PAWorld26 San Francisco
About This Event
PAWorld26 San Francisco: Workforce Intelligence for Business Decisions
Taking place on 23-24 September 2026 in San Francisco, PAWorld26 is a practitioner-led conference designed for senior HR, People Analytics, and cross-functional business leaders who want to move workforce intelligence from insight production into genuine business decision-making.
Programme Structure
The event runs across four curated tracks:
- Plenary, Anchor ideas on how workforce intelligence is becoming a business decision system, the impact of AI on work, and what leaders should prioritise in the near term.
- Work Design, How organisations are redesigning tasks, roles, workflows, decision rights, and human-AI handoffs, with a focus on proving productivity and business value.
- Workforce Strategy, Skills intelligence, workforce planning, internal mobility, scarce capability, and build-buy-borrow-redesign decisions.
- Decision Room, Curated senior peer discussions on sensitive cross-functional topics including AI governance, CFO/CHRO economics, and AI-native operating models.
- Tech Demo, Live demonstrations from technology partners covering skills intelligence, workforce planning, productivity, and people data infrastructure.
Key Themes
The conference is structured around six core objectives:
- Prioritising AI and analytics use cases, separating activity from value
- Redesigning work with evidence, tasks, roles, and decision rights
- Choosing what capability to build next, build, buy, borrow, or redesign
- Planning capacity under uncertainty, scenarios leaders can act on
- Connecting people data to business outcomes, beyond HR metrics
- Scaling workforce AI responsibly, trust, controls, and governance
Who Attends
The event is built for CHROs, CPOs, Heads of People Analytics, Workforce Planning and Talent Intelligence leaders, HR Tech and People Data leaders, Skills and Learning leaders, and cross-functional partners from Finance, Operations, Product, and Risk.
Early Bird pricing is available at $995 until 1 July 2026.
Agenda
Plenary Sessions (Preview)
How to navigate PAWorld San Francisco with purpose
Moving people analytics from insight production to executive choice
Operating lessons for roles, teams, decisions and governance
Speakers
Alison Ettridge
Founder, AmpliTask
Samanntha DuBridge
Senior Vice President, Chief Talent Officer, HPE
Lily Jampol
Director Organizational Effectiveness, Gilead Sciences
Sandra Pham
Vice President, Finance, People, & Business Analytics, Kaiser Permanente
Manisha Gupta
VP, Products, AI/ML Analytics for People Intelligence (Former), Oracle
Matthew Corritore
Head of People Analytics, Snowflake
Dimple Mehta
Senior Analyst, People Analytics, Snowflake
Kelsey Kline
Director, Workforce Science Solutions, Intel
David Green
Managing Partner & Executive Director, Insight222
Roxanne Laczo
Head of People Analytics (former), Cloudflare
Christina Daniel
Sr. Director, Enterprise Workforce Strategy & HRBP, Commercial and Corporate Affairs, Natera
Michael Moon
Director, Organizational Research and Insights, AbbVie
PAWorld26 San Francisco
September 23, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Free
Registration
Registration for this event is handled on the host's site. Organized by PAWorld.
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Ikona is proud to sponsor this event
Ikona Analytics is an HR transformation consultancy helping organizations modernize their HR systems, data, and AI readiness. If you'll be at this event, let's find time to connect.
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