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Conference Agenda
📅 Date & Venue: 18 June, 2026 | Capital Fort, New York Conference Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria
🎟️ Registration Now Open
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09.00-10.00 (60mins) | 🥐 Registration & Networking Breakfast
Fuel up for the future: Check-in, caffeine, and conversations with fellow innovators.
10.00-10.30 (30mins) | Opening Keynote & Strategic Framing - The Fragmented HR Tax: Why 'Software' Didn't Fix the People Problem Most HR departments in 2026 are drowning in "SaaS fatigue." We open the stage by defining why adding more tools hasn't solved the efficiency gap and how to shift from managing fragments to building a unified People Ecosystem.Speaker
10.30-11.15 (45mins) | Panel: The Automation Track: AI Agents vs. AI Assistants: From 'Helping' to 'Doing'
Forget chatbots. This session explores the 2026 reality of Autonomous AI Agents that handle 40% of HR operations without human intervention. We’ll look at the "Zero-Admin" roadmap and how to kill the "Ticket Culture" forever.
11.15-12.00 (45mins) | ☕ Recharge & Coffee Break
Take a tactical pause to refuel with premium caffeine and turn your afternoon insights into immediate connections.
12.00-12.45 (45mins) | Panel: Fixing the HR Tech Chaos: Integration Over Tools: Stop Buying, Start Connecting
A deep dive with CTOs and CHROs on why the "Best-of-Breed" strategy failed and how to build a data infrastructure that actually talks to itself.
12.45-13.45 (60mins) | 🍽️ Networking Lunch
Cross-Industry Networking Lunch: An open forum to exchange insights and build relationships beyond your usual circle.
13.45-14.30 (45mins) | Panel: Talent Density: Ending Burnout Without Hiring More People
In an era of "The Great Re-skilling," we explore how to optimize existing talent capacity. We discuss how "Augmented Colleagues" (Human + AI) are redefining what one employee can achieve.
14.30-14.55 (25mins) | Stand-alone: The Agile Operating Model Beyond the Ulrich Model: Designing HR for 2027
The traditional HR structure is too slow for 2026. Learn how to redesign your HR team around "Flow of Work" rather than "Functions," reducing friction and doubling strategic output.
14:55-15.40 (45mins) | ☕ Recharge & Coffee Break
Caffeine, conversation, and a quick mental reset to prepare for the day’s high-impact closing playbook.
15.40-16.05 (25mins) | Stand-Alone: Benefits as Infrastructure: The ROI of Retention: Turning Perks into Strategic Assets
Benefits are no longer just "nice-to-haves." We look at how instant, API-driven benefits create a frictionless employee experience that actually supports business growth.
16.05-16.35 (30mins) | Fireside Chat: The CEO's Perspective: What HR Leaders Get Wrong
An unfiltered conversation with a top-tier CEO on what behaviors build (and break) credibility at the highest level of leadership.
16.35-16.55 (20mins) | Stand-Alone: The 2026 Talent Architecture: Managing "Liquid" Teams and the New Generation of High-Density Talent
Beyond Retention: Building a "Stay-for-the-Mission" Culture in the Era of AI and Borderless Work.
16.55-17.00 (5mins) | Closing Remarks
The 90-Day Roadmap: Turning shared insights into a high-impact action plan for your organization.
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Disclaimer: The event organizer reserves the right to make changes to the agenda, including but not limited to the schedule, speakers, topics, and session formats, at any time without prior notice. These changes may be necessary to ensure the best possible experience for all attendees. We appreciate your understanding and flexibility.
Redesigning Organisations for the Age of AI, Capital, and Scarcity
📍 Date & Venue - TBC, London, UK | 🗓 15 October | ⏰ 09.00–17.00
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09.00–10.00 (60 mins) 🥐 Registration & Networking BreakfastGlobal Perspectives, Shared Constraints
Senior HR, People, Finance, and Business leaders connect around workforce productivity, AI leverage, leadership capacity, and organisational risk.
10.00–10.30 (30 mins) |Opening Keynote & Strategic Framing - The End of HR Transformation: Why the Operating Model Is the Strategy
After two decades of “transformation,” most organisations remain structurally misaligned. This keynote reframes HR’s true leverage: operating model design, decision flow, and accountability at scale.
10.30–11.15 (45 mins) | Panel - AI at Scale: From Pilots to Enterprise Reality
Moving AI from labs to core operations exposes uncomfortable truths about data integrity, governance, trust, and leadership readiness. This panel explores what breaks — and how leaders fix it.
11.15–12.00 (45 mins) |☕ Recharge & Coffee Break
12.00–12.45 (45 mins) | Panel - The New HR–Finance Alliance: Managing Human Capital Like Capital
People costs are the largest enterprise investment — yet rarely governed with financial rigour. HR, Finance, and Operations leaders discuss workforce productivity, talent ROI, and scenario‑based planning.
12.45–13.45 (60 mins) | 🍽️ Executive Networking Lunch
13.45–14.30 (45 mins) | Panel - The Talent Illusion: Why Hiring More People Isn’t the Answer
In an era of capital pressure and talent scarcity, growth through hiring is broken. This session explores talent density, internal mobility, and augmented teams as the only viable alternative.
