Executive Summit

HR leaders must ensure their technology decisions effectively drive HR and business objectives, yet many struggle with partnerships across the c-suite to influence the evolving mindset needed for AI readiness. At J.Crew, the CHRO and CIO are demonstrating how a collaborative, forward-thinking approach is the formula for success in today’s workplace.

Join this conversation to explore:

• Building a strong cross-function partnership to drive transformation
• Fostering an evolving mindset on skillset for AI readiness
• Creating engagement and buy-in for sustainable tech adoption

Most culture initiatives fail because traditional tools like engagement surveys and core values don’t shift behavior. ‘Engagement’ is measured, values spread and behaviors are mandated. The problem is that this approach nearly always fails to create a great culture. A systematized approach is needed. In this session, led by behavioral experts, learn how CHROs can drive winning teams—not through stale culture initiatives—but through alchemy.

Join this session to explore:  

• Creating effective strategies to change behavior and drive performance
• Understanding how culture is the only competitive advantage that can’t be copied 
• Designing culture to be the most powerful management system in your organization

Managers and supervisors are drivers of culture change, especially on the frontlines. HR leaders must focus on manager and leader development to deepen connections with employees, build trust, and drive engagement.

Join this session to discuss:

• Reducing turnover and driving business performance
• Transforming leadership insights into measurable growth
• Strengthening engagement and cultivating a culture of trust

The pace of transformation in today's talent market is unforgiving. CHROs sit at the epicenter of workforce redesign, balancing competing priorities: acquiring pivotal talent, reskilling employees at scale and keeping the organization future-ready amid rapid advances in AI.

Join this session to explore:

• How AI is changing workforce architecture
• What AI-fluent leadership look like in practice
• How HR is evolving as a strategic function

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Confidential interviews with top executives from major companies show a clear gap between what leaders say publicly and what they admit privately about AI’s impact on leadership now and in the future. Few feel leadership is aligned with emerging needs, leading to concern about a growing readiness gap. How can CHROs generate the insight, data and processes to advise and prepare AI-ready leaders across the entire pipeline? 

Join this session to learn how to:

• Identify critical risks that leadership development must address
• Generate adaptive mindsets, skills and critical data to accelerate leadership growth
• Make essential leadership transitions across individuals and teams

Only 16% of employees say they’re thriving in their roles — a staggering number that cannot be ignored. Yet, new insights from O.C. Tanner’s 2026 Global Culture Report reveal how workplaces can become a source of renewal and resilience in uncertain times.

Join this session to discuss:

• Why healthy performance requires both expectations and support
• The 5 behaviors that shape inclusive, high-performing teams
• Why integrated recognition creates a cultural multiplier effect

Benefits complexity is accelerating, employee expectations are rising, and AI is no longer optional. The challenge for CHROs is navigating the growing complexity around choice, multiple providers and varied experiences with speed, clarity, and consistency at scale. We’ll explore how CHROs can balance high-tech innovation with a human touch approach to simplify the complexity with confidence for their people.

Join this session to discover:

• Responsible strategies for leveraging unified intelligence to enhance benefits navigation
• Streamlining administration while supporting employees during the moments that matter
• Balancing automation with human expertise anchored in trust, compliance and care