions, often without clear precedents or proven playbooks.</p>\n<p>In this candid fireside chat, will move beyond theory to share the realities they are navigating today. From balancing transformation with workforce stability to managing global complexity alongside local realities, they will unpack the trade-offs they cannot avoid and the risks they are prepared to take.</p>\n<p>This interactive session will invite the audience into the discussion to share perspectives, challenge assumptions and compare how different organizations are approaching similar dilemmas.</p>\n<p>An honest look at how experienced people leaders lead decisively through ambiguity and what happens when there is no obvious \"right\" answer.</p>\n<p><i>Speakers: Khadija Ben Hammada, Chief Human Resources Officer, Merck Group</i></p>\n<p><i>Gina Vargui-Breuer, Chief People Officer and Labor Director</i></p>\n<p><strong>15:05 – 16:00</strong> <strong>Roundtables</strong></p>\n<p><strong>#1. Reinventing Work in the Age of AI</strong></p>\n<p><i>Redesigning work, roles and operating models for the next era of productivity</i></p>\n<p>As AI adoption accelerates, leading organizations are shifting their focus from technology implementation to work redesign. This discussion will explore how CHROs are rethinking roles, workflows, and organizational structures to create sustainable productivity gains while preserving the uniquely human capabilities that drive innovation, judgment, and performance. Participants will share how they are balancing workforce transformation with employee trust, capability building, and long-term business value.</p>\n<p><strong>#2. Workforce Planning for Jobs That Don't Yet Exist</strong></p>\n<p><i>Preparing organizations for shifting work, skills and talent models</i></p>\n<p>Economic uncertainty, technological disruption, and changing workforce expectations are reshaping the nature of work faster than many organizations can adapt. This session will examine how enterprise organizations are evolving workforce planning beyond traditional headcount forecasting to anticipate emerging roles, future capability needs, and new workforce models. Participants will discuss how to align workforce investments with long-term business priorities while maintaining flexibility in an unpredictable environment.</p>\n<p><strong>#3. The Manager Advantage</strong></p>\n<p><i>Why middle managers will determine the success of transformation</i></p>\n<p>As organizations navigate AI adoption, workforce transformation, and evolving employee expectations, middle managers have become the critical link between strategy and execution. This discussion will explore how organizations are equipping managers to drive adoption, build trust, develop talent, and sustain performance during periods of change. Participants will share approaches for strengthening manager effectiveness and redefining leadership expectations in a rapidly evolving workplace.</p>\n<p><strong>#4. Human Capital as a Driver of Enterprise Value</strong></p>\n<p><i>Connecting people strategy to business performance and growth</i></p>\n<p>Boards, investors, and executive teams increasingly expect HR leaders to demonstrate the impact of workforce investments on business outcomes. This roundtable will explore how organizations are measuring and communicating the value of human capital, linking talent decisions to productivity, innovation, growth, and enterprise performance. Participants will discuss the metrics, frameworks, and leadership practices that elevate HR's role in driving business success.</p>\n<p><strong>#5. Building Capability Faster Than the Market</strong></p>\n<p><i>Creating the skills, judgment and adaptability organizations need to compete</i></p>\n<p>The demand for new capabilities is outpacing the ability of external talent markets to supply them. This session will explore how organizations are building critical skills internally, accelerating learning, and creating more agile workforce models. Discussion will focus on capability development, skills-based approaches, and the changing relationship between learning, performance, and business transformation.</p>\n<p><strong>#6. Trust as a Business Strategy</strong></p>\n<p><i>Creating the conditions for adoption, transparency and organizational resilience</i></p>\n<p>Transformation initiatives succeed or fail based on the level of trust employees have in their leaders and organizations. As businesses ask employees to embrace new technologies, new ways of working, and significant organizational change, trust has become a strategic business imperative. This roundtable will explore how leaders are fostering transparency, psychological safety, and organizational resilience while maintaining performance and accelerating change.</p>\n<p><strong>#7. Rethinking Talent Pathways</strong></p>\n<p><i>Preparing for the changing economics of entry-level talent and career progression</i></p>\n<p>Traditional career pathways are being reshaped by automation, changing skill requirements, and evolving workforce expectations. This discussion will examine how organizations are rethinking early-career talent, career development, and workforce entry points in a world where many traditional learning experiences are changing. Participants will explore new approaches to developing future talent pipelines while ensuring long-term organizational capability.</p>\n<p><strong>#8. The CHRO as Enterprise Architect</strong></p>\n<p><i>Shaping business strategy, organizational design and transformation at scale</i></p>\n<p>The role of the CHRO has expanded well beyond talent and workforce management. Today's HR leaders are increasingly expected to influence business strategy, organizational effectiveness, transformation, risk management, and long-term growth. This roundtable will explore how leading CHROs are strengthening their influence in the C-suite and boardroom while helping shape the future direction of their organizations.</p>\n\n### Scaling Globally Without Slowing Down\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=19a32fd4-3c75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Risk, Compliance & Workforce Economics\n- Speakers: Jan Boeckstiegel (CFO & Managing Director, WorkMotion)\n- Description: <p>As organizations expand into new markets, the challenge isn't just finding talent - it's building an international workforce without adding unnecessary complexity, cost or compliance risk. Discover how leading organizations are rethinking global hiring to access the skills they need while supporting faster, more sustainable growth.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we expand internationally without creating legal and operational barriers to growth?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we balance compliance, payroll, cost and speed when hiring talent across multiple countries?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a scalable global workforce strategy that enables international growth without establishing local entities in every market?</p>\n<p>You'll also explore practical approaches used by fast-growing organizations to simplify international hiring while managing compliance and reducing operational overhead.</p>\n\n### Re-inventing Organisations in an AI Era: The New Mandate for the CHRO \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=2f59ce17-6b44-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David Green (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Insight222), Sharon Doherty (Chief People & Places Officer, Lloyds Banking Group)\n- Description: <p>The AI revolution is no longer on the horizon - it's here. The real question is how we turn that disruption into value: for our organizations, our people and the communities we serve.</p>\n<p>If we're not reinventing our customer propositions, reshaping routes to market, redesigning how work gets done and radically upgrading the capabilities of our teams, we don't just fall behind - we miss the opportunity altogether.</p>\n<p>In this next chapter, the CHRO is uniquely placed to take a leading role in reinventing the organization for the future, in close collaboration with the CTO and the CFO. The question isn't whether this matters, it's whether we're ready to step into it. So what does that mean in practice?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What tectonic plates are shifting inside organizations and how are we reinventing work as a result?</li>\n<li>What's fundamentally different about the CTO, CHRO and CFO relationship in the AI era?</li>\n<li>And how do HR organizations get a match fit for skills, mindset, data and technology?</li>\n<li>Finding the optimum operating model for your organization which will take your business into the best position for what comes next?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The Adoption Gap: Building the Foundations for an AI-Ready Workforce\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=85d69df7-1555-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Syed Ali Abbas (Global VP of People, HelloFresh)\n- Description: <p>As Global People leader across HelloFresh's international business, Syed Ali Abbas is helping shape AI adoption across a workforce spanning software engineers, corporate teams and thousands of frontline employees. His argument is simple: organizations do not have a model problem, they have a capability problem. The foundations of successful AI transformation are built on workforce readiness, skills, behavior change and the data that enables leaders to make better decisions.</p>\n<p>Drawing on HelloFresh's global transformation, Abbas explores why adoption is a capability that must be intentionally designed, how agentic AI is redefining jobs and workforce planning, and why the same role can now create dramatically different business value. He also examines how organizations can extend AI capability beyond knowledge workers to the frontline, where the majority of employees work today.</p>\n<p>You'll leave with practical insights to help answer some of HR's biggest AI questions: Where should you invest first? Is your organization truly ready for agentic AI? How should workforce planning and job design evolve? And what capabilities must be in place before AI can deliver measurable business value?</p>\n<p>A practical session for HR leaders looking to build the organizational foundations that turn AI investment into lasting business impact.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide where to focus investment by understanding why workforce adoption, supported by the right people data, is the biggest predictor of AI success.</li>\n<li>Identify the organizational foundations needed to scale AI, from workforce readiness and leadership to skills and behavior change.</li>\n<li>Understand how agentic AI is reshaping jobs, workforce planning and individual productivity, and what that means for future workforce decisions.</li>\n<li>Learn practical approaches to extending AI capability across frontline, deskless and knowledge workers alike.</li>\n<li>Know what to demand from AI systems before rollout to maximize adoption, improve decision-making and deliver measurable business value.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Integrated Strategic Workforce Planning:  Linking Business Strategy Directly to Workforce Capability\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c330758f-b255-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Oliver Kasper (Group Head Strategic People Analytics & People Planning, SwissRe)\n- Description: <p>Strategic Workforce Planning is no longer a theoretical exercise, it is the mechanism that connects business priorities to the people, skills, and roles required for future success. This session explores how to build a structured, data-led bridge between strategy and execution.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Translating business strategy into workforce implications: roles, skills, and capacity required to deliver</li>\n<li>Identifying future capability and FTE gaps using business drivers and workforce data</li>\n<li>Turning insight into action: prioritizing upskilling, reskilling, targeted hiring, and internal mobility</li>\n<li>Using scenario modeling to support strategic decision-making and stakeholder alignment</li>\n<li>Strengthening retention strategies to protect critical capabilities</li>\n<li>Converting workforce data into clear, actionable insight that drives execution</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Join the Club: A Practical Framework for Building Ownership, Trust and Collective Impact\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=ef809540-3c75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation\n- Speakers: David Edwards (Chief Workforce Strategist, Dark Artistry), Kobe Verdonck (CEO, SD Worx), Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens (CHRO, SD Worx)\n- Description: <p>That's the idea behind <strong>Join the Club</strong>.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Not a campaign. Not a slogan. A leadership philosophy built on one simple belief: organizations grow faster when people don't just work for the company, they choose to build it together.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Drawing on the journey of transforming SD Worx from a Belgian payroll specialist into the European leading partner for HR, Pay and Time solutions, CEO Kobe Verdonck and CHRO Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens share the six principles behind <strong>Join the Club</strong>, a practical framework that helps leaders create ownership, trust and collective impact.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Grounded in decades of leadership experience and continuous reinvention, this session moves beyond theory to show how freedom and accountability reinforce each other, why trust outperforms control, and how colleagues are critical friends to one another, helping teams and businesses grow faster.</p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a workplace people genuinely want to be part of.</li>\n<li>Turn employees into owners, not just contributors.</li>\n<li>Build trust instead of control.</li>\n<li>Make feedback a catalyst for growth.</li>\n<li>Apply the six principles of <strong>Join the Club</strong> to build lasting impact.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Human Potential, AI-Reimagined: Customer Success Stories of Innovation and HR Transformation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=219b4239-5992-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:20:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Tim Good (Senior Managing Director, Lead Talent & Organization EMEA, Accenture)\n- Description: As AI begins to shape the future of work, HR leaders are rethinking how they approach talent, skills, employee experience, and organizational transformation. This session will explore why leading organizations like Cargolux and SITA —trust Oracle to support their HR transformation.\n\n### Amplifying Human Capability in the Age of AI\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=950f50b2-4275-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:20:00 -> 2026-10-21T14:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Norman Nowak (VP HR IT & AI, Deutsche Telekom), Anand Chopra-McGowan (Managing Director Europe, Valence)\n- Description: CHROs sit at the center of this tension. The pressure to move fast with AI is real and urgent. But so is the responsibility to ensure that speed doesn't come at the cost of human capability, creativity, and connection. Neuroscience Research is already showing that most people using AI tools see their cognitive engagement collapse within minutes, their brains drifting from active thinking toward something closer to passive consumption.  This session asks the harder question: not just how to adopt AI boldly, but how to do so in a way that amplifies what is distinctly human. How do we build organizations where AI makes people sharper, not quieter? And how do CHROs lead that agenda?  The organizations that get this right will not just deploy AI well. They will build the kind of human capability that makes AI meaningful.\n\nFT journalist Vivien Chow and Sarah O'Connor, author of We Are Not Machines, are capturing a shift in how we think about work and technology: as AI reshapes how we work, the question of what human capabilities we lose and what we must fight to protect is becoming impossible to ignore.  CHROs sit at the center of this tension. The pressure to move fast with AI is real and urgent. But so is the responsibility to ensure that speed doesn't come at the cost of human capability, creativity, and connection. Neuroscience Research is already showing that most people using AI tools see their cognitive engagement collapse within minutes, their brains drifting from active thinking toward something closer to passive consumption.  This session asks the harder question: not just how to adopt AI boldly, but how to do so in a way that amplifies what is distinctly human. How do we build organizations where AI makes people sharper, not quieter? And how do CHROs lead that agenda?  The organizations that get this right will not just deploy AI well. They will build the kind of human capability that makes AI meaningful.\n\n### Reinventing People Operations & Delivery\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=e50321f3-1e84-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Barry Chamberlain (Global Head Digital HR & Data Insights, Lonza), Elise van Andel (Vice President, Head of HR Operations and Delivery, Lonza)\n- Description: <p>Discover how Lonza is transforming People Operations & Delivery (or transforming to a Future Ready Organization – linked to People Strategy) through AI, automation and an integrated technology ecosystem to reduce administrative work, enhancing employee experience and enabling HR teams to focus on higher-value impact.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lonza's vision for AI-enabled People Transformation or People Strategy, the AI-roadmap approach and the role of \"NowAssist\".</li>\n<li>Managing People Operations for ~26,000 employees across 45 global locations through a connected HR technology ecosystem and a modern service delivery model.</li>\n<li>Using AI and automation to reduce repetitive work, minimize recurring issues and alleviate pressure on HR business partners.</li>\n<li>Lessons learned from preparing for the July 2026 Now Assist go-live including Value Case, change- and stakeholder management, adoption and expected business outcomes.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How Diageo Scaled Purposeful Performance \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=29705959-2184-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Keri Simm (Head of Performance & Recognition Programs, Diageo)\n- Description: Diageo turned fragmented recognition efforts into a unified global culture accelerator—embedding growth behaviors, improving retention, and aligning people strategy with business goals. Learn how the team reached over 85% of their global employee population—far surpassing their engagement targets, scaled peer-to-peer awards, and is now looking ahead to harness recognition data and technology to shape succession and performance. Leave with ideas to modernize culture and unlock workforce potential.\n\n### Rethinking Modern Work - How to Shift From Control to Curiosity\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=840a2d23-5371-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T14:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: keynote\n- Keynote session: yes\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Anne-Laure Le Cunff (Neuroscientist, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience)\n- Description: The organisations that outperform in an AI-driven world won't necessarily have the best technology, they'll make better decisions, faster. As complexity grows and certainty disappears, the challenge is no longer predicting the future but creating simple ways to learn your way through it.\n<p>In this thought-provoking keynote, neuroscientist and Ness Labs founder Anne-Laure Le Cunff explores why today's organizations have become over-engineered for optimization and under-equipped for decision-making. Instead of chasing certainty, she shows how \"tiny experiments\" help leaders simplify complexity, reduce risk and make smarter decisions through continuous learning.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why complexity is becoming the biggest barrier to effective decision-making, despite more data and more technology</li>\n<li>How tiny, low-risk experiments replace analysis paralysis with rapid learning and evidence</li>\n<li>Practical ways to simplify work, empower better judgment and build learning into everyday decision-making</li>\n<li>Why organizations that experiment, adapt and learn faster consistently outperform those that rely on planning and prediction alone</li>\n<li>What this means for HR leaders redesigning work, leadership and organizational capability in an AI-powered world</li>\n</ul>\n\n### You Have an AI Plan. Rethink it at this session.\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1b922465-21ac-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-21T15:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:35:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: UNLEASH Lounge\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: unleashlounge\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Heather Yurko (VP Agentic HR Innovation, Gloat)\n- Description: <p>Agentic AI can have a long lead time to get started in HR - and willingness isn't to blame. The real blocker is helping stakeholders understand what's changing, how it's better than current state and the guardrails that keep you safe. Skip the generic hype and walk away with a proven playbook for turning agentic AI enthusiasm into actual execution.</p>\n<p>This session unpacks why many agentic AI pilots can't seem to get started in HR - and gives attendees a concrete playbook for getting and communicating clarity around change and getting past the governance and trust barriers that are holding execution back.</p>\n<p>Attendees will walk away with:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>A framework for identifying the right first use case: low-risk enough to earn trust fast, valuable enough to prove the case for scaling.</li>\n<li>The specific questions governance stakeholders will ask before they sign off - so you can prepare for them instead of being blocked by them.</li>\n<li>A model for building the internal coalition that can jump start a successful pilot and lead to an organization-wide rollout.</li>\n<li>Real patterns pulled from live enterprise deployments - showing what separates teams that get started with agentic AI from teams that stay stuck in approval purgatory.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The Fruit vs Donut Paradox: Why Your Best Metrics Might be Hiding the Truth\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d1f35e4c-b355-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T15:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Francesca Caroleo (CHRO (Country HR Officer Luxembourg), Citi), Jakob Ejlsted (Head of People Analytics, SWP and AI, Scandinavian Airlines)\n- Description: <p>Most organizations are not short of workforce metrics. They are measuring more than ever. But many of those measures were never designed to support decisions. A strong engagement score looks reassuring. A productivity metric looks stable. But like the donut vs fruit comparison, what looks right on paper does not always deliver real organizational health.</p>\n<p>This panel is not going to preach about your 'healthy choices' but a but it will challenge whether the metrics your organization relies on are genuinely helping leaders make better decisions.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why some of your healthiest-looking metrics may contain the biggest hidden risks</li>\n<li>The 'donut problem': when a metric looks reassuring but masks poor organizational performance</li>\n<li>Separating measures that simply report activity from those that actually influence decisions</li>\n<li>Identifying the hidden 'sugar' in workforce dashboards that create false confidence</li>\n<li>What leaders should stop measuring because it rarely changes behavior or business outcomes</li>\n<li>How to uncover better indicators in workflow, capability application and decision bottlenecks</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How Talent Management Decisions Shape Your Culture\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=ecc58567-355b-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-21T15:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Talent Management & Performance, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: André Lacroix (Chief Executive Officer, Intertek Group), Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris), Barbara Martin Coppola (Board Member, Patagonia), Jean-Dominique Senard (Chairman, Renault Group)\n- Description: Every talent decision sends a message about what an organization truly values. Who gets hired, promoted, rewarded—or asked to leave—shapes culture more powerfully than corporate statements. This panel brings together three CEOs to explore how these choices translate strategic ambitions into everyday behaviors. \n\nThey will discuss how to recruit for shared values while welcoming people who challenge established thinking. The conversation will examine how performance management and succession decisions influence trust, collaboration and accountability. It will address difficult trade-offs, including how to respond when high performers undermine the culture.\nPanelists will also consider how AI and changing skill needs are reshaping investment in people and career opportunities.\n\nDrawing on concrete examples, the CEOs will share successes, missteps and lessons from their own organizations. Participants will gain practical insights into how CEOs and HR leaders can align talent decisions with the culture they want to build.\n\n### AI Is Only As Strong as Your Frontline Leaders: Why Managers and Employees Will Determine Whether AI Delivers Business Value\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=049671f5-5371-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T15:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Sandrine Girszyn (Chief Human Resources Officer, GIE AXA), Rebecca Wettemann (CEO and Principal Analyst, Valoir)\n- Description: <p>As AI becomes embedded into everyday operations, the role of frontline managers and employees is changing dramatically. They are no longer simply executing work; they are responsible for governing how people and AI work together, challenging recommendations, protecting decision quality and ensuring accountability never disappears behind automation.</p>\n<p>Ultimately, customers experience the quality of AI through the judgment of the people serving them. Organizations that invest only in technology risk creating faster decisions but poorer experiences.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investing in workforce capability, judgment and decision-making with the same commitment as AI technology</li>\n<li>Equipping frontline teams to confidently challenge, validate and improve AI recommendations rather than simply accepting them</li>\n<li>Why frontline managers have become the critical governance layer between AI strategy and customer experience</li>\n<li>Ensuring AI strengthens collaboration, employee confidence and service quality rather than creating dependency or detachment</li>\n<li>Creating governance frameworks that protect customers, build trust and enable innovation without slowing the business</li>\n<li>Measuring success through improved customer outcomes and higher-quality decisions - not simply productivity or automation</li>\n</ul>\n\n### What Could HR Start Doing Differently with the Workforce Intelligence IT Already Has?\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=2e4f4ece-f275-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T15:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Jess Von Bank (Co-Founder, Now To Next), Tom Libretto (President, Workhuman), Lauren Tropeano (Chief People Officer, Docebo), Jayney Howson (Chief Learning Officer, ServiceNow)\n- Description: <p>For years, organizations have added new systems, processes and layers of technology intended to make work easier. Yet in many businesses, the technology and administration surrounding work have become work in themselves. AI creates an opportunity to rethink that model. But simply layering AI onto existing structures risks automating processes that should perhaps no longer exist.</p>\n<p>For HR leaders, the bigger opportunity is to combine workforce intelligence, AI and business data to understand where work creates value, where capability is being wasted and where unnecessary complexity is getting in the way of performance and growth.</p>\n<p>This is not about collecting more data. It is about using the intelligence organizations already have to make different decisions.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying where people are spending time on work that creates little value and deciding what to remove, automate or redesign</li>\n<li>Connecting workforce intelligence to business KPIs to understand where talent, skills and capacity genuinely drive performance</li>\n<li>Looking beyond existing jobs and processes to ask how work would be designed if organizations were starting again today</li>\n<li>Using better signals to uncover underused skills, internal talent and capacity that traditional HR systems miss</li>\n<li>Distinguishing between AI that simply makes existing processes faster and AI that enables fundamentally better ways of working</li>\n<li>Turning productivity gains and released capacity into growth, innovation, and higher value work rather than simply more activity</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The Governance Question That Changes Everything: What Should AI Do? What Shound Humans Do?\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bbc3c9ba-a4bc-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba\n- Time: 2026-10-21T15:30:00 -> 2026-10-21T15:55:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Al Adamsen (Analyst & Host, Adaptive Futures)\n- Description: <p><i>As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise, organizations face a fundamental question: not simply what can AI do, but what should AI do, what should humans do and who remains accountable for the outcomes?</i></p>\n<p>Most organizations are investing heavily in AI capability. Far fewer have established clear principles for where AI should act, where human judgment must remain and how responsibility should be divided between people, intelligent systems and the organization.</p>\n<p>The recent Hugging Face security incident brings this challenge into sharp focus: just because AI can do something does not mean it should. As increasingly capable systems take on more work and decision-making, unclear boundaries can quickly create blurred accountability and new organizational risk.</p>\n<p>This is ultimately a question of organizational design, governance and leadership. The choices leaders make now will determine what gets automated, which human capabilities become more valuable and how people and AI work together responsibly. Leveraging recent research on AI transformation and executive decision-making, this session explores how to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move beyond \"Can AI do this?\" to the leadership question: \"Should AI do this?\"</li>\n<li>Define what the organization, people and AI should each be responsible for</li>\n<li>Establish a clear Division of Responsibility between humans, AI and the organization</li>\n<li>Determine where human judgment, expertise and agency must remain protected as automation expands</li>\n<li>Restructure accountability: if AI performs or influences the work, who owns the outcome and who catches what it misses?