The speakers and round table hosts this year are an impressive line up of industry experts, celebrities and senior benefits and wellbeing professionals:
Tim Harford OBE
Simon Reeve
David Collington
Described as ‘British television's most adventurous traveller’, Simon has journeyed across epic landscapes, walked through minefields, and been detained for spying by the KGB. His deep insights into global issues and strength in the face of adversity provide great motivation to innovate and adapt in an ever-changing world.
Taking time out from his ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ national theatre tour, Simon joins us with stories and surprises as he explores resilience, head health, and our place on the planet.Celebrity guest speaker: Simon Reeve, Adventurer, TV presenter and New York Times bestselling author with a passion for travel, wildlife, history, current affairs, conservation and the environment. Thursday @ 4:55 PM
Saumya Barber joined Unum in 2013 and has worked in various roles across Unum’s Claims, Rehabilitation and Proposition teams. As Head of Proposition Development at Unum she is responsible for driving innovative, customer centric solutions with a key focus on health and wellbeing services that deliver impactful outcomes.
Prior to joining Unum Saumya has worked across many industries in Risk Consulting and Advisory positions at KPMG and Employer Mutual in Australia. She has experience in risk management, audit, workers compensation, illness/injury prevention, employee relations and wellbeing.
Saumya is originally from Sydney Australia and attended The University of Sydney where she completed Bachelors in Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) and has completed a Masters in Science (Work, Health and Safety).
Option 2: Mitigating people and health risks: Future-proofing your workplace wellbeing benefits for 2015 and beyond Thursday @ 12:25 PM
Guy Clarkson is an accomplished Technology and Consulting Growth Leader with a versatile skill set and a proven ability to create value, engage clients, and drive business growth while upholding a steadfast commitment to Employee Engagement & Wellbeing. Guy’s approach is grounded in effective communication and establishing productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Guy is dedicated to pioneering innovations that enhance commercial performance through organisational design and process efficiency improvements. As the UK Digital Growth Leader at Mercer Marsh Benefits, Guy leads a dynamic team responsible for driving digital growth across the UK. Guy’s primary focus is on delivering a fully integrated Employee Benefits (EB) brokerage, consulting, and technology solutions to clients.
Option 4: Masterclass - Harnessing innovation and benefits optimisation to manage future health costs and improve outcomes Thursday @ 3:20 PM
If you work in employee benefits, chances are you’ve come across David in one form or another. David has built a solid reputation as someone who believes passionately in the value of a clear, well considered benefits strategy. After all, employee benefits without a purpose risks being just another drain on budgets and resources. With over 20 years delivering employee consulting services, David’s list of achievements is considerable. He has helped a broad scale of organisations – from SMEs to large FTSE 100 companies – and worked across a wide range of employee benefit areas. What does David enjoy most about his role? It’s in seeing the value generated for clients by an innovative, well thought through employee benefits strategy. One that really meets the specific needs of an employer, as well as the people who work there.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-collington-8b434
Option 4: Masterclass - Get behind the latest Benefits Trends research: Uncovering changing workforce needs, priorities and pressures to find out what you can do today to be future-ready for tomorrow Thursday @ 11:35 AM
Ross Elmsly is a Head of Solution Advisory at beqom, where he works with global organizations across retail, technology, financial services, and other industries. He has more than eight years experience working with the reward and compensation requirements of large enterprises, from HR analytics to optimisation of reward programs and operations to personalisation of reward. Prior to beqom, Ross worked at SAP in Singapore and the UK. He holds a Masters of Commerce with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland.
Option 4: Case study: Demystifying pay equity with lessons from Diageo Thursday @ 2:10 PM
Peter Frampton is the Head of Talent, Performance and Reward, and Global HRBPs with Teneo, based in London.
Prior to Teneo, Peter spent over 20 years in banking in international roles across Operations and Human Resources. For the last nine years, he has built his expertise in Performance Management and Reward, launching innovative and effective approaches to pay-for-performance at both the individual and business level. Central to this is using data to drive decision making, including insights derived from continuous employee listening and feedback.
Earlier in his career, Peter helped build a market-leading People Analytics function, which included the early adoption in HR of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing capabilities.
