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For strategic HR leaders to proactively lead the rapidly changing world of work.



2026 Theme: The People Strategy for Successful AI Implementation

Discover our signature event categories designed for HR leaders navigating AI-driven workplaces. Each format fosters innovation, dialogue, and connection.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work gets done, and its influence will only accelerate. Yet realizing AI’s potential requires more than experimentation with new tools—it demands deliberate transformation of work, roles, skills, and culture. This transformation places people at the center and positions HR leaders as critical architects of change.

Throughout 2026, HRSF will focus on equipping HR leaders with the frameworks, insights, and guardrails needed to lead responsible, people-centered AI adoption. Our programming is designed to support HR leaders as strategic advisors—helping organizations integrate AI in ways that are effective, ethical, and aligned with both business and human outcomes.

HRSF 2026 Calendar


JAN



Message from the board chair

FEB



Networking Event
Feb 11th



MAR



Thought Leader Session

Innovation Hour


APR


Event - Collaboratory I

MAY


Think and Talk

May 8th

(1st Friday of the month 12:15 pm-1:15 pm)

JUN


Event - Collaboratory II

Networking Event

(around Juneteenth)

JUL


NAHRLN Summer Event

AUG


Thought Leader Session

Think and Talk

Aug 7th



SEP


TBA

OCT


Innovation Hour

Think and Talk

Oct 2nd

NOV


Summit

DEC


Think and Talk

Dec 4th

Networking Event


AI Collaboratory

Join HRSF in a year-long collaboratory that will help you identify the people considerations that must be addressed to successfully implement artificial intelligence-enabled tools and processes in your company.

We will convene four events, including an all-day Summit, to create a user guide you can use to lead your company through four stages of people-centered AI adoption and integration:

1. Opportunities and Awareness

2. Mobilization and Implementation

3. Expansion and Optimization

4. Maturity and the Future

We will not focus on AI tools per se, but instead on how best to create organizational readiness for the implementation of AI tools. Events will feature insights from experts in AI and its implementation, real-world advice from HR leaders and their peers (CEO, IT and other business leaders) based on their AI implementation experiences, and dialog with your HR leader peers to delve into topics related to stages of adoption.

We’ll engage with the AI integration topic through expert advice, case studies and hands-on learning labs. At the end of the year we’ll have drafted an open-source blueprint to enable strategic HR leaders to take the lead in AI integration and, through an effective people strategy, increase the likelihood of the success of those efforts.

Innovation Hours

Innovation Hours are one-hour learning sessions that explore how HR leaders are shaping people-centered AI adoption across the employee experience. Rather than focusing on tools alone, these sessions highlight the change management, storytelling, and experience design required to integrate AI responsibly and effectively—while reinforcing the critical human dimension of HR’s evolving role.

Think & Talk Sessions

These informal, peer-to-peer conversations create space for HR leaders to unpack the real-world challenges and opportunities shaping the future of work. Think & Talk sessions often extend themes introduced in our regular programs and focus on how HR leaders are acting as change agents, experience curators, and internal communicators as organizations adapt to AI-enabled ways of working.

Thought Leader Sessions

Featuring leading academics, consultants, and HR visionaries, these sessions examine the evolving role of HR in a rapidly changing workplace. Speakers focus on people-centered AI integration, ethical leadership, organizational change, and the future HR capability set, helping attendees re-imagine HR’s impact in 2026 and beyond.

Networking Events

Designed to strengthen connection and community, networking events bring HR leaders together to build relationships, exchange insights, and co-create the future of the profession. These experiences are intentionally aligned with shared learning, sponsorship engagement, and experience design—reinforcing our belief that community is essential to sustainable change.

Networking Innovation Hour Think and Talk Thought Leader Session AI Collab Summit
Event Type In person Virtual Virtual Hybrid Hybrid In person
Key Focus Relationships & co-creation AI adoption &
change management
Real-world challenges
& future of work
Ethical leadership &
HR evolution
Case Studies Ready to Go Bringing it all together
Duration 2 hours 1 hour 1 hour 1&1/2 hours 2–3 hours Full day event


Speakers Spotlight


Sasha Arjannikova from Adobe presented insights on navigating these changes and building more effective, connected organizations in the new world of work.

Dan Kasper from Instill.ai shared perspective on why culture is the true game-changer in the age of AI.


Katheryn Brekken, Ph.D. from i4cp took a deep dive into AI and HR practices during our summit last fall.



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19 Mar 2025

Managing a Polarized Workforce in a Polarized World

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Summit: The Role of the HR Leader in the World of Artificial Intelligence

 08 May 2024

Strategies to Build Trust During Change or Adversity

 20 Mar 2024

Strategically Engaging with your Board

24 Jan 2024

Dave Ulrich: HR’s role in Creating Shareholder Value for 2024 and Beyond

15 Nov 2023

Using Data Analytics to Drive Your People Strategy

13 Sep 2023

Pay Transparency: HR leaders charging ahead!

26 July 2023 Leading with Laughter: Using Humor to Reduce Stress and Boost Performance
14 June 2023

Inclusion in the Disrupted World of Work

12 April 2023

Personalization of work: what does this really mean?

08 Feb 2023

Leading through Turbulence: How does HR lead in a Shaky Post-pandemic Economy?

02 Nov 2022 HRSF Summit: Capstone Conversations from a Year of Disruption
21 Sep 2022

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01 June 2022

New Value Proposition: Employees as Humans with a Life

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19 Jan 2022 Speaking out on Social/Political issues: CHRO’s role in working with CEO
17 Nov 2021 Looking back and looking forward: Lessons Learned from Reinventing
15 Sep 2021 Using HR Analytics to Drive Change        
18 Aug 2021 Work/Life Integration in the New Normal  
28 Jul 2021 The Music Paradigm
19 May 2021 Remaking Culture to Adapt to the New Realities    
21 Apr 2021 HR Burnout
17 Mar 2021 A New Talent Operating Model for the Future
23 Feb 2021 Community Conversations | February 2021
21 Jan 2021 HR Jobs for the Future
3 Dec 2020 Celebrate Unsung Heroes of HR, Reflect on Highs and Lows of 2020 and to Welcome 2021
19 Nov 2020 The Future of Work and The New Employee Experience
14 May 2020 Leadership in the Age of Personalization
23 Jan 2020 Radical Change Through Agile HR
20 Nov 2019 On Building Workplaces that Make the Right Things Easy, the Wrong Things Hard
11 Sep 2019 New Models for HR Organizations to Lead Courageously
15 May 2019 Courageous HR: Speaking Truth to Power
14 Feb 2019 Courageous HR: What it is, Why it matters now
6 Nov 2018 Leadership Development in the Digital Age
9 Jun 2018 Digital Transformation at Work
15 May 2018 Employee Feedback and Performance
27 Mar 2018 Careers and Real-time Learning
23 Jan 2018 Designing the Organization



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