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WEDNESDAY 19TH MAY 2027
140 VP TO C-LEVEL HR, PEOPLE, AND TALENT PRACTITIONERS AT ENTEPRISE LEVEL
THINK-TANK STYLE, NO BOOTHS. JUST BUILDING GREAT IDEAS, TOGETHER!
WHERE: SPiN FLATIRON, NEW YORK
8AM-5PM: BREAKFST, LUNCH, AND DRINKS TOGETHER

PANEL ONE: THE WORK
Beyond Jobs and Roles: Designing the Human–AI Enterprise
AI agents are becoming participants in work, rather than simply tools for workers. As enterprises rethink how work gets done, what happens to traditional jobs, leadership and accountability when humans and machines increasingly share execution?
• Redesigning work around outcomes, not traditional job structures.
• Establishing boundaries between human judgment and autonomy.
• Reimagining organizational structures, decision-making and leadership in agentic enterprises.
PANEL TWO: THE NEW POTENTIAL
The Untapped Enterprise: Unlocking Capability We Already Own
Could our next great competitive advantage already be sitting inside the enterprise, largely undiscovered? How much more could businesses achieve by rethinking how they identify, unlock and deploy the talent and capabilities they already have?
• Uncovering hidden skills, expertise and potential across the enterprise.
• Breaking silos that restrict talent visibility and movement.
• Mobilizing existing capability against tomorrow’s business priorities.
PANEL THREE: THE EMPLOYEE
The Fundamentals, Reframed: Rebuilding the People Promise
As technology reshapes work and employee expectations continue to shift, it's time to revisit the fundamentals of how enterprises attract, engage, develop and reward their people. What must we preserve, rethink or redesign across HR, employee experience, careers, development and compensation to build a people proposition fit for the next era?
• Rebuilding employee experience around trust, belonging and engagement.
• Rethinking careers, performance and rewards for today's workforce.
• Reconnecting HR fundamentals to what employees actually value.
Three connected conversations on the future of enterprise performance:
1. How we redesign work alongside AI?
2. How we uncover the capability already inside our organizations?
3. How we rebuild the people promise around what employees value today?
Julia Johnson, SVP HR at Cognizant
Brent Vader, VP, L&D at Verizon
Amy Linder, VP People at S&P Global
Yelena Mammadova, AI Workforce Transformation Strategy Director at Microsoft
Melanie Staff-Parsons, VP, Talent at Danaher
Wanda Shoer, Chief People Officer at Phoenix Children’s
Anya Yermishina, VP of People at S&P Global
Michael Zambon, AI Director at American Water
Cherry McCutchen, VP, Americas Learning & Development Manager at BNP Paribas
Lizette Vazquez, VP, HR Innovation, Digital Tech, Corp Dev M&A and GTM L&D at Ingredion Inc
Todd Hicks, Global Vice President, HR, M&A and Integration at Cencora
Josette Jean-Francois, Vice President Talent Management at B. Braun Medical Inc.
Eva Chan, MD, HR at Organization TBA
Iris McQuillan-Grace, Global Head of People Development at The Brandtech Group
Tatiana Goldberg, Global Head of Talent and Leadership Development at Unilever
Zane Zumbahlen, Chief People Officer at Organization TBA
Fathima Jaffer, Vice President & Head of North American Early Talent at TD Bank
Martin Falkenberg, SVP HR at American Water
Dorinda Capole, VP and Chief Learning Officer at Montefiore Medical Center
June Dinitz, Head of People, USA at EPAM Systems
Lacey McBurney, Principal, Executive Development & Succession at Wiley
NAOMI DISHINGTON, DIRECTOR, CONSULTING PRACTISE AT WORKHUMAN
ELLIE WILDMAN, SENIOR CLIENT DIRECTOR AT VALENCE
CARLA GARCIA WILLIAMS, MANAGING DIRECTOR, WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE AT VISIER
A) Cognitive Surrender as a Result of Tech at Work
with Chris Perry, CEO at Andus Labs
B) Data to Intelligence, AI & Dynamic Workforce Planning, Empowering Leaders & Measuring Value
with Carla Garcia Williams, Managing Director, Workforce Intelligence at Visier
C) Future Leaders: Designing the Workforce of Tomorrow
with Naomi Dishington, Director, Consulting Practice at Workhuman
D) The Judgment Bottleneck of AI:
with Jason Wisdom and Andy Hagerman, Co-Founders of The Design Gym

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