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With benefits being the second largest expenditure, HR and Reward leaders face significant challenges in effectively communicating them. As organisations strive to offer competitive benefits packages, the complexity and variety of options can overwhelm employees and create difficulties in crafting a clear narrative for HR to share. This often leads to disengagement and underutilisation of available benefits. With traditional and  one-size-fits-all communication methods frequently falling short, this workshop brings together senior reward and benefits leaders to explore strategies for enhancing communications, aiming to deliver maximum return on investment for both your organisation and its people.

Key Discussion Points:

• Personalisation through Data Analytics: While personalisation is often discussed, in reality how are you using data to tailor communications to individual employee needs and preferences?
• Creation of a Single Narrative: Do you have a clear narrative for your Employee Value Proposition (EVP), or does it resemble a lengthy shopping list?
• Automated Communication Systems: What role does your technology platform play in delivering timely, automated, and personalised messages?
• AI: Is it helping or hindering you from delivering personalised communications?

In association with Gallagher

Striking the right balance between global consistency and local relevance is one of the biggest challenges for reward and benefits leaders in multinational organisations. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how global employers are using smart technology and flexible frameworks to deliver unified reward, benefits and wellbeing strategies that work globally and resonate locally. Sharing real-world examples and practical insights, through peer discussion we’ll delve into what it takes to make global reward and benefits strategy work – wherever your people are.  

Key discussion points: 

• How global platforms are enabling centralisation of global initiatives and helping employers deliver a cohesive benefits experience while respecting regional needs, trends and expectations 
• What "simple to complex” really looks like and how to balance choice with simplicity and local flexibility 
• What global programme initiation involves and why it’s a game-changer 
• The employee experience lens: why visibility, clarity and cultural relevance matter more than ever in driving benefits engagement 

In association with Benifex

Global benefits leaders face increasing complexity in managing multinational benefit programmes—navigating fragmented data, opaque costs, compliance risks, and operational inefficiencies. This workshop is an opportunity for global benefits leaders to engage in peer-led discussions, share best practice and explore how digitally disruptive AI-powered solutions can redefine the way multinational organisations manage and administer benefits on a global scale. 

• The reality of global benefits management today: Challenges, barriers and the need for change and transparency (e.g. gaining full visibility into the size and scope of your global benefits landscape, identifying inefficiencies, unnecessary spend, and administrative burdens) 
• The AI advantage: How AI and digital platforms can centralise and streamline global benefits management to drive accurate visibility on costs, compliance, commissions and plan performance  
• Driving efficiency through technology: Maximizing captive arrangements and improving vendor negotiations with AI-enabled insights to reduce overlap in benefits plans and eliminate wasteful spending 
• Moving from reactive administration to proactive benefits management: Using AI-driven analytics to build better plans and make informed benefits decisions 

In association with Origin

Employee healthcare benefits are evolving beyond traditional insurance models, with a growing focus on prevention, early intervention, and inclusive access for the entire workforce. This workshop will explore how employers can redesign health benefits to simplify access, improve health outcomes, manage costs and reduce people risk through leveraging new health services, digital tools, and alternative financing options. 

Key discussion points: 

• The new healthcare landscape and the role employers can play in simplifying and shifting employee healthcare journeys for better outcomes. 
• What are the key barriers employers face in providing whole of workplace health? Addressing cost and complexity challenges and improving access at all points in the employee health journey from prevention, to diagnosis and treatment. 
• How workplace health benefits need to evolve around structure, financing and forecasting of health outcome trends to address key business risks (eg. reduce absenteeism, improve productivity and address future talent needs) 

In association with Simplyhealth

The global workforce is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by advances in AI, demographic shifts, and the evolving nature of work. With an ageing population and a multigenerational workforce becoming the new normal, businesses must adapt to thrive in this era of change. Join OECD senior economist, Shruti Singh to explore why age-inclusive and multigenerational workplace strategies are critical to securing future success and navigating the challenges of a transitioning labour force.

• Changing workforce demographics: What this means for HR and business strategy planning today
• The impact of an ageing workforce at the macro level: implications for economic growth, talent availability and how it will shape future workplaces
• Debunking the stereotypes: building a compelling business case for retaining the talents of the older workforce
• Designing policies, practices and benefits to offset potential challenges of an ageing workforce while engaging and empowering older workers
• Steps to future-readiness: actionable insights and approaches

With breakthroughs in epigenetics, AI-driven healthcare and age-defying innovations, we are edging closer to a world where living for 150 years is becoming a reality. But what does this mean for the workplace, the economy and society? Join Hannah as she challenges conventional thinking and explores the impact of these profound shifts ahead.

• How epigenetics, cutting-edge health tech, quantum simulation and AI drug discovery are extending lifespans and rewriting the rules of ageing
• Why social, environmental and economic factors may be just as crucial as genetics in predicting life longevity
• The 100-year career: how AI and automation will reshape the future of work
• What a 150-year lifespan means for healthcare, pensions, urban planning and human relationships

Explore the mix of established big-name suppliers and fresh new innovators - all offering the latest solutions across physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing.  

In an era of rising healthcare costs, the smartest organisations are using data to see what’s coming, so they can act before it’s too late. The session will explore how data-driven insights can predict workforce health risks, drive strategic decision-making and cut renewal premiums. 

• Learn how to harness workforce health data to identify emerging risks and implement targeted interventions – before costs escalate 

• Discover how real-time insights can support strategic business decisions, optimising benefits design and reducing financial exposure 

• Case study in action: Get a firsthand look at how one organisation faced with an 80% benefits renewal premium increase used data to reduce it by 50%, proving the tangible impact of proactive risk management 

Session moderator: Dawn Lewis, Content Editor, REBA 

In association with Aon