The second half of the year marks a critical time for HR and business leaders to align strategy, finalize budgets, and build momentum for the year ahead.

​With shifting market conditions, emerging technologies, political disruption and instability, and increasing pressure to demonstrate business impact, HR must take a proactive and data-informed role in strategic and financial planning.

​The goal of the Business and HR Strategy & Budget Planning Summit is to help HR leaders navigate this unique planning season. This three-day virtual event explores how HR can lead budgeting, resource allocation, and workforce planning efforts that align with business and financial goals and evolving workforce expectations.

​Through panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops, participants will discuss topics like technology investment planning, performance management strategies, compensation benchmarking, and end-of-year workforce planning. The summit also integrates a focus on people analytics, HR-finance collaboration, and strategic planning for new CHROs and mid-sized organizations.

## Details

**Business and HR Strategy & Budget Planning Summit**
**Date:** August 26–28, 2025
**Time:** 7:00AM PST - 11:00AM PST
**Location**: Online
**Tickets**: Free
**Format**: Panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops
**BONUS**: Earn your **SHRM and HRCI recertification credits** just by attending!

⚡ **What to Expect**?
​Three dynamic days focused on what HR leaders need most: strategic clarity, budget confidence, and future-ready planning.

​👥 **Designed for HR Leaders, Founders, and Rising CHROs**
​Whether you’re setting strategy, finalizing budgets, or leading transformation—this is your space to level up.

​🧠 **You’ll Dive Into**:
​- Aligning HR strategy with 2026 business goals
\- ​Budgeting with precision: tech\, talent\, and total rewards
​- Performance management & engagement strategies for Q4
​- People analytics & workforce planning tools
​- Cross-functional collaboration with Finance, IT & Ops
\- ​Scalable onboarding and L&D planning
\- ​Strategic leadership for new & emerging CHROs

​🎯 **What You’ll Walk Away With**:
​- 10 essential HR competencies to lead with impact
​- Actionable frameworks for tech investment, forecasting, and talent planning
​- Real-world case studies & tools to bring back to your team

📍**Register now – it’s free!**
Save your seat and lead the future of HR—starting now.

Hacking HR

Business and HR Strategy & Budget Planning Summit

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Organizations are facing a dual challenge: standing out in a hyper-competitive talent market and ensuring that hiring efforts align with long-term strategic goals.

​The Talent Strategy and Acquisition Summit will help HR and talent leaders meet that challenge head-on by building agile, inclusive, and data-informed talent strategies that support business growth and transformation.

​This three-day virtual summit brings together experts in sourcing, recruitment, employer branding, onboarding, and internal mobility to explore what it takes to win top talent in 2025 and beyond. Participants will learn how to design high-impact hiring strategies, activate scalable recruitment systems, and embed DEI and experience design into every stage of the talent lifecycle.

​With a mix of panels, presentations, and hands-on sessions, the summit equips participants to drive hiring outcomes that are faster, smarter, and more aligned with workforce needs. Whether you’re a new CHRO building a talent foundation or a talent leader at a small or mid-sized business, this summit will provide practical frameworks for success.

## Details

**Talent Strategy and Acquisition Summit**
**Date:** September 2–4, 2025
**Time:** 7:00AM PST - 11:00AM PST
**Location**: Online
**Tickets**: Free
**Format**: Panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops
**BONUS**: Earn your **SHRM and HRCI recertification credits** just by attending!

​⚡ **What to Expect**?
​A high-impact summit designed to help HR leaders and recruiters scale smart, inclusive, and agile hiring strategies—no matter your team size.

​👥 **Made for CHROs, Talent Leaders, and Builders at Growing Companies**
​If you’re hiring in 2025, this is where strategy meets action.

​🧠 **You’ll Dive Into**:
\- ​Building scalable\, data\-driven talent acquisition strategies
​- Using analytics to hire smarter and faster
​- Embedding inclusive hiring across the funnel
​- Strengthening employer brand and candidate experience
​- Designing onboarding that boosts retention from day one
​- Supporting hybrid, remote, and global hiring models
​- Aligning hiring with succession and internal mobility
​- Scaling recruiting systems—even with limited resources

​🎯 **What You’ll Walk Away With**:
​- 10 mission-critical competencies for modern TA leaders
\- ​Frameworks to future\-proof your recruitment strategy
\- ​Playbooks for high\-growth\, high\-impact hiring

​📍Sign up now—build the workforce your strategy needs.

Talent Strategy and Acquisition Summit

​The year-end is a critical time to align talent strategy with operational execution.

​As organizations prepare for workforce transitions, performance evaluations and strategic resets, the Talent Management and Workforce Strategy Summit offers HR leaders the insights, tools, and frameworks needed to manage talent more effectively while driving real business value.

​This three-day virtual summit brings together experts in workforce planning, L&D, performance management, succession strategy, and engagement to explore how to maximize workforce impact. Through daily panels broadcast on Zoom and LinkedIn Live, and hands-on interactive sessions like roundtables and workshops hosted on Zoom, participants will engage in deep learning and collaboration.

​For new CHROs, this summit provides actionable strategies to lead through year-end talent cycles and set up strategic talent plans for 2026. For small and mid-sized organizations, the content focuses on scalable talent practices that don’t require large teams or budgets but deliver big results.

## Details

**Talent Management and Workforce Strategy Summit**
**Date:** November 4–6, 2025
**Time:** 7:00AM PST - 11:00AM PST
**Location**: Online
**Tickets**: Free
**Format**: Panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops
**BONUS**: Earn your **SHRM and HRCI recertification credits** just by attending!

​​⚡ **What to Expect**?
​A results-driven summit to help HR and talent leaders close out the year strong—with smart strategies, agile systems, and a people-first focus.

