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Gartner Announces Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo Conference 2026, London
Analysts, CHROs and HR Executives to Examine Key Priorities for the New Human-AI Workforce
What: Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo Conference 2026
When: October 6-8, 2026
Where: ExCeL London
Details: This is the World’s Most Important Gathering of Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) and HR Executives who will discuss their pivotal opportunity to lead work transformation and prepare both work and workforce for success. CHROs and HR leaders must address questions around AI, talent management, workforce planning, employee experience and more to help their organizations solve their mission-critical challenges.
At Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo 2026, Gartner analysts will dive deep into key topics for CHROs and their leadership teams, including emerging workforce and technology trends reshaping how work gets done, building future-ready leaders, and redesigning jobs for the AI era, as they set out to drive critical business priorities and successfully enable effective human-AI collaboration.
The conference agenda delivers actionable insights and guidance for CHROs and HR leaders across a range of pressing topics. Highlights of conference sessions include:
- Signature Series: Top CHRO Trends & Priorities Shaping 2027
- How to Create a Workforce That Can Keep Up With AI
- Change Has Changed: What You Need to Know About Change Management in the Age of AI
- Find Your AI-Labor Ratio: Balancing Workforce and Technology Costs
- Emerging Enterprise Risks That Will Shape the 2027 CHRO Agenda
- Manager Performance Under Increasing Spans of Control
Gartner Opening Keynote: Built to Perform ─ Delivering New Combinations of Talent and Technology with CV Viverito, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner and Arj Bagga, Vice President Analyst, Gartner. In this session, Viverito and Bagga will explore how CEOs are reshaping their organizations, so the blend of human and AI capability makes performance inevitable. The analysts will show how CHROs and their teams can drive faster, clearer work decisions, anticipate future roles and skills, and ready an unsettled workforce to perform in any context.
The Exhibitor Showcase at the conference will bring together leading technology and service providers for a unique opportunity to network with peers and evaluate technology solutions through live demonstrations, virtual meetings and information-packed presentations. A list of current exhibitors is available on the Exhibitor Directory.
For complete conference details, please visit the Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo 2026 website. Members of the media are eligible for a complimentary press pass; for additional details and registration requests, contact Mary Baker at mary.baker@gartner.com or Gerri Weinberger at gerri.weinberger@gartner.com.
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