34th CHRO Insight Summit
Shaping the Future of Work in the Age of AI
Location: The Starling, Atlanta
Bringing together forward-thinking HR leaders to reimagine the workforce, workplace, and employee experience in an AI-driven era. Across interactive roundtables and panels, participants will explore how to harness predictive analytics, agile upskilling, and human-AI collaboration while maintaining fairness, trust, and equity. From redefining the employee value proposition to engaging a multigenerational workforce, this summit equips leaders with the strategies needed to architect future-ready organizations that balance technology, humanity, and sustainable growth.
Key Themes
Building a Skills-Based Organisation
Turn skills into a strategic asset through integrated talent, learning, and workforce planning.
AI Governance for the Workforce
Build responsible AI governance that balances innovation, compliance, fairness, and workforce trust.
From People Analytics to Workforce Intelligence
Transform people analytics into trusted, real-time intelligence for better business decisions.
Is Your Total Rewards Strategy Future-Ready?
Balance fairness, competitiveness, and transparency to build a modern total rewards strategy.
Upcoming Speakers:
Patrice Duckworth
Samantha Howland
Natasha Valani
James Furnell
Stephany Foster Saphr
Deepa Sabhapathy
Ana Maria Sencovici
Agenda
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Registration
4:30pm - 4:40pm
MOC Welcome & Meet the Team
4:45pm - 6:15pm
Mission Tracks: The Catalyst
Track 1: The Skills-Based Organisation: Rebuilding Talent Architecture Around Capabilities, Not Job Titles
As organisations look to become more agile and future-ready, many are moving toward skills-based talent models. Yet while skills taxonomies, AI-enabled platforms and workforce planning tools are gaining momentum, many initiatives still struggle to move beyond design into day-to-day decision-making.
This mission track will explore how HR leaders can build a skills-based organisation that works in practice, connecting skills data across hiring, internal mobility, learning, workforce planning and progression. Delegates will examine the technology, governance, cultural change and business case needed to turn skills into a measurable strategic asset.
Track 2: AI Governance, Ethics and the Future of Human-AI Work: How CHROs Are Managing the Most Consequential Technology Decision of Their Careers
As AI becomes embedded across hiring, performance, promotion and workforce planning, CHROs are facing growing pressure to govern its use responsibly while still enabling productivity and innovation. The challenge is no longer simply whether to adopt AI, but how to ensure it is fair, explainable, legally defensible and trusted by the workforce.
This mission track will explore the CHRO’s role in governing AI across the employee lifecycle, from managing bias and regulatory exposure to assessing workforce impact and preparing employees for human-AI collaboration. Delegates will examine how to balance efficiency with human agency, build AI literacy and create ethical transition plans where roles are disrupted or displaced.
Track 3: Workforce Intelligence as a Real-Time Strategic Operating System: From People Analytics to Predictive Organisational Decision-Making
As workforce decisions become more complex and data-driven, CHROs are under pressure to move beyond static reporting and build a real-time intelligence layer that can support faster, more predictive organisational decisions. Yet many enterprises are still held back by fragmented HR systems, inconsistent data and limited trust in people analytics.
This mission track will explore how HR leaders can connect workforce data across HRIS, ATS, LMS, payroll and engagement platforms, while building the governance and capability needed to turn insight into action. Delegates will examine what it takes to move from descriptive dashboards to predictive models, give business leaders usable intelligence, and protect employee trust as data use becomes more advanced.
Track 4: Total Rewards Reinvention: Competing for Global Talent in an Era of Pay Transparency, Generational Diversity and AI-Driven Compensation Benchmarking
As pay transparency, shifting employee expectations and AI-enabled benchmarking reshape the rewards landscape, CHROs are under pressure to build total rewards strategies that are competitive, equitable and globally sustainable. The challenge is no longer just setting compensation, but managing fairness, trust and differentiation across a diverse workforce.
This mission track will explore how HR leaders can respond to pay transparency legislation, internal equity pressures and rising competition for AI-era talent. Delegates will examine how to design rewards and benefits for five generations, use compensation technology responsibly, and connect total rewards more clearly to the employee value proposition and talent brand.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Cocktail Reception
7:20pm - 9:30pm
Gala Dinner
7:30am - 8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am - 8:40am
MOC Opening
8:40am - 9:05am
Gamechanger
The CHRO as Chief Organisational Architect: Redefining the HR Mandate for an AI-Disrupted World
As AI reshapes work, workforce risk and organisational performance, the CHRO mandate is expanding far beyond traditional HR leadership. Today’s most influential people leaders are being asked to operate as technology governors, culture architects, risk leaders and growth enablers, while building stronger influence across the C-suite and board.
This keynote will explore how the CHRO role is being redefined in an AI-disrupted world, where decisions about skills, structure, culture, technology and workforce strategy are becoming central to enterprise performance. It will examine why the traditional HR operating model is no longer enough, and what CHROs must do to lead with greater strategic authority as technology, finance and operations increasingly shape the people agenda.
9:10am - 10:40am
Mission Tracks: The Blueprint
As a continuation of the Catalyst Mission track, these sessions will establish a strategic blueprint to chart the pathway toward identifying a solution.
