UNLEASH World 2023 | UNLEASH Group | 17 October 2023 | Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, 1 Pl. de la Prte de Versailles, 75015 Paris, France

The Most Influential HR Event in the World showcases the next wave of breakthrough technologies and the global innovators shaping the future of work. UNLEASH has championed HR excellence and disruption since 2011 and has become the global destination on the new ways of working and the industry standard that drives progress in Human Resources.

2023 Speakers

Barbara Lavernos
Deputy CEO, L’Oréal

Josh Bersin
Founder & CEO, The Josh Bersin Company

Katarina Berg
CHRO, Spotify

Jonny Wilkinson, CBE
England Rugby Legend, The English National Rugby Team

Natalia Wallenberg
CHRO and Executive Committee member, Ahold Delhaize

Serge Betsen
French Rugby Legend, The French National Rugby Team

Muriel Pénicaud
Board Director and Senior Advisor, ManpowerGroup, Bain Capital, Galileo Global Education

Salim Ismail
Founder, OpenExO

Annick de Vanssay
CHRO, Sodexo

Jérémie Lecha
CEO, Roullier Group

Anika Grant
Chief People Officer, Ubisoft

Volker Hirsch
Chief Commercial Officer, Medicines Discovery Catapult

Zoe Grandon
Group HR Transformation Manager, Carrefour

Michael Arena
Co-founder, Connected Commons & Syndezo

Margarita Echeverria
Global Talent Management Director, LEGO Group

Thierry Baril
CHRO, Airbus

Sonja Catrin Fabian
Vice President & Global Head Talent, Sandoz

Eric Olsen
CEO, Aliaxis

Catty Bennet Sattler
Director of Human Resources, UNHCR

Jean-Claude Le Grand
CHRO, L’Oréal

Manjuri Sinha
Global Director of Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding and Onboarding, OLX Group

Andrés Arias
Group Head of HR Innovation & Transformation , Holcim

Maud Alvarez-Pereyre
Chief People & Transformation Officer, LVMH Group

Federico Balzola
CHRO, Dim Brands International

Beatriz Rodriguez
Chief Talent and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Bayer

Alexis Saussinan
Group Head of People Data & Technology, Merck Group

Michaela Schütt
Global Vice President, Head of Global Talent Acquisition Ecosystem, Siemens

Giancarlo Palà
Head of IT HR Nestlé Group, Nestlé

Michele Martin-Taylor
Vice President, HR Solutions & Employee Experience, Smith and Nephew

Antonio Caliari-Pearce
Director People Analytics, Booking.com

Jennie Rogerson
Global Head of People, Canva

Dietmar Knoess
Global Director People & Organization, Puma

Carolin Widenka
Director Development, Performance & Rewards, Viessmann

Claudio Valente
Global Head of Talent Management, Ingka Group, IKEA

Laura Hingel
Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, Parfums Christian Dior

Dr. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts, Phd
Professor Emeritus, HEC Paris

Magali Demierre
Global Head of Employee Experience, Philip Morris International

Gary Bolles
Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University

Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic
Associate Director, People Strategy, Boston Consulting Group

Edwin Pene
Global Head of Talent Attraction & Talent Acquisition Enablement, Red Bull

Mel Lee
Group Head of HR Strategy and Transformation, HSBC

Antonio Gniel
Global Head of Talent Attraction & Acquisition, Lidl

Renata Spada
Group VP Talent Acquisition & Global Chief Diversity Equity Inclusion Officer, ENGIE Group

Artur Nejmark
Head of HRIS Operations / Director Global Key Users, Volvo Group

Sara Lupi
Global Head of Employee Experience, Sanofi Consumer Healthcare

Cyril George
HR Lead for Europe, General Motors

Jo-Anne Rossouw
Global Digital Learning Manager, Nestlé

Will Dempsey
Global Talent Acquisition Director, AstraZeneca

Kate Usher
Menopause & Gender Equity Consultant. Speaker, Trainer & Author, Menopause in Business

