Transform Work Culture | Engage Employee Summit 2027

The UK's largest event of its kind, where Britain's biggest employers come to learn how to engage their people. Two days devoted entirely to the full, multi-pillar approach to employee engagement: every touchpoint an employee has with your organisation, from the day they join to the day they leave.

Roundtables

150

Speakers

120

Exhibitors

800

Meetings

3,000

Attendees

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The #1 employee engagement event

The Engage Employee Summit is the UK’s only pure-play event for the people who lead employee engagement and experience at Britain’s biggest brands. It features seven reimagined stages and a 20/20 agenda designed around your ROI, and it draws the senior HR, internal communications and employee experience leaders with the budget and the mandate to act.

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Engage Employee webinar series

Worth Their Time: Earning Internal Comms a Place in the Frontline Day

Discover: Frontline employees don’t need another channel to check, so any new platform has to earn its place in an already busy working day.

Date: 20th October Time: 12:00PM - 12:45PM BST

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Jo Moffatt

Partnerships & Strategy Director

Engage for Success

Jo Dodds

Director of Operations, Communication & Culture & Advisory Board Member

Chirpy Heat & Engage for Success

Charlotte Dahl

Managing Director

7 Seas Culture Consultancy

Christina Lewis

Founder

Herizon

Stella Gavinho

Group Head of Wellbeing

Entain

Sam Bleazard

Employer Brand Content Producer

Fortnum & Mason

Brian Ranson

Head of Internal Communications and Engagement

Cuckoo

Lindsay Comalie

Strategic People Partner

The London Clinic

Day 1 — The here & now

Across all seven stages, sessions focus on the pressures organisations are navigating today, what’s working in practice and where leaders are still grappling with unresolved challenges. From leadership, talent and internal communications to wellbeing, reward and the connected workplace, expect practical case studies, honest conversations and data-led insight into changing expectations, skills gaps, engagement fatigue and the complexity of supporting hybrid and frontline teams. The day runs on a 20/20 rhythm, with every break built for meetings and the people in the room.

Day 2 — The future of work

Sessions across all stages explore the future shape of organisations, workforces and cultures as technology, AI, shifting values and new career models reshape how people work and connect. From workforce evolution and talent mobility to the future of communication, wellbeing, inclusion, reward and leadership, the focus is on redesign, reinvention and readiness: what needs to change, how leaders can prepare, and how to build trust, capability and resilience while keeping the human experience at the centre. The 20/20 rhythm continues, every break built for meetings and the people in the room.

The stages

Seven stages covering the whole employee journey

Our 2026 speakers represent world-class organisations including Google, Nestlé, Gymshark, ASOS, easyJet, Coca-Cola, Starbucks and many more. Their insights and experiences will provide invaluable lessons for all attendees.

For CPOs/CHROs, HR Directors, People Directors, Directors of Culture, COO's

Main stage — Culture, leadership & performance

Where the Summit’s headline keynotes and flagship case studies from the UK’s biggest brands are heard, exploring how culture and leadership turn engagement into measurable business performance. Sessions set the agenda for the whole event, connecting the big themes of the day to the practical work happening on every topic stage.

What’s on this stage

For C-level, Heads of and Directors of Internal Comms and the Digital Workplace

Internal communications & employee voice

The craft and strategy of communicating with your workforce, and the listening that turns messaging into genuine dialogue. This stage is for the leader who has to say less and land more through constant change, close the loop on a survey visibly enough to be believed, and prove that communication drives engagement, retention and performance with the numbers to win the budget.

What’s on this stage

For C-level, Heads of and Directors of Internal Comms, Digital Workplace and HR

Internal communications & connected workplace

The channels and technology that reach every employee wherever they work, including the deskless majority. Platforms, intranets, apps and channels; rollout, adoption, integration with HRIS and Microsoft 365, AI inside the tools, and what it all cost. This is the room where the platform decision gets made with three employers comparing notes, not one vendor presenting, and where the frontline finally gets reached.

