HRZone is proud to be a media associate for Workforce Options. The brand new two-day Convention and Exhibition will happen on the NEC, Birmingham on 6 and seven October 2026.
Co-located with the World of Studying Convention & Exhibition, one of many UK’s longest-running L&D occasions, it brings senior HR choice makers along with workforce options suppliers by means of a programme of case research, seminars and dialogue boards.
This 12 months, the agenda explores algorithmic choice making, skills-based organisations and AI-enabled working fashions. Plus workforce planning, productiveness and organisational design.
Day one: Information, selections and the following working mannequin
To start, the primary day begins with an unique session for all two-day delegates on the accountable use of information and algorithmic choice making. On this interactive, conversation-led session, Daniel Sykes, Head of Analytics at Orsted, covers constructing belief in folks knowledge. In addition to managing bias and who’s accountable when the mannequin will get it fallacious.
Following this, the Convention opens with Chair Nebel Crowhurst, Chief Folks Officer, welcoming all Delegates. Dr Laura Weis, who leads Human-AI Technique and Transformation at WPP, will then deliverthe keynote. That is Making HR really feel human within the digital age: a have a look at what it takes to maintain folks on the centre of a perform that’s changing into extra automated by the 12 months.
Highlights of day one embrace Perry Timms, Chief Power Officer and founding father of PTHR, discussing the following working mannequin for HR: the evolving folks career – what HR’s construction and remit have to appear to be subsequent.
Lastly, the day will finish with a Neighborhood Change roundtable on skills-based organisations and workforce fluidity. Delegates from each Workforce Options and World of Studying will come collectively to drive the dialogue.
The agenda explores algorithmic choice making, skills-based organisations and AI-enabled working fashions
Day two: Planning for an unpredictable world
On day two, Tejal Shah, former Chief Expertise Officer at Kantar, leads the HR Huddle on day two. This can discover Workforce planning in an unpredictable setting. In addition to constructing folks technique when circumstances gained’t keep nonetheless lengthy sufficient to plan round.
Subsequent, keynote: David Blott, COO of Future Methods of Working at Lloyds Banking Group, follows with the day two opening session for all delegates: The way forward for work: designing organisations for an AI-enabled world. This can discover how organisations needs to be designed as AI turns into embedded in on a regular basis work.
A panel on workforce productiveness: driving business efficiency brings collectively Fatou Okafor (Government Director, HR, Thermo Fisher Scientific), Julie Griggs (Deputy Chief Folks Officer, Open College) and Bethany Jayne Rutt (Wellbeing and Worker Engagement Lead, GXO) to debate how HR demonstrates business worth with out dropping sight of the folks facet of the job.
To shut the Convention, Nebel Crowhurst presents Human by Design: how we lead within the subsequent period of labor. This can be a keynote on management in a perform that’s being rewritten because it goes.
Alongside the headline keynote audio system, the Convention brings collectively practitioners from organisations together with First Bus, Primark, CityHR, Halfords, Girls in HR and Matthew Syed Consulting, providing Delegates a broad mixture of real-world case research and views on the workforce challenges going through organisations right this moment.
Free-to-attend Exhibition options are open to all guests
Past the agenda
Alongside the Convention programme, delegates can participate in facilitated networking alternatives and casual receptions. These alternatives are designed to encourage peer studying and dialogue.
Free-to-attend Exhibition options are open to all guests. This contains the Psychological Wellbeing Zone targeted on workforce psychological well being and resilience and Sip & Study classes, that are quick, casual roundtable conversations on matters like expertise growth and organisational change.
Whereas Exhibition entry is free, a Convention ticket is required for the classes above. Anybody already attending World of Studying can deliver HR colleagues at a 40 per cent low cost.
Be impressed by the business’s main thinkers and practitioners and get into the problems shaping HR proper now.
Study extra and register to attend: https://www.learnevents.com/workforce-solutions-birmingham/
