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HR Executive Think Tanks at HR Tech Europe 2025 

Empowering Collaboration, Insights, and Solutions for HR Leadership 
 

The HR Executive Thinks Tank is an exclusive, dynamic session designed for HR leaders attending HR Tech Europe 2025. This innovative format invites top HR executives to engage in informal, peer-led roundtable discussions focused on the most pressing challenges faced by HR leaders worldwide. 

This experience is built on the insights from global research encompassing over 200,000 HR leaders, highlighting the six critical issues that "keep HR leaders awake at night." By providing a structured yet open environment, the Think Tank fosters authentic dialogue, peer-to-peer collaboration, and actionable insights for all participants. 

Session Topics 

AI and automation in HR 

End to end employee journey tech; talent acquisition, employee experience and wellbeing Workplace transformation 

Workplace transformation 

Sessions Topics 

Talent development and Learning; upskilling, reskilling, leadership development, succession planning, skills development. 

Strategic workforce technology: this highlights the strategic tools that enables workforce future planning 

HR Tech for small and medium enterprises and the challenges they face when looking at HR Tech 

 

 

Opening Keynote

HR Technology 2025: The AI Era Has Arrived

4 March 2025 | 10 - 11 a.m.

In this research-based presentation, Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst, will explain how AI is already transforming the HR technology landscape, explain his company’s new research on Superworkers, and detail the major AI shifts in every area of HR. Josh will also explain how jobs, roles, and organisations are rapidly being changed by AI, and why AI is not just a technology, it’s a business-model-shattering evolution.

Throughout the session, you'll learn how to evaluate and enhance your HR technology stacks with AI, particularly in areas like recruitment, performance management, and learning development. Starting with pilot projects, you'll gain insights into measuring the impact and scalability of AI-driven tools. Josh will also guide you through redesigning job descriptions and workflows to integrate AI as a collaborative partner, training employees to focus on strategic, creative, and high-value tasks while AI manages repetitive work. Finally, prepare for a broader business transformation as Josh discusses strategic reviews that help align organisational structures, cultures, and goals with AI-driven opportunities.

 About Josh Bersin

 

Josh is an analyst and thought leader specializing in the global talent market and the challenges and trends affecting business workforces around the world. He founded Bersin & Associates in 2001 to provide associated research and advisory services—a business he later sold to Deloitte when it became known as Bersin by Deloitte. In 2019, he launched The Josh Bersin Academy, the world's first global development academy for HR and talent professionals, and he is currently the CEO of its sister research advisory firm, The Josh Bersin Company.

About Lucy Adams 

Lucy Adams is the CEO of Disruptive HR, an agency that’s on a mission to challenge the status quo, reimagine traditional practices, and inspire leaders and HR professionals to approach their roles with renewed vision and energy.

After working in high-level HR roles across different sectors including Director of HR at the BBC, Lucy has spent the last 10 years working with HR teams and leaders from some of the world’s top brands.

Combining her strategic HR expertise with practical implementation, she advocates for an innovative yet grounded approach which aims to put the “human” back into Human Resources.

Lucy is not just a business leader and hugely popular keynote speaker, but also a well-known author of the bestseller “HR Disrupted” a book packed with practical ways to innovate your approach to leading people in a disrupted world. Her latest book bestseller“The HR ChangeToolkit” provides the complete guide to making it happen.

Tuesday Keynote 

Agile HR

4 March 2025 | 4.15 - 5.15 p.m.

We can have a bit of a reputation in HR for being slow, bureaucratic, and overly reliant on process. In this session Lucy will look at some of the ways in which using agile principles means we can set a faster pace for HR, including:

· Find out what ‘agile’ working means for HR

· How to develop a product mindset to improve impact

· Hear about innovative - but practical - approaches from other companies

· How to market our services effectively

Wednesday Keynote

Empowering People, Transforming Retail: IKEA’s Digital Vision

5 March 2025 | 10 - 11 a.m.

Discover how to meet the challenges of the AI era while maintaining compassion and a people-first approach in this inspiring keynote by Therése Götsten, Chief People Officer Digital of Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee. 

Therése will reveal how the world’s largest home furnishing brand is transforming into an omni-channel retailer, creating a more affordable, accessible, and sustainable IKEA that positively impacts both people and the planet. 

Gain insights into how IKEA’s 5,000 passionate tech and data professionals are creating exceptional digital experiences to innovate customer engagement, empower co-workers, and fulfill customer orders. Plus, you’ll learn how IKEA is using new ways of working, co-worker motivation and leadership by all to create a better shopping experience for their 657 million store and 3.8 billion online visitors yearly. 

 About Therése Götsten

 

Therése Götsten is the Chief People Officer Digital of Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee.

Why Wait to Get Your Ticket?  Passes are complimentary for HR Professionals.

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