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April 5th

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

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3:30 pm - 4:20 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Panel: The CHRO Mandate in 2027: Leading People Strategy Through Macro Disruption

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  • How the CHRO role has been reshaped by geopolitical instability, regulatory pressure, and AI-driven workforce change
  • Navigating immigration policy, trade fragmentation, and talent mobility as core enterprise risks, not HR side issues
  • What the C-suite now expects from the people function, and how senior HR leaders are responding
  • Building the personal resilience and external fluency required to lead in a volatile environment
  • Honest reflections on the tradeoffs, missteps, and breakthroughs of the last 12 months
4:25 pm - 5:00 pm KEYNOTE

From Insight to Impact: How Leading People Functions Are Turning Data into Decisions

Executive to be Announced

Workforce Edge

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  • Translating workforce data into action that the C-suite can stand behind
  • Moving past dashboards: building a true decision-making operating system for HR
  • Real-world examples of how forward-thinking organizations are operationalising people analytics
  • Where AI fits into the analytics stack and where it does not
  • What separates HR teams that lead with data from those that drown in it
5:05 pm - 5:45 pm Case Studies
STREAM 1 CASE STUDY

Panel: Workforce Planning Under Pressure: Building Resilience into Every Headcount Decision

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  • Replacing static workforce plans with dynamic, scenario-based models that anticipate disruption
  • Stress-testing your workforce strategy against immigration, regulatory, and economic shocks
  • Aligning headcount, capability, and cost in an environment of continuous change
  • Connecting strategic workforce planning to financial planning and enterprise risk
  • Practical frameworks attendees can take back to their organizations on Monday morning
STREAM 2 CASE STUDY

Panel: The Human Side of AI Adoption: Bringing Your People with You, Not Behind You

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  • Why most AI rollouts fail on adoption, not technology, and how HR can change that
  • Building employee trust in AI tools through transparency, education, and co-design
  • Reframing AI from a threat to job security into a multiplier of human contribution
  • Case examples of organizations that have made AI a cultural success, not just a technical one
  • What the people function uniquely brings to enterprise AI strategy
6:00 pm

Welcome Reception

April 6th

Stream 1 Chair
Stream 2 Co-Chair

Executive to be Announced

NXTThing RPO

Stream 3 Co-Chair
Stream 4 Co-Chair
7:45 am - 8:15 am

registration & breakfast

8:15 am - 8:20 am

Opening Remarks and Important Announcements

8:20 am - 8:30 am

Chair’s Welcome Address

8:30 am - 9:05 am KEYNOTE

The Future of Work Is Already Here — Are Your People Ready for It?

Thomas Ogilvie

Global CHRO

DHL

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  • Unpacking the most significant workforce shifts shaping 2027 and beyond
  • How leading organizations are translating macro forces, AI, demographics, geopolitics, into people strategy
  • The skills, mindsets, and capabilities that will define winning workforces over the next five years
  • Why the gap between leading and lagging organizations is now widening at unprecedented speed
  • A practical call-to-action for senior HR leaders ready to move from reaction to design
9:10 am - 9:45 am Case Studies
Stream One – Strategy HR

Fireside Chat: The New Geography of Talent: Navigating Immigration, Mobility, and Global Workforce Strategy in 2027

Neena Potenza

Chief People Officer US

IKEA

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  • How tightening immigration policy across multiple jurisdictions is reshaping where and how organizations hire
  • Building a global mobility strategy that is resilient to political and regulatory shifts
  • Balancing remote-first hiring, cross-border employment, and entity-of-record models at scale
  • Positioning global mobility as a competitive talent advantage — not a compliance obligation — in the war for global talent
  • Real lessons from a global employer that rebuilt its talent geography around new realities
Stream Two – AI & Tech

Building an AI-Enabled HR Function: From Pilot to Production

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  • How one organization moved beyond AI experimentation into enterprise-wide deployment
  • The use cases that have proven ROI, and the ones that quietly didn’t
  • Establishing AI governance inside HR without slowing down innovation
  • Working with IT, Legal, and Privacy as true co-owners of the AI agenda
  • Practical lessons on data quality, model selection, and change management
Stream Three – Talent Management

