ENGAGE EMPLOYEE SUMMIT

Engage the people who power performance

Chief People Officers, HR Directors, Heads of Internal Communications, Employee Experience and Reward leaders, 61% at Head of, Director or C-level, vetted to keep vendors out.

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67% Sponsorship Sold

187 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes to go

11th Annual - Engage Employee Summit

Meetings you can count. Not footfall you have to guess at

Most events sell you a stand and a hope. Engage Employee Summit sells you time with the people who buy employee engagement technology, a two day audience from Britain’s biggest brands, vetted to keep vendors out. A meetings programme that puts qualified, pre-briefed buyers across the table from you by prior agreement, twenty-two engineered floor surges instead of three coffee breaks, and a speaking slot on a stage whose audience chose to be there. We built the event around the buyer’s needs because that is what makes the buyer turn up and stay for Day 2.

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3,106

Organisations

4,436

HR & EX registrations

8,849

Scanned session attendances

14m

Employees represented

436

Pre-arranged meetings

Why sponsor

The #1 employee engagement event

The Engage Employee Summit is the UK’s only event built purely for the people who lead employee engagement and experience at Britain’s largest employers. It features seven reimagined stages and a 20/20 agenda designed around your ROI. Every attendee is vetted to keep vendors out, so the people who visit your stand are buyers, not competitors.

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Engage Employee webinar series

The conversation with this audience doesn’t wait for May

Live, hour-long sessions all year with the employers and platforms doing something about the industry’s questions and a sponsorable format that keeps your name in front of the community between summits.

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Jo Moffatt

Partnerships & Strategy Director

Engage for Success

Jo Dodds

Director of Operations, Communication & Culture & Advisory Board Member

Chirpy Heat & Engage for Success

Charlotte Dahl

Managing Director

7 Seas Culture Consultancy

Christina Lewis

Founder

Herizon

Stella Gavinho

Group Head of Wellbeing

Entain

Sam Bleazard

Employer Brand Content Producer

Fortnum & Mason

Brian Ranson

Head of Internal Communications and Engagement

Cuckoo

Lindsay Comalie

Strategic People Partner

The London Clinic

Day 1 — The here & now

Headliners open the Main Stage at 09:00, the six topic stages open in the same cycle with a senior brand on each. From then on the building runs on the 20/20 pulse, every stage releases at the same moment, so the hall surges twelve times before the Summit Party at 17:00. Your pre-arranged meetings sit inside those windows. Partner-hosted roundtables and focus groups run through the afternoon, the C-Suite Mezzanine runs its own programme upstairs.

Day 2 — The future of work

The Leaders’ Breakfast opens the day for director-level and above, hosted by a
partner. Headliners open the Main Stage again at 09:00, the morning carries the heaviest content, the afternoon turns to shorter formats, speed networking and the Demo Arena. Every Day 2 sponsored session completes before 14:00, so nobody speaks to an emptying room. Close at 16:00, after ten floor windows and the meetings buyers deliberately saved until they’d seen everything.

The stages

Seven stages with 2027 architecture

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.

CPOs/CHROs, HR Directors, People Directors, Directors of Culture, COO's

Main stage — Culture, leadership & performance

How culture and leadership turn engagement into measurable business performance, the headline keynotes and case studies from the UK’s biggest brands

C-Level , Heads of, Directors, Internal comms & Digital Workplace

Internal communications & employee voice

The craft and strategy of communicating with your workforce and the listening that turns messaging into genuine dialogue

C-Level, Heads of, Directors Internal Comm, Digital Workplace & HR

Internal communications & connected workplace

The channels and technology that reach every employee wherever they work including the deskless majority

Reward & Benefits Managers, Heads of Total Reward, Wellbeing Leads & HR

Reward, wellbeing & financial health

Designing and communicating reward, wellbeing and financial support so employees actually feel the value

C-Level, Heads of, Directors, Generalist HR and CPO's

Employee experience

The end to end employee journey, from first day to last, and the moments that decide whether people stay and perform

HRD's, Heads of Performance, Org Effectiveness & People Analytics

High-performance workforce

Motivated people work harder and better manager capability, purpose, workload and job design, and the effort that follows

HR Directors, L&D Directors, Heads of Talent Acquisition and CPO’s

AI, skills & workforce transformation

Which jobs change, who gets reskilled and how people actually adopt the tools, as AI rewrites what work is and who does it

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Everything about partnering with the Summit — audience, stages, formats and how to get involved.

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Four ways a partnership pays back

Thought leadership

A speaking slot that gets a room. Sponsored sessions are interleaved with editorial
content and never stacked, so the audience is there when you stand up. Bring a customer and earn an editorial teardown.

Lead generation

Pre-arranged, double-agreed meetings with buyers who told us what they’re evaluating. Concierge introductions on the floor. Lead scanning across two days and twenty-two floor surges.

Relationship building

Host a VIP dinner, a Leaders’ Breakfast table, a focus group or a peer roundtable. Headline partners host at the C-Suite Mezzanine. These are the formats where a relationship starts, not a lead.

