Agenda
Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in GMT.
| 8:30 AM | Registration, networking and coffee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | SECTION I – STRATEGY, AND THE NATIONAL PICTURE FOLLOWED BY A DISRUPTION STUDIO Conference introduction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:05 AM | Chair's opening remarks Five decisions on workforce change for 2027. Setting out the five decisions this summit is designed to answer: board accountability, workforce economics, the entry-level talent pipeline, legal compliance and value realisation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM | Opening ministerial keynote followed by audience Q&A: The UK's plan for AI, jobs and growth. The national position on AI adoption, industrial strategy and the skills system: what government will do on skills funding and transition support, and what it expects of employers in return Keynote address | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM | Keynote address: The employer's side of the bargain. What will business invest in skills, job redesign and workplace practice to build an AI-ready workforce, and what does it need from government and the skills system? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:45 AM | Fireside chat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:05 AM | Evidence briefing: What the data says about AI and UK jobs. A short, independent reading of the labour market evidence on vacancies, entry-level hiring, wages and exposure by sector and region, separating the effect of AI from the wider hiring market | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:25 AM | Disruption & Innovation Studio: What does the future of work look like by 2030? Demo 1 – Impact on Financial Services Demo 2 - Impact on Professional Services Demo 3 – Impact on Healthcare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:15 AM | Morning coffee and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:35 AM | SECTION II – WORKFORCE CHANGE: JOBS, SKILLS & TRAINING Cross-sector debate: The broken ladder - entry-level work and where expertise comes from. If AI now does the work that juniors once learned on, how do organisations grow their future experts? Graduate and apprentice hiring, redesigned early-career roles, new routes into the professions and the risk of a missing cohort in five years' time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:20 PM | Cross-sector debate: From AI literacy to capability - what moves skills at scale. Bridging the gap between executive strategy and the people who deliver it. Curriculum reform, in-work training, apprenticeships and skills-based hiring - tested against quantified evidence of what has improved performance, not course completions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:05 PM | Keynote address: Legal and regulatory certainty clinic: in force, in consultation, or proposed? A dated map of employer obligations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:20 PM | Lunch and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:10 PM | SECTION III – IMPACT ON WORK & WORKFLOW. PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION & FUTURE OUTLOOK Keynote presentation/Fireside chat - How do you train an organisation to use AI Agents? How are organisations training their workforce on AI from CoPilot to Agents? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:30 PM | Keynote panel: Managing a workforce of people and agents. From task automation to task-chain redesign: who supervises autonomous agents, who answers for their errors, what happens to the middle manager, and where human judgement, accountability and skills remain decisive? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:20 PM | In conversation: The workforce dividend - where does the productivity gain go? A finance chief and a people chief from the same organisation share their views about the choices behind the numbers: headcount, redeployment, growth or shorter hours, and how they report workforce change to the board and investors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:50 PM | Chair's closing remarks: Answers to the five decisions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4:00 PM | Afternoon tea and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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