From Succession Planning to Succession Readiness: Building a Pipeline That Actually Delivers

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  • Moving from spreadsheet-based succession plans to active leadership pipelines
  • Identifying the critical roles, not just the senior ones, that determine business continuity
  • Accelerating internal mobility as a strategic lever, not a retention afterthought
  • Using assessments, exposure, and stretch assignments to develop next-generation leaders
  • Holding the business accountable for talent outcomes, not just talent reviews
Stream Four – DEI, Culture & EX

Culture by Design: Embedding Belonging into Every Employee Touchpoint

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  • Why culture transformation continues to fail when treated as a communications exercise
  • Designing the moments that matter, onboarding, manager check-ins, exits, to reinforce belonging
  • Aligning leadership behaviour with stated values when no one is watching
  • Measuring culture beyond engagement scores: behavioural, longitudinal, and predictive signals
  • What it really takes for inclusion to live in the everyday, not just on the wall
9:50 am - 10:25 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

Closing the HR Tech Gap: Practical Strategies for Modernizing Your Stack Without Burning It Down

Executive to be Announced

Seramount

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  • Auditing your current HR technology footprint with an honest, unflinching lens
  • Prioritizing modernization investments based on impact, not vendor pressure
  • Building a phased roadmap that the CFO will actually approve
  • Avoiding the most common pitfalls of large-scale HR systems implementations
  • Walking away with a concrete framework to apply on Monday morning
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

Operationalising Skills: From Taxonomy to Talent Decisions

Executive to be Announced

NXTThing RPO

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  • Why most skills initiatives stall after the taxonomy is built
  • Connecting skills data to hiring, mobility, learning, and succession decisions
  • Building a skills-based organization without a five-year transformation timeline
  • Practical examples of skills strategies that have delivered measurable business outcomes
  • Tools and methodologies attendees can adapt to their own context
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Reinventing the Manager: Equipping Frontline Leaders for the Workforce They Actually Have

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  • Why manager effectiveness is the single largest predictor of employee experience
  • Redesigning the manager role for hybrid, multi-generational, multi-locational teams
  • Building practical capability programs that managers actually use
  • Holding managers accountable without overwhelming them
  • Closing the gap between executive expectations and frontline realities
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

Connected by Design: Building the Integrated HR Tech Ecosystem

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  • Why disconnected HR systems are silently undermining your people strategy
  • Mapping the integration gaps between recruiting, onboarding, performance management, L&D, and total rewards
  • Designing a coherent HR tech architecture where data flows across the employee lifecycle
  • Practical frameworks for aligning vendor selection with integration strategy, not just features
  • Walking away with a diagnostic tool to identify your highest-impact integration priorities
10:30 am - 12:10 pm Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • Meeting Slot 1 / Networking (10:35 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.)
  • Meeting Slot 2 / Networking (11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.)
  • Meeting Slot 3 / Networking (11:25 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.)
  • Meeting Slot 4 / Networking (11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.)
12:15 pm - 12:50 pm Case Studies
Stream One – Strategy HR

Hiring in a Regulated World: Turning Policy Headwinds into Talent Advantage

Lisa Williams

Senior Director, Operations Talent Strategy & Employee Experience

Dow

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  • Mapping the wave of policy and regulatory shifts now directly impacting hiring, promotion, and pay
  • Pay transparency, AI hiring rules, non-compete reform, and worker classification, what’s actually changing
  • Building a hiring operating model that adapts to multi-jurisdictional regulation without grinding to a halt
  • Treating compliance as competitive advantage, not just risk mitigation
  • How one global employer rebuilt its hiring playbook for the new regulatory reality
Stream Two – AI & Tech

Responsible AI in HR: Building the Governance Backbone Before It's Forced on You

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  • Establishing AI principles, guardrails, and review processes that are practical – not paralyzing
  • Navigating emerging regulation across jurisdictions without freezing your roadmap
  • Building partnerships with Legal, IT, and Privacy that accelerate rather than slow innovation
  • Auditing AI-driven HR decisions for bias, fairness, and explainability
  • What ‘responsible AI in HR’ actually looks like in practice, not in policy
Stream Three – Talent Management

