Agenda

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.

Day One | Tuesday 21 October 2025

7:50

Registration and Morning Refreshments

8:30

Welcome to Country

8:40

Welcome Address from Aventedge

8:50

Chairperson’s Opening Address

Dr Philip Gibbs, Co-Founder, AHA!

AI & Automation Across the Employee Lifecycle

9:00

Moving the Dial on AI in the Workplace

As AI revolutionises the workplace and redefines the future of work, understanding its impact on people, culture, and capability is becoming critical to business success. This session explores how organisations are approaching AI adoption across different functions and what it means for the workforce. From reskilling and leadership alignment to building cultural readiness, hear how to experiment with AI in HR and supporting your people through the shift to AI-enabled work.

Amber Johnson, Head of AI – Workforce Optimisation, MYOB

9:40

Panel: Implementing AI and Automation across the Employee Lifecycle

Understanding the capabilities and opportunities for AI to transform HR insights and reporting beyond chatbots
Identifying the most impactful starting points for automation based on your organisation’s current capabilities and needs
Unpacking the lessons learned from pilot AI and automation projects

Moderator: Amber Johnson, Head of AI – Workforce Optimisation, MYOB

Vaughn Sheahan, Head of Organisational Development & Analytics, BHP

Melissa Dorey, Head of People Digital Experience, AGL

Adam Purkiss, Senior Business Improvement Manager, Anglicare Sydney

10:30

Morning Tea

Employee Experience, Wellbeing & Engagement Analytics

11:00

A Leaders’ Compass: Bringing People Data to Your Leaders' Everyday Decisions

Business leaders are time-poor and often confronted with an overwhelming volume of people data. In this session, Devshree Bhatt will explore how people analytics can be designed to support everyday decision-making, rather than just specialist analysis.

By combining employee sentiment with a focused, curated set of business metrics, she will share how organisations can move beyond dashboards toward insights leaders truly trust and act on. The result? Building sustainably high-performing teams.

Drawing on insights from the world's largest employee data lake—comprising 1.5 billion data points from 6,500 organisations—we’ll dive into how companies can overcome data overwhelm and instead drive better decisions.

Devshree Bhatt, Lead People Scientist, Culture Amp

11:20

Panel: Utilising EX Data to Spot Attrition Risks and Boost Retention Outcomes

Utilising behavioural and sentiment data – including leave patterns, absenteeism, and workloads – to predict burnout and disengagement
How to practically translate predictive EX insights into timely and tailored interventions that improve retention
Addressing burnout in high performers with targeted data-informed strategies

Moderator: Brooke Shaw, Director - People Strategy, Insights & Employee Experience, Mirvac

Michelle Tanti, People Operations & Data Leader, Lion

Sally Smith, Head of People Analytics, NAB

12:00

Networking Lunch

1:00

Using Psychometric Data to Inform Talent Management

While most companies recognise the importance of mapping talent to inform strategic recruitment, L&D initiatives and succession planning, many claim that such allocations are subjective and not standardised. Psychometric data, typically acquired for the recruitment and development of individuals, can be leveraged at the organisational level to analyse human capital according to the traditional 9-box grid. PBC will present a case study demonstrating how we can help clients utilise such data to introduce rigour and transparency into their talent management frameworks.

Dr Sean Coward, Head of Consulting, PBC Hogan

HR Tech Integration & Digital Transformation

1:20

Interactive Breakout Sessions

Delegates will participate in two sessions of their choosing. Each session runs for 30-minutes.

A: Using AI to transform HR decision-making while balancing productivity and responsibility

Dr Philip Gibbs, Co-Founder, AHA!

B: Beyond Dashboards - faster insights & better decisions by making AI and people analytics work for HR

Tony Ashton, Chief Product Officer, One Model

C: Overcoming integration and legacy system issues to streamline your HR tech stack

D: Unlocking predictive analytics capabilities through your HRIS to drive proactive workforce decisions

2:30

Afternoon Tea

3:00

Uplifting Employee Experience and Engagement through Data-Informed Decision Making

Leveraging employee experience and wellbeing data to inform initiatives that drive retention, engagement, and performance
Making data-informed decisions in EX and EE to support business outcomes in a constrained environment
Enabling leaders and teams to act on insights in ways that strengthen alignment, trust, and employee connection

Mariam Hares, Chief People and Culture Officer, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation

Workforce Planning, Talent Forecasting & Capability Mapping

3:30

Panel: Leveraging Data Analytics for Strategic Workforce Planning

Aligning planning efforts with changing business priorities to increase workforce agility
Building the data infrastructure and systems to effectively implement workforce planning
Considerations for managing strategic workforce planning in a time of mergers, acquisitions, and organisational change

Moderator: Michael Sanese, Director - HR Performance, Workforce Planning and Insights, University of Sydney

Rian Thompson, Director of Workforce Insights and Transformation, NSW Health

Bradley Whatmore, Director of Workforce Analytics, Australian Taxation Office

Paul Clarkson, Director Recruitment Workforce Planning & Analytics, Mater