As a valued Betterworks customer, you’re invited to join us at UNLEASH America in Las Vegas
The global stage where the future of work, human-centric HR and transformative technology power real business results.
UNLEASH is more than a conference: it’s where world-class HR leaders, innovators and practitioners come together to solve challenges, spark fresh thinking, and build the skills your organisation needs to thrive.
This year, Betterworks will take centre stage, bringing together senior Betterworks leaders alongside an exceptional group of customers who are redefining talent, skills, workforce planning and employee experience inside some of the world’s most influential organisations.
SPEAKERS
WE LOVE HR. For 10 years, UNLEASH has been the epicenter for human resources, recruitment, and learning enthusiasts. UNLEASH is home to forward-thinking pioneers shaping the new world of work.
Ethan Mollick AI Thought Leader, Professor The Wharton School
The Age of Real Work: When AI Becomes Your Colleague
Ethan Mollick is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on how AI, work and education intersect. He was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in AI”.
How leaders harness AI agents to amplify human insight – and avoid drowning in infinite output. AI is no longer a demo or a toy, it has crossed the threshold into real, economically valuable work. Ethan Mollick returns to UNLEASH to explore a new age of “real work,” where AI agents can replicate research, design products, and execute multi-step tasks once reserved for human experts. Yet the defining question of our time isn’t what AI can do - it’s why we let it. In this keynote, Ethan unpacks the profound tension between human-centered work and infinite automation. The greatest threat ahead isn’t job loss, it’s purpose loss - a world where organizations drown in AI-generated noise instead of rising through human creativity, judgement, and meaning. The future of work will be shaped not by how fast AI can move, but by how wisely leaders choose to steer it. The next frontier isn’t productivity - it’s discernment.
This is an UNLEASH Exclusive. Ethan’s last keynote for UNLEASH is one the most celebrated because of how many lives, careers, and companies he has helped influence and shape. He speaks with authority on how AI is reshaping careers, business and human potential, great for your “future of work” theme.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 16:40 - 17:25 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Ethan Mollick AI Thought Leader, Professor The Wharton School
The Age of Real Work: When AI Becomes Your Colleague
Ethan Mollick is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on how AI, work and education intersect. He was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in AI”.
How leaders harness AI agents to amplify human insight – and avoid drowning in infinite output. AI is no longer a demo or a toy, it has crossed the threshold into real, economically valuable work. Ethan Mollick returns to UNLEASH to explore a new age of “real work,” where AI agents can replicate research, design products, and execute multi-step tasks once reserved for human experts.
This is an UNLEASH Exclusive. Ethan’s last keynote for UNLEASH is one the most celebrated because of how many lives, careers, and companies he has helped influence and shape. He speaks with authority on how AI is reshaping careers, business and human potential, great for your “future of work” theme.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 16:40 - 17:25 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Unleashing Employees to Build a Learning Organization
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and the world’s top-ranked management thinker (Thinkers50, 2023). She is globally recognized for her work on psychological safety, teaming, and organizational learning.
This session explores how to create workplaces where employees find their work meaningful and teams support continuous learning. We examine why psychological safety drives engagement, innovation, and performance, and what leaders can do to foster it. Rather than relying solely on surveys and metrics, leaders can use action-oriented approaches that involve employees directly in improving their work experience. Research and case studies show that shifting from measuring engagement to enabling it helps build organizations where people collaborate, solve problems, and do meaningful work.
This is an UNLEASH Exclusive. Amy brings the human-heart of work - how engagement, learning, culture, and teamwork enable meaningful careers and thriving organisations.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 9:00 - 9:50 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Amy Edmondson Novartis Professor Harvard Business School
Unleashing Employees to Build a Learning Organization
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and the world’s top-ranked management thinker (Thinkers50, 2023). She is globally recognized for her work on psychological safety, teaming, and organizational learning.
This session explores how to create workplaces where employees find their work meaningful and teams support continuous learning. We examine why psychological safety drives engagement, innovation, and performance, and what leaders can do to foster it.
