Let's Build Your Future-Ready Playbook Together

Hear from thought leader Kevin Oakes, author of the bestselling book Culture Renovation®, as he offers his predictions for the year ahead and outlines the challenges (and opportunities) HR leaders face. You'll also gain insight into what to expect from i4cp in 2027 from CEO Terry Waters.

We'll announce our opening keynote session soon.

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the real differentiator will be how effectively they help their people adapt and grow alongside the technology. Learn how Accenture is reinventing the way they work and upskilling their people at scale. They are building the capabilities needed to drive growth and innovation while creating better, more meaningful experiences for their workforce. Because getting AI transformation right means investing in the business and the people powering it.

At Cummins, we believe culture must be intentional. It is shaped by what we practice, promote and permit every day. That means translating our values into clear behaviors that guide how we work, lead and make decisions. When we get this right, we create an environment where employees can grow, inclusion is strengthened, teams work better together and people are empowered to deliver their best for our customers and our business.

As the popular convenience store chain Sheetz continues its rapid growth across hundreds of locations, preserving its culture, the DNA of Sheetz, while meeting the evolving needs of a highly distributed workforce has become a business imperative. In this fireside chat, Stephanie Doliveira, EVP, People & Culture at Sheetz, joins i4cp’s Marshall Bergmann to explore how the family-owned organization is intentionally scaling its culture and strengthening employee well-being.

The conversation will explore how Sheetz worked with i4cp and its Culture Renovation® Blueprint to:

• Scale a distinctive culture across a rapidly growing, geographically dispersed workforce.
• Translate values into action through clearer leadership expectations, accountability, measurement, and listening.
• Connect culture and employee well-being in one cohesive strategy that can reach employees across roles and locations.
• Build for sustained impact through leadership activation, employee engagement, and governance that keeps culture and well-being embedded as the organization grows.

We're celebrating our 14th year in partnership with Best Buddies International. In this short session, you'll hear about Best Buddies' mission to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. An estimated 81% of adults (18+) with developmental disabilities do not have a paid job in the community, yet i4cp's research shows that these people represent an untapped talent pool who can contribute to the workforce in a myriad of ways.

In this session, you'll get an inside look at Lowe's. More details coming soon. Read this peer spotlight with Janice, in which she discusses how Lowe's is helping to build America's future workforce.

Developing skills readiness is key for any future-ready organization, and yet it is one of the most challenging and hardest to achieve objectives. Join fellow attendees in an interactive discussion focused on idea sharing and collaboration.

In this session, hear about the latest needs of Boards of Directors and the challenges they face when understanding how future-ready their organizations' workforces are. This is a mission no senior-ranking HR leader should miss. More details to come.

Having a solid future-ready strategy is great, but how do you put it into action? In this interactive session, we'll dive into the latest i4cp research and tools available, with a focus on key themes and approaches that can be implemented now. More details to come.

Connect with other attendees to discuss and debate key takeaways from today's session.

Join a powerful, closed-door session exclusively for CHROs and CPOs—a forum dedicated to exploring the most critical topics shaping the future of work, from agentic AI’s impact on the workforce to new approaches in organizational agility and talent strategy.

• Interactive brainstorming and peer discussions
• Direct access to i4cp’s Chief Research Officer and senior analysts
• Collaboration with participants from i4cp’s regional CHRO Forums and CHRO Board

The forum will also include a CHRO-exclusive cocktail hour for additional networking opportunities.

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Join fellow talent and learning leaders for an interactive forum focused on the critical role your function plays in advancing skills readiness, culture readiness, and AI readiness.

• Interactive brainstorming and peer discussions
• Direct access to senior analysts and members of i4cp’s Chief Learning & Talent Officer Board
• Collaboration with senior talent, learning, and workforce strategy leaders

The forum is open exclusively to senior talent management or learning leaders (head of function, or one level down in larger organizations).

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Connect with fellow Impact & Belonging leaders for a candid, closed-door conversation about the evolving role of the function in building future-ready organizations.

• Interactive brainstorming and peer discussions
• Direct access to senior analysts and members of i4cp’s Impact & Belonging Leader Board
• Meaningful connection with fellow Impact & Belonging leaders

The forum is open exclusively to senior Impact & Belonging leaders (head of function, or one level down in larger organizations).

