Future of Talent & Transformation Summit - Sydney

Join us at our Sydney Summit designed for Director, VP, GM & Head of leaders across TA, HR, People & Transformation.
About this Event

As economic conditions remain unpredictable and technology continues to evolve at pace, Talent, HR, People, Operations, Tech & Transformation executive leaders are being asked to do more than optimise hiring, they are being asked to help redesign how organisations get work done.

Our Sydney Talent & Transformation Summit taking place on Wednesday 18 November 2026 at the Shangri-La, will bring together executive leaders for a highly interactive day focused on practical insight, peer exchange, and shared problem-solving. Rather than prescribing answers, this Summit in partnership with Pontoon, is designed to harness the experience in the room, combining expert perspectives with candid discussion on what is actually working across organisations today.

Key Discussion Topics

• Designing Talent Strategy for Perpetual Change: Moving beyond reactive workforce planning to build talent systems grounded in demographic, economic, and skills realities that are here to stay.
• From AI Tools to Workforce Redesign: How organisations are rethinking roles, workflows, and decision-making by intentionally blending human capability with AI, not just automating existing processes.
• Skills as the Operating System: Using a skills-based view to power workforce planning, internal mobility, capability building, and the integration of human and digital talent.
• From Pilots to Scale: What it really takes to move beyond AI experimentation and point solutions, embedding technology across the talent lifecycle in ways that drive measurable business impact.
• The Evolving Candidate and Employee Experience: Meeting rising expectations for transparency, personalisation, and trust, while balancing efficiency, ethics, and organisational outcomes.
• TA & HR as Organisational Architects: Positioning Talent and People leaders as strategic partners shaping enterprise capability, structure, and future ways of working.

Why Attend?

• Peer-Led Insight: Learn from senior leaders facing the same challenges, sharing what has worked, what has not, and what they are changing as a result.
• Practical, Strategic Takeaways: Leave with frameworks and ideas you can apply immediately, across talent strategy, workforce planning, and technology adoption.
• Curated, Senior-Level Conversation: An invite-only environment designed to foster meaningful discussion, collaboration, and honest exchange among experienced leaders.
• A Different Kind of Summit: Less presentation, more participation, focused on real-world application rather than theory.

Be part of a conversation that goes beyond trends and tools and help shape how talent and technology come together to deliver sustainable advantage into 2026 and beyond.

Haven’t attended one of our events before? Imagine a room filled with leaders that all have a wealth of knowledge (executive level only), to talk about is actually working right now, not just what’s trending. Alongside our host and guest speakers who encourage healthy debates and leave you with concepts you’ll want to bring straight into your organisation the next day!

Please note: This is an invite-only event designed specifically for Director, Head of, & C-Level executive leaders in Talent, Human Resources, Procurement, Operations, and Transformation, that sit within medium to large organisations. Those who do not fit these criteria will have their registration cancelled.