HR Forward: AI & Workforce Innovation Summit

Light breakfast will be provided.

AI is reshaping HR, but separating meaningful innovation from noise can be challenging. This opening session will give HR leaders a practical view of today’s AI landscape, including the major large language models, where AI is delivering real value, and where expectations may be outpacing results. Participants will explore examples of purpose-built HR technologies and see how multiple tools can work together to support common HR workflows. The session will close with practical demonstrations designed to help participants identify opportunities to apply AI within their own organizations, regardless of industry, size, or current level of AI adoption.

You’ll learn about new tools to explore, practical use cases, and ideas you can apply immediately.

As AI adoption accelerates, HR leaders are navigating new challenges related to cybersecurity, governance, compliance, and organizational risk. In this panel discussion, experts from HR, legal, technology, and cybersecurity will share diverse perspectives on building responsible AI practices while protecting organizational data and maintaining compliance. Through real-world examples and discussion, participants will gain practical insights into governance strategies, evolving regulations, and the cross-functional collaboration needed to support secure, ethical AI adoption.

You’ll gain a clearer understanding of how to encourage innovation while protecting your organization, employees, and data.

This interactive lunch experience will give you an opportunity to explore platforms and solutions designed to improve the employee experience, streamline HR processes, and help organizations make smarter workforce decisions.

HR leaders have access to more data than ever, but more data doesn’t automatically create better decisions.

This session explores what organizations should be measuring, how to turn information into reports leaders can actually use, and how to verify that the data behind those decisions is accurate and trustworthy.

Topics will include selecting meaningful metrics, building leadership reports, identifying the story behind the numbers, and avoiding common data-quality pitfalls.

You’ll gain practical ideas for creating analytics and reports that lead to better conversations and stronger business decisions.

Organizations can invest in powerful technology, but transformation only happens when people know how to use it.

Explore how HR and business leaders can build AI literacy across the workforce, identify changing skill requirements, create opportunities for reskilling and upskilling, and help employees adapt with greater confidence.

You’ll gain strategies for preparing employees for an AI-enabled workplace while creating a culture of continuous learning.

You’ve spent the day building your technology skills and exploring the capabilities of AI. Now comes an equally important question: How do you make sure you continue to stand out?

AI can accelerate productivity and automate routine work, but technology alone does not replace authentic leadership, judgment, relationships, creativity, influence, or the unique perspective you bring to your work.

This session explores how professionals can combine leading-edge AI skills with a strong professional presence to increase their visibility, strengthen their credibility, and position themselves for continued growth.

You’ll learn practical ways to showcase your expertise, communicate your value, and use AI to amplify—not overshadow—your distinctly human strengths.

We’ll close the Summit by tapping into the collective knowledge in the room.

In this fast-paced, interactive session, attendees will connect in small groups and take turns sharing one technology tip, AI tool, shortcut, or simple hack that has made their work easier or more effective. After a few minutes, you’ll switch groups, meet someone new, and do it again—giving you the chance to collect ideas from professionals across the room.

Your tip doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the ones that make the biggest difference.

Come ready to share something like:

• My favorite AI tool and what I use it for
• A simple AI prompt I use again and again
• A time-saving tech hack that makes my day easier
• A task I’ve automated that I wish I’d automated sooner
• A feature hiding in a tool we already have that others may not know about
• An AI experiment that actually worked
• One thing I learned today that I’m excited to try

You’ll leave with a collection of practical ideas from your peers a few new connections, too.