The Insights stages were your chance to hear real world success stories. From reflections on new adoptions to experience of operational processes and methodologies. Join these free sessions for exclusive access to free case studies from organisations you already know.
Day 1
10:00 - 10:30
Reinventing virtual learning delivery in an ever changing world
Learning and Skills
In the face of AI and e-learning, how does virtual live learning reinvent itself to become more engaging whilst exciting your employees and providing demonstrable learning takeaways?
10:15 - 10:45
The Potential of Payroll in 2024
HR Transformation
A look at the key employee related issues driving transformation in payroll and how teams are responding to take their support for employees even further.
10:15 - 10:45
What flexibility is possible if work is not office-based?
Employee Experience
With the right to request flexible working from day one of employment soon to become a legal right in the UK, what ideas and options can you give to those in front-line roles and those who are not office-based?
10:45 - 11:15
Strengths, not skills will empower the workforce of the future
Learning and Skills
With limited time and resource for learning and development, how can we harness the innate energy and motivation of employees to cultivate a continuous learning and growth mindset?
11:00 - 11:30
AI powered HR - ChatGPT & Generative AI for nurturing talent and fostering engagement
HR Transformation
Explore AI’s role in reshaping HR practices and understand how ChatGPT and Generative AI tools can revolutionise talent development and enhance employee engagement.
11:00 - 11:30
The future of workforce health and wellbeing
Employee Experience Presentation
Discover what is driving employee wellbeing and how employers can continue to support the health and wellbeing needs of an evolving workforce.
11:30 - 12:00
The power of storytelling: using narrative to strengthen audience engagement
Learning and Skills
Engage and influence your audience by unlocking the secret power of narrative structure to deliver confident and compelling meetings or presentations.
11:45 - 12:15
Employee mobility solutions for a sustainable future
Employee Experience
Is the way in which company cars are provided as an employee benefit changing? We look at a future that offers more sustainable solutions for getting employees from A to B
11:45 - 12:15
Adapt, Innovate, and Thrive in a Shifting World of Work
HR Transformation
In an era marked by changing workforce dynamics and the rise of transformative technologies, the role of HR has never been more critical. As traditional work paradigms evolve, HR professionals are challenged to harness these shifts, cultivating adaptability and fostering innovation. By adopting a data-driven and people-centric approach, HR can guide their organizations to not only navigate but also excel in this dynamic landscape.
12:15 - 12:45
How to ready your HI for the AI apocalypse
Learning and Skills
Tips and tricks on how you can identify the hidden talents in your people to raise them higher than the AI programmes that are coming for us all.
12:30 - 13:00
Exploring employee disconnection and its impact on your business
Employee Experience
Drawing on Reward Gateway’s latest research, this session will explore how the rise of loneliness in the workplace is impacting organisations and how HR and People teams can mitigate – or even reverse – this trend in their company to drive productivity and commercial success.
12:30 - 13:00
How does AI fit into a people-focused profession like HR?
HR Transformation Panel discussion
Why can’t HR respond faster to changing employee needs? The answer is buried in data. Use AI tools to unlock richer data insights and the HR department transforms, at every aspect of the employee lifecycle
13:00 - 13:30
Sticky learning on lean budgets and schedules - A healthy recipe
Learning and Skills
An innovative recipe of science-based ingredients to ensure that learning and development programmes deliver sustainable outcomes, despite budget restrictions and participants' time limitations. Join the L&D Bake-off!
13:15 - 13:45
How can sustainability initiatives boost employee job satisfaction?
Employee Experience
Learn more about how we can we drive sustainability in businesses across the UK by finding out about the UK electric vehicle landscape, including some common myths surrounding electric vehicles.
13:15 - 13:45
Trust and leadership
HR Transformation
Trust in leadership fuels organisational success, shaping collaboration, innovation, and performance. Discover trust's pivotal role in leadership, backed by HBR research and real-world cases. High-trust organisations boost productivity and satisfaction, unlocking full potential and achieving superior outcomes.
