Day 2

Gain insight into today’s sessions so you can get the most out of your conference experience.

Create HR platforms and tools that enhance employee experience, simplify workflows, and foster engagement. Build a roadmap to:

• Ensure HR technology meets employee needs through intuitive design, accessibility, and personalization.
• Balance automation and AI with human oversight to maintain trust and transparency.
• Leverage technology to reduce friction, streamline processes, and free HR teams for higher-value work.

Implement HR technology that supports your employees, strengthens engagement, and drives organizational performance.

Belonging is one of the strongest predictors of employee satisfaction and retention. Master effective strategies to:

• Understand how organizations are weaving inclusion into daily experiences.
• Transform your communication norms, team rituals, recognition, meeting design, and digital accessibility.
• Explore how to build effective DEI programs. 

Learn how subtle shifts create cultures where employees feel deeply connected and valued.

• Explore the latest HR technology and strategies with our industry-leading sponsors.
• Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business.
• Schedule one-to-one private meetings for personalized advice.

As organizations continue to globalize and modernize workforce operations, HR Shared Services and payroll leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver seamless employee experiences while ensuring compliance, efficiency, and scalability. Evolve from transactional support functions into strategic business enablers through digital transformation, analytics, and operational excellence by: 

• Modernizing HR Shared Services and payroll operations to improve efficiency, compliance, and employee experience 
• Leading successful HR and payroll transformation initiatives across multi-country environments 
• Leveraging analytics tools such as Tableau and Power BI to enable strategic workforce insights and reporting 

Strengthen change management and stakeholder alignment during system and process transitions 

Employees increasingly expect consumer-grade experiences at work, from interview through to offboarding. Create a blueprint to:

• Map “moments that matter” across hiring, onboarding, development, recognition, and offboarding.
• Learn how to eliminate friction throughout the employee experience.
• Personalize key touchpoints to apply human-centred design to every stage of the employee lifecycle.

Develop effective employee journeys by optimizing key touchpoints.

Join Zown’s CEO for a conversation on how technology, alternative financing, and consumer-first innovation are reshaping the path to homeownership. This session will explore emerging trends in real estate and fintech, the affordability challenges facing today’s buyers, and how modern platforms are creating new opportunities for the next generation of homeowners

Employee experience is shaped not only by culture and leadership but by the policies, systems, and decisions that define how people work, feel valued, and belong. Learn to create workplaces where employees feel empowered, engaged, and aligned by:

• Embedding equity, inclusion, and representation into organizational systems.
• Building trust and engagement through transparent governance and collaboration
• Leading cross-functional teams and advisory groups with clarity and purpose.

Design policies that positively shape your employee experience and workplace culture.

• Enjoy exclusive sponsor demos and experience the next level of EX innovation firsthand.
• Meet one-on-one with leading solution providers to discuss organizational hurdles.
• Brainstorm solutions and gain new perspectives and ideas.

With a transformational mindset, elite leaders break past burnout, isolation, and hidden plateaus. Walk away with the blueprint for sustainable excellence to:

• Discover the limitations of high performance and why many high performers are unknowingly playing small
• Understand how transformational leadership comes from curiosity and inquiry, not always having the right answers.
• Learn practical ways to expand their capacity by embracing challenges, seeking feedback, and actively looking for where they might be wrong.

• Importance of process in disability management/accommodation in employee engagement/wellness- the human side
• Importance from the corporate fiscal and legal responsibility side
• Emerging options to employers- use of AI, pros and cons
• Governance and legal guardrails for this question
• Recommendations on approach, to summarize

Review the key solutions and takeaways from the conference. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work.