Rob Brydon is an actor, writer and presenter. His television credits include GAVIN & STACEY (BBC), MY LADY JANE (Amazon), ROALD & BEATRIX: THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE (Sky), HUMAN REMAINS (BBC), MARION & GEOFF (BBC), THE BEST OF MEN (BBC), MCDONALD & DODDS (ITV), TRUST (BBC), THE BRINK (HBO) and OLIVER TWIST (BBC), HEROES AND VILLAINS: NAPOLEON (BBC), DIRECTORS COMMENTARY (ITV), MARPLE (ITV)
He’s the host of award-winning BBC show WOULD I LIE TO YOU? and stars in the multi award winning series THE TRIP, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Rob also hosts new BBC 1 series DESTINATION X and THE FLOOR on ITV1.
Rob recently presented a new BBC Documentary, ROB BRYDON’S HONKY TONK ROAD TRIP, where he travelled to the US to celebrate country music.
Rob has been touring the UK, Australia and New Zealand with his solo show, A NIGHT OF SONGS AND LAUGHTER. A festive version toured the UK in 2025. Theatre credits include THE PAINKILLER directed by Sean Foley and starring alongside Sir Kenneth Branagh, A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and FUTURE CONDITIONAL directed by Matthew Warchus. and I AM STANDING UP. Film credits include BARBIE, SWIMMING WITH MEN, CINDERELLA, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT and HOLMES AND WATSON.
Rob’s animation credits include THE SCARECROW’S WEDDING, STICK MAN, ZOG, ZOG AND THE FLYING DOCTORS, EARLY MAN, ROOM ON THE BROOM, THE GRUFFALO, THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD, THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE, THE HIGHWAY RAT, STITCH HEAD, THE AMAZING MAURICE, TABBY MCTAT, TIDDLER, THE UNBEATABLES, THE SMEDS AND THE SMOOS, GREEN EGGS AND HAM, FAMOUS FRED, THE BASKERVILLES, BODY BEAUTIFUL and SUPER WORM.
Rob has published two books, KEITH BARRET, MAKING DIVORCE WORK and his autobiography SMALL MAN IN A BOOK. September 2026 will see the publication of his first children’s book THE CAT IN THE CUPBOARD.
Closing keynote: On the sofa with Rob Brydon, BAFTA-nominated actor, comedian, presenter and writer Thursday @ 5:00 PM
David oversees all aspects of Doctor Care Anywhere's proposition, client and business development activities. With over 20 years experience of driving growth across established brands including Barclays, Sky and Dyson, David has spent the last decade working with high-growth technology led scale-ups that make the world a better place.
At Doctor Care Anywhere, David helps businesses implement whole of workforce health programmes spanning prevention, immediate care and most recently, weight management. David's vision is that every business should have prevention at the heart of their health and wellbeing strategy.
OPTION 5: From weight loss to workforce health: Is weight management the next must-have employee benefit? Thursday @ 2:15 PM
David Bourne has more than 25 years’ experience in health insurance. He’s worked on the insurer side and now serves as Market Development and Placement Leader at Marsh, helping advisers, brokers, and employers turn complex protection, healthcare, and wellbeing policy into clear, practical solutions that improve outcomes for clients and members.
OPTION 5: MASTERCLASS: What If? Three futures that could break today’s health benefits model Thursday @ 12:15 PM
Peter is a reward strategy leader with extensive experience advising Boards, Remuneration Committees and senior executives across global organisations. His career spans FTSE 100 and 250 companies, central government agencies, multinationals, and leading not-for-profit organisations, giving him a broad and pragmatic perspective on workforce strategy.
Peter specialises in helping leaders translate reward theory into practical action. Combining deep expertise in executive remuneration, reward, compensation and benefits with significant commercial experience, he supports organisations in making evidence-based decisions that strengthen performance and drive long-term value.
Regularly called upon to facilitate complex boardroom discussions, Peter brings clarity, insight and a collaborative approach to strategic challenges. He is passionate about helping leaders navigate change confidently and build workplaces where both people and performance can thrive.
OPTION 4: Beyond the ‘biggest buck’: Strategic shifts in high earner pay and reward Thursday @ 3:25 PM
Chris Bruce is CEO and co-founder of Origin, the world's first Enterprise Benefits Intelligence platform. He has spent 25 years at the intersection of technology and employee benefits, and is on a mission to transform the global benefits industry through AI. Before Origin, Chris co-founded Thomsons Online Benefits (later Darwin), helping scale it into a global leader in benefits technology that served millions of employees worldwide. At Origin, he's building again, this time with AI-powered tools that give HR and benefits teams real clarity, control and scale across their global benefits.
