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People First: Strategic Transformation

MAY 15 - 16, 2025

BROOKLYN, NY

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In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, a successful human capital strategy must put people at the center of every transformation. Whether driven by cutting-edge technology, shifting consumer and labor markets, new work models, or innovative business approaches, true transformation goes beyond processes – it reshapes behaviors, reimagines organizational design, and integrates data to drive people strategy at every level.

At this pivotal moment of technological, societal, economic, and demographic change, join us at People First: Strategic Transformation. Connect with peers and global human capital leaders to explore how human-centered transformation and data-driven decision-making are delivering real business value.

Who Should Attend: This event is designed for CHROs, Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers, and Leaders of Change, Transformation, Organization Design, Organizational Development, Learning and Development, People Analytics, HR Technology, Workforce Analytics, and other executives responsible for transformation and direction setting enterprise-wide or at the business unit level. 

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Tech Change in Human Capital: Generative AI is only one piece of the larger puzzle organizations face today. Learn how the most successful innovators are leveraging technology to remake HR and leveraging people strategies to advance tech changes across the organization. Explore case studies in IT system redesign, digital strategy reinvention, and unlocking of the value promised by new tech investments.

Culture, Change & Transformation: Culture and mindset change are vital to all successful transformations. The Conference Board’s over two decades of leadership in convening on Change and Transformation makes People First: Strategic Transformation the best place to hear from top practitioners and researchers on effective culture change, empowered digital transformations, data-driven change management, and enhanced change leadership across the organization.

Organization Design: New technologies, new business models, new tasks, new teams and new workplaces all call for re-examination of organization design. Learn how organizations are restructuring themselves and their ways of working to maximize value from GenAI and other technologies, from hybrid and remote work, from Agile teams and more.

Evidence-Based Human Capital Management:  Smart strategic and tactical choices are the only way to the meet the challenges of transforming people strategy – and each decision point benefits from better data. Learn how top HR leaders are using people analytics data at each step to make evidence-based human capital management decisions that bring out the most from their tech, org design, and transformation efforts.

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