REBA Congress 2025

Agenda: Thursday, 19 June 2025

The carefully crafted agenda will help you design an optimum benefits ecosystem that has the greatest impact on the health and productivity of your workforce.

Combining leading-edge thinking with practical tips and guidance, the programme will be an exciting blend of keynote addresses, engaging speaker sessions, dynamic panel discussions, in-depth masterclasses, hands-on workshops, live demonstrations, and highly anticipated roundtable discussions.

With an extensive array of options to choose from, you have the opportunity to curate your day, selecting the sessions that will deliver the most powerful results for your organisation’s future.

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8.15am – 9.10am
Registration and visit the exhibition

Breakfast and meet the exhibitors

8.25am – 9.10am
WORKSHOP: Global strategy, local relevance: How multinational organisations are making their global benefits dreams come true

This workshop is exclusively designed for senior reward and benefit professionals who have workforces in at least three countries.

WORKSHOP: Revolutionising benefits communication: Harnessing benefits technology for personalised impact

This workshop is exclusively designed for senior reward and benefit professionals in small (minimum 500 employees) and medium organisations primarily based in the UK with an existing Private Medical Insurance (PMI) or Healthcare Insurance.

WORKSHOP: Tackling the cost and complexity of delivering whole of workforce health benefits

This workshop is exclusively designed for UK only senior reward and benefit professionals with over 1000 employees.

WORKSHOP: How multinational benefits leaders can harness AI to transform global benefits strategies

This workshop is exclusively designed for senior reward and benefit professionals in large multinational organisations with more than 5000+ employees.

9.15am – 10.05am
Chair's welcome & keynote: The 150-year life: Join Professor Hannah Fry, Mathematician, Broadcaster & best-selling author to explore how ever-increasing longevity will rewrite work, life & society

Keynote

Chair's welcome & keynote: Join Shruti Singh, OECD to discuss designing a people risk strategy to build workforce resilience and futureproof business success

Keynote

10.05am – 10.40am
Visit the exhibition and coffee break

Supplier sourcing opportunity

10.40am – 11.05am
Topical breakout sessions

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Streamed panels, speaker sessions, masterclasses, demos and workshops will run throughout the day.

OPTION 1: Aligning benefits strategy with generational need to unlock productivity, resilience, and innovation

Breakout session theme: Benefits tech, data, design and strategy

OPTION 2: Building a financially resilient and productive workforce

Breakout session theme: Financial wellbeing

OPTION 3: Inside the mind of a CEO: How CEOs evaluate and measure return on wellbeing investments

Breakout session theme: People risk and corporate performance

OPTION 4: Using data to anticipate health risks in your workforce, manage risks to your business and drive smarter decisions

Breakout session theme: Benefits tech, data, design and strategy

OPTION 5: Preventative health and wellbeing through tech-enabled benefits for multinational organisations

Breakout session theme: Preventative benefits and services

OPTION 6: Getting ahead of mental health risks: the intersection of mental health with life stages, ages and gender

Breakout session theme: Preventative benefits and services

OPTION 7: Innovation demo: Modernising flexible benefits: Why traditional flex platforms are no longer serving you, and how to fix them

Innovation demo

OPTION 8: Explore what's new in the exhibition

Supplier sourcing opportunity

11.15am – 12pm
Topical breakout sessions

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Streamed panels, speaker sessions, masterclasses, demos and workshops will run throughout the day.

OPTION 1: Masterclass - From theory to practice: the secrets to harnessing data for maximum impact

Masterclass

OPTION 2: Panel - How generational, cultural and digital shifts are reframing financial wellbeing and employee behaviours

Breakout session theme: Financial wellbeing

OPTION 3: Masterclass - Closing the healthcare gap: Tackling access and affordability in employer-funded health benefits

Masterclass

OPTION 4: Masterclass - Exclusive launch of the 2025 Health and Wellbeing research: Leveraging digital innovation to improve the employee experience and drive better health outcomes

Masterclass

OPTION 5: Masterclass - Workplace wellbeing: The billion dollar business advantage - How Bupa prioritised wellbeing and transformed corporate performance

Masterclass

OPTION 6: Panel - Managing and mitigating the increasing costs of new legislation and regulatory change

Breakout session theme: Pay and rewards strategies

OPTION 7: Agentic AI showcase: Meet the employee benefits experts that never sleep

This interactive innovation demo is exclusively designed for senior reward and benefit professionals in companies with minimum 500 employees.

OPTION 8: Explore what's new in the exhibition

Supplier sourcing opportunity

11.55am – 12.20pm
Meet the exhibitors and networking coffee break

Supplier sourcing opportunity

12.20pm – 12.45pm
Topical breakout sessions

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Streamed panels, speaker sessions, masterclasses, demos and workshops will run throughout the day.

