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Agenda:
10:30-11:10 PANEL |Talent for the Future: Exploring the Landscape of 2025-26
As the workforce changes, it’s important for organizations to understand what the talent landscape will look like in 2025-26. This session will examine key trends in talent acquisition and management, including shifts in skill requirements, the growth of remote work, and the effects of technology on hiring. Join us to discuss practical strategies for adapting your approach to talent, ensuring your organization is ready to meet future challenges and opportunities.
Ronda Moore, Chief Talent & Inclusion Officer, Aptiv
Avani Prabhakar, Chief People Officer, Atlassian
Jason Desentz, CHRO, Toshiba
Moderator: David Green, Managing Partner, Insights222
11:15-11:35 AI and the New Era of Talent Leadership
AI is transforming talent leadership, reshaping how organizations attract, manage, and develop their workforce. This session delves into cutting-edge market trends and analysis, exploring how AI-driven tools uncover talent, personalize employee experiences, and predict workforce needs in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Brian Delle Donne, Co-Founder and President, Talent Tech Labs
11:35-11:50 Networking Break
11:50-12:50 Contingent/Extended Workforces: Building Flexibility and Agility in Talent Strategies
As contingent workforces continue to grow, organizations are adapting talent strategies to leverage the flexibility and specialized skills of contract and freelance workers. This session will examine best practices for integrating contingent workers, balancing workforce agility with organizational needs, and ensuring alignment with company culture. Join us to explore how to manage and support a blended workforce effectively, positioning your organization for greater adaptability and success.
Travis Windling, Sr. Director, TA Strategy, Operations & Contingent Workforce Management, Royal Bank of Canada
11:50-12:50 Continuous Skills Transformation In Your Organization: Leveraging AI-powered Talent Alignment
Designing effective and human-centric skills-based role definitions, skills self-inventories and assessments, and project-based skills matching are all essential for aligning talent and organizational needs — and can all be powered by AI and other exponential technologies. This session will explore methods for creating continuous skills inventories, skills wallets, data-driven skills matching and career pathing and creating structured pathways to match workers and roles. Learn strategies for refining talent alignment processes that support employee growth and drive organizational success.
Gary Bolles, Global Fellow for Transformation, Singularity University
11:50-12:50 Strategic Workforce Adaptation: Aligning Human Capacity with Business Demands
Through short presentations and peer discussions, you’ll identify immediate steps for increasing adaptability while aligning human needs, operational realities, and business goals. The session will offer an initial Blueprint to accelerate and sustain workforce agility over time.
Session 2 will build on this foundation by applying Psychological Ergonomics™ – designing work environments that remove friction and sustain high performance through both planned and unplanned change.
Al Adamsen, Founder, Analyst, Advisor, & Educator, People, AI, & the Future of Work Project
Erin Eatough, Cheif Science Officer & Principal Advisor, Fractional Insights
Shonna Waters, Chief Executive Officer & Principal Advisor, Fractional Insights
12:50-14:30 Lunch & Networking Break
14:30-15:30 Evaluating AI Recruiting Tools for HR Leaders
Choosing the right AI recruiting tools is critical for enhancing hiring processes and improving candidate experiences. This workshop will guide HR leaders through essential questions to consider when assessing various AI solutions. Participants will engage in discussions and activities designed to help them evaluate features, effectiveness, and alignment with their organization’s needs, ensuring informed decision-making in the selection of AI tools for recruitment.
Brain Delle Donne, Co-Founder and President, Talent Tech Labs
14:30-15:30 Creating a Successful Talent Ecosystem
Change isn’t just a business challenge. It’s a human one, both individually and collectively. This session introduces Psychological Ergonomics™, a groundbreaking framework for designing work that empowers people to adapt, perform, and grow amid perpetual disruption and persistent uncertainty.
Taking off from Session 1’s Blueprint, through peer discussion and facilitation you’ll address your organization’s real-world challenges, specifically how to identify and reduce friction, enhance stress capacity, and encourage faster adoption of new processes and tools, especially AI. By session’s end, you’ll walk away with actionable ideas on how to transform work and the work experience via new mental models, new insights, and modern decision-making processes, all of which will help ensure enduring alignment, adaptability, and high performance.
Leaders responsible for transformation, culture, workforce readiness, or technology adoption won’t want to miss this vital conversation.
Al Adamsen, Founder, Analyst, Advisor, & Educator, People, AI, & the Future of Work Project
Erin Eatough, Cheif Science Officer & Principal Advisor, Fractional Insights
Shonna Waters, Chief Executive Officer & Principal Advisor, Fractional Insights
14:30-15:30 Innovation Sprints: Hacking Your Biggest Talent Challenges
What’s the biggest talent challenge facing your organization today? Is it hiring? Retention? Skill development? Regardless of what that challenge may be, this session will give every attendee a set of real and practical takeaways via a fast-paced and interactive workshop. Participants will start by learning the basics of process hacking and then turn their attention to solving real challenges brought forth by the peers in their group. At the end of the session, each group will share out key ideas, strategies, and hacks that all attendees can take back to work and put into practice.
16:00-16:30 Tackling Talent Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
As organizations face evolving challenges in talent acquisition and management, this closing session will reflect on key insights gained throughout the event. Participants will discuss actionable strategies for tackling current talent issues while preparing for future trends and demands. Join us for an engaging conversation that aims to equip leaders with the tools and knowledge needed to navigate the complexities of talent in the years to come.
Travis Windling, Sr. Director, TA Strategy, Operations & Contingent Workforce Management, Royal Bank of Canada
Gary Bolles, Global Fellow for Transformation, Singularity University
Al Adamsen, Founder, Analyst, Advisor, & Educator, People, AI, & the Future of Work Project
Brain Delle Donne, Co-Founder and President, Talent Tech Labs
Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory
Moderator: David Green, Managing Partner, Insight222
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