2026 Agenda

My Agenda
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Your Next Move: Designing Your Career with Intention
Keeping HR Human: When AI Becomes a Colleague, Not a Replacement
Featured Speakers:
Jamie Viramontes, CEO & Founder, Konnect
Adit Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, Leena AI
Rethinking Health Benefits: Real-World Lessons from the Shift to ICHRA
Featured Speakers:
Chris Ellis, CEO, Thatch
People Strategy & Analytics: A Hands-On Workshop Led by Experts & HR Leaders
Featured Speakers:
Dirk Jonker, Founder & CEO, Crunchr
Use AI to Make Better Hires, Faster
Featured Speakers:
Ariana Moon, VP, Talent Planning & Acquisition, Greenhouse
Nkem Nwankwo, Senior Director, Product Management, Greenhouse
It’s Complicated (and That’s Okay): Rewriting the Rules of HR & Finance
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Ken Matos, Director, Insights Lab, HiBob
Brian Martell, FP&A Expert, HiBob
Susy Martins, Founder & CEO, Advise2Rise
Liana Rodriguez, Head of Global People Operations, Viz.ai
Skills-First Strategies in the Age of AI: Building Resilient, Adaptable Workforces
Flexibility Without the Headache: Designing Benefits That Work Harder for Your Budget & Your People
Featured Speakers:
Jaclyn Chen, Co-Founder & CEO, Benepass
Megan Burns, Lead Benefits Solutions Consultant, Benepass
Smart Tools, Dumb People Decisions: Who's Actually Running This?
Featured Speakers:
Matt Poepsel, PhD., VP & Godfather of Talent Optimization, The Predictive Index
Calibration That Connects: Turning Performance Management into Strategic Advantage
Featured Speakers:
Madeline Grecek, Director, People Operations & Transformation, Remote
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
The ROI of Space: Rethinking the Office Like a Startup
Author Talk: Thriving in Ambiguity—Tools for Confident Decision-Making
Building a Head and Heart Organization: The Next Leadership Revolution
Featured Speakers:
Tracy Layney, former CHRO, Levi Strauss & Co.
Eric Severson, former CHRO, Neiman Marcus
Designing Work for Energy, Trust, and Performance
Featured Speakers:
Jen Lipsey, Chief Growth Officer, Sunny
AI@Work: Building Bots for Real-Time Employee Feedback
A New Era of Employee Listening: From Feedback to Follow-Through
Featured Speakers:
Mohit Midha, Founder & CEO, Hoogly
Why Most AI Startups Won’t Survive Enterprise Reality
Change, Disrupted: Humans x Machines Adoption in the AI Era
Finding Untapped Talent and Breakthroughs at the Edges
Transform Awards Community Celebration
Unlocking Genius: Designing Work That Brings Out the Best in People
What Actually Changes when AI Enters the People Stack
Featured Speakers:
Giovanni Luperti, CEO, Humaans
The C-Suite Burnout Nobody Talks About: Why Senior Leaders are Cracking and How it Quietly Shapes Bad Decisions
Growing Beyond Borders: Tactical Approaches to Faster Growth Through Global Hiring
Building a Culture of Performance: Insights from 1,800+ Organizations
The Next Generation Manager: Leadership Skills for an AI-Accelerated Workplace
Featured Speakers:
Tom Griffiths, Co-Founder & CEO, Hone
Amy Schabacker Dufrane, CEO, HRCI
Jason Desentz, Chief Human Resources Officer, Toshiba
The Biology of Leadership: What Science Reveals About Sustaining Performance Over Time
Founder Talks: The Hardest Lesson We Learned in Year One
Inclusive Design: Fixing the Systems That Hold Teams Back
Behind the Scenes: How Modern Recruiting Teams Hire Alongside AI Agents
Featured Speakers:
David Paffenholz, Founder & CEO, Juicebox
Unmasking Workplace Trauma: Rebuilding Trust When Tough Decisions Have Broken It
People Investment in the Age of AI: Trends Shaping Leadership Decisions
Governing AI Before it Governs Us
Featured Speakers:
Christine Kaszubski Aldrich, Chief People Officer, Pindrop Security
Deep Connections: Finding the Most Valuable People Insights
Featured Speakers:
Phil Haussler, Chief Product Officer, Quantum Workplace
AI@Work: Build Your Future Organization in Real Time
Driving HR Excellence in an AI-Centered World: Alight + IBM
Featured Speakers:
Donna Dorsey, CHRO, Alight
Madison Gooch, VP, IBM
The Multi-Generational Care Mandate: How Workplaces Are Rising to the Sandwich Challenge
Featured Speakers:
Deborah Hanus, Co-Founder & CEO, Sparrow
The Silent Fallout of DEI Rollbacks