13:45 - 14:15
Accelerating the readiness of your future talent - investing where it matters
Learning and Skills Fireside chat
Business, Leadership and Career readiness are critical ingredients of development initiatives for future leaders. Are you investing where it matters to prepare identified talents to thrive in new roles?
14:00 - 14:30
Fraud and the new world of work - how to reduce risk
HR Transformation
Virtual working has created exciting opportunities for digital hiring, but also opportunities for new types of applicant fraud. Discover how to build great cultures and experiences, while mitigating hiring risk.
14:00 - 14:30
Strengthen your employee experience and retain frontline workers - insights from F3-Manchester City/Etihad
Employee Experience
Looking beyond pay, how can you hold onto your frontline workers? Discover how F3-Manchester City/Etihad has strengthened their employee value proposition to both attract and retain workers in a competitive labour market.
14:30 - 15:00
Unleashing the power of your female talent using the apprenticeship levy
Learning and Skills
Looking to accelerate the growth of your female leadership and management talent? Discover how to transform their skills, knowledge and behaviours using funds you've already spent via the Apprenticeship Levy.
14:45 - 15:15
Why AI has the power to divide or conquer neuro-inclusion
HR Transformation
We’ll explore how HR leaders can use technology to enable neuro-inclusion, and share experiences and practical tools to enable you to communicate better, recruit inclusively and build a neuro-inclusive culture.
14:45 - 15:15
Leading employee engagement through the power of EVP and Brand
Employee Experience
This session will explore how, through a powerful Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and Brand, employers can elevate the overall employee experience leading to increased employee engagement.
15:15 - 15:45
Skilling up with an eye on AI
Learning and Skills Presentation
Readily-accessible generative AI is poised to reshape job roles and skills. Future-proof your organisation with insights on what L&D strategies should be adopted to meet evolving skill demands and to harness AI for upskilling and reskilling.
15:30 - 16:00
Leading and landing organisational change
HR Transformation Presentation
When change appears to be the only constant, being equipped to handle change management becomes an imperative for people professionals. Get practical tips on dealing with conflicts, building trust, and landing successful organisational transformation.
15:30 - 16:00
Being bereavement ready - what can your organisation do to prepare?
Employee Experience
- Understand the effect that grief has on employees and how it differs from person to person.
- Gain insight on what to say and how to say it when your colleague is going through a period of grief.
- Actionable takeaways and tools that you can use to ensure your organisation ready to support grief.
16:00 - 16:30
How skills enable a successful ESG strategy
Learning and Skills
Hear exclusive insights and recommendations from a brand new ESG survey and report from The Open University. Understand how HR and L&D professionals can help drive forward their organisation's ESG strategy.
16:15 - 16:45
One small step for AI - one giant leap for fairness
HR Transformation
AI is here. So far it's focused on making us more efficient, but its real potential is in helping us to make better, less biased decisions.
16:15 - 16:45
How do you include culture & performance in strategic workforce planning?
Employee Experience
In this session we will reimagine strategic workforce planning, using Paula Leach’s practical model. This simple tool goes beyond financial affordability and headcount, and we guide you through how to use it to elevate culture, inclusion and performance. Join us to uplevel your SWP skills and create impact in your organisation.
Day 2
10:15 - 10:45
Future-proofing talent: navigating a rapidly changing landscape through degree apprenticeships
Learning and Skills
Degree apprenticeships are a collaborative partnership between apprentice, employer and provider. Hear from these different perspectives, how apprenticeships bridge skills gaps, drive career progression and make an impact in industry.
10:15 - 10:45
Technology, talent and transformation - how HR can crack the code
HR Transformation Fireside chat
Discover how the ability to transform talent through technology is within the reach of all working in HR.
10:15 - 10:45
How workplace design can influence the employee experience
Employee Experience
Workplace design, including the concept of The Destination Office, plays a pivotal role in fostering an inclusive workplace culture. In this session you will hear how workplace design promotes collaboration, accessibility, and employee wellbeing.
