HR RECHARGED, NEW YORK: The skills & capability summit

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Location: Well& by Durst

151 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036 

Duration: 9:00am to 5:00pm

Dress Code: At your Comfort-Level

The Skills & Capabilities Questions:

1. Building Enterprise Capability and Adaptability: Workforce Planning, Org Design & Capability

2. The Market Intelligence Question

3. The Governance and Velocity Question

4. Culture as and Operating System:  Designing Organizations That Scale Trust, Belonging, and Bold Action 

5. New AI Technologies Radically Changing Organizational Structure  

From Breakfast to Drinks: 

Panels

Case-Studies

Ideas Xchanges

Signature Leadership Think-Tanks

New Research Findings 

New Solutions

Panel Debriefs

Networking & Drinks 

Building enterprise-wide skills visibility: assessment tools, skills inventories, data integration, and making capability intelligence accessible to decision-makers.

Workforce planning models, scenario analysis, org design alignment, succession gap analysis, and connecting capability forecasts to business strategy.

Moderator: Matthew Daniel, Senior Talent Strategy & Mobility Principal

Guild Education, Inc

Lacey McBurney CVP, Talent & Culture 

Wiley

Seetha Speeney, MD, Global Head of Talent and Development 

Brown Brothers Harriman

Chris Forando, Sr. Director & Head of OE, Talent Mgt, Learning & Leader Development 

Subway

Maddie Oliver, SVP People Research & Analytics 

Citi

Building your Talent Attraction Edge: Talent is scarce and unequally distributed. Understanding which capabilities are rare, where they live, and who competes for them is survival.

Reading the talent market: skill scarcity analysis, competitor talent mapping, geographic talent concentration, and acquisition strategy, compensation benchmarks, positioning strategy, and talent sourcing priorities.

Moderator:  Kate Fitzgerald, Regional Director 

Udemy, Inc. 

Sanj Rana, US Head of Talent 

TD Bank Group

Manish Verma, Chief Talent and Leadership Officer 

Randstad

Rochelle Rosato, VP Global Talent and Culture 

PVH

Accelerating capability delivery: hiring process redesign, learning design principles, manager coaching models, internal mobility speed, and removing cycle-time bottlenecks.

Who decides capability investment, how you measure, board reporting structure, accountability mechanisms, and how to elevate capability strategy.

Moderator: Katerina Zacharia, 

Chief People Officer, OD and Growth

WPP Media

Yelena Mammadova, AI Workforce Transforamtion Director

Microsoft

Amy Marshall, Executive Director, Head of Organizational and HR Strategy

SMBC

Lori Stockel, Snr Dir, Enterprise Learning and Development

Breakthru Beverage Group

A) Delivering Workforce AI to Connect People With Work
B) Raising Productivity Without Losing Top Talent
C) 2026 Team Trends: Teams in the Age of AI, Agility, and Adaptability
D) Frameworks to Stay Human: Hype vs. Creep? Trend or Transformation? Integrate or Ignore?

E) Technology Shaped Cultures vs. Leadership Value Propositions

with Dorinda Capole, Chief Learning Officer

Montefiore Health System 

1. Building Workforce Resilience & Talent Pipelines in the Age of Skill Disruption,

with Matthew Daniel, Senior Talent Strategy & Mobility Principal  

Guild Education, Inc

2. AI-Enabled Decision Making: Scaling Workforce Intelligence Beyond HR

with Carla Garcia Williams, Managing Director - Workforce Intelligence at Visier

3. Talent Acquisition in Transition: Hiring With Speed, Fairness, and Strategic Insight

with Andy Nelesen, Head of Market Insight and Solutions at SHL