Explore by Day
View showcases and tech demos that are scheduled for each day of the conference.
Thursday, April 30
9:00-10:20 a.m.
Partner Showcase: SHL US
Back to the “Skills” Future: Transforming to a Skills-based Organizations
Senior talent practitioners will evaluate the advantages of moving beyond traditional methods to a skills-based approach for hiring and mobilizing talent. Driven by rapid shifts in skills, artificial intelligence, and evolving organizational demands, this transformation emphasizes skills-first strategies. Panelists will explore organizational readiness, how they are embedding skills in hiring and mobility practices, and how AI is quickly shaping the talent practices of the future.
Speakers
Amanda Kondrotas, PhD
Global Account Director, SHL
Ryan Bash, MBA
Director of Talent Acquisition, BCG
Dana Byrd, MS I-O
Director of Talent Management, Prudential Financial
Matthew Burgard, MS I-O
VP, Global Assessment Specialist, Citi
10:30-11:20 a.m.
Partner Showcase: Valence
Beyond Adoption Metrics: ADI's Power User Index for Measuring AI Coaching Effectiveness
Organizations evaluating AI coaching typically measure adoption: logins, session counts, satisfaction. But does usage alone predict impact? This session presents findings from a study of 45,000+ AI coaching sessions at Analog Devices, a global semiconductor company with 26,000 employees across 30+ languages. Researchers developed a Power User Index measuring frequency, breadth of use cases, and conversation quality. Key findings: power users were 28% more likely to move up a performance band; manager usage doubled team adoption; and women were overrepresented among power users by 68%. Jennifer Carpenter (VP Global Head of Talent, ADI) and Ellie Wildman (Valence) will share the methodology and implications.
Speakers
Jennifer Carpenter, MS
VP, Global Head of Talent, Analog Devices, Valence
Ellie Wildman, MS
Director, Strategic Accounts, Valence
10:30-11:20 a.m.
Concession lunches in the Exhibit Hall
1:00-1:50 p.m.
Partner Showcase: CodeSignal
Amplifying I-O with AI: Scaling Simulation Best Practices
Work simulations are among the strongest predictors of job performance, yet for non-technical roles they have historically been difficult to scale. Unlike coding simulations, which can be delivered and scored automatically, non-technical simulations often rely on assessment center methods such as roleplays, behavioral interviews, written exercises, and human raters. These approaches are job-relevant and effective, but also high-touch, labor-intensive, and typically reserved for executive or other high-value hiring contexts. This presentation explores how AI can serve as a force multiplier for industrial-organizational psychologists, scaling assessment best-practices without abandoning rigor that underpins them. Working in lockstep with I-O expertise, AI agents can be trained as role players, structured interviewers, and rubric-based graders using the same principles I-O practitioners have long applied to human assessors. We will discuss how AI, guided by I-O science, can support realistic, standardized, and scalable simulations for non-technical roles, and share emerging research from CodeSignal’s AI simulation products.
Speakers
Tigran Sloyan, BS
CEO & Co-Founder, CodeSignal
2:00-3:20 p.m.
Partner Showcase: Valence
From Chatbot to Coach: Designing Systems That Actually Develop People
The rapid proliferation of large language models has created a misleading assumption: that any AI system capable of conversation is capable of coaching. But I/O psychologists know that effective coaching requires context on organizational culture, individual goals, team dynamics, performance frameworks, and continuity across interactions. This panel brings together I/O leaders from Fortune 500 companies who are actively deploying AI coaching in their organizations. Panelists will explore what distinguishes a purpose-built AI coaching system from general-purpose conversational AI and the organizational design implications of scalable coaching. Whether your organization is evaluating AI coaching vendors or building internal capabilities, this session offers a practitioner-grounded framework for asking the right questions.
Speakers
Fortune 500 I-O Leaders
CEO & Co-Founder, CodeSignal
Beth Shipman, MS I-O
Culture and Talent Insights, Corning
Moderator
Das Rush, BA
Head of Communications, Valence
3:30-4:00 p.m.
Coffee with Exhibitors in the Exhibit Hall
Friday, May 1
9:00-10:20 a.m.
Partner Showcase: Aon Talent Solutions
Work Rewired: AI’s Impact on the Workforce, Talent Assessment, and the Candidate Experience
The showcase examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping work—and how organizations can respond with intention rather than reaction. The session introduces an AI sensitivity–driven approach to understanding how tasks, skills, and roles are evolving, and how those insights enable job reimagination, targeted skill updates, and more informed workforce decisions. Building on this foundation, presenters explore how AI is transforming talent assessment and the candidate’s experience, shifting from traditional methods to more scalable, immersive, and engaging solutions. The session concludes with a real-world case study illustrating how AI can be used to design next‑generation assessment experiences, including the creation of dynamic video, audio, and 3D content—grounding emerging concepts in practical application for I-O and talent leaders.
