2025 conference sessions coming soon!

Explore this year’s topics for HR leaders while we work on the full 2025 agenda.

2025 Conference Tracks at a Glance

The 2025 agenda delivers the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CHROs and their leadership teams. View 2025 topics here.

 

Track A: HR Function and Strategy

This track is designed to equip CHROs and their leadership teams with the strategic and functional capabilities vital for sustaining the momentum of HR transformation journeys. Sessions will concentrate on how HR creates and delivers value by aligning functional excellence with organizational objectives, analyzing tradeoffs and prioritizing investments within a dynamic business environment, and bolstering CHRO influence among key stakeholders to execute strategic initiatives.

Track B: Organizational Transformation and Change

The pace of technology, legislative and skills changes has accelerated workforce and workplace transformation, reinvigorating HR’s role in creating a change-ready workforce prepared to pivot swiftly as AI reshapes the business strategy. This track helps CHROs and their leadership teams transform the future of work and adapt their organization design while preventing change fatigue and resistance.

Track C: Talent Management, Skills and Performance

Organizations’ ambitious transformation plans demand new skills and increased employee performance. CHROs and their leadership teams must be able to better predict, plan, and mobilize their organization's talent to unlock the vast opportunity for increased productivity and growth. This track helps you define and execute your talent strategy by exploring innovations in talent management, skills and performance that will position you to meet the dynamic needs of your organization.

Track D: Employee Experience, Culture and Inclusion

CHROs and their teams must create a differentiated employee experience, a thriving culture, and foster inclusion to drive growth in a rapidly evolving global environment. This track equips CHROs and their teams to strategically manage cultural and EVP initiatives, attract top talent, and maintain competitiveness amidst market shifts.

Track E: Leadership and Learning

Today, leaders and the workforce must learn to adapt as external forces reset organizational strategies. In this track, CHROs and their leadership teams will explore how to equip leaders and the workforce to succeed through transformation to meet evolving business needs.

Track F: Recruiting and Strategic Workforce Planning

Leaders today confront a labor market characterized by fast changing skill needs and heightened competition for the most critical roles and capabilities. This track equips CHROs, recruiting and talent management leaders with best practices, tools and insight to plan for, resource, attract and hire top talent to shape the capabilities of the modern workforce.

Track G: Rewards and Well-Being

Evolving technologies, legislation and employee expectations are disrupting the foundations of how organizations manage rewards and well-being. This track helps CHROs and their leadership teams reshape their rewards and well-being strategies to set their organizations apart and attract and retain key talent.

Track H: Technology & Innovation

HR technologies are critical to delivering the promises of a high performing human-technology workforce. Amid increasingly complex requests and rapid innovation, CHROs must control costs and minimize risk. To succeed in this balancing act, CHROs and their leadership teams should effectively strategize, justify value, select, and adopt HR technologies. Attend the sessions in this track to learn how to execute a technology strategy that enables lasting transformation.