</li>\n<li>Introduce AWARE, an operating approach for helping leadership teams make these decisions systematically as technology and work evolve</li>\n<li>Build governance that enables organizations to move faster with AI without sacrificing accountability, judgment or human oversight</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The competitive advantage in the AI era will belong to organizations that are clearest about where AI creates value, where humans matter most and how responsibility is shared between them.</p>\n\n### Speaker Meet & Greet: Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c4486df6-4eac-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-21T15:35:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:20:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: UNLEASH Lounge\n- Format: networking\n- Track / sub-event: unleashlounge\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Speakers: Anne-Laure Le Cunff (Neuroscientist, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience)\n- Description: Join us for an exclusive, invite-only meet and greet with neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and Ness Labs founder Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff. Bridging cutting-edge psychology with real-world experience from her days leading global health marketing at Google, Anne-Laure translates how the brain works into actionable strategies for decision-making, mindful productivity, and navigating uncertainty. This private gathering offers a rare opportunity to connect directly, ask questions.\n\nPlease note that capacity is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.\n\n### Think Different: How Costa Coffee Rebuilt Hiring at Scale\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=a96e8760-a97e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Barb Hyman (CEO & Founder, Sapia.ai), Olivia Sarson (Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Costa Coffee)\n- Description: <p>Costa Coffee's store managers were drowning in CVs for 300,000 applications a year. Olivia Sarson, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Costa, joins Sapia.ai CEO Barb Hyman to share how replacing manual screening with structured AI chat interviews changed hiring outcomes, and gave precious time back to busy store managers.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why \"work harder, find more time\" isn't a fix for a hiring model built for the wrong scale</li>\n<li>How Costa cut early attrition: 23% fewer leavers in the first 30 days, 20% fewer at 90 days</li>\n<li>What 89% completion and 8.8/10 candidate satisfaction look like in a high-volume retail environment</li>\n<li>Why hiring for values is central to Costa's brand and how Sapia.ai enables that</li>\n<li>What's next: expanding beyond barista roles and where Costa's TA strategy goes from here</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Work Intelligence: Every Organization Wants AI-Driven Transformation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=220d4d2a-af7e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Richard Doherty (Senior Director - Marketing, Workday)\n- Description: <p>Every organization is investing in AI, but few have a clear understanding of how work is actually performed across people, processes and technology. Without that visibility, AI investments risk automating the wrong work, overlooking opportunities and creating unintended consequences.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using work intelligence to understand how work flows across the enterprise, identify where AI will deliver the greatest value and make transformation decisions with greater confidence.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where will AI create meaningful business value, and where should work remain fundamentally human?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we identify the tasks, skills and workflows that are ready for AI-enabled transformation?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an evidence-based approach to AI investment that balances productivity, workforce capability and organizational risk?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Workday Work Intelligence maps work across the organization, models the potential impact of AI before deployment and helps leaders make more informed decisions about roles, skills, investments and transformation priorities.</p>\n\n### The Last Mile of Transformation: How to Make your Biggest Strategic Bets Actually Change How People Work\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f020ca36-1875-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Nelson Sivalingam (CEO and Co-Founder, HowNow)\n- Description: This is the last mile of transformation: turning strategic intent into thousands of small, day-to-day changes in behavior and knowing whether they’re actually happening.\n\nIn this keynote, HowNow CEO and author of Learning at Speed, Nelson Sivalingam, explores why this last mile remains so difficult, why our traditional approaches to learning and change aren’t enough, and how AI creates a fundamentally new way to close the gap.\n\nYou’ll see what becomes possible when organizations can understand how work is actually happening, identify where change is getting stuck, intervene in the moment, and continuously measure whether performance is improving.\n\nThe next competitive advantage won’t be launching change faster. It’ll be getting better at making change happen.\n\n### From Ratings to Conversations: How Maersk Reimagined Performance, Talent and Learning\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cc0588a9-c885-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance\n- Speakers: Anish Lalchandani (Global Head of Talent Management, Maersk)\n- Description: <p>Annual reviews, ratings and disconnected talent processes could not build the adaptable, skilled workforce the business would need.</p>\n<p>This session tells the story of Maersk's four year transformation to redesign performance, talent and learning around continuous conversations, shared accountability and capability growth. Anish Lalchandani shares their real journey: why change became essential, how the organization won support for a radically different approach, the barriers encountered along the way and the lessons that continue to shape the program today.</p>\n<p>You'll also hear how AI and people data are now helping enhance decision making without replacing the human conversations that remain at the heart of high performance.</p>\n<p>Whether you are redesigning performance management, building a skills based organization or preparing your workforce for the AI era, this session offers practical lessons from one of the world's largest transformation programs.</p>\n<p>How will this session help you in your role and future decisions:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should you redesign performance management? Understand the business signals that convinced Maersk it was time to move beyond ratings and annual reviews.</li>\n<li>Where should transformation begin? Learn how business strategy drove the redesign of performance, talent and learning rather than treating them as separate HR programs.</li>\n<li>How do you bring leaders with you? Explore the cultural barriers, resistance and change management lessons from implementing a new approach across a global workforce of more than 100,000 employees.</li>\n<li>What role should AI actually play? Discover where AI genuinely improves objective setting, talent insights and workforce intelligence and where human judgment and quality conversations remain irreplaceable.</li>\n<li>How do you know if it is working? Hear how Maersk measures adoption, business impact and continuous improvement when many of the most valuable outcomes cannot be captured through traditional metrics alone.</li>\n<li><strong>What would the team do differently today?</strong> Gain candid lessons from four years of implementation, including what surprised the team, what didn't work as expected and the advice they would give organizations starting the same journey.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Recovering From Failures & Roll-Backs: The Agentic AI Rollbacks Nobody Talks About\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=55112673-ad73-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Antonio Bebba (Founder & CEO, The Corporate Jungle), Miriam Kugel (Director, AI Transformation Advisory, EMEA, Microsoft), Syed Ali Abbas (Global VP of People, HelloFresh), Rachel Bourne (Vice President, AI Transformation, Jacobs)\n- Description: <p>Everyone talks about successful AI deployments. Far fewer talk about the pilots that stalled, the agents that created unexpected risks or the projects that had to be paused, redesigned or switched off altogether.</p>\n\n<p>This is a rare opportunity to hear honest accounts from organizations that have experienced setbacks and emerged with a stronger, smarter approach to Agentic AI. Discover the warning signs they wish they had spotted earlier, the decisions they would change and the practical lessons every HR leader should know before scaling AI across the enterprise.</p>\n\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why promising Agentic AI pilots failed and what organizations learned from getting it wrong</li>\n<li>The early warning signs leaders missed before trust, performance or governance started to break down</li>\n<li>How organizations successfully reset, redesigned or constrained AI to deliver better outcomes</li>\n<li>Knowing when to pause, switch off or ring fence AI agents without disrupting the business</li>\n<li>The practical governance, leadership and change strategies every HR team should put in place before scaling Agentic AI<\n\n### How UPS Cut Hiring Costs 21% While Hiring 300,000+ Seasonal Workers\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c066cd32-5b75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition\n- Speakers: Emma Gregory (Director of Global Talent Acquisition Strategy, UPS), Jesus Sanz (Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition, UPS)\n- Description: Discover how UPS transformed seasonal hiring at scale. Learn how a centralized talent strategy, conversion events, and data-driven programmatic advertising helped reduce cost-per-hire by 21% and improve hiring efficiency by 62%.\n\nHiring more than 300,000 seasonal workers in just weeks requires speed, precision, and efficiency. In this case study, UPS shares how its Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence partnered with Radancy to optimize sourcing, engagement, and conversion. Learn how targeted events, automated programmatic advertising, and performance-driven insights reduced costs, increased efficiency, and improved hiring outcomes.\n\n### An AI Symphony: Orchestrating a Multi-Agent HR Workforce\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=abbc8171-b67e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:20:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:35:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Sebastian Hust (Sr. Director, Global Strategy, Phenom)\n- Description: Many HR teams have deployed a single, generic agent. The real shift is orchestration: multiple agents tuned to your industry, role, and market, for sourcing, screening, scheduling, onboarding, development and coaching, working together under one governance layer. In this live demo, see how Phenom coordinates precision-built agents from hire to retire, with full visibility into every decision.\n\n### The AI Hiring Revolution: Opportunity, Risk & What Comes Next\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=eec3ad42-1975-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:20:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:35:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Milena Warner (Principal Talent Partner, Talentful), Eleonora Rocca (Head of Marketing, TraqCheck)\n- Description: <p>AI is reshaping every stage of the hiring process from sourcing and assessment to decision-making and candidate engagement. At the same time, organizations face a new generation of challenges, including candidate authenticity, emerging fraud risks and growing expectations around transparency and responsible AI.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are adapting their hiring strategies for an AI-first world, balancing automation with human judgment to improve speed, quality and trust.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How should AI reshape your hiring strategy while maintaining confidence in every hiring decision?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where can AI improve recruitment outcomes, and where is human expertise essential to ensure fairness, trust and accountability?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we prepare recruitment processes, governance and operating models for a future where AI is embedded throughout talent acquisition?</p>\n<p>You'll explore how AI-powered recruitment intelligence is helping organizations hire more efficiently, respond to emerging risks such as candidate fraud and authenticity, and build hiring processes that combine automation with responsible human oversight.</p>\n\n### Bridging the Gap: Making HR as Trusted as Finance\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=4a7d6790-4775-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:20:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:35:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Alexander Pyper (Strategic Lead, Crunchr)\n- Description: <p>HR has more workforce data than ever before, yet many business decisions are still led by finance because its numbers are trusted, consistent and immediately actionable. As organizations demand faster, evidence-based decisions, HR has an opportunity to become an equally credible strategic partner but only if leaders can trust the data behind every recommendation.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are building confidence in workforce data by making people insights transparent, auditable and aligned to the way the business makes decisions.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure workforce data is trusted enough to influence strategic business decisions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we present people data in the language of the business, with complete confidence in its accuracy and accountability?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an operating model where HR insights are as timely, reliable and decision-ready as financial information?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Crunchr enables HR teams to answer complex workforce questions with transparent, auditable data that supports faster, more confident decision-making.</p>\n\n### Embracing Uncertainty – Why Human Creativity Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=5f977672-cd85-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:30:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:05:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Dr. Margaret Heffernan (Author, CEO, Professor of Practice, playwright, University of Bath)\n- Description: <p>Across boardrooms, CEOs are facing a growing dilemma. AI is advancing at unprecedented speed, business models are being disrupted, geopolitical uncertainty continues to reshape markets, and leaders are under pressure to improve productivity while preparing for an increasingly unpredictable future. Yet many organizations are approaching workforce transformation through a narrow lens of skills development alone.</p>\n<p>While investment in AI technology continues to accelerate, investment in the human capabilities required to navigate uncertainty often lags behind. The result is a growing learning void: organizations are becoming more technologically capable without becoming more adaptable, creative, resilient or innovative.</p>\n<p>For decades, learning strategies have been built around a simple assumption: identify the skills the business will need, train people to acquire them and prepare for a known future. AI is challenging that model. The question facing leaders today is not simply what skills people need, but how organizations develop the judgment, curiosity, initiative, creativity and learning agility required when the future cannot be forecast with confidence.</p>\n<p>This keynote explores why Learning and Development has a unique opportunity to help organizations close this gap, moving beyond training programs to become a strategic driver of adaptability, innovation and future readiness.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why CEOs are increasingly concerned about adaptability, resilience, innovation and decision quality rather than skills alone</li>\n<li>The emerging learning void between rapid AI adoption and the development of human capability</li>\n<li>Why judgment, initiative, creativity, curiosity and problem-solving are becoming critical sources of competitive advantage</li>\n<li>Moving beyond the traditional predict, train and deploy model towards continuous learning and reinvention</li>\n<li>Creating cultures where experimentation, challenge and intelligent risk-taking can thrive</li>\n<li>Building organizational capacity to respond to disruption, ambiguity and opportunities that cannot yet be predicted</li>\n<li>The opportunity for L&amp;D to become a strategic partner in helping organizations navigate uncertainty and build long-term future readiness</li>\n</ul>\n\n### AI Colleagues for HR — Agentic AI for Transforming Employee Experience\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d5eed388-ab90-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:40:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:55:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Dan Bagley (VP, Solutions Engineering, Leena AI)\n- Description: <p>HR teams don't need another tool to manage - they need capacity back. This session shows how agentic \"AI Colleagues\" move beyond answering questions to actually completing employee requests end to end, and what that shift means for service quality, cost, and the HR operating model.</p>\n\n<p>Most HR AI stops at deflection: it answers a question and hands the real work back to a person. Agentic AI changes the equation. An \"AI Colleague\" doesn't just respond; it reasons across systems, takes action, and closes the loop on employee requests without a ticket ever reaching your team. In this session, we share what separates genuinely agentic systems from dressed-up chatbots, where they create value first, and how HR leaders can adopt them without a multi-year transformation program. Expect a practical view of the operating-model shift, not a product pitch.</p>\n\n<p>Attendees will leave with:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>A clear, jargon-free definition of what makes AI \"agentic\" — and how to tell it apart from the chatbots already on the market</li>\n<li>The employee-experience use cases where AI Colleagues deliver value fastest, and why they're the right place to start</li>\n<li>A practical adoption path that delivers value quickly, without a multi-year transformation program</li>\n<li>What changes for the HR team itself: how roles, service levels, and workload shift when routine requests resolve themselves</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Developing Skills with a Human-Led, AI-Amplified Approach\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=80847a54-3e7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:40:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:10:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh (Chief Customer Experience Officer, Coursera x Udemy)\n- Description: <p>The most powerful learning experiences don't replace the human element - they amplify it. In this session, we'll share what's new and what's next across the Coursera + Udemy platforms, from immersive and personalized learning to AI-assisted skill development. Framed around the experiences that matter most to learners and organizations, this is a look at how smart product innovation can help your people build the skills they need, faster - without losing the depth that makes learning stick.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How AI-powered personalization helps learners discover the right content at the right time.</li>\n<li>How Coursera and Udemy combine expert-created content with AI to create engaging, scalable learning experiences.</li>\n<li>New capabilities that support skills intelligence, role-based learning pathways, and measurable outcomes. How organizations can accelerate workforce transformation while keeping learning human-centered.</li>\n<li>What's next on the product roadmap for enterprise learning.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Agentic HR in Production: A Live Session with Holcim & Gloat\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=648f0ec2-427c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:40:00 -> 2026-10-21T16:55:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Shlomo Weiss (Chief Operating Officer, Gloat), Fatma Hedeya (Group Head of Talent, Holcim)\n- Description: <p>AI in HR is moving beyond pilots and proof of concepts. Leading organizations are now deploying AI agents to support critical workforce decisions in real operational environments. The challenge is no longer whether AI works - it's how organizations introduce agents that understand organizational context, act with confidence and remain accountable for the decisions they support.</p>\n<p>Join Holcim and Gloat for a live look at Agentic HR in production, exploring how AI agents are transforming succession, retention, hiring and skills by working from a connected understanding of the workforce rather than isolated data or individual tasks.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move from AI experimentation to AI agents that deliver measurable value in everyday HR operations?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which workforce decisions are ready for AI agents, and what information do those agents need to act with confidence and transparency?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an AI operating model where agents work alongside HR teams, integrate with existing systems and strengthen trust in workforce decision-making?</p>\n<p>You'll see Holcim's live deployment of Agentic HR, including AI agents supporting succession, retention, and skills, powered by a connected workforce model and embedded directly into the tools HR teams already use.</p>\n\n### High-Tech, High-Touch: Solving Recruitment at Scale \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=71a0a7e5-263e-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Jeroen Klerkx (People Lead, Picnic)\n- Description: </p>The organisations getting this right are not choosing between speed and experience; they are re-architecting hiring so both improve together. This means using automation deliberately to remove friction, not human connection, and building systems that continuously learn from both data and lived candidate experience. The advantage comes from knowing where human judgment truly matters and creating the space for recruiters to operate there. </p>\n<p>In this session:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove friction with automation so recruiters focus on high-impact human moments</li>\n<li>Redesign workflows for speed where it directly improves outcomes</li>\n<li>Test and scale through rapid, real-world iteration</li>\n<li>Combine data and feedback to understand bottlenecks and causes</li>\n<li>Build hiring journeys that are efficient, personal, and continuously improving</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From AI to Impact\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bb796f51-d181-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Grettel Siegert (Senior Leadership Learning Architect & AI for People Lead, ABB), Nevra Oenal (VP, Global IS Consumer Engagement, ABB)\n- Description: <p>Many organizations have rolled out AI tools, but far fewer have succeeded in shaping how people actually think and work with AI.</p>\n<p>ABB shares how it is moving beyond traditional technology-focused AI upskilling to build an organization where AI becomes a partner in decision-making, problem-solving and continuous learning. The organization has created a holistic approach that does not focus on technology but actually combines leadership, learning, and communities to support employees to collaborate with AI. This approach leads to increased impact in changing mindsets and is boosting productivity, enabling creative exploration of ideas and encouraging people to own their self-development.</p>\n<p>You will learn about the quantifiable results of the efforts in upskilling and changing mindsets.</p>\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving beyond AI tool training to create lasting behavioral and cultural change</li>\n<li>Building employee confidence to use AI for productivity, exploration, and self-development</li>\n<li>Creating global AI communities, campaigns and learning experiences that accelerate adoption at scale</li>\n<li>The critical role of leadership and change management in making AI part of everyday work</li>\n<li>Sharing the early results of the mindset shift and adoption</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Research Briefing: HR Realities 2026 \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=0271fd12-a785-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T16:45:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David Wilson (Founder & CEO, Fosway Group)\n- Description: <p>Exclusive new research from Fosway Group reveals how enterprise HR leaders across EMEA are responding to the biggest reset in HR for over a decade. As AI, economic pressure and workforce transformation collide, driving organizational performance and the impact of AI as it reshapes the future of work have overtaken every other priority. Discover where HR investment is shifting, how AI is reshaping operating models, why traditional HR technology is being challenged, and what separates organizations preparing for the future from those struggling to keep pace.</p>\n\n<p>You'll discover:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why organizational performance and profitability have become HR's number one priority</li>\n<li>How AI is moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation and what keeping the \"human in the loop\" really means</li>\n<li>Where HR budgets are rising, where investment is slowing, and how AI is reshaping HR operating models and workforce structures</li>\n<li>Why specialist technologies are disrupting traditional HR platforms across talent, learning, skills and employee experience</li>\n<li>What Europe's highest-performing HR teams are doing differently to build productivity, resilience and future workforce capability</li>\n<li>The strategic decisions HR leaders need to make today to secure their organization's competitive advantage tomorrow</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Unlocking Borderless Business: The AI Blueprint for Global Expansion\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=85b48b7e-9b9f-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-21T17:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:15:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: GK Gangadhar Konduri (Chief Product Officer, G-P), Kevin Gaskin (Senior HR Transformation Manager, Rackspace Technology)\n- Description: <p>Navigating highly fragmented local labor laws, cross-border tax compliance, and disconnected payroll networks creates significant organizational friction. Historically, companies have relied on an inefficient web of disparate local vendors - sacrificing speed, driving up overhead, and increasing regulatory risk. True global agility requires a unified approach.</p>\n\n<p>In this session, G-P will share how its agentic AI global employment platform eliminates the operational hurdles of cross-border expansion. We will demonstrate how embedding intelligent automation into global HR infrastructure allows organizations to deploy international teams instantly while maintaining ironclad compliance.</p>\n\n<p>Key Learning Objectives for Attendees:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitigating Global Fragmentation: The hidden operational costs of managing disparate regional vendors and siloed systems.</li>\n<li>The Compliance-First AI Framework: How to leverage AI to automate hyper-local contracts, tax compliance, and cross-border payroll seamlessly.</li>\n<li>Accelerating Time-to-Market: Firsthand strategies from a global peer on scaling international talent pools without expanding internal compliance overhead.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The Next Competitive Advantage: Understanding Work in the Age of AI \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=e226177c-2d80-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T17:05:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:30:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: David Green (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Insight222), Eric Mosley (Founder, CEO & Board Member, Workhuman)\n- Description: <p>The first wave of AI has focused on making work faster. The next wave will be about understanding work better.</p>\n<p>As AI becomes embedded across every function, most organizations are using it to automate tasks, summarize information, and improve productivity. But those capabilities alone don't explain how work actually gets done, who people trust, where influence exists, which leaders develop talent, or why some employees become the people everyone depends on.</p>\n<p>In this fireside chat, Workhuman Founder and CEO Eric Mosley explores why competitive advantage is shifting from AI capability to human understanding. Drawing on 25 years of research at the intersection of recognition, behavioral science, and AI, he argues that the organizations creating lasting advantage in the age of AI will be those that capture the human signals traditional systems miss and use AI to make better decisions about their people.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why AI's greatest opportunity is understanding work, not simply automating it</li>\n<li>How CHROs can close the gap between AI ambition and meaningful business impact by making better use of the data they already have</li>\n<li>How AI can help organizations identify future leaders earlier and make better people decisions</li>\n<li>How trust, influence, collaboration and recognition reveal leadership long before organizational charts do</li>\n<li>Why the companies that win with AI will be the ones that build their strategy on better human data first</li>\n</ul>\n\n### HR on  Autopilot? Human Judgement vs Automation  \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=efb7afc0-a785-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T17:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Steve Boese (President & Co-Founder, H3 HR Advisors), Mahe Bayireddi (CEO and Co-Founder, Phenom), Jamie Mackenzie (Partner, HR & Talent Transformation, IBM), Vincent Dupuis (VP HR Digital, Data & AI, Airbus Group)\n- Description: <p>Decisions on hiring, pay and promotion are one of the most important things that HR makes. Increasingly however, HR is not the one making them. What are the short and longer implications of this and should we be dialing back on automation within HR?</p>\n<p>AI now shapes who gets hired, how people are paid and when they are promoted. The question is no longer whether HR should automate, but whether it still owns the rules once it has. When the workflow becomes the policy, authority quietly shifts to IT departments, vendors and the algorithm itself, and accountability becomes harder to locate just as the stakes for individual careers rise.