HR of Tomorrow Conference, France

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Lead Lean: Building Agile HR Maturity for Peak Performance

Discover our global performance framework, designed to drive continuous improvement through Lean principles and standardized HR processes. It leverages structured assessments, dashboards, and action plans to strengthen performance across sites operating in diverse countries and cultures. The framework also provides targeted support missions where needed, ensuring consistency and alignment. By fostering a culture of problem-solving and capability building, it promotes operational excellence and enhances employee engagement

Learning That Drives Performance: Turning Skills into Business Impact

This session will explore how organisations can turn skills into measurable business performance. We’ll start with an overview of Udemy Business and how our AI-powered platform enables continuous, personalised learning at scale. We’ll then introduce Altus, our new agentic AI solution, designed to connect business strategy to workforce capability and outcomes, helping organisations identify critical skills, accelerate development, and drive real impact.

How to Manage a Cultural Reset in an International Company

As HSBC is facing a deep transformation, the Group launched 1 year ago a “cultural reset program” named How We Lead. This common language and tools have been designed internally, by the Business and for the Business. The objective is to explain what HWL is and what makes it different and quite unique in our environment.

People, Technology, and Global Growth: How AI Is Shaping the Future of International Teams

Global growth is no longer just about entering new markets—it’s about supporting people wherever they are. As workforces become more distributed, international hiring is now business as usual, creating new expectations around speed, scale, and consistency. Join Pebl as we explore the possibilities of international hiring and how AI is enabling teams to hire faster, work smarter, and better navigate the complexities of cross-border hiring worldwide.

Change is Normal — And That's the Whole Point

Organisations have approached change as a discrete event or a project. Rapid change and AI are rewriting that assumption. Transformation cycles are compressing from years to months, and the half-life of professional skills are shortening. Does the "post-transformation" state still exist? Change is no longer exceptional but continuous — the new operating reality of modern work. For leaders, the opportunity is to shift the conversation from managing change as a series of disruptions to helping people work confidently inside constant evolution. Through for example, psychological safety, learning infrastructure, and a shared language for living in permanent beta. It's a mindset shift, gradual but essential.

More Tech. More Human. Redefining Employee Experience at Global Scale

HR has never had more technology nor more pressure to stay human. In this session, Magda Warda, Executive Director of Global People Services at Carrier, shares how Carrier is transforming its global HR services with a clear ambition: to create an employee experience that is both digitally advanced and deeply human. Tracing the journey from fragmented service delivery to a unified, experience‑led model, the focus will be on key strategic choices and initiatives shaping Carrier’s approach today. This session offers HR leaders a pragmatic and aspirational view on how to rethink how technology, AI, and human empathy can work together to build trust, simplicity, and impact at global scale.

AI Revolution: Risks & Opportunities in the Workplace

Navigating Global HR Policies Through Local Realities

This session examines why global HR policies are applied and perceived differently across regions, drawing on experience in APAC and Europe. We will explore the tensions between global consistency and local needs, and look at how local HR teams, regional hubs, central functions, and global leadership each view the same policy. The focus is on practical strategies to balance global frameworks with local realities, ensuring policies remain flexible, culturally aware, and operationally effective. Participants will leave with clear insights on how to strengthen alignment and collaboration across the HR ecosystem.

How Can the HR Function Support Workplace Culture to Foster Engagement and Innovation?

In a context of rapid transformation driven by technology, data, and AI, organizations face a dual challenge: sustaining employee engagement while accelerating innovation. The HR function plays a pivotal role in addressing this challenge—not only as a support function, but as a strategic enabler of culture and transformation.   Drawing on concrete experience from large-scale transformation programs, Sandrine GIRSZYN will explore how HR can actively shape a workplace culture that drives both engagement and innovation. This intervention will highlight the importance of creating an environment where employees feel empowered to grow, experiment, and contribute meaningfully to organizational goals