Peter is passionate about making a difference – helping people, businesses and charities to achieve their goals and full potential. He is currently the Chair of Allergy UK and is a trustee at a fast-growing Multi-Academy Trust.
Option 5: Panel - Empowering the future: the transformative role of digital and AI in shaping future benefits strategies Thursday @ 2:45 PM
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Karen Gaynor has over 20 years HR experience in major global conglomerate organisations providing solutions in Healthcare, Industry and FMCG. With operational experience as a HR Director, and more recently within Compensation and Benefits, Karen has a wealth of experience that results in a true understanding of the diverse requirements of employees and leadership.
Karen was part of the Diageo reward leadership team delivering powerful rewards and incentives. She was responsible for global benefits strategy and supporting EMEA markets. She reviewed sales incentive plans and is passionate about driving diversity and inclusion into employee benefits.
Karen is currently Head of Reward at Centrica.
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Today, Matthew oversees all aspects of Howden’s proposition for Corporate clients. He has over 20 years’ experience in employee benefits, including a large portion of his career helping shape the flexible benefits market in the UK. Matthew has personally helped many large and complex employers introduce transformational change to their pension and benefits programmes, working with providers and partners in industry to innovate and maximise the value they bring to clients.
Option 2: The climate shift: How the climate outlook will reshape risk, the benefits supply chain and the wider benefits ecosystem Thursday @ 11:35 AM
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanbrendanharris/
Option 5: Panel - Empowering the future: the transformative role of digital and AI in shaping future benefits strategies Thursday @ 2:45 PM
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-haeusler-71615
Option 5: Panel - Future benefits 2030: Adapting to evolving employee needs and preparing for the next generation workforce Thursday @ 12:25 PM
Option 1: Navigating the impact of the Labour Government’s employment policies on future reward and benefits strategies Thursday @ 11:00 AM
Clare has over 20 years’ experience in HR and Reward across manufacturing, retail, market research and loss adjusting sectors. She specialises in reward, benefits, wellbeing and DEI and has managed many complex projects.
Clare’s passion is to improve the employee experience through benefits and wellbeing solutions to enable employees to thrive both in and outside of work.
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Option 1: Navigating the impact of the Labour Government’s employment policies on future reward and benefits strategies Thursday @ 11:00 AM
David leads Aon’s TBS platform in the UK within the Human Capital Solutions practice. He is passionate about aligning the wellbeing of people with business performance in a sustainable manner. With a background in building new category design technology start-ups, David has a wealth of experience building high-performance workplace cultures, developing new propositions, and using data to drive success at scale.
Option 6: Workshop – Leveraging data and Analytics to empower reward and benefit leaders to make informed decisions and future-proof your workforce Thursday @ 11:00 AM
Max Landry is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of digital health platform, Peppy.
Max has spent his career launching and building businesses. Before launching Peppy in 2018, he co-founded and served as Chief Executive of The Conversation. Prior to that he co-founded and served as Managing Director of Paperstone, one of the first online suppliers of office products.
Max is driven by his ambition to make personalised, expert-led health support available to everyone, regardless of job role or salary. Beyond work, he loves cooking, boxing and spending time with his young family.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-landry-36383225/
Breakfast/Pre-conference workshop - How forward-thinking reward and benefits professionals are using AI-powered personalisation to make their people strategy unbeatable Thursday @ 8:25 AM
Option 6: Workshop - Future-proofing beyond pay: Navigating new government employment policies and how they are impacting workforce strategy planning Thursday @ 2:10 PM
Kay is a Partner at Mercer and leads the Mercer Marsh Benefits Multinational Advisory Team in the UK with over 25 years’ experience consulting in employee benefits.
Kay works with multinational companies on worldwide employee benefit issues with a focus on strategy and design (incorporating personalization, digitization and ESG), retirement and broader benefit governance including the impact of global pensions and benefits on the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
Kay provides M&A due diligence, separation and integration advice and support. As an actuary, she also works with clients to manage their accounting for pensions and other benefits under various standards.
She works with some of Mercer’s largest clients across all sectors.
Kay has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester. She qualified as an actuary and became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2005.
Breakfast/Pre-conference workshop - Navigating global pensions and benefits under the EU Pay Transparency Directive Thursday @ 8:25 AM
Stephanie has been a family caregiver to her parents since she was a teenager - and 7 years ago, Stephanie founded KareHero, a business with a mission close to her heart.