</p>\n<p>This panel asks where automation genuinely improves fairness and where it erodes it, which decisions must always carry a human override, and how much transparency employees deserve about the systems judging them. At its heart is a sharper question about the function itself: is HR becoming the strategic architect of the enterprise, or merely the operator of machines it no longer controls?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is HR becoming a strategic architect of the enterprise – or just the operator of automated systems?</li>\n<li>Where does automation improve fairness</li>\n<li>If the workflow becomes the policy, who owns the rules of HR: HR, IT, vendors or the algorithm?</li>\n<li>When AI influences hiring, pay, and promotion, who is accountable for the outcome?</li>\n<li>What decisions should always require a human override – and what should be fully standardized?</li>\n<li>How much transparency do employees deserve about how decisions are made?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Closing The Human Capability Gap  \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=9d415248-ca85-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-21T17:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation\n- Speakers: Jean-Côme Renaudin (Global AI & Data School Director, Schneider Electric), Zaka Farhat (Global SVP, Talent, Learning and Capability Development, GSK), Anish Lalchandani (Global Head of Talent Management, Maersk)\n- Description: <p>Transformation is cheap. Delivery is expensive. The gap between the two is capability</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why L&amp;D and skills leadership now sit at the center of enterprise performance - not the periphery</li>\n<li>The execution disciplines most consistently associated with transformation success</li>\n<li>How AI changes delivery: shorter cycles, more exceptions, and a higher premium on judgement</li>\n<li>Why the team layer remains the highest-return point of intervention</li>\n<li>The mechanics of scale: decision rights, escalation, focus, and workflow design</li>\n<li>The benchmark: measurable outcomes, not visible activity</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The Hiring Operating System: How AI, Data, Platforms and People Combine to Drive Better Talent Decisions\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=83d48c1c-b273-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-21T17:15:00 -> 2026-10-21T17:45:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Meghna Punhani (Chief People Officer, Eightfold AI), Marilyn Pearson Hendricks (CEO, WorkTech Advisory), Lori Goldberg (Senior Vice President, Global Talent, Learning & Culture, Smith & Nephew), Kerstin Wagner (Executive VP Talent Acquisition, Deutsche Bahn)\n- Description: <p>As organizations respond to tighter labor markets, shifting skill demand and rising expectations from candidates, hiring is becoming a continuous, system-level capability rather than a reactive process. Following the design principles and real-world lessons explored in the previous sessions, this panel focuses on what it takes to build a hiring model that delivers speed, quality and trust at scale.</p>\n<p>Discussion focus:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving from tools to systems: how organizations connect AI, platforms and workflows into one coherent hiring model</li>\n<li>Where AI adds the most value within the broader stack and where other tools remain critical</li>\n<li>Hiring in challenging markets: how labor shortages and demographics are reshaping sourcing and selection strategies</li>\n<li>Hiring vs redeployment vs alternative talent models: how organizations are making these decisions in practice</li>\n<li>The real constraint: fragmented data, disconnected systems and inconsistent ownership across TA and the business</li>\n<li>What breaks at scale: adoption gaps between recruiters, hiring managers and leadership</li>\n<li>Designing workflows that balance automation, structure and flexibility across different hiring volumes and roles</li>\n<li>Building feedback loops: using hiring outcomes, candidate experience and performance data to continuously improve</li>\n</ul>\n\n### CEO–CHRO Partnership: Rebuilding a Global Enterprise for the Next Decade\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bd25f262-2c3e-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-21T17:30:00 -> 2026-10-21T18:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation\n- Speakers: Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris), Nicolas Hieronimus (Chief Executive Officer, L'Oréal), Jean-Claude Le Grand (Chief Human Resources Officer, L'Oreal)\n- Description: This conversation explores how leadership alignment at the very top is enabling L’Oréal to rethink the structure of the organisation, the role of talent, and the balance between global scale and local responsiveness. It will examine how macro labour shifts, geopolitical realities and technological acceleration are being translated into a coherent enterprise architecture and workforce strategy. \n<p>The session offers a rare, inside view of how a global leader is redefining the CEO–CHRO partnership to navigate long-term transformation with precision, pace, and control.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The critical role of the CEO-CHRO partnership to drive the transformation of L'Oréal in the uncertainty resulting from AI exponential development, geopolitical risks, ecological challenges and demographic tensions.</span></li>\n<li><span>The impact of AI on the evolution of skills and competencies, particularly regarding the young generation for entry-level jobs. How HR can take a leadership position in the transformation with its strategic workforce planning expertise.</span></li>\n<li><span>The changing nature of leadership at the age of AI with the new leadership model implemented by L'Oréal.</span></li>\n<li><span>The balance between keeping historical L'Oréal cultural fundamentals and introducing new values towards more flexibility and resilience.</span></li>\n<li><span>The impact of the CEO-CHRO partnership to foster innovation, a key differentiator for L'Oréal, everywhere in the organization.</span></li>\n\n### UNLEASH Rooftop Party\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=b0065803-7da0-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-21T18:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T20:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Terminal 7\n- Format: networking\n- Track / sub-event: other\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Description: After a day filled with insightful discussions, productive networking, strategic partnerships, impactful deal-making, valuable product exploration, and so much more, it’s time to unwind and immerse yourself in everything Paris has to offer.\n\nTake some time to reflect on the day, connect with your new network, and gear yourself up for another exciting day at UNLEASH.\nSponsored by HiBob & Multiplier!\n\n### UNLEASH Startup Drinks & Reception Powered by Playroll\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=053811f3-b394-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-21T18:00:00 -> 2026-10-21T21:00:00\n- Day: Wednesday 21 October 2026\n- Room: Courtyard by Marriott Paris Porte de Versaille\n- Format: networking\n- Track / sub-event: other\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption\n- Description: <p>If you're a <b>startup founder looking to build meaningful connections across the HRTech ecosystem</b>, step away from the conference floor and join us for an evening of informal networking, drinks and conversations with the people shaping the future of work.</p>\n<p>Meet <b>fellow founders, investors, HR practitioners, ecosystem leaders and innovators</b> from across the global HRTech community. Whether you're looking to exchange ideas, explore potential collaborations, meet future partners, or simply connect with the people behind some of the most exciting companies in HRTech, this is your opportunity to expand your network and be part of the community.</p>\n<p>Expect <b>great conversations, drinks, new connections and plenty of inspiration</b> in a relaxed setting.</p>\n<p><b>Places are limited to just 75 guests.</b></p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>21 October 2026</b></li>\n<li><b>6:00 PM–9:00 PM</b></li>\n<li><b>Courtyard by Marriott Paris Porte de Versailles</b> 3–5–7 Rue Ernest Renan, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris Room: Hall 1-2-3</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This event is powered by Playroll.</p>\n<p><b>Come for the drinks. Stay for the connections.</b></p>\n\n### The Skills AI Can't Commoditise: Why The Hardest Skills At Work Are The Ones We Still Call Soft \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=a25264f8-62be-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T09:30:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Marcus Collins (Clinical Associate Professor, University of Michigan)\n- Description: <p>Judgment, curiosity, empathy, creativity, influence and the ability to interpret context become more valuable when everyone has access to increasingly powerful technology. So are organizations developing the capabilities that will actually matter next?</p>\n<p>Drawing on his latest thinking and his forthcoming book <i>Good Soil</i>, Dr. Marcus Collins will also challenge another assumption: what if some of what we call a skills gap is actually an environment gap? Talent does not flourish in isolation. Culture, leadership, incentives and the conditions people work within determine whether capability can actually translate into performance.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What becomes scarce and valuable in humans when increasingly sophisticated AI is available to everyone?</li>\n<li>Why the hardest skills to develop and measure may now matter most</li>\n<li>Moving beyond the artificial divide between hard and soft skills</li>\n<li>Why acquiring skills is only half the equation and organizations need the right conditions for people to use them</li>\n<li>How culture can either amplify human capability or quietly suppress it</li>\n<li>What this means for how organizations identify, develop and value skills in the AI era</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Connecting the Dots: How Reward Innovation, Transparency and AI Are Building the Future of Workforce Trust\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d93af946-e363-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T09:30:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Risk, Compliance & Workforce Economics\n- Speakers: Nicoletta Iacullo (Total Rewards Senior Director, Baker Hughes)\n- Description: Employees increasingly expect clarity around pay, progression and opportunity, while organizations are balancing fairness, governance and business performance in increasingly complex environments.\n<p>The opportunity is not simply to create greater visibility but to connect the dots across the organization: linking reward strategy, workforce planning, culture, leadership and employee trust into a more integrated and meaningful experience. At Baker Hughes, the focus is evolving from transparency as a compliance exercise toward creating stronger foundations around what organizations value, how contribution is recognized and how trust is built at scale.</p>\n<p>Find out how total rewards leaders are connecting strategy, technology and people to create more transparent, trusted and future-ready organizations.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Total Rewards is becoming a strategic driver of workforce confidence and business performance</li>\n<li>How AI is changing the way organizations understand, communicate and personalize rewards</li>\n<li>Why transparency is evolving from a reporting requirement into a leadership and culture opportunity</li>\n<li>How organizations can connect reward strategies with broader talent, engagement and workforce goals</li>\n<li>Lessons learned around governance, communication and creating trust at scale</li>\n</ul>\n\n### HR 2030: How The HR Tech Landscape Is Up For Grabs\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=956b958c-f54d-f111-8ef3-6045bd9548dc\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T09:50:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: keynote\n- Keynote session: yes\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: <p>In this keynote, global industry analyst Josh Bersin projects to 2030 to show why the HR technology landscape is \"up for grabs\" and what that shift will mean for HR leaders. He will unpack the convergence of AI agents, skills intelligence, productivity platforms and employee experience tools, and how this is collapsing today's fragmented stacks into new ecosystem models.</p>\n<p>Drawing on fresh research, case studies and market data, Josh will explore which categories are being disrupted, where entirely new ones are emerging, and how buyers can avoid getting locked into the wrong architecture. He will show what high-performing organizations are doing now to future-proof their HR tech strategy and how HR can take the lead in designing a nimble, AI-native ecosystem that delivers real business value by 2030.</p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discover why the HR tech market is being fundamentally reshaped and which current categories are most at risk or ripe for reinvention</li>\n<li>Understand how AI agents, skills platforms, and EX solutions are converging into new, integrated ecosystems far beyond today's traditional \"HR systems of record\"</li>\n<li>Learn how leading organizations are rethinking their HR tech architectures, procurement approaches and data foundations to stay flexible in an uncertain market</li>\n<li>Explore the new rules of competition for HR tech vendors and what this means for suites, platforms, and best-of-breed solutions</li>\n<li>Walk away with a practical roadmap to de-risk your HR tech bets, position HR as a strategic technology buyer, and build an ecosystem that can adapt to whatever 2030 brings</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Designing Fair Reward Systems After the EU Directive: AI & Pay Intelligence\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=20289b9a-407c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-22T09:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Clare Bonham (Chief Product Officer, beqom)\n- Description: <p>The EU Pay Transparency Directive is changing how organizations design, explain and govern reward. Pay decisions are becoming more visible, more accountable and subject to greater scrutiny, creating new expectations around fairness, transparency and evidence.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are rethinking their reward strategies, using pay intelligence and AI to identify structural bias, strengthen decision-making and build compensation frameworks that are equitable, defensible and fit for a new era of transparency.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure our reward strategy is fair, transparent and ready for increased regulatory scrutiny?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we identify and address structural bias before pay decisions are made?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a compensation model that supports compliance while strengthening trust, consistency and organizational fairness?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how PaySuite combines pay intelligence and AI to help organizations embed pay equity into compensation planning, optimize pay structures and support more transparent reward decisions.</p>\n\n### Responsible AI Agents, Real Results: Smarter Hiring Starts Now\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=35adefdf-e284-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-22T09:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Lena Rogova (Product Portfolio Director, ICIMS)\n- Description: <p>Discover how responsible AI agents are reshaping talent acquisition, helping recruiting teams work smarter, navigate complexity and achieve better hiring outcomes while keeping transparency, trust, and governance at the core.</p>\n<p>AI is moving beyond assistance toward action. In this Product Spotlight, Lena Rogova, Product Portfolio Director, AI/ML at iCIMS, explores how responsible AI agents can transform talent acquisition while keeping transparency, explainability and trust at the center.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How agentic AI is changing the way recruiting teams work</li>\n<li>Where AI agents can drive efficiency across the talent acquisition lifecycle</li>\n<li>How to balance AI innovation with responsible governance and compliance</li>\n<li>Why transparency, explainability and auditability matter when deploying AI in hiring</li>\n<li>How organizations can turn AI innovation into measurable recruiting outcomes</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The Learning ROI Reckoning\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1280c249-ce85-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:00:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Jess Von Bank (Co-Founder, Now To Next), Phil LeBrun (Executive in Residence, Amazon (AWS))\n- Description: <p>For years, Learning and Development has measured what is easy to count rather than what creates value. Courses completed. Hours consumed. Satisfaction scores. These are the metrics of a bygone era — a rigid, factory-era model built on standardization, control and predictable output. Yet in an era of AI disruption and relentless demands for productivity, executive teams are asking a different question: is learning actually making the organization more adaptable?</p>\n\n<p>As skills requirements shift faster than ever, the most adaptive organizations — what this conversation calls <i>Octopus Organizations</i> — no longer treat learning as a separate function bolted onto the business. They weave development into daily work, blur the line between running and changing the business, and build capability as a strategic asset and source of competitive advantage. The challenge is not simply to develop people, but to create distributed capability that drives measurable outcomes: faster execution, speed to competence, greater adaptability, innovation and workforce resilience.</p>\n\n<p>This high-level discussion explores how learning leaders can move beyond activity metrics to demonstrate their contribution to business outcomes, organizational adaptability and long-term enterprise value — and why the organizations that win treat learning not as a support service, but as part of the operating model of a continuously transforming enterprise.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Why traditional learning metrics are rapidly losing credibility with Boards and business leaders — and why \"watermelon\" reporting (green on the surface, red underneath) masks the real picture</li>\n<li>The uncomfortable truth behind the learning ROI debate, and why measures connected to value and purpose beat measures of consumption</li>\n<li>Shifting from measuring content consumption to measuring capability creation</li>\n<li>Why the most adaptive organizations weave development into daily work rather than isolating it in courses and academies — building tomorrow's critical skills in the flow of work</li>\n<li>How learning can accelerate productivity, speed to competence, workforce agility and business performance</li>\n<li>The role of experimentation, productive failure and validated learning in building future-ready organizations</li>\n<li>Creating stronger alignment between Learning, Operations, Finance and enterprise strategy — and why \"running\" and \"changing\" the business are no longer separate activities</li>\n<li>What the most progressive organizations are measuring, what they have stopped measuring altogether, and how to build an L&D function seen not as a support service but as a driver of organizational adaptability</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From Regulation to Reality – The First Lessons from EU Pay Transparency\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f4bc9447-b473-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:30:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:00:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Ombline de Tessières (Group Head of Rewards and International Mobility, AXA), Anita Lettink (Managing Partner, HRTechRadar)\n- Description: <p>The EU Pay Transparency Directive is proving to be far more than a compliance exercise. As organizations move from preparation to implementation, pay transparency is exposing much deeper questions around job architecture, data quality, governance, leadership capability and employee trust.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The session opens with a strategic overview from Anita Lettink, one of Europe’s leading experts on pay transparency, before Ombline de Tissières and Claire Shortiss of AXA take us inside the reality of preparing a major international organization for this new era of transparency.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Together, they will explore what regulation looks like when it meets the complexity of a global workforce and the practical choices organizations now need to make.</p>\n<p></p>\n<ul>\n<li>What 2026 is revealing about the real organizational impact of EU Pay Transparency</li>\n<li>Building the job architecture, role leveling and pay governance needed to make transparency work</li>\n<li>Turning complex workforce and reward data into credible, defensible decisions</li>\n<li>How greater transparency changes recruitment, progression, reward and manager conversations</li>\n<li>Connecting HR, Reward, Finance, Legal, technology and business leadership around a common approach</li>\n<li>Navigating multiple systems, markets and regulatory requirements at enterprise scale</li>\n<li>Moving beyond compliance to strengthen employee trust, pay equity and workforce decision-making</li>\n</ul>\n<p></p>\n\n### HR as Leaders of Change in a Technology World\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=8b03ddb9-2d3e-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:50:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:30:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Priya Thaman (Chief Human Resources Officer, Clariant International Ltd), Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts (Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris), Clément de Villepin (Senior Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Thales Group), Laurent Choain (Global Chief People & Culture Officer, Accor)\n- Description: <p>For decades, success was measured by building high-performing people functions, attracting talent and supporting organizational change. Those capabilities remain essential. But they are no longer sufficient.</p>\n<p>Today's executive teams and boards are looking for something different. Leaders who can anticipate disruption before it arrives. Translate uncertainty into business decisions. Build organizations that can continually adapt. Balance technology with human capability. And create the conditions for sustainable growth in an increasingly unpredictable world.</p>\n<p>This is not about HR becoming more technical. It is about HR becoming one of the principal architects of enterprise resilience, capability and long-term value creation.</p>\n<p>As organizations redefine leadership for a new era, what will distinguish the CHROs who shape business strategy from those who simply lead the people function?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which traditional strengths of HR have become more valuable than ever, and which are rapidly becoming obsolete?</li>\n<li>What capabilities will CEOs, boards and investors increasingly expect from HR leaders over the next five years?</li>\n<li>How should HR balance long-term workforce capability with relentless pressure for productivity, growth and transformation?</li>\n<li>Where should HR lead enterprise strategy rather than support it?</li>\n<li>How do you build organizations that thrive through continual disruption instead of repeatedly recovering from it?</li>\n<li>If appointing a CHRO in 2030, what qualities, experience and mindset would matter most?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From Zero to Global: Scaling an HRBP Team That Executives Actually Call \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=fa28d9ad-3a7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:50:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:05:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Nadia Alaee (Senior Director, HR Business Partner, Deel)\n- Description: <p>Nadia Alaee shares her experience building and scaling Deel's Global HR Business Partnership team from the ground up. This session delivers a practical playbook for HR leaders ready to increase their influence, support business growth, and impact outcomes at every stage of the employee lifecycle.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reframe HR and Total Rewards as a strategic business lever, not an administrative function.</li>\n<li>Build deep partnerships and credibility with executive leadership and stakeholders across the organization.</li>\n<li>Implement the roadmap: from scaling operations to building a strategic partnership that supports business growth.</li>\n<li>Drive competitive advantage by ensuring the best employee experience from onboarding throughout their tenure.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Elevate your seat at the table and influence critical business decisions in a high-growth environment.</p>\n\n### AI Workforce Readiness Is the Prerequisite for Every Transformation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=6725a6ec-3a7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:50:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:05:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Chetna Mangalik (SVP HR COE & HR Global Functions, Danone Group)\n- Description: As AI reshapes roles, workflows, and the way work gets done, organizations must move beyond AI literacy to build a workforce that can continuously adapt. In this session, Chetna Mangalik, Sr VP HR COE & HR Global functions at Danone Group, explores why workforce readiness is the critical prerequisite for every AI transformation and how leading organizations are aligning skills, capabilities, and business strategy to accelerate adoption, drive measurable outcomes, and create a lasting competitive advantage\n\n### Your Recruiting Stack Was Built for the Last Era\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=07b2fc17-4975-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T09:50:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:05:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David Paffenholz (CEO, Juicebox)\n- Description: <p>David Paffenholz explores how AI agents introduce a new operating model, where recruiters set the strategy and agents continuously source, research, and engage talent on their behalf.</p>\n<p>The modern recruiting stack was designed for a world of manual searches, disconnected tools, and repetitive workflows. Adding isolated AI features may make individual tasks faster, but it does not fundamentally change how recruiting operates.</p>\n<p>In this session, David Paffenholz, CEO at Juicebox, will explore how leading TA teams are moving beyond traditional software and building agentic workflows that expand what every recruiter can accomplish.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the traditional recruiting stack is reaching its limits</li>\n<li>What makes an AI agent different from another AI feature</li>\n<li>Which sourcing and outreach workflows are best suited for agents</li>\n<li>How recruiters can direct, refine, and collaborate with agents over time</li>\n<li>How to introduce agents without sacrificing quality, control, or candidate experience</li>\n</ul>\n\n### EU Pay Directive Panel Discussion: The Pay Transparency Reality Check \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=798c6ed3-395b-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-22T10:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:30:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Gudrun Thorgeirsdottir (Chief Business Development Officer, beqom), Audrey Richard (Chief People Officer, Canal+), Marion Devine (Principal in Human Capital for Europe, The Conference Board), Konstantinos Karavidas (Group Total Rewards Manager, Ingka/IKEA)\n- Description: <p>This remains one of the hottest areas of interest across the whole agenda. This discussion brings together senior HR practitioners at the forefront of pay transparency with an analyst perspective that provides the bigger-picture view across organizations, markets and emerging practice.</p>\n<p>By combining first-hand implementation experience with research and insight drawn from a much broader organizational landscape, the panel has the best mix of outlook and insight. It will look beyond individual company experience to identify the common challenges, emerging patterns and lessons that matter most. Where are organizations consistently underestimating the complexity? What separates those making progress from those struggling to translate regulation into workable practice? And what can organizations still preparing learn from those already further ahead?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reality check: what has surprised organizations most once implementation begins?</li>\n<li>The hidden complexity: are job architecture, pay frameworks and legacy processes the real challenge?</li>\n<li>The data problem: what happens when regulation meets fragmented systems and imperfect data?</li>\n<li>Handling the conversation nobody wants: how do you explain pay differences to managers and employees?</li>\n<li>Compliance vs trust: can organizations become more transparent without creating new tensions?</li>\n<li><i>Looking ahead:</i> what are the organizations further ahead doing differently and what should everyone else learn now?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Play to Win: How the Best Companies Are Reimagining Learning for the AI Era \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=0e7e7755-cf85-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T10:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:30:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Jayney Howson (Chief Learning Officer, ServiceNow)\n- Description: And yet, the organizations winning the AI race right now aren’t the most automated; they’re the most deeply human. In this session, attendees will learn how to develop a centralized, reinvented strategy for L&D with a \"playground for learning\" approach. Hear how one F500 Chief Learning Officer is building an environment inside their global company that allows for failure, encourages experimentation with agentic AI and new pathways, and keeps human empathy, context, and belief at the core of the workforce.   \n\n### Inside Mirakl's Rollout of Mochi, Hiring’s First Conversational Skills Agent\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=42fceb1a-67ab-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-22T10:10:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:25:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Learning, Skills & Talent Development\n- Speakers: Jean-Baptiste Anne (Interim Chief People Officer, Mirakl), Carla Piñero (Employer Brand Manager, Mirakl)\n- Description: <p>What happens when every candidate gets a conversation?</p>\n<p>Join Mirakl, the fast-growing ecommerce technology company with clients like Macy's, Decathlon, Carrefour, Asos, and Airbus Helicopters, as its leaders share how they're rethinking candidate screening while hiring for tech and business roles across a global, competitive talent market.</p>\n<p>They'll reveal how they replaced manual CV triage with skills-based conversations at scale using Emma, Maki's conversational hiring agent, to screen at scale, from a high-volume internship rollout to skills-based screening for roles worldwide.