2026 SUMMIT

SPEAKERS

Agenda

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast and Networking

09:00 AM – 12:15 PM

Small group discussion | AI Journeys

In small groups of peers, attendees will introduce themselves and share key learnings from AI implementation work in their organizations and key questions they are focused on today.

Catherine Coffin: Director of Foresight and Competitive Intelligence, Salesforce

AI is becoming radically more capable, and the future it brings is closer than it looks. In this opening keynote, a futurist invites participants into a series of bold, plausible scenarios for work in 2030. Each one challenges today’s assumptions about value, purpose, productivity, and human connection.

Using recent research from the Salesforce Work Innovation Lab, it looks at the human choices built into each scenario. Where should AI lead, assist, or stay out entirely? How can organizations create more personalized, meaningful, and delightful experiences while keeping human agency, trust, and accountability intact? Along the way, it makes the case for a human-centered future: one where agents take on more of the work, and people gain more room to use their judgment, creativity, and connection. The most successful future of work will be the most human-centered one.

CHRO Panel | From AI Readiness to Organizational Action: What We Learned This Year and What’s Next

Heather Houston: Chief People Officer, Life360
Kate Terrell: Chief Human Resources Officer, Menlo Security
Connie White: Chief People Officer, Altos
Shreya Sarkar, Ph.D.: Board Chair, HRSF; CEO & Founder, Human Capital Growth

A candid conversation with CHROs on how they are preparing their organizations for AI: the lessons, experiments, and workforce implications emerging over the past year—and the priorities, investments, and decisions shaping their plans for the year ahead.

Keynote | Leading Through the AI Fog

This keynote explores major AI adoption frameworks alongside real-world examples of company successes and failures. Grounded in cutting-edge academic findings and classic social science theories, it equips HR executives with five unconventional tools to remove friction and lead teams to successful AI adoption.

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

01:00 PM – 05:00 PM

Darijo Bosnjak: Associate Director of Experiential Learning, Partnerships, Northeastern University

Keynote | Jobs Are Getting Bigger: Redesigning Roles, Teams, and Culture for the AI Era

Molly Sands: Head of the Teamwork Lab, Atlassian
Eddie Jerden, Ph.D.: Senior People Analytics Business Partner, Adobe

Everyone agrees AI is changing roles. Few leaders can say what roles are changing into, or what that means for the teams around them.

Drawing on Atlassian Teamwork Lab’s research and experiments with knowledge workers, Dr. Molly Sands makes the case that AI isn’t shrinking jobs. It’s making them bigger, and expertise matters more than ever.

Using examples from inside Atlassian, she’ll show how handoffs between functions are becoming fluid handshakes, how to decide what agents do and what people own, and why small, fast teams still need someone to make them add up. Then she’ll tackle an underlying cultural barrier: in many organizations, people are penalized for using AI. Leaders can reverse that by using AI openly themselves.

Attendees will leave with a practical lens for redesigning roles, teams, and ways of working, plus three things any team can start tomorrow.

Panel | Designing the AI-Ready Organization: Operating Models, Roles, and Capabilities

Nandini Jayaram: Senior Director, People Ops Transformation Office, Google
Alec Levenson, Ph.D.: Director and Senior Research Scientist, USC Marshall Center for Effective Organizations (CEO)
Donna Zontos: VP, HR Business Partner, Adobe
Sasha Arjannikova, Ph.D.: Experience Committee Chair, HRSF; Director, People Analytics Business Partnering, Adobe

Hear from practitioners and experts navigating how AI is reshaping organizational structures, decision-making, talent needs, and ways of working. The session will surface design choices leaders can consider as they build adaptable, human-centered organizations.

Small-Group Discussion | From Possibility to Practice: Your 90-Day AI Readiness Commitment

In peer groups, participants reflect on the day’s future scenarios, CPO’s reflections, workforce innovations, and organizational-design insights and share what from today’s summit has been most insightful and how they plan to apply the learnings to what they are solving in their organizations. The goal is to leave with one clear priority, a practical first step, and a commitment to move it forward.

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