PAWorld26 NYC

PAWorld26 NYC, Turning People Data and AI into Business Performance

PAWorld26 NYC is a two-day conference for senior HR, people analytics, and cross-functional leaders, held on 4-5 November 2026 in New York City. The event is structured around a single organising challenge: moving beyond AI access and dashboards to real operating change, redesigning work, proving workforce value, and governing automated decisions responsibly.

Core Objectives

The programme is built around six applied themes:

1. Prioritising AI use cases with business evidence, separating genuine value from adoption metrics and theoretical efficiency gains.
2. Redesigning work, roles, and decision rights, moving from tool deployment to structural operating change.
3. Building a CFO-grade workforce value case, making the link between workforce investment and business outcomes measurable and defensible.
4. Planning capacity under AI uncertainty, using scenario-based approaches rather than false precision.
5. Making build/buy/borrow/automate decisions, grounding talent and skills choices in evidence.
6. Governing sensitive workforce decisions before scale, treating trust and oversight as operational requirements, not afterthoughts.

Conversation Tracks

Sessions will cover AI productivity and work redesign, workforce planning and economics, skills intelligence and internal mobility, regulated workforce AI and governance, East Coast sector and talent geography dynamics (financial services, life sciences, media, professional services), and connecting people data to business outcomes.

Audience

The event is designed for CHROs, CPOs, Heads of People Analytics, Strategic Workforce Planning leaders, HR Tech and People Data leaders, and Skills and Talent leaders, as well as cross-functional partners in Finance, Operations, Legal, Privacy, Risk, and Technology who co-own workforce decisions.

Partners include One Model, Draup, Ikona, PeopleScape.AI, Revelio Labs, Vemo, Visier, and Welliba.