</p>\n<p>We'll dig into what this shift means for hiring efficiency and candidate experience.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decision you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>When should conversational, skills-based screening replace traditional CV triage?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you scale candidate screening without creating more manual work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do you improve hiring efficiency while giving every candidate a better experience?</p>\n<p>Take a seat for practical insights into scaling skills-based hiring, reducing manual screening, and rethinking the role of AI in candidate evaluation.</p>\n\n### The Skills Operating Model\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=0616f92f-407c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T10:10:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:25:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Talent Management & Performance, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Hanns-Bertin Aderhold (CEO & Founder, Cobrainer)\n- Description: <p>As organizations embrace AI, internal mobility and greater pay transparency, traditional job structures are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. A skills-based organization depends on something many businesses still lack: a trusted, continually evolving understanding of the work people do and the skills they need to succeed.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are building the foundations of a skills operating model, creating a dynamic view of jobs and skills that enables better workforce planning, talent decisions and organizational agility.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move from static job frameworks to a living skills architecture that evolves with the business?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create trusted job and skills data that supports workforce planning, internal mobility and pay transparency?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build the data foundations that enable every talent process to operate from a single, consistent view of skills?</p>\n\n### What Makes Recognition Human? New Research on Employee Experience, AI, and Rewards\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=44b82304-4e75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T10:10:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:25:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing\n- Speakers: Sarah Marrs (Senior Director of Product Science, Awardco)\n- Description: New research from Awardco’s Center of Excellence explores what makes recognition meaningful across global cultures and in an AI-enabled workplace. Learn how HR leaders can design recognition strategies that scale while still feeling authentic, personal, and trusted.\n\nAs organizations scale recognition across global workforces and begin introducing AI into the employee experience, a new challenge is emerging: what makes recognition still feel real? This session explores new research on cultural differences, reward, and employee sentiment toward AI-assisted recognition, offering practical guidance for HR leaders designing programs that are scalable, trusted, and meaningful.\n\n### Human by Nature. AI Powered. Leading through uncertainty: how HR is helping shape Givaudan's AI journey\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=46fb2486-b6aa-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-22T10:30:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Martha Tracey (Head of Employee Experience, Givaudan), Simon Halle-Smith (CHRO, Givaudan)\n- Description: <p>AI is moving fast, but the biggest challenge is not the technology itself. It's how leaders navigate a future that is still unfolding.</p>\n<p>In this session, Simon Halle-Smith, CHRO, and Martha Tracey, Head of Employee Experience, will share how Givaudan is approaching AI as a people and leadership transformation. Rather than starting with tools, they will explore how HR is helping the organization define the principles, guardrails and leadership conversations needed to navigate change responsibly.</p>\n<p>Through an honest and practical discussion, Simon and Martha will share lessons from Givaudan's journey so far, including how they developed their \"Human by Nature. AI Powered\" philosophy and the questions leaders are grappling with today: What should remain human? How do we build trust while moving quickly? And how do we prepare our workforce for an AI-enabled future?</p>\n\n### Two Workforces, One Skills Language: Agentic HR at the Heart of Nationwide's Acquisition\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f4fded56-3184-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T10:30:00 -> 2026-10-22T10:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Mark Jackson (Head of Future Workforce, Nationwide Building Society)\n- Description: <p>Hear how Nationwide turned the Virgin Money acquisition into the launchpad for agentic HR - AI agents that build living skills profiles and power internal-first careers. When Nationwide acquired Virgin Money, it faced a challenge every merged organization knows: two workforces, two overlapping skills and mobility systems, and no shared language for talent. Rather than re-running self-assessment surveys on a skeptical post-acquisition population, Nationwide and Gloat chose a different path - AI agents that proposes how people actually work, propose living skills profiles, and act in the flow of work. Mark Jackson, Head of Future Workforce, shares the journey from a governed AI Council pilot to merger-scale rollout - landing on stage the same month the integration completes.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the Virgin Money integration became the catalyst: one chance to give every colleague a validated, day-one skills profile instead of another survey</li>\n<li>From dashboards to agents: four purpose-built HR agents - profile enrichment, manager, career, and workforce planning - working as one agent</li>\n<li>Governing at pace: how an AI Council gates every phase, from bias audits to least-privilege data access, so colleagues feel enabled by AI, not replaced</li>\n<li>Early lessons from the pilot cohorts: what worked, what surprised, and what they'd do differently</li>\n<li>The road to an Agentic Talent Marketplace: shifting hiring internal-first and turning hidden skills into filled roles</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Building a Future-Ready Workforce: Using Galileo® Suite for Talent Acquisition & Strategic Workforce Planning\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=5ba8f997-0da5-f111-9b32-000d3a20b1f9\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:30:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Acceleration Labs | 721 & 722\n- Format: boardroom\n- Track / sub-event: joshbersinaccelerationlabs\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: This workshop immerses you in a real-life scenario of an organization under pressure to build a future-ready workforce, leveraging the Galileo® Suite —including Galileo™ Agent and Galileo™ Learn—to connect talent acquisition with strategic workforce planning. You’ll see how insight on demand, critical roles, and capabilities can guide where to hire, where to upskill, and where to redeploy talent. The focus will be on a clear, high-level view of how Galileo® Suite supports more coherent, capability-based workforce strategies rather than reactive headcount decisions. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop so they can log into the Galileo® Suite and follow the examples in real time. \n\n### The Real Reason L&D Doesn’t Have a Seat at the Table\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=b2a3ab1c-3a7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David James (Chief Learning Officer, 360Learning)\n- Description: <p>As AI transforms how learning is designed and delivered, L&amp;D leaders have an opportunity to redefine their role within the business. Those who focus solely on delivering learning risk becoming less influential, while those who demonstrate strategic value will help shape organizational capability in the AI era.</p>\n<p>Discover how to strengthen L&amp;D's position as a strategic business partner, communicate its impact more effectively, and use AI to enhance - not replace the value your function delivers.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do I position L&amp;D as a strategic driver of business performance rather than a provider of learning?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we use AI to increase our impact while preserving the expertise, influence and human judgment that organizations need most?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an L&amp;D function that is trusted to shape workforce capability and organizational performance in an AI-enabled future?</p>\n\n### SAP SuccessFactors: A New Era for HR with Autonomous HCM\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cbee08c7-7f86-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Rebecca Carr (HCM Product Leader, SAP, CEO, SmartRecruiters)\n- Description: <p>See how SAP SuccessFactors brings AI, data and applications together to unlock the power of Autonomous HCM—giving HR the edge to anticipate what’s next, build a workforce ready for it and move the business forward with greater insight and impact.</p>\n<p>In this session, you will:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>See how AI agents in SAP SuccessFactors go beyond generative AI to automate and orchestrate workflows across  HR and beyond</li>\n<li>Learn how unified AI, data, and applications help HR leaders act with greater speed, precision, and confidence while keeping people, compliance, and trust at the center.</li>\n<li>Walk away with a clear view of the advantage connected AI, data and applications bring to your work, your people and your business.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Meet Nadia: AI to Power Talent and Performance at Scale\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=882b18c7-3d75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Talent Management & Performance, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Gonzague Dromard (General Manager, France, Valence), Anand Chopra-McGowan (Managing Director Europe, Valence)\n- Description: Most AI in the enterprise operates in isolation. It speeds up or automates outputs, but doesn't understand the organization, the people in it, or how they work together. The most powerful thing AI can do is help people understand each other — surfacing dynamics, friction, and opportunity before they become invisible problems.  In this session you’ll meet Nadia, Valence’s AI platform for performance, development, and transformation.   Purpose-built for HR and powered by the most widely deployed AI coach in the Fortune 500, Nadia provides support to your organization where you need it most; from cost-effective AI coaching, to enabling new talent and learning initiatives alongside the tools already embedded in your enterprise.  Since 2023, Valence has helped hundreds of the world’s largest companies embrace AI-enabled employee development.   Learn how global organizations like Delta, UPS, Coca-Cola, CVS, and KraftHeinz are using Nadia to upskill their workforce, enhance critical people priorities, and empower employees with coaching at scale.\n\n### Rebuilding the Enterprise: Taking Apart Legacy Work Structures to Design What Comes Next\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cb5413d1-4071-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Henrik Håkansson (Vice President, Global Head of People Insights & AI, Sanofi), Russell Klosk (Managing Director HxM & Workforce Planning Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP)\n- Description: <p>In this fireside conversation, Sanofi's Nate Lavoie joins Deloitte's Russell Klosk to unpack how Sanofi is making those calls in practice: where and when to deploy AI, and how that ripples into reskilling, job architecture, and how performance and productivity get measured in an AI-augmented workforce. They'll dig into why work redesign and workforce redesign have to happen together - not process change here, org change there - and share where Sanofi is building capability in-house versus bringing in outside expertise, and what drove those calls. The conversation closes on the role technology, and HR technology specifically, plays in making all of this real rather than aspirational.</p>\n<p><strong>Discover how to:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide where AI deployment creates real strategic value versus where it just automates the status quo, and how those decisions are being approached?</li>\n<li>Rethink job architecture and reskilling investment around AI-augmented work, not around today's org chart</li>\n<li>Redefine performance management and productivity metrics for a workforce working alongside AI</li>\n<li>Sequence process, workflow, and workforce redesign as one effort instead of two</li>\n<li>Know when to build AI-and-workforce capability internally versus when to bring in outside partners - and why</li>\n<li>Position HR technology as the enabler that makes continuous work redesign possible, not just a system of record</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How People & Culture is Fuelling adidas’ Shift Towards Market Empowerment\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=7445a4f6-3e75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing\n- Speakers: Michelle Robertson (Executive Board Member, Global Human Resources, People and Culture, adidas)\n- Description: <p>Being a global brand with a local mindset means shifting decisions closer to the consumer. Hear how Michelle Robertson drove this change across adidas, and how People &amp; Culture helped unlock speed, ownership, and stronger results.</p>\n<p>Michelle Robertson, Executive Board Member for Global Human Resources, shares first-hand insights on how People &amp; Culture is enabling adidas to operate as a global brand with a local mindset. She provides a candid, practical view on empowering decision-making at the front lines, aligning culture and performance globally, and introducing AI with HR leading the way, all to drive faster decisions, greater accountability, and sustainable growth.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gain practical insight into how adidas is navigating growth, complexity, and transformation across a global workforce</li>\n<li>Learn how people strategy can influence business performance, leadership alignment, and organizational agility</li>\n<li>Explore the realities of balancing global consistency with regional flexibility across markets and teams</li>\n<li>Understand how Adidas is evolving performance, culture, and workforce capability to support long-term growth</li>\n<li>Walk away with candid lessons on leading transformation through hard choices, operational change, and shifting workforce expectations</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Skills for Life: Turning Skills into Siemens’ Competitive Edge\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d085047f-5d75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Bas Puts (Global Head of Learning & Skill Architecture, Siemens)\n- Description: <p>As AI, digitalization, and talent shortages reshape the world of work, Siemens is putting skills at the center of its people strategy. In this session, <strong>Bas Puts, Global Head of Learning &amp; Skill Architecture at Siemens</strong>, will share how Siemens is bringing its <strong>Skills for Life</strong> ambition to life: <strong>To continuously develop skills as competitive edge and strengthen the resilience of our people, organizations, customers and societies</strong>.</p>\n<p>Attendees will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why this topic is so important for Siemens and what the desired outcomes are of the ambition</li>\n<li>How Siemens defines and leverages Siemens Strategic, Business-critical, and Foundational skills</li>\n<li>The role AI plays in Skills for Life</li>\n<li>Lessons learned from the Skills Tech Stack journey</li>\n<li>What it takes to prepare people—and organizations—for the future of work</li>\n<li>How to govern the skills ecosystem going forward and its implications for P&amp;O</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Longevity, Loneliness and LLMs –How These 3 Are Intersecting and Upending Work As We Know It\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=72ed51e2-a3b1-f111-a6a7-000d3a20b67c\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:20:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Patrick Hull (Global Head of Talent, Culture and Leadership, Heineken)\n- Description: <p>Workforces are aging, social connection is collapsing and generative AI is rewriting the task map faster than most organizations can respond. Individually, each shift is manageable. Together, they are quietly dismantling the assumptions organizations are built on: that careers are finite, that teams form naturally, and that productivity gains automatically create better work.</p>\n<p>The evidence is already uncomfortable. 64% of workers aged 50+ report age discrimination, and 60% of older workers face financial instability after an unplanned career break. Loneliness now carries mortality risk comparable to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, with hours spent socializing down 30% for adults and 45% for teenagers. And roughly 40% of global employment is exposed to AI – closer to 60% in advanced economies – implying widening inequality without deliberate policy action.</p>\n<p>HEINEKEN's purpose is to brew the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world. They believe that truly living this purpose means building a resilient workforce with employment models that flex across a lifetime, workplace experiences built for genuine human contact, and an AI approach that protects autonomy and job quality rather than eroding it.</p>\n<p>Explore best practices to deliberately redesign the work, the workplace and the workforce around belonging, longevity and human agency.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the 65+ cohort is the fastest growing segment of the labor force – and what an employment continuum from gig worker to regular employee makes possible</li>\n<li>How social disconnection is showing up as absenteeism, disengagement and polarization, and what employers can practically do about it</li>\n<li>How to protect job quality and agency when AI implementation drifts towards monitoring and pace-setting</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Building the Leader of Tomorrow\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f0d18aad-4e7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:20:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:35:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: John McLaughlin (Chief Commercial Officer EMEA & UK, Aon)\n- Description: Today’s leaders need dual capabilities: AI fluency and critical thinking. Picture a four‑box grid with AI on the Y‑axis and critical thinking on the X‑axis; the ideal leaders sit in the top right—high on both, able to manage risk and seize opportunity. This session explores how to build that leadership bench for whatever the market brings.\n\n### Beyond Training: Closing The Gap Between Learning And Performance\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d264bfc9-4d80-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:20:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:35:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Glen Buickerood (Strategic Lead, Forage by Seramount)\n- Description: <p>As roles and ways of working evolve, organizations are investing in new tools and workforce skills. But the leap from learning to performance can be costly. Employees need opportunities to apply new skills, build judgment and learn from mistakes before doing so in live work.</p>\n<p>This session explores the missing layer between learning and performance: realistic practice. Discover how organizations can create risk-free environments aligned to their workforce priorities, where employees build capability through authentic, hands-on work and personalized feedback.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>Where are gaps between learning and performance creating risk, slowing productivity or limiting workforce readiness?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which roles, workflows and capabilities would benefit most from realistic, hands-on practice?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we make practice a scalable part of workforce development, giving employees opportunities to build and refine new capabilities before applying them in work that affects business outcomes?</p>\n<p>You’ll also see a live demonstration of Forage Workspace Simulations, a fully immersive, browser-based, AI-powered work environment where learners take assignments from context to completion using the tools, information and resources the work requires, with personalized, real-time feedback along the way.</p>\n\n### Off With Their Heads!\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=d3493ca2-3f75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:20:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:35:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Kirsty Waller (General Manager, Sage People), Graham Wylie (Senior Director of Product Strategy, Sage People)\n- Description: <p>As AI changes how people interact with technology, the future of work may no longer revolve around applications. Instead, employees will increasingly engage with intelligent agents that understand context, automate routine work and support better decisions. But that future depends on getting the fundamentals right.</p>\n<p>Explore why trusted workforce data, organizational context and human judgment are the foundations of Agentic HR—and why they're essential for organizations preparing for a future where intelligence, rather than applications, becomes the primary interface to work.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean fro you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we prepare our HR technology strategy for a future where AI agents become the primary way employees interact with work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we ensure AI has access to the trusted data and organizational context needed to deliver reliable, meaningful outcomes?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we balance intelligent automation with human judgment to create an HR function that is both more efficient and more trusted?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Sage People is helping organizations build the trusted data foundations needed for Agentic HR and a headless future.</p>\n\n### 5 Million Learners Taught Us What Comes After the LMS\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=8dea6c00-2f75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Arnaud Blachon (CEO, Rise Up)\n- Description: <p>After supporting more than 5 million learners across 73 countries, Rise Up uncovered a simple but powerful insight: learning happens in courses, but performance happens in the flow of work. As AI reshapes workplace learning, organizations must rethink how they enable employees to apply knowledge when and where it matters most.</p>\n<p>Discover why leading organizations are moving beyond content-first learning strategies and exploring AI-powered coaching to deliver more contextual, personalized support at scale.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond delivering learning content to improving performance in the flow of work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we provide employees with the right guidance, in the right context, at the right moment to accelerate capability and performance?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a learning ecosystem that combines content, context and AI to deliver measurable business impact rather than course completion?</p>\n<p>You'll also see a live demonstration of Forge, Rise Up's AI Performance Officer, showing how organizations can create personalized AI coaches using their own content and organizational context.</p>\n\n### Multiplier Effect: The AI Equation for Building Workforce Readiness\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=25737b96-4075-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T11:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Talent Management & Performance, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Vincent Belliveau (Chief International Officer, Cornerstone OnDemand), Kate Graham (Senior Director, Market Insights, Cornerstone OnDemand)\n- Description: Explore how AI can help create a more connected approach to workforce readiness, turning insight into action and helping organizations build capability continuously rather than reactively.\n\nWhat could this mean for you?\n \nThe decisions you need to make\nHow do we move from static talent strategies to a continuous model of workforce readiness?\n \nThe decisions your team needs to make\nHow do we connect workforce intelligence, skills, learning and performance to accelerate capability where it's needed most?\n \nThe decisions your organization needs to make\nHow do we build an AI-enabled workforce strategy that helps people continuously adapt to changing business priorities?\n\nYou'll also see how AI-powered workforce intelligence, adaptive learning, continuous performance and coaching can work together to create a more responsive and future-ready organization.\n\n### How To Fix the Hiring Model in the AI Era\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cc0bfb19-1fa2-f111-9b33-000d3a203d8e\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Iris Brachmaier (CHRO, UNIQA), William Pelster (Co-Founder, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: Most hiring processes weren't intentionally designed. They accumulated over time. Get the real story of what needs to break down so you can build something faster.\n\nLegacy hiring processes survive on inertia, not effectiveness. In this session, learn why the old hiring model no longer holds up, what agentic AI actually changes inside large organizations, where the real friction was, and what it takes to fix it.\n\n### Recognition as a Strategic Lever for Culture, Transformation and Business Success\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=6d2a5a70-c47e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Charise Le (Executive Vice President, Global Human Resource, Schneider Electric)\n- Description: <p>In this fireside chat, Schneider Electric CHRO Charise Le will share Schneider Electric's recognition journey, including the opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned along the way. The discussion will explore how recognition can help translate strategy into action by encouraging collaboration, accountability, and behaviors that support organizational goals.</p>\n<p>Attendees will gain an executive perspective on building a recognition-rich culture, the critical role leaders and managers play, and the questions many organizations continue to grapple with, including how to measure impact, leverage emerging technologies, and maximize the value of recognition programs.</p>\n<p><b>Key discussion topics include:</b></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why recognition has become an increasingly important focus at Schneider Electric</li>\n<li>The behaviors and ways of working recognition can help reinforce</li>\n<li>The critical role managers play in creating a culture of recognition</li>\n<li>Lessons learned and pitfalls organizations encounter when building recognition programs</li>\n<li>Emerging trends and the potential role of AI in shaping the future of recognition</li>\n<li>Key questions Schneider Electric is exploring as it continues to evolve its recognition strategy</li>\n<li>One action every leader can take to create greater impact through recognition</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Audience takeaway:</b> Gain insights into Schneider Electric's recognition journey, learn about the opportunities and challenges organizations face in creating meaningful recognition cultures, and explore how recognition can support culture, transformation, and business success.</p>\n\n###  From Strategic Workforce Planning to Strategic Workforce Intelligence\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cda22620-9789-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:10:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: David Edwards (Chief Workforce Strategist, Dark Artistry), Vincent Dupuis (VP HR Digital, Data & AI, Airbus Group)\n- Description: <p>For years, Strategic Workforce Planning has been viewed as a forecasting exercise. In a VUCA world, that model is reaching its limits: work changes faster than any plan can be revised, and predictability is no longer a safe assumption. AI changes the game entirely, not by making planning more accurate, but by replacing it with something more adaptive. As roles fragment, AI agents emerge and skills become obsolete faster than organizations can respond, Workforce Intelligence becomes the mechanism for continuously sensing change, modeling scenarios, and deciding what work humans should do, what AI should do, and what capabilities the business must build next.</p>\n<p>In this session, you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why traditional workforce planning models break down and how to transition from static headcount plans to dynamic, real-time intelligence.</li>\n<li>How AI is reshaping jobs, workflows, and organizational structures, with practical ways to plan around capabilities and tasks rather than fixed roles.</li>\n<li>How to use Strategic Workforce Intelligence to make better investment decisions when allocating budget across people, technology, and AI.</li>\n<li>How to connect workforce strategy with business strategy, technology roadmaps, and enterprise-wide transformation.</li>\n<li>The new capabilities leaders need to build and lead a modern Strategic Workforce Intelligence function in an AI-driven enterprise.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From System Sprawl To Strategic Decisions\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=b9a69064-fb76-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T11:45:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Scott Tuszkiewicz (Senior Director, Global Payroll Operations, Ford Motor Company)\n- Description: <p>As organizations continue investing heavily in AI, platforms and workforce technologies, many are discovering that the challenge is no longer selecting new tools. The challenge is understanding which investments genuinely create value and which simply add another layer of complexity. Fragmented systems, disconnected data and limited visibility often prevent HR from operating as a strategic function, making it harder to scale transformation and demonstrate business impact. Many organizations are now taking a different approach. Rather than focusing solely on implementation, the emphasis is shifting toward simplifying technology ecosystems, creating stronger operational visibility and strengthening the connection between technology decisions and measurable business outcomes. This session explores how HR leaders are moving from technology ownership to technology stewardship, making decisions that balance innovation, operational efficiency, employee experience and long-term business value.</p>\n<p>Explore how organizations are redesigning HR systems and operating models to create greater simplicity, stronger data foundations and more strategic workforce decisions at scale.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The starting challenge: overcoming fragmented systems, disconnected processes and limited workforce visibility.