AGENDA

Breakfast and Networking

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.

Keynote | Closer Than They Appear: Bold, Plausible Futures for Life and Work in the Agentic Age

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

Mary Kate Stimmler: Consultant/Lecturer, UC Berkeley

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.

Lunch & Networking

Keynote | Beyond the Builder Era: Reimagining the Human Experience of Work in an Agentic Future

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

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

Alec Levenson, Ph.D.: Director and Senior Research Scientist, USC Marshall Center for Effective Organizations (CEO)
Nandini Jayaram: Senior Director, People Ops Transformation Office, Google
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.

AI Collab Frameworks, Models, and Practitioner Experience 

Evening Reception and Networking