Agenda - Day 1

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12th Annual People Analytics Summit | Day 1

8:00 am

REGISTRATION & NETWORKING BREAKFAST: BUILD COMMUNITY CONTACTS

  • Start your day off right and connect with people analytics leaders.
  • Get to know your HR peers and colleagues over a delicious breakfast.
  • Source practical tips, discuss best practices, and prepare for the day ahead.

8:45 am

OPENING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST

Gain insight into today’s sessions so you can get the most out of your conference experience.

9:00 am

OPENING KEYNOTE: BEYOND ENGAGEMENT

How to Measure Human Performance in the Age of AI

Adapt and move beyond your reporting to AI-driven decision support. Walk away with an actionable strategy to:

  • Master an AI-enabled HR strategy.
  • Advance from dashboards to recommendations.
  • Excel and measure workforce productivity.

Develop a modern people analytics strategy that measures what truly matters to you in today’s AI-enabled workplace.

9:30 am

EXCLUSIVE SESSION: SKILLS INTELLIGENCE

How to Turn Workforce Skills into Higher Productivity and Business Performance

Identify critical skills, predict future capability gaps, and use your people analytics to improve internal mobility, learning investments, and workforce planning. Develop your roadmap to:

  • Achieve dynamic skills taxonomies that evolve with business needs.
  • Improve internal mobility through data-driven career pathways.
  • Reduce and anticipate capability shortages before they impact business performance.

Create your future-ready workforce by making skills, not job titles, the foundation of talent strategy.

10:00 am

SPEED NETWORKING: MAKE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS

Grow your network by meeting like-minded individuals to share your latest ideas and projects with:

  • Enjoy a quick icebreaker, exchange LinkedIn information, and build lasting business relationships.
  • Achieve your conference networking goals in a fun and agile fashion.
  • Join a community of people analytics and HR leaders and gain invaluable support.

10:30 am

INDUSTRY EXPERT: RESPONSIBLE AI GOVERNANCE

How to Create Trust While Scaling HR Innovation

Master responsible AI frameworks that encourage innovation while maintaining your transparency, fairness, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Source practical solutions to:

  • Heighten governance models for responsible AI adoption in HR.
  • Amplify and mitigate algorithmic bias throughout the employee lifecycle.
  • Align AI governance with evolving Canadian and global regulations.

Implement AI responsibly while maintaining your employee confidence and organizational credibility.

11:00 am

REFRESHMENTS BREAK & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE:
VISIT BOOTHS & SOURCE EXPERTISE

  • Explore the latest people analytics technology and strategies with our leading sponsors.
  • Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business.
  • Schedule one-to-one private meetings for personalized advice.

11:30 am

PEOPLE ANALYTICS EXCLUSIVE: THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYEE LISTENING

How to Turn Real-Time Employee Insights into Higher Engagement and Retention

Combine pulse surveys, behavioural data, collaboration insights, and your AI-powered listening tools to create continuous employee intelligence. Walk away with executable strategies to:

  • Transform employee listening beyond traditional engagement surveys.
  • Bolster and combine multiple workforce data sources for richer insights.
  • Identify burnout, disengagement, and turnover risks earlier.

Build a continuous listening strategy that helps you make faster decisions and stronger employee experiences.

12:00 pm

INDUSTRY EXPERT: WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY ANALYTICS

How to Use Workforce Data to Maximize the Value of Flexible Work

Advance and maintain your employee well-being, collaboration, and organizational performance. Source practical tips to:

  • Improve and measure productivity without creating employee surveillance.
  • Optimize and balance flexibility with accountability and business performance.
  • Heighten collaboration data responsibly to improve organizational effectiveness.

Measure your workforce performance fairly while supporting flexibility, trust, and sustainable productivity.

12:30 pm

PANEL

Building a People Analytics Function: Team Design, Tools, and Governance

An effective people analytics team is more than a group of data experts; it’s a strategic partner for the business. Build a high-impact people analytics team at any company size, with the right mix of skills, tools, and governance to drive results. Develop a blueprint to:

  • Define essential roles and capabilities to build an effective people analytics team.
  • Implement strategies for hiring, upskilling, and structuring your team as it grows.
  • Align tools and governance with your team’s maturity and business needs.

Improve your people analytics capabilities by building a versatile team.

12:30 pm

NETWORKING LUNCH: DELVE INTO INDUSTRY CONVERSATIONS

  • Meet interesting speakers and pick their brains on the latest HR issues.
  • Expand your network and make connections that last beyond the conference.
  • Enjoy great food and service while engaging with your people analytics colleagues.

2:00 pm

CASE STUDY: PEOPLE ANALYTICS FOR THE BOARDROOM

TRACK 1: PEOPLE ANALYTICS & WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE

How to Turn Workforce Data into Executive Decisions

Present workforce insights in ways that directly influence your strategic planning, investment decisions, and organizational transformation. Master practical techniques to:

  • Optimize and connect workforce data with financial and operational performance.
  • Achieve executive dashboards focused on decisions rather than reporting.
  • Master ROI from people investments using predictive analytics.

Become a strategic business advisor by presenting workforce insights that influence your executive decision-making.