OPTION 3: CASE STUDY: Scaling through M&A: How DaVita is integrating benefits across a fast-growing global business Thursday @ 2:50 PM
Sam Carter is Head of Product at Ben, where he leads the product team and the company's agentic AI strategy for benefits.
He knows what global benefits look like in practice. Before his current role, he was Ben's Head of Customer Solutions, leading rollouts for multinational employers across countries, providers, payroll systems and policies. He saw exactly where benefits technology breaks, and that experience now shapes everything his team builds.
With a decade in product across automotive, fintech and HR tech, Sam brings a builder's view to a category that has spent too long standing still. At REBA Future Forum, he'll show AI doing real benefits work, live.
OPTION 6: DEMO: Zero-budget headcount for your benefits team: Ben's AI agent that asks before it acts Thursday @ 12:15 PM
Debra Clark is Head of Wellbeing at everywhen. With around 30 years in the employee benefits industry, Debra is a mental health first aider, a menopause lifestyle coach and volunteer board member of a local counselling support service. A passionate advocate for workplace wellbeing, she actively contributes to UK Health & Wellbeing forums and is regularly recognized in industry publications. Debra firmly believes that people are a company's greatest asset, and their wellbeing is key to success.
OPTION 5: Taking control of healthcare costs: Shifting spend upstream for sustainable workforce health Thursday @ 10:50 AM
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.
Ant leads on all aspects of employee benefits, pensions, and company car schemes for the Wolseley Group, across the UK and Ireland, having previously managed E.ON UK’s reward and benefits activity, including developing the E.ON Group’s first global employee benefits strategy.
Ant’s focus is on engaging Wolseley’s diverse workforce with their pensions and benefit offerings, and continuously improving employee experience and wellbeing, together with scheme delivery and cost-effectiveness. He regularly looks to implement new arrangements, to help meet colleagues’ diverse needs and keep the offering fresh.
Earlier in his career, Ant held several operational management roles at E.ON, Powergen and TXU (Eastern) Energy, and headed a number of significant organisational change programmes. He’s also a Chartered Accountant, with an initial grounding in internal and external audit.
Kathryn Edgington is the Global Reward Director at Lloyd's Register Group, a global organisation operating in over 70 countries and a leading provider of classification and compliance services to the marine and offshore industries. She leads Lloyd's Register's global reward agenda, with responsibility for compensation, benefits, executive reward, recognition, pay transparency and reward strategy across a diverse international workforce.
She has more than 25 years' experience in HR and reward in transformation roles at Swinton Insurance, Liverpool Football Club, NCC Group and Lloyd's Register, designing and implementing global reward strategies, executive compensation frameworks, job architecture, pay transparency programmes and recognition initiatives. At Lloyd's Register, Kathryn is currently leading several strategic global initiatives, including reward modernisation, recognition strategy, performance and reward transformation, and readiness for emerging pay transparency requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
Vito is Chief Digital Officer at Isio, leading Product, Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence. He is passionate about enhancing member experience and delivering measurable outcomes for employees, members and clients through the intelligent use of technology, data and design.
With a focus on AI, digital innovation and user experience, Vito helps organisations harness emerging technologies to improve decision-making, drive engagement and create lasting value. He is committed to challenging traditional approaches, exploring new ways to solve longstanding industry challenges, and turning digital ambition into practical outcomes that improve client and member experiences.
OPTION 6: DEMO: Demo hosted by Isio to be confirmed Thursday @ 2:50 PM
Sebastian Fallert is Co-Founder and CEO of Ben, the AI-native benefits platform for global enterprise. He started Ben because most benefits platforms weren't built for how modern enterprises work. Today he's focused on a bigger question: what benefits technology looks like when AI does the heavy lifting, and what that means for the Reward teams running it.
He has spent more than 15 years as a tech entrepreneur and investor. He founded JustBook, led Secret Escapes' UK business after it acquired the company, and then co-founded Ben.
OPTION 3: This changes everything: What happens when agents run global benefits Thursday @ 10:50 AM
Jeff Fox is a senior leader within Howden Employee Benefits, responsible for shaping and developing Howden’s workplace technology and Flex proposition. With extensive experience across employee benefits, technology and consulting, Jeff focuses on how digital solutions can improve the employee experience while delivering better outcomes for employers. He is particularly interested in the practical application of technology and AI to create simpler, more engaging and effective benefits experiences.
