AI for HR: Shaping the Future of Workforce Management

Innovate UK Business Connect invites you to join us in exploring how to empower and equip Human Resources to transform the UK’s productivity landscape.
When

25/11/2025 09.00 - 16.30
Location

Manchester
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This event will bring together leading voices from across the HR sector, uniting stakeholders, innovators, and regulators to drive collaboration and shape the future of HR’s role in improving productivity across the UK.

At present, human resources (HR) has fully evolved from its traditional role of administrative support and policy into a key strategic function. This transformation presents both exciting opportunities and complex challenges for organisations across the UK.

Today’s HR challenges are shaped by major trends including hybrid work models, artificial intelligence, (AI)-driven workforce management and leadership development. Longstanding issues such as talent acquisition and retention, upskilling and reskilling, employee wellbeing, and change management continue to impact productivity and require HR leaders to rethink their priorities, team structures, and operating models.

About the event

This event will bring together key stakeholders from across the HR sector, alongside those engaged in business productivity initiatives, to foster collaboration and build a dynamic community of innovators.

This community will play a pivotal role in addressing critical HR challenges linked to productivity by exploring opportunities in advanced technologies such as AI, scientific disciplines including mathematics, and regulatory innovation. It will also focus on identifying effective strategies to tackle both current and future challenges.

Through cross-sector collaboration, the initiative aims to accelerate the development of innovative solutions that will shape the future of HR and drive sustainable improvements in productivity.

Why should you attend?

  • Contribute to the development of a platform to addresses common HR and productivity challenges.
  • Collaborate with HR professionals, researchers, AI experts, regulators, and mathematicians to co-create innovative solutions.
  • Support the growth of a community focused on practical implementation through funding applications, data sharing, and investment strategies.
  • Share your insights to help create strategies that tackle both current and future challenges.

 

Who should attend?

  • HR professionals, recruitment agencies and businesses delivering HR services
  • AI and digital suppliers
  • Researchers exploring productivity with HR subject matter.

 

Accessibility and Inclusion

We are committed to ensuring our events are accessible for all.

If you experience any barriers to registering, for any reason, please contact us by email: enquiries@iukbc.org.uk or phone: +44 03333 403250 and we will support your registration.

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