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Designing the workforce architecture your business strategy depends on

SWP Summit 2027

Where workforce planning meets business decision-making

The UK’s leading event for strategic workforce planning and workforce decisions

Join senior professionals from HR, workforce planning, people strategy, talent, organisation design, skills, transformation and workforce analytics for a one-day event built around the workforce decisions organisations need to make now.

Expect practical insight, relevant case studies and stronger conversations on workforce intelligence, skills strategy, scenario planning and operating model thinking.

3 March 2027 1 Basinghall Avenue, London Senior workforce audience
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The calibre of insight from SWP Summit 2026

SWP Summit is shaped around practitioners and senior leaders with real experience of workforce planning, people analytics, skills, organisation design and transformation. The 2027 programme is now being developed, with new speakers to be announced as the agenda takes shape.

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Why this room matters

A specialist event for decisions that rarely sit in one function

Strategic workforce planning now connects HR, people analytics, talent, skills, organisation design, finance, transformation and business leadership. SWP Summit is built around that decision ecosystem.

Workforce planning Scenario planning, demand and supply, cost, capacity and long-term workforce choices.
People analytics Workforce intelligence, decision support, data confidence and insight leaders can act on.
Talent and skills Capability gaps, skills strategy, mobility, redeployment and build, buy or borrow decisions.
Organisation design Operating models, work redesign, AI impact, structure and execution across the business.
What makes it different

Built around the decisions senior workforce leaders are being asked to make now

The 2027 experience is focused on the practical questions behind workforce architecture: cost, capability, skills, AI, operating models and execution.

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Six reasons the day is designed differently

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A senior decision room

Bring together HR, SWP, people analytics, talent, skills, organisation design and transformation leaders around the workforce choices that shape enterprise performance.

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Build your day

Choose the conversations that match the workforce decisions in front of you

Start with shared context, then move into the sessions and working formats that match your priorities. The day is designed to help you compare approaches, test assumptions and take useful ideas back to the business.

Decision focus

Questions worth taking out of the office for

The agenda is built around choices senior teams are already trying to make, especially where workforce planning connects to strategy, cost, capability and execution.

01 Which capabilities matter most to the strategy, and where are the gaps?
02 What should be hired, built, borrowed, redeployed, automated or redesigned?
03 Which workforce scenarios should Finance and the business trust?
04 How does workforce planning stay live after budget season?
Day structure

How the summit helps you work through them

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Main stage context Keynotes and plenary sessions frame the bigger shifts in cost pressure, skills, AI and workforce architecture.
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Focused content choices Choose sessions aligned to your current challenge across planning, analytics, skills, talent, organisation design and execution.
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Planning Lab sessions Use peer discussion and practical exercises to test assumptions, planning methods and decision approaches.
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Quickfires, PowerPulse and networking Shorter sessions and protected networking time help turn the day into action, not just notes.
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Make workforce planning more useful to the business

Spend one focused day with leaders working through the same questions: how to plan future capability, make better workforce decisions and connect SWP to strategy, skills, AI, organisation design and execution.

3 March 2027 1 Basinghall Avenue, London Strategic Workforce Planning Summit

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Book your pass or explore the agenda to see how the day is taking shape.

  • Strategic workforce planning, skills, AI and organisation design
  • Main stage, content forums, Planning Lab and Quickfires
  • Focused networking with a senior workforce audience
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