This is an UNLEASH Exclusive. Amy brings the human-heart of work - how engagement, learning, culture, and teamwork enable meaningful careers and thriving organisations.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 9:00 - 9:50 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Amy Edmondson Novartis Professor Harvard Business School
Dave Wachtel General Manager for Talent Workday
The New Era of Talent Decisions: How Right-Fit People Practices Are Powering Business Value
Dave Wachtel is the General Manager for Talent Products at Workday. He is responsible for the overall strategy, business plan, roadmap and execution across Workday’s Talent product portfolio including: Recruiting, HiredScore, Talent Management & Performance, Learning, Skills, Onboarding, Journeys, and Peakon Employee Voice. Dave joined Workday in 2020 and has held multiple leadership roles across Product & Technology. He is passionate about outcome-driven problem solving, innovation, and growing future leaders. Prior to joining Workday, Dave led product teams at Amazon and Cornerstone OnDemand in addition to brief stints at a digital marketing startup (New Engen) and a healthcare software powerhouse (Epic). He graduated from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
What business outcomes emerge when people practices are done right, not just done? HR leaders are asking sharper questions about people practices: not just how they work, but how they create measurable business value. The conversation is shifting toward impact, alignment and clarity.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 12:00 - 12:30 | Stage 3 - AI & Tech
Kim Shockley VP, HR Technology & Automation HP Inc.
Preparing HR for Agentic AI: Building the Foundations Step by Step
HP is preparing for a new world of work, one where agentic AI reshapes how work gets done and how people and technology interact. In this forward-looking session, Kim Shockley shares how HP is taking a practical, capability-first approach to building an HR function ready for that future. From assessing HR’s current capabilities and data maturity to aligning with enterprise AI and responsible AI governance, Kim outlines the key steps HP is taking to get AI-ready.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 1:30 - 1:55 | Stage 3 - AI & Tech
From One to Many: The future of AI is collaborative
Jaime Teevan is Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where she is responsible for driving research-backed innovation in the company's core products. Jaime is world-renowned for her research into productivity and personalized search, and was recognized by TIME as one of the top 100 people to play an instrumental role in AI development and societal advancement.
The future of work isn’t just about personal productivity—it’s about how AI can transform collaboration, making teams smarter and more effective together. As we move beyond individual gains, the real opportunity is designing AI that supports group goals, shared knowledge, and collective intelligence at scale. By intentionally shaping how AI integrates into teamwork, we unlock the potential to solve bigger problems and pioneer new ways of working—together.
🗓️ Thursday, 19 March | 9:50 - 10:25 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Jaime Teevan Chief Scientist Microsoft
From One to Many: The future of AI is collaborative
Jaime Teevan is Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where she is responsible for driving research-backed innovation in the company's core products. Jaime is world-renowned for her research into productivity and personalized search, and was recognized by TIME as one of the top 100 people to play an instrumental role in AI development and societal advancement.
The future of work isn’t just about personal productivity—it’s about how AI can transform collaboration, making teams smarter and more effective together. As we move beyond individual gains, the real opportunity is designing AI that supports group goals, shared knowledge, and collective intelligence at scale. By intentionally shaping how AI integrates into teamwork, we unlock the potential to solve bigger problems and pioneer new ways of working—together.
🗓️ Thursday, 19 March | 9:50 - 10:25 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Jaime Teevan Chief Scientist Microsoft
Neil Jensen VP, Head of Global Product Vision and Experience Workday
Workday: Powering the New Work Day in the Human-AI Era
Neil Jensen is the Vice President, Global Product Vision & Experience at Workday. In this role, he is a key voice and strategist focusing on Human Resources, the evolving nature of work, the frontline workforce, and the influence of Artificial Intelligence within businesses. Before joining Workday, Neil gained deep experience as an HR practitioner and a strategic consultant, offering guidance to some of the world's largest companies. He lives in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where he enjoys playing golf and participating in other outdoor pursuits, as well as spending time with his wife and their five teenage sons.
