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HR RECHARGED NYC

JOIN US AND DISCOVER WHAT A SENIOR-LEVEL, ENTERPRISE HR & TALENT COMMUNITY LEARNS TOGETHER AT LEADERS LOUNGE

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




where HR comes to figure stuff out, together!

HR RECHARGED NYC: MAINSTAGE CONVERSATIONS

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?

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WHO'S doing the TALKING? all of us and...

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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 

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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 

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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 

BETTER WAYS: MAKING HR EVEN STRONGER

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 NAOMI DISHINGTON, DIRECTOR, CONSULTING PRACTISE AT WORKHUMAN 

BETTER WAYS 2

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 ELLIE WILDMAN, SENIOR CLIENT DIRECTOR AT VALENCE 

BETTER WAYS 3

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 CARLA GARCIA WILLIAMS, MANAGING DIRECTOR, WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE AT VISIER  

SIGNATURE THINK-TANKS

 

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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