HR plays a critical role in the successful and safe integration of AI into the workplace, while retaining the human touch.  

While the potential of generative AI is immense, many companies are still grappling with how to implement it effectively. As organisations explore what AI can achieve, HR must steer discussions on its ethical and sustainable use, while balancing innovation with integrity and trust. By fostering skills development and driving adoption, HR is essential in shaping a business strategy that embraces innovation while supporting employees through this transition.

In this session, our speaker will lay the foundation to: 

• Champion the ethical use of AI while balancing innovation with organisational values.
• Assess and address current and future skills requirements to prepare the workforce for AI integration.
• Ensure AI implementations enhance diversity and inclusion, actively addressing and mitigating bias in workplace processes.

The integration of advanced technologies into talent processes is becoming imperative, even while jobs and roles are changing faster than ever. How can talent and people leaders keep up? How can companies build an AI-capable and future-ready workforce to address the growing skills gap?

In this session, we will explore:

• Impact of AI across geographies, industries, and roles.
• AI-driven talent development solutions and processes that can equip organisations with the tools they need.
• The role of HR in creating a culture of adaptability to navigate AI-driven transformations.

As AI becomes more integrated into business processes, understanding trends around its uptake and measuring its impact is crucial for long-term success. Not only does this help in justifying AI investments, but it also provides insights into how AI is transforming workflows, improving productivity, and reshaping employee roles.  

In ensuring AI initiatives align with broader business objectives, this session will cover:

• Tools, methods, and strategies HR leaders and organisations can use to assess the true value AI brings to the workforce.
• How to gauge adoption rates, gather user feedback, and create custom dashboards that provide actionable insights.
• Best practices for linking HR data and key business metrics to an AI impact assessment, ensuring that your AI investments deliver measurable business value.

AI is transforming talent acquisition, presenting opportunities and challenges for both organisations and candidates. While AI has the potential to streamline and enhance recruitment processes, it is crucial for organisations to balance its advantages with potential complexities, to ensure a positive candidate experience.

This session will delve into the evolving role of AI in recruitment, addressing both its impact on hiring practices and the candidate journey.

• How AI is reshaping recruitment practices, including its effects on candidate experience, time and cost to hire, and the overall hiring process.
• Strategies to balance between integrating intelligent algorithms into recruitment whilst relying on human intervention to create milestones for responsible adoption.
• Maximising the capability of AI tools during virtual interviews to ensure accurate assessment of candidates’ true capabilities, prevent potential misuse, and diminish inherent human biases.

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As organisations advance their inroads into AI integration, the narrow path of early adoption is quickly expanding into a transformative highway.

This shift promises not only significant productivity and efficiency gains but also profound changes in employee behaviour and workplace dynamics. Leaders must be prepared for these changes, ensuring that AI complements and enhances human strengths rather than diminishing them.  

In this session, our speaker will take the stage to discuss:  

• Evolving role of leaders as AI reshapes team dynamics and required skills.
• Ensuring AI enhances employee autonomy and productivity, rather than replacing human contributions.
• Maintaining strong interpersonal connections and collaboration in an AI-driven environment.
• Psychological impacts of large-scale AI use and implementing strategies to support employee mental health and resilience.

The integration of AI into every job function sees skills such as prompt engineering coming into prominence, with leading organisations  experimenting with embedding Generative AI into their operational models.

What do these productivity pilots reveal? How are teams adapting to working alongside AI, and what are the workforce planning strategies that are shaping the future of work?

This session will explore key lessons from these early experiments and provide insights on what we can all learn from organisations that are already embracing AI.

In this discussion, we talk about: 

• Impact of GenAI on workforce planning: How organisations are reshaping their workforce strategies to integrate AI across various job functions.
• Skills for the future workforce: Identifying critical skills needed to work alongside AI, and monitoring their development.
• Real-world data and learnings: Insights from pilot programmes and productivity tests showcasing the effectiveness of AI augmentation in real organisational settings.

Developing a robust talent bench is crucial for ensuring long-term organisational success and resilience. A well-structured talent bench strengthens an organisation’s ability to navigate leadership transitions seamlessly, mitigate risks associated with key role vacancies, and adapt to shifting market demands.

This session advocates to proactively identify and nurture high-potential employees, by bringing out: 

• How predictive analytics can forecast talent needs, identify skill gaps, and optimise workforce planning.
• Platforms and tools that facilitate personalised learning and growth, ensuring that employees are prepared for future leadership roles and organisational demands.
• Develop and refine succession plans using data to track performance, career trajectories, and potential successors.

Integrating AI across an organisation is a complex journey that goes beyond recognising its potential benefits. Scaling AI to drive value across functions, departments, and processes demands a clear strategy and a workforce equipped with the right skills. Organisations face the challenge of building a robust talent pipeline through upskilling and cross-functional collaboration, addressing critical hurdles in data acquisition and governance, and ensuring that AI initiatives align seamlessly with broader business priorities and culture.

• Establishing cross-functional collaboration between AI teams, HR, and business units. 
• Addressing data acquisition, quality, and governance challenges across departments. 
• Building a workforce with the skills necessary to support and scale AI capabilities.