Agenda overview
June 2026

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8:30 AM

REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

9:00 AM

Welcome address

9:10 AM

[Opening Keynote]

Designing a future-ready workforce: Building AI-enabled, capability-led talent ecosystems
  • Identify and activate critical skills across markets to keep pace with digital, AI and business transformation. 
  • Use AI and skills intelligence to shape workforce structures, internal mobility and strategic workforce planning. 
  • Embed learning in the flow of work to support continuous upskilling, resilience and long-term adaptability. 

9:40 AM

[Panel Discussion]

The workforce reset: Reimagining roles, skills and mobility in a skills-short market
  • Shift from jobs and grades to skills, capabilities and internal opportunity marketplaces. 
  • Enable internal mobility for both professional and frontline roles through transparent skills frameworks and gig/project assignments. 
  • Use workforce data and real-time insight to guide redeployment, career paths and organisation design. 

10:10 AM

[Flash Talk]

Adaptive careers in the age of AI: Personalising growth at scale
  • How to design non-linear, personalised development journeys supported by AI coaching and nudges. 
  • Blend human mentoring, digital platforms and data to target the right learning at the right moment. 
  • Empower employees to own their careers while aligning growth to future skill needs. 

10:25 AM

MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING

10:45 AM

[Case Study]

Inside an internal talent marketplace: Reducing hiring pressure through smarter mobility
  • Ways to build an internal marketplace that matches skills to projects, roles and cross-functional moves. 
  • Redesign career architecture and policies to unlock movement for mid-level and frontline talent. 
  • Track impact on time-to-fill, retention, diversity and critical-role risk. 

11:15 AM

[Flash Talk]

Skills-first, data-driven hiring: Using talent intelligence responsibly
  • Apply skills and potential-based assessment to widen talent pools in a constrained market. 
  • Use AI-driven screening and assessment tools ethically, with clear governance and bias controls. 
  • Integrate hiring data with internal talent and learning data to improve quality of hire and progression. 

11:30 AM

[Fireside Chat]

Evolving the EVP: Telling a credible brand story for diverse workforces
  • Blend pay, wellbeing, flexibility and learning into an EVP that feels credible for multi-generational and frontline workforces. 
  • Position development opportunities, internal mobility and coaching as core EVP pillars. 
  • Strengthen trust through transparent communication, fair AI use and visible leadership behaviours. 

12:00 PM

[Case Study]

Measuring what matters: Skills, learning and talent metrics that leaders actually use
  • Build dashboards that connect skills, learning activity and mobility data to business outcomes. 
  • Move beyond “training hours” to indicators such as role readiness, internal fill rates and capability risk. 
  • Use evidence-led measurement to steer investment in learning, technology and workforce transformation. 

12:30 PM

NETWORKING LUNCH

1:30 PM

[Case Study]

Leading in the age of AI and constant change: Human-centred leadership for Hong Kong's organisations
  • Develop leaders who can balance digital fluency, ethical AI decisions and human connection. 
  • Equip managers to coach, give feedback and support careers despite time pressure and dispersed teams. 
  • Build leadership habits that sustain credibility, inclusion and performance in uncertain markets. 

2:30 PM

“A Day in the Life of an HR Superhero”

[Case Study]

Transformation troubles: How organisations overcome the hidden barriers to workforce change
  • Identify the cultural, structural and leadership blockers that stall transformation. 
  • Apply practical tactics for fixing misalignment, low trust, skills gaps and slow adoption of new tools. 
  • Use data and workforce insight to guide change decisions and keep transformation on track. 

3:00 PM

AFTERNOON BREAK & NETWORKING

3:20 PM

[Case Study]

Capability over certainty: Reskilling for automation, AI and digital supply chains
  • Prioritise adaptability, problem-solving and digital skills in operations, logistics and support functions. 
  • Design reskilling pathways for roles impacted by robotics, AI and new planning technologies. 
  • Position workforce reinvention as a driver of innovation, retention and business performance. 

3:50 PM

[Closing Session]

What talent really wants in 2026: Careers, learning and leadership through the employee lens
  • Decode how expectations around careers, progression, recognition and flexibility are shifting across generations. 
  • Explore what employees now expect from leaders, learning and technology, and what turns them off. 
  • Translate workforce insights into practical actions for EVP, L&D strategy and manager behaviour. 

4:20 PM

Closing remarks by Human Resources Online

4:30 PM

LUCKY DRAW & END OF CONFERENCE