Speakers
Ernie Paskey, MA I-O
Partner, Workforce Transformation and Analytics Lead, Aon Talent Solutions
Melissa Champine, MBA
Partner, Talent Assessment NA Lead, Aon Talent Solutions
10:30-11:20 a.m.
Partner Showcase: Pinsight
AI Is Ready. Are Your Leaders? What 14,000 Leadership Assessments Reveal About Why AI Adoption Stalls
Organizations are investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence (AI), yet many struggle to move beyond pilots and demonstrations to achieve enterprise-scale impact. Most conversations focus on technology and data readiness, but our research suggests a different constraint: leadership capability. Drawing on a global sample of 14,000 leaders assessed through behavioral simulations and personality measures, this session examines how leadership readiness for AI varies across senior executives, mid-level leaders, and frontline managers. The findings reveal a consistent pattern: organizations can define AI strategy but struggle to translate it into coordinated execution at each level. Senior executives often face challenges leading large-scale transformation, mid-level leaders struggle to translate AI strategy into operational change, and frontline managers lack the skills to guide workforce adoption. By highlighting patterns across industries and regions, attendees will leave with a data-driven view of what leadership capabilities must shift to turn AI investment into sustained business impact.
Speakers
Martin Lanik, PhD
CEO, Pinsight
Amy Huber, MS I-O
VP of Client Success, Pinsight
11:30-1:00 p.m.
Wellness Break: Concession lunches in the Exhibit Hall
1:00-1:50 p.m.
Partner Showcase: Deloitte
Work Design in the Age of Humans × Machines: AI Value Realization
Organizations are increasing AI investment, yet many aren’t seeing expected returns because technology-first strategies are under-emphasizing the human advantage, a key driver of competitive differentiation. This session explores an approach to Humans × Machines collaboration including how to orchestrate unique human skills and machine capability to deliver exponential outcomes. Grounded in tipping points highlighted in Deloitte’s 2026 Global Human Capital Trends, we’ll share activities that accelerate value realization through Work Design Engineering: clear outcomes, trustworthy decisioning, data/process readiness, adoption by design, and intentional work design. We’ll include a brief visualization of Deloitte’s Work Design Canvas to illustrate how teams re-balance work across automation, augmentation, and uniquely human strengths.
Speakers
Sarah Szpaichler Stough, MA I-O
Work Engineering Leader, Deloitte Consulting
2:00-3:20 p.m.
Tech Demo: Workera
Live Compose Lab: Building Custom Assessments in Real Time
Workera’s Live Compose Lab is an interactive tech demo designed to give attendees a transparent, behind-the-scenes look at how custom assessments are created in real time using a multi-agent AI system. During the session, two Workera experts will build assessments live using audience-generated prompts, allowing attendees to see how different skill domains, audiences, and use cases can be translated into high-quality, job-relevant assessments. The session is intentionally participatory and educational, providing a clear view into agentic AI assessment design without the feel of a traditional sales presentation.
Speakers
Taylor Sullivan, PhD
Vice President of Product Development, Workera
Marian Pitel Wali, PhD
Assessment Science Manager, Workera
Sara Silva
Software Engineer, Workera
3:30-4:00 p.m.
Coffee with Exhibitors in the Exhibit Hall
4:00-4:50 p.m.
Partner Showcase: Deloitte
Agentic Change: Using AI to Personalize Adoption and Elevate Human Leadership
Organizations invest in transformation, yet adoption stalls because change approaches are static and disconnected from how people work. Domergue’s work introduces a “new change paradigm” and an agentic change model that embeds AI agents into the flow of work to deliver personalized nudges and adoption interventions grounded in behavioral science. These agent networks detect friction points, tailor support to motivation and context, and adapt based on response. The goal is not to replace change leaders, but to augment them. By automating behavioral interventions at scale, agentic systems free practitioners to focus on higher-value work: aligning leaders, strengthening relationship capital, shaping employee experience, and making context-sensitive decisions. Use cases will be woven into the dialogue, showing application in regulated environments while preserving trust, engagement, and psychological safety. Rooted in I-O principles such as reinforcement and job design, this approach reframes change as a human–AI partnership designed to build adaptive organizations.
Speakers
Chloё Domergue
Principal & US Strategic & Technology Change Eminence & Innovation Lead, Deloitte
