A choice of learning opportunities across the day
Powerful panels
Marrying top senior peers with the hardest-hitting topics, exploring: Reinventing pay for a modern workforce, looking at what a move towards skills-based pay could look like in practice; Benefits design for Gen Alpha, exploring strategies for a radically different working life; plus a deep dive into how pension reform will reshape reward, workforce planning and long-term benefits strategy.
Candid case studies
Bringing you practical, real-world examples through a range of case studies to see how your peers are putting strategy into action. Featuring interviews with reward and benefits leaders from high-profile brands, hearing the full picture about the challenges they've faced, the processes they've put in place, and the improvements they've made to their strategies to benefit their workforce.
Specialist speaker sessions
Providing invaluable knowledge, from innovative thought leadership to practical, actionable insights to shape a future-ready strategy. Including a session with everywhen, who will examine the shift towards upstream spend, using better data, earlier intervention and prevention to reduce late-stage claims, improve workforce health and build a more sustainable benefits strategy for the future.
Focused workshops and demonstrations
Providing small group workshops to delve into the topics that matter most to you, and a demo hub where you can see more cutting-edge reward and benefit innovations in action than any previous year, with never-before-seen technology showcases and answers to your most pressing questions from the experts themselves.
Topical agenda: covering the issues that are coming down the line for you
- Future-proofing: Linking business objectives with benefits strategy and communicating with C-suite
- Future of work: How cultural shifts, macro pressures and Generation Alpha will reshape workforce expectations and benefits strategy.
- Global benefits design, management and delivery: Leveraging technology and AI to deliver benefits across multinational workforces.
- Future of pay and reward: Designing reward to attract and retain motivate talent while navigating evolving legislation.
- The evolution of recognition: Repositioning recognition as a strategic lever.
- Future of pensions and retirement journeys: How pensions reform is reshape long-term benefits strategy
- Future-proofing financial literacy, inclusion and resilience: Using digital tools and innovative workplace savings solutions.
- Benefits tech and AI: How AI is reshaping digital platforms to transform benefits delivery.
- Future of healthcare: Emerging health tech, diagnostics, genomics and data-driven awareness
- Managing health risk: people risk, prevention, early intervention and whole-of-workforce strategies.
- Re-thinking mental resilience: Redesigning work, benefits and digital support to mitigate burnout, overload and disrupted motivation.
Focus on Pay: here's a snapshot of how our programme is shaping up to help you tackle this thorny topic...
Reimagining the reward operating model: Future-proofing strategy, agility, and governance with Justine Woolf, Director of Consulting, Innecto Reward Consulting
Discover how senior reward leaders can evolve beyond technical execution to shape holistic, future-ready reward strategies that align directly with board priorities and business growth in this strategic session.
Beyond the 'biggest buck': Strategic shifts in high earner pay and reward with Peter Brauer, CEO, Turning Point
Explore the evolving psychology and optics of high earner remuneration, equipping reward directors to align C-suite pay with modern organisational culture, transparency demands and changing expectations.
Employer-led panel discussion session - From jobs to skills: Reinventing pay for a modern workforce
Hear how employers will need to rethink how people are valued and rewarded as AI shapes roles and accelerates skills change. Covering what a move towards skills-based pay could look like in practice and how organisations can begin the transition.
Roundtable discussion - Future of pay and reward: Designing reward structures to attract, retain and motivate talent while navigating evolving legislation and regulatory change
Engage with your peers on how they're rethinking pay structures and reward tools to keep pace with today's workplace shifts, and how fellow reward leaders are tackling the wider societal and legislative pressures shaping internal decisions.
Choose from a rich mix of sessions, including a large selection focused on managing health risk:
Taking control of healthcare costs with Debra Clark, Head of Wellbeing at Everywhen
This session looks at the mindset shift from managing rising claims to managing total workforce health costs. Explore how a prevention-first model using better data, early intervention and upstream investment can improve outcomes, reduce downstream demand and create more sustainable cost control.
Panel discussion - Benefits for Gen Alpha: Designing for a radically different working life
Managing employee health over a longer working life is front and centre for this employer-led panel. It will look at how employers may need to respond to rising mental health needs, digital-first care, chronic conditions and the prospect of an extended career.
Is weight management the next must-have employee benefit? With David Walker, Doctor Care Anywhere
Obesity is no longer viewed as a lifestyle issue, but rather as a medically defined chronic health condition. With GLP-1 use accelerating, this session looks at how employers can respond to growing demand with safe, clinically supported approaches that improve health while managing costs.
From mental health support to psychosocial risk with Shamira Graham, Onebright and Dr Aaron Lin, Mindstep
Explore how employers can move mental health support to a more preventative, population-level approach, aligning with the Keep Britain Working Review and PLG Duty of Care Guidelines. This session looks at how organisations can identify psychosocial risks and act earlier on performance and absence risks.
Rebalancing workplace healthcare with Stephanie Parton-Corr, Director, Client Relationship Management at WTW
As employers look for more effective ways to manage rising health risk, onsite care is re-emerging alongside virtual provision. This will reach employees earlier and engage those that digital solutions miss. This session explores how on-site care can combine with AI and workforce data for more targeted strategies.
What If? Three futures that could break today's health benefits model with Marsh
What if private healthcare became the new workplace pension? What if AI became the front door to healthcare? What if employees stopped valuing health insurance and started demanding health outcomes? Explore three disruptive futures that could reshape workplace health benefits.
The impending cancer juggernaut: navigating rising costs across all demographics with Healix Health
Cancer is fast becoming the single largest affordability challenge facing modern employers. Driven by a surge in diagnoses, including among younger employees, and the soaring cost of advanced molecular therapies. Explore how thinking differently can create sustainable models with better outcomes for all.
Spotlight sessions: Family-forming and women's health benefits – The hidden workforce risk
These sessions bring together expert perspectives from Carrot, Fertifa and Maven. Explore how employers can respond through smarter global design; stronger governance around gender pay, progression and policy; and make a clearer link between investment, workforce resilience and business outcomes.
Keynote talks to write home about (or maybe on your LinkedIn page)
Peer to peer discussions on the subjects that matter most
With the event attracting senior leaders across reward, benefits, pensions, and compensation and people, from a wide variety of organisations, you'll be able to build your own personal network with a community facing the same challenges as you. One of the day's highlights is the vendor-free roundtable discussions, hosted by your peers, where you can air concerns, share your experiences and gain fresh perspectives, all in a candid, private environment.