​👥 **Built for CHROs, People Ops Leaders & Talent Builders in High-Growth and Lean Environments**

​If you’re planning for performance, growth, or change—this is your launchpad.

​🧠 **You’ll Dive Into**:
\- ​End\-of\-year talent planning aligned with performance goals
​- Designing reviews that actually drive improvement
​- Embedding L&D and succession into strategic talent strategy
​- Using analytics to forecast needs and shape smarter decisions
​- Engaging and retaining top talent during Q4 transitions
\- ​Leading with agility through financial or headcount constraints
\- ​Empowering HR teams at small and scaling orgs

​🎯 **What You’ll Walk Away With**:
\- ​10 essential competencies for strategic talent leadership
\- ​Planning frameworks to improve performance\, retention\, and leadership readiness
​- Tools to connect people strategy with business outcomes

​📍Join us and turn your Q4 strategy into a people-powered finish line.

Talent Management and Workforce Strategy Summit

​Knowing how to harness and leverage the power of Artificial intelligence is now the baseline for people, leaders and organizations.

AI has become an essential part of today’s work and strategy. Two years ago, knowing AI was the goal, but that alone isn’t enough anymore.
​The next stage is to learn how to apply AI: hands-on, across functions, workplace ecosystem and workflows, and goals.

​That’s where The AI Experience Summit – Edition II comes in. This three-day virtual summit is the first of its kind!

​The summit’s goal is to guide people on how to develop real capabilities in applying AI to solve problems, make better decisions and unlock productivity.

​Unlike typical conferences, this edition prioritizes active learning. Through immersive workshops, expert-led panel conversations and guided tool walkthroughs, attendees won’t just talk about AI: they’ll use it.

​Whether you're new to AI or refining your approach, you'll leave with skills, templates and strategies you can apply immediately.
​The summit includes dedicated content for both generalists and specialists, new learners and experienced adopters, enterprise leaders and small business operators. It’s AI, made practical and made human.

## Details

**The AI Experience Summit (Second Edition)**
**Date:** December 2–4, 2025
**Time:** 7:00AM PST - 11:00AM PST
**Location**: Online
**Tickets**: Free
**Format**: Panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops
**BONUS**: Earn your **SHRM and HRCI recertification credits** just by attending!

​​⚡ **What to Expect**?
​A practical, hands-on summit designed to turn curiosity into capability—fast-tracking your ability to use AI tools to drive real results across your org.
​👥 **For Business Builders, Team Leads, and Emerging AI Champions**
**​Whether you’re exploring use cases or leading transformation—this is your entry point to applied AI.**

​🧠 **You’ll Dive Into**:
​- Using generative AI across HR, marketing, ops, finance, and more
\- ​Prompt engineering and AI task automation—no code required
\- ​Building internal GPTs and AI agents tailored to your org
\- ​Reworking workflows with AI at the core
\- ​Navigating AI ethics\, governance\, and risk with confidence
​- Starting small, piloting smart, and scaling strategically

​🎯 **What You’ll Walk Away With**:
​- 10 essential competencies for practical AI adoption
\- ​Tools and tactics to boost productivity\, creativity\, and impact
\- ​Clear strategies to align AI use with business goals

​📍Get ready to roll up your sleeves and lead with AI—confidently and responsibly.

Hector Rivera

The AI Experience Summit (Second Edition)

December is the time to reflect, recalibrate and reimagine the future.
​The HR 2025 Debrief and 2026 Planning Summit is designed to help HR leaders assess this year’s wins and challenges, extract meaningful lessons, and turn them into forward-looking strategies for growth, innovation, and resilience in the new year.

​This three-day virtual event brings together business-savvy CHROs, people analytics experts, HR strategists, and transformation leaders to share insights, frameworks, and tools for data-informed planning and future-focused execution.

​With a blend of panels, fireside chats, and hands-on, interactive sessions at the end of each day, participants will gain clarity and confidence to lead HR into 2026.

​This summit is ideal for new HR leaders looking to set vision and strategy, as well as small and mid-sized organizations seeking scalable planning models that can produce big outcomes. It connects strategic review with tactical planning, empowering attendees to design more adaptive, evidence-driven, and people-centered workplaces.

## Details

**The HR 2025 Debrief and 2026 Planning Summit**
**Date:** December 9–11, 2025
**Time:** 7:00AM PST - 11:00AM PST
**Location**: Online
**Tickets**: Free
**Format**: Panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops
**BONUS**: Earn your **SHRM and HRCI recertification credits** just by attending!

​​⚡ **What to Expect**?
​A forward-focused summit built to help HR leaders reflect, recalibrate, and confidently plan for 2026—with strategy, data, and people at the center.

​👥 **Designed for CHROs, People Leaders, and SMB Teams Driving Impact Through Planning**

​Whether you're leading an enterprise team or a small-but-mighty HR function—this is where smart strategy starts.

​🧠 **You’ll Dive Into**:
​- What worked (and didn’t) in 2025—and how to use those insights for 2026
\- ​Building strategic HR plans that align with business goals and culture priorities
​- Leveraging people analytics to forecast, measure, and plan
\- Strengthening cross\-functional alignment with finance and operations
​- Planning for agility, resilience, and capability growth in a fast-changing landscape
​- Supporting CHROs and SMBs with plug-and-play templates and planning tools

​🎯 **What You’ll Walk Away With**:
​- 10 must-have competencies for strategic HR planning in 2026
\- ​A planning toolkit that balances ambition with adaptability
​- Clear frameworks to align people strategy with business outcomes
​
​📍Build your 2026 roadmap with confidence, clarity, and community.

The HR 2025 Debrief and 2026 Planning Summit

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