OPTION 7: WORKSHOP: Great benefits by design: What leading employers are doing differently to prepare for what’s next Thursday @ 12:15 PM
Mark focusses on workplace wealth (including DC), advising a range of UK businesses on, essentially, anything that employers use to recruit, retain and improve their workforce.
He has developed particular expertise in helping employers adapt their employee benefit offering to cope with the changing demands of a modern workforce.
Mark’s extensive experience, clear advice and proactive approach have helped him to become a trusted consultant to a wide range of UK and multi-national businesses.
He was Engaged Investor's Best Individual Pensions Consultant of the Year 2016.
OPTION 2: DC pensions: The turbulent decade ahead and how employers need to change their thinking today Thursday @ 11:25 AM
Carolina Garcia is RVP of Sales and leads the Global Go-to-Market function at Maven Clinic, the virtual clinic for women's and family health. Over nine years at Maven, she has led and grown relationships with some of the world's largest multinational employers, including Amazon, helping them build family health strategies that work across borders and cultures.
Originally from Colombia, and having lived and worked in Paris and New York before taking on Maven's global remit, Carolina brings a genuinely international lens to benefits design, shaped by first-hand experience navigating healthcare systems across three continents. She is also a mother of two young daughters, which keeps the mission personal: building care pathways that help women and families get the right support, earlier.
OPTION 2: Spotlight on: Family-forming and women’s health benefits – The hidden workforce risk employers can’t ignore Thursday @ 12:15 PM
Tim Goodchild FCIPD is Director, International Benefits at Take-Two Interactive and a recognised leader in global employee benefits, wellbeing, and reward strategy. With almost 20 years' experience across technology, media, and gaming organisations, he specialises in designing scalable global programmes that improve employee experience, strengthen retention, and help employees better understand the value of their total rewards. His current interests include reward technology, financial wellbeing, AI in HR and the future of personalised employee benefits.
Global Health, Lifestyle and Wellbeing Director at AVEVA with over 25 years of experience in HR. Leads global strategy across benefits, family policy, retirement and wellbeing in over 40 countries. Passionate about creating inclusive, impactful strategy and programmes that support employee health and engagement, which led to being a recipient of AVEVA’s Social Impact of the Year award and Personify Health’s Silver Client award in 2025. Outside of work, enjoys travelling and spending time with her children.
OPTION 10 : Case study roundtable discussion: Global benefits design and optimisation Thursday @ 4:15 PM
Shamira Graham has been working in mental health research and clinical practice for over 20 years. She is a passionate mental health specialist providing mental health solutions, designing clinical pathways and building innovative evidence based mental health propositions for corporate organisations and large insurers at scale. These incorporate assessments, psychiatry, psychological therapy, and counselling pathways for both adults, children and young people, whilst always ensuring patient care and patient experience is optimised.
As a practicing clinician, Shamira delivers clinical services and specialist consultancy, shaping wellbeing, mental health training, and organisational performance solutions. She has extensive experience working with global professional services companies, delivering consultancy, specialist training and corporate insights delivering benefits to people and organisations.
OPTION 5: From mental health support to psychosocial risk: Rethinking prevention at work Thursday @ 11:25 AM
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 1: Beyond 2030: Future-proofing benefits for the next decade Thursday @ 10:50 AM
OPTION 7: WORKSHOP: Great benefits by design: What leading employers are doing differently to prepare for what’s next Thursday @ 12:15 PM
Cleo is a Corporate Health and Wellbeing Specialist and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, with over a decade of experience delivering award-winning workplace health strategies. At AWE Nuclear Security Technologies, she leads a team focused on proactive and preventative health, supporting a workforce critical to UK defence and security.
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
David Kirk leads Aon’s UK health strategic sales function and is the global growth, marketing and communications functional leader for Aon’s total reward business. With 13 years’ experience across EMEA and North America scaling go-to-market Saas businesses, David’s in-depth knowledge and technology expertise helps advise businesses and founders on where to focus for maximum impact.
At Aon, David helps organisations enhance growth and efficiency, through their evolving workforce landscape, through the health of their people leveraging data and technology. As a result of David's passion for improving employee health to enable better business outcomes, he has also invested in several early-stage technology businesses.