What’s on this stage

For Reward & Benefits Managers, Heads of Total Reward, Wellbeing Leads and HR

Reward, wellbeing & financial health

Designing and communicating reward, wellbeing and financial support so employees actually feel the value. Recognition, benefits, pay and wellbeing as one joined-up part of the engagement story, with the evidence to defend the budget under cost pressure. Not a benefits exhibition: the room for the leader who has to show a finance director the return on recognition, financial health and wellbeing.

What’s on this stage

For C-level, Heads of, Directors, generalist HR and CPOs

Employee experience

The end to end employee journey, from first day to last, and the moments that decide whether people stay and perform. Listening that leads to action rather than another survey nobody answers, engagement scores that actually move, belonging in hybrid and global teams, change fatigue measured and managed, and the EX business case a finance director will accept, every session from an employer with the numbers.

What’s on this stage

For HRDs, Heads of Performance, Organisational Effectiveness and People Analytics

High-performance workforce

Motivated people work harder and better. Manager capability, purpose, workload and job design, and the discretionary effort that follows, because the question has changed from how do we keep them to how do we get the best from them, and prove it. The hero of this stage is the HR leader showing a finance director that engaged people are the profitable ones.

What’s on this stage

For HR Directors, L&D Directors, Heads of Talent Acquisition and CPOs

AI, skills & workforce transformation

Which jobs change, who gets reskilled and how people actually adopt the tools, as AI rewrites what work is and who does it. Reskilling at scale, internal mobility that genuinely moves people, retention in a tightening market, and what HR and internal comms use AI for themselves. Employee-facing adoption through the engagement lens, from employers with a result, not a systems procurement show.

What’s on this stage

Roundtables

Don’t just watch the conversation, join it. Register for a roundtable

Roundtable

The Forgotten Benefit: How Workplace Pensions Can Drive Financial Wellbeing and Employee Engagement

As employees continue to feel pressure on their finances, employers are rethinking how benefits can provide more meaningful support – not just today, but for the future. Yet one of the most valuable workplace benefits is often one of the least understood, least engaged with and least appreciated: workplace pensions.

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Day 1: 20th May - Time: 11am-12pm

Roundtable

From Broadcast to Belonging: Personalising the Employee Experience

Most communicators know that blanket broadcasts don't land. The harder question is what it actually takes to make communication feel relevant to the right people, at the right moment, without creating a content machine nobody can sustain. That's what we're here to explore.

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Day 1: 20th May - Time: 11am-12pm

Roundtable

AI Built for Outcomes, Not Hype

AI That Works for Employees, Not Just Organisations. Most organisations have invested in AI. Most employees haven't felt it.

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Day 2: 20th May - Time: 2pm-3pm

Roundtable

The Comms Confessional: Breaking the Myths (And Bad Habits) in Employee Engagement

Forgive me comms, for I have sinned. Let’s be honest. When it comes to engaging employees it isn’t always best practice and perfectly polished. Still spending hours on that one newsletter? Still sending one-size-fits-all messages?

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Day 1: 20th May - Time: 2pm-3pm

Networking

Five ways to get involved

Where the conversations actually happen

Half of every day is networking time by design, with twenty minutes after every session across all seven stages. Use those windows for the five formats built around meeting people: book meetings with the partners you want to see, register for a roundtable with senior peers, catch 20-minute live demos in the Demo Arena, walk the Partner Hall with 100+ solution partners, and finish day one at the Summit Party.

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Join a roundtable
Catch a live demo
Walk the Partner Hall
Come to the Summit Party

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Engage Awards 2027

The work this community is proudest of, judged by the people who do it. Ceremony on 9th November, 2027 at Old Billingsgate, London and a sponsorable platform in its own right and 365 engagement.