</li>\n<li>Building a transformation roadmap and selecting the right partners, architecture and implementation approach.</li>\n<li>How better workforce data and integrated systems strengthen strategic decision making across HR and the business.</li>\n<li>Moving from isolated technology projects toward connected operating models and measurable outcomes.</li>\n<li>Lessons around governance, adoption and creating sustainable transformation at enterprise scale.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Strategic Workforce Planning's Inflection Point \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=4610c322-3e5b-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-22T12:10:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Richard Skellett (Chief Analyst, Research & Design (CARD), Global Reset, Bloor Research), David Edwards (Chief Workforce Strategist, Dark Artistry), Laurent Aufils (Chief AI & Future of Work Officer, Orange Business), Mark Jackson (Head of Future Workforce, Nationwide Building Society), Stephen Childs (Chief Human Resources Officer, Panasonic Automotive)\n- Description: <p>Strategic Workforce Planning is no longer simply about forecasting workforce demand. It is becoming the critical foundation that connects business strategy, technology, organizational design and workforce capability. As AI, economic uncertainty and accelerating change reshape organizations, the businesses that succeed will be those that use Strategic Workforce Planning to anticipate disruption, redesign work and build capability before change becomes unavoidable.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Strategic Workforce Planning is becoming the foundation for successful AI adoption, organizational resilience and long-term business transformation</li>\n<li>The next generation of SWP tools: workforce intelligence, scenario planning, skills inference, predictive modeling and digital twins</li>\n<li>Identifying the organizational friction that prevents AI, transformation and workforce strategies from delivering their full potential</li>\n<li>How should HR redesign work, not simply job, as AI reshapes teams, workflows and decision-making?</li>\n<li>Connecting workforce planning with finance, technology, operations and business strategy to make better investment decisions</li>\n<li>Building the capability, governance and leadership confidence to respond faster to whatever comes next</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From AI Literacy to AI Capability\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=75818c02-8faa-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-22T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 4 | Skills\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage4\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Matt Rosenbaum (Principal Researcher, Human Capital, The Conference Board)\n- Description: <p>AI capability is moving faster than the systems designed to teach it. Employees are experimenting, agents are entering workflows and roles are beginning to shift, while much of corporate learning is still focused on literacy, courses and yesterday's job descriptions. So what happens when the half-life of a skill becomes shorter than the time it takes to build the training?</p>\n<p>New global research from The Conference Board exposes a widening gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness. AI use is already outpacing formal training, yet the bigger challenge may be what comes next: moving millions of workers from knowing about AI to being able to apply it, question it, collaborate with it and create measurable business value from it. This research led session challenges the traditional L&amp;D playbook. If AI continuously changes tasks, workflows and eventually roles, organizations cannot simply train faster. They need a different learning architecture altogether, one that connects skills to real work, combines human judgment with AI capability and anticipates reskilling before disruption arrives.</p>\n<p>Matt Rosenbaum brings the latest evidence from The Conference Board into the room and asks a more urgent question for learning leaders: are we building AI skills for the jobs people have today, or the workforce the business will need next?</p>\n<p>What you'll explore:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The adoption gap: Why employee AI use is racing ahead of formal organizational training and what that means for L&amp;D</li>\n<li>Beyond prompting: Why AI literacy is becoming the baseline, while judgment, business acumen, critical thinking and the ability to work with increasingly sophisticated AI become the real capability challenge</li>\n<li>The death of one size fits all learning: Why episodic courses cannot keep pace with AI and how targeted, experiential and in the flow learning changes the model</li>\n<li>Skills for jobs that don't exist yet: How organizations can move from training people for today's roles towards capability pathways designed around what people may need to do next</li>\n<li>From learning metrics to business value: Why completion rates and AI usage tell you very little about whether skilling is actually improving productivity, decisions, innovation or organizational performance</li>\n<li>Reskill before you have to: How CHROs and learning leaders can use skills intelligence and scenario planning now to prepare for workforce disruption over the next two to three years</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Using AI in Talent Acquisition Across The Enterprise, Mis-trust and Responsible AI in Practice\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=712f05c4-2b3e-f111-8ef2-6045bd954320\n- Time: 2026-10-22T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Dominik A. Hahn (Global Head of Group Talent Acquisition, Allianz SE)\n- Description: This session looks honestly at what happens when organisations move beyond pilot projects and begin embedding AI across hiring workflows, recruiter processes, and decision-making.\n<p>Drawing on real experience, it explores where adoption stalled, where trust weakened, what failed, and which Responsible AI measures proved essential to regain confidence and move forward.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What worked and what failed when scaling AI across talent acquisition at the enterprise level</li>\n<li>Why adoption often breaks down in practice across recruiters, hiring managers and business leaders</li>\n<li>Where mistrust in AI comes from and how to distinguish cultural resistance from valid operational concern</li>\n<li>How to introduce Responsible AI measures that strengthen fairness, transparency, accountability and confidence in hiring decisions</li>\n<li>Lessons learned in balancing automation, speed and efficiency with human judgment and oversight</li>\n<li>What TA leaders should do differently to improve adoption, rebuild trust and scale AI more responsibly</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The New Giants of the Industry\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=e1c41398-405b-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-22T12:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: HR Technology & Digital Adoption, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Andreas De Neve (Co-founder & CEO, TechWolf), Max Wessel (Senior Vice President of Product, Workday), Camiel Schoonens (Chief Product Owner, ADP), Kyle Lagunas (Founder and Principal Analyst, Kyle & Co.), Rebecca Carr (HCM Product Leader, SAP, CEO, SmartRecruiters)\n- Description: <p>AI is compressing the cost of building software, accelerating innovation cycles, and enabling HR organizations big and small to design and deploy their own solutions alongside or outside of traditional platforms. At the same time, bold claims about the \"death of SaaS\" are forcing a deeper question: What actually endures, what gets rebuilt, and who gets left behind?</p>\n<p>This panel brings together executives from the industry's largest and most influential platforms for a discussion of what it takes to lead in this next era.</p>\n<p>We'll explore how incumbents are responding to new competitive pressures, what lessons still matter from the shift to Cloud, and how AI is reshaping it all-- from products to business models, ownership, and the balance of power between vendors and their customers.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reality behind the \"death of SaaS\" and what's actually changing</li>\n<li>How AI is redefining product strategy, platform value, and differentiation</li>\n<li>The rise of customer-built solutions and what it means for vendors</li>\n<li>Lessons from the cloud era that still apply (and the mistakes we continue to make)</li>\n<li>Whether business models, pricing, and accountability need to evolve--and how</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Work Re-design in Action: Reimagining the Operating Model with AI and Workforce Analytics\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=40c96090-f6b7-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba\n- Time: 2026-10-22T12:30:00 -> 2026-10-22T12:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Harriet Western-Williams (Head of Talent Advisory, EMEA, Randstad Enterprise), Stephanie Reuss (Co-Founder, Beamible), Victoria Stuart (Co-Founder, Beamible)\n- Description: <p>This practical session will unpack our innovative approach: utilizing a task-level work redesign approach using Beamible to map work against employee energy levels, AI potential, and offshoring suitability. Crucially, we will discuss how to upskill internal teams to collaboratively redesign their own work and operating models.</p>\n<p>Drawing on real-world applications of this methodology, the case studies will reveal critical insights into modern workforce challenges:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trapped capacity: How process bottlenecks can tie up significant organizational capacity, resulting in millions lost annually to operational friction.</li>\n<li>Fragmentation: Exposing the hidden cost of severe role fragmentation within management layers, how to identify and tackle it.</li>\n<li>Efficiency opportunities: How to identify substantial portions of time and activity that are ripe for automation, augmentation, or offshoring.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>What you will learn:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practical methodology: The step-by-step process of conducting a highly effective work design project.</li>\n<li>Data and analytics: The specific metrics and insights you can extract from task-level work analysis.</li>\n<li>Structural impact: How work redesign directly informs and shapes your operating model and organizational structure.</li>\n<li>Building future capability: How organizations are embedding work redesign skills internally to navigate an AI-augmented workforce.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Make Every Hire a Moment of Beauty\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=37dbd977-65ab-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-22T13:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T13:25:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Learning, Skills & Talent Development\n- Speakers: Giorgio Benassi (Global Talent Acquisition Director, Sephora), François Vandevelde (VP Global HRIS, Sephora)\n- Description: <p>Sephora receives around 1.4 million applications for its Beauty Advisor roles globally. The challenge at this scale isn't simply how to process more CVs – it's how to identify the people most likely to succeed without allowing volume to dictate who gets through the door.</p>\n<p>For organizations hiring at scale CVs can provide an increasingly limited view of what a candidate can actually do, while lengthy screening processes can create distance between employers and the people they most want to meet.</p>\n<p>Global TA Director, Giorgio Benassi and VP Global HRIS, François Vandevelde share why Sephora is moving from CV-based screening to skills-based, scientifically validated assessments, and how AI now supports that experience across every market Sephora operates in.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decision you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do I enable hiring managers to get face-to-face with the best candidates?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we identify and engage the strongest candidates at scale without allowing application volume to dictate the quality of our shortlist?</p>\n<p><strong>The decision your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How should we move towards skills-based hiring while ensuring your assessment approach is scientifically robust, scalable and consistent across markets?</p>\n\n### From Digital Chaos to a Digital Home: Reinventing Employee Experience with AI\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=431f60b5-e084-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T13:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T13:25:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Norman Nowak (VP HR IT & AI, Deutsche Telekom)\n- Description: Discover how Deutsche Telekom replaced fragmented portals with one AI-powered digital home, connecting people, services, knowledge and communication in a single intelligent platform. What does it take to create a digital home for a global workforce? Join Deutsche Telekom to learn how they're transforming employee experience by replacing a fragmented digital landscape with one intelligent, AI-powered platform. Discover how AI, personalization and integrated services simplify everyday work, strengthen governance and security, and create the foundation for the next generation of employee experience.\n\n### Moving Beyond Traditional Training: How Meta Trains Support Agents with Simulation and AI Roleplay\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=f8b5c3e3-3a75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T13:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T13:25:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Talent Management & Performance, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Samir Das (AI Learning & Knowledge Technology Architect, Meta)\n- Description: Legacy training models aren't built for how work happens today. Employees are pulled into courses, expected to retain the information, and then apply it later in rapidly changing workflows. The result is low retention, inconsistent usage, and constant relearning. In this session, we’ll explore why traditional training falls short in a dynamic environment and how organizations can shift to delivering learning directly in the flow of work. Using AI-powered platforms like Whatfix, teams can provide contextual, real-time guidance inside applications, helping users learn while they work without disruption.\n\n### You Can't Lead What You Can't See\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=fb6e7485-417c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T13:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T13:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Chris Bruce (CEO and Co-founder, Origin)\n- Description: <p>Global benefits have become one of the largest investments organizations make in their people, yet many leaders still lack a complete view of the data, costs and decisions that shape employee outcomes. As transparency requirements increase and employee expectations evolve, benefits are becoming a strategic governance issue, not simply an operational one.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are creating a single, trusted view of their global benefits landscape, enabling better decisions, stronger governance and a more connected employee experience.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create visibility across global benefits so leaders can make more informed strategic decisions?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we connect fragmented data, processes and providers without increasing operational complexity?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build the governance, intelligence and reporting capabilities needed to support compliance, control costs and improve the employee experience?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how Origin and ServiceNow are helping organizations create a single source of truth for global benefits through an integrated approach to visibility, governance and enterprise-wide benefits intelligence.</p>\n\n### Five Guys Europe Spotlight: The Hidden Cost of Disconnected Frontline Employees\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=cbf831ad-e984-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T13:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T13:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Lucy Payne (Head of Customer Success, Oak Engage), Dale Brodie (Internal Communications Lead, Five Guys)\n- Description: <p>For organizations with large frontline workforces, communication gaps quickly become business problems. Limited access to information, inconsistent manager communication and a lack of employee connection can drive higher turnover, weaker engagement and missed opportunities to develop talent.</p>\n<p>Join Five Guys Europe for a candid conversation about how creating a more connected frontline employee experience helped strengthen engagement, improve retention and build a more consistent experience for employees and managers alike.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create a frontline employee experience that strengthens connection, engagement and long-term retention?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can we empower managers, improve employee communication and create more meaningful opportunities for employee voice?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build a connected workforce where every employee has equal access to information, support and opportunities to grow?</p>\n<p>You'll also hear how Five Guys Europe connected 10,000 frontline employees, reduced employee turnover by 56% and transformed the frontline experience using Chatty Patty, with practical lessons from a rapid enterprise rollout.</p>\n\n### Speaker Meet & Greet: Louis Theroux\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=94c34f6f-4eac-f111-9b33-000d3a20628d\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: UNLEASH Lounge\n- Format: networking\n- Track / sub-event: unleashlounge\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Speakers: Louis Theroux (Presenter, Louis Theroux)\n- Description: Join us for an exclusive, invite-only meet and greet with legendary broadcaster and triple-BAFTA-winning documentarian Louis Theroux. From Weird Weekends and My Scientology Movie to his acclaimed podcast and celebrity interviews, Louis has captivated audiences worldwide with his unmatched curiosity and signature charm. This private session offers a rare opportunity to meet and connect with him in person.\n\nPlease note that capacity is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.\n\n### Managers as Multipliers: Redesigning Performance, Pay & Manager Practices in Galileo® Suite \n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=7545c0fb-0da5-f111-9b32-000d3a20b1f9\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T15:30:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Acceleration Labs | 721 & 722\n- Format: boardroom\n- Track / sub-event: joshbersinaccelerationlabs\n- Access: INVITE ONLY\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Management & Performance, Rewards, Payroll & Benefits\n- Speakers: Josh Bersin (Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company)\n- Description: This workshop immerses you in an organization evolving its approach to performance, rewards, and the role of managers, using the Galileo® Suite — including Galileo™ Agent and Galileo™ Learn—to explore what needs to change. You’ll see how insight into goals, outcomes, and pay patterns can inform simpler, fairer, and more impactful performance and reward designs. We’ll focus on the high-level connections between system design and everyday manager practices, and how Galileo® Suite can support both better decisions and targeted manager development. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to access the Galileo® Suite and follow along as we walk through practical, scenario-based examples. \n\n### Scaling Beyond Borders: Compliant Talent Deployment in 2026\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=670043d7-3d7c-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Risk, Compliance & Workforce Economics\n- Speakers: Amanda Frayne (Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Multiplier)\n- Description: <div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p>Finding the right skills shouldn't be limited by geography. This session explores how Employment of Record (EOR) strategies enable organizations to hire, onboard, and retain international talent instantly and compliantly — without the legal friction or cost of establishing local entities. At a time of increasingly stringent regulatory pressures, EOR infrastructure offers a smarter path to global talent deployment.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why businesses must hire for skills, not locations, in 2026</li>\n<li>How EOR strategies remove compliance barriers to international hiring</li>\n<li>Navigating key regulatory challenges including the EU Pay Transparency Directive and US day-one employment rights</li>\n<li>Deploying global talent without the overhead of local entity setup</li>\n<li>Practical steps to build a compliant, borderless workforce</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n### Your HR Team Wasn't Hired to Chase Documents: AI-powered HR Document Intelligence for SAP SuccessFactors\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=4638c234-b87e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Max Gerrard (VP Global Solution Engineering, Doxis)\n- Description: According to Deloitte, HR teams lose up to 57% of their day to admin. Not to hiring, not to culture, not to the people work you were actually hired for, but to hunting down a missing document, keying the same data in twice, and waiting on a contract that's stuck in someone's inbox while your best candidate quietly accepts another offer.\n\nSAP SuccessFactors runs your people and your processes. Doxis runs everything those processes are made of: the contracts, files, certificates, and records that keep the employee lifecycle moving. Enhanced with the latest AI, Doxis reads, classifies, and extracts data from every document that comes in, so information files itself and flows straight into the processes that need it. Together, they close the gap where HR loses time.\n\nCome see how it works: a candidate says yes, and the contract is drafted from SuccessFactors data, routed for approval, and signed, without anyone opening a template. A new hire's personnel file assembles itself as they join. An employee requests a certificate and receives it through self-service while HR does nothing at all. And when the auditors come knocking, retention, access, and GDPR compliance are already handled, quietly, in the background.\n\nJoin Max Gerrard, our Head of Solution Engineering, for a live look at what SuccessFactors and Doxis make possible.\n\nDoxis is a fully certified SAP partner, available on SAP Store, and supports HR teams across EMEA's largest organizations. Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Document Management and the IDC MarketScape for Intelligent Content Services, and as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Content Platforms.\n\n### What KFC Actually Did to Hit 84% Monthly Active Users in KFC’s Employee App — and What They'd Do Differently\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=51402f1c-4d75-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:00:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: customerspotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, HR Technology & Digital Adoption\n- Speakers: Heather Halliday (Customer Success Manager, Flip), Lejla Imsirevic (HR Business Partner, KFC (Queensway Europe))\n- Description: <p>Real tactics, real data and honest lessons from a frontline transformation.</p>\n<p>Rolling out new technology is one thing. Getting people to use it consistently is another. The organizations that succeed don't just launch new tools they create the right conditions for adoption, remove friction from everyday work and continually learn from what works.</p>\n<p>Hear how KFC Queensway approached the rollout of its frontline employee app, the decisions that drove sustained engagement, and the lessons the team would apply differently if they were starting again today.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we move beyond technology deployment to achieve genuine workforce adoption and engagement?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>Which implementation strategies create lasting behavior change, reduce operational friction and improve the employee experience?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we scale digital transformation by learning quickly, measuring adoption and continuously improving the employee experience?</p>\n<p>You'll also hear how KFC Queensway used structured onboarding, digital HR workflows and AI-powered knowledge access to achieve 84% monthly active usage and the practical lessons learned along the way.</p>\n\n### How Philips and Accenture are putting Workday's AI to work\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1405d42e-b5b5-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Filip Gilbert (Talent Service Lead EMEA, Accenture), Saroj Mohanty (Global Solutions Architect - People Technology & Digitization, Philips)\n- Description: Two Workday customers, different industries and needs, different scales, one platform. Philips is simplifying the employee and manager experience across a complex 65,000-person landscape, while Accenture has turned AI into the equivalent of 300,000 extra people of capacity across its 750,000 workforce. Join us for a discussion on experience, skills, AI, agents and driving value with Workday.\n\n### Why CEOs Are Betting on CHROs to Deliver Transformation:  Scaling transformation capability\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=be98928f-b555-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:40:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: keynote\n- Keynote session: yes\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation\n- Speakers: Stephen Childs (Chief Human Resources Officer, Panasonic Automotive)\n- Description: <p>As the pace of change inside organizations accelerates, CEOs are increasingly turning to their Chief Human Resources Officers to help deliver transformation at speed and scale. Today's CHRO is no longer expected to simply support change but to architect it to include bridging strategy, talent, culture, and execution.</p>\n<p>This keynote explores why so many transformation efforts stall despite strong intent, how CEO expectations of HR leadership are evolving, and why building internal change capability has become a strategic imperative. Drawing on a real-world case study from Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (PASA), the session highlights how the organization implemented an Organization Development & Transformation Management (ODXM) model and certified more than 200 internal leaders as change practitioners, shifting transformation from a centralized function to a distributed enterprise capability.</p>\n<p>This session is designed for HR leaders who are ready to step beyond traditional boundaries and embrace their role as architects of sustainable, enterprise-wide transformation. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the CHRO role is evolving in response to accelerating change.</li>\n<li>Why building internal change capability is now a strategic imperative.</li>\n<li>What it takes to move transformation from concept to execution.</li>\n<li>Practical lessons for scaling change without burning out leaders or the organization.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### From AI Deployment to Agentic Organisation: Why HR Must Lead the Biggest Redesign of Work in a Generation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c66acc3b-5a7f-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Steve Boese (President & Co-Founder, H3 HR Advisors), Asmus Komm (Partner, McKinsey & Company), Bryan Hancock (Partner, McKinsey & Company)\n- Description: <p>The real transformation begins when AI agents move beyond supporting work to executing it within clearly defined boundaries. At that point, the challenge is no longer technology. It is redesigning how work happens, how decisions are made, and how accountability is shared between people and AI.</p>\n<p>The organizations moving fastest are not simply introducing new tools. They are fundamentally rethinking every people process, redefining the relationship between humans and AI, and positioning HR at the center of enterprise transformation.</p>\n<p>This conversation explores why agentic AI is not an HR technology program but an organizational redesign challenge and why HR will become the architect of how humans and AI work together across the business.</p>\n<p>Discussion themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the biggest opportunity is not AI inside HR but HR shaping AI transformation across the enterprise</li>\n<li>The organizations moving fastest give HR ownership of governance, decision rights, and people processes</li>\n<li>Why HR must stop thinking in jobs and start redesigning work activity by activity, defining what should be done by people, rules, or AI agents</li>\n<li>As AI agents contribute to business outcomes, what does performance management, accountability, and leadership look like?</li>\n<li>Lessons from organizations moving beyond pilots to enterprise scale</li>\n<li>Building governance, trust, and operating models that evolve as AI capabilities continue to mature</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Launching AI to the Frontline\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bc771189-e784-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:20:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:35:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Laura Howard (VP, Product, Blink)\n- Description: <p>AI is transforming how work gets done, but most of today's tools were built for employees with desks, laptops and company email addresses. Frontline organizations face a different reality: shared devices, high turnover, complex operations and workforces spread across thousands of locations. After years spent partnering with some of the world's largest frontline employers, Blink has seen a consistent pattern emerge: the most valuable AI opportunities look very different on the frontline than they do in the office.</p>\n\n<p>In this product spotlight, Laura Howard, VP Product at Blink, shares what the world's leading frontline organizations are learning about AI adoption and unveils Blink's vision for the future of frontline work.</p>\n\n<p>Attendees will get a first look at:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>How AI can become a natural part of frontline workflows, not another disconnected tool</li>\n<li>New approaches to delivering trusted AI experiences at enterprise scale</li>\n<li>The infrastructure required to make AI accessible to every worker, regardless of role or device</li>\n<li>How leading organizations are preparing for the next wave of AI adoption</li>\n<li>Blink's vision for the future of frontline work</li>\n</ul>\n\n### HR Reimagined: Automating Employee Information Management\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=68ca8668-e884-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:20:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:35:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Learning, Skills & Talent Development, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Jennifer Seith (Chief Product Officer, Lightcast)\n- Description: HR leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver better employee experiences while managing growing volumes of information, compliance requirements and administrative work. Yet too much time is still spent searching for documents, managing fragmented records and maintaining manual processes that slow down the organization.