Max Landry is co-founder and CEO of Euphoric, an all-in-one global benefits platform that serves the employer and the employee from the same connected system.
Previously, he co-founded Peppy, worked with over 200 of the world's leading employers, and spent years watching brilliant benefits teams buried in admin, disconnected data, and technology that was never built to talk to itself. Euphoric exists because that's a solvable problem.
Max is genuinely excited about what AI means for the future of benefits: for the practitioners doing the hard work, and for the employees whose health, wealth, and wellbeing depend on it working. He’ll try not to sound too evangelical about it, but no promises.
OPTION 1: CASE STUDY: A Whole New World: How one global entertainment company’s benefits system removes admin, connects to its AI hub and hyper-personalises benefits for every employee Thursday @ 3:25 PM
Iain Laws is CEO, Health & Benefits, for Everywhen, specialising in helping mid market organisations simplify and optimise employee benefits across multiple countries. Everywhen work closely with employers to reduce complexity, control cost and build practical global benefits frameworks that balance global consistency with local relevance. With a strong focus on pragmatic implementation, Iain is passionate about turning global benefits strategy into measurable, sustainable outcomes through clear governance, realistic minimum standards and scalable approaches that deliver value visibly and quickly.
Dr. Aaron Lin is the Chief Operating Officer at Mindstep. As a clinician, he worked in the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic, and witnessed first-hand the consequences of delayed diagnosis and fragmented brain and mental health care on patients' lives and health. Inspired by these experiences, he founded Mindstep with the ambition of delivering earlier, more personalised support through technology. Today, Aaron is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, combining medical training with entrepreneurial leadership to build scalable services that improve access to evidence-based mental healthcare.
OPTION 5: From mental health support to psychosocial risk: Rethinking prevention at work Thursday @ 11:25 AM
A Certified Principal Business Psychologist, Jennifer has been an influencer in the field of employer best practice for over 20 years, with particular focus on wellbeing, gender inclusion and working families. She is a leadership coach, coaching supervisor and sought-after speaker, writer, conference moderator and consultant.
Jennifer was a pioneer of parent transition coaching in the early 2000s, and as a Director of My Family Care, then Head of Thought Leadership with Bright Horizons, as well as through her own consultancy People in Progress, she has worked for over 20 years with the US and UK’s largest financial and professional services firms, tech businesses and other sectors.
Jennifer is known for translating trends, public policy and research insights into solutions and practical actions, including as Strategic Advisor to Bright Horizons, global provider of work+family solutions. Jennifer holds a MA(Hons) in Law from the University of Oxford and MSc in Experimental Psychology.
OPTION 2: Bright Horizons session to be confirmed Thursday @ 2:15 PM
OPTION 1: WORKSHOP: Beyond benchmarking: The next era of global benefits intelligence Thursday @ 8:25 AM
Dr Jane Lyle is Chief Analyst at Health Value Alliance. A mathematician and data scientist, she brings broad experience across medical science, finance and technology. Her work focuses on using real-world data and AI-supported analysis to generate robust healthcare performance intelligence, connecting outcomes, patient experience, utilisation and cost.
This helps payers and providers understand what is working, where value is being lost and where practical action can improve care, performance and the use of healthcare funds.
OPTION 2: Fireside chat: The impending cancer cost juggernaut: Why employers need to act now Thursday @ 2:50 PM
Dan is CEO of Octopus Money, the money advice brand for everyone. Dan is a trained financial adviser himself and believes that whatever stage someone is at, whether they're just starting out or juggling more complex decisions, there should always be a way in to start a conversation about their money.
Dan joined Octopus twelve years ago in a junior sales role and has been under the sea with us ever since, a serial intrapreneur who led his first Octopus-backed business at just 24. Since then he has founded businesses across wealth management, lending and technology platforms, and played a vital role in acquiring Seccl, Octopus Legacy and amicable, which he still chairs.
Dan is now one of the industry's youngest CEOs. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at Octopus Money, where he supported the business's expansion through mergers and acquisitions, helping drive its growth to almost £5bn of AUM and 165,000 customers over 3 years.
OPTION 4: Future-proofing the EVP: Combining AI and human insight for inclusive financial resilience Thursday @ 2:50 PM
James has more than 20 years of senior sales experience in the HR space, working with some of the biggest companies in the world to create lasting recognition programmes that make a real difference to more than 7 million users worldwide.
