Thursday 13 March
8:45am – 9:15am
Networking breakfast and registration
9:30am – 10:00am
Opening keynote: Aligning health, risk and ROI to create a resilient multinational workforce
Opening keynote: Aligning health, risk and ROI to create a resilient multinational workforce
Keynote
As global health and medical trends evolve, multinational employers must bridge the gap between people and corporate risks to ensure optimal employee wellbeing and measurable improvements in health outcomes. Join Richard Heron, expert advisor to the World Economic Forum on health, work and organisations as he shares actionable insights to drive boardroom conversations, foster integrated risk perspectives across functions and future-proof health strategies.
- Emerging global health and medical trends: preparing for what’s coming next
- Securing board buy-in: the critical questions and key data points you need to know to support the ROI conversation
- Creating a shared view of risk: how integrated collaboration across HR, benefits, health and risk teams can drive improved outcomes (and reduce wasted wellbeing investment)
- Practical examples and key takeaways you can implement today
Speakers
Using health data more effectively to drive better employee health outcomes
Using health data more effectively to drive better employee health outcomes
Workshop
Getting precise clinical outcome data is complex and challenging but will be critical to securing future investment in private health benefits.
- What are the right questions to ask?
- Establishing the right metrics and measures
- Leveraging insights to make evidence-based decisions and improve forecasting of health risks
- Demonstrating ROI with improved health outcomes
In association with Aon
Speakers
Revolutionising healthcare access: the role of online outpatient care
Revolutionising healthcare access: the role of online outpatient care
Workshop
Join this workshop to explore the transformative impact of online outpatient care on the healthcare landscape. Discover how digital innovation is reshaping patient access, efficiency, and outcomes. Together we'll delve into:
- The role of digital tools in expediting diagnosis and treatment, ensuring timely care
- Understanding and measuring outcomes (such as PROMS and PREMS for evidence-based care)
- Overcoming member and clinician hesitancies, sharing real-world experiences
- Strategies for workforce support, how better to foster adoption and comfort with digital healthcare solutions
In association with AXA Health
Speakers
Prevention pays: Cutting costs and driving value with health benefits
Prevention pays: Cutting costs and driving value with health benefits
Workshop
Access to workplace health benefits prevent more than 14 million sick days each year in the UK and help tens of thousands of full-time workers remain in employment. But as the costs associated with employee absence, medical inflation and the overall expenditure required to provide health benefits rise, businesses can no longer afford to take a reactive approach to employee health.
Join this workshop to explore why companies are augmenting their employee benefit offering with prevention-focused strategies to improve employee health, while controlling costs and how employers that design benefit schemes in this way have higher than average market performance.
- Real data on how early intervention, targeted health programmes and rehabilitation services cuts claims costs and improves long-term outcomes
- The key metrics that link employee health to productivity, retention, and absence – and how to use them to secure ongoing investment
- How employers like Centrica saw 79% of employees signing up to a wellbeing app which contributed to employee retention increasing by 12%
In association with Benifex
The healthcare conundrum: Is the answer “whole of workforce” insurance?
The healthcare conundrum: Is the answer “whole of workforce” insurance?
Workshop
As public health, workplace wellbeing and absence challenges all persist, more employers than ever have been asking themselves that question. But on the flip side of the coin, healthcare costs are increasing far beyond general inflation levels, meaning that those with healthcare for all are having to ask themselves a similar set of questions. In this session, we will share ideas and encourage debate as to how employers should be answering the question, focusing on the use of data to aid decision-making and smarter policy and benefits design. We’ll touch on:
- How do we define the business case for healthcare? What factors have driven changes in thinking?
- What role does culture play in driving decision-making and does it conflict with the data?
- How, if at all, are we differentiating the health benefits offer to employees?
- When we’ve been faced with sharp increases in cost, how has the business responded?
- How are we using data to demonstrate the ongoing impact of offering health benefits?
- Are we able to demonstrate ROI, or is there an absence of data to prove the business impact?
In association with Howden Employee Benefits
Health optimisation: Balancing prevention, care and performance
Health optimisation: Balancing prevention, care and performance
Workshop
In a perfect storm of rising medical inflation and increasing behavioural health risks, how can your organisation make a real and measurable impact on employee health? Join this workshop to explore collaborative solutions and practical actions you can take to optimise health programs to deliver measurable outcomes, financial efficiencies and a high-performing workforce.
- Data-driven health strategies: How to make evidenced-based recommendations that deliver accountable plan design
- Targeted interventions: How to balance prevention and care to support employee health outcomes
- Bending the medical trend curve: practical and innovative strategies to optimise benefits spend
- Building a healthier, happier and more productive workforce: benefits as a strategic lever for talent attraction, retention and performance
In association with Mercer Marsh Benefits
Speakers
What's the right EB financing model for your organisation?
What's the right EB financing model for your organisation?
