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HRD Summit UK: Post Summit Report

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The 16th HR Director Summit was held on the 6th and 7th February 2018 welcomed 1,200+ Senior HR and Industry Leaders from a wide range of industries to the ICC, Birmingham. The event themed, Curators of the New Business Landscape – Guiding Strategic Growth, focussed on today’s diverse and complex business environment and the challenge […]

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The 16th HR Director Summit was held on the 6th and 7th February 2018 welcomed 1,200+ Senior HR and Industry Leaders from a wide range of industries to the ICC, Birmingham. The event themed, Curators of the New Business Landscape – Guiding Strategic Growth, focussed on today’s diverse and complex business environment and the challenge of the unknown we face as business leaders. Guiding the discussion were Senior HR Leaders from companies, including IBM, Bosch, Siemens, CISCO, LinkedIn, Unilever, and McDonalds.

Watch the HRD Summit 2018 launch video below as we highlight some of the challenges facing HR and lead with the theme of the HR leader as the curator of the new business landscape.
Described as the most creative, informative, and engaging Summit to date; highlights included a powerful and authentic keynote from Nilofer Merchant and Josh Bersin; rocking it out on stage with SongDivision; breaking out of the HRD Escape Room and delicious cocktails and live entertainment at the Workday networking drinks (among many more).

To read the in the post-summit report, click here. 

Launch video here:

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