Track 1: The Skills-Based Organisation: Rebuilding Talent Architecture Around Capabilities, Not Job Titles
Track 2: AI Governance, Ethics and the Future of Human-AI Work: How CHROs Are Managing the Most Consequential Technology Decision of Their Careers
Track 3: Workforce Intelligence as a Real-Time Strategic Operating System: From People Analytics to Predictive Organisational Decision-Making
Track 4: Total Rewards Reinvention: Competing for Global Talent in an Era of Pay Transparency, Generational Diversity and AI-Driven Compensation Benchmarking
10:45am - 11:15am
Future on Fire
AI in the Employee Lifecycle: What Is Working, What Is Risky, and What Is Still Vapourware
As AI moves across hiring, onboarding, performance and learning, CHROs are under pressure to separate practical value from risk and hype. While some tools are beginning to deliver measurable outcomes, others are creating new concerns around bias, transparency, employee trust and legal exposure.
This keynote will explore where AI is genuinely working across the employee lifecycle, where organisations are encountering failure or unintended consequences, and what remains more promise than reality. It will examine how HR leaders can assess AI use cases more critically, manage liability in employment decisions and build governance structures that satisfy the board, legal teams and the workforce.
11:20am - 11:50am
Future on Fire
Building the Skills-Based Organisation at Scale: From Strategy to Operating Reality
As organisations look to become more agile, skills-based models are moving from HR ambition to operational priority. Yet many enterprises are still struggling to turn skills taxonomies into real changes across hiring, mobility, career development and workforce planning.
This keynote will explore how leading organisations are building skills-based talent architectures at scale, supported by HCM platforms, skills ontology engines, AI inference layers and stronger data governance. It will examine how HR leaders can align business leaders and finance around skills as a measurable strategic asset, while moving from annual talent processes to continuous skills visibility and real-time talent deployment.
1:00pm - 2:05pm
The Provocation Tables
2:05pm - 2:35pm
Radical Perspectives
From HCM Platform to People Intelligence Engine: How to Get Real Strategic Value from Your HR Technology Investment
2:40pm - 3:45pm
The Provocation Tables
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Radical Perspectives
Pay Transparency, Pay Equity and the Total Rewards Reset: Navigating the Most Politically Charged Compensation Environment in a Generation
As competition for critical skills intensifies, talent brand is becoming a strategic asset rather than a marketing exercise. The strongest organisations are building their employer proposition around employee experience, purpose, career architecture and AI-augmented work design, giving talent a clearer reason to join, stay and grow.
This keynote will explore how CHROs can use talent brand to compete for capability in an AI-era labour market. It will examine what younger generations really expect from employers, why many EVPs are no longer fit for purpose, and how talent brand can be measured as a competitive differentiator in terms the CFO and board will act on.
4:25pm - 4:55pm
Radical Perspectives
As pay transparency legislation expands and employee expectations around fairness increase, compensation has become one of the most sensitive and strategically important issues on the CHRO agenda. Leaders must now balance legal compliance, internal equity, market competitiveness and employee trust in an environment where pay decisions are more visible than ever.
This keynote will explore how organisations are navigating the total rewards reset, from running meaningful pay equity audits to managing the internal fallout when pay bands become visible. It will examine what a competitive global rewards package looks like in 2026, and how AI-assisted compensation benchmarking can support better decisions while introducing new risks around accuracy, governance and over-reliance on market data.
7:15pm - 10:00pm
Offsite Evening Experience
7:00am - 8:15am
Breakfast
8:15am - 8:20am
MOC Opening
8:20am - 9:50am
Mission Tracks: The Reckoning
Continuing your mission tracks, having built the blueprint we now enter the reckoning – a decisive phase where insights are rigorously challenged and crystallised into solution-led outcomes.
Track 1: The Skills-Based Organisation: Rebuilding Talent Architecture Around Capabilities, Not Job Titles
Track 2: AI Governance, Ethics and the Future of Human-AI Work: How CHROs Are Managing the Most Consequential Technology Decision of Their Careers
Track 3: Workforce Intelligence as a Real-Time Strategic Operating System: From People Analytics to Predictive Organisational Decision-Making
Track 4: Total Rewards Reinvention: Competing for Global Talent in an Era of Pay Transparency, Generational Diversity and AI-Driven Compensation Benchmarking
9:55am - 10:25am
Ecosystem Exchanges
10:30am - 11:00am
Radical Perspectives
Organisational Design for an AI-Native Enterprise: How to Restructure Teams, Roles and Reporting Lines When Work itself is Being Redefined
As AI agents, automation and human workers begin to reshape how work gets done, organisations are being forced to rethink traditional structures, roles and reporting lines. The challenge is no longer simply where AI can improve productivity, but how to redesign the organisation around new models of human-AI collaboration.
This keynote will explore what organisational design looks like in an AI-native enterprise, from redesigning job architectures, spans and layers to managing the cultural impact of restructuring at pace. It will examine how CHROs can support faster transformation while protecting psychological safety, trust and employee engagement.
11:05am - 11:35am
Radical Perspectives
Belonging at Scale: What a Global Workforce Can Teach Us About Culture, Leadership and Inclusion
12:15pm - 12:45pm
MOC Closing
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