Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant trend but is actively reshaping how organisations operate, how people work and the skills required to thrive in the future. This session will explore the transformative impact of AI on roles, workflows and organisational structures, offering leaders and HR professionals specific, practical insights into how to adapt and stay ahead. It will explore:

• how AI is augmenting human capabilities, automating tasks and enabling new forms of collaboration
• the ways AI adoption is evolving organisational structures through transformed roles, workflows and more agile models
• how AI is shaping learning priorities, influencing upskilling and transforming approaches to hiring and workforce planning.

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Work is evolving rapidly, and organisations in Northern Ireland must keep a continuous eye on the skills they will need tomorrow. This session will help you to: 

• explore what critical skills to focus on, from digital and green skills, to uniquely ‘human’, AI-proof qualities such as adaptability, creativity and problem-solving
• learn how to identify skill gaps through a continuous process of strategic workforce planning
• plan workforce development and upskilling activity accordingly, to create a more agile, innovative and resilient workforce ready to meet future challenges.

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The EU Pay Transparency Directive is set to raise the bar on fairness and accountability in pay practices, with significant implications for organisations in Northern Ireland. Designed to close gender pay gaps and promote equitable reward systems, the directive introduces stricter requirements for pay reporting, greater transparency for employees, and stronger obligations for employers to justify pay structures. 

This panel will discuss:

• the implications of the EU Pay Transparency Directive for organisations in Northern Ireland
• how to restructure pay bands and reporting frameworks to meet evolving expectations around fairness and transparency
• turning regulatory change into a strategic advantage, ensuring your approach to reward supports both compliance and competitiveness.

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The most effective leaders don’t just manage, they inspire, adapt and shape the future of their organisations. People professionals play a crucial role, supporting them through truly effective leadership development, and by creating environments where leaders can thrive. This session will examine:

• the skills, behaviours and expectations that define effective, future-focused leaders
• how people professionals can act as enablers in developing leaders through talent management and learning initiatives
• how to build environments where leadership can thrive and drive organisational performance.

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This session will bring you up to speed on the latest developments in the ‘Good Jobs’ Employment Rights Bill, exploring its four central themes: terms of employment, pay and benefits, voice and representation, and work-life balance.

It’s also an opportunity to put your questions directly to an expert and gain clarity on what these changes mean in practice for you and your organisation.

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People professionals play a vital role in moving the dial on workplace wellbeing, ensuring a strategic approach is taken to structural elements including job design, ways of working and good line management. But, though they are the first to support others, people practitioners too often neglect their own wellbeing in the process. 

In this session, you will hear from two speakers who will explore the importance of a healthy people profession to the critical task of getting, and keeping, the wider workforce well and productive. It will: 

• recognise the critical role of people professionals in shaping healthy, supportive working cultures, and the vital link between their ability to do this and their own wellbeing 
• explore how people professionals can build sustainable self-care into their working lives and role model this for others 
• explore how people professionals can most effectively support each other – within people teams but also as a community.

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In this session, delegates will discover why human connection is the secret ingredient that turns routine interactions into meaningful relationships. Drawing on principles from performance and communication, delegates will explore how people professionals can build authentic rapport in teams, across silos and with stakeholders. Gain insight into actionable techniques for engaging others, creating trust faster, and becoming more memorable in every interaction.

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