\n \nExplore how leading organizations are modernizing employee information management by connecting HR systems, automating routine administration and creating a single, trusted view of employee information across the entire workforce lifecycle.\n \nThe decisions you need to make\nHow do we reduce administrative effort while improving the quality, security and accessibility of employee information?\n \nThe decisions your team needs to make\nHow can we automate document-intensive HR processes without compromising compliance, governance or employee experience?\n \nThe decisions your organization needs to make\nHow do we build the digital foundations that allow HR to spend less time managing paperwork and more time creating value for the business?\n \nYou'll also see how the integration of SAP SuccessFactors and Doxis automates employee document management, strengthens compliance and delivers a more connected HR experience from recruitment through to offboarding with insights from a global customer transformation.\n\n\n### Trust Your Data. Change with Confidence. Run Better.\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=543b8e8e-3075-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:20:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:35:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Rewards, Payroll & Benefits, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Brendon Andrews-Warmuth (Managing Director EMEA, SpinifexIT)\n- Description: <p>Every HR transformation depends on one critical capability: confidence in your data. Whether organizations are adopting AI, modernizing payroll or migrating to the cloud, success depends on trusted information, controlled change and the ability to validate that systems are ready before change reaches the business.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are strengthening the operational foundations that enable faster transformation, reduce risk and improve confidence in every stage of change.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we create the level of trust in our people data needed to support AI, compliance and future transformation?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we improve testing, validation and governance while reducing the manual effort involved in day-to-day operations?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an HR and payroll environment that supports continuous change without increasing operational risk?</p>\n<p>You'll also see how organizations are improving data quality, validating system changes and preparing for cloud migration, payroll transformation and AI adoption through stronger testing, auditing and operational governance.</p>\n\n### People, Technology, and Global Growth: How AI Is Shaping the Future of International Teams\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=0a9b9d0f-8b91-f111-9b34-000d3a20c276\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 6 | Spotlight Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage6\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Ian Fuller (Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager, Pebl), Haley Treihaft (Enterprise Account Executive, EMEA, Pebl)\n- Description: Global growth is no longer just about entering new markets—it’s about supporting people wherever they are. As workforces become more distributed, international hiring is now business as usual, creating new expectations around speed, scale, and consistency. Join Pebl as we explore the possibilities of international hiring and how AI is enabling teams to hire faster, work smarter, and better navigate the complexities of cross-border hiring worldwide.\n\n### How CISCO is Rebuilding Work Across 80,000 Employees: From AI Curiosity to Enterprise Capability\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=b513881a-c359-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T15:05:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: David Green (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Insight222), Gianpaolo Barozzi (VP, Chief Technology Officer for People, Policy & Purpose Organization, Cisco)\n- Description: <p>Cisco's transformation demonstrates that before organizations can plan the workforce of the future, they first need to understand how work itself is changing. By redesigning tasks, embedding AI into everyday workflows and enabling employees to experiment safely at scale, Cisco is creating the foundations for the next generation of workforce strategy.</p>\n<p>This session explores what it really takes to move from isolated AI pilots to organization-wide behavioral change and why redesigning work is becoming the first step towards Strategic Workforce Planning.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why transforming 80,000 employees starts with redesigning work rather than deploying technology</li>\n<li>Helping employees understand where AI creates value across everyday tasks, decisions and workflows</li>\n<li>Building confidence through experimentation, leadership support and practical adoption rather than top-down mandates</li>\n<li>How AI is changing roles, creating new capabilities and reshaping the skills organizations need next</li>\n<li>What organizations learn about future workforce needs when AI is deployed at enterprise scale</li>\n<li>Why today's workplace innovation becomes tomorrow's Strategic Workforce Planning</li>\n</ul>\n\n### How S&P Global Is Using Talent Intelligence to Build a Connected Workforce\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=fd3ee8b4-c07e-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 7 | Builder Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage7\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Matt Kirk (Head of Market Insight and Solutions, SHL), Charles Rue (Global Head of Talent Acquisition, S&P Global)\n- Description: <p>In this session, S&amp;P Global will share the real story behind building a connected talent ecosystem spanning Lightcast, Workday, Eightfold and SHL — and what it actually takes to turn measured skills data into decisions that stand up across hiring, onboarding, development and mobility. No theory — just an honest conversation about governance, AI-enhanced CVs, candidate authenticity, proctoring, and the hard lessons learned along the way, including what talent leaders need to stop doing, start doing, and take seriously right now.</p>\n\n<p>Key takeaways:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What it takes to build a connected Talent Intelligence ecosystem across multiple technologies and teams.</li>\n<li>How to create trustworthy talent decisions in a world of AI-enhanced CVs, candidate fraud and increasing governance expectations.</li>\n<li>How to turn measured skills data into action across hiring, onboarding, development and mobility.</li>\n</ul>\n\n### The Future of AI-Native Employee Experience Is Deeply Personal\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=e8bb4aa9-5075-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:40:00 -> 2026-10-22T14:55:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 5 | Impact Stage\n- Format: product-spotlight\n- Track / sub-event: stage5\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Employee Experience, Culture & Wellbeing, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Matthew Boyd (Senior Director, Product Marketing, Unily)\n- Description: <p>The next generation of employee experience won't be built around portals or static content. As AI becomes embedded into everyday work, organizations have an opportunity to create experiences that adapt to each employee's role, context and needs making it easier to find information, complete tasks and stay productive.</p>\n<p>Explore how leading organizations are using AI to create more personalized, intuitive and connected employee experiences that strengthen engagement while reducing friction across the digital workplace.</p>\n<p><strong>What could this mean for you?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>The decisions you need to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we redesign employee experience for a world where AI becomes the primary interface between people and work?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your team needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How can AI deliver more personalized support while maintaining trust, transparency and consistency?</p>\n<p><strong>The decisions your organization needs to make</strong></p>\n<p>How do we build an employee experience that evolves with every employee while connecting seamlessly with existing systems and ways of working?</p>\n<p>You'll also see a live demonstration of how AI-native employee experience platforms deliver deeply personalized interactions, helping employees find information, complete tasks and navigate work more effectively.</p>\n\n### HR’S Strategic Partnerships across the Business  — Funding and Scaling AI in Talent Acquisition\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=85e19bc2-525b-f111-8fcb-6045bd954326\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:45:00 -> 2026-10-22T15:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: rewardpayfairnesssystems\n- Decision pillar: Reward, Pay & Fairness Systems\n- Topics: Leadership & Workforce Strategy\n- Speakers: Neha Khicha (Strategic Business & Talent Partner, HR Director, The Hershey Company)\n- Description: <ul>\n<li>Putting the Right People in the Right Roles with the Right Investment Strategy</li>\n<li>Will AI replace recruiters — or redefine where talent and capital create the most value?</li>\n<li>Aligning talent strategy with financial outcomes: linking hiring decisions to productivity, growth, and margin impact</li>\n<li>Joint prioritization of AI investments: where automation drives efficiency vs where human judgment protects quality and brand</li>\n<li>Building credible, board-level business cases: cost-per-hire, time-to-productivity, and workforce ROI as shared metrics</li>\n<li>Avoiding \"over-tooling\": rationalizing platforms and ensuring adoption delivers return on investment</li>\n<li>Governing AI responsibly: balancing speed, cost efficiency, risk, and compliance across the hiring lifecycle</li>\n<li>Re-engineering the hiring model together: redefining recruiter roles, operating models, and spend allocation</li>\n<li>Creating a single view of value: CFO visibility on cost and CHRO ownership of outcomes, aligned through shared data</li>\n</ul>\n\n### HR Industry Discussion:  The Jobpocalypse\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=1e093bec-5f7f-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T14:45:00 -> 2026-10-22T15:15:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: workforceskillsintelligence\n- Decision pillar: Workforce, Skills & Intelligence\n- Topics: AI, Automation & Emerging Technology, Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Natalie Wintermark (Chief Human Resources Officer, Erasteel), Roy Baladi (Founder & CEO, Jobs for Humanity), Pauline Rebourgeon (Head of Learning Technology and Innovation, Ericsson)\n- Description: <p>AI is transforming how organizations find, hire and develop talent. But as companies race to automate work and recruitment, are they also creating a new set of workforce problems?</p>\n<p>Never before has there been so much to support recruitment, but somewhere along the line it has broken the very thing it wished to support. With entry-level roles disappearing and employers facing critical skills shortages, how can the HR industry fix it? We know that AI-generated applications are flooding recruitment systems, making genuine potential harder to identify. Candidates are using AI to navigate automated hiring processes while employers deploy more AI to screen them. And as technology takes over the junior work through which people traditionally learned their professions, organizations risk weakening the very pipelines that produce tomorrow's specialists and leaders.</p>\n<p>The challenge extends beyond graduates. Young people, career changers, returners, displaced workers and existing employees all need new routes to skills, experience and opportunity.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The AI talent paradox: Automating work today, but could those productivity gains create tomorrow's shortages of experienced talent and future leaders?</li>\n<li>Are recruitment systems finding the right people or simply the best applications?</li>\n<li>Who gets locked out when the traditional career ladder disappears?</li>\n<li>What happens to young people, non-graduates, career changers, returners and displaced workers when fewer roles provide a first or second route into a profession?</li>\n<li>What could replace experience as the currency of recruitment?</li>\n<li>Can skills-based hiring, assessment for potential, internal mobility and alternative pathways help organizations find talent they might otherwise overlook?</li>\n<li>Can AI become part of the solution rather than the problem? How can AI coaching, simulations, personalized learning and supervised copilots accelerate development while preserving the human experience required to build expertise?</li>\n</ul>\n\n### Two Visions - Two AI Strategies One Extraordinary Conversation\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=bb853a8f-5771-f111-ac9b-6045bd954d86\n- Time: 2026-10-22T15:05:00 -> 2026-10-22T15:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 1 | Humans x AI\n- Format: fireside\n- Track / sub-event: main-stage\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: aiautomationgovernance\n- Decision pillar: AI, Automation & Governance\n- Topics: Organizational Design, Change & Transformation, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Louis Theroux (Presenter, Louis Theroux)\n- Description: In this closing session, Louis Theroux brings his signature curiosity and probing style to explore these diverging approaches and the decisions behind them. Through an open and thought-provoking conversation, he examines what’s driving these choices and what they mean for organisations, employees, and society. \n\nThis is not about easy answers. It’s about understanding the trade-offs, tensions, and consequences shaping the future of work and reflecting on which path you would choose. \n\n### Utilize Workforce Data to Make Better Decisions: How Framatome Empowers Leaders at Scale\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=0243f599-32b7-f111-a6a9-000d3a20bbba\n- Time: 2026-10-22T15:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T15:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 2 | WorkTech & Pay\n- Format: case-study\n- Track / sub-event: stage2\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: datatrustpeopleinfrastructure\n- Decision pillar: Data, Trust, People & Infrastructure\n- Topics: Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence\n- Speakers: Regina Fink (Head of Payroll & HRIS, Framatome GmbH), Benjamin Detzel (Global VP Customer Success, Ingentis)\n- Description: <p>In this practical case study, Framatome will show how Workforce Analytics, intuitive dashboards, and meaningful KPIs create transparency across a highly complex organization and help managers focus on the decisions that matter most.</p>\n<p>Discover how Framatome GmbH uses workforce data to support data-driven leadership across its German organization, including:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can leaders identify emerging workforce risks, capacity gaps, and trends earlier?</li>\n<li>Which KPIs provide managers with the clarity they need to prioritize action?</li>\n<li>How can complex HR data be translated into intuitive insights for faster decision-making?</li>\n<li>How can organizations create greater consistency and transparency across sites and business units?</li>\n<li>The end goal: enabling leaders to make better workforce decisions and strengthen Organizational Performance at scale.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>With more than 22,000 employees worldwide, Framatome operates in a highly complex international environment. This session takes a closer look at Framatome GmbH and its German organization, which includes one of Framatome's largest engineering sites worldwide, and explores how workforce data and analytics can create greater transparency and support better decision-making at the management level.</p>\n\n### Succession in Uncertain Times: Building Leadership Pipelines for an AI Driven World\n- Session URL: /events/unleash-paris/agenda-schedule?agendaEvent=45085399-5ec4-f011-8195-0022488a3e24&agendaSession=c7c6b964-a586-f111-b337-6045bd95467a\n- Time: 2026-10-22T15:15:00 -> 2026-10-22T15:45:00\n- Day: Thursday 22 October 2026\n- Room: Stage 3 | Talent\n- Format: panel\n- Track / sub-event: stage3\n- Access: public\n- Decision pillar ID: operatingmodelreadiness\n- Decision pillar: Operating Model & Readiness\n- Topics: Talent Acquisition, AI, Automation & Emerging Technology\n- Speakers: Gary Bolles (Emeritus Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University), Markus Graf (Corporate Head of Talent, Nestlé), Ayse Semiz-Ewald (Vice President Culture & Inclusion, Deutsche Telekom AG)\n- Description: <p>As AI reshapes decision-making, leadership expectations and organizational structures, succession planning can no longer rely on traditional assumptions about future roles and capabilities. Organizations must identify and develop leaders who can navigate uncertainty, lead alongside intelligent technologies, and build resilience through periods of rapid transformation.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redefined leadership potential and succession criteria for an AI-driven business environment</li>\n<li>Built leadership pipelines that balance digital capability, human judgment and adaptability</li>\n<li>Developed future-ready successors capable of leading through disruption and continuous change</li>\n<li>Applied succession planning strategies across complex, global, and family-owned organizations</li>\n<li>Strengthened leadership resilience while preserving culture, values, and long-term organizational continuity</li>\n<li>What changed: stronger leadership benches, increased organizational resilience, improved readiness for future disruption and greater confidence in long-term leadership continuity from manually accessing talent to continuously discovering and engaging it through AI-enabled systems</li>\n</ul>\n"
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This includes selected executive forums, private salons, CHRO Summit, UNLEASH 100 and hosted leadership gatherings.\nWhat Analyst Access May Include\nFamiliar faces at UNLEASH\nEach year, UNLEASH brings together analysts and market watchers who help shape how the HR, work and technology ecosystem is understood.\nFamiliar Faces Carousel\nExhibiting at UNLEASH? 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      "content": "Blue\nCustom\nWHERE THE HR WORLD MEETS\nUNLEASH 2026 brings together the HR, business, technology and AI leaders shaping how work is redesigned, governed and scaled.\nAcross three days in Paris, the people making the decisions meet the companies, ideas and peers that help them move faster.\nWhy Attend\nThe Most Influential Event on Work in the World\nRepurposing Humanity In The Age of Machines\nPrimary positioning block\nWant to join us?\nPropose me different types of tickets and options to be at the events\nUNLEASH in Numbers\nAttendees\nSpeakers\nCountries\nWork is being reinvented in real time. Paris is where leaders decide what comes next.\nExhibitors\nIncluding Docebo, Eightfold.ai, Personio, Phenom, Radancy, SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Workday, Workhuman and many, many more…\nExplore Marketplace\nEmployees Influenced\nHeader\nView Speakers\nThe UNLEASH stage brings together the leaders, thinkers and operators changing how organizations work.\nThe people shaping what comes next\nSpeakers\nExplore the content, conversations and experiences shaping HR and the future of work.\nAgenda & Programs\nHear from the leaders, operators and innovators changing how organizations work.\nSpeakers\nCompare technologies, discover innovators and build your shortlist.\nMarketplace\nExclusive summits, leadership forums and curated experiences for senior HR leaders.\nDay One at Shangri-La\nFor sponsors, exhibitors, startups, investors, analysts and market-makers shaping what comes next.\nExhibition\nHotels, travel, venues, concierge and practical details for three days in Paris.\nPlan Your Visit\nDiscover the interactive map showcasing key UNLEASH locations bringing the experience to life across the city.\nParis Interactive Map\nHighlight Carousel\nHighlight carousel\nWhy UNLEASH\nWork Reinvention is a team sport\nNo single function can redesign work alone. The organizations moving fastest are aligning people strategy, technology, operating models, AI, skills, reward and data around the same decisions.\nThat is what UNLEASH is built for.\nExplore Attend\nWhy + About UNLEASH\nBecome a Sponsor\nView The 2026 Sponsors\nThe home of the global HR community, UNLEASH brings together people, technology and HR reinvention.\n2026 SPONSORS\nSponsors\nBuilt around the decisions ahead\nThe UNLEASH 2026 agenda is organised around the questions leaders are bringing to Paris: AI, skills, operating models, workforce strategy, reward, data, technology and transformation.\nExplore the Agenda\nWhere the market moves\nUNLEASH brings buyers, providers, startups, investors, analysts and media into one global marketplace for workforce transformation.\nExplore Marketplace\nYou’re not just going to come to UNLEASH and be inspired. You’re going to join us and be changed. And when you go back, your team will show up different.\nI think you guys are the best in terms of having the balance of really, really world-class content and enough of the vendor presence.\nUNLEASH is essential for anyone invested in the Future of Work, AI and HR. UNLEASH has consistently demonstrated its pivotal role in shaping HR innovation, and I choose to engage with this vibrant community because of its forward-thinking approach and commitment to transforming the workplace. I always look forward to exploring the AI revolution currently shaping the future of HR from their Main Stage.\nUNLEASH creates a playground of creativity, learning, collaboration and energy.\nIt's super important that we, at big corporates, are having constant outside in-view and UNLEASH is the best place to go.\nThe networking opportunities were exceptional, connecting me with like-minded professionals, and the exhibitors showcased innovative AI solutions for HR.\nUNLEASH in three words: Impactful. Quality. Fun.\nUNLEASH World has significantly helped to truly unleash the potential of people by showcasing solutions, igniting networks, and stimulating thought leadership.\nThis has turned out to be THE ONE conference I and many others have to attend! I left inspired as I take my team and my company into the future.\nUNLEASH World provides a platform to learn about the world’s leading HR service providers, to understand and compare their offerings, and capture future trends. I’ve come away with much clearer ideas and concrete arguments for making the right choices today!\nI have worked with UNLEASH for years to ensure that the European Commission is inspired and guided by the latest discussions on the Future of Work.\nAgenda Preview",
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      "description": "The year's most consequential marketplace for work reinvention. Buyers, providers, startups, investors and analysts in one place — where the future of work market actually moves.",
      "content": "The marketplace shaping the next era of work\nUNLEASH brings buyers, providers, startups, investors, analysts and media into one global marketplace for workforce transformation.\nThis is where the market moves.\nSponsor UNLEASH\nHeader\nView The 2026 Sponsors\n2026 SPONSORS\nSponsors\nWhy exhibit or sponsor\nMore than visibility. Strategic position.\nSponsoring UNLEASH is not logo placement.\nIt is a position inside the year’s most consequential marketplace for Work Reinvention — in front of the leaders deciding which partners, platforms and ideas will shape the decade ahead.\nExplore Sponsor Opportunities\nWhy exhibit or sponsor\nView Sponsors\nSee the organizations partnering with UNLEASH to shape the future of work, HR, AI and workforce transformation.\nSponsors\nThe companies building what comes next\nBecome a Sponsor\nSponsorship at UNLEASH is direct positioning inside the conversations, meetings and decisions shaping the market.\nSponsor Opportunities\nPut your company inside the decision marketplace\nExplore Marketplace\nCurated buyer programs, pre-matched meetings and commercial conversations that move faster because the whole market is in one place.\nMarketplace\nWhere buyers and breakthrough technology meet\nApply as a Startup\nLaunch in front of enterprise buyers, investors, analysts and press looking for the next generation of work and HR technology.\nStartups\nWhere the next category leaders are seen first\nDiscover Media\nAccredited press get access to the leaders, launches, interviews and stories shaping work, AI and workforce transformation.\nMEDIA\nWhere the future of work is covered as it happens\nRequest Analyst Access\nAnalyst access, briefings, roundtables and conversations with the buyers and companies shaping the category.\nAnalysts\nWhere the market gets read\nThe Ecosystem Driving HR Forward\nExplore the companies, technologies, partnerships and investment shaping the future of work.\nExhibition routing sections\nExhibition routing sections\nThis is the conference with global impact, not just activity. And that really matters for us.\nTestimonial",
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      "description": "General, Explorer, or Diamond — compare all three UNLEASH Paris 2026 passes and find the experience built around your priorities. From full conference access to exclusive Day One Summits at Shangri-La Paris.",
      "content": "Every badge gives you access to the HR world at UNLEASH. The difference is how you want to experience Paris.\nChoose your UNLEASH 2026 access\nSelect General Admission\nView General Admission Details\nThe main UNLEASH experience\nGeneral Admission\nFor attendees who want the core conference, 7 stages, exhibition, official networking and full Days 2 and 3 experience.\nIncludes:\nDays 2–3 Conference Access\n7 Stages\nFull Exhibition Access\nOfficial Networking Events\nAttendee-only Hotel Room Block\nCommunity Access via App\nUNLEASH Journey Book\n[Apply For Explorer](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/content/registration-explorer-pass?purchasestep=0&steptype=products>)\nAccess note: Application-only / Senior HR leaders only / Limited capacity / Vendor registrations not accepted\nView Explorer Details\nInside the companies shaping work\nExplorer\nFor senior HR leaders who want small-group Expeditions inside leading employers across Paris, plus an Executive Dinner and full access to the main UNLEASH experience.\nIncludes:\nEverything in General Admission\nx1 Day 1 Expedition\nExecutive Dinner\nExplorer Tours\nAccelerator Labs\nUNLEASH Lounge Access\nSpeaker Meet & Greets\nFast Track Entry\nUNLEASH Intelligence Report\nFull 3-day access\n[Register For Diamond](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/content/registration-diamond-pass?purchasestep=0&steptype=products>)\nExplore the Diamond Badge\nSenior gatherings before the main event opens\nDiamond\nFor senior leaders who want Day 1 Summits & Salons at Shangri-La Paris, plus premium access across the main UNLEASH experience.\nIncludes:\nEverything in General Admission\nDay 1 Summits & Salons\nUNLEASH Curated Experiences\nFast Track Entry\nUNLEASH Lounge Access\nSpeaker Meet & Greets\nReserved Stage Seating\nUNLEASH Intelligence Report\nBadges\nBringing your leadership team?\nWork Reinvention is not a solo decision.\nOver 90% of the Fortune 500 have attended UNLEASH, influencing workforces that collectively represent more than 100 million employees and billions of dollars in enterprise value.\nOur agenda is shaped by real stories from inside HR teams sharing how global organizations are re-designing operating models, deploying AI, upskilling workforces and navigating regulation at scale together.\nLearning is faster, deeper and more actionable when your team hears the same insights, debates them together and leaves aligned on next steps.\nMany organizations now combine UNLEASH with an annual HR offsite or leadership retreat using the event as a catalyst for:\nStrategic alignment across global and regional HR leaders\nShared frameworks for innovation, transformation and execution\nExposure to proven approaches from peer organizations facing the same challenges\nEach year, companies such as Walt Disney Company, L’Oréal, Microsoft, Siemens, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and hundreds more bring their HR leadership teams to UNLEASH not just as delegates, but as corporate groups.\nWe had really great feedback on the organization of the event, diversity of topics, speakers selected and vendors in the exhibition\nGroup and loyalty packages\nThree days. One UNLEASH journey.\nDay One is limited capacity\nUNLEASH 2026 starts with depth before scale.\nDay One\ngives selected leaders access to focused experiences across Paris: Summits & Salons at Shangri-La, hosted Expeditions inside leading employers, Executive Dinners and selected invitation-only partner programs.\nIt is built around premium, curated experiences before the main conference and exhibition open.\nDay One is not included with General Admission.\nExplore Day One\nThe Main UNLEASH Experience\nDays Two\nand\nThree\nbring the full HR world together at Paris Convention Centre, Hall 7.3, across 7 stages, the exhibition, marketplace, product discovery, startup showcases, analyst insight and practical implementation.\nExplore Day Two and Three\nDay One Two Three",
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      "description": "Apply for media accreditation to cover UNLEASH Paris 2026 — the world's leading future of work event, bringing together HR leaders and innovators from 140+ countries.",
      "content": "Apply for Your Pass\nMedia & Press Room\nJOIN US AT UNLEASH WORLD\nMEDIA PASS\nCalling all working journalists, editors, podcasters, and qualified content creators! You can apply for your UNLEASH Media Pass here.\nMedia Passes are subject to approval and can only be authorised for editorial, content and production roles that match our audience.\nApply Now\nRegister for your UNLEASH Media Pass or find out more about our media partnership opportunities.\nWelcome to the UNLEASH media and press room!\nBECOME A MEDIA PARTNER\nAs an UNLEASH Media Partner, your brand will be connected with thousands of leaders, decision makers and influencers from the worlds of HR, talent, learning, skills and recruitment.\nGet in Touch\nMedia Pass and Media Brochure\nInterested in reporting, recording a podcast, interviewing our line-up of speakers or want to become a media partner and get your brand in front of the global HR community? Get in touch with the team today to find out more\nApply for a Media Pass\nSpeak to the Team\nResources",
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      "title": "Startup Award",
      "description": "Watch the next generation of workforce innovators pitch to investors, analysts and practitioners. The UNLEASH Startup Award is the longest-running startup competition in HR and future of work.",
