Agenda
PAWorld26 NYC · 4–5 November 2026 · New York City
Sessions
09:00 – 09:05
Welcome to PAWorld New York 2026
Turning people data and AI into business performance
09:05 – 09:35
People Analytics in the Age of AI
From better evidence to better business and workforce decisions
09:35 – 10:05
Some Friction Was the Work
When Output Gets Cheap, Signal Gets Expensive
10:05 – 10:20
When AI Reprices Work: Which Human Skills Gain Value?
What changing tasks mean for skills demand and workforce planning
10:20 – 11:05
Morning break
Networking and sponsor demonstrations
10:30 – 10:40
Visier in Action
Morning-break product demonstration
10:45 – 10:55
LYTIQS in Action
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Morning-break product demonstration
11:05 – 11:45
Designing AI-Native Teams: What Changes Beyond the Tools
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How to rethink the work, roles and organisation around AI - not just introduce new technology.
11:05 – 11:45
Beyond Headcount: Connecting Workforce Plans to Workplace Decisions
How workforce growth, role mix and ways of working inform the space an organisation needs.
11:45 – 11:55 · No scheduled sessions
11:55 – 12:15
Redesigning Roles When the Work Changes
Using changes in tasks and activities to compare the next shape of the organisation
11:55 – 12:15
Finding the Workforce Questions Worth Asking
Using connected signals to decide what deserves investigation next
12:15 – 12:35
Which Employee Experience Problem Should You Fix First?
Using employee feedback and external signals to choose where to act
12:15 – 12:35
Forecast the Work Before You Forecast the Workforce
Translating business demand into capacity, skills and hiring decisions
12:35 – 13:35
Lunch
Lunch, networking and sponsor demonstrations
12:45 – 12:55
Paradigm in Action
Lunchtime product demonstration
13:00 – 13:10
One Model in Action
Lunchtime product demonstration
13:15 – 13:25
Draup in Action
Lunchtime product demonstration
13:35 – 14:15
Measuring Productivity When the Work Is Different
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Corning's approach to connecting workforce measures with business performance.
13:35 – 14:15
Which Headcount Is Real?
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Building the workforce baseline that productivity, skills and AI-investment decisions actually need.
14:15 – 14:25 · No scheduled sessions
14:25 – 15:05
From Reports to Products: A Product Mindset for People Analytics
Cloudflare's experience of building internal tools - and what it takes to own them after launch.
14:25 – 15:05
The Hard Part of Workforce Strategy
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How S&P Global is connecting work redesign, skills and mobility.
15:05 – 15:40
Afternoon break
Networking and sponsor demonstration
15:20 – 15:30
Welliba in Action
Afternoon-break product demonstration
15:40 – 16:20
From HR Systems to an AI Knowledge Layer: Reinventing Workforce Self-Service
Helping people ask workforce questions without first becoming experts in the systems behind the answers.
15:40 – 16:20
Workforce Cost Is Only Half the Story
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Using people, customer and financial data to decide what needs to change.
16:20 – 16:30 · No scheduled sessions
16:30 – 17:10
External Hiring Wasn't the Answer: Finding the AI-Era Workforce from Within
Defining emerging roles and finding credible internal candidates when the external market cannot supply ready-made capability.
16:30 – 17:10
Which Talent Programmes Deserve the Budget?
Using workforce evidence to decide where development investment should go.
17:10 – 18:10
PAWorld Networking Reception
Conversations and connections after Day 1