Overview: Explore how organisations can reinvest in their people, close skill gaps, and create career pathways that drive both business success and individual growth.

Moderator: Lennie Higgs, Convenience Director, Manpower.
Panellist: Susan Oakley, Programme Manager, Manpower. Megan Corless, Brand Head of People & Culture, Manpower.

Overview: In today’s constrained economy, resilience is key for businesses and candidates facing limited investment and hiring slowdowns. This session explores market contradictions, workforce challenges and key levers to drive adaptability in a cautious economic climate.

Speakers: David Archer, Director for Talent Solutions RPO. Anna Spaul, Director of Data Innovation.

Overview: The world of hiring and talent is in a state of flux at the moment and this is exacerbated by a challenging economic climate. Unable to meet their hiring and talent needs from the external market due to a skills shortage and a hiring slowdown, organisations are looking internally and building the skills they need through training and developing the talented people they already have. This session will explore how to build the skills of tomorrow from within your organisation using the example of contact centres.

Moderator: Julia Morgan, Sales Director, Brook Street.
Panellists: Ahdhia Ahmed, Customer Experience Engagement Specialist, Novuna.

Overview: With cost efficiency being a crucial element to businesses, it can be easy to overlook the value of a productive and agile workforce and the benefits it can bring beyond financial savings. This session explores how businesses can maximise workforce impact, adding value and growth to businesses.

Moderator: Spencer Pink, UK Sales Director, Manpower.
Panellists: Tom Cox, Head of Customer Value, Manpower. Julia Essay-Bennet, Head of Environmental, Social and Governance, Manpower.

Overview: The social care sector faces multiple challenging headwinds in relation to hiring and a talent shortage. With DE&I under attack across the world, it is still one of the best ways to increase your talent pool and alleviate a skills shortage. This session will explore how the unique hiring and skills challenges of the care sector can be alleviated through DE&I policies.

Moderator: Teresa Wilson, Operations Director, Brook Street.
Panellists: Kate Mennell, Head of Region ROM, Brook Street. Chance Bleu-Montgomery, Partners Support Manager, Bridge of Hope Careers. Ollie Thorn, Leadership transformation specialist, Disabled endurance athlete. .

Overview: Teams are the lifeblood of organisations, but all too often they work ineffectively - leading to a lack of psychological safety, misalignment with the wider business and no clear purpose. During this panel discussion we'll explore what makes a high performing team, the blockers to effective collaboration and how to focus development efforts where it matters.

Moderator: Jacques Quinio, Talent Management Solutions Director.
Panellist: Jacqui McDonald, HRD Northern Europe - International SOS.

Overview: The 2025 Experis CIO Outlook survey identifies that 77% of organisations plan to increase their cyber security budgets in 2025 and 76% of businesses face challenges in securing skilled technology talent, with increasing demand for expertise in cyber security (46%), AI (35%) and cloud computing (34%). Understanding and adapting to these trends is crucial for business and talent leaders to create an agile workforce that can mitigate disruption and embrace opportunity. In this session our experts will provide insight on the data and strategies to secure these in demand skills.

Moderator: Victoria Allwright, IT Services Director, Experis UK.
Panellists: Karina Arteaga, Tech Strategist, Growth & Digital Transformation Leader. Robert Enright, Global Leader Advisory Services, Intelligent Talent Operations, IBM.

Overview: Human in the loop will explore the critical role of human intervention in harnessing the full potential of technology within the MSP contingent workforce. This session will discuss the intersection of technology and human expertise, emphasising the importance of workforce intelligence and innovative solutions to optimise decision-making processes, and how data, while abundant, requires human intelligence to transform into actionable insights.

Moderator: Details to follow.
Speakers: Ines Noble Vice President, Global Solution Design, TAPFIN. Sarah Smith, Portfolio Director, Talent Solutions.

Overview: The Experis CIO report finds that 76% of businesses face challenges in securing skilled technology talent. In some industry sectors, this is compounded by an ageing engineering workforce and rising demand for security-cleared skills. In this session, we will present case studies of how organisations are adapting their build, buy and borrow sourcing models to overcome these challenges and secure the necessary skills for the future.

Moderator: Michael Noone, Head of Experis Academy UK, Experis.
Panellists: Sue Daley, Director, Technology and Innovation, TechUK. Nicola Cox, Group Leader Engineering, AWE. Ian Buckingham, Head of UK Talent Attraction. Telespazio.