As a valued SAP 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, Workday will take centre stage, bringing together senior Workday 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.
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.
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
Adam Holton CHRO GE Healthcare
Why the Future of HR Leadership Isn't About More Skills
In a world obsessed with capability lists and leadership models, this session offers a different perspective. It explores why developing future HR leaders is less about adding more skills and more about how leaders learn, decide, and create impact through others.
🗓️ Thursday, 19 March | 1:30 - 1:55 | Stage 4 - Talent
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
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
Amy Coleman CPO, Microsoft - Keynote UNLEASH 2025
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.
Kai Petzelt
VP Head of Product Marketing
SAP SuccessFactors
Reinventing work by connecting people, data, and AI
AI is transforming the future of work at unprecedented speed, but organizations winning today are the ones delivering meaningful connections between their people, data, and technology. Discover the latest innovations from SAP SuccessFactors and see how to empower your workforce with the right combination of AI, experiences, and insights to achieve real business outcomes.
Caitlynn Sendra
Senior Research Scientist, Future of Work Research Lab
SAP SuccessFactors
When Employees Turn to AI Over Managers: A Leadership Blueprint
Original research from the SAP SuccessFactors Future of Work Research Lab shows employees are increasingly turning to AI over managers for guidance and support. This boardroom helps HR leaders define a practical blueprint for leadership and culture in an AI-enabled world.
Phil Rhodes
CLO
Philips66
Architecting the Future Workforce: Leveraging AI and Skills to Drive Talent Mobility
Building a skills-based foundation for agility, inclusion, and personalized growth
As organizations move beyond traditional role-based models, skills are becoming the cornerstone of agility and opportunity. Join Phil Rhodes to explore how his team is redesigning job architecture, embedding AI-powered learning, and enabling real talent mobility across the enterprise.
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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 SAP 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.
5.
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?