OPTION 2: DEMO: Hosted by Workhuman Thursday @ 8:45 AM
Amol Mhatre is a senior advisor in WTW’s Health, Wealth and Career (HWC) business segment and leads its global research function. He works with large global and complex organisations to design, finance, deliver and govern their total rewards strategies and programs. He routinely speaks with HR and finance leaders responsible for human capital and risk decisions and is often invited by companies to facilitate cross-functional strategy workshops.
Amol was part of HWC’s global leadership team and served as the global head of intellectual capital, research and innovation for the HWC segment from 2017 to 2026. In that role, he was responsible for managing the segment’s innovation agenda, AI and data strategy, and shaping cross-business intellectual capital and solutions to needs of organizations related to health, wealth and career programs.
For over 30 years, Amol has worked in the US, the Netherlands and the UK in various leadership and strategy roles for international consultancies.
OPTION 5: Rebalancing workplace healthcare: Blending physical care, AI and workforce insight Thursday @ 3:25 PM
Clare Moncrieff is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in HR and Professional Services. In her current role at Workhuman, Clare works closely with customers and prospects to help them understand the true power of recognition to drive people and business success.
Prior to joining Workhuman, Clare was a Senior Director at TalentNeuron, a leader in labour market intelligence. She helped to launch their consulting practice and provided client advice. Before that, she was VP, People Director at Nokia and VP, Executive Advisor at Gartner. Clare began her HR career in earnest at Nortel, in Canada, where she worked in M,A+D, Exec Comp, and HRBP roles, before joining CEB (now Gartner) in the UK.
Clare holds a honsBA in Psychology from York University in Toronto, and an MSc in Human Resources from the LSE in London. She lives in London and enjoys hiking.
OPTION 2: Recognition as an engine for strategy: Making business priorities visible and actionable Thursday @ 10:50 AM
Gethin is an award-winning psychologist, bestselling HR author, and in 2026 was named one of the UK’s Top 100 Most Influential People. Gethin has been awarded more than twelve awards since 2024 for his work in influencing the global HR industry, including double Gold at the prestigious Stevie’s awards in New York in recognition of a career dedicated to human resources. He was also awarded a lifetime achievement award by the UK Employee Experience Awards in 2025.
Gethin has been recognised as one of the world’s Most Influential HR Thinkers 2023-2026 and named PwC’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Industry’. Gethin is a Fellow at the historic King’s College London, King’s Business School and Chair of the Westminster think tank, The Policy Liaison Group on Workplace Wellbeing.
OPTION 1: WORKSHOP: Beyond benchmarking: The next era of global benefits intelligence Thursday @ 8:25 AM
OPTION 3: From cost centre to core infrastructure: Making the case for benefits technology Thursday @ 11:25 AM
With over 43 years’ in business and over 8yrs in Reward leadership, Tony has a wealth of experience working in a broad range of sectors and functions. This enables him to bring a unique perspective to his reward role. As a business disrupter and innovator, he has driven change in the businesses he has worked for or with. He has worked for some of the most innovative businesses in the UK and been at forefront of some of the most significant changes in the market.
Driving global transformations in companies including ECB (Cricket board) Marshall Aerospace & Defence Group, Carnival plc, Dentsu Group, Cambridge Press & Assessment and Aristocrat, Tony has developed a deep understanding how compensation and benefits impact the big picture and has developed reward strategies for future success. He brings a commercial mindset to drive innovation and transformation, delivering impactful results.
Jen Norris leads Isio’s Engagement & Support proposition, helping employers and trustees bring their pensions and benefits to life. Jen is passionate about supporting people to make confident decisions through the design and delivery of outcome-focused engagement strategies. Drawing on experience supporting thousands of individuals with pension and financial decisions, Jen brings valuable insights into member engagement and financial wellbeing. Jen is also a Trustee of the Money Charity and sits on the Association of Consulting Actuaries’ Member Experience Group.
OPTION 4: Building a truly comprehensive financial wellbeing strategy for 2027 and beyond Thursday @ 11:25 AM
Alexis Parrish is Head of Benefit Strategy, Design & Technology. Alexis is passionate about creating standout benefit programmes that drive engagement and deliver measurable value for both employers and their workforce. Recognising that successful benefits programmes require more than strong scheme design, Alexis combines strategic benefit consulting with digital technology and effective communication solutions to help organisations maximise participation and appreciation of their benefits offering. By positioning benefits effectively within a broader EVP, Alexis helps organisations strengthen their employer brand and create workplaces where people can thrive.