      "content": "[Apply Now](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/callforpaper/c3977389-7e4f-f111-8ef3-6045bd9548dc>)\nStartup Award\nAre you a growing startup? The UNLEASH program is crafted to elevate your startup.\nFind out more\nJoin us in Paris!\nWE ❤️ STARTUPS. For over a decade, UNLEASH has been the proving ground for start-ups, scaleups, breakthrough technologies and global innovators shaping the HR industry.\n\nThis is where the world’s next wave of entrepreneurs come to do business and learn.\nIntro\nHeader\nThe\nUNLEASH Startup Award is the longest-running startup competition\nfor HR Tech, Future of Work and innovation.\nIt’s your chance to take the stage, pitch in front of a panel of industry experts, and potentially walk away with a support package worth an estimated €50,000! Showcase your solution to analysts, investors, and advisors on a global scale this October.\nUnlock the future of HR\nWin €50,000 worth of Sponsorship Support\nLearn all about Vizzy's triumph in the UNLEASH Startup Awards, the future strategy for the company, and the impact of exhibiting at UNLEASH.\nChris Woodward-Jones, CEO and Co-Founder of Vizzy\nHear From Last Year's Winner\nStartUp Award\n[Be The Next Success Story](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/callforpaper/c3977389-7e4f-f111-8ef3-6045bd9548dc>)\nSTARTUP ALUMNI\nThe unleash influence\nSome of the industry's biggest brands started their journey at UNLEASH, transforming early exposure into sustained growth and market leadership 🚀\nStartup Alumni",
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      "description": "Explore the UNLEASH Paris 2026 agenda. Three days, 7 stages and Expeditions across Paris—built around the decisions HR leaders need to make now. Browse keynotes, workshops, speakers and sessions shaping the future of work.",
      "content": "Across three days, UNLEASH brings together senior Summits & Salons, hosted Expeditions, 7 conference stages, the exhibition, product discovery, startup showcases, analyst insight and implementation deep dives.\nThis is not a content schedule. It is a decision map for the year ahead.\nThe goal is simple: help leaders leave Paris with clearer priorities, stronger partners and better decisions.\nExplore the Full Schedule\nBuilt around the decisions ahead\nThe UNLEASH 2026 agenda is organized around the questions leaders are bringing to Paris: AI, skills, operating models, workforce strategy, reward, data, technology, talent and transformation.\nThree days. One UNLEASH journey.\nUNLEASH 2026 starts with depth before scale.\nDay One\ngives selected leaders access to focused experiences across Paris: Summits & Salons at Shangri-La, hosted Expeditions inside leading employers, Executive Dinners and selected invitation-only partner programs.\nExplore Day One\nDays Two\nand\nThree\nbring the full HR world together at Paris Convention Centre, Hall 7.3, across 7 stages, the exhibition, marketplace, product discovery, startup showcases, analyst insight and practical implementation.\nExplore Day Two and Three\nHero\nDay One: depth, access and proximity before scale\nBefore the main conference and exhibition open, Day One gives selected leaders a more focused way into UNLEASH.\nChoose Diamond for Summits & Salons at Shangri-La Paris. Choose Explorer for hosted Expeditions and Executive Dinners across Paris. Selected partner and private leadership programs are by invitation only.\nExplore Summits & Salons\nRegister for Diamond\nSenior rooms before the main event opens. Built for leaders who want focused discussion, peer exchange and sharper decisions before the full UNLEASH experience begins.\nDiamond\nRequires Diamond Badge\nSummits & Salons at Shangri-La Paris\nExplore Expeditions\nApply for Explorer\nStep inside the companies shaping work. Explorer unlocks one hosted Expedition, small-group access to a leading employer and an Executive Dinner before the main event opens. The Explorer material defines this as 10 Expeditions, approximately 20 participants per Expedition, with company experiences from 14:00–18:00 and Executive Dinners from 19:00–21:00.\nExplorer\nRequires Explorer Badge\nExpeditions inside leading employers across Paris\nA partner-led Day One program focused on the human side of high-performance work.\nMore details coming soon\nPartner Program\nAttendance is by invitation only\nWorkhuman Forum\nday one cards\nThe Main UNLEASH Experience\nAcross Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October, the HR world meets at Paris Convention Centre, Hall 7.3.\n7 stages. Exhibition. Product discovery. Startup energy. Analyst perspective. Market movement. Practical implementation.\nThis is where most attendees experience UNLEASH.\nSelect General Admission\nday one two tree",
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      "content": "[Apply for Press Accreditation](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/content/registration-media-pass>)\nPress, Analysts & Media\nCover the story of work as it happens\nUNLEASH is where the HR world meets and where the biggest conversations in work, AI, technology, talent and workforce transformation come together in one place.\nExplore Exhibitor PR Opportunities\nHeader\nPress & Analyst Registration\nAll press, media and industry analyst representatives who plan to attend UNLEASH 2026 must register their interest in advance.\nApproved press, media and analyst passes are free of charge for authorised representatives covering HR, work, business, technology, AI, leadership, enterprise transformation and related industries.\nApplications are reviewed by the UNLEASH team. 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      "description": "Three days in Paris. Senior HR leaders come to UNLEASH to make decisions — not consume content. Compare approaches, shortlist partners, and leave with the clarity to act on what matters most.",
      "content": "Be where the decisions are made\nUNLEASH 2026 brings together the leaders redesigning work, workforce strategy, AI, technology and the operating model of modern enterprise.\nThis is where the HR world meets to make decisions.\nExplore Agenda\nJoin leaders from the world's leading organizations\nEvery year, senior HR, people, technology, and business leaders from the world's most recognized organizations attend UNLEASH to exchange ideas, evaluate new technologies, and make the decisions shaping the future of work.\nFrom global enterprises to fast-growing innovators, UNLEASH brings together thousands of decision-makers responsible for workforce transformation, AI adoption, talent, learning, employee experience, and organizational change.\nPast attendees include:\nWork Reinvention is a team sport\nWork Reinvention does not sit inside one function anymore. AI changes roles, workflows and decision-making. Skills change workforce planning. Technology changes the operating model. Reward, data and culture determine whether transformation holds. That is why the right people need to be in the same place, at the same time.\nUNLEASH brings HR, business, technology and transformation leaders together so teams can compare what is working, challenge what is not, and leave with decisions they can act on.\nLeave with the year clarified\nSenior leaders do not come to UNLEASH to consume content. They come to make decisions. Across three days, leaders compare approaches, test assumptions, meet partners, shortlist solutions and clarify the priorities that will shape the year ahead.\nThe product is not content. The product is confidence.\nThis comes directly from the directive’s audience-intent idea: people come for clearer priorities, stronger confidence and better decisions.\nHeader\nView Speakers\nHear from the leaders, operators and innovators changing how organizations work.\nSpeakers\nThe people shaping what comes next\nExplore Agenda\nExplore keynotes, stages, summits, forums, Expeditions and invitation-only leadership programs built around the decisions organizations are making now.\nAgenda & Programs\nBuilt around the decisions ahead\nExplore Marketplace\nCompare technologies, meet providers, discover breakthrough companies and build the shortlist that shapes your year.\nMarketplace\nMeet the companies building what comes next\nAttend routing sections\nAttend routing sections\nMedia marquee\nBADGES\nChoose your access\nCompare the three UNLEASH badge options and choose the experience built around your priorities.\nCompare Badges\nVolunteer\nWork inside the show that runs the industry\nJoin the volunteer program and get behind-the-scenes experience at the world’s most influential gathering on work.\nApply to Volunteer\nPress & Media\nCover the story of work as it happens\nAccredited press get access to the leaders, launches, interviews and stories shaping work, AI and workforce transformation.\nApply for Media Accreditation\nBadges",
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      "content": "[Get Your Badge](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/content/registration-general-attendee-pass?purchasestep=0&steptype=products>)\nTHE CORE UNLEASH EXPERIENCE\nGeneral Admission\nThe Main UNLEASH Experience\nGeneral Admission gives you access to the full Days Two and Three experience at Paris Convention Centre: seven stages, the exhibition, official networking, product discovery, startup showcases, analyst insight and the HR world at scale.\nThis is the essential UNLEASH pass for anyone who wants to experience the main event at scale and be part of the HR community shaping what comes next for work.\nSelect General Admission\nTwo days at the centre of the HR world\nJoin the global HR, talent, learning and workforce community across Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October at Paris Convention Centre.\nDiscover the ideas, technologies, people and market shifts shaping the future of work all in one place.\nWhat General Admission includes:\nDays 2–3 conference access\n7 stages\nFull exhibition access\nOfficial networking events\nAttendee-only hotel room block\nCommunity access via app\nUNLEASH Journey Book\nBuilt around the decisions ahead\nGeneral Admission includes access to the 7-stage agenda system across Days Two and Three.\nHumans x AI / WorkTech & Pay / Talent / Skills / Impact Stage / Spotlight Stage / Builder Stage\nExplore Core Agenda\nHero\nWho is general admission for\nGeneral Admission is right for you if…\nYou want the main UNLEASH conference and exhibition experience.\nYou want access to all 7 stages across Days Two and Three.\nYou want to meet vendors, partners, peers and market leaders.\nYou want to explore what is changing across HR, work, AI and technology.\nYou do not need Day One premium access.\nNot included with General Admission\nDay One Summits & Salons\nDay One Expeditions\nExecutive Dinners\nExplorer Tours\nAccelerator Labs\nDiamond premium access\nInvitation-only partner or leadership programmes\nWant Day One access?\nChoose Explorer for hosted Expeditions and Executive Dinners.\nApply for Explorer\nChoose Diamond for Summits & Salons at Shangri-La Paris.\nRegister for Diamond\nWho is it for?\nMeet the companies building what comes next\nGeneral Admission includes full exhibition access.\nMeet the providers, platforms, startups, partners, analysts and market voices shaping HR, work, AI and work reinvention.\nExplore Exhibition\nExhibition and marketplace",
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      "content": "Getting to Paris\nParis is connected by major airports, international rail and direct routes from across Europe and beyond.\nFind guidance for airport arrivals, train travel, transfers and getting around the city during UNLEASH 2026.\nPlan Your Travel\nHeader\nExplore UNLEASH Paris\nThree days. One city. Your UNLEASH Experience.\nFrom Expeditions across Paris to Summits & Salons, networking experiences and the main Expo & Conference, explore where UNLEASH Paris takes you from 20–22 October.\nDay One at Shangri-La Paris\nSummits, salons, the Workhuman Forum, CHRO Summit, UNLEASH 100 and senior Day One programming begin at Shangri-La Paris.\nAddress:\n10 Avenue d'Iéna\n75116 Paris\nFrance\nIt’s in the 16th arrondissement, near the Seine and within walking distance of Trocadéro and views towards Eiffel Tower.\nExplore Day One Program\nDays Two and Three at Paris Convention Centre\nThe main conference and exhibition take over Paris Convention Centre for two days of stages, exhibitors, meetings, marketplace activity and global networking.\nAddress:\n1 Place de la Porte de Versailles\n75015 Paris\nFrance\nParis’s flagship exhibition venue and one of the largest event destinations in Europe.\nGet Your Badge\nBook Your Accommodation\nThe Paris Convention Centre is conveniently located just a stone’s throw away from Port de Versailles metro station.\nWe highly recommend booking with our trusted providers, BNetwork, for your accommodation, who will provide you the best rates available.\n[Book Your Hotel](<https://unleashworld2026.bnetwork.com/>)\nWhy + About UNLEASH",
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      "content": "Get the UNLEASH App\nDiscover the agenda, book meetings and navigate the show floor - all from your pocket.\n[Download on the App Store](<https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/unleash-events/id6479372877>)\n[Download on Google Play Store](<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.unleash.ah.app&hl=en_GB>)\nHaving issues downloading? Search “UNLEASH Events” on your app store on your smartphone and download from there.\nNEED APP SUPPORT?\nBefore the event, contact the UNLEASH team for assistance at\nsupport@unleash.ai\nOnsite in Paris:\nApp Support is located\nnext to the Registration Desk on Level 7.2\nand is available during Registration Desk opening hours.\nApp",
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      "content": "PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY\nUNLEASH\nis committed to fostering a positive, inclusive experience for all participants, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion. We prohibit harassment in any form and uphold the highest standards of professionalism at the event. Participants include attendees, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, and staff.\nInappropriate language or imagery, including sexually explicit content, is not allowed at the conference or in presentations. Harassment may consist of offensive verbal comments, displaying sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, unauthorized photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual advances.\nParticipants who engage in harassment or are asked to cease any harassing behaviour must comply immediately.\nEvent organizers reserve the right to take necessary actions to maintain a welcoming environment, which may include warning the offender or expelling them from the conference without refund. Organizers may also address any disruptions or hostile environments caused by participants.\nThese rules apply to all event venues and event-related social activities.\nIf you experience harassment, witness someone else being harassed, or have other concerns, report it immediately to a member of the UNLEASH Management Team, a volunteer, or the conference contacts listed below. Management Team members and volunteers can be identified by their name badges.\nOur team is ready to assist with contacting venue security, local law enforcement, local support services, providing escorts, or helping you feel safe throughout the event. We value your attendance and expect participants to adhere to these rules at all conference venues and conference-related social events. If you find this policy restrictive, please refrain from attending or speaking at the conference.\nPURPOSE\nWe believe in creating an open and inclusive community for everyone. To ensure a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment, we have established this code of conduct outlining our expectations for participant behaviour and the consequences for unacceptable behaviour.\nWe invite all sponsors, speakers, attendees, media, exhibitors, and other participants to help us achieve a safe and positive conference experience for everyone.\nAll determinations of appropriate or inappropriate behaviour are at the sole discretion of the organizers of UNLEASH World, and the decisions made by on-site representatives are final.\nEXPECTED BEHAVIOUR\nBe generous, considerate, respectful, kind and collaborative.\nAvoid demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behaviour, materials, and speech.\nBe aware of your surroundings and fellow participants. Alert conference organizers if you notice a dangerous situation or someone in distress.\nFoster a culture of reciprocity by treating others with respect, fairness, and kindness, and expecting the same in return. Actively contribute to creating a positive and inclusive environment for all participants.\nUNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR\nUnacceptable behavior includes, but is not limited to:\nIntimidating, harassing, abusive, discriminatory, derogatory, or demeaning materials or conduct by any attendees of the event and related event activities. Please be respectful to all patrons of the venues.\nHarassment encompasses offensive comments (verbal, written, or otherwise) related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability; inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces (including presentation slides); deliberate intimidation, stalking or following; harassing materials, photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events (whether verbal or otherwise); inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.\nWearing clothing that is unsuitable for a professional work environment, provocative, or potentially offensive.\nPhysical, written, verbal, or other abuse, intimidation, threats, annoyance, harassment, stalking, pushing, shoving, or any use of physical force that creates a disturbance, danger, or apprehension in a person, as determined by UNLEASH organizers in their sole discretion.\nPossession of any item that can be used as a weapon, which may cause danger to others if used in a certain manner.\nAny boisterous, lewd, or offensive behavior or language, including but not limited to using sexually explicit or offensive language, materials or conduct, or any language, behaviour or content containing profanity, obscene gestures, or sexist, racial, religious, or ethnic slurs.\nPossessing any open can, bottle, or other receptacle containing alcoholic beverages, except in designated areas. Please drink responsibly.\nPossessing any illegal substances, including but not limited to illegal drugs. UNLEASH World does not tolerate the use or abuse of illegal substances.\nSmoking, except in designated areas.\nAssembling for the purpose of, or resulting in, disturbing the peace, committing any unlawful act, or engaging in any offensive behaviour.\nFailing to obey any rules or regulations of the venue.\nUnacceptable behaviour will not be tolerated, whether by attendees, media, speakers, volunteers, organizers, venue staff, sponsors, or exhibitors. Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behaviour is expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in unacceptable behaviour, the UNLEASH may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from the conference without warning or refund.\nREPORTING UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR\nIf you are subjected to unacceptable behaviour, notice that someone else is being subjected to unacceptable behaviour, or have any other concerns, please notify a conference organizer as soon as possible. All reports will remain completely confidential.\nEvent staff will be available to help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing unacceptable behaviour to feel safe for the duration of the conference. You can report unacceptable behaviour to any member of the event staff. Staff can be found in the show office onsite or you may email one of the contacts below.\nTRADESHOW POLICIES\nCODE OF CONDUCT:\nWe believe our community should be truly open to everyone. 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      "content": "Submit Your Application\nApply to Speak\nWhy Speak at UNLEASH\nDo you have groundbreaking stories showcasing innovative HR approaches? Share your expertise at UNLEASH 2026 in Paris, the world’s most influential HR event. Inspire top industry leaders, drive meaningful conversations, and shape the future of HR. Read on to discover the benefits and criteria of speaking at UNLEASH.\nHR Leaders, this is your moment!\nDo you have groundbreaking stories showcasing innovative HR approaches? Share your expertise at UNLEASH 2026 in Paris, the world’s most influential HR event. Inspire top industry leaders, drive meaningful conversations, and shape the future of HR. Read on to discover the benefits and criteria of speaking at UNLEASH.\nApply to Speak\nCriteria\nYour submission will be considered in competition with our other speaker submissions, and rated for its practical utility for our community, innovation, relevance and how well it aligns with our research\nYour ideas should be relevant to the future of work, HR, talent, skills, AI, Worktech or employee experience. It may involve AI and human behavior\nWe will take into account your level of experience, and organization size, to achieve a strong mix of speakers\nOur audience loves real-world, practical, scalable case studies and stories of success and failure!\nAt UNLEASH we are proud to support diversity. We had 50% female speakers at our last event, and look to platform diverse perspectives across our agenda\nAnd finally… think outside the box!\nWhy Speak\nApply to Contribute to UNLEASH\nWhat Our Past Speakers Have To Say:\nUNLEASH delivers what most conferences don't - a powerful mix of visionary thinking and gritty, real-world conversations. It's where you go to sharpen your edge, challenge your assumptions, and leave with ideas worth acting on. If you're leading through change, this is the room to be in.\nUNLEASH is such a special place. We have to celebrate that we are, by nature a group of individuals, HR professionals who are passionate about marrying both business and people.\nWhat I love about UNLEASH is how practical the insights are from all the different speakers, and how much research and science go into all the incredible information that is being shared here. It's like no other!\nI don't know if there's a better conference right now around the converge of humans and technology\nTestimonials\nPast Speakers\nPast Speakers",
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      "content": "Paris Interactive Map\nSenior Gatherings Before the Main Event Opens\nSummits & Salons at Shangri-La Paris are built for senior leaders who want focused discussion, peer exchange and sharper decisions before the full UNLEASH experience begins.\nAccess:\nRequires Diamond Badge\nRegister for Diamond\nHeader\nDepth Before Scale\nBefore the HR world arrives at full scale, Diamond Badge holders step into focused rooms designed for senior discussion, peer exchange and decision clarity.\nThese are not passive briefings.\nThey are working sessions for leaders shaping how their organizations respond to AI, workforce disruption, skills, culture, operating model change and enterprise transformation.\nWhat Summits & Salons Are On\nRegister for Diamond\nA focused Day One Summit for leaders preparing their organizations for AI acceleration, workforce disruption and operating model change.\nAccess:\nRequires Diamond\nWhere senior leaders pressure-test the organization they are becoming\nFuture Readiness Summit\nRegister for Diamond\nA research-led executive Summit for HR and technology leaders moving AI from experimentation into scalable workforce and business impact.\nAccess:\nRequires Diamond\nFrom AI Pilots to AI Operating Models\nAI Summit\nRegister for Diamond\nA future-back leadership session on how AI, agents, skills intelligence and human judgment are changing the HR operating model.\nAccess:\nRequires Diamond\nHow AI changes the HR Function\nHR 2030 Summit\nProgramme Cards\nProgram Cards",
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      "content": "Event Terms and Conditions\nThis page sets out the terms and conditions from UNLEASH (defined as \"Unleash Holdings Ltd and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Unleash Group Ltd, Unleash America Ltd, Unleash World Ltd and Unleash Group KFT\") when you purchase a ticket or register for any Event. By registering, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by these terms and conditions, and as such should read this document carefully.\nThese terms may be amended without notice to you. Your continued use of the Site, the Events and other UNLEASH products will mean that you accept these changes. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these Terms and Conditions at any time. Unless otherwise indicated, amendments will become effective immediately. Please review these Terms and Conditions periodically.\nUNLEASH Group of Companies reserves the right to cancel, change the date to any date within 12 months of the then current Start Date, the format or relocate the Event at any time prior to the Event Date. You agree to obtain, at your own expense, appropriate and sufficient insurance against any risk of loss associated with the Event being cancelled, postponed, rescheduled, or relocated.\nIn this clause, Force Majeure means circumstances which are beyond the reasonable control of UNLEASH and which are reasonably likely to affect UNLEASH’s successful delivery of the Event or would make it inadvisable, impracticable, illegal, or impossible for a party to perform its obligations as originally contracted under these Terms & Conditions, including, but not limited to: failure of a utility service or transport or telecommunications network, lockout, strike or other industrial action (whether or not involving UNLEASH’s own workforce), civil unrest, fire, flood, storms, earthquakes, chemical or biological contamination, any restriction or measures imposed in connection with a pandemic, epidemic, public health emergency (including but not limited to the Covid-19 pandemic), act of God, riot, malicious damage, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule, recommendation, regulation or direction (including travel-related guidance and restrictions), accident, breakdown of plant or machinery, or default of suppliers or sub- contractors, sonic boom, acts of terrorism, acts of war, governmental action or advice.\nIf, because of Force Majeure, UNLEASH cancels the Event, UNLEASH shall use reasonable commercial endeavours to reschedule the Event. Without prejudice to its obligations, UNLEASH accepts no liability and will not be liable for any compensation where the performance of its obligations under these Terms & Conditions is affected by Force Majeure.\nForce Majeure\nPlease review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your visit to this site, to understand our practices.\nPrivacy\nThe Site, and Event do not constitute a solicitation to buy or sell any investment.\nSolicitation\nNo information contained in the Site or provided at the Events should be deemed to constitute the provision of financial, investment or other professional advice in any way.\nAdvice\nBy proceeding you agree to the exclusion by us, of any liability, including without limitation that arising from any loss of profit or any other direct or consequential damage, in respect of any errors and/or omissions by us and/or any relevant third parties in respect of the content.\nThe contents of the Site and the Event(s) are based upon sources of information believed to be reliable, however, save to the extent required by applicable law or regulations, no guarantee, warranty, or representation (express or implied) is given as to its accuracy or completeness and, the UNLEASH and its members, officers and employees do not accept any liability or responsibility in respect of the information, or any views expressed herein.\nIf you have accessed the Site using a link from another site, UNLEASH does not accept any liability or responsibility for the accuracy of information contained within the sites of other providers who have links to any pages of this site or to whom this site is linked.\nContent of the Website and Events\nBy registering your name and email address on the Site, you are agreeing to receive email communication from UNLEASH to keep you informed of related products and services. Your information may also be shared with our event sponsors listed\nhere\n.\nIf your application to register is accepted, you are agreeing that your information will be passed to our Mobile App provider, InWink, where a profile will be created for you that enables your app access onsite. See more information under “Badges” re how your data in the app can be shared with fellow participants.\nFor more information, please see our privacy policy.\nRegistration\nAttendees must use their own badge while onsite at the event. Badges are non-transferable and may not be shared onsite. Any person found to be in violation of this policy will have their badge confiscated by event personnel and will be asked to leave the conference. No one under the age of 18 is permitted at any conference activity, keynote, or session unless as an approved Student type or previous approved in writing by a member of the UNLEASH Leadership team.\nUNLEASH enables exhibitors to scan participants badges. By allowing the exhibitor or session sponsor to scan your badge, they will have access to your contact information, as provided during the registration process, which they will use to follow up post event. A list of event sponsors can be found\nhere\n.\nYour badge will also be scanned upon entry and exit to the event, as well as into sessions and areas of the event itself, this is used for analytics and health and safety purposes only.\nBadges\nYou agree to notify us of any changes to your personal circumstances with respect to any information or representation made herein and to provide us with any changes to this information as we may reasonably require.\nNotification\nThe copyright in the Site, the Event(s), and the publication (unless otherwise indicated), its contents, including all information, graphics, code, text, and design are owned by UNLEASH and should not be reproduced or distributed without permission.\nOwnership and Copyright\nBy registering, attendees grant UNLEASH and its agents the right to take photographs or videos of them during UNLEASH event activities.\nAttendees grant UNLEASH the worldwide right to use, copy, distribute, exhibit, broadcast, transmit, perform, publish, and display the photos/videos of attendees, with or without names and biographic material, in any media including in print and electronic. UNLEASH may use the photos/videos for any lawful purpose including, but not limited to, publicity, marketing, and advertising – and is under no obligation to compensate attendees.\nAttendees agree that UNLEASH is the exclusive copyright owner of the photographs/videos. Attendees further understand that content posted to social networks will be subject to the social network’s applicable terms and privacy policy.\nUse of Attendee Photos/Likeness\nOur Events are open to professionals only. Solicitation of business or distribution of materials by non-exhibitors is strictly prohibited. Violators will be immediately removed from the show.\nAny person found to be registering to attend our events using false information or credentials or deliberately withholding information will have their application automatically denied and may be liable to prosecution. Without prejudice, the organizers reserve the right to exclude any person(s).\nOur policy objective is to ensure a healthy ratio of Enterprise to Vendor delegates at all our events. This ensures that representatives of Enterprise organizations are not overwhelmed by Vendor organizations. It assists in the protection of investments made by the Sponsors, Exhibitors, and Partners at UNLEASH events. To achieve this, we enforce a strict policy of approvals with quota limits. It should be noted that we reserve the right to refuse ticket(s) to representatives of vendor companies (software/services/solution providers) and consultants of any kind who register themselves in this way.