KareHero aims to champion the needs of carers in the workplace, helping simplify the complex journey for carers going through the adult social care system.
Prior to founding KareHero, Stephanie ran Operations across 20 countries in Uber Europe. She was also DEI Co-Chair and the EMEA Head of Women@Uber. Over the last 20+ years, she has also held various C-level roles in enterprises across Asia and Europe. She is currently a NED for FTSE100 company, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/steph2020/?originalSub
Breakfast/Pre-conference workshop - Care in crisis: Why the NHS can no longer support and what employers can do to step in Thursday @ 8:25 AM
Option 2: Why does it feel like everyone is sick? Tools to support employers as they navigate the care crisis Thursday @ 2:45 PM
Sarah joined WEALTH at work in 2021 and heads up the new business team. Sarah has extensive experience in both broad based and executive compensation plans on an international level and has over 20 years’ experience in the equity plans/employee benefits market. She is passionate about all aspects of wellbeing in the workplace and in particular financial wellbeing to help improve people’s lives. A keen runner having participated in many marathons and is proud to have raised over £28,000 for breast cancer charities. In her spare time Sarah is also a Rugbytots coach.
Option 1: How financial wellbeing strategies are shifting to meet workforce demands with lessons from Sage Thursday @ 11:35 AM
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanealowe/
Option 6: Innovation Demo - Tackling the hidden cost of MSK: leveraging cutting-edge technology to proactively predict and prevent musculoskeletal issues Thursday @ 3:20 PM
Option 5: Panel - Future benefits 2030: Adapting to evolving employee needs and preparing for the next generation workforce Thursday @ 12:25 PM
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmacriwaller/
Option 3: The practitioners guide to AI for benefits communication, personalisation and competitive advantage Thursday @ 12:25 PM
Bridget is a Principal in MMB Multinational Advisory based in Paris, France with 20 years of international pension and benefit experience.
Bridget started her career in the domestic pension practice at Mercer in the US, including a secondment to Paris where she launched her international career. Prior to returning to Mercer Paris in 2023, she advised clients across various sectors on international M&A pensions due diligence and strategy and performed annual pensions audit reviews at KPMG in London. She led a global benefit redesign project to align benefits with Fair Pay Charter objectives in addition to leading the implementation of flexible benefits at Standard Chartered Bank in both London and Singapore. She was responsible for improving regional pensions governance and risk management at Canon EMEA.
Bridget is part of the Centre of Excellence which is focusing on EU Pay Transparency Directive reporting.
Bridget’s broader experience includes employee communications, stakeholder engagement, project management, operational process design and systems testing and integration.
Bridget has a BA in Mathematics & Statistics and Psychology from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) in the US.
Breakfast/Pre-conference workshop - Navigating global pensions and benefits under the EU Pay Transparency Directive Thursday @ 8:25 AM
With over 20 years’ experience in HR and reward, Tim has been at the forefront of innovation in the industry. Prior to nudge, Tim was part of the team at Thomsons Online Benefits (now Darwin), the global benefits platform that brought employee benefits online. In his time at Thomsons, Time worked with HR and reward leaders from the world’s leading companies to share marketing-leading employee benefit strategies. In the space of just three months in 2012, the UK saw not one, but two once-in-a-generation legislative changes hit the world of personal finance. The first Auto enrolment changed the pay and savings of over 10m people, and the second removed access to financial advise for 20m at exactly the same time they most needed it.
Tim, alongside nudge co-founder Jeremy Beament, recognizes that people have an unprecedented level of responsibility for their money, but are lacking confidence and knowledge. People are crying out of help and that’s where the idea of nudge was born – a market-leading, global financial wellbeing platform filling the void in financial education. nudge has grown rapidly, supporting almost half a million people to improve their financial wellbeing and create brighter financial futures for themselves and those they love.
