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May 27, 2026
Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre Amsterdam
9-11 Paul van Vlissingenstraat
Amsterdam

Chief People Officer Summit
Amsterdam

For people leaders driving change in complex environments.

Skip the trial-and-error. Join a community of CHRO's who have repositioned their function from necessary overhead to competitive advantage – and learned to navigate AI, restructuring, and transformation under intense board scrutiny.

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You're accountable for transformation, but still fighting to be seen as strategic rather than operational. You've earned your seat at the table, yet you're still explaining why it matters.

Join this closed-door strategy session for people leaders making decisions that can't be undone.

You'll leave with:

- Honest insight into what works (and what doesn't) – Real decisions from peers navigating identical board pressures, European regulatory complexity, and questions of AI governance.

- Frameworks for the calls you can't delegate – When to automate and when to govern, where transparency builds trust and where it backfires, how to scale without sacrificing clarity.

- A trusted network that understands your job complexity – Not just the strategy, but the trade-offs, politics and regulatory constraints, hear from leaders at Adidas, Nokia & Corbion who've made similar high-stakes calls.

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Lisa
Sherwell
Chief People Officer
Suse
Matthias
Balint
VP, Human Resources
Adidas
Suzanne
Verzijden
Chief People & Culture Officer
Aalberts
Dagmar
Bos
Vice President People Operations Europe
AAF Europe
Olivier
Nourrain
Chief People Officer
Papernest
Rosaria
Bonifacio
VP and People Head
Nokia
Masha
Vis-Martens
Chief Human Resources Officer
Corbion
Daniela
Ivan
VP HR, Business Units
Trivium Packaging
Sandra
Bakker
VP HR
Cepeid
Caroline
Gauly-Montagne
Director, Organization & HR Efficiency
Adisseo
Kaisa-Maria
Kauppi
Director Talent EMA
Niels
Jansen
Head of Human Resources
LG Electronics
Ruben
Groen
Director Learning Transformation
Merck
Lillia
Nahon
Global IS Human Resources Director
Smurfit Westrock
Debrah
Laurey
Human Resources Director
Randstad
Catarina
Cerqueira
Head of People Operations EMEA
Hexagon Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial
Henri
Verlinden
Director HR
Vaxxinova
Christopher
Weggler
People Operations & Innovation Director
Commercetools
David
Griggs
Head of Recruitment
Sensorfact
Natalia
Mikhalovskaya
Former Director, HRBP (People & Culture)
Nebius AI
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What you’ll get

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  • A framework to navigate the decisions keeping you up at night – restructuring without destroying trust, governing AI without slowing innovation, transparency that doesn't backfire, developing future-ready people leaders.

  • Practical insights from CHROs navigating European labour markets, works councils, and board rooms where "move fast" meets "we have regulations" .

  • A peer network that understands what you're actually accountable for, not just the strategy, but the trade-offs, the politics, and the calls you can't delegate.

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Chief People Officer Summit

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Move past sentiment surveys to understand what actually drives performance and retention when hybrid work, pay transparency, and AI reshape the employment deal.

Employee engagement

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Strategically reframe workforce planning around skills, capacity and adaptability - align people strategy to business priorities as AI reshapes operating models.

Workforce planning

Product Marketing Manager

Speak the language of risk, capital allocation, and strategic trade-offs, so your people decisions get the investment and trust they deserve at the top table.

Board-level alignment

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Build culture that survives restructuring, integrates acquisitions, and spans European markets with different labor laws and employee expectations.

Culture that scales

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Equip leaders to handle what's coming next, get ahead of the skills & capability gap before it widens and prepare for success in the AI era.

Leadership development

Product Marketing Manager

Use data to drive decisions that matter. Not dashboards for dashboards' sake, but insights that change resource allocation and executive behavior.

People analytics for business

Product Marketing Manager

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Break the cycle

Create space away from day-to-day pressure to think clearly about the decisions shaping your organisation, learn from what peers are actually doing, not theory or trend-chasing.

Collaborate

Engage in candid, closed-door discussion with other senior people leaders to test ideas, compare approaches, and work through shared challenges in a trusted setting.

Spark new ideas

Pressure-test assumptions, gather informed perspectives, and leave with ideas refined by people who understand the trade-offs, constraints, and accountability of the role.

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the co-located People Operations summit

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Bring your People & HR team to elevate capability across the function in one high-impact day.

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