HRcoreLAB Summit 2026

Speaker: Gianluca Bonacchi

Hiring feels harder than ever. Open roles persist, candidates disengage, and traditional signals like titles and experience no longer deliver the clarity they once did. This is not anecdotal. It is confirmed by large scale data from global research with employers and job seekers.

Drawing on insights from studies based on thousands of respondents across multiple markets, this session examines the forces reshaping talent and work today. It explores why skills are overtaking traditional proxies, how artificial intelligence is accelerating change while raising new expectations of trust and transparency, and why learning has become essential infrastructure rather than a benefit.

This session moves beyond trends and tools. It offers a data grounded perspective on the leadership decisions that determine whether organizations adapt their talent systems with credibility and resilience or fall behind as expectations continue to rise.

Speaker: Matt Burney

Navigating Change helps leaders make sense of a world where work, skills, technology and economics are no longer moving in neat, predictable lines. It pulls together labour-market reality, demographic pressure and AI adoption to show why many familiar workforce strategies are starting to break down. The aim isn’t to offer quick fixes, but to give people better ways of thinking about risk, trade-offs and decision-making when stability is no longer guaranteed. Most audiences don’t leave with a checklist, but they do leave seeing the problem differently.

Speaker: Ute Neher

In 2026, employer branding is less about polished messaging and more about lived reality. The growing gap between brand promise and employee experience is directly shaping employer reputation.

This interactive workshop invites participants to actively reflect and exchange across four core dimensions of employer brand health: Ownership & Accountability, Reputation Intelligence, Leadership Influence, and Action & Progress. Grounded in insights, the session explores how employee confidence, trust, and purpose show up in feedback, and what that means for your employer brand.

Through guided discussion and practical exercises, participants will identify gaps, confront uncomfortable truths, and define concrete actions to strengthen their employer brand from the inside out. Because employee experience is employer brand.