Option 1: Global financial wellbeing: how the financial health of the world is evolving and how employers are supporting the change Thursday @ 12:25 PM
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-rees-02087a19/
Breakfast/Pre-conference workshop - How forward-thinking reward and benefits professionals are using AI-powered personalisation to make their people strategy unbeatable Thursday @ 8:25 AM
Catherine Ritchie is Senior Wellbeing and People Experience Manager at global law firm Clifford Chance. A key member of the firm's HR team, her focus is on driving forward the strategic and programmatic elements across all locations, but with specific responsibility for the UK and Middle East. Since 2018, Catherine has been developing people-first strategies to promote wellbeing and positive experiences across market-leading businesses. In 2023 she was recognised for her work by Make a Difference (Best Multinational Workplace Wellbeing Programme). Her training in marketing combined with her rich experience means her work achieves impact across diverse populations.
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Karen manages benefits across the EMEA region at Microsoft, with extensive experience in the UK and currently working across Middle East and Africa. Karen has a passion for wellbeing and ensuring employees are supported during those ‘moments that matter’. Whilst companies are invested in expanding benefits to support more inclusive health matters – such as fertility, gender dysphoria, and menopause, Karen is committed to ensuring the support extends to how these life events are managed in the workplace, through allyship and manager capability.
Recognising the importance of providing employees with opportunities for social connection, Karen co-founded the Families employee resource group at Microsoft UK, providing a community for employees to connect and share experiences, and to support each other through the challenges of family life.
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Isha oversees Compensation, Benefits, L&D and People Analytics globally for SoundCloud. Prior to music/tech, her experience spans across reward, benefits and performance within varied industries such as higher education, private healthcare and professional services.
Isha has a keen interest in DEI driven by previous experience at a charity in the legal sector
which focused on the advancement of youth from ethnic minorities and socio-economically
disadvantaged backgrounds. Currently, she is an Executive Sponsor for the Clouds of
Colour diversity resource group at SoundCloud.
She is passionate about holistic reward particularly through the lens of diversity & inclusion and organisational culture.
Option 5: Panel - Future benefits 2030: Adapting to evolving employee needs and preparing for the next generation workforce Thursday @ 12:25 PM
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
A seasoned HR professional successfully navigating the dynamic landscape of employee compensation, benefits, and recognition. Aga's journey in this field has equipped her with a comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationship between talent management and organisational success.
At Improbable, Aga take's pride in being a part of a team that thrives on pushing boundaries and reshaping the possibilities of technology. Working in an environment that fosters creativity and innovation has allowed Aga to apply her expertise in designing reward strategies that not only attract, retain, and motivate top talent but also align with our organisational goals.
I am looking forward to discussing how the latest innovations in digitalisation and AI are shaping our practices at Improbable. I firmly believe that these advancements will define the future in the reward space. Join me as we explore this topic, discussing the transformative impact it will have on our approach and the overall employee experience.
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Curated roundtables or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:10 PM
Andrew has spent the bulk of his career in professional consulting businesses across Reward, HR and Employment Law where he has specialised in creating executable strategies and projects designed to deliver value across recruitment, retention, motivation, performance and productivity.
Prior to joining Personal Group, Andrew worked for global information and compliance services provider Wolters Kluwer where he ran the successful Croner Reward business unit. Andrew’s career has also included Consulting and Commercial Director for the Reward Group, a long-time leader in the specialist field of pay and benefits information and consulting.
Over the years Andrew written about many aspects of Reward in the trade and national press and has spoken at events across the UK and internationally.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewwalkerreward
Option 6: Workshop - Future-proofing beyond pay: Navigating new government employment policies and how they are impacting workforce strategy planning Thursday @ 2:10 PM
Justine Woolf heads up Innecto’s client-facing services in her role as Director of Consulting.
She has a strong reputation for delivering commercially focused reward and recognition programmes for clients that improve employee motivation and engagement, positively impacting the bottom line. Justine draws on more than 25 years of experience in pay and reward, both as a consultant and in in-house reward roles. She has successfully managed and implemented challenging reward agendas for a huge variety of clients, and her natural skill at building and developing strong client relationships is evidenced by the number of clients who return to work with Justine and Innecto year after year.
In 2021 & 2022 Reward Strategy recognised Justine as one of The Reward 300, an index of the industry’s most important influencers and decision-makers. As a recognised thought leader and commentator on reward, she is frequently asked for her opinion and comment by the media.
Option 4: Masterclass - Preparing for Pay Transparency: Leveraging change and setting new standards for fair pay Thursday @ 12:25 PM
