Workforce and technology disruption continue to create significant opportunities for the HR function, but the focus is now shifting from vision to execution. Join Kyle Forrest, Deloitte’s Future of HR leader, and Andy Valenzuela, EVP of Global Total Rewards and Agentic People Experience at Salesforce, to separate hype from reality and learn how one organization is making tangible progress on building an AI-powered HR function. Andy returns to HR Tech to share lessons learned over the 12 months of progress following last year’s ballroom session.

AI has taken center stage, yet in many cases, returns have fallen short. Cultural resistance, low adoption, and worker skepticism progress, and according to Deloitte’s research, only 7% of AI budgets go toward driving the human elements of success. The bottleneck is not technology or access. It’s human adaptability.

Join Deloitte leaders Allyson Dake, Strategic & Technology Change Market Offering Leader, and Cory Lukens, Workforce Strategies Market Offering Leader, alongside Josie Trine, VP of HR at Medtronic, to explore how organizations can stop managing change episodically and start building the always-on adaptive workforce capabilities needed to turn AI investment into AI advantage.

The pace of change in business has one direction: more, faster, for less. Unlocking transformation value and ROI in an era of continuous disruption demands a new approach to managing workforce and organization change. Deloitte’s Workforce Dimension of Transformation (WDT) considers how organization, workforce, and change capabilities intersect with process, data, and technology to maximize enterprise value and ROI, helping organizations navigate change holistically and consistently.

In the past, organizations had the luxury of planning for a major episode of change followed by a long “off-season.” Transformation is no longer a moment; it is the ongoing backdrop against which we are doing business. Enterprises must continuously make talent, skill, structure, location, and/or technology choices—and navigate all the associated impacts. This session explores how organizations can make better, faster, data-driven decisions and execute through disruption with confidence.

Join Deloitte’s Casey Caram, US Organization Design & Effectiveness Leader, Allyson Dake, US Strategic & Technology Change Leader, and Chris Norman, US WDT Platform Leader, to explore approaches for building organization, workforce, and change capabilities that help you realize value from transformation and navigate disruption.

The future of talent is being built in real time. Ford has embarked on a multi-year journey to transform its talent strategy, technology ecosystem, operating model, and recruiting processes while navigating the complexity of enterprise-scale change.

Join Jody Block, Director of Talent Acquisition Operations, Ford; Lauren Drago, Senior Principal AI Growth Partner, Eightfold.ai; Sona Manzo, Managing Director, Human Capital, Deloitte; and Daniel Huerta, Co-Host, Modern People Leader, to explore the decisions, lessons, and alliances shaping Ford’s transformation. Hear how Ford is moving from strategy to execution, evolving its operating model, and using talent intelligence and AI to enable what comes next.

This candid conversation will unpack what Ford has learned along the way and how Eightfold’s AI-powered talent intelligence is supporting new approaches to skills, workforce planning, and talent mobility. Discover what other organizations can learn from Ford’s journey — and how to turn AI ambition into measurable enterprise progress.

Agentic AI isn’t just another technology — it is the engine of your future HR operating model. This shift unlocks the “Human-Agentic Workforce,” where digital workers and human talent collaborate to redefine productivity. Join Greg Vert, HR Reimagined leader at Deloitte, and Josie Trine, VP of HR, Enterprise Transformation, and M&A at Medtronic, to learn how Medtronic is pioneering this technological leap to improve the digital workforce experience and embed and scale agentic AI into HR workflows.

Good leadership has long been defined by consistent behaviors — but AI is fundamentally reshaping the leadership contract. It’s not simply a matter of adopting new tools or managing new workflows. AI is rewriting the expectations leaders carry into every relationship: with their organizations, their teams, and themselves. Deloitte’s research explores three interconnected dimensions of that shift: the external pressures on what organizations expect from leaders; the internal reckoning as leaders reconfront their authority and value in a world where machines can replicate many capabilities that once defined leadership credibility; and the conditions for sustainable success — the structures, skills, and support systems leaders need to perform amid continuous, compounding disruption.

The AI marketplace is continuing to evolve at a rapid pace, and the volume of options and noise can be overwhelming. At the same time, the traditional “build vs buy” dynamic has changed and consumption-based technology costs are challenging to forecast and manage. Join Greg Vert, HR Reimagined leader at Deloitte, and Linda Bergin, VP HR Services and Technologies Transformation at Fortive, to learn how Fortive is navigating the ever-changing landscape to accelerate experimentation and scaling while embedding agility into the AI roadmap.

Large enterprises often evolve learning and talent technology around immediate business needs, creating fragmented experiences over time. AT&T is using its transformation to move beyond technology consolidation and rethink how employees access learning, understand the skills they need, and navigate career opportunities across the organization.

In this conversation, leaders from AT&T, Cornerstone, and Deloitte will discuss the decisions behind the transformation, what it takes to implement a connected learning and skills ecosystem at enterprise scale, and the lessons emerging along the way. The discussion will explore ecosystem design, integration, adoption, and the operating-model changes required to turn technology investments into broader talent transformation.

Panelists will also examine how skills intelligence can help organizations understand current and future capabilities, support internal mobility, and create greater career agility as roles and traditional career paths continue to evolve.

Every organization is making AI workforce decisions right now, and most are doing so without a reliable model of what those decisions actually cost or return. This session cuts through the noise on one of the most consequential questions HR leaders face: how do you plan for a workforce that is being augmented by AI in some places and replaced by it in others, and how do you know which is which before the bill comes due?

Analysts and CHROs who have been in real deployments join a frank, spirited conversation about what the ROI math actually looks like in practice, why the augmentation-vs.-replacement framing leads organizations into bad planning decisions, and what has driven success or failure when the rubber meets the road. This isn’t a session about token costs or IT budgets alone. It’s about workforce strategy, financial planning, and the organizational traps already catching companies off guard, and what HR leaders need to own next.

The rules of talent acquisition have changed. In an AI-driven enterprise, TA is no longer an enabling function; it is a strategic engine powered by data, intelligence, and intent. Join Bhawna Bist of Deloitte and Cindi Harper, Vice President of People Solutions of Intel, to discover how Intel is reimagining talent acquisition, moving from an in-house delivery model to an insight-led, AI-enabled, and RPO-powered agile model.

As AI moves from experimentation into everyday operations, HR leaders are playing a growing role in shaping how organizations adopt, scale, and sustain enterprise AI. In this fireside chat, Southern Glazer’s CHRO Amy Kickham will join Manoj Mishra, Deloitte’s CTO for Human Capital, and Barb Johnson, Consumer Industry Human Capital Operate Leader, in a conversation moderated by Darren Gest, Deloitte’s Consumer Industry Human Capital Leader, to share practical perspectives on moving from AI ambition to lasting impact.