Worker expertise has by no means mattered extra – and barely has it felt tougher to get proper. Individuals professionals are being requested to enhance engagement, wellbeing, inclusion and retention at a time when power is low, workloads are excessive, belief is fragile, and expectations have basically shifted.
AI, financial uncertainty, challenges round hybrid working and fixed change have impacted how individuals expertise work on a day-to-day foundation. But many organisations nonetheless depend on frameworks, processes and assumptions that now not match the fact persons are dwelling in.
This is the reason Worker Xperience Expo 2026 is such an vital occasion. Happening on twenty fourth February at Excel London, the expo recognises that EX is now not a ‘good to have’ or a standalone initiative – it’s a strategic, cultural and management problem that sits on the coronary heart of efficiency and retention.
The conversations at this 12 months’s Expo concentrate on what genuinely shapes expertise in the present day: how leaders present up, how work is designed, how listening turns into motion, how know-how helps moderately than erodes humanity, and the way organisations create environments the place individuals need to keep, develop and contribute.
Reserve your spot on the Worker Xperience Expo in the present day
What’s on the agenda?
Right here’s a flavour of the expo’s programme – from panel debates to interactive workshops.
Panel dialogue highlights
We’ll begin the day with an AI Individuals Operations Panel exploring the way forward for work and the way AI can allow productiveness and retention.
Audio system embody: HR Director Claire Horner, The Belfeild Group; Director of Individuals Jo Mountney, MND Affiliation; Individuals & Management Companion Marie Proctor, Capital Edge HR; Individuals Transformation Supervisor Stanislava Gaspar, Heathrow and HR Analyst Mervyn Dinnen (panel chair).
Subsequent, we’ll host a panel dialogue on the ‘ripple’ impact of on a regular basis peer-to-peer recognition, and the way it boosts connection and retention whereas additionally making a extra inclusive and empowered office tradition.
Panel chairs: Phillipa Donnelly, Diligent, and Vanessa Russel, GTS Rail Operations
Recognising that AI is now the ‘entrance door’ to work with a big affect on how our individuals discover data, make choices and collaborate, we’ll have a dialogue session ‘Belief is the brand new Ex’.
Audio system: Elsevier’s Sarah Meurer, Kevin Ferneyhough and Lisa Pantelli will share a easy management framework and sensible comms playbook.
Key themes: from Gen Z to monetary wellbeing
All through the day, Gen Z will little doubt function in just a few classes and Selecta’s ex-people chief Marie Proctor will provide recommendation on the best way to handle expectations and actually interact and develop this technology. And the affect of listening to the six dreaded phrases that no worker needs to listen to ‘I Have Some Suggestions for You’ shall be explored in a drama-based workshop by Helen Buchanan of Enact.
On Principal stage 2, we’ll hear in regards to the current rise in illness absence as main voices from the office wellbeing and absence administration sector unpack the underlying tendencies and the way organisations can handle this.
Monetary wellbeing can be a key theme for the day, with Ashraf Sherdel, a monetary wellbeing guide at HSBC, exploring the essential function this performs in fostering a wholesome, productive and engaged workforce.
Taking a look at worker well being extra broadly, three of the UK’s largest wellbeing chief communities will come collectively for a singular panel to speak about the way forward for office wellbeing and what we are able to do to raised assist staff.
Office design additionally performs an enormous function in wellbeing. Isobel Elton, of design consultancy ‘Way forward for the Workplace’, will run an interactive session exploring the best way to construct genuinely inclusive workplaces. The session can even have a look at how bodily surroundings and on a regular basis tradition can both assist – or hinder – your individuals.
See you there!
In the event you’re a individuals skilled navigating the stress of doing extra with much less, then the Worker Xperience Expo 2026 is your likelihood to step again from firefighting, study from these tackling these challenges head-on, and reconnect with the aim of the work you do.
You’ll go away with sharper perception, sensible concepts, and renewed confidence to form experiences that actually make a distinction for each individuals and organisations.
Reserve your spot on the Worker Xperience Expo 2026 (twenty fourth February, Excel London).
