HR RECHARGED NYC

HR RECHARGED, NYC: LEADING WHEN AI KNOWS MORE

Command Without Illusion: Leading When AI Knows More is a productively unsettling gathering for HR leaders confronting a hard shift: AI is scaling capability faster than organizations can maintain control, judgment, and trust. This is not about adoption - it’s about authority. Across talent, learning, and technology, the event challenges leaders to rethink workforce design, rebuild cognitive capability, and take ownership of the AI stack. The intended outcome is clarity: what must be protected, what must change, and how to lead decisively in systems where humans are no longer the most informed actors - but are still fully accountable for the results. The entire day is an intentional journey, designed as a structured progression with peers, through panels, case studies, workshops, and think-tanks - ending not with more ideas, but with firmer judgment, clearer control, and decisions you’re ready to act on.

HR RECHARGED, NYC: EVENT OUTLINE

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Location: SPiN Flatiron

48 E 23rd St, New York, NY 10010

Duration: 9:00am to 5:00pm

Dress Code: At your Comfort-Level

Areas of Focus

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

The Skills & Capabilities Questions:

1. Architect the System: Owning the AI Stack Across HR, IT, and the Business

2. Compressed and Stretched: Employee Experience in the AI-Reduced Workforce

3. Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

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

5. New AI Technologies Radically Changing Organizational Structure

Format

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Format

From Breakfast to Drinks:

Panels

Case-Studies

Ideas Xchanges

Signature Leadership Think-Tanks

New Research Findings

New Solutions

Panel Debriefs

Networking & Drinks

The Talks and People:

PANEL 1 | Architect the System: Owning the AI Stack Across HR, IT, and the Business

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

PANEL 1 | Architect the System: Owning the AI Stack Across HR, IT, and the Business

AI adoption is accelerating faster than governance, integration, and control. Disconnected tools, unclear ownership, and fragmented data are limiting real impact.
This panel focuses on how HR, IT, and business leaders align to architect a cohesive AI ecosystem.
Defining ownership, integrating systems, and ensuring technology drives measurable outcomes, not scattered experimentation.

Moderator: Hayley Bresina

Product Manager at One Model

Yelena Mammadova,

AI Workforce Transformation Strategy

Microsoft

Wanda Shoer, Chief Learning Officer

Sanofi

Martin Falkenberg, SVP HR

American Water

Keili Glynn, Chief People Officer

Authentic Brands

PANEL 2 | Compressed and Stretched: Employee Experience in the AI-Reduced Workforce

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

PANEL 1 | Architect the System: Owning the AI Stack Across HR, IT, and the Business

Technology is quietly compressing the workforce. Fewer people, broader scopes, higher expectations. While productivity rises, experience often degrades: burnout risk, blurred roles, and pressure to perform at machine speed.
This panel explores how leaders redesign employee experience to sustain performance without eroding wellbeing, trust, and long-term capability.

Moderator: Zane Zumbahlen

Chief People Officer

Wedgewood Pharmacy

Darek Lenart, EVP People and Capability

Mastercard

Michelle Goldman, SVP EX & Development

Verizon

Katerina Zacharia, Chief People Officer, OD and Growth

WPP

Nisha Verma, Chief People Officer

Avanade

Amy Lupinski, SVP HR

IBM

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

This panel examines how leaders enable self-driven role design, develop organizational design for fluid talent development, and position their organization to win in a shifting talent market.
Static job descriptions are breaking down as roles evolve faster than organizations can define them.
Talent is increasingly expected to shape its own scope, while companies compete to attract and retain adaptable, high-agency individuals.

Moderator: Dave Lindbom

Org Development Expert

Ex. Walt Disney

Tammy Kaiser, VP HR at Kyndryl

Manish Verma, Chief Talent & Leadership Officer

Randstad

Michaela Schoberova, SVP HR

Colgate-Palmolive

Julia Johnson, SVP Talent Management

Cognizant

SIGNATURE LEADERSHIP THINK-TANKS

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

A) Cognitive Surrender as a Result of Tech at Work
with Michael Zambon, AI Director at American Water

B) Driving Business Impact in the Age of AI: 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: Personal Certainty vs. Collective Alignment

with Jason Wisdom and Andy Hagerman, Co-Founders of The Design Gym

AUDIENCE WORKSHOP: Human Potential Meets AI

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

with Emily Frieze-Kemeny

CEO at Arose Group

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

1. Leading AI Transformation to Amplify Human Capability and Performance

with Ellie Wildman, Senior Client Director at Valence

2. From HR Activity to Business Impact: Understand. Plan. Activate

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

3. Future Leaders: Design the Workforce of Tomorrow

with Naomi Dishington - Director, Consulting Practice at Workhuman

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SEE YOU AT HR RECHARGED NYC, Weds 14th Oct 2026

HR RECHARGED, NYC: LEADING WHEN AI KNOWS MORE

HR RECHARGED, NYC: EVENT OUTLINE

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Areas of Focus

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Format

Wednesday 14th OCTOBER, 2026

Format

your emcee of the day:

Emily Frieze-Kemeny

The Talks and People:

PANEL 1 | Architect the System: Owning the AI Stack Across HR, IT, and the Business

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

PANEL 1 | Architect the System: Owning the AI Stack Across HR, IT, and the Business

PANEL 2 | Compressed and Stretched: Employee Experience in the AI-Reduced Workforce

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

PANEL 1 | Architect the System: Owning the AI Stack Across HR, IT, and the Business

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

SIGNATURE LEADERSHIP THINK-TANKS

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

PANEL 3 | Build the Role: Talent Development, Self-Driven Job Design, and Talent Market Dynamics

AUDIENCE WORKSHOP: Human Potential Meets AI

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

Better-Ways: Three Smarter Inputs Driving STRONGER HR Outputs

Audience Workshop:

Leading Across Generations, Expectations and New Ways of Working and Thinking

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