\nOnce a successful purchase transaction has been completed, tickets are delivered electronically via email to the email address nominated by the purchaser. The ticket acts as a receipt for the transaction and can be used to redeem entry at the UNLEASH event listed on the ticket. A printed hard-copy ticket or an electronic soft-copy ticket detailing the reference number or barcode can be used to register at the event.\nUNLEASH claims the right to reject any ticket purchase within a maximum of 7 days after the clarified payment. If this happens, a full refund will be issued.\nClosed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV) will be in operation at all times during the events. The organizers reserve the right to deliver the CCTV videotapes to the Police or other competent authority as evidence if requested to do so. The contents of such videotape may be used as evidence in a court of law.\nUNLEASH reserves the rights to film/permit approved third party filming across the show open days of the events.\nBy attending the show, visitors permit the organizers/approved third parties to use any footage taken. No person under the age of 18 years, including children of the exhibitors, will be admitted during the tenancy period. Canvassing is not permitted.\nThe organizers reserve the right to exclude or remove anyone from the events or venue who does not comply with this policy or who they reasonably consider are likely to break the rules.\nAdmissions\nI acknowledge that UNLEASH will not provide transport or travel expenses to or from any UNLEASH event.\nTravel\nUNLEASH cares about the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees, and communities. We continue to monitor local COVID-19 protocols and mandates to ensure we can meet them in the safest way possible.\nMasks are still recommended for individuals who are not fully vaccinated and those with underlying health conditions. These protocols and mandates may change at any time. We will do our best to communicate any changes as they arise and appreciate your cooperation to ensure we can gather in a safe and compliant manner.\nFor information on the most current and up to date health and safety guidelines for our live events, in addition to the latest testing protocols, please visit the Florida health website, or the Paris health website.\nHealth and Safety Protocols\nI acknowledge that UNLEASH will consider but not guarantee exhibitors requests for day changes at any event or conference. All items (screens, laptops, cabling and other electronic equipment, rooms, furniture etc.) supplied are on a rental basis and no exchange, transfer or refund of ordered items on-site will be entertained. Exhibitors must pay for any damages or losses caused to items supplied to them.\nCancelled orders are not refundable. Non-standard items may be offered on request, subject to a separate quotation, and are subject to the same terms and conditions. Any complaint regarding rental items or installation must be lodged before the opening of the event. In respect of items rented on the day, items should be inspected immediately and tested. The equipment must be insured “all risk” by the hirer, who will remain liable until the authorized staff has collected the equipment. In case of disappearance, the equipment will be invoiced at the original insurance value.\nExhibitor Information\nThe following cancellation and refund policy applies to Delegate passes for all UNLEASH Events.\nCancellation days before the event:\nMore than 100 days: full refund\n99-61 days: 50% refund\n60-7 days: Credit voucher*\nLess than 7 days: no refund or credit voucher\n*Credit voucher is issued for the value of the ticket amount invested. To be used at any UNLEASH event within 12 months of date of credit voucher. The credit voucher does not include a hotel room.\nA Senior Leadership representative to attend in your place can be named at any time before the event starts and no fees will be applied to this. This transfer of pass cannot be completed onsite. More than one name change made within two (2) working days to the event will be subject to a service charge equivalent to 12% of the ticket amount. If your ticket is cancelled due to malpractice or misuse of discounts no refund will be issued. UNLEASH eserves the right to refuse any refund based on management discretion.\nIf you require a refund based on testing positive for Covid-19, you will need to provide evidence to the Customer Services team of your positive results.\nIf you need to cancel your ticket because you have been denied a Visa application, you will need to contact our Customer Services Team within one week from the rejection to be eligible for a refund.\nTo make a cancellation or refund request please contact the Customer Services team at\nsupport@unleash.ai.\nDelegate Pass Cancellations and Refund Policy\nCompletion of an application form applying to attend the Event under any of our ticket types does not automatically guarantee a place at the Event. As a curated experience, UNLEASH checks all applications to ensure that we create the highest quality event for all our attendees.\nAll applications should expect a response to confirm your registration status within 3 working days. Applicants will be notified by UNLEASH if their registration is successful. If your application is denied you may be offered other relevant alternatives or a ticket refund if required. Access will not be granted onsite to rejected applicants.\nAll Tickets are Application Only\nCompletion of an application form applying to attend as a HR Leader at the Event does not automatically guarantee a place on the programme. All applications to the Event will be reviewed by UNLEASH. Applicants will be notified by UNLEASH if their registration is successful. If successful, an applicant will become a HR Leader, and be bound by the attendance conditions.\nBy applying for a Free HR Leader ticket, you are committing to attending all live days of the Event. A Senior Leadership representative to attend in your place can be named up to two weeks before the event starts, and no fees will be applied to this. This transfer of pass cannot be completed onsite. If you or an approved representative do not attend the Event a\nfee of 500 €\nwill be charged to you via invoice, using the billing details supplied upon registration. Attendance of the Event will be proven by our registration system.\nAttending as an HR Leader\nFor eligible ticket holders who are offered special rates from the UNLEASH room block, these must be booked in accordance with supplied dates and instructions. Tax and resort fees are payable by the guest, and UNLEASH is not responsible for incidentals, damage to property or loss of personal property.\nMore information will be provided at the point of booking for eligible ticket holders.\nHotel Special Rates\nDiscount codes cannot be combined with any other offers or credit received from a previous show. Any credit issued must be used by the original recipient and cannot be transferred.\nDiscounts cannot be retroactively applied to a completed ticket purchase. Additionally, refunds or credits cannot be issued of equivalent value to any offered discounts or promotions. Complimentary upgrades are considered on a show-by-show basis at the discretion of UNLEASH. UNLEASH does not guarantee an upgrade is applicable and UNLEASH retains the right to decline upgrade requests at any time, for any reason at its discretion.\nEarly bird pricing windows are final unless otherwise adjusted by an active promotion. After the pricing window has closed, the expired rate will no longer be made available and cannot be retroactively applied.\nIf an attendee is found using a discount code that was not provided for the code’s intended use, the purchaser’s ticket will be cancelled, and no refund will be issued.\nUNLEASH discounted tickets are not eligible for resale. Any resold tickets will be immediately considered void and ineligible for a refund.\nTickets and Add-ons are subject to individual promotions and cannot be combined or redeemed against one another.\nAny discount provided for these add-ons will not be applicable after a purchase transaction has been completed. Discounts must be applied before purchase confirmation when selecting available products.\nTickets distributed as part of a sponsorship package are applicable exclusively to the contracted company. The agreed number of complimentary tickets cannot be exceeded. Complimentary tickets will only be valid for said company unless otherwise specified by a member of the UNLEASH team.\nDiscount codes cannot be redeemed onsite at the event.\nDiscounts and Codes\nThe events, information, and speakers listed on our Sites are subject to change without notification.\nUnused tickets/passes will be forfeited and are not transferable to another event.\nTicket holders may not sell, offer for sale, offer at auctions, resell, donate, act as commercial agent for another party or otherwise transfer their tickets in any way without the specific prior written consent of UNLEASH.\nLive Events\nPlease click here to read our Code of Conduct\nUNLEASH Events Code of Conduct\nShow recordings purchased before, at or after the show can be subject to a development retainer and can take up to 6-8 weeks from the end of the show to be available for attendees to view. In the case of an unforeseen circumstance, UNLEASH reserves the right to extend this period without notice, and there will be no changes to the refund policy if this occurs.\nAs per our refund policy, there will be a 48-hour period after the purchasing of any recordings to apply for a refund. After that time the recordings will no longer be eligible for a refund. Once the recordings are available, the 48-hour period becomes invalid and all attendees purchasing recordings will gain immediate access and for that reason will not be eligible for any refunds. All refunds must be submitted in written format to the Customer Services team at\nsupport@unleash.ai\n.\nIf you are unable to view the recordings, please contact us directly at\nsupport@unleash.ai\n.\nRecordings\nAs owner and producer of UNLEASH in Paris and Miami, UNLEASH works diligently to protect our exhibitors’ commitment and investment in the trade show and the industry by taking a firm stance against outboarding.\nOutboarding is defined as any digital or physical non-permanent exhibit, demonstration, event, or branded activation that is created and deployed outside the scope of UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris but is promoted or implied as being a part of UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris. This includes digital or virtual programming and activations as well as physical events at Miami/Paris hotel suites, meeting rooms, ballrooms, restaurants, clubs, etc. For physical events, a company is also considered an outboarder if it has contracted space with UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris but contracts directly with another Miami/Paris venue for space (for more than one day) that exceeds the net square footage (NSF) contracted with UNLEASH.\nTrade shows are organized so that companies in specific industries can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers and examine market trends and opportunities. More than 10,000 HR business leaders attend the physical UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris events and generate networks to facilitate brand recognition and business development for more than 200 UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris exhibitors whose participation money provide UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris with the funds to host these events and reinvest back into the industry. However, the integrity of the show is diminished, and the value becomes diluted when companies seek – in an unofficial capacity – to capitalize on the UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris attendees who travel to Miami/Paris to meet as an industry or participate in UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris.\nThe physical or digital UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris brings all facets of the HR tech community together and we recognize the critical importance of networking to build business. We encourage official exhibitors to host parties and special events to enhance an official presence before and after hours. However, such events should be held to strengthen a company’s UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris brand positioning, not held as stand-alone functions that compete against those who are making an additional investment in their brand activation at UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris.\nCompanies who outboard cause inconvenience to attendees and hurt the overall industry as UNLEASH invests UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris net proceeds back into the industry through industry promotion, research, standards development, public policy and related activities to benefit the entire consumer technology ecosystem.\nOutboarding violates UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris policy and the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE) guidelines. When UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris determines that outboarding has occurred, UNLEASH will enforce the rule against the participating company and may impose penalties for violations. It is the UNLEASH Board policy that outboarding companies are subject to sanctions that start with the loss of priority points.\nBoth physical and digital UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris offer an array of inventory available for companies looking for non-traditional trade show engagement options. We are willing to work with any industry entity to bring its tech innovation experience to life at UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris and connect with the global market.\nUNLEASH Outboarding Policy\n1. What real harm does outboarding cause?\nUNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris, like other trade shows, is based on the principle that gathering people in a limited locale or digital venue is efficient, cost-effective and allows relationships and business to develop for all involved. UNLEASH invests heavily in marketing, transportation and logistics to ensure that all attendees can maximize their investment and efficiency in getting to and around Las Vegas/Paris. For the physical UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris outboarders seduce attendees away from the authorized show sites and disperse them throughout the city adding heavily to traffic congestion.\n2. What are the consequences of an outboarding violation?\nOutboarding is a violation of UNLEASH and UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris rules, is an unethical business practice and in violation of the International Association of Exhibitors and Events (IAEE) guidelines. MiamiParis hotels often require those (non‐exhibitors) who rent suites and meeting rooms to sign a document as part of the contract process attesting that the space will not be used as “outboarded” space. Companies who outboard may face several penalties as follows:\nCompanies may be subject to exposure as an outboarder to UNLEASH members, media, customers and shareholders.\nCompanies may also be subject to loss of its UNLEASH in Miami/UNLEASH in Paris sponsorship.\n3. 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      "content": "EXCLUSIVE HOSTED ORGANIZATIONS\nExplorer Badge\nStep inside the companies shaping the future of work\nFor senior HR leaders who want to see how leading organizations turn people strategy into practice, the Explorer Badge unlocks small, curated group experiences across Paris, hosted by some of the world’s most influential employers.\nAcross the program, you will join exclusive Expeditions hosted by leading organizations shaping talent, culture, innovation and workforce transformation at global scale.\n[Apply for Explorer Badge](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/content/registration-explorer-pass?purchasestep=0&steptype=products>)\nReal access. Smaller rooms. Better questions.\nExplorer is built around visibility, proximity and peer-level exchange — what senior HR leaders cannot get from a stage alone.\nReal access — inside organizations normally closed to external audiences.\nSmall-group format — senior peers, room to ask and challenge.\nStrategy through to execution — see how it actually gets done.\nDecisions, not just ideas — insight that informs what you do next.\nFocus away from the noise — curated, not crowded.\nLimited. Curated. Seniority-gated. No vendors.\nHero\nYour Explorer experience\nDay One: Expeditions + Executive Dinner\nChoose one of 10 exclusive Expeditions, each hosted by a leading employer.\nEach experience is designed for small-group discussion, behind-the-scenes access and direct conversation with senior leaders shaping the future of work.\nEach Explorer experience includes:\nPrivate company visit\nBehind-the-scenes access to people, culture and operations\nDirect interaction with senior leadership\nExecutive Dinner\nApproximately 20 participants per expedition\nCompany experience: 14:00–18:00\nExecutive Dinner: 19:00–21:00\n2026 Expedition hosts\nStep inside some of the world’s most influential organizations\nExplore the Expeditions\nYour Explorer experience\nDays Two and Three: Continue the journey\nExplorer continues across the main UNLEASH experience with access to the conference, exhibition and additional Explorer benefits.\nEach Explorer experience includes:\nExplorer Tours\nAccelerator Labs\nUNLEASH Lounge Access\nSpeaker Meet & Greets\nFast Track Entry\nSignature Social Events\nEvent Intelligence Report\nFull three-day access\nWho it is for\nBuilt for senior HR leaders\nExplorer is for senior leaders who want to get closer to how reinvention actually works.\nBest suited for:\nCHROs, Chief People Officers, Heads of HR, Talent leaders, People and culture leaders, Skills leaders, Reward and pay leaders, Organisation design leaders, Workforce strategy leaders, Performance leaders, Senior HR transformation leaders\nStrictly limited by capacity and seniority. Vendor registrations are not accepted.\nImportant\nExpeditions + Dinner\nWe were delighted to host the UNLEASH Expedition at our campus, bringing HR leaders together to exchange perspectives on the future of work, AI and cultural transformation. The energy, engagement and feedback highlighted the value of these conversations.\nThe LVMH Expedition was a very fruitful and exciting experience.\nI wanted to extend my heartfelt thanks for the opportunity to join the expedition event at LVMH HQ in Paris. It was an exceptional experience, hearing directly from the LVMH HR leadership and learning about their people strategy and best practices was truly inspiring.\nThe Expeditions were a highlight of the 3 days! Lots of first-hand information, openness, great insights and networking opportunities.\nVoice of UNLEASH Explorer\nSection Your investment\nExplorer Badge\nExplorer is built around visibility, proximity and peer-level exchange — what senior HR leaders cannot get from a stage alone.\nLimited availability. Allocation based on seniority.\n[Apply for Explorer Badge](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/content/registration-explorer-pass?purchasestep=0&steptype=products&_gl=1*xsngi6*_gcl_au*MTAwNTMwMjg2Ni4xNzc4NTE1NDY5LjE4ODkxODAzMjYuMTc4MTU0NDc2My4xNzgxNTQ0NzYz*_ga*MTQ4MDg3MDU1My4xNzc4NTE1MzM5*_ga_SS75KJCH57*czE3ODE3MTY2MDgkbzYyJGcxJHQxNzgxNzIwNDgxJGo1NiRsMCRoMjE0NjkyNDM4Nw..>)\nExplorer badge",
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      "content": "Paris Interactive Map\nDay One: depth, access and proximity before scale\nBefore the main conference and exhibition open, Day One gives selected leaders a more focused way into UNLEASH.\nSummits & Salons take place at Shangri-La Paris. Expeditions take senior HR leaders inside leading employers across the city. Executive Dinners extend the Explorer experience into deeper peer conversation. Workhuman Forum Live is a partner program at 7.4, by invitation only.\nHeader\nRegister for Diamond\nSenior rooms before the main event opens. Built for leaders who want focused discussion, peer exchange and sharper decisions before the full UNLEASH experience begins.\nAccess:\nDiamond Badge Required\nLocation:\nShangri-La Paris\nSummits & Salons\nApply for Explorer\nExplorer unlocks one hosted Expedition, small-group access to a leading employer and an Executive Dinner before the main event opens.\nAccess:\nExplorer Badge Required\nLocation:\nx10 Expeditions inside leading employers across Paris\nExpeditions & Executive Dinners\n[Register for Workhuman Forum](<https://forum.workhuman.com/paris>)\nA partner-led Day One programme focused on the human side of high-performance work.\nAccess:\nAttendance is by invitation only.\nLocation:\n7.4, Paris Convention Centre\nWorkhuman Forum\nAttend routing sections\nAttend routing sections\nSenior Rooms Before the Main Event Opens\nSummits & Salons are built for senior leaders who want focused discussion, peer exchange and sharper decisions before the full UNLEASH experience begins.\nAccess:\nDiamond Badge Required\nExplore Summits & Salons\nInside the World’s Best Employers!\nUNLEASH Expeditions take senior HR leaders behind the scenes at some of World’s most admired employers in Paris.\nThese are not tours. They are small-group field experiences inside companies solving real questions around work, culture, technology, talent, leadership and reinvention.\nAccess:\nExplorer Badge Required\nExplore Expeditions\nThe Human Side of High-Performance Work\nA partner-led Day One program focused on culture, recognition and the human foundations of performance.\nAccess:\nAttendance is by invitation only.\nBadges",
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      "title": "Sponsor UNLEASH Paris 2026",
      "description": "A direct position inside the year's most consequential marketplace for work reinvention. Reach the CHROs, enterprise buyers and budget holders who are actively shaping what comes next.",
      "content": "Speak to the Team\nSponsorship Opportunities\nBecome an Exhibitor\nExhibiting at UNLEASH positions your brand at the centre of the industry’s most influential event. It’s a powerful way to demonstrate your commitment to the future of work, while gaining exposure to a high-impact, targeted audience of decision-makers, budget holders and innovators.\nRequest Brochure\nShowcase your brand at UNLEASH\nThe Home of HR and the Heart of the global HR community, UNLEASH is the destination for anyone who believes in the power of people, technology, transformation and the ambition to create a better future.\nSponsorship Overview\nJust on the first day, our team did over 400 demos alone, talking to customers and prospects. Coming here gives us energy and helps us understand what people want.\nWhere industry leaders gather\nReach the decision-makers shaping the future of work. Connect with HR leaders from the world's biggest brands.\nRequest Brochure\nThis is the conference with global impact, not just activity. And that really matters for us.\nFrom Fortune 500s to SMEs and everything in between.\nThe most influential HR leaders are here at UNLEASH. Discover how you can be part of the biggest HR event of the year.\nRequest Brochure\nThe calibre of the people here is definitely up a level or two from what we see at other events. You have the right audience, you feel real impact.\nIndustry Leaders\nInquire about Sponsorsing\nForm",
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      "title": "Diamond Badge",
      "description": "Begin UNLEASH 2026 at Shangri-La Paris with Day One Summits & Salons designed for depth, peer exchange and sharper decisions — before the full event opens at scale. From €4,995.",
      "content": "BUILT FOR SENIOR LEADERS\nDiamond\nLeadership access at the highest level\nThe Diamond Badge is for senior business and HR leaders who want more than access to the main event.\nBegin UNLEASH 2026 at Shangri-La Paris with Day One Summits & Salons built for focused leadership discussion, peer exchange and sharper decisions before the full HR world arrives at scale.\n[Register for Diamond Badge](<https://events.unleash.ai/e/unleash-world-2026/content/registration-diamond-pass?purchasestep=0&steptype=products>)\nSenior gatherings before the main event opens\nDiamond is for leaders who want focused time before the scale of the main event.\nAcross Day One, Diamond Badge holders step into Summits & Salons taking place in\nShangri-La Paris\nand shaped around AI, skills, future readiness, human-centred work and enterprise transformation.\nThe experience is built for senior leaders who want to compare what is working, challenge what comes next and build relationships that carry beyond the event.\nBuilt for senior HR leaders\nDiamond is designed for leaders who want depth before scale.\nBest for:\nCHROs / CPOs / Senior HR leaders / Business leaders / Technology leaders / Transformation leaders / People analytics leaders / Workforce strategy leaders / Talent and skills leaders / Senior executives accountable for enterprise change\nHero\nFuture Readiness Summit\nAI Summit\nHR 2030 Summit\nSalons\nCurated Networking Experiences\nParis Interactive Map\nExplore the Day One Summits & Salons\nProgramme Cards\nPublic program cards\nDiamond Includes\nEverything in General Admission\nDay One Summits & Salons\nUNLEASH Curated Experiences\nFast Track Entry\nUNLEASH Lounge Access\nSpeaker Meet & Greets\nReserved Stage Seating\nUNLEASH Intelligence Report\nDiamond Badge include",
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      "title": "Full Agenda",
      "description": "Explore the UNLEASH Paris 2026 agenda. Three days, 7 stages and Expeditions across Paris—built around the decisions HR leaders need to make now. Browse keynotes, workshops, speakers and sessions shaping the future of work.",
      "content": "Explore Speakers\nExplore the full agenda\nSearch by day, stage, speaker, topic, format and access type.\nBuild your plan around the questions you need to answer - from AI and skills to talent, work technology, pay, implementation, product discovery and market intelligence.\nParis Interactive Map\nUNLEASH World 2026\nHeading",
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      "slug": "/events/unleash-paris/outboarding-policy",
      "title": "Outboarding Policy",
      "description": "Read the official outboarding policy for UNLEASH Paris 2026 covering attendee, sponsor, and exhibitor obligations at the close of the event.",
      "content": "Outboarding Policy\nPLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY CAREFULLY\nAs owner and producer of\nUNLEASH Paris\nand\nUNLEASH Miami\n,\nUNLEASH GROUP LTD\nworks diligently to protect our exhibitors’ commitment and investment in the trade show and the industry by taking a firm stance against outboarding.\nOutboarding\nis defined as any digital or physical non-permanent exhibit, demonstration, event, or branded activation that is created and deployed outside the scope of UNLEASH events but is promoted or implied as being a part of UNLEASH events. This includes digital or virtual programming and activations as well as physical events at Las Vegas/Paris/Miami hotel suites, meeting rooms, ballrooms, restaurants, clubs, etc. For physical events, a company is also considered an outboarder if it has contracted space with UNLEASH but contracts directly with another Las Vegas/Paris venue for space (for more than one day) that exceeds the net square footage (NSF) contracted with UNLEASH Group Ltd.\nTrade shows are organized so that companies in specific industries can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers and examine market trends and opportunities. More than 10,000 business leaders from the largest employers in the world attend UNLEASH and generate networks to facilitate brand recognition and business development for more than 100’s of UNLEASH exhibitors whose participation money provide UNLEASH with the funds to host these events and reinvest back into the industry. However, the integrity of the show is diminished, and the value becomes diluted when companies seek – in an unofficial capacity – to capitalize on UNLEASH attendees who travel to Las Vegas/Paris/Miami to meet as an industry or participate in UNLEASH events.\nThe physical or digital UNLEASH events brings all facets of the HR community together and we recognize the critical importance of networking to build business. We encourage official exhibitors to host parties and special events to enhance an official presence before and after hours. However, such events should be held to strengthen a company’s UNLEASH events brand positioning, not held as stand-alone functions that compete against those who are making an additional investment in their brand activation at UNLEASH.\nCompanies who outboard cause inconvenience to attendees and hurt the overall industry as UNLEASH Group Ltd invests net proceeds back into the industry through industry promotion, research, standards development, public policy and related activities to benefit the entire consumer technology ecosystem.\nOutboarding violates UNLEASH event policy and the\nInternational Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE) guidelines\n. When UNLEASH determines that outboarding has occurred, UNLEASH Group Ltd will enforce the rule against the participating company and may impose penalties for violations. It is the UNLEASH Group Ltd Board policy that outboarding companies are subject to sanctions that start with the loss of priority points.\nBoth in-person and virtual UNLEASH events offer an array of inventory available for companies looking for non-traditional trade show engagement options. We are willing to work with any industry entity to bring its tech innovation experience to life at UNLEASH and connect with the global market.\nFrequently Asked Questions\nUNLEASH America/UNLEASH World, like other trade shows, is based on the principle that gathering people in a limited locale or digital venue is efficient, cost-effective and allows relationships and business to develop for all involved. UNLEASH Group Ltd invests heavily in marketing, transportation and logistics to ensure that all attendees can maximize their investment and efficiency in getting to and around Las Vegas/Paris. For in-person UNLEASH events, outboarders seduce attendees away from the authorized show sites and disperse them throughout the city adding heavily to traffic congestion.\nWhat real harm does outboarding cause?\nOutboarding is a violation of UNLEASH Group Ltd rules, is an unethical business practice and in violation of the\nInternational Association of Exhibitors and Events (IAEE)\nguidelines. Las Vegas/Paris hotels often require those (non‐exhibitors) who rent suites and meeting rooms to sign a document as part of the contract process attesting that the space will not be used as “outboarded” space. Companies who outboard may face several penalties as follows:\nCompanies may be subject to exposure as an outboarder to UNLEASH Group Ltd members, media, customers and shareholders.\nCompanies may also be subject to loss of its UNLEASH sponsorship and exhibition.\nWhat are the consequences of an outboarding violation?\nPlease\ncontact UNLEASH\nif invited to visit an outboarder, you can explain to the outboarder the impact of outboarding on UNLEASH America/UNLEASH World, the industry and official exhibitors.\nWhat should I do if I know of an outboarder or an outboarder contacts me to visit their event during UNLEASH event hours?\nFAQs\nContent",
      "outline": [
        "What real harm does outboarding cause?",
        "What are the consequences of an outboarding violation?",
        "FAQs"
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