What's New In 2026

 

New experiences at HR Tech will sharpen your executive thinking, strengthen your leadership capabilities, deepen peer exchange, and bring the future of HR technology to life in new ways.

 

 

For Women Looking to Step into More Visible Leadership Roles

Women in HR: Building Influence

An add-on experience for HR practitioners to tackle the realities of building credibility, being heard in executive conversations, and leading through change in an AI-driven HR landscape as a woman. 

 

Blending expert insight with interactive moments and opportunities to connect with peers at a similar career stage. You’ll hear from senior HR leaders, engage in practical workshop discussions, and continue conversations during a facilitated networking lunch designed for meaningful connection around leadership challenges and career growth. 

Expect clearer direction, stronger confidence, and ideas you can put to work right away — plus peer relationships that continue long after the event ends.

HR Reimagined: The Bersin Mastery Experience

The next era of HR isn’t about tracking trends, it’s about shaping them. The Bersin Mastery Experience is a five-session series built for executives ready to move beyond experimentation and into truly agentic organizations.  

These sessions will move past AI hype and trend-watching to focus on what actually drives impact: how to operationalize AI, design skills-based organizations, and evolve HR into a business-critical capability. Expect frameworks, real-world signals, and practical guidance you can apply immediately.  

Attend the sessions most relevant to your priorities, or follow the full Mastery Experience for a cohesive, executive-level view of the shifts redefining HR, work, and leadership. 

Focused, Cohort-Based Learning Experiences

HR Tech Intensives

For HR leaders who want more than just good sessions — but a chance to sharpen their thinking, compare perspectives with peers, and move through the event with a shared focus and structure.  
Building the Business Case

Develop a clear, defensible business case for HR technology by cutting through market noise and focusing on what matters most to executive decision-makers. 

Redesigning Work

Strengthen your approach to work design by rethinking roles, responsibilities, and workforce models in a changing environment. 

Operationalizing AI in HR

Move beyond experimentation by focusing on how to put AI into day-to-day HR operations in ways that deliver real, scalable impact.

HR Executive Strategy Summit — Expanded in 2026 

More Time for Executive-Level Strategy and Peer Exchange!

Returning for its second year with an expanded format — now a day and a half designed to give more time for focused strategy discussions and meaningful executive-level connection before the main conference begins.  


 

Experience What’s New — and Everything Else HR Tech Offers 
HR Tech 2026 introduces new ways to think, connect, and engage — adding fresh experiences to the broader conference designed to help you gain more from your time onsite.