Featured Speakers:
Erin Dangerfield, SVP, People & Culture, Golden State Warriors
Workforce Planning 2.0: The AI Signals HR Needs (Before the Board Asks)
Featured Speakers:
Ben Grafentin, Manager, Strategic Account Management, Rippling
Kat Noren, SVP People, Brightside Health
Transformation at Enterprise Scale: What the Next Decade Will Demand
AI and Agents and Skills—Oh My! From Buzzwords to Competitive Advantage
Featured Speakers:
Tigran Sloyan, Co-Founder & CEO, CodeSignal
How Women in Sports Are Resetting the Mental Health Conversation
Featured Speakers:
Mercedes Sullivan, EVP, People, Culture & Communications, McKinley Companies
Kim Beauvais, EVP, HR & Business Operations, FOX Sports
Camye Mackey, EVP & Chief People, DEI Officer, Atlanta Hawks & State Farm Arena
Rewarding the Work That Doesn’t Show Up in Dashboards
Fraud, Fakes, and the New Security Perimeter in Recruiting
Featured Speakers:
Leigh Miller, Sr. Customer Talent Advisor, Gem
Jason Zoltak, Co-Founder & CEO, tofu
AI@Work: Become a Superlearner in the Age of Automation
The Loneliness Epidemic: What Your Culture Is Really Creating
Rethinking Growth: Developing Skills Instead of Chasing Titles
Using Strategic Discomfort to Accelerate Organizational Change
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Win with Confidence: Organization Digital Twin™
The Gen Z Behaviors Every Generation Should Adopt to Thrive in an AI Era
The Jobs AI Changes—Not the Ones It Replaces: TechWolf’s Workforce Intelligence Index
Featured Speakers:
Andreas De Neve, Co-Founder & CEO, TechWolf
From AI Anxiety to Advantage: How Tinuiti is Building Bias-Aware Talent Workflows That Leaders Trust
Featured Speakers:
Christine Preizler, Chief Commercial Officer, Sigma Squared
Jeff Batuhan, Chief People Officer, Tinuiti
Dr. Tanaya Devi, Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, Sigma Squared
Dave Kerr, SVP, People, Tinuiti
The CFO–CHRO Alliance: Leading Workforce Health Innovation Together
The Truth About Workplace Silence: Why Speaking Up Isn’t Safe for Everyone
Blending People, Processes, and Values Through Mergers and Acquisition
Featured Speakers:
Donna Flynn, Chief People Officer, Steelcase
Emma Woodthorpe, Managing Director, Auralent HR
When Managers Hold Teams Back: Breaking the Performance Bottleneck
No More Surveys: How AI Enables 360 Feedback and Coaching at the Speed of Voice
Featured Speakers:
Aaron Ward, Co-Founder & CEO, Huckleberry
From Pilot to Graveyard: Why So Many Innovations Fail to Scale
Borders, Belonging & the Future Workforce: Immigration Policy, Automation & the Global Talent Crossroads
Why Your Team Doesn’t Trust AI (and How to Change That)
Featured Speakers:
Cathy Peterman, CPO, Technology & Global Talent Development, Wayfair
Your Candidates Are Using AI. Here is How You Level the Playing Field
Personalized Benefits: The Promise Everyone Wants or the Reality No One Can Deliver?
Featured Speakers:
Jason Fan, Co-Founder & CEO, Forma
Conor Sweeney, VP, Head of People & Talent, Form Health
The Inclusion Gap in AI Adoption: Who Gets Left Behind?
Designing Compensation for the Modern Workforce
The C-Suite Reset: Aligning People, Org, and Tech
Featured Speakers:
Kyle Forrest, Future of HR Leader, Deloitte Consulting
Founder Talks: Building AI Products That Don’t Scare Legal Teams
AI Life Hacks: Simple Ways Leaders Are Saving Time, Energy & Focus
The Exit Economy and the Disproportionate Toll on Black Women
Digital Teammates: Where AI Agents Fit on the Org Chart
Beyond Parental Leave: The Hidden Maternal Risks Employers Don’t See
Measuring the True Return on Your Social Impact Initiatives
From Data to Decisions: AI-Powered Insights Across the Employee Lifecycle
Hiring With Humanity: Redesigning the Candidate-Recruiter Experience
What Is a Job Now? Rethinking Work, Purpose, and Value in the Age of Algorithmic Tools
Unlimited PTO, Remote Work, and the Flexibility Paradox
Building a L&D Ecosystem That Actually Moves the Needle
From Seed to Series A: What Changes (and What Breaks)
Psychedelics, Therapy, and the New Health Frontier: The 2026 Trends Employers Can’t Ignore
Automation and the Mind: Cognitive Load, Skill Atrophy, and Critical Thinking
Featured Speakers:
Greg Karanastasis, SVP & Head of Talent & Development, CVS Health