Data, Analytics & Workforce Intelligence

This exclusive, complimentary event brings together 300+ executives from leading organizations to explore the ideas, technologies, and strategies defining what's next in work. No fluff. Just substance.

Agenda at Glance:

13:00 - 13:15 | Welcome Address

13:15 - 13:55 | Keynote

13:55 - 14:40 | Keynote

14:40 - 16:00 | Coffee & Networking Break

16:00 - 16:40 | Panel Discussion

16:40 - 17:25 | Fireside Chat

17:30 - 19:00 | Book Signing & Networking

Detailed Agenda

13:00 - 13:15 - Welcome Address by Holly Ramson

13:15 - 13:55 - Humanizing Leadership to Grow Through Change

Transformation rarely fails because leaders lack a clear vision or a sound strategy. It fails because their organizations struggle to bring the vision to life and put the strategy to work. While they might understand the rationale for transformation, people cannot muster the focused energy to challenge and change habits, norms, and familiar ways of working. Trust erodes, connections loosen, performance falters, and the transformation effort stalls.

The reason that happens so often, INSEAD professor Gianpiero Petriglieri believes, is that traditional, somewhat mechanical models of leadership get in the way of understanding and working with the human layers of transformations. We must humanize leadership - how we understand, portray, and practice it - if we aspire to get what human work is, and do it well. The leaders who bring transformation to life are those who come alive first.

In this interactive session, Gianpiero will share a blueprint for humanizing leadership to foster the development of people, communities, organizations, and cultures as a whole. Together, you'll explore:

• Common reactions to the imperative to transform
• The difference between mechanistic and humanistic views of leadership
• Why humanizing leadership is the key that unlocks lasting transformation
• How we can develop and sustain that kind of leadership in our daily work

You'll leave with a clearer sense of what it means to build work relations, teams, and organizations that don't just cope well with change but truly grow through it.

Speaker: Gianpiero Petriglieri, Expert on Leadership & Learning in the Workplace and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD

13:55 - 14:40 - The Human Signals Shaping the Next Era of Work

AI has flattened the workforce landscape even faster than expected. Tools, skills, and AI capabilities are converging, and yet execution gaps are widening. In this keynote, Workhuman Founder and CEO, Eric Mosley, argues that most organizations are rich in data but poor in signal, especially when it comes to understanding how work gets done, where leadership is emerging, and whether people are truly aligned around strategy. In a world where technical capabilities are increasingly interchangeable, competitive differentiation has shifted to human contribution: collaboration, judgment, influence, and leadership in motion.

Speaker: Eric Mosley, Founder, CEO & Board Member, Workhuman

14:40 - 16:00 - Coffee & Networking Break

16:00 - 16:40 - Panel Discussion

16:40 - 17:25 - Where Transformation Breaks or Builds: A Conversation with Dr. Susan David

As organizations navigate constant technological and market change, the real challenge is not transformation itself but building the human capacity to sustain it. In this session, Harvard Medical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Susan David sits down to discuss why Emotional Agility is becoming one of the most important leadership capabilities of our time and how developing more agile people creates more adaptable, resilient organizations.

Moderator: Holly Ramson, Leadership Expert, Bestselling Author, and CEO, Emergent Global

Speaker: Dr. Susan David, Leading Management Thinker, Bestselling Author & Award-Winning Psychologist, Harvard Medical School

17:30 - 19:00 - Book Signing & Networking

The question isn't whether AI will outpace human capability. It's whether you'll build an AI-ready workforce before it does. We are living through a change in eras, not a change in tools. The organizations that come out ahead will be the ones honest enough to ask what they need to stop doing as much as what they need to start. In this opening keynote, Brian Glaser explores what the AI era means for workforce investment, career development, organizational design and leadership.

Most AI transformation efforts are building literacy when they should be building judgment. There is a difference and closing that gap is now one of the most urgent priorities facing HR and business leaders.

In this session, you'll discover:

• Why VUCA was just the warm-up act and what the BANI era demands of organizations now
• The collapse of traditional career pathways and what replaces them
• Why continuous upskilling is becoming a business necessity rather than an L&D initiative
• Which workforce assumptions need to be challenged before AI challenges them for you
• Why the hardest decision in a period of reinvention is not what to build next but what to let go
• Key lessons from Google's work and future

From recruiting astronauts who can spend months together in isolation to assembling teams capable of landing on the Moon, exploring Mars and solving problems no one has encountered before, NASA has spent decades answering questions that every organization is now beginning to face.

The future of talent isn't simply about hiring faster. It's about identifying potential before it is visible, building teams that thrive under pressure, preparing for jobs that don't yet exist and ensuring people and AI work together when the stakes are highest. After all, if little green men did appear tomorrow, your hiring process probably isn't ready for them.

Join former NASA Associate Administrator Robert Gibbs as he explores what every business can learn from one of the world's most mission-critical organizations.

In this session, you'll discover:

• What 'mission critical thinking' looks like and how leaders can apply it to building future-ready organizations on Earth
• Why hiring for curiosity, adaptability and judgment increasingly matters more than hiring for experience alone
• How NASA identifies talent for missions that may not launch for another decade and what this teaches us about Strategic Workforce Planning
• Where AI agents can transform sourcing, workforce planning and talent decisions and where human judgment must remain firmly in control
• What recruiting astronauts reveals about resilience, collaboration, trust and leadership under extreme pressure
• How to build teams capable of solving problems that have never existed before in an age where AI is changing every role
• Why the organizations that thrive won't simply automate recruitment, but will redesign how humans and AI make better decisions together

Drawing on the experience of re-designing people management and organization development work and deploying agentic AI across a workforce of 63,000, Alexis Saussinan explains how Merck is building the foundations for AI at enterprise scale. He will explore why success depends on solving real business challenges, creating the conditions for trusted workflow re-design and using agentic AI to unlock capacity for higher value work that strengthens outcomes for patients, customers and colleagues.

In this session, you'll discover:

• Start with business problems that deliver measurable outcomes rather than AI for its own sake
• Build the data, governance and operating foundations that enable trusted agentic AI at scale
• Think end-to-end work redesign and shift work to higher value activities that improve impact for patients, customers and colleagues
• Translate agentic AI investment into financial and operational outcomes that resonate with the board
• Design the right incentives, ownership and accountability to accelerate adoption and sustainable value
• Learn and build from failures, busting several myths along the way