14.30–14.55 (25 mins) | Stand‑Alone - Beyond the Ulrich Model: Designing the Next HR Operating System
The Ulrich model optimised HR for stability. Modern organisations need speed, judgment, and flow. This session introduces the next evolution of HR structure for perpetual change.
14.55–15.40 (45 mins) | ☕ Recharge & Coffee Break
15.40–16.05 (25 mins) | Stand‑Alone - Culture Is a Consequence: Designing for Trust, Speed, and Accountability
Culture doesn’t scale through values. It scales through decision rights, incentives, and system design. This session reframes culture as an output of organisational architecture.
16.05–16.35 (30 mins) | Fireside Chat - What CEOs Actually Expect from HR in 2027
A candid conversation with a CEO or Chair on what separates strategic HR leaders from operational ones — and why many people initiatives never survive the boardroom.
16.35–16.55 (20 mins) | Closing Stand‑Alone - The Human Enterprise Mandate: Competing When Everything Else Is Automated
As technology commoditises, how organisations design and govern people becomes the final competitive advantage.
16.55–17.00 (5 mins) | Closing Remarks
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Disclaimer: The event organizer reserves the right to make changes to the agenda, including but not limited to the schedule, speakers, topics, and session formats, at any time without prior notice. These changes may be necessary to ensure the best possible experience for all attendees. We appreciate your understanding and flexibility.
Welcome to HR Innovator Sofia: Designing the Human Organisation for 2027
📅 Date & Venue: 10 November, 2026 | Capital Fort, New York Conference Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria
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09.00–10.00 (60 mins) | 🥐 Registration & Executive Networking Breakfast
A curated networking start focused on shared challenges: workforce risk, AI accountability, leadership bandwidth, and organisational resilience.
10.00–10.30 (30 mins) | Opening Keynote & Strategic Framing - From HR Operators to Human Capital Stewards
HR has successfully automated work — but leadership has lagged behind. This keynote defines HR’s next mandate: governance, judgment, and enterprise-level accountability for people decisions in AI-powered organisations.
10.30–11.15 (45 mins) | Panel - When AI Runs the Engine: What Humans Must Still Own
As AI agents take over operations, new risks emerge: blind trust, unclear escalation, and diluted accountability. This panel explores where human judgment is non-negotiable — ethics, risk, trust, and leadership credibility.
11.15–12.00 (45 mins) | ☕ Recharge & Coffee BreakSponsor fit
Premium coffee / experience brandsEmployer branding platformsLearning & executive development providers
12.00–12.45 (45 mins) | Panel - Governing the People Stack: From Integration to AccountabilityIf June was about connecting tools, November is about owning outcomes. CHROs and finance-aligned leaders discuss how to govern vendors, AI agents, people data, and decisions — without recreating bureaucracy.
12.45–13.45 (60 mins) | 🍽️ Executive Networking LunchLeadership Tables: What HR Owns — and What It Should Let GoModerated tables around:Workforce riskSuccession & capability planningAI accountabilityLeadership capacity
13.45–14.30 (45 mins) | Panel - Designing Workforce Resilience: Organisations That Don’t Burn Out
Burnout is a design failure, not a personal one. This session explores structural levers — workload design, decision velocity, and talent flow — that keep performance high without constant firefighting.
14.30–14.55 (25 mins) | Stand-alone - The End of HR as a Service Function: Building the People Control Tower
HR’s future role is orchestration, not service delivery. Learn how advanced organisations are redesigning HR into a strategic control tower overseeing talent, capability, and organisational health.
14.55–15.40 (45 mins) | ☕ Recharge & Coffee BreakSponsor fit
Employer experience platformsPremium workplace experience or wellbeing vendors
15.40–16.05 (25 mins) | Stand-alone - Retention Is a Lagging Indicator: Measuring What Actually Predicts Staying
Engagement scores lag reality. This session introduces leading indicators of retention: decision load, growth velocity, internal opportunity access, and manager signal quality.
16.05–16.35 (30 mins) | Fireside Chat - Board-Level HR: What Gets Attention — and What Gets Ignored
A candid discussion with a CEO or board member on how HR earns credibility at the top — and why many people initiatives fail to survive board scrutiny.
16.35–16.55 (20 mins) | Closing Stand-alone - The 2027 People Mandate: What HR Leaders Must Say “No” To
The future belongs to HR leaders who can prioritise ruthlessly. This closing session crystallises the decisions, constraints, and non-negotiables HR must commit to before the next cycle.
16.55–17.00 (5 mins) | Closing Remarks
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Book your pass today!
Interested in exhibiting, sponsoring, or getting involved?
Contact us via the contact form.
Disclaimer: The event organizer reserves the right to make changes to the agenda, including but not limited to the schedule, speakers, topics, and session formats, at any time without prior notice. These changes may be necessary to ensure the best possible experience for all attendees. We appreciate your understanding and flexibility.