Workday's Next-Gen and human centric ERP, powered by Illuminate, is here to elevate your work and your workers. Our HCM Suite delivers value by radically improving core experiences, automating routine tasks and complex work, and empowering your people to focus on the work they love.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 10:50 - 11:05 | Spotlight 1
Neil Jensen VP, Head of Global Product Vision and Experience Workday
Workday: Powering the New Work Day in the Human-AI Era
Neil Jensen is the Vice President, Global Product Vision & Experience at Workday. In this role, he is a key voice and strategist focusing on Human Resources, the evolving nature of work, the frontline workforce, and the influence of Artificial Intelligence within businesses. Before joining Workday, Neil gained deep experience as an HR practitioner and a strategic consultant, offering guidance to some of the world's largest companies.
Workday's Next-Gen and human centric ERP, powered by Illuminate, is here to elevate your work and your workers. Our HCM Suite delivers value by radically improving core experiences, automating routine tasks and complex work, and empowering your people to focus on the work they love.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 10:50 - 11:05 | Spotlight 1
Scaling AI in HR: Medtronic’s 200+ Agent Use Cases & 17-Minute Hiring Win
Kunal Sethi is an innovative and forward-thinking HR leader with over 20 years of global experience in technology strategy, digital transformation, and service delivery.
Learn how Medtronic achieved the impossible: automating 6,000 interviews and cutting scheduling time to 17 minutes. Discover their strategy for deploying 200+ agentic AI use cases and fostering a clear vision of human-agent collaboration.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 14:30 - 15:00 | Stage 2 - HR Reinvention
Kunal Sethi VP, HR Digital Strategy and Transformation Medtronic
Scaling AI in HR: Medtronic’s 200+ Agent Use Cases & 17-Minute Hiring Win
Kunal Sethi is an innovative and forward-thinking HR leader with over 20 years of global experience in technology strategy, digital transformation, and service delivery.
Learn how Medtronic achieved the impossible: automating 6,000 interviews and cutting scheduling time to 17 minutes. Discover their strategy for deploying 200+ agentic AI use cases and fostering a clear vision of human-agent collaboration.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March | 14:30 - 15:00 | Stage 2 - HR Reinvention
Kunal Sethi VP, HR Digital Strategy and Transformation Medtronic
Josh Bersin Founder & CEO The Josh Bersin Company
The Disruption Never Stops: How AI is Radically Transforming HR
- The world’s No.1 workplace and HR analyst
- Founder & CEO of the world’s most trusted HR advisory firm
- Dean of the Josh Bersin Academy - 50,000+ HR leaders trained
Industry analyst Josh Bersin focuses on the global talent market, trends, and technologies impacting workforces across all industry segments. His research is featured in publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Economic Times, Financial Times, and Washington Post, and he published his book Irresistible in 2022.
The workplace is being reinvented at every level and HR is at the epicenter of this transformation. In this landmark keynote, global industry analyst Josh Bersin unpacks the urgent and systemic impact of AI on the HR technology stack, operating models, and the role of HR itself. Drawing on exclusive new research and 100+ use cases from across the industry, Josh explores the rise of AI agents, the shift from headcount to skills intelligence, and the reinvention of employee experience through intelligent systems. He will show how companies are rebuilding their talent strategy around productivity, adaptability, and trust: and what separates high-performing “superworker” organizations from the rest. This is not incremental change. It’s a once-in-a-generation reset of how we hire, manage, reward, and develop talent.
🗓️ Thursday, 19 March | 9:00 - 9:50 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Josh Bersin Founder & CEO The Josh Bersin Company
The Disruption Never Stops: How AI is Radically Transforming HR
Industry analyst Josh Bersin focuses on the global talent market, trends, and technologies impacting workforces across all industry segments. His research is featured in publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Economic Times, Financial Times, and Washington Post, and he published his book Irresistible in 2022.
The workplace is being reinvented at every level and HR is at the epicenter of this transformation. In this landmark keynote, global industry analyst Josh Bersin unpacks the urgent and systemic impact of AI on the HR technology stack, operating models, and the role of HR itself. Drawing on exclusive new research and 100+ use cases from across the industry, Josh explores the rise of AI agents, the shift from headcount to skills intelligence, and the reinvention of employee experience through intelligent systems.