Reinventing Talent Acquisition for 2027: From Funnel to Strategic Capability

Julia Ruben Weissman

SVP US Human Resources & NA Personal Care

Unilever

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  • Why the traditional TA function is breaking, and what is replacing it
  • Rebuilding talent acquisition around skills, internal mobility, and AI-augmented sourcing
  • Delivering candidate experience that converts in a market where top talent has options
  • Connecting TA outcomes to business impact metrics the C-suite trusts
  • Inside one organization’s TA reinvention: structure, technology, and capability shifts
Stream Four – DEI, Culture & EX

Engagement in an Era of Disconnection: Rebuilding Belonging in a Hybrid Workforce

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  • Diagnosing where engagement is genuinely declining, and where it isn’t
  • Designing rituals, rhythms, and rooms that create real connection in distributed teams
  • Why one-size-fits-all engagement strategies are losing relevance
  • Equipping managers as the primary architects of team belonging
  • Engagement metrics that actually predict retention and performance
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm THEMED LUNCH DISCUSSIONS

Explore this year’s themed lunch discussions led by industry leaders, where executives engage in focused conversations over a meal, discussing topics they’re passionate about alongside their peers.

Immigration, Mobility & the New Geography of Talent

Executive to be Announced

Workforce Edge

AI in HR — What's Worked, What's Failed, What's Next

Wellbeing in a High-Performance Culture — Can We Have Both?

Sustaining DEI Commitments in a Politically Charged Climate

1:55 pm - 2:30 pm Case Studies
Stream One – Strategy HR

Change Management at Enterprise Scale: Leading People Through Continuous Reinvention

Gena Smith

CHRO

J.Crew

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  • Why traditional change management methodologies are failing in an era of compounding, simultaneous transformation
  • Designing change capability as an enduring capability, not a one-time project investment
  • Diagnosing and addressing transformation fatigue before it derails your strategy
  • Equipping managers and front-line leaders as the real engines of change adoption
  • Lessons from one organization that has run multiple major transformations in parallel — and lived to tell the story
Stream Two – AI & Tech

Productivity Tools That Actually Move the Needle: Choosing, Deploying, and Measuring Impact

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  • Cutting through the noise of the productivity tool landscape
  • Selecting tools based on workflow reality, not vendor demos
  • Driving adoption through change management, not just rollout emails
  • Measuring productivity gains in ways the business actually trusts
  • Avoiding the death-by-a-thousand-tools problem that has overwhelmed many organizations
Stream Three – Talent Management

Total Rewards as Strategy: Designing a Compelling Offer in a Competitive Talent Market

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  • Repositioning total rewards from a cost line to a strategic differentiator
  • Aligning compensation, benefits, and recognition with workforce segmentation and lifecycle realities
  • Navigating pay transparency regulation while maintaining flexibility and competitiveness
  • Communicating total rewards in language that employees actually understand and value
  • Inside one organization’s total rewards transformation — what worked, what didn’t, and what came nex
Stream Four – DEI, Culture & EX

The Rise of the Supermanager: Building the Single Most Important Capability in Your Organization

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  • Why manager effectiveness has overtaken every other lever as the #1 driver of engagement, performance, and retention
  • Redefining the manager role for an AI-augmented, hybrid, multi-generational workforce
  • Equipping managers to coach, inspire, and develop, not just deliver and report
  • Holding managers accountable for outcomes without piling on more administrative burden
  • Inside one organization’s wholesale reinvention of its manager model — and the measurable results that followed
2:35 pm - 3:10 pm Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

Workforce Analytics That Earn the C-Suite's Trust

Executive to be Announced

Bright Horizons

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  • Building the analytics maturity that takes HR from reporting historian to strategic advisor
  • Connecting workforce metrics to revenue, cost, and risk in language the CFO speaks
  • Avoiding the dashboard trap, and focusing on decisions, not data displays
  • Practical use cases that have moved the needle in real organizations
  • Hands-on framework attendees can apply to their next executive presentation
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

