What to expect

Enabling organisations to adapt, evolve and deliver transformation successfully

The CIPD Employee Benefits Conference is a one-day, insight-packed event designed to help reward and benefits professionals respond to rising employee expectations, economic pressure and rapid change in the world of work.

You can expect a carefully curated programme that combines thought-leadership, practical application and peer learning, giving you both the strategic perspective and the day-to-day tools needed to evolve your benefits offering with confidence.

Designing Effective Employee Benefits through Total Rewards

Understand how to go beyond traditional benefits to build a strategy centred on choice, wellbeing, financial value and inclusivity.

Using AI for better Employee Benefits Analytics insights

Explore how analytics can help you identify what matters most to your workforce and inform smarter benefits decisions.

Communicating the value of reward

Learn how to articulate the real value of your benefits package, creating transparency and trust across your workforce.

Flexibility and holistic wellbeing

Discover approaches to integrate flexibility and wellbeing into benefits without necessitating large budget increases.

Legal and policy developments impacting reward

Get up to date with the latest in employment rights, pensions, pay transparency and regulatory shifts shaping benefits strategy.

Practical case studies and application

Hear from leading organisations about real-world approaches to elevating reward and benefits.

What to Expect at the CIPD Employee Benefits Conference 2026