OPTION 1: Case study: Engaging a diverse, multi-generational workforce at E.ON using future-proof benefits technology

Breakout session theme: Benefits tech, data, design and strategy

OPTION 2: Fireside chat with Nest Insight: Saving smarter: Using workplace savings to boost financial resilience, confidence and wellbeing

Breakout session theme: Financial wellbeing

OPTION 3: Case study: Retaining talented parents and carers at Bank of America: The moments that matter

Breakout session theme: Family care and wellbeing

OPTION 4: Fireside chat – The employee engagement problem: How gamification is tackling rising sickness absence

Breakout session theme: Optimising workforce health benefits

OPTION 5: Global health, wealth and workplace resilience: The case for financial education in an increasingly unhealthy world

Breakout session theme: Financial wellbeing

OPTION 6: Developing an effective cancer prevention strategy

Breakout session theme: Preventative benefits and services

OPTION 7: Innovation demo: Unlocking real ROI and enhanced employee experience with the most innovative employee recognition solution

Innovation demo

12.20pm – 1.05pm
OPTION 8: WORKSHOP: Making the case: How to prove the ROI of healthcare benefits (and get buy-in from the c-suite)

This workshop is exclusively designed for senior reward and benefit professionals with over 700 employees with thier main headcount in the UK.

12.45pm – 2pm
Meet the exhibitors and networking lunch

Supplier sourcing opportunity

2pm – 2.25pm
Topical breakout sessions

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Streamed panels, speaker sessions, masterclasses, demos and workshops will run throughout the day.

OPTION 1: Aligning benefits strategies with employee needs to drive performance gains

Breakout session theme: Optimising workforce health benefits

OPTION 2: Beyond pensions: Rethinking workplace savings for a new financial era

Breakout session theme: Financial wellbeing

OPTION 3: Stress as a strategic risk: Addressing rising health costs with a preventative and data-driven approach

Breakout session theme: People risk and corporate performance

OPTION 4: Case study: How Workday is rethinking health risk with a healthcare trust

Breakout session theme: Optimising workforce health benefits

OPTION 5: Scaling mental health globally: Blending proactive and reactive wellbeing strategies for organisational resilience

Breakout session theme: Mental wellbeing

OPTION 6: A new era in benefits begins today

Breakout session theme: Benefits tech, data, design and strategy

OPTION 7: Innovation demo: Using data to anticipate risks, drive smarter decisions and futureproof your workforce health strategy

Innovation demo

OPTION 8: Explore what's new in the exhibition

Supplier sourcing opportunity

2.35pm – 3pm
Topical breakout sessions

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Streamed panels, speaker sessions, masterclasses, demos and workshops will run throughout the day.

OPTION 1: Rethinking employee healthcare: Can you afford to live without it?

Breakout session theme: Optimising workforce health benefits

OPTION 2: Bridging a gap: The strategic value of adding financial coaching to your wellbeing strategy

Breakout session theme: Financial wellbeing

OPTION 3: Ignore adult care at our own risk: Why it’s not just a wellbeing issue but a strategic people risk

Breakout session theme: Family care and wellbeing

OPTION 4: Will people ever engage with wellbeing? Rethinking connection for a hybrid workplace

Breakout session theme: Preventative benefits and services

OPTION 5: Case study: Building a global MSK strategy that delivers better health and lower costs

Breakout session theme: Preventative benefits and services

OPTION 6: The business case for a global family-building benefits strategy

Breakout session theme: Family care and wellbeing

OPTION 7: Innovation demo in association with Benifex

Innovation demo

OPTION 8: Explore what's new in the exhibition

Supplier sourcing opportunity

3.10pm – 3.35pm
Topical breakout sessions

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Streamed panels, speaker sessions, masterclasses, demos and workshops will run throughout the day.

OPTION 1: Investing beyond the quarter: Strategies for sustainable success

Breakout session theme: People risk and corporate performance

OPTION 2: The hidden cost of financial stress: Exclusive insights to reshape benefits strategies and drive improved outcomes

Breakout session theme: Financial wellbeing

OPTION 3: How AI is redefining strategy, spend and scale for global benefits management

Breakout session theme: Benefits tech, data, design and strategy

OPTION 4: Explore what's new in the exhibition

Supplier sourcing opportunity

OPTION 5: Innovation demo in association with Mercer Marsh Benefits

Innovation demo

OPTION 6: WORKSHOP: Driving impact and outcomes with a global women’s health strategy

This workshop is exclusively designed for senior reward and benefit professionals in large multinational organisations.

3.35pm – 4pm
Visit the exhibition and afternoon tea

Supplier sourcing opportunity

4pm – 4.45pm
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 1: Benefits technology: navigating the evolving ecosystem of platforms and providers

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 2: Financial wellbeing: evolving pensions and workplace savings strategies

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 3: Global benefits design: navigating complexity and impact of digital tools and AI on consistency and visibility

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 4: Mental resilience: strategies for a multi-generational workforce

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 5: Optimising health benefits and insurances: to control costs and improve health outcomes

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 6: Pay and benefits compliance: keeping ahead of changing UK employment law and EU Pay Transparency Directive

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 7: Pay and reward strategies: to support drive talent attraction, retention and performance

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 8: Preventative benefits and services: to manage claim costs and future health risks

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 9: Reviewing ROI on wellbeing spend: measures, metrics and evaluating effectiveness

Curated Roundtable Discussions

OPTION 10: Explore what's new in the exhibition

Supplier sourcing opportunity

4.45pm – 5.25pm
Closing keynote: On the sofa with…Dame Joanne Lumley OBE, BAFTA Award-Winning Actress, Charity Campaigner and a British Institution

Keynote

5.25pm – 6pm
Drinks reception

Networking drinks