Workshop
As costs continue to rise and employees expect more from their benefits plans than ever before, employers are under increasing pressure to offer market-leading benefits without breaking the bank. Thankfully, there are options for employers. Join this workshop to explore the advantages, risks and operational considerations of global EB programmes like captives and multinational pooling.
- Understanding the options – how pools and captives work, including funding structures, coverage scope and risk-sharing principles
- Evaluating your organisation’s needs – how can global programmes help you offer more and better benefits
- Comparing benefits, risks and compliance requirements – tax implications, regulatory considerations and governance and leveraging economies of scale for global workforces
- Steps for implementation – cost modelling and aligning with corporate priorities
In association with MetLife
How multinational benefits leaders can harness AI to transform global benefits strategies: Driving transparency, efficiency and smarter decision-making
How multinational benefits leaders can harness AI to transform global benefits strategies: Driving transparency, efficiency and smarter decision-making
Workshop
Global benefits leaders face increasing complexity in managing multinational benefit programmes—navigating fragmented data, opaque costs, compliance risks, and operational inefficiencies. This workshop is an opportunity for global benefits leaders to engage in peer-led discussions, share best practice and explore how digitally disruptive AI-powered solutions can redefine the way multinational organisations manage and administer benefits on a global scale.
Key discussion points:
- The reality of global benefits management today: Challenges, barriers and the need for change and transparency (e.g. gaining full visibility into the size and scope of your global benefits landscape, identifying inefficiencies, unnecessary spend, and administrative burdens)
- The AI advantage: How AI and digital platforms can centralise and streamline global benefits management to drive accurate visibility on costs, compliance, commissions and plan performance
- Driving efficiency through technology: Maximizing captive arrangements and improving vendor negotiations with AI-enabled insights to reduce overlap in benefits plans and eliminate wasteful spending
- Moving from reactive administration to proactive benefits management: Using AI-driven analytics to build better plans and make informed benefits decisions
In association with Origin Benefits
Using next generation technology to improve employee health and reduce benefits costs
Using next generation technology to improve employee health and reduce benefits costs
Workshop
Join this workshop to discover how AI and digital tools are improving employee healthcare, enhancing employee benefits experience, and reducing costs. We will explore:
- How AI is encouraging preventative health behaviours and optimising clinical pathways
- How AI improves and simplifies the employee benefits experience resulting in increased benefits usage and ROI
- How tech supports the ‘whole of workplace health’ and provides data driven insights and reduces benefits cost
In association with Peppy
Speakers
11:35am – 12:35pm
Spotlight session: Understanding claims drivers, why costs are increasing and the health risks coming down the line
Spotlight 2: The future health risks facing a multigenerational workforce
Spotlight 3: Integrating people, corporate and wider strategic risk perspectives to drive improved employee health outcomes and ROI
Using health data more effectively to drive better employee health outcomes
Using health data more effectively to drive better employee health outcomes
Workshop
Getting precise clinical outcome data is complex and challenging but will be critical to securing future investment in private health benefits.
- What are the right questions to ask?
- Establishing the right metrics and measures
- Leveraging insights to make evidence-based decisions and improve forecasting of health risks
- Demonstrating ROI with improved health outcomes
In association with Aon
Speakers
Revolutionising healthcare access: the role of online outpatient care
Revolutionising healthcare access: the role of online outpatient care
Workshop
Join this workshop to explore the transformative impact of online outpatient care on the healthcare landscape. Discover how digital innovation is reshaping patient access, efficiency, and outcomes. Together we'll delve into:
- The role of digital tools in expediting diagnosis and treatment, ensuring timely care
- Understanding and measuring outcomes (such as PROMS and PREMS for evidence-based care)
- Overcoming member and clinician hesitancies, sharing real-world experiences
- Strategies for workforce support, how better to foster adoption and comfort with digital healthcare solutions
In association with AXA Health
Speakers
Prevention pays: Cutting costs and driving value with health benefits
Prevention pays: Cutting costs and driving value with health benefits
Workshop
Access to workplace health benefits prevent more than 14 million sick days each year in the UK and help tens of thousands of full-time workers remain in employment. But as the costs associated with employee absence, medical inflation and the overall expenditure required to provide health benefits rise, businesses can no longer afford to take a reactive approach to employee health.
Join this workshop to explore why companies are augmenting their employee benefit offering with prevention-focused strategies to improve employee health, while controlling costs and how employers that design benefit schemes in this way have higher than average market performance.
- Real data on how early intervention, targeted health programmes and rehabilitation services cuts claims costs and improves long-term outcomes
- The key metrics that link employee health to productivity, retention, and absence – and how to use them to secure ongoing investment
- How employers like Centrica saw 79% of employees signing up to a wellbeing app which contributed to employee retention increasing by 12%
In association with Benifex
The healthcare conundrum: Is the answer “whole of workforce” insurance?
The healthcare conundrum: Is the answer “whole of workforce” insurance?