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Jennifer Sproul

Chief Executive

IoIC

Anaïs Nebel

Advisory Board Member

Engage Employee

Sarah Hood

Global Head of Engagement

Bupa

Dawn Moore

Group People and Communications Director

Murphy

Cathy Brown

Head of Economic Justice

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Kaylee Darkins

Chief People & Communications Officer

OAK Global

Joyce Idoniboye

Chief People Officer

Oxfam

Annisha Taylor

Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Ofcom

Katie Browne

Head of Events and Marketing

Engage Business Media

The Summit in numbers

The scale that makes it worth the two days, Britain’s biggest brands, the people who run their workforces, and the partners who help them, all in one place.

600+

Brands

130+

Sessions across 7 stages

14m

Employees represented

120+

Solution & Technology providers

“I thought the day was excellent. High quality presentations and enjoyed talking to the stall holders. Looking forward to receiving the slides to embed the learning”

Bupa Dental Care UK Head of Internal Comms

“An exceptional selection of workshop topics across various stages. The ‘silent disco’ approach was also very effective as it allowed for full concentration during each workshop”

Chanel Training & Development Manager

“Great insightful presentations from a number of industries with global or great British brands. Great energy and inspiring content, refreshingly human approach and positively progressive”

British Airways Senior Crew Success Manager

“Brilliant event - very well organised. The morning was excellent with high energy!”

William Hill Senior Internal Communications Business Partner

“Great atmosphere and some great content with lots of interesting seminars and good connections were made”

Lidl Talent Acquisition Officer

“Very well organised event, fantastic range of topics and speakers and great opportunity to meet with other comms professionals”

Heineken Transformation & Change Comms Manager

“An excellent free event, talks were relevant and inspiring - lots of takeaways, great venue, opportunity to network with other professionals in the business and interesting to see what platforms and services there are in the industry”

Extreme Reach Head of Culture & Communications

“It was such an impressive event. So professional. So much on the agenda. Just so impressive. Hope to bring my whole management team next year.”

British Red Cross Strategic People Lead - Reward, Partnering and Experience

“It was an amazing, very well-organised event”

British American Tobacco HR Business Partner

“Very well run event, great location, very relevant topics, interesting vendors”

People Director Silver Partner

Digital media

The Summit runs for two days. The conversation runs all year, in webinars, podcasts, research and whitepapers

Webinar

Worth Their Time: Earning A Place For Internal Comms In The Front Line Working Day

Frontline employees don't need another channel to check. Their working days are already busy, their attention is limited and they often have established ways of finding information, talking to colleagues and getting things done. So launching another platform isn't enough. It has to earn its place.

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Live sessions from the brands getting it right.

Podcast

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Building An Ai-ready Workforce: How To Turn Anxiety Into Adoption

AI tops the CEO agenda, yet nearly half of employees have never used generative AI at work. So how do you bring your people on the journey? In this episode, Rob McCargow, Technology Impact Leader at PwC, and Nicole Knott, Partner in PwC’s Workforce Transformation team

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Honest conversations with the people on our stages.

Research

State Of Internal Communications 2026

Internal communications has never mattered more or been more complex to get right. The Simpplr Research: 2026 State of Internal Communications report takes a clear, data-led look at how IC is evolving, drawing on insights from nearly 450 practitioners across North America and a companion survey of 75 C‑suite leaders.

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What the industry is really dealing with.

Whitepaper

The 2026 Guide To AI In Internal Communication

The Haiilo 2026 Guide to AI in Internal Communication explores how AI can help internal comms, HR and IT teams work faster, cut through information overload and create more effective employee communications.

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The depth behind the headlines.

From Insight to Impact: How Lloyds Banking Group Is Transforming Engagement With AI here

Lloyds Banking Group reshaped its colleague experience by turning insight into action. This session explored how AI helped understand what mattered to its people, streamline everyday processes and personalise support, with a behind-the-scenes look at the steps, cultural shifts and measurable impact.

Beyond Policy: How Culture Really Shows up for Women

Carly Stanley, Chief People Officer, shared her personal story of being promoted to the C-suite while on maternity leave, and what it revealed about culture, leadership and trust. A candid, practical session on designing cultures where women don’t have to choose between progression and parenthood.

