Day Two

• How can organisations rebuild trust and engagement after major transformation, without relying on external consultants?
• Learn how CSL Vifor customised bottom-up and top-down engagement strategies, activating employee ambassadors and senior leaders to co-create interventions tailored to real organisational needs
• Discover how this approach led to an 80.5% engagement score, a +6.2 point increase, and +8.6 points above the CSL group average, setting a new benchmark for engagement across 2,000 employees

• How can a company drive engagement beyond market conditions and create a culture where people genuinely want to stay?
• Explore how BiologIC fostered a startup-like environment, built deep trust in leadership, and embraced radical transparency, including employee share options, to transform its culture
• With engagement levels rising from 62% to 93% and turnover significantly reduced, BiologIC proves that culture-led strategies can deliver real ROI while sustaining productivity

This interactive Q&A explores how organisations can rebuild and re-energise employee engagement following transformation or during growth. Learn how tailored strategies – ranging from bottom-up ambassador programmes to radical transparency – can drive record-breaking engagement and retention without relying on external consultants.

• Activating employee-led engagement strategies to rebuild trust
• Embedding cultural values into leadership and communication
• Driving retention through transparency and shared ownership
• Measuring engagement impact across diverse workforce segments

This roundtable invites participants to reflect on how engagement can be sustained and scaled through deliberate cultural design and leadership alignment. Building on the Q&A session, the discussion will explore how organisations can foster environments where people choose to stay, contribute, and thrive.

• What strategies help rebuild trust after organisational change?
• How can leadership transparency influence engagement outcomes?
• What role do cultural ambassadors play in sustaining motivation?
• How do you measure and maintain engagement during growth phases?

Leave with actionable ideas to strengthen engagement through culture, trust, and employee-led initiatives – tailored to your organisation’s unique context.

• How can a lean talent acquisition team drive rapid growth in a challenging biotech landscape?
• Learn how Immunocore expanded its workforce by over 450 hires in three years, despite industry headwinds, through agile role design, hybrid responsibilities, and creative resource management
• Discover how a four-person team supported two major launches and a 20% contingent workforce, offering practical insights for scaling without sacrificing quality or speed

• How a distinct HR strategy enables clinical development excellence and agility through strong cross-functional collaboration
• Learn how a collaborative and cross-functional operating model across clinical development, commercial and corporate functions can be built
• Gain insights on the visible impact such an operating model creates for a biotech organization
• Understand why an out-of-the-box recruitment strategy is the pre-requisite for this operating model

This interactive Q&A explores how lean teams can drive outsized impact across talent acquisition and clinical operations. Learn how agile role design, hybrid responsibilities, and collaborative operating models enable organisations to scale rapidly without compromising quality, speed, or strategic alignment.

• Driving growth with small, high-performing teams
• Leveraging hybrid roles and creative resource management
• Accelerating decision-making through cross-functional transparency
• Using real-time data tools to unblock operational bottlenecks

This roundtable invites participants to reflect on how agility can be embedded across both talent and operational functions. Building on the Q&A session, the discussion will explore how lean structures, data visibility, and cross functional alignment can unlock speed, innovation, and resilience.

• How can small teams scale without sacrificing quality or engagement?
• What role does data transparency play in accelerating execution?
• How do you design roles and workflows to maximise agility?
• What strategies foster collaboration across traditionally siloed functions?

Leave with actionable ideas to build lean, high-impact teams that drive growth and innovation across your organisation.

In this quick-fire session, each table will be hosted by an HR leader who will share the secrets of their most high-impact leap; you then get the opportunity to question the host before moving on to your next table.