You Lead Enterprise Change—We’re Here to Help You Future-Proof It.

Get hands-on with the platforms redefining workforce strategy and hear from C-level peers tackling the same high-stakes challenges.

When the stakes are high, inspiration isn’t enough. Gain executive insights, see real ROI, and bring back strategies to scale success.

Make Confident Decisions That Move Your Organization Forward

See how leading companies are investing in HR technologies to drive growth, performance, and employee experience—without adding unnecessary complexity.

New this year, the HR Executive Strategy Summit offers a focused, one-day gathering before HR Tech to connect with fellow leaders, share insights, and tackle today’s biggest HR challenges.

Then, keynotes, strategic sessions, real-world case studies, and more will give you the clarity and confidence to align technology with your business priorities.

► Identify technologies that drive growth, agility, and competitive advantage


► Gain executive-level insights to inform your enterprise strategy


► Learn how leading organizations are transforming workforce experiences at scale


► Gain insights that strengthen your decisions and leadership impact

Your Shortlist of Must-See Highlights

  • HR Executive Strategy Summit 2025

    HR Executive Strategy Summit

    A unique opportunity to engage with fellow leaders, exchange insights, and explore shared challenges—all before HR Tech officially kicks off. 
  • Women in HR Tech Summit 2025

    Women in HR Tech Summit

    Celebrate the remarkable women in HR tech who are leading the way: designing and developing core HR solutions, driving people-first cultures of inclusion and belonging, and helping diversity thrive across enterprises. 
  • HR Icons Awards Evening

    HR Icons Awards Evening

    A prestigious celebration of standout achievements within the HR community. This evening will not only honor recipients of our longstanding awards, bestowed by HR Executive for decades, but will also recognize the inaugural winners of new awards celebrating excellence in seven notable categories. 
  • HR Tech 2025 Think Tanks

    Think Tanks

    Focused discussions on today's key challenges, innovative strategies, and actionable solutions. No lectures — just open dialogue with fellow peers.
  • People & Culture Community

    People & Culture Community

    Discover transformative innovations crucial for HR across three key people-centric zones: Benefits, Health & Wellness; Learning & Talent Development; and Rewards, Recognition & Experience.


 

Sessions That Speak to You

This agenda is a starting point—selected for senior HR executives. Explore these highlights, then dive deeper into the full agenda to see what else aligns with your goals.

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  1. Setting the Lens: Making AI Practical, Responsible, and Scalable
    120 mins

    This opening forum brings the cohort together to confront a shared reality: while AI experimentation in HR is widespread, successful operationalization is rare. Through a structured examination, the discussion will focus on where AI is delivering value today, where it commonly falls short, and what conditions need to be in place to support responsible scale. You’ll assess your current AI maturity, constraints, and risks, and establish a shared lens for evaluating AI use cases and solutions during the event.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Differentiate high-impact AI use cases from experimental or low-value applications in HR.
    • Identify organizational readiness gaps related to data, governance, and adoption.
    • Apply a practical evaluation lens to assess AI solutions and claims encountered during the conference.
  2. Rethinking Work: Framing the Decisions HR Leaders Must Make
    120 mins

    This opening forum brings the cohort together to get clear on how to redesign work in response to ongoing change without creating unnecessary disruption. You’ll be led through a structured exploration of the forces reshaping work — including technology, skills shifts, workforce expectations, and organizational constraints. Then, together, the group will examine where traditional job and role models are breaking down and where new approaches may offer value.

     Learning Objectives:

    • Diagnose which forces are most materially reshaping work within their own organizational context.
    • Clarify the work redesign decisions HR must influence, including roles, skills, and operating models.
    • Establish evaluation criteria to assess whether new work models align with business outcomes and employee experience goals.
  3. Clarifying the Case: Making Smarter HR Technology Decisions
    120 mins

    This opening forum brings the cohort together to cut through vendor noise and get clarity on how to evaluate solutions objectively and build a business case that resonates with executive stakeholders. You’ll identify your decision constraints, clarify what “value” means in your organization, and define the criteria you’ll use to evaluate tools, ideas, and advice throughout the event.

    Learning Objectives: 

    • Define the specific business problems your HR technology investments must solve, rather than evaluating tools in isolation.
    • Apply a consistent set of decision criteria to assess HR technology solutions for strategic fit, value, and risk.
    • Identify the executive concerns and trade-offs most likely to influence approval of HR technology investments.
09:30
  1. Scaling What Works: Turning AI Insights into Operational Plans
    120 mins

    This wrap-up working session for the cohort helps you synthesize what you’ve encountered across the event and pressure-test which AI approaches hold up in real organizational contexts. You’ll compare approaches, identify patterns that enable success, and examine why some AI initiatives stall.

    From there, the focus shifts to moving toward operational scale — defining what is realistic to advance next, what requires further groundwork, and what may need to pause or stop.

  2. Translating Work Redesign into Reality
    120 mins

    This wrap-up working session for the cohort helps you synthesize what you’ve seen across the event and pressure-test how different approaches to work redesign hold up in real organizational contexts. You’ll compare what challenged your assumptions, assess where approaches diverge, and determine what feels realistically adoptable versus aspirational.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Evaluate competing work redesign approaches based on feasibility, impact, and organizational readiness.
    • Identify risks and change management considerations that could derail work redesign initiatives.
    • Define actionable steps to advance work redesign efforts aligned with business priorities.
  3. From Insight to Investment: Turning Ideas into a Defensible Business Case
    120 mins

    This wrap-up working session for the cohort helps you synthesize what you’ve encountered across the event and pressure-test what is realistically applicable in your organization. You’ll examine assumptions, assess trade-offs, and refine how you would frame an HR technology business case for executive decision-makers. The focus is on translating insight into action — prioritizing what is credible, fundable, and executable.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Distill conference insights into a clear point of view on which HR technology approaches are worth pursuing for your organization and which are not.
    • Articulate a concise, defensible business case narrative tailored to executive decision-makers.
    • Identify concrete next actions to advance HR technology decisions post-event.


 

Here’s What Your Peers Think

"This is an annual "must do" on our team's development and how they think differently about the range of solutions available to solving their business problems."
Eric Ingram
CHRO, The Wine Group
"As a South African, attending this years HR Tech for the first time was an exciting and extremely insightful experience. It gave me amazing networking opportunities and allowed me to view HR technological advances from a global perspective. I enjoyed all aspects of the conference and exhibition and commend the organizers on a job well done as the event was seamless from punctuality of sessions and knowledge sharing to use of the app. Looking forward to future HR Tech conferences."
Yvette Pillay
Head of Human Resources, East Coast Radio
"HR Tech was a great event which included many content sessions and over 400 expo booths. The value of the ticket was excellent considering all of this and I would recommend anyone attend who has an interest in keeping up with current HR tech trends."
Richard Maxwell
Head of Human Resources, Tu Ora Compass Helath