Move from AI activity to business value
A two-day conference for leaders and senior practitioners,
showcasing applied workforce intelligence in the real world:
Separate activity from value
Explore how leaders move beyond pilots, adoption statistics and theoretical time saved. The focus is how workforce evidence helps teams decide which AI and analytics use cases to fund, scale, redesign or stop, and how to connect those choices to productivity, capacity, quality, cost, risk or growth.Joining the programme as presenters, panellists, or workshop leaders.
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People Analytics World San Francisco brings together senior HR, People Analytics, Workforce Planning, HR Tech and business leaders to explore how workforce intelligence is changing business decisions. The programme focuses on how organisations are moving from AI and analytics pilots to measurable outcomes: redesigned work, sharper workforce planning, stronger skills decisions, responsible AI governance and better links between people data and business performance.
Move from AI activity to business value
Make workforce decisions with better evidence
Build trust into workforce intelligence
Practitioner-led tracks for the open programme, plus a curated Decision Room format for harder cross-functional questions.
Shared context, evidence and executive debate
Hear the anchor ideas that frame the conference: how workforce intelligence is becoming a business decision system, how AI is changing work, what employers now need to prove, and what leaders should take back into the next 90 days.
AI, productivity and business outcomes
Explore how organizations are redesigning work itself: tasks, roles, workflows, decision rights, manager routines, human-AI handoffs, governance, productivity measurement and the evidence needed to prove business value.
Skills, planning and workforce decisions
Explore how organisations decide what workforce they need next: skills, workforce planning, internal mobility, scarce capability, location strategy, resilience and build-buy-borrow-redesign choices.
Peer discussion for the hardest workforce decisions
Join curated, senior peer discussions on sensitive or cross-functional questions: workforce AI governance, CFO/CHRO economics, decision-grade skills intelligence, AI-native operating models, productivity and trust, and the data foundations needed for better decisions.
Live tools, practical use cases and product evaluation
See selected technology partners demonstrate how their platforms support real workforce decisions, from AI governance and skills intelligence to workforce planning, productivity, listening, mobility and people data infrastructure.
A short reel of the room, the conversations and the format. Approved footage from past editions; not from this event.
Move beyond pilots and adoption metrics. This topic examines how people data, AI and workforce insight help leaders redesign tasks, roles, workflows and decision rights, then prove what changed in productivity, quality, capacity, cost, customer value or risk.
Explore how workforce intelligence helps leaders make decisions about headcount, capacity, cost, location, investment and risk. Sessions will focus on scenarios, trigger points, business trade-offs and how HR, People Analytics and Finance create a shared view of workforce value.
Skills data only matters when it changes decisions. This topic looks at how organisations identify critical capabilities, build or buy talent, enable internal mobility, redesign careers and use skills intelligence to shape hiring, learning, redeployment and workforce planning.
As AI moves into hiring, performance, learning, mobility and work allocation, governance becomes a business issue. This topic examines bias testing, auditability, human oversight, vendor controls, privacy, employee transparency and the trust conditions required before sensitive workforce decisions can scale.
West Coast sectors face distinctive workforce challenges: scarce technical talent, long capability build times, fast-moving AI infrastructure demand and specialist scientific roles. This topic explores workforce strategy for semiconductors, AI infrastructure, biotech, digital health and other capability-constrained industries.
The strongest workforce intelligence connects to outcomes beyond HR. This topic explores how people data informs decisions that affect customer experience, product velocity, service quality, sales productivity, operating performance, growth, resilience and risk.
Strategy, trust and business impact
For people leaders responsible for workforce strategy, AI adoption, culture, governance and measurable business value. The programme is built to support decisions about work, skills, productivity, risk and investment.
From insight to decisions
For leaders moving people analytics beyond dashboards into decision support, evidence standards, workforce intelligence products, AI-enabled insight and stronger links to Finance, Operations, Product, Legal and the business.
Capacity, scenarios and market signals
For leaders shaping workforce scenarios, role demand, skills supply, location choices, talent markets and build-buy-borrow-redesign decisions in a fast-moving AI and labour market environment.
Systems, governance and data confidence
For technology and data leaders responsible for the platforms, integrations, definitions, security and governance that make workforce intelligence reliable enough to use in real business decisions.
Capability that moves
For leaders using skills intelligence, learning, internal mobility, career architecture and talent strategy to decide what capability the organisation needs, where to build it and how to move people faster.
Workforce decisions beyond HR
For cross-functional leaders working with HR and People Analytics on productivity, capacity, customer outcomes, product delivery, investment decisions, privacy, risk and workforce AI governance.
Workforce intelligence as a business decision system
Better business decisions through workforce intelligence
What should humans do, what should AI do, and how should the system work as a whole?
Join us at The Marker, San Francisco, the conference hotel and venue for PAWorld26 San Francisco. Delegates and speakers can use the dedicated hotel booking link when arranging their stay.
Tell us a little about you and what you want to get out of the programme. We respond personally as the agenda, speakers and pricing land.
The event is designed for senior HR, People Analytics, Workforce Planning, Talent Intelligence, HR Tech, HRIS, Skills, Learning and business leaders from large, complex organisations. It will also be relevant for Finance, Operations, Product, Privacy and Risk partners involved in workforce decisions, AI governance, productivity or people-data strategy.
Move from AI activity to business value
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