November 14, 2024, New York City
How your workforce adopts AI to learn, perform, and grow is this year’s defining challenge.
Valence's community of CHROs and talent leaders meets regularly to explore this evolving frontier.
Our 2024 AI Summit convened 200 executives from 100 organizations, collectively representing over 7.5 million employees. And the June 2025 virtual summit helped a thousand leaders explore how to close the gap for real AI impact at work.
Recent Events
2025 Virtual AI Summit:
The Adoption Gap
Fortune 500 CHROs and leading technologists providing the insight edge to help build your roadmap to AI results.
AI is joining the org chart and adoption comes before productivity. Senior leaders shared what does and doesn’t work to drive adoption, based on real initiatives.
An Evening with AI: Perspectives for Talent Leadership
This invitation-only event in London brought together an intimate group of global CHROs and senior HR leaders.
Attendees heard from Chief HR, Talent, and Learning Officers from WPP, LEGO, Novartis, and ING, as well as FT award-winning author and technology journalist, Parmy Olson.
Highlights from the 2024 Summit
EXPERT PERSPECTIVES
AI Unpacked with Geoffrey Hinton
“We're not used to exponential growth. We're fairly confident we've got some idea of what's going to happen in the next few years. In ten years time, we have no idea what's going to happen. And you can see that by looking ten years back. We had no idea this was going to happen.”
Geoffrey Hinton
Nobel Laureate in Physics & “Godfather of AI”
AI Now or Never
”I think the biggest sin is to not do something. Because [AI] s coming. I'm completely convinced that this will be as disruptive as the internet was. And the internet was as disruptive, in many ways, as the original industrial revolution. You want to be part of it.”
Bill McNabb
Former CEO, Vanguard
Making Managers Excellent
“You want to see if people are becoming more effective at their jobs. If you quickly jump to the efficiency side of [AI], it just becomes something that your organizations resist because they don’t want to just be cranking the wheel faster.”
Prasad Setty
Former VP of People, Google
AI Coaching Early Use Cases
Tim Gregory, Managing Director, HR Innovation & Tech, Delta
Lesley Wilkinson, Chief Talent Officer, Experian
Jennifer Carpenter, Global Head of Talent at Analog Devices
Upskilling an AI Workforce
Rachel Kay, CHRO, Hearst
Chris Louie, Head of Talent, Thomson Reuters
Tina Mylon, Chief Talent and Diversity Officer, Schneider Electric
Game Changing Coaching
Dr. Anna Tavis, Chair of the Human Capital Management Department, NYU
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