Building Your Enterprise AI-for-HR Roadmap: A 90-Day Action Framework

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  • Mapping AI opportunities across your end-to-end people processes
  • Prioritising use cases based on impact, feasibility, and risk
  • Building the cross-functional coalition required to actually deliver
  • Avoiding the pilot purgatory that has trapped many AI initiatives
  • A workable 90-day roadmap attendees leave the room with
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Career Pathways That Drive Engagement, Not Departures

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  • Designing visible, transparent career paths that motivate without overpromising
  • Connecting career conversations to real opportunities, not aspirational placeholders
  • Equipping managers to have honest, growth-oriented career discussions
  • Linking career architecture to skills, rewards, and succession
  • Practical templates and frameworks for redesigning your career model
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

Listening at Scale: Building an Employee Voice Strategy That Drives Action

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  • Moving beyond annual engagement surveys to continuous, multi-channel listening
  • Translating employee feedback into action loops that close the trust gap
  • Identifying signal vs. noise in a world of always-on feedback
  • Building the analytics and governance backbone behind employee voice
  • Examples of organizations that have turned listening into a strategic advantage
3:15 pm - 4:25 pm Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • Meeting Slot 5 / Networking (3:15 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.)
  • Meeting Slot 6 / Networking (3:40 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
  • Meeting Slot 7 / Networking (4:05 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.)
4:30 pm - 5:05 pm KEYNOTE

The Performance Mandate: Delivering Growth Through People When Every Cost Is Under Pressure

Kate Gebo

Executive Vice President Human Resources and Labor Relations

United Airlines

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  • How CHROs are answering the simultaneous demand for growth, productivity, and cost discipline
  • Geopolitics, immigration, regulation, and AI, translating macro pressure into operational performance
  • Rebuilding high-performance cultures without burning out the workforce
  • Why the people function now sits at the intersection of enterprise growth and enterprise risk
  • A confident, evidence-based vision for HR’s role in delivering business outcomes through 2030
5:05 pm - 5:10 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks

5:10 pm

Drinks Reception

April 7th

Stream 1 Chair
Stream 2 Co-Chair

Executive to be Announced

NXTThing RPO

Stream 3 Co-Chair
Stream 4 Co-Chair
7:40 am - 8:40 am

registration & breakfast

8:45 am - 8:55 am

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:30 am KEYNOTE

Skills as the New Currency: Building the Workforce of 2030 Today

Pat Myers

Chief People Officer US

McDonald's

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  • Why skills, not roles, are now the foundational unit of workforce strategy
  • How leading organizations are operationalising skills across hiring, mobility, and development
  • The cultural and structural shifts required to become genuinely skills-based
  • Connecting skills strategy to enterprise business outcomes the C-suite cares about
  • A roadmap for HR leaders ready to lead the shift
9:40 am - 10:15 am Case Studies
Stream One – Strategy HR

Culture That Survives the Quarter: Embedding Values That Hold Up Under Pressure

Pat Wadors

CHRO

Intuitive Surgical

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  • Why most stated cultures collapse under earnings pressure, restructuring, or leadership change
  • Designing cultural systems, not just statements, that endure through volatility
  • Aligning compensation, promotion, and recognition behind the culture you say you want
  • Diagnosing the gap between intended culture and lived experience at enterprise scale
  • Practitioner playbook for keeping culture alive when the business gets hard
Stream Two – AI & Tech

When Roles Disappear: Redesigning the Workforce Around What AI Now Does

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  • Confronting the harder AI question: which roles are augmented, which are absorbed, and which simply go away
  • Building a ‘now-next’ talent strategy that delivers today while reshaping the workforce for 2028 and beyond
  • Inside one organization’s deliberate workforce redesign around AI-driven role obsolescence
  • Managing the human consequences responsibly: severance, redeployment, reskilling, and reputation
  • What the C-suite expects HR to lead on workforce composition over the next 24 months
Stream Three – Talent Management

The Frontline Imperative: Building Talent Strategy for the Workforce That Actually Builds the Business

