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Get ready for the most electrifying Engage Employee Summit yet, now celebrating its 11th year with an exciting move to a two-day format at the state-of-the-art Evolution venue in Battersea Park! As a two-day event, we offer double the content while also doubling opportunities for networking and business development.
The entire event takes place on a single floor, ensuring a seamless flow of 3,000 attendees throughout the day. The exhibition floor will feature 120 exhibitors, creating an atmosphere buzzing with energy. The agenda is packed with case studies from some of the world’s largest brands and insights from leading experts in employee engagement.
The industry continues to be shaped by trends such as remote and hybrid work, a focus on employee wellbeing, the integration of AI and automation, continuous learning and upskilling.
The emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion, technology-driven feedback mechanisms, advanced collaboration tools, flexible benefits and rewards, employee centric technology, and the importance of purpose-driven organisations will separate the innovators from the laggards.
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Our comprehensive Summit agenda is packed with case studies from the world’s largest brands and insights from top experts in employee engagement.
Our 2026 speakers represent world-class organisations including Google, Nestlé, Gymshark, ASOS, easyJet, Coca-Cola, Starbucks and many more. Their insights and experiences will provide invaluable lessons for all attendees.
The conference agenda will take you on a journey of innovation and collaboration. Prepare to be inspired and challenged as we explore six meticulously curated stages, each offering a deep dive into employee engagement strategies through compelling case studies.
We delve into the fundamental forces that shape high-performing, people-focused organisations.
Taking a deep dive into the art of authentic leadership, psychological safety, and purpose-driven culture, exploring how empathetic leaders transform engagement during times of change while also highlighting HR’s emerging strategic influence. It uncovers how the most forward-thinking HR teams are pioneering transformation, building organisational agility, and leveraging data to shape vibrant, future-ready cultures from the top down. Attendees leave equipped with leadership frameworks and actionable strategies to drive belonging, trust, and business resilience in any context.
Focusing on the full talent lifecycle, this stage tackles the challenges of attracting, developing, and future-proofing your workforce.
Delving into continuous learning, upskilling, coaching, and transparent career advancement to enhance retention and nurture resilient teams, while also taking a forward-looking approach to demystify how digital transformation, automation, and skills mapping are redefining roles, organisational structures, and workforce planning. Thought leaders and practitioners will share tools and insights to help align talent strategies with evolving business needs and empower employees to thrive in tomorrow’s rapidly changing labour market.
Communication is at the core of meaningful engagement.
Explore the evolution from top-down messaging to dialogue-driven, transparent, and personalised internal communications that elevate employee voice and strengthen trust, while examining the impact of digital transformation and analytics on global messaging through emerging platforms, real-time channels, and data-driven strategies designed for dispersed and hybrid teams. This stage offers proven methods for fostering authentic connections and ensuring every employee feels heard, valued, and engaged, regardless of their location or role.
The modern workplace through the lens of connection, flexibility, and high-impact teamwork.
We explore how organisations can create seamless internal communications, design rewarding employee experiences, and build environments that prioritise engagement while embracing the realities of hybrid work and distributed teams. It highlights how technology can bridge geographies and disciplines without sacrificing culture or productivity, showcasing innovative policies, tools, and leadership techniques that shape integrated, future-ready workplaces where employees connect, innovate, and perform at their best—wherever they are.
More than just a trend, wellbeing and inclusion are linchpins of great employee experience and performance.
Exploring motivation, recognition, and the creation of environments where everyone is empowered to succeed and contribute their unique strengths, then expands the discussion into the future of fairness, diversity, social impact, and belonging. It highlights how organisations can adapt to evolving expectations while fostering equity and purpose, with sessions offering proven frameworks and real-world innovations to help delegates design transformative, inclusive employee experiences that stand the test of time.
A stage dedicated to maximising the impact of your reward and recognition strategies.
The sessions help you uncover the metrics, feedback, and analytics that connect appreciation with performance, motivation, and organisational loyalty, while also exploring the ethics and opportunities of people-centric technology. Through discussion and insight, you’ll examine how AI and people data can shape smart, adaptable benefit programmes and recognition systems designed for tomorrow’s workforce. The stage provides the tools to balance technological innovation with genuine human connection, ensuring your approach to rewards remains fair, transparent, and truly inspiring.
Day 1: The Here & Now
Day one explores the realities organisations are facing today - from engagement, culture and leadership pressures to talent, wellbeing, communication and reward strategies in practice. Sessions focus on what’s working, what’s under strain, and how organisations are responding to current workforce expectations, economic uncertainty and rapid change.
Day 2: The Future of Work
Day two looks ahead to how work, leadership and engagement will evolve. From AI and workforce redesign to future skills, trust, communication, inclusion and the changing value exchange at work, sessions explore how organisations can adapt, transform and stay relevant in the years ahead.
