Summit Program
A First Glimpse at the 2026 Human Potential Summit
This year’s program will continue to advance employer-led talent strategies and measurable impact through immersive experiences, practical working sessions, and cross-sector dialogue with the industry’s leading thinkers and doers.
Featured Keynotes
Speakers & Workshops
Sessions will build on the Human Potential Network’s year-round focus areas: AI Readiness, Purpose-Driven Workplaces, Internal Mobility and Upskilling, and New Pathways into High-Growth Sectors.
Human + AI Job REdesign: A logic for Defining the human advantage, role by role
Unpack a role-by role framework for determining the right balance of AI vs. human judgement.
Untapped Talent Pools: Turning Skills-First Intent into Skills-First Practice
Learn about the "proxy evidence" employers lean on for skills-based hiring, joined by Tammy Hong and Ebony D. Thomas of Grads of Life and Isaac Agbeshie-Noye of SHRM Foundation.
Built for disruption: New Research on AI and the Shape of the Organization
In this invite-only, closed-door session, explore new Harvard Business School and Accenture research on how AI is reshaping organizational structure, how to keep employees engaged through disruption, and how leaders can approach reskilling strategies across their organizations.
Building an ai-augmented workforce: inside colorado’s ai fellows program
Look inside the 3-month fellowship pairing early-career talent with real AI-building work, built with Anthropic.
Everyday AI: How Workday Shifted mindsets, Skillsets, and Habits
Explore insights your organization needs to develop strategies for AI fluency across your workforce.
More Session Details Coming Soon
Stay tuned for more details on HPS sessions like these:
Purpose in practice: from stated values to everyday actions
Get a close-up look at new Gallup research on what it actually takes to make purpose part of everyday work.
Stop competing for talent. start building it.
Learn how the airline built its own talent pipeline, Propel Career Pathways, to complement traditional pilot recruiting. Then, sketch a career pathway model for your own hardest-to-fill role and get feedback from the Delta team.
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In partnership with Building Talent Foundation, this session unpacks how large employers can shape the broader talent landscape — including their supply chain and even competitors' hiring pools — by investing collectively in training rather than competing in isolation. Attendees will hear from employers who've navigated this "collective action dilemma" and leave with a framework for identifying collaborators and building buy-in.
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In partnership with UpSkill America, this session gets honest about the gap between "we invested in training" and "people actually moved up." Attendees will hear real employer stories on measuring ROI, building a business case that lands with finance and leadership, and a diagnosis-first framework for pinpointing barriers to advancement.
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In partnership with WorkForward, this session looks at how data can help determine whether to build talent or hire it. Highlighting both “build” and “buy” case studies, attendees will hear how a hospital system developed their own homegrown apprenticeship system and a data center developed its own training academy. . Attendees leave with a practical framework for diagnosing the right path for a given role.
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A look into how Virgin Unite is helping employers futureproof their hiring models, including a practical redesign for your own organization’s process.
On Wednesday, October 21, attendees have the optional opportunity to participate in one of several Pre-Summit Immersion Experiences. Spots are limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis to those registered to attend the Summit.
Pre-Summit Immersion Experiences
Stadler Rail: Building Talent Pipelines Through Youth Apprenticeship
At Stadler Rail
Step onto the manufacturing floor where Utah's Talent Ready Apprenticeship Connection (TRAC) comes to life. You'll tour Stadler's advanced rail manufacturing environment, get applicable insights from TRAC apprentices, and hear firsthand how they're building real careers while still in school. Leave with practical, scalable ideas for launching or strengthening apprenticeship partnerships in your own organization.
Intermountain Health: Leadership Transformation Experience
At Intermountain Health
Test your own leadership instincts inside Intermountain Health's leadership development ecosystem. You'll step directly into an interactive leadership simulation, observe how the organization assesses leadership capability, and hear from President's Fellows about the servant-leadership behaviors shaping their next generation of leaders.
Intermountain Health: Workforce Transformation & Continuous Improvement Experience
At Intermountain Health
Tour the operational floor of Intermountain Health's Supply Chain Center and see continuous improvement happening in real time. You'll experience live examples of automation and AI-enabled processes, see how frontline employee ideas are reshaping systems, and talk directly with the people driving that change. It's a hands-on look at how workforce redesign and technology can move forward together without leaving people behind.
WorkForward & WGU: Grow Your Own — A Blueprint for Filling Your Toughest Roles
At the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley
Roll up your sleeves in this fully interactive workshop built to challenge how you think about apprenticeship. You'll identify the workforce challenge creating the greatest impact in your own organization, work through the five foundational elements of effective earn-and-learn systems, and design a customized talent-development strategy on the spot. Walk out with a practical blueprint and a concrete commitment to implement it.
Delta Air Lines: Skills-First Hiring, Reimagined
At Salt Lake City Airport*
Go behind the scenes of airline operations for an immersive look at how one of the country's largest airlines rebuilt its talent strategy from the ground up. Hear from Delta’s talent leaders and frontline employees across multiple roles to understand what it really looks like to build internal mobility systems that put skills first. You'll dig into the mechanics behind pathways like Propel and TechOps AMT, and leave with a real playbook for building skills-first career onramps in your own organization.
*Whereas all other offsite Immersion Experiences leave from the Grand Hyatt, those wishing to attend the Delta Air Lines experience should plan to stay at the airport upon arrival on Wednesday. We recommend booking travel so that you arrive at the SLC airport by 12:30pm MT. We will arrange for secure storage of luggage and begin at 1:00pm.
2026 Human Potential Summit Agenda
Check back for the latest as we lock in additional program details.
Wednesday, October 21
1:00pm–4:00pm (Optional) HPS Immersion Experiences*
*Those planning to attend an Immersion Experience should arrive no later than noon.
5:00pm–7:00pm Registration and a welcome reception for all Summit attendees.
7:00pm-10:00pm (Optional) hosted dinners or explore Park City (transportation provided)
Thursday, October 22
7:30am–8:30am Breakfast
8:00am–8:30am Day 1 Welcome Remarks
9:00am–10:15am Cohort Meeting 1
10:15am–10:45am Break
10:45am–11:45am Breakout Session 1
11:45am–1:15pm Lunch (& Programming)
1:15pm–1:30pm Break
1:30pm–2:30pm Breakout Session 2
2:30pm–3:00pm Break
3:00pm–4:00pm Keynote Session and/or Full Group Activity
4:00pm–5:00pm Cohort Meeting 2 & Day 1 Closing Remarks
5:00pm–7:00pm Reception
7:00pm–10:00pm (Optional) hosted dinners or explore Park City (transportation provided)
Friday, October 23
7:30am–8:30am Breakfast
8:00am–8:30am Day 2 Welcome Remarks
8:30am–8:45am Break
8:45am–9:45am Breakout Session 3
9:45am–10:15am Break
10:15am–11:15am Keynote Session
11:15am–12:00pm Cohort Meeting 3 & Closing Remarks
12:00pm** Boxed lunches (to go or to stay)
**If departing on October 23, please book your departure flights out of Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) for a 3:00 PM or later departure.