21-22 October 2025
Intercontinental Sydney Hotel
Transforming HR Data Insights into Strategic Impact
In today’s unpredictable market—shaped by economic uncertainty, rapid AI advancement, digital transformation, and the urgent need for workforce reskilling—the HR function is shifting from administrative support to strategic leadership.
At the heart of this evolution, people analytics has emerged as a business imperative, with data-driven insights now the currency of effective decision-making.
Join us at the 6th People Analytics & Data Driven HR Summit, where HR and people analytics leaders come together at a pivotal moment to turn workforce insights into tangible business impact.
The 2025 program is shaped with input from our Advisory Board which includes industry leaders:
Joshua Reader
Head of People Services
Medibank
Rebecca Sexton
Director, HR Reporting, Analytics and Surveys Section
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Adam McKinnon
People Data & Analytics Leader
Reece Group
Kirsten Edwards
Global Head of People Data and Insights
Rio Tinto
The People Analytics & Data Driven HR Summit is now CPD Accredited. Attendees will receive 8 points per day, with a certificate immediately following the event.
Featured Speakers:
Alan Susi
Vice President, Global Head of Organizational Planning and Analytics
S&P Global
Joshua Reader
Head of People Services
Medibank
Mariam Hares
Chief People and Culture Officer
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation
Joel Rethore
Senior Director, Rewards, Data Analytics and People Operations
Optus
Sally Smith
Head of People Analytics
NAB
Vaughn Sheahan
Head of Organisational Development & Analytics
BHP
Kirsten Edwards
Global Head of People Data and Insights
Rio Tinto
Sarah Novelli
Executive Director, People and Culture
BGIS
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Global Perspective on Workforce Planning with Analytics: Learn how S&P Global used a minimum viable approach, powered by timely data and insights, to align workforce decisions with enterprise goals and secure executive buy-in.
Ensuring Data Integrity, Integration & Security: Learn how to strengthen the quality and security of your people data while embedding governance frameworks that enable ethical, compliant, and high-impact analytics.
Driving ROI through Strategic Tech Adoption: Explore how to streamline HR processes through automation, agentic AI, and templated workflows to reduce manual effort and accelerate decision-making.
Building HR Capability and Data Maturity: Uncover strategies for uplifting data literacy and empower your team to confidently interpret, apply, and communicate insights that influence business outcomes.
Strategic workforce planning: Discover how to advance your talent forecasting, recruitment and retention strategies through predictive analytics, capability mapping, and workforce insights.
Employee Experience & Wellbeing Analytics: Explore how behavioural and sentiment data is being used to identify attrition risks, address burnout, and drive targeted, data-led engagement and wellbeing strategies.
What's New for 2025?
Emerging Talent
Pitches
Hear from the next generation of people analytics leaders as they showcase their latest projects. Following their project pitches, you’ll provide feedback and co-develop solutions to their project challenges in a facilitated roundtable.
Unconference
Sessions
Gain practical approaches to tackle real-world challenges—like data storytelling, change management, GenAI integration, and reporting in Power BI—alongside your peers in a structured, solution-focused workshop.
Data Governance, Security and Ethics
Deep dive into data ethics, privacy and governance on topics on securing sensitive people data, enabling safe AI adoption, and increasing employee trust in data use across the organisation.
Aligning Pay, Performance and DEI Data
Unpack how leading organisations are connecting performance outcomes, remuneration decisions and DEI metrics. Understand how to close the data gaps and deliver reporting that meets both compliance needs and cultural expectations.
Venue
Sydney | Eora
Address: 16 Phillip Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Room: Boronia Ballroom
Accommodation:
Intercontinental Sydney Hotel is pleased to offer discounted accommodation rates to delegates. To book, please visit:
Conference and Event Accommodation Special
Parking:
Self-parking is available at a rate of $69 per car per day. Valet parking is offered exclusively to in-house guests at a rate of $89 per car per night. Please note that all parking is subject to availability, and the listed rates may change without notice.