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Each year, i4cp is known for putting on a big party that will leave you with fond memories and hopefully a few ridiculous photos. Join fellow attendees for dinner, drinks, and hands-on fun as we explore future-ready ideas together. More details about this themed event will be available soon.

Participate in the 14th i4cp/Best Buddies Friendship Walk, in support of inclusion and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a great opportunity to stretch your legs, soak in a beautiful Arizona sunrise, and learn more about Best Buddies. RSVP here.(opens in a new tab)

Enjoy breakfast with your peers and get ready for the day's events. If you haven't already checked in to receive your badge, registration also opens at 7:30am.

i4cp's Future-Ready Framework™ provides a model for building and sustaining a future-ready organization - but how do you put it into action? In this must-attend session, i4cp's chief research officer Kevin Martin dives into this question with data, case studies, and more, while highlighting the key business and talent trends he and his team of analysts are observing.

Session details coming soon.

AI is reshaping how work gets done, and you cannot build tomorrow's company with yesterday's talent strategy. Success will not come from adding more people. It will come from delivering more value in new ways, through a new human + agent workforce that simplifies work, removes friction, and moves talent closer to customer outcomes.

HR leaders are uniquely positioned to lead that enterprise transformation, starting with their own function. In this session, hear from two ServiceNow HR leaders who saw the value in being “customer zero” and led a transformation to redesign work, reimagine the workforce, and rebuild the technology, all in 180 days.

You'll learn why this sequence matters, and what it takes to earn the credibility to enable an AI-native enterprise. These are real lessons from a team that went first.

AI is creating an opportunity to rethink how work gets done—and raising the expectations of the leaders responsible for making it happen. For CHROs and CPOs, this means redesigning their own functions while helping leaders across the organization build the capabilities, teams, and culture needed to succeed.

Drawing on her experience as Chief People Officer at Databricks and her background in clinical psychology, Amy Reichanadter will share how the company is preparing leaders for AI transformation. She’ll explore how leaders can channel uncertainty into productive momentum, focus AI efforts on outcomes that matter, and rethink the talent bar as the work itself changes.

Through examples from Databricks’ People function, Amy will offer practical lessons on redesigning work, and building AI fluency. Attendees will leave with a framework for assessing where their leadership needs to evolve—and a clearer view of how they can shape the transformation of their organizations.

In this interactive session, explore and discuss the three key components of a future-ready organization - culture readiness, skills readiness, and AI readiness - to identify key opportunities for your organization in 2027.

Session details coming soon.

Lunch isn't just lunch at an i4cp event! Since we don't allow HR vendors or consultants to attend, each table is jam-packed with people you'll want to meet.

“Disposable Workers identifies the profoundly important new development of marginal employees who have no real prospects of stability or career advancement, and who far outnumber the much-discussed ‘gig workers.’ Even at companies we think of as the best employers, the growing ranks of employees who churn through these marginalized jobs is an important and underappreciated factor in the loss of the American Dream.”
—Peter Cappelli, author of Talent on Demand

Paul Osterman is Professor Emeritus of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was Deputy Dean at the Sloan School. HIs previous books include Who Will Care For Us: The Longterm Care Workforce (Russell Sage), Good Jobs America (Russell Sage) , and The Truth About Middle Managers (Harvard Business School Press). He received his PhD in Economics from M.I.T.

In-person attendees will receive a copy of Paul's book.

What if the most important work leaders do this year is not delivering the next product or initiative, but changing how their teams work? As AI becomes part of the team, the opportunity goes beyond adopting tools. It calls for rethinking how decisions get made, how teams take ownership, and where human judgment matters most.

In this fireside chat, Microsoft CVP Priya Priyadarshini will join a Microsoft engineering leader to discuss redesigning work around agentic AI, rather than adding agents to existing processes. Drawing on Microsoft’s transformation, they’ll explore how engineering teams are moving from writing code to directing the systems that build software, and what that shift means across disciplines. As execution accelerates, the challenge shifts toward choosing what matters, making sound decisions, and ensuring that what gets built earns trust.

Bringing workforce and engineering perspectives together, they’ll discuss how roles, skills, and team structures need to evolve, and why leaders must change their own habits alongside their teams. The conversation will examine how to reduce handoffs, strengthen ownership, and build confidence through practical examples and coaching. Participants will leave with a clearer view of how to connect talent strategy with work redesign, prepare people for human and agent collaboration, and measure progress through meaningful business outcomes.