Agenda

What to Expect

Human Potential Summit attendees will step into a space where collaboration, real-time problem-solving, and experiential learning are at the center. By attending, participants will work alongside peers, thought leaders, and practitioners to co-design solutions that provide them with actionable steps, tools, and partnerships they can bring back to their companies. Rather than traditional panels, sessions will immerse participants in workshops and case studies, challenge labs, roundtables, and keynotes—all crafted to ensure every moment drives progress, innovation, and solutions that uplift human potential.

Keynote Speakers

This year’s Summit will feature a lineup of leaders and innovators who are shaping the future of talent and workforce transformation. All sessions will be aligned to the Summit key themes and topics.

Attendees can expect to hear from inspiring and provocative keynote speakers, including:

  • Governor Spencer J. Cox on actionable, human-potential inspired strategies for fueling regional growth

  • Industry leaders on the current intersection of AI and talent, and its implications for talent strategy – today and in the future.

Additional Sessions

Will include, but not be limited to:

    • Skills-Based Taxonomy: A Blueprint for Employers – An inside look at how one of the world’s largest employers, Walmart, is working alongside the Burning Glass Institute to lead a coalition of 10 major companies to align on skills for roles that make up 25% of the US workforce.

    • How Internal Practices Knock Out Qualified Talent – A dynamic simulation showcasing what hiring processes unintentionally exclude capable workers…and how to remove them.

    • Gen Z and the Future of Work – Interactive workshops with Gen Z talent on how to attract them, what expectations they have for the workplace, how to maximize their potential, and how to create mobility opportunities to retain and grow them.

    • Field Trip: Stadler Rail – An immersive experience with Utah’s own Stadler Rail, offering a firsthand look at how advanced manufacturing employers are building workforce strategies on the ground.

    • Stronger Together: Regional Partnerships Creating Durable Pathways – Case studies highlighting scalable regional collaborations, alternative pathways, and policies that create opportunity for all jobseekers, across healthcare, manufacturing, and other growing sectors.

    • Earn & Learn: Apprenticeships that Build the Workforce of Tomorrow – Case studies showcasing how leading employers are leveraging apprenticeships and work-based learning models to create stronger pipelines for in-demand careers - how they built them, pivots they made, and how they brought them to scale.

    • Education to Workforce Partnerships – Examples of university-employer partnerships where opportunity pathways were co-designed – how they built them, how it strengthened their talent pipelines, and what companies can do differently.

    • Unlocking Human Potential in the Age of AI – A workshop led by Jobs for the Future (JFF) exploring practical approaches to harnessing AI in ways that benefit employees and companies, strengthening individual performance and business ROI.

    • How AI is Reshaping Entry-Level and Early Career Opportunities – An interactive session exploring the risks and opportunities for reskilling and entry-level hiring models in the age of AI.

    • Responsible AI for Opportunity – A discussion surrounding the ethical, legal, and equity considerations of AI-enabled tools, and how they can be designed to expand coaching, mentoring, and upskilling access.

    • AI Bright Spots – Employer-led examples of where AI is driving measurable talent system improvements – and how companies can apply learnings to their own organizations.

    • Navigating Complexity: Adapting Strategies in a Shifting Environment – Strategies for leaders advancing talent solutions in today’s rapidly changing economic, technological, and policy-driven context – how to frame them, how to grow them, and how to ensure sustainability amidst risk and uncertainty.

    • High-Performance Internal Mobility – A workshop from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) on scaling mobility strategies that grow and retain talent.

    • Leveraging Purpose to Attract and Retain Talent – A Gallup-led workshop based on new research on embedding and measuring purpose in the workplace to drive retention and engagement.

    • Frontline Futures: Healthcare Retention and Upskilling – A hands-on workshop exploring success coaching and mobility models that have increased retention in healthcare by 70%+ and filled needed roles.

    • Scaling What Works: From Pilot to Practice – Lessons on what it takes to grow innovative talent initiatives to meaningful scale—and how to set realistic expectations for the long-term (e.g., fair chance hiring, apprenticeships, work-based learning, etc.).

    • Where HR Meets the Business Unit – Exploring where business units should own initiatives vs. when HR should take the wheel – what works, how to set it up, and how to integrate it into internal workflows to ensure sustainability.

    • Storytelling for Change: Winning Hearts and Minds – An collaborative session on using narrative to accelerate buy-in, share stories, and accelerate workforce innovation.