Topic: How to Transform Recognition into Real-Time Workforce Intelligence

Organisations are facing an engagement and execution crisis just as complexity is surging—economic pressure, AI adoption, skills disruption, and constant change are colliding, yet HR is still expected to deliver with lagging indicators, static surveys, and self-reported data, widening the gap between what CEOs expect and what HR can prove. Strategy exists, but execution falters because leaders lack real-time visibility into how work is actually getting done. If that gap isn’t closed, HR stays stuck in activity over outcomes, but if it is, the payoff is huge: by using authentic, real-time human data already being created inside the business, HR can identify skills in real work, spot emerging talent early, course-correct faster, and directly connect people decisions to performance. 

Join us for a LIVE, interactive panel where senior HR, rewards, and compensation leaders share how they’re planning smarter, moving faster, and proving impact with confidence, so HR leads execution, not just supports it.

• Anette Bohm, Executive Committee Member and CHRO at bnode (formerly bpost)

• Laurent Aufils, Chief People Officer at Orange Business

• Eric Plu, Vice President HR, EMEA & North America at Essity

• Meisha-ann Martin, Vice President, People Research at Workhuman

• [Moderated by]: Chris Rainey, CEO at HR Leaders 

• Why Recognition Data Beats Surveys Every Time: Understand how always-on, peer-verified recognition becomes the most reliable stream of real-time workforce intelligence — showing who drives results, what great looks like, and how culture actually operates day to day.

• From HR Reporting to Execution Intelligence: Learn how to translate human data into board-ready insight that closes the strategy-to-execution gap — shifting HR from tracking activity to proving accountability, progress, and performance.

• Skills in the Flow of Work, Not on a Spreadsheet: Explore why self-reported skills and static taxonomies fail, and how skills evidenced through real work (captured in recognition language) creates a more accurate, dynamic foundation for skills-based workforce planning.

• Leading AI-Driven Workforce Change with Confidence: Discover how HR can use AI-powered human intelligence to spot emerging capability gaps early, surface hidden talent, and steer workforce planning decisions faster — without losing authenticity, trust, or equity.

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