CONNECT Global Employee Benefits and Workforce Strategies Summit

Drop in to enjoy cocktails and appetizers while getting to know the speakers and other attendees. We hope you can join us!

Is your team struggling with mental fatigue, disengagement or burnout? Just like a high-performance engine, without regular maintenance, your team can sputter, lose power or even stall completely. This session will equip you with practical strategies that foster engagement and resilience, ensuring that your team remains well tuned and high performing, even under pressure. You’ll not only foster an environment where employees are more productive, but you’ll also create a thriving, engaged and mentally resilient workforce.

Global population aging, low fertility rates, longer life expectancies and shrinking labor pools are proving worse than pessimistic projections made just ten years ago. These trends will have a profound effect on the employment value proposition to be presented to workers around the world. Learn what employers need to know and do to address these challenges.

This session will give you the insights and tools you need to navigate the complexities of managing leaves across borders while remaining compliant and culturally sensitive.

By 2025, Gen Z will make up 27% of the workforce, bringing fresh expectations and perspectives to the workplace. As the most diverse generation ever, they value authenticity, inclusivity and work–life harmony, challenging organizations to rethink traditional benefits packages. This presentation delves into understanding Gen Z employees, addressing their unique needs and developing benefits that truly resonate. You’ll learn practical strategies to create a benefits package that reflects Gen Z’s priorities, helping organizations stay competitive and appealing to this influential and rapidly growing segment of the workforce.

In this session, we’ll share stories, challenges and solutions that elevate your communication outcomes and evolve communication strategies. You’ll get ideas on incorporating your brand into your visual strategy to allow you to become fearless in navigating internal barriers. You’ll also learn how to build campaigns that are evergreen and support year-round messaging.

Start-ups are the engines of innovation, yet most are short-lived, often leading to mergers or acquisitions that create complex integration challenges. On top of that, the rapid growth of the global workforce has led to an increasing cultural divide as well as the erosion of resilience among employees who are increasingly seeking quick, immediate rewards instead of long-term growth and career satisfaction. This session will dive into the untold challenges of navigating postacquisition talent integration, with a specific focus on addressing these pressing issues.

In this session, you will learn:

• What is global travel insurance?
• How has it evolved?
• What impact has the COVID pandemic had on it?
• How has the nimble, global workforce changed it?
• How to set up and design a plan
• How to figure out who has ownership of the travel plan
• What to look for in providers

In this session, we’ll review key considerations for expatriate benefit programs, such as the changing needs of employees, rising and hard-to-predict costs, the new shape of assignments, increasing and fast-changing regulations, the evolving provider landscape and the growing number of unexpected global crises. The discussion will center on active management and ongoing strategic review of expatriate insurance and benefits programs, including benefit design, vendor selection/management, financial review, compliance monitoring and governance.

This session will take a close look at the latest trends in global benefits. We’ll explore how you can evaluate your current employee benefits strategies to find trend opportunities and use these trends to influence your global strategy, as well as how to prepare for the future and incorporate business continuity and planning into your benefits program. We’ll also discuss how to elevate your benefits strategy and discussion to an enterprise risk management (ERM) level, ensuring HR has a seat at the table to support the overall company strategy.

This session explores how organizations are reimagining their approach to employee wellness in response to dramatic workplace transformations. It will examine how employers are breaking down traditional silos between physical, mental and financial wellness programs while adapting to the unique challenges of supporting both remote and on-site workers. It will also share real-world insights into creating inclusive, accessible and effective wellness initiatives that resonate with today’s diverse workforce.

Starting and raising a family is getting harder and more expensive. HR leaders face intense pressure to lower costs while still providing better women’s and family health support for their global employees. In this session, you’ll discover how to navigate these challenges by designing inclusive global benefits that lower costs and provide tailored support for employees across continents. Learn how leading global employers create benefits that reduce employee burnout and boost health outcomes, all while improving the financial health of their organizations.

The requirement for pay transparency is gaining traction among many jurisdictions globally. Is your total rewards system ready for pay transparency? This session will look at the various levels of transparency and the types of disclosure expectations that are in various jurisdictions. It will also look at the hallmarks of a defensible compensation system and explore how to review your compensation structure to detect and respond to problems as your structure becomes more transparent.