OPTION 1: The employee benefits landscape in the 21st century: What are the latest trends and what do employees really value? Thursday @ 2:15 PM
Stephanie Parton-Corr is a Senior Director in WTW’s Health & Benefits practice, where she advises on health, wellbeing and benefits strategy for large UK and multinational employers. Stephanie works with organisations to address some of the most pressing challenges facing employers today, including rising healthcare costs, changing workforce expectations, increasing demand for digital health solutions and the growing need to balance virtual and in-person models of care.
At this event, Stephanie will share her perspective on the future of healthcare delivery in an increasingly virtual world, exploring how digital-first care models, AI-enabled health technologies and personalised healthcare are reshaping the employee healthcare experience, while examining the enduring role of in-person care in building trust, improving outcomes and supporting holistic wellbeing.
OPTION 5: Rebalancing workplace healthcare: Blending physical care, AI and workforce insight Thursday @ 3:25 PM
As Senior Global Benefits Manager at Aggreko, Lisa leads the global benefits strategy for a workforce spanning 65 countries, ensuring employees around the world have access to meaningful, inclusive, and impactful benefits. Lisa is passionate about creating exceptional employee experiences that help people thrive, both professionally and personally.
With extensive experience in global benefits, wellbeing, and employee engagement, she combines strategic leadership with a practical, people-first approach. Lisa enjoys transforming complex challenges into simple, effective solutions that support employees, strengthen organisational culture, and drive business success on a global scale.
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
Luke has worked in the Employee Benefits market for over 20 years, advising clients on how to achieve a real return on their investment across Benefits, Health and Wellbeing. His background spans the full breadth of employee benefits, though for the last 15 years he has focused on the Employee Experience and Wellbeing market.
As Sales Director at Epassi UK and Zest, Luke is driven by a simple belief: when employees feel genuinely supported, everybody wins. He's passionate about helping organisations move beyond tick-box benefits and build wellbeing strategies that make a real difference to people's lives — because he's seen first-hand the impact it can have on individuals, teams and businesses.
OPTION 7: WORKSHOP: ***10:50-11:35*** Evolution, revolution or extinction: The future role and value of benefits tech Thursday @ 10:50 AM
Bhavik Radia is Head of Reward at Lloyds Banking Group. Passionate about helping colleagues understand and value their total reward, he focuses on creating simpler & more accessible reward journeys to drive colleague value.
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
Sara Redwood was the company’s first employee six years ago. She now leads relationships with key prospective clients and corporate partners, including top brokers, consultancies, and insurance providers. Driven by Peppy’s mission to expand access to expert-led support, Sara is deeply passionate about gender equity and healthcare accessibility. Having undergone IVF to have her son, she understands firsthand the importance of the services Peppy provides and is committed to advancing healthcare access.
OPTION 6: DEMO: How Peppy supports neurodiversity: Building an inclusive workplace through one provider Thursday @ 10:50 AM
Marcus Slee is Partner & Head of Employee Benefits at Isio. Marcus is passionate about helping organisations create employee benefit strategies that engage their people, support wellbeing and deliver measurable business value. Drawing on more than 17 years' experience across employee benefits, technology, wellbeing and commercial strategy, Marcus combines strategic consulting with innovative technology solutions to help employers maximise the impact of their benefits offering.
Recognising that successful benefits programmes rely on both strong design and effective delivery, he helps organisations connect benefits, engagement and digital innovation to create better outcomes for employees and employers alike. Through his work, Marcus supports organisations in building healthier, more connected and high-performing workplaces where people can thrive.
OPTION 1: The employee benefits landscape in the 21st century: What are the latest trends and what do employees really value? Thursday @ 2:15 PM
Sarah Taylor is Director of Corporate Healthcare Proposition at Healix Health. She is a senior clinical leader specialising in corporate healthcare strategy and population health. With extensive experience working with employer-funded healthcare schemes, Sarah focuses on how data, clinical insight and benefit design can be used to improve workforce outcomes, reduce long-term risk and create more sustainable approaches to employee health.