Sebastian Tindall
Director of Learning and Development Operations, Vitality

Ulrike Lehmann-Deroche
Group VP Learning & Development, Clariane

Andrew Elston
Global Head, Workforce Strategy Enablement, HSBC

Claire Thomas
Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Hitachi Vantara

Sharath Hari
Vice President, Everest Group

Dr. Marcia Goddard
Chief Culture Officer, The Contentment Foundation

Gustavo Canton
Founder and CEO, imhmn

Abla Filali Meknassi
Global Culture, HR Communications & People Development Leader, Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions

Antonio Bebba
DE&I Regional Operations Lead (Europe), Pfizer

Maureen Jules-Perez
Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, People Tech Managing VP, Divisional CIO, Capital One

David Green
Executive Director, Insight222

Shannon Custard
Global Competence Development Manager, Ingka Group, IKEA

Michael Kienle
Global VP of Talent Acquisition, L’Oréal

Summer Baruth
Head of Global Employer Brand & Talent Attraction, AECOM

Benoit Pouliot
Director Talent Development and Inclusion, VINCI Construction

Annemarie Kalsbeek
VP of Payroll, S&P Global

Pierre Escaich
Neurodiversity Talent Program Director, Ubisoft

Claire Houd
Global HR Director, FLOA

Markus Graf
Vice President and Global Head of Talent, Novartis

Sophie Bonnaire Lafont
Global Head of Learning & Development, Nestlé

Henrik Ranzau Hansen
VP Global Head of Integrated People Services, Philips

Fatima Ahmed Alawadhi
HR Manager - People Experience, Emirates

Ciprian Arhire
Global Head of People Experience and HR Transformation, Entain Group

Denise King
Vice President, Global Benefits and Payroll, Medtronic

Markus Rettich
Head of Leadership Development Programmes, Daimler Truck

James Purvis
Head of HR, CERN

Jason Averbook
Senior Partner, Global Leader-Digital HR Strategy, Mercer | Leapgen