🗓️ Thursday, 19 March | 9:00 - 9:50 | Stage 1 - Main Stage
Marc Lipscomb
Senior Vice President, Employee Experience
Adobe
Kimberly Shockley
Vice President HR Technology & Automation
HP
Preparing HR for Agentic AI: Building the Foundations Step by Step
Preparing HR for Agentic AI: Building the Foundations Step by Step
Join Kim Schockley, VP of HR Technology & Automation at HP, for an inside look at how HP is preparing its HR organization for the era of agentic AI by strengthening data foundations, assessing capabilities, and aligning with enterprise AI and responsible governance frameworks.
Christian Fernandez
Global Leader, Strategic Workforce Planning and Organization Design & Development
Mars
Maximizing Talent, Minimizing Cost: Mars’ Enterprise Workforce Planning Revolution
How a data-led approach at Mars transforms workforce strategy from cost burden into strategic asset
In an era of automation and cost pressure, Mars is rethinking how to augment and re-engineer work while preparing talent for the future of work. Discover how a data-driven workforce planning framework is enabling Mars to measure across segments the health of the workforce and the return of investment of their strategic choices.
Wendy Mayer
Vice President Candidate Experience
Pfizer
Workforce Reinvention at Pfizer: Designing the Roles You Haven’t Hired Yet
Building a flexible, AI-ready talent architecture for the workforce of the future.
As AI and digital transformation redefine work, Pfizer is reimagining how roles are designed, skills are developed, and talent is retained. Discover how the company is leveraging AI, skills intelligence, and human-centered strategy to reinvent its workforce for jobs that don’t yet exist.
Bharat Daga
Head of HR Technology
Qualcomm
Agentic AI: The Next Workforce Multiplier for HR and Business Leaders
Unlocking Strategic Advantage: AI Agents as Digital Colleagues
Agentic AI is moving beyond automation to autonomy, reshaping HR and workforce strategies. Join senior HR and tech leaders to explore how AI agents can drive productivity, enable new roles, and transform organizational design.
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Being at UNLEASH and presenting to a standing room only crowd today reminded me why this event is so special. The buzz around Workday, AI, and the future of work is electric!
Richard Doherty Senior Director Product Marketing EMEA Workday
OUR CUSTOMERS
The world’s leading employers from the Fortune 500 and public sector organizations to innovative startups and everything in between!
“Inspiring, bleeding edge conference! It's not your typical CHRO conference. It's a must attend.”
Marguerite Eastwood Chief Human Resources Officer
“Oh my gosh. What I love about UNLEASH is how practical the insights are from all the different speakers, and how much research and science go into all the incredible information that is being shared here. It's like no other!”
Brian J Glaser Chief Talent and Learning Officer
“UNLEASH America delivers a unique and dynamic forum for HR practitioners and community members to learn, network and grow exponentially!”
Jyoti Chopra Chief People, Inclusion and Sustainability Officer
Learn what’s actually working in a safe place to ask this question. See exactly how other big companies are using Betterworks to move faster, spend smarter and stop over-engineering everything.
To figure out what to do next, not sit through feature demos. No endless product walkthroughs. This is about decisions, trade-offs and what actually holds up at scale and in a world of uncertainty and HR complexity.
To get practical with AI, skills and workforce planning. What’s useful - real use cases. What’s hype. What’s already paying off. And what to ignore.
To talk to people at the same altitude. CHROs, HRIS leads and transformation owners, not 1,000's of people queuing for coffee, swag and branded socks.
To leave with clarity. Most people leave big vendor events overloaded. UNLEASH sends you home challenged, sharper, calmer and better prepared.
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Learn what’s actually working in a safe place to ask this question.
See exactly how other big companies are using Workday to move faster, spend smarter and stop over-engineering everything.
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To figure out what to do next, not sit through feature demos.
No endless product walkthroughs. This is about decisions, trade-offs and what actually holds up at scale and in a world of uncertainty and HR complexity.
3.
To get practical with AI, skills and workforce planning.
What’s useful - real use cases. What’s hype. What’s already paying off. And what to ignore.
4.
To talk to people at the same altitude.
CHROs, HRIS leads and transformation owners, not 1,000's of people queuing for coffee, swag and branded socks.
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To leave with clarity.
Most people leave big vendor events overloaded. UNLEASH sends you home challenged, sharper, calmer and better prepared.
WHY WORKDAY CUSTOMERS
COME TO UNLEASH?