11:00 - 11:30
Hybrid and live learning, what does the future look like?
Learning and Skills
Hybrid & Live Learning are here to stay. In this session we look at how far technology has come and where it is going.
11:00 - 11:30
Enhancing employee relations through middle managers -from research to action
HR Transformation
Discover the latest research on middle manager capability and unlock actionable steps to ensure your managers are empowered to tackle employee relations challenges head-on and excel in their roles.
11:00 - 11:30
The journey toward reward transparency – opening Pandora’s box or true panacea?
Employee Experience
What are the implications of global pay transparency regulations? What’s your understanding of the generational divide? Get practical steps on pay transparency and how to get ahead of the game.
11:45 - 12:15
Developing future-ready workforces - building capability for growth
Learning and Skills
Whether you are looking to upskill or reskill employees, build leadership bench or embed a learning culture, this session will provide actionable strategies to drive business agility through workforce development.
11:45 - 12:15
Unleashing the power of workforce technology to curb implicit bias
HR Transformation
An in-depth look into implicit biases, their potential impact on our hiring decisions, and how workforce technology can help reduce these biases and foster a more inclusive workforce.
11:45 - 12:15
How can sustainability initiatives boost employee job satisfaction?
Employee Experience
Learn more about how we can we drive sustainability in
businesses across the UK by finding out about the UK electric vehicle landscape, including some common myths
surrounding electric vehicles.
12:30 - 13:00
Will generation Z change the role of the manager?
HR Transformation
GenZ will make up ⅓ of the workforce by 2030. They care about DEI & wellbeing - and bring along strong principles. Will they “talk the talk” or deliver real change?
12:30 - 13:00
Elevate your employee experience through proactive and inclusive family care for the changing needs of the modern day workforce
Learning and Skills
The proactive action that can be taken by employers to support employee’s family care needs. Addressing issues such as changing working patterns, employee retention, D&I agenda and impact on productivity.
12:30 - 13:00
The key drivers behind an effective employee benefit strategy
Employee Experience
Learn about key insights that will help you make informed decision when selecting employee benefits and insurer partners based on what will have the most impact on your business. This session will help you navigate through trends and focus your budgets and time on what is important for your business and employees.
13:15 - 13:45
Leaning on learning for equality, diversity and inclusion
Learning and Skills Presentation
How can employers make better use of organisational learning to steer culture and behaviour change around EDI? Explore what makes for effective interventions and the pivotal role L&D has to equip your people for positive change.
13:15 - 13:45
People-centred HR in the digital era
HR Transformation
How are people professionals using AI and automation to redefine their roles? Learn more about the influence that a new era of AI and automation is having on shaping HR’s remit, both now and in the future, and explore how you can keep the ‘human’ element in this evolving profession.
13:15 - 13:45
What’s behind the rise in employee sickness absence?
Employee Experience
Sickness absence prior to the pandemic had been trending down steadily, but new data shows a shocking jump. What are the causes and implications and what actionable steps can you take to support your team’s health and wellbeing?
14:00 - 14:30
Unleash the power of good: 10 tactics to supercharge your team’s social and environmental engagement.
Learning and Skills
Discover 10 powerful techniques to engage your team in social and environmental impact initiatives, that are aligned with your organisation’s values and purpose.
This speaker session will provide proven strategies for leaders who want to foster a sense of purpose and fulfilment among employees while driving growth and revenue.
14:00 - 14:30
Automation in recruitment - the key to unlocking hiring success
HR Transformation
Hiring candidates is never a straightforward process. It takes time and costs money, and if you're not careful, budgets will disappear very quickly. What's the answer? Transformative HR technology.
14:00 - 14:30
Dignity at Work - What is it? Why should we care?
Employee Experience
We go beyond the common questions around harassment, bullying and bias. Breaking down what workplace dignity is, legals to comply with, and its impact on recruitment, retention and employee satisfaction.
15:05 - 15:55
Livestream: Nicolas Hamilton: Anything is possible
Learning and Skills HR Transformation Employee Experience Keynote speaker