08:45 – 09:00
Welcome and Setting the Scene
09:00 – 09:25
Opening Keynote Address: AI as the Driver of the Future of HR, Wellness and Performance
How will AI impact holistic well-being strategies to drive productivity, lower healthcare costs, and increased profitability? How will AI & personalization elevate engagement through data-driven wellness solutions? What impact will AI-powered coaching and health analytics have on customized well-being plans that improve employee retention and performance? How can organizations prioritize emotional intelligence, trust, and mental health support experience in order to achieve stronger engagement, lower turnover, and higher innovation?
09:25 – 09:50
How Does Your Wellbeing Strategy Measure Up?
09:50 – 10:25
Panel: Wellbeing Culture as a Performance Engine
What are the measurable behaviours that prevent culture atrophy and drive meaningful organizational performance, enhancing engagement, wellbeing and long-term strategic outcomes? What is the value of designing wellbeing programs as integrated experiences that are embedded throughout the employee journey? How can employers implement programs that help support people thrive and grow? Wellbeing as a strategic lever to 'double down' on in times of volatility & change and quicker innovation cycles.
Your Expert Chair:
10:55 – 11:25
The Paradox of Mental Health - Solutions and NOT Problems
The paradox of mental health refers to the contradiction where increased awareness and treatment options for mental health issues co-exist with rising rates of mental illness and distress. Despite efforts to reduce stigma, improve access to care, and promote well-being, many businesses continue to see worsening mental health trends, particularly among young people. The session will take participants through the complex reasons and outline a simple strategy for overcoming and reversing the trends.
11:25 – 12:35
Leadership Workshop Discussions
Attendees choose their preferred discussion to join from the following list:
1 - Back to our roots: creating a wellbeing-first workplace
This session examines how organizations can bridge the gap between our ancestral biological needs, such as movement, social connection, and natural rhythms, and the sedentary, high-stress nature of the modern workplace. We will explore why prioritizing employee wellbeing is essential for productivity and retention, focusing on a holistic culture built on physical, mental, and social health. HR professionals will walk away with practical strategies to realign the work environment with human nature, fostering a more resilient and engaged workforce. By attending, you will learn how to: Realign modern work with our biological needs for movement, connection, and natural rhythms, Boost productivity and retention by prioritizing holistic employee health and purpose, Implement research-backed, practical strategies to build a high-engagement, wellbeing-first culture.
Mental Health in the Workplace: Why traditional approaches no longer meet the needs of today's workforce.
13:45 – 14:00
Post-Lunch Audience Energiser - “Slow Down To Speed Up”
14:00 – 14:25
What is the Future of Work
Why is the current HR-mode outdated? What can AI do for us in HR to make things better? Real human-centric thinking? What does this mean for HR?
14:25 – 15:05
Panel: Equitable Well-Being Outcomes in an Increasingly Complex Workplace
As workplaces become more complex - hybrid environments, increasingly multi-generational/multi-cultural/neurodiverse – how should cultures ensure people and performance thrive together? How do organizations approach wellbeing as an outcome of choices, governance and leadership, rather than as a standalone programme? How are organizations still falling short in delivering equitable wellbeing outcomes? As AI and automation will disproportionately affect different workgroups, how should employers adjust their wellbeing strategies to mitigate the psychological risks and skill gaps for specific employee groups facing major job transformation or increased workload demands?
15:35 – 16:00
The Person Who Doesn’t Exist: Why Wellbeing Programs Fail When They Measure for Averages — and What to Do Instead
Every wellbeing survey is designed for an “average employee” who doesn’t exist — neurodivergent employees are the most visible proof, but no one in your workforce matches the average profile. Why measuring for averages means intervening too late, too generically, and for the wrong people — and why this is the hidden driver behind wellbeing program backlash and low engagement. How conversational AI combined with adaptive psychometrics creates assessment that adapts to each individual — making neuroinclusion a byproduct of better measurement, not a separate initiative. The ROI of seeing each person: what loneliness-driven turnover, absenteeism, and disengagement actually cost your organization, and what earlier, personalized detection can save.
16:00 – 16:25
Thriving in a Neuroinclusive Workplace
How can organizations recognize the opportunity that integrating neurodivergent professionals can bring to an entire organization? Creating a neuroinclusive organization that includes individuals who are and who are not diagnosed with developmental conditions that fall within the neurodiversity spectrum. What are the drivers supporting advancement of neurodiverse professionals in the current marketplace and why they matter to their organization and industry. What are the leadership and teaming styles that can help enable neuroinclusion?
16:25 – 16:30
Closing Remarks