OPTION 2: Fireside chat: The impending cancer cost juggernaut: Why employers need to act now Thursday @ 2:50 PM
Emily Trant leads Stream's core mission to tackle financial exclusion and build an inclusive app that improves the financial wellbeing of all workers. Her role brings together stakeholders across policy, the public sector, and financial services, from running co-creation sessions with customers to leading an Impact Advisory Board. She also directs the company's program of academic research in collaboration with leading think tanks and global universities. Before Stream, Emily co-founded Touco Lab, a social impact venture that built financial services products for people with cognitive impairments using open banking technology. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The University of British Columbia. Emily is also host of the Invisible Worker podcast.
OPTION 4: Financial awakening: Why policymakers are paying attention to workplace finance, and what that means for employers Thursday @ 10:50 AM
As Head of International Benefits, I oversee Remitly's strategic employee benefits and absence services across 17 countries outside North America. I am on a mission to create an inclusive work environment where differences are celebrated, and everyone feels seen and supported.
Prior to joining Remitly, I held various in-house benefits roles at Take-Two (2K Games, Rockstar Games and Zynga) and worked as an international benefits consultant in Mercer's Multinational Client Group.
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
John Waterson is a business development professional with over two decades of experience driving commercial growth across financial services, pensions, media, and digital sectors. He is the National Business Development Manager at WEALTH at work.
Building on his experience working at Pensions UK and Pensions Expert, where he built strong industry networks and delivered high-value client solutions, John brings a clear understanding of stakeholder needs to his role. He will apply his relationship-led approach and strong communication skills to ensure businesses and their people receive support that delivers measurable impact.
Outside of work, John is married to Lara and is an avid storyteller; if he hasn’t bored you about his two cats, he will soon! He’s also been practicing yoga for the past four years and has recently taken up golf.
OPTION 4: Navigating the future: Changing HR obligations in an evolving retirement landscape Thursday @ 2:15 PM
Steve is Cushon’s Director of Policy & Research. He has spent over 30 years of his career advising organisations on all aspects of pensions and workplace savings both in the UK and internationally.
OPTION 1: PANEL: How pension reform will reshape reward, workforce planning and long-term benefits strategy Thursday @ 12:15 PM
Lisa Whelpdale is Group Reward Director at Wood, with responsibility for reward and global mobility across 35,000 employees in more than 60 countries. She has over 30 years' experience in reward and has held senior leadership roles with Wood, Freshfields, Currys, Imperial Brands, Shell and PwC. Her experience spans executive remuneration, incentives, benefits, pensions, wellbeing and global mobility.
A longstanding supporter of REBA, Lisa has contributed to roundtables, member events, webinars and thought leadership content, and is passionate about helping organisations develop reward strategies that balance commercial outcomes with employee wellbeing and engagement.
OPTION 3: PANEL: How the reward role will change: From jobs to skills: Reinventing pay for a modern workforce Thursday @ 12:15 PM
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
Sarah White is Director of Reward and Pensions at The Crown Estate. With a career spanning pensions consultancy and senior in-house roles, she brings deep technical expertise alongside a strong commercial perspective.
She is particularly focused on how employers can work more effectively with trustee boards and advisers to drive better outcomes for members. Sarah has a track record of fostering collaborative, high-performing governance arrangements, and is passionate about the role independent trustees can play in bringing fresh insight, strengthening decision-making and unlocking greater value from pension schemes.
She is dedicated to connecting pensions to the total reward offering, ensuring that pensions offered are relevant, engaging and impactful for today’s workforce.
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
Matt Wood helps organisations maximise the value of their employee benefits, wellbeing and engagement strategies through the effective use of communication, technology and employee experience solutions. With a passion for helping organisations unlock the full potential of their people, Matt partners closely with employers to connect employees with the benefits, tools and support available to them. By combining innovative technology with targeted engagement strategies, he helps organisations enhance the employee experience, increase benefit and strengthen their overall EVP.
Justine Woolf is one of the UK’s leading reward experts, with 30 years’ experience across senior in-house and consultancy roles. As Director of Consulting at Innecto, she leads reward transformation projects and advises leadership teams on evidence-led reward strategies that connect pay, performance and purpose. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and Trustee for Woodgreen Pet Charity in her spare time, Justine brings deep technical expertise, commercial insight and board-level perspective to today’s reward challenges.
OPTION 3: Reimagining the reward operating model: Future-proofing strategy, agility, and governance Thursday @ 2:15 PM
Curated roundtable and meet the case study discussions or visit exhibition Thursday @ 4:15 PM
Using health data and insights to target prevention, optimise spend and plan for what's next
Wed 21 Oct 2026 | 10.00 – 11.00 GMT
