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Golden Hour for HR Leaders, hosted by Oyster® & Humaans We're bringing a small group of HR and People leaders together at Pergola on the Wharf. A few drinks, a few bites, and no formal agenda. Just a summer evening in good company. Spots are limited. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ebK2uB7b

The question many People leaders are asking: "What does AI actually do inside our stack, once you get past the demo?" HR tech was built to store information. The shift happening now is from passive record-keeping to intelligent, automated execution, and it changes everything about how People teams operate day-to-day. I'm sitting down with Milly Parker, Director of People Experience at Oyster®, to get into the specifics: → Where AI is already cutting manual work at scale → What actually changes in workflows like onboarding, approvals, and performance cycles → What teams need to get right around governance and change management From Systems of Record to Systems of Action 📅 21 May | 4pm BST | Live Q&A included Looking forward to this one! Link in the comments to register & join 👇

Back in London after a week in NYC and 3 back-to-back events at the intersection of AI, Tech and HR. People Leaders and Engineers were sitting next to each other at the AI Agent Conference. They were working through the same questions: what do we build with AI, what do we buy, and who do we trust to run people processes autonomously? These used to be separate conversations. They're not anymore. In the old model, HR defines the problem, engineering owns the solution. That handoff is collapsing and what replaces it is harder, more ambiguous. It requires HR to have opinions on infrastructure and governance, and engineers to care about employee experience and culture. The organisations that figure out that overlap first won't just move faster, they'll make better decisions, because the people who understand the technology and the people who understand the workforce will be in the same conversation at the same time. That's the shift. It's already happening. Are you set up for it?

Most HR systems were built to store information. Not to act on it. The gap between what People teams are asked to do and what their stack actually enables has been growing for years. AI is starting to close it, but not always in the ways vendors are selling. On May 21st, Giovanni Luperti is joining Milly Parker Director of People Experience at Oyster®, for a practical conversation about what this actually looks like. Performance cycles, approvals, lifecycle management, knowledge access. Where AI already reduces manual work at scale, and what teams need to get right around governance and change. Live Q&A at the end. 4pm BST, May 21st. Link to register in comments 👇

Dinner in New York 🏙️ We'd spent two days at the AI Agent Conference watching something shift HR leaders in rooms with engineers, both trying to figure out the same thing: what do we actually build with AI, what do we buy, and what do we trust to run People processes autonomously? Those used to be separate conversations. They're not anymore. We ended the week around a table with a group of leaders thinking about exactly that. A big thank you to everyone who joined us: Mag Goossens Darek Lenart Jeremy Urban Camille H. Kevin J. Navikas Joshua Davis Katherine (DiCioccio) Rubino Michael Stopps Angelina Hernandez Yash Lara Paschalis Rompanos Giorgos Vasileiou Aishwarya Jain Archontellis-Rafail Sotirchellis

Breakfast in the Big Apple 🍎 We had a small group of People leaders over for breakfast yesterday morning, bringing honest conversations about where AI in HR is actually heading, and what it means for the teams navigating it right now. Exactly the kind of mornings we love. Thank you to everyone who joined us 👋

That's a wrap on AI Agent Conference 2026 🎉 Two days in New York with the people building and deploying agentic AI. We had many great conversations about what it actually takes to move from AI that assists to AI that acts, all across different functions and industries. Yesterday, our GTM Lead Ben Cummins ran a live demo of Athena- showing how she handles People ops end to end, autonomously, in the tools teams already use like Slack and Teams. Thank you to everyone who stopped by- see you at the next one 👋

from HR Tech in London, straight to AI Agent Conference in NYC 🍎 a day full of great conversations on where AI is heading, looking forward to day 2!