2026 Summit in Numbers

Meet the 3,106 organisations already registered

Britain’s biggest brands, the people who own engagement inside them, and the budgets they hold. Vetted so the room is buyers, not competitors.

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3,106

Organisations

4,436

HR & EX registrations

8,849

Scanned session attendances

14.5m

Employees represented

The audience your sales team is trying to reach

In 2026, the Summit attracted 4,400+ registered professionals from 3,106 organisations: the senior HR, people and internal communications community that owns employee engagement inside Britain’s biggest brands. Chief People Officers and HR Directors, Heads of Internal Communications, Employee Experience and Culture leads, and the digital-workplace owners who buy and run the platforms.

This is not a broad business crowd. It is a concentrated enterprise audience with clear responsibility for the engagement and communication technology already installed, the contracts up for renewal, and the budget that decides what replaces them.

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91%

Shape the buying decision

12.3

HR/EX Tools per organisation

67%

In an active buying role

92%

Would attend again

Seniority Breakdown

Senior enough to sign it off. Big enough to make it worth signing.

The Engage Employee Summit is where the senior decision-makers from Britain’s largest employers are: Chief People Officers and HR Directors who hold the budget, Heads of Internal Communications and Employee Experience who set the agenda and build the shortlist, and the people running live evaluations right now. 61% of the room is Head of, Director or C-level, and four in five come from organisations of 500 people or more.

That is what makes it commercially useful. Seniority alone gets you a polite conversation. This audience can approve the investment, knows the operational problem well enough to tell you exactly what they need from you, and works at the scale where the contract is worth winning.

Very large

20%

(2,500+ employees)

Medium

15%

(100–499 employees)

Small

4%

(25–99 employees)

Micro

1%

(1-24 employees)

Large

60%

(500–2,499 employees)

Purchasing Influence

91% of the room shapes the buying decision

Seniority tells you who is standing in front of you. Purchasing influence tells you what happens when they get back to the office. Nine in ten registrants hold a formal role in how their organisation buys employee experience technology — as the person who signs, the person whose opinion decides it, or the person building the shortlist.

Final decision maker

22%

Holds sign-off

Key Influencer

46%

Shapes the decision and the shortlist

Recommender

16%

Brings options to the table

Actively Researching

7%

Scoping a requirement now

67%

Hold and active buying role

Company size

An enterprise audience with serious buying potential

The previous section told you who holds the budget. This one is about what they spend it on. Just over half the organisations in the room are enterprise, a third are mid-market, and between them they employ 14.5 million people. Scale changes how technology gets bought: large employers run change programmes that touch thousands of people at once, so the comms platform, the listening tool and the recognition scheme are bought as part of a programme with a sponsor, a budget line and a deadline. They carry longer procurement cycles, so the conversation that starts on your stand in May is the one that closes in the autumn.

And they hold more installed tooling than anyone else: on average 12.3 HR and employee experience platforms per organisation, rising to 15.6 among those with 200 or more employees. Every one of those is a contract with a renewal date, and someone in this room is already deciding whether to renew, upgrade or replace it. For a sponsor that is the whole opportunity: not persuading an audience to buy for the first time, but being in the building when they decide what to buy next.

52%

Enterprise

35%

Mid-market

10%

SME

Industry mix

The industries investing hardest in their people

Attendees from Britain’s biggest brands household names, FTSE-listed enterprises, high-growth challengers and major public sector organisations across the sectors where the pressure to engage a large, dispersed workforce is highest and the investment in engagement technology follows. Financial services, retail, healthcare, technology, telecoms and the public sector lead the room, with manufacturing, logistics, energy and hospitality close behind. Whatever the seniority or the function, these are the industries where the budget sits.

Industries

Financial Services, Retail & E-commerce, Public Sector & Local Government, Healthcare & NHS, Technology, Telecoms, Professional & Business Services, Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing & Engineering, Transport, Logistics & Aviation, Travel, Leisure & Hospitality, Construction & Property, Facilities Management, Media & Entertainment, Education, Charity & Not-for-profit, and more.

Job Functions

HR & People, Internal Communications, Employee Experience, Employee Engagement, Culture, Employee Voice & Listening, Reward & Benefits, Wellbeing, Talent, Learning & Development, Skills & Capability, HR Transformation, Workforce Planning, People Analytics, Digital Workplace, Workplace Experience, People Operations, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and more.

Seniority

Chief People Officers, CHROs, Chief Executives and COO's, Managing Directors, Vice Presidents and Group Directors, HR, People and Communications Directors, Heads of Department and Heads of Function, Senior Managers, Business Partners and Leads.

“The event attracts our ideal customer audience of 10,000+ employee organisations, with great conversations and great opportunities.”

Achievers On Lead Quality

“Face-to-face meetings make buying decisions easier because people feel closer to whoever delivers the pitch in person.”

Workvivo by Zoom On Conversion

“Seven years attending, consistently strong — great conversations with existing customers and a number of new ones.”

Poppulo On Repeat Value

82%

Partner Reneval Rate

92%

Would Attend Again

Net Promoter Score

Meetings Programme

Meet Senior Buyers with Genuine Purchasing Authority

Most events leave the meeting to chance. Ours doesn’t. Key partners receive a pre-arranged programme of one-to-one meetings with the buyers on their target list, built before the doors open and managed across both days by a white-glove concierge team. Senior leaders tell us what they’re evaluating; you tell us who you want to meet. Our team matches the two, both sides agree to every meeting, and the schedule is confirmed before you arrive. No cold pitches, no sales roulette.

Around the meetings sit the formats where relationships start: hosted peer roundtables, focus groups, partner-hosted VIP dinners, the Leaders’ Breakfast and, for headline partners, the C-Suite Mezzanine. Twenty-two synchronised floor windows keep your stand busy because the timetable makes it busy. Your commercial team arrives with a diary, not a hope.