“There was some really inspiring talks at the conference and I am amazed that the event was free! To have that quantity and quality is incredible.”Recruitment and Wellness Lead, NHS
“Great day - really well organised and good range of speakers and topics”Head of Corporate Communications, Equiniti
“This was one of the best events I have been to. There were so many great speakers and I have taken away so much that I can feed into our processes.”Senior HR Manager, The Crown Prosecution Service
“A very well organised event. Good speakers, offering a variety of coverage of topics. lovely venue. good refreshments and food.”HR Director, Nationwide
LIVE from the London Stock Exchange Studios, don't miss our upcoming with Stella Gavinho, Head of Wellbeing at Entain, as she share her experience of building a wellbeing strategy that delivers measurable impact, challenges outdated thinking, and puts people at the heart of organisational success.
As part of this exclusive studio broadcast, we’ll explore wellbing as a performance driver, measuring what matters, busting the top 3 wellbeing myths and practical takeaways.
Over the past decade we have helped some of the world’s biggest brands engage with their target customers on a deeply emotional level, helping them forge relationships and new business connections.
Opportunities include speaker sponsor packages providing prime presentation slots on a topic stage and seminar stream of your choice, representation on panel debates, sponsored roundtable focus group opportunities and more.
Interact supplies over 1,500 organisations with an award-winning employee experience platform that boosts productivity and drives engagement.
Through enterprise-grade intranet software, Interact helps Fortune 500, FTSE 250, and global brands like Levi’s, Domino’s, and Subway connect their greatest asset: their people.
Starting your intranet journey? Visit our Resources Page for free eBooks, guides, and webinars to support your project. For tailored support, contact our in-house specialists. Whatever your challenges, we can help!
Poppulo is the leading communications and workplace experience software company. The Poppulo Harmony platform helps enterprise organizations achieve more by effortlessly connecting their employees, customers, and workplaces through omnichannel employee communications, digital signage, and workplace management. Poppulo's 6,000+ customer base is representative of the world's most successful companies, including 47 of the Fortune 100. Follow Poppulo on LinkedIn and on X.
Gate One is the global business and digital transformation consultancy dedicated to helping clients thrive.
We work closely with executive leaders and teams across FTSE companies, private businesses and major government departments, including many global retail and consumer business, to conceive and deliver the big ideas that will transform their organisations.
As an integral part of Havas, one of the world's largest global communications groups, creativity is embedded in our DNA and at the heart of everything we do.
But whatever the idea is, we enable our clients to shape and own their future, nurturing change that transforms to make a meaningful difference.
Vimeo (NASDAQ: VMEO) is the world's largest and most innovative video experience platform. It enables anyone to create high-quality video experiences to better connect and bring ideas to life. Vimeo serves a global community of nearly 300 million users, from creative storytellers to globally distributed teams at the world's largest companies, whose videos receive billions of views each month. Learn more at www.vimeo.com.
Vimeo provides a comprehensive video platform tailored for Learning & Development, offering a suite of tools, advanced security, and AI-powered features to create, manage, and share engaging content. It enables organizations to develop transformative learning experiences that empower employees with fresh skills and knowledge, while providing data-driven insights to track progress. Its secure video library automatically transcribes content, making it searchable and facilitating increased productivity, collaboration, and effective onboarding of new hires.
For over a decade, The Happiness Index has been helping organisations worldwide understand how their employees think, feel, and behave.
Sociabble is the leading Internal communications & Employee engagement platform designed to meet large companies’ needs. With more than 10 years of experience in large-scale deployments, Sociabble has helped world-renowned companies like AXA, Primark, and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners to achieve their goals.
Achievers is a global leader in employee recognition and reward software. The Achievers platform supports over 4 million employees in 164 countries with notable customers including General Motors, Meijer, Workday, and Samsung.
Firstup is led by a team of enterprise software veterans from two legacies, SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal, who believe in the promise of new technology and the power of people-driven business transformation. Using our powerful orchestration engine, we bring personalised information and systems access to every employee where they are—on any endpoint or device, in any language, anywhere in the world. Whether they’re wired, mobile, frontline, distributed or essential, FirstUp gives employees what they need to do their jobs efficiently, and companies what they need to achieve agility. That’s how we help enterprise customers like Amazon, ABInBev, Ford and GSK continue to transform their businesses.
YourCause from Blackbaud empowers purpose-driven organisations to drive change by connecting businesses and employees to a global network of nonprofits through giving, volunteering, and grantmaking.
Featuring powerful data intelligence, our social impact software helps reduce administrative tasks, increase strategic focus, and boost employee engagement – all while telling a profound impact story and driving meaningful change in your community.
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Deliveroo for Work helps businesses provide food perks, simplify team lunches, and support late-night workers with flexible allowances and access to thousands of restaurants.
And the best part? No more juggling receipts and expenses. With one simple monthly bill, you can focus on what really matters—keeping your team satisfied and motivated.
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