Workshop
As public health, workplace wellbeing and absence challenges all persist, more employers than ever have been asking themselves that question. But on the flip side of the coin, healthcare costs are increasing far beyond general inflation levels, meaning that those with healthcare for all are having to ask themselves a similar set of questions. In this session, we will share ideas and encourage debate as to how employers should be answering the question, focusing on the use of data to aid decision-making and smarter policy and benefits design. We’ll touch on:
- How do we define the business case for healthcare? What factors have driven changes in thinking?
- What role does culture play in driving decision-making and does it conflict with the data?
- How, if at all, are we differentiating the health benefits offer to employees?
- When we’ve been faced with sharp increases in cost, how has the business responded?
- How are we using data to demonstrate the ongoing impact of offering health benefits?
- Are we able to demonstrate ROI, or is there an absence of data to prove the business impact?
In association with Howden Employee Benefits
Health optimisation: Balancing prevention, care and performance
Health optimisation: Balancing prevention, care and performance
Workshop
In a perfect storm of rising medical inflation and increasing behavioural health risks, how can your organisation make a real and measurable impact on employee health? Join this workshop to explore collaborative solutions and practical actions you can take to optimise health programs to deliver measurable outcomes, financial efficiencies and a high-performing workforce.
- Data-driven health strategies: How to make evidenced-based recommendations that deliver accountable plan design
- Targeted interventions: How to balance prevention and care to support employee health outcomes
- Bending the medical trend curve: practical and innovative strategies to optimise benefits spend
- Building a healthier, happier and more productive workforce: benefits as a strategic lever for talent attraction, retention and performance
In association with Mercer Marsh Benefits
Speakers
What's the right EB financing model for your organisation?
What's the right EB financing model for your organisation?
Workshop
As costs continue to rise and employees expect more from their benefits plans than ever before, employers are under increasing pressure to offer market-leading benefits without breaking the bank. Thankfully, there are options for employers. Join this workshop to explore the advantages, risks and operational considerations of global EB programmes like captives and multinational pooling.
- Understanding the options – how pools and captives work, including funding structures, coverage scope and risk-sharing principles
- Evaluating your organisation’s needs – how can global programmes help you offer more and better benefits
- Comparing benefits, risks and compliance requirements – tax implications, regulatory considerations and governance and leveraging economies of scale for global workforces
- Steps for implementation – cost modelling and aligning with corporate priorities
In association with MetLife
How multinational benefits leaders can harness AI to transform global benefits strategies: Driving transparency, efficiency and smarter decision-making
How multinational benefits leaders can harness AI to transform global benefits strategies: Driving transparency, efficiency and smarter decision-making
Workshop
Global benefits leaders face increasing complexity in managing multinational benefit programmes—navigating fragmented data, opaque costs, compliance risks, and operational inefficiencies. This workshop is an opportunity for global benefits leaders to engage in peer-led discussions, share best practice and explore how digitally disruptive AI-powered solutions can redefine the way multinational organisations manage and administer benefits on a global scale.
Key discussion points:
- The reality of global benefits management today: Challenges, barriers and the need for change and transparency (e.g. gaining full visibility into the size and scope of your global benefits landscape, identifying inefficiencies, unnecessary spend, and administrative burdens)
- The AI advantage: How AI and digital platforms can centralise and streamline global benefits management to drive accurate visibility on costs, compliance, commissions and plan performance
- Driving efficiency through technology: Maximizing captive arrangements and improving vendor negotiations with AI-enabled insights to reduce overlap in benefits plans and eliminate wasteful spending
- Moving from reactive administration to proactive benefits management: Using AI-driven analytics to build better plans and make informed benefits decisions
In association with Origin Benefits
Using next generation technology to improve employee health and reduce benefits costs
Using next generation technology to improve employee health and reduce benefits costs
Workshop
Join this workshop to discover how AI and digital tools are improving employee healthcare, enhancing employee benefits experience, and reducing costs. We will explore:
- How AI is encouraging preventative health behaviours and optimising clinical pathways
- How AI improves and simplifies the employee benefits experience resulting in increased benefits usage and ROI
- How tech supports the ‘whole of workplace health’ and provides data driven insights and reduces benefits cost
In association with Peppy
Speakers
Case study: How Ericsson got control of medical benefits
Case study: Addressing and quantifying absence at Shell Recharge
Optimising health benefits costs at AkzoNobel
Optimising health benefits costs at AkzoNobel
Employer Case Studies
- What does an effective cost optimization strategy look like (eg combining plan design, financing and prevention)?
- Cutting through the complexity to create a cohesive roadmap for change: enhancing global consistency, data insights and decision-making
- The journey to rollout: lessons learned and projected outcomes
Speakers
4:00pm – 4:25pm
Employer case studies: Q&A
4:25pm – 5:00pm
Facilitated networking drinks - partner with Aon
