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Welcome To People Matters Total Rewards & Wellbeing Conference 2025! Join us in shaping a world where growth, wellbeing, and sustainability intertwine.

Are Total Rewards truly serving as a driver of business strategy—or still seen as a cost line? This C-Suite panel brings together CEOs, CFOs, and CHROs to examine how rewards can align with financial discipline, talent priorities, and long-term enterprise value. Leaders will share perspectives on balancing cost, culture, and competitiveness while shaping a rewards philosophy that drives strategic outcomes.

How organisations are integrating digital health access, preventive care, and mental wellness into Total Rewards amid rising healthcare costs and employee burnout. The session will explore the business impact on reduction in sick leaves, improvement in employee NPS, lower attrition among high-performing teams to authenticate the use case.

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With mandatory pay ratio disclosures, ESG reporting, and social media amplifying employee voices, radical transparency has turned executive pay into a cultural flashpoint. This session will explore how organisations can navigate the new era where executive worth is constantly questioned, compared, and challenged. Beyond compliance, it will ask: how do we design executive rewards that stand up to public scrutiny, inspire employee confidence, and align with purpose without stifling competitiveness?

In a high-inflation environment, reward strategy becomes less about optimisation and more about resilience. Leaders are contending with forces beyond their control, currency volatility, rising cost of living, and shifting employee expectations, all while trying to preserve fairness and motivation. Organisations are under pressure to sustain rewards that motivate talent while navigating shrinking budgets. This panel will examine which compensation strategies are proving effective, which ones are falling short, and how leaders are balancing employee expectations with business realities.

With the rise of hybrid work, AI-enabled workforce planning, and growing emphasis on shared purpose, organisations must pivot to a care economy mindset -- where supporting caregivers is central to workforce sustainability, inclusivity, and innovation. This session explores how next-gen Total Rewards can reimagine maternity, paternity, and caregiving policies into adaptive systems that address long-term career continuity, financial security, and wellbeing.

The session delves into the intersectional dimensions of equity, examining how gender, caregiving responsibilities, and career stage shape perceptions of fairness and access to opportunity. Through insights, examples, and frameworks, the keynote will offer a roadmap for embedding equity into the fabric of compensation design across borders, roles, and life stages.

As digital pay models expand across borders, navigating complex regulatory landscapes is becoming one of the biggest challenges for HR and business leaders. From taxation and cross-border payments to data privacy and financial governance, compliance is critical to ensuring fairness, trust, and scalability in global rewards systems.

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As organisations strive to build trust and equity, pay transparency emerges as both a powerful lever and a potential landmine. While openness around compensation can foster accountability and employee engagement, it also risks exposing legacy inequities, triggering internal backlash, and overwhelming leaders unprepared for tough conversations. This fireside chat explores how to calibrate transparency-  its pace, depth, and messaging - so it becomes a catalyst for culture change rather than a source of disruption.

Rewards don’t just retain talent, they define culture. When designed intentionally, Total Rewards can embed core values, reinforce desired behaviours, and nurture resilience. But rewards are not only about pay or perks, they are signals of what an organisation truly values. From recognition systems to wellbeing initiatives, and from leadership behaviours to team rituals, rewards and appreciation together shape the DNA of organisational culture. This session explores how organisations can move beyond episodic gestures to sustained systems of recognition, creating cultures of belonging, purpose, and performance, even in times of disruption.

With five generations working side by side for the first time in history, organisations face a critical challenge: how to design rewards that resonate across diverse life stages, career aspirations, and cultural expectations. Gen Z seeks rapid growth and purpose-driven benefits, millennials prioritise flexibility and wellbeing, Gen X values stability and career progression, while baby boomers often focus on financial security and legacy. A one-size-fits-all approach risks alienating employees, yet hyper-personalisation can be costly and complex to scale. This session will explore strategies to strike the balance—delivering tailored, inclusive rewards that engage every cohort while maintaining operational efficiency.

Total Rewards is moving beyond pay and perks to become a driver of trust, culture, and sustainable growth. In a world where value is measured not just by shareholder returns but also by employee well-being, inclusivity, and societal impact, organisations must rethink how rewards fuel performance and purpose.

The days of annual bonuses and year-end appraisals are over. In today’s hybrid, gig, and flexible work environment, recognition must be immediate, meaningful, and continuous. Real-time, tech-enabled recognition is emerging as one of the most powerful drivers of engagement—boosting motivation, strengthening culture, and retaining talent across geographies and work models. This keynote will explore how organisations are shifting from transactional rewards to a culture of everyday appreciation, enabled by AI, apps, and digital platforms.

A high-performance team isn't just a collection of talented individuals; it's a unified force fueled by shared beliefs. Like a well-oiled machine, each part works in harmony when everyone is aligned with the team's core values. These shared beliefs act as a compass, guiding team members towards a common goal. Learn how to effectively define and articulate your team's core values, foster a culture that embodies those values, and align individual goals with the team's mission. Discover practical strategies for creating a sense of unity, trust, and commitment among your team members, ultimately leading to improved performance and greater success.

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Traditionally viewed as a fixed cost, Total Rewards is increasingly being reframed as a strategic lever for driving business outcomes. In a world of rapid economic shifts, evolving workforce expectations, and heightened stakeholder scrutiny, organisations can no longer treat rewards as a transactional expenditure. Instead, forward-thinking leaders are positioning rewards as an engine for performance, agility, and long-term value creation. This session will explore how to align Total Rewards with enterprise priorities—unlocking impact on culture, talent retention, and sustainable growth while demonstrating tangible ROI to business leaders.

As work becomes increasingly borderless and flexible, traditional compensation models are being stretched—and sometimes broken. This session explores how organizations are reimagining pay structures to reflect the realities of remote, hybrid, and gig-style roles. From location-based salary bands to performance-linked incentives, the conversation will unpack the evolving definitions of fairness, productivity, and value in distributed teams.

As organisations grapple with fast-changing skill demands, the conversation is shifting from traditional role-based pay to skills-based compensation models. This panel will explore how companies are piloting and scaling pay frameworks in a skills-first world, handling the challenges of benchmarking skills, and the impact on performance management and internal equity. Leaders will discuss whether this model truly drives agility, employee growth, and fairer pay or if it risks adding complexity without clarity.

How can companies transform total rewards into competitive advantage engines that drive measurable business outcomes.

Flexible pay models like on-demand wages, earned wage access, and digital wallets are changing how employees experience financial security. Beyond convenience, these innovations are emerging as key levers of engagement and retention—particularly for younger and gig workers who value immediacy and control.

Compensation is on the brink of a major disruption. Traditional payroll systems, often rigid and slow, are giving way to blockchain-enabled transparency, digital wallets, and fintech-driven solutions that promise speed, security, and borderless transactions. For global and gig workforces, this evolution can transform how, when, and where employees get paid. This session brings together experts from HR tech and fintech to discuss how these innovations are converging to redefine the future of compensation—making it smarter, faster, and more employee-centric. Leaders will explore opportunities, risks, and practical steps organisations can take today to prepare for a new era of pay.

Solving the complex equation of delivering individualised employee experiences while maintaining operational efficiency and cost discipline at enterprise scale requires a new kind of thinking in the age of AI. Where can AI help? And where can human connect help in solving for impact?

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