Catherine Gouw
Head of Employer Branding International, Lidl

Cyril Zaidan
Director of Digital Employee Experience, Sanofi

Stéphanie Fresson
Customer Learning Lead, Google

Nicolas Behbahani
Director Global People Analytics & HR Data, TechnipFMC

Bas van de Haterd
Founder & MD, Digitaal-Werven

Hans Kristian Lange
VP HR Global People Experiences, Statkraft

Ginni Lisk
Founder, Culture Climate

Romain Chômier
Compensation and Benefits Manager, KPMG France

Lars Börgeling
Director Customer Operations - DACH + HRD, Hahn Group

Jamie Hey
Senior Business Psychologist, Emirates

Veronica Riccio
Head of Mentoring, Sponsorship & Coaching, Expedia Group

Raul Perez
Global Head of Early Career Strategy, Novartis

Georgia Kyriakopoulos
VP Business, Neurodiversity in Business The Netherlands

David Savage
Group Technology Evangelist, Nash Squared

Julien Legret
Global HR Digital & Data Director, Cartier

Akash Bajpai
Vice President - AI Strategic Survelliance, Citi

Lexy Martin
Principal, Research and Customer Value, Visier

Johannes Sundlo
Senior Human Resources Manager, Avalanche Studios Group

Matt Macri-Waller
Founder & CEO, Benefex

Tom Libretto
President, Workhuman

Annee Bayeux
Chief Learning Strategist, Degreed

Sultan Saidov
Co-Founder and President, Beamery

Kelley Steven-Waiss
Chief Transformation Officer, ServiceNow

Carl Hoffmann
Co-Founder and COO, CleverConnect

Jeff Griggs
Chief Revenue Officer, Eightfold.ai

Mahe Bayireddi
CEO and Co-Founder, Phenom

Rebecca Carr
Chief Product Officer, SmartRecruiters

Rupert Morrison
Founder, OrgVue

Dirk Jonker
CEO and Founder, Crunchr

Paul Rubenstein
Chief People Officer, Visier

Yvette Cameron
Senior Vice President, Global HCM Product Strategy, Oracle

Nat Natarajan
Chief Product & Strategy Officer, G-P

Meisha-ann Martin
Senior Director, People Analytics and Research, Workhuman

Vincent Belliveau
Chief International Officer, CSOD

Giuseppe Tomasello
Vice President of AI, Docebo

Baman Motivala
Chief Commercial Officer, Benify

Sarah Reynolds
Chief Marketing Officer, HiBob

Noam Mordechay
VP Enterprise Innovation, Gloat

Arnaud Grunwald
Chief Product Officer, Betterworks

Somen Mondal
GM Talent Intelligence, Ceridian

Naomi Dishington
Director, Strategic Advisory, Workhuman

Toby Hough
People & Culture Director, EMEA, HiBob

Allison Howell
VP, Market Innovation, Hogan Assessment Systems

Dr. Clemens Lechner
Head of Learning Technology & Innovation, Lepaya

Adrian Seligman
Member of the Executive Board, Top Employers Institute

Richard Doherty
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Workday

Els Hanssens
Sales Director International MidMarket, SD Worx

Jeroen Wielens
Director Presales Large Enterprise, SD Worx

Geoffroy De Lestrange
Global Head of Business Coaching, Speexx

Joe Essenfeld
SVP, Global Field Innovation, iCIMS

Alice Nachbauer
Senior Behavioral Scientist, CoachHub

Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Global Product Marketing, Eightfold.ai

Jessican Brannigan
Lead People Scientist, Culture Amp

Ace Mamun
EMEA Marketing in Charge, Jobteaser

Emmanuel Frenck
Head of Sales EMEA, Beqom

Tom Cornell
Senior Occupational Psychologist, HireVue

Kyle Cermak
Regional Director - Europe, Hogan Assessments

Ryan Batty
VP, Enterprise Marketing, Indeed

Rhys Kirby
Solutions Consultant, Sense

Richard Barrett
Director of Marketing, Workvivo

Tom Vanpraet
Senior Marketing Manager BE & LUX, SD Worx

Neil Pickering
Senior Manager, HR Innovation, UKG

Florian Cordel
Head of Product Strategy, Cegid

2023 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSORS:
• AWS
• Deloitte
• Eight Fold
• Phenom
• SAP Success Factors
• Visier
• Workday
• Workhuman
• Qualtrics
• Bob

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Beamery
• Cegid
• Cornerstone
• Hire Vue
• Indeed
• Mercer Leapgen
• Service Now

EMERALD SPONSORS:
• Avature
• Benify
• Beqom
• Ceridian Dayforce
• Clever Connect
• Coah Hub
• Coursera
• Cross Knowledge
• Crunchr
• Degreed
• Gloat
• Oracle Cloud HCM
• Paradox
• Sense
• SD Worx
• Smart Recruiters

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Alight
• Benefex
• Culture Amp
• Firstup
• Hogan
• ICIMS
• Top Employers
• Orgvue
• Workvivo
• JObteaser
• Remote
• Betterworks
• Lepaya

RUBY SPONSORS:
• 360 Learning
• Applic8
• Deel
• HR Path
• As1
• Cronofy
• Hire EZ
• Lattice
• Neocase
• Radancy
• Remote
• SHL
• Textkernel

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Class
• Uflex Reward
• One Team
• Whatfix

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Argos
• 365 Talents
• Deel
• Happy Dance
• Ingentis
• Maki
• Training Orchestra
• Venga
• Xpath Global
• Safeguard Global
• Shortways
• Mula
• Silae

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• PathMotion
• Zilen

SUPERSTAR STARTUPS:
• Zinc
• Populum
• Paybix