As we enter 2025, the HR landscape is experiencing seismic shifts. Digital transformation is accelerating, AI is becoming deeply embedded in daily workflows, and the ripple effects of the pandemic continue to reshape workplace norms. With all these changes afoot, HR leaders are trying to manage rapid change while also developing talent for the future.

In this timely session, Lisa Bass, transformation leader at BioReference Laboratories, shares actionable strategies for leading through change and unlocking employee potential. Drawing from her deep experience in change management and talent development, she’ll explore how organizations can help teams adapt and thrive, even amid disruption.

Key takeaways:

• Enhancing employee experience during digital transformation initiatives.
• Overcoming challenges in HR digital transformation.
• Developing talent and redesigning the future of work. 

Lisa Bass

Transformation Leader
BioReference Laboratories

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AI is reshaping HR, but real impact comes from strategy, governance and integration—not just shiny vendor promises. AI excels at automation and data insights, while humans bring empathy, ethics, and strategic judgment. The future isn’t about managing AI—it’s about collaborating with it to build a smarter, more adaptive workforce. This session will help HR leaders cut through the AI hype, assess what truly works and develop a custom AI-HR collaboration model—from AI work agents automating processes to cross-silo data insights driving strategy.

Join this session to:

• Reimagine AI as a workforce collaborator—leveraging its strengths while amplifying human impact.
• Shape AI governance through HR’s lens—ensuring fairness, transparency, and ethical deployment.
• Develop AI fluency within HR teams—equipping leaders to engage with AI responsibly.
• Foster collaboration between HR, data, and tech teams for smarter workforce strategies.
• Balance automation with human leadership to enhance employee experience and business outcomes.
• Evaluate, implement, and integrate AI solutions that truly fit your needs.
• Deploy a tailored AI-HR collaboration model—from AI-driven agents to data-powered workforce insights.

Vishal Bhalla

Co-Founder and CEO
AnalytAIX 

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Not every HR digital transformation delivers the expected benefits. Before diving into new technology, HR leaders must evaluate whether transformation aligns with business goals, enhances employee experience, and delivers measurable ROI. This session will explore how to determine if digital transformation is the right path, when it adds value versus unnecessary friction, and how to ensure it strengthens employer branding, workforce planning and personalization rather than just automating processes.

Key highlights:

• HR transformation should remove friction, not create it.
• It’s a critical part of employer branding in a competitive talent market.
• It must be as data-driven as marketing and finance to prove ROI.
• It extends beyond automation to workforce planning and personalization.

Tristan Hack

Marketing Committee Member
Society for People Analytics

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As organizations navigate the rapid changes brought by digital transformation, the ability to adapt socially—across teams, roles, and technologies—is becoming a critical skill. In this session, Greg Pryor, co-author of the newly released The Social Capital Imperative: Revealing, Developing, and Leveraging Organizational Networks (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology), explores how social agility is fast emerging as a key differentiator in the age of AI.

Drawing on more than a decade of work studying the democratization of work through technology, and his collaboration with noted researcher and HR Exchange Network Advisory Board member Michael Arena, Pryor will share insights into how organizational networks—and the people within them—must evolve to thrive in human-machine environments.

Key takeaways:

• Learn four essential network patterns that can accelerate your career and influence.
• Explore how AI is reshaping team dynamics, collaboration and trust.
• Gain firsthand insights from Pryor’s experience as a transformation leader and organizational researcher.

Greg Pryor

Founding Member
Connected Commons

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Digital transformation and AI are reshaping the workplace, but how each generation—Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Baby Boomers—adapts to these changes varies widely. HR leaders must navigate diverse expectations, technological comfort levels and collaboration styles to ensure AI and advanced technologies enhance productivity across all age groups. This session has Corey Seemiller, co-author of Generations in the World of Work exploring strategies for fostering a digitally inclusive workforce, leveraging AI to bridge generational gaps and ensuring that transformation benefits employees at every career stage.

Key highlights:

• How each generation engages with AI and digital tools.
• Tailoring AI and training for a diverse workforce.
• Leveraging AI to enhance collaboration and learning.
• Overcoming resistance and fostering digital upskilling.
• Creating policies that empower all generations.

Dr. Corey Seemiller

Co-author of Generations in the World of Work
Researcher, Speaker, Author

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Join us for this opportunity to turn on your cameras and microphones and speak directly with each other and VIP panelists, who will share their best practices for keeping humans in the loop and putting people at the center of organizations. 

Francesca Di Meglio

Editor
HR Exchange Network

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Cornelia Gamlem

Co-author of the Big Book of HR
Columnist for HR Exchange Network

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Vishal Bhalla

Co-Founder and CEO
AnalytAIX 

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Peter Laughter

Speaker
on Abundant Leadership in the Age of Disruption

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