AI is Rewriting the Economics of Outsourcing – Harvard Business Review • Candidates are increasingly being tested on how they would use tech tools in new roles – Financial Times •AI is Rewriting the Economics of Outsourcing – Harvard Business Review • Candidates are increasingly being tested on how they would use tech tools in new roles – Financial Times •
Managers are struggling to keep up with the AI Productivity Boom – Harvard Business Review • The jobs apocalypse is not yet here. But if governments wait for conclusive evidence before creating a safety-net, it will be too late – Economist •Managers are struggling to keep up with the AI Productivity Boom – Harvard Business Review • The jobs apocalypse is not yet here. But if governments wait for conclusive evidence before creating a safety-net, it will be too late – Economist •
22 Sessions • 25+ Speakers • Keynote Presentations • Case Studies
Panel Discussions • Two Parallel Tracks
Why This Is Not Just Another AI Event
AI is no longer a future-of-work conversation. It is already changing how employees write, learn, recruit, analyse, serve customers and make decisions. The challenge for HR and business leaders is no longer access to tools — it is deciding where AI belongs, where it does not, how work must change, how people will be protected, and how value will be measured.
AI + People + Work 2026 brings HR, people, technology, legal, risk and transformation leaders into one room to move beyond AI experimentation and shape responsible, practical and measurable workplace adoption.
AI is already inside the working day.
Employees are using it to write, search, summarise, analyse, recruit, learn, serve customers and make decisions. Some of this is approved. Some of it is invisible.
The challenge is no longer whether AI will shape work. It already is.
The real question is whether organisations will lead that change deliberately — with the right skills, governance, trust and work design.
This summit is designed for HR and business leaders who need to move from AI experimentation to responsible workplace adoption.
Attend this summit to help your organisation answer
Where should AI improve HR and work — and where should we pause?
How do we build AI confidence without weakening judgement?
How do we protect fairness, trust and employee rights?
How should HR partner with IT, legal, risk and finance?
How do we measure whether AI is actually improving work?
The AI Decisions HR Leaders
Cannot Avoid
The most difficult AI decisions facing organisations are not only technical. They are human, operational, ethical and cultural.
The AI + People + Work 2026 is built around the questions now landing on the HR agenda:
- What work should AI support, and where must human judgement stay central?
- How does HR redesign its operating model when AI starts to affect recruitment, learning, performance, reward, employee services and workforce planning?
- How do we help employees use AI with judgement, without weakening the skills, confidence and critical thinking organisations will need most?
- How do we protect fair process, transparency and human oversight when AI influences hiring, performance, wellbeing, employee relations and workforce decisions?
- How do we design work so that people, AI assistants and AI agents can deliver better outcomes together?
- How do we measure whether AI is improving work, rather than simply creating more activity?
- How do we help employees, managers and teams adapt without losing trust, connection or a sense of meaningful work?
- How should HR work with IT, legal, finance, risk, business transformation and operations when AI becomes embedded in everyday workflows?
Every session is built around decisions organisations are already facing.
What Your
Organisation Gains
For organisations investing in AI, the challenge is no longer access to tools. The challenge is deciding where AI belongs, where it does not, who is accountable, and how the organisation will know whether it is creating value.
This summit helps HR and business teams bring structure to that conversation. Delegates return with clearer priorities, better questions for vendors and internal stakeholders, and a stronger sense of where AI can improve work without weakening employee confidence, skill or accountability.
AI decisions cut across HR, IT, legal, finance, operations, risk, business transformation and line leadership. This summit gives delegates the language, examples and peer insight needed to shape those decisions before they become embedded in workflows, policies and everyday employee experience.
The programme connects AI adoption to demonstrable business value: ROI, employee experience, workforce planning, capability and fair work.
What the Programme Will Help You Solve
Who Should Attend
- For HR Directors, CHROs, HR Managers and Senior HR Business Partners
Understand how AI is changing the HR function, people strategy, workforce planning, employee services and the role of HR as a strategic partner to the business. - For People and Culture, Employee Experience and Employee Relations Leaders
Explore how AI can affect trust, culture, fairness, employee voice, wellbeing and the quality of workplace decisions. - For Talent, Recruitment and Workforce Planning Leaders
Gain insight into how AI is reshaping hiring, assessment, talent intelligence, workforce planning and internal mobility, while protecting transparency, fairness and candidate trust. - For L&D and Capability Development Leaders
Learn how to build AI literacy, confidence and judgement across the organisation, and how to support employees and managers as work changes. - For OD and Change Leaders
Understand how roles, workflows, team routines, decision-making and accountability need to shift as AI becomes part of everyday work. - For Performance, Reward and Wellbeing Leaders
Consider how AI can support better performance insight, reward decisions and employee wellbeing, while avoiding over-monitoring, bias and unintended pressure on employees. - For HR Technology, HRIS and IT Leaders
Explore how HR platforms, people data, enterprise AI tools and workflow automation need to connect with governance, adoption and real business value. - For Business Transformation and Change Leaders
See how AI-enabled transformation affects people, operating models, service delivery, productivity and the way work is organised across the business. - For Risk, Governance and Compliance Professionals
Clarify the legal, ethical and governance questions that need to be addressed before AI becomes embedded in recruitment, performance, employee data and workplace decisions. - For Executives and Line Leaders
Understand what AI-enabled transformation means for leadership, accountability, team performance, employee trust and business outcomes.
Why You Need to Be in the Room
You can stream a webinar, read a report or watch a recorded keynote in your own time. What those formats cannot offer is the human connection that happens when people meet, talk honestly and work through similar challenges together.
The formal sessions matter. But often, the most useful moment at a conference happens in a conversation you did not plan: a peer admitting what failed, a speaker giving context after a session, or someone from another industry naming a problem you thought only your organisation had.
The summit brings together people leaders, HR specialists, technology teams and business decision-makers from different organisations and sectors. That mix creates space to compare experiences, test ideas, build useful relationships and find opportunities to collaborate beyond the
two days.
AI may be changing how work gets done, but the decisions around it still need conversation, trust and shared judgement.
AI is already reshaping how work gets done. The organisations that will manage it well are not waiting for perfect policies. They are building the conversations, capability and governance to stay ahead of it.
This summit brings the right people into the same conversation: HR, technology, risk, legal, business transformation and the leaders responsible for how work changes.
Join us at the AI + People + Work 2026 to explore how organisations can move from AI experimentation to responsible adoption that strengthens work, capability, trust and business value.
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