2:00 pm

CASE STUDY: AI-POWERED WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE

TRACK 2: INTELLIGENT HR: AI & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

How to Predict Workforce Needs Before They Become Business Challenges

Move beyond dashboards to anticipate your workforce needs before they become business challenges. Develop a blueprint to:

  • Advance from descriptive analytics to predictive and prescriptive workforce insights.
  • Improve fragmented people data to create a single view of workforce intelligence.
  • Bolster trust around data privacy, transparency and responsible AI.

Use your AI-powered workforce intelligence to make faster, smarter talent and workforce decisions

2:30 pm

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: STORYTELLING WITH PEOPLE DATA

TRACK 1: PEOPLE ANALYTICS & WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE

How to Turn People Analytics into Executive Action and Business Impact

Transform your complex workforce analytics into clear, engaging business narratives that influence executive decision-making. Take back to your office strategies to:

  • Advance compelling data stories for executive audiences.
  • Adapt complex analytics into actionable insights.
  • Excel visualizations that support faster decision-making.
  • Amplify workforce data with greater confidence and business impact.

Transform your analytics into persuasive business stories that drive organizational change.

2:30 pm

CASE STUDY: THE AI-READY WORKFORCE

TRACK 2: INTELLIGENT HR: AI & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

How to Transform Jobs and Skills to Maximize the Business Value of AI

Build your AI-ready workforce by understanding how roles, capabilities and career paths are evolving. Walk away with an action plan on:

  • Identifying which jobs and skills will be transformed by AI.
  • Achieving dynamic skills intelligence to understand current and future workforce capabilities.
  • Improving the reskilling and upskilling for employees in AI-enabled roles.

Build your future-ready workforce by turning AI disruption into an opportunity for skills and career transformation.

3:00 pm

PANEL: THE NEXT GENERATION OF PEOPLE ANALYTICS TEAMS

TRACK 1: PEOPLE ANALYTICS & WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE

How to Optimize Skills and Operating Models to Drive Productivity and Business Results

Redesign your teams, develop new capabilities, and prepare for the future of HR analytics. Develop a roadmap to:

  • Advance and define future roles within people analytics teams.
  • Bolster data literacy across HR functions.
  • Embed AI capabilities into everyday analytics work.
  • Optimize operating models that support business growth.

Future-proof your people analytics function by building the capabilities organizations will need over the next decade.

3:00 pm

PANEL: RESPONSIBLE AI IN HR

TRACK 2: INTELLIGENT HR: AI & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

How to Scale AI with Confidence While Protecting Trust and Privacy

As AI takes on greater responsibility across HR, your organization must balance innovation with fairness, transparency, and employee trust.

Master the success factors to:

  • Detect and mitigate bias in AI-powered hiring, performance, and talent decisions.
  • Perfect effective AI governance, accountability, and human oversight.
  • Transform and protect employee data while enabling AI-driven personalization and workforce insights.

Create an AI-powered HR function for your company that is innovative, ethical, and trusted by employees.

3:30 pm

REFRESHMENTS BREAK & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE:
ATTEND VENDOR DEMOS & CONSULT EXPERTS

  • Enjoy exclusive sponsor demos and experience the next level of people analytics innovation firsthand.
  • Meet one-on-one with leading solution providers to discuss organizational hurdles.
  • Brainstorm solutions and gain new perspectives and ideas.

4:00 pm

PANEL: AI AGENTS IN HR

How to Harness AI Agents to Scale HR Productivity and Improve Business Performance

AI agents are delivering measurable ROI in HR today. Move beyond your chatbots to autonomous HR workflows. Master success factors to overcome challenges of:

  • Mastering the evolving role of HR professionals in an AI-enabled workplace.
  • Impacting governance, compliance, and ethical considerations.
  • Bolstering employees and leaders so they are well prepared for human-AI collaboration.

Increase your productivity with AI agents in workforce management and people analytics.

4:30 pm

CLOSING KEYNOTE: THE FUTURE OF WORK IS PREDICTIVE

How to Make HR a Strategic Driver of Performance, Productivity, and Growth

The future of your HR will be shaped by predictive intelligence, AI, workforce ecosystems, and continuous adaptation. Create a roadmap to:

  • Bolster HR teams for increasingly AI-enabled decision-making.
  • Advance organizational agility using predictive workforce intelligence.
  • Master long-term analytics strategies that support sustainable business growth.

Leave with a clear roadmap for building your future-ready people analytics function that delivers measurable business value.

5:00 pm

END OF DAY 1 SUMMARY & CLOSING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST

Review the key solutions and takeaways from today’s sessions. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work. Discuss tomorrow’s highlights!

5:15 pm

EVENING RECEPTION: ENJOY GREAT CONVERSATION, MUSIC, & NETWORKING

  • Relax and unwind with tasty cocktails after a long day of learning.
  • Don’t miss your chance to win fun prizes by scanning your badge at our exhibitor booths.
  • Make dinner plans with your new connections and explore the best of what Toronto nightlife has to offer. Just be sure to set your alarm for Day 2!

6:15 pm

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS TO DAY 2