All 2026 Conference Sessions

Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™ 2026 dives deep into key topics for CHROs and HR leaders around strategy, AI in HR, talent management, workforce planning and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2026 conference theme

Power New Possibilities: Lead the Transformation of Work

The AI era is unlocking new possibilities as organizations rethink growth yet often overlook key enablers. In 2026, HR leaders have a pivotal opportunity to lead work transformation and prepare both work and workforce for success. 

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Tuesday, 06 October, 2026

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM BST

Gartner Opening Keynote: Built to Perform ─ Delivering New Combinations of Talent and Technology
CV Viverito, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Arj Bagga, VP Analyst, Gartner
CEOs are reshaping their organizations so the blend of human and AI capability makes performance inevitable. This leaves CHROs with a paradox: they must build a workforce to deliver strategy when the work itself is undefined. Join this session to learn how CHROs and their teams drive faster, clearer work decisions, anticipate future roles and skills, and ready an unsettled workforce to perform in any context. ... Show More Show Less

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM BST

Interact: From Decision to Done: Turning Organisational Intent Into Action With AI

Tom Walters, VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCT, Interact Software
AI is helping organisations make faster, better-informed decisions. But a decision only creates value when people understand what it means for them and act. This session explores the distance between organisational intent and employee action, and how a new generation of employee experience technology can help organisations turn decisions into coordinated action, at scale. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

Top Trends Shaping Talent Acquisition for 2027
Jennifer Gaia, Director Analyst, Gartner
Recruiting leaders face tremendous pressure to deliver the scarce talent needed to fuel business transformation. However, economic volatility and AI-driven innovation are creating uncertainty about how to drive recruiting forward. Join this session to learn how top recruiting leaders will address these challenges in 2027 and beyond as an input to your strategic plan. ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST

Deel: Who Manages the Machines? HR and the Non-Human Workforce.
Steven Shoemaker, SENIOR MANAGER, PEOPLE ANALYTICS, Deel
Annabel Jones, SENIOR HR DIRECTOR, ADP
Agentic AI has quietly transformed the org chart into a mixed human-digital workforce, but most HR functions lack a plan. This session maps how to integrate agent capacity into workforce planning, establish clear governance and ownership, and maintain human accountability for every agent decision in your organization. ... Show More Show Less

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM BST

How to Create a Workforce That Can Keep Up With AI
Kabeh Vaziri, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Executive leaders seeking to develop an augmented workforce as part of their autonomous business strategy face three critical points of tension: capacity reallocation, emotional adaptation and work redesign. Resolving all of them will make the workforce more engaged and generate value. Join this session to learn how to build your future-ready workforce. ... Show More Show Less

12:55 PM - 01:15 PM BST

Beyond Service Desk: AI Turning HR Into a Strategic Function
Swati Trehan, COO, EMA UNLIMITED-US-CA
HR owns the workflows that touch every employee, across functions. That makes HR the natural starting point for building enterprise agentic infrastructure across IT, payroll, and finance.
Join to discuss:
- How HR can deploy AI at scale and automate end-end workflows?
- Leveraging HR capacity recovered and new competencies developed
- Learnings from Wipro: 100+ actions across HR, IT and payroll, 240K employees, 50% HR Ops cost reduction ... Show More Show Less

02:15 PM - 02:35 PM BST

Physical AI Reshapes Robotic Frontier of Human-AI Collaboration
Ranadip Chandra, Director Analyst, Gartner
This session explores how physical AI is advancing the next frontier of robotics, enabling more dynamic, adaptive collaboration between humans and intelligent machines. Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM BST

Awardco: The Science of Recognition: Research on Motivation, Performance & the Future of Work
Sarah Marrs, Organisational Behavior Scientist, Awardco
Employee expectations are changing, but what truly drives motivation and performance? Sarah Marrs of Awardco’s Center of Excellence shares new research on recognition, motivation and the future of work. Learn how HR leaders can translate these insights into a recognition strategy that strengthens engagement and supports performance across a changing workforce. ... Show More Show Less

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM BST

Marsh: Own the Redesign & Unleash a New HR Era
Kristin Rhebergen, Sr. Principal, Marsh
Most HR functions look identical. What will differentiate high performers? Data-driven work redesign around human-machine collaboration, not patching problems. The hard truth: HR can't transform the workforce without transforming itself. Marsh shows how leading HR teams unleash a new era, shifting from reactive support to bold redesign, rearchitecting work and the HR operating model to drive innovation and exponential performance. ... Show More Show Less

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“Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo provided a variety of sessions on many HR topics that allowed myself and my team to divide and conquer providing us with an opportunity to bring several new ideas, philosophies and technologies back to our organization.”

Head of Talent Acquisition, 1848 Ventures

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