Not long ago, HR people were much like high school assistant principals―paper-pushers who kept the building running. Today, these managers focus more on people than on paper and, like skilled teachers, they help both the strugglers and the stars. And in the future? HR will be guiding employees throughout their careers and become more essential than ever to business analytics and strategy.

Tomorrow’s HR leaders will need to be bigger, broader thinkers, and they’ll have to be tech-savvy and nimble enough to deal with an increasingly agile and restless workforce. Technology is freeing up HR to take on bigger-picture matters, making the field more exciting, more demanding and perhaps more competitive as well.

Three Main Topics will guide the conference: Recruitment & Onboarding, Retention & Employee Experience, and Strategic HR & Leadership