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  • Why corporate-centric talent strategies are failing the 70%+ of employees who work the frontline
  • Designing recruitment, development, mobility, and rewards specifically for hourly and frontline populations
  • Closing the technology gap: giving frontline workers the same digital experience as corporate employees
  • Measuring frontline engagement, retention, and capability with the rigour they deserve
  • Inside one large employer’s frontline-first talent strategy and the business outcomes it has delivered
Stream Four – DEI, Culture & EX

Beyond the RTO Debate: Designing the Employee Experience for the Hybrid Enterprise

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  • Moving past the binary ‘back to office vs. remote’ debate into a genuine employee experience design challenge
  • Defining where, when, and how work happens as a deliberate, human-centred strategic choice
  • Building belonging, inclusion, and psychological safety consistently across in-office, hybrid, and remote modes
  • What employees actually need — and what the data says about engagement, performance, and equity
  • Inside one enterprise’s redesign of its working model around real employee experience realities
10:20 am - 11:15 am Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • Meeting Slot 8 / Networking (10:25 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.)
  • Meeting Slot 9 / Networking (10:50 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.)
11:20 am - 11:55 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

Leading a Workforce of Five Generations: Strategies That Actually Work

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  • Understanding what genuinely motivates each generation — and where the stereotypes break down
  • Designing career development, recognition, and rewards that resonate across the full age spectrum
  • Building intergenerational collaboration — not just tolerance — in teams and leadership pipelines
  • Navigating technology fluency gaps without building a two-tier employee experience
  • Practical frameworks for managers navigating a team that spans 30+ years of lived work experience
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

AI in Talent Acquisition: Where to Adopt, Where to Pause, and Where to Walk Away

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  • Mapping the AI talent acquisition landscape with a practitioner’s eye
  • Identifying use cases that genuinely deliver, and the ones that quietly do not
  • Maintaining candidate experience and human judgement in an AI-augmented process
  • Navigating emerging regulation around AI in hiring
  • Walking away with a clear point of view on what to deploy first
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Designing Leadership Pipelines That Reflect the Future, Not the Past

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  • Reassessing your leadership profile against the realities of 2027 and beyond
  • Building diverse, deep, and ready-now pipelines at every leadership level
  • Embedding development into the work, not on top of it
  • Holding senior leaders accountable for growing leaders below them
  • A workshop framework attendees leave with to apply at home
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

Belonging in Practice: Translating Inclusion Strategy into Daily Workplace Reality

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  • Moving inclusion from policy and training into everyday team behaviour
  • Equipping managers as the primary drivers of inclusive culture
  • Identifying the small, repeatable moments that create, or erode, belonging
  • Measuring belonging in ways that are honest, actionable, and longitudinal
  • Practical tools for HR leaders to deploy this quarter, not next year
12:00 pm - 12:35 pm KEYNOTE

The CHRO as CEO: Leading the Most Consequential Career Transition in the C-Suite

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  • Why CHROs are increasingly becoming CEOs, and what this generational shift signals about the future of enterprise leadership
  • The unique capabilities that make people leaders compelling CEO candidates: enterprise fluency, trust, and cultural authority
  • Making the leap: what it takes to transition from Chief People Officer to Chief Executive Officer
  • Building the financial acumen, P&L credibility, and board relationships that accelerate the path to the top job
  • A candid conversation for HR leaders ready to think about the next chapter — and the boards that should be watching them
12:40 pm - 1:40 pm

General Lunch Seating

1:45 pm - 2:35 pm PANEL

Holding the Line: Sustaining DEI Commitments When the Political Winds Are Blowing the Other Way

Mark Brown

SVP, Global Talent & Inclusion

Starbucks

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  • Honest, senior-level reflection on the rollback of public DEI commitments and what it means inside the workplace
  • How leading organizations are continuing to invest in equity and inclusion without the corporate fanfare
  • Reframing DEI as a business imperative, talent, performance, innovation, not a political position
  • Equipping HR and DEI leaders with the language, evidence, and courage to keep the work moving
  • What the next phase of inclusion work looks like when the easy path is to do less
2:35 pm - 2:45 pm

Chair’s Closing Remarks