Brand authority

Your name on the stage that owns your category, in front of the people who own the
budget and a year-round presence through webinars, roundtables and the Engage Awards.

Hosted formats

Visibility & Reach: engagement formats

The formats where relationships start

Half of every day is networking time by design twenty minutes after every session, synchronised across all seven stages. Around it we run a set of hosted formats that put a partner in a small room with senior buyers and a real question. Each one is a defined product with a defined number of seats; the prospectus has the detail.

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Meetings programme
Roundtables
Summit party
VIP dinners
Breakfast briefings

Entries open

Engage Awards 2027

The work this community is proudest of, judged by the people who do it. Ceremony on 9th November, 2027 at Old Billingsgate, London and a sponsorable platform in its own right and 365 engagement.

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Jennifer Sproul

Chief Executive

IoIC

Anaïs Nebel

Advisory Board Member

Engage Employee

Sarah Hood

Global Head of Engagement

Bupa

Dawn Moore

Group People and Communications Director

Murphy

Cathy Brown

Head of Economic Justice

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Kaylee Darkins

Chief People & Communications Officer

OAK Global

Joyce Idoniboye

Chief People Officer

Oxfam

Annisha Taylor

Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Ofcom

Katie Browne

Head of Events and Marketing

Engage Business Media

Why partners come back

The 2026 summit in numbers scanned at the door, not estimated.

84%

Partner renewal rate

91%

Shape the buying decision

67%

In an active buying role

92%

Would attend again

“Anyone looking to sponsor — if you can’t get hold of your contacts using SDRs or LinkedIn outreach, you’ll get them here.”

Workvivo Headline partner

“An amazing opportunity to meet existing customers and new ones — really busy today, we’ve met some future clients.”

Firstup Headliner

“Put yourself out there — have a conversation, you might learn something that triggers a change in your own role”

Oak Diamond Partner

“What a fantastic venue — bigger and better this year. Probably the biggest event in the comms industry; we’ve got the biggest stand here today”

Interact Headline Partner

“Really good show — it’s got our ideal customer audience of 10,000+ employee organisations. Great conversations, lots.”

Achievers Diamond Partner

“You can’t win if you’re not in. You have to be here and be willing to have those conversations — we’ve been run off our feet all morning”

Poppulo Diamond Partner

“I wasn’t even meant to be coming today — I saw the attendee list and thought yes, I’m definitely coming”

Wagestream Platinum Partner

“It’s traditionally hard to reach the shop floor across locations — being able to engage that frontline workforce really matters”

Staffbase Gold Partner

“To get so many people to come together and really interact — it’s one of a kind”

Pluxee Platinum Partner

“Zoom and Teams calls work well — but this is the best”

Awardco Silver Partner

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Everything about partnering with the Summit — audience, stages, formats and how to get involved.

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Key dates

When each part of 2027 lands and when the inventory goes.

Now

2027 rebooks and headline partnerships
Nov 2026

Research calls, stage briefs issued
Jan 2027

First speakers announced, priority Pass applications open
Feb 2027

Agenda launches, speaking slots placed around confirmed anchors
Early May

All sponsorship closes
19–20 May 2027

Summit

Webinars

sponsored, live, on demand. The only digital product we run every month

Podcasts

our speakers and chairs in conversation on spotify

Virtual Roundtables

twelve senior practitioners, one partner, one hour on Zoom

Research

white papers and reports with the Engage community

Engage the people who power performance

Meetings you can count. Not footfall you have to guess at

The #1 employee engagement event

The conversation with this audience doesn’t wait for May

The company you’ll keep on stage

Jo Moffatt

Jo Dodds

Charlotte Dahl

Christina Lewis

Stella Gavinho

Sam Bleazard

Brian Ranson

Lindsay Comalie

Day 1 — The here & now

Day 2 — The future of work

Seven stages with 2027 architecture

Main stage — Culture, leadership & performance

Internal communications & employee voice

Internal communications & connected workplace

Reward, wellbeing & financial health

Employee experience

High-performance workforce

AI, skills & workforce transformation

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What to expect

Four ways a partnership pays back

Thought leadership

Lead generation

Relationship building

Brand authority

Join 4,400+ of your peers

Visibility & Reach: engagement formats

Meetings programme

Roundtables

Summit party

VIP dinners

Breakfast briefings

Engage Awards 2027

The platforms the industry runs on

Diamond

Platinum

Gold

Silver

Bronze

The people who keep us honest

Jennifer Sproul

Anaïs Nebel

Sarah Hood

Dawn Moore

Cathy Brown

Kaylee Darkins

Joyce Idoniboye

Annisha Taylor

Katie Browne

Why partners come back

What they say

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Key dates

Now

Nov 2026

Jan 2027

Feb 2027

Early May

19–20 May 2027

Digital media

Webinars

Podcasts

Virtual Roundtables

Research

Join 4,400+ of your peers on the 19–20 May 2027.