Research Reveal: The Talent Agenda and the Trust Imperative: Why the Workplace Matters More Than Ever

Edelman’s latest Trust Barometer showed the workplace remains one of the few institutions able to build trust across difference. Francesca Woodhouse unveiled the findings and what they mean for talent.

Beyond HR: Stepping from Chief People Officer to CEO

Joyce Idoniboye shared her journey from Chief People Officer to Acting CEO at Oxfam with rare candour: steering the organisation through change, earning trust under pressure and making high-stakes decisions. A compelling case for why HR leadership skills are essential in the CEO role.

From a Learning Management System to a Learning Experience Platform

Si Cox, Head of Learning Experience at Greene King, shared how the pub company replaced its traditional LMS with Attensi, a gamified learning platform, giving in-pub teams bite-sized, role-specific learning that drives engagement and performance, and the lessons learned.

Human-Centric Approaches to Digital Employee Engagement

GSK shared how it is transforming engagement across its global workforce, taking a human-centred approach to a new digital engagement platform built with Gate One and Workvivo that connects its people, targets meaningful content and amplifies every voice.

The Untapped Power of Reward Analytics

A Ford case study on how powerful data analytics can be for total rewards, and why it remains a huge untapped opportunity for reward professionals, with simple analytics and visualisation tools delivering real value to employees and multi-million ROI improvements.

Single Pass

FREE

Senior Employee Engagement, EX and HR Professionals. Registration is reviewed by hand. Not available to suppliers, vendors, consultants or agencies

Seven stages, built from your challenges — Main Stage plus six topic stages, programmed from the industry’s own questions, with a senior employer case anchoring every one
A pre-arranged meetings programme — tell us what you’re evaluating and we build you a schedule of short one-to-ones with the platforms on your shortlist, agreed by you in advance
Peer roundtables, by role — ten seats, no slides: HR Directors with HR Directors, Heads of IC with Heads of IC
The 20/20 day — twenty-minute sessions, twenty-minute networking windows, all day, every stage in sync; no dead hours
Live demos in the Demo Arena — see the software working, twenty minutes at a time, to every break
The Summit Party — Day 1 closes at 17:00 and the floor becomes the party
Networking app — find and message the people you want to meet before you arrive
Session recordings — every session on demand afterwards, so a meeting never costs you a talk
Bring your team — team passes for a director and the people who’ll run what they decide
Not available for Suppliers/Vendors

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Supplier Ticket

£1,495

The Supplier Pass is the only route into the summit for anyone with a commercial interest. Registrations are reviewed and approved by hand; delegate passes are not available to suppliers.

The whole event, both days — Main Stage, all six topic stages, the Demo Arena and the exhibition floor
A senior buying audience — 61% of the room at Head of, Director or C-level, 91% shape the buying decision
Twenty two networking windows — the 20/20 day releases every stage at once, so the floor fills every forty minutes and you know when your prospects are in the hall
The networking app — find, message and arrange to meet the delegates you want before you arrive
The Summit Party — Day 1 closes at 17:00 and the whole building is in one room
Learn what your buyers are hearing — the same editorial programme they came for, so you walk the floor knowing what’s on their mind
A route to more — pre-arranged meetings, speaking slots, hosted roundtables and the C-Suite Mezzanine are partner entitlements talk to the team if that’s what you need

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Master the new rules of engagement

The #1 employee engagement event

Worth Their Time: Earning Internal Comms a Place in the Frontline Day

Hear it from the people doing it

Jo Moffatt

Jo Dodds

Charlotte Dahl

Christina Lewis

Stella Gavinho

Sam Bleazard

Brian Ranson

Lindsay Comalie

Day 1 — The here & now

Day 2 — The future of work

Seven stages covering the whole employee journey

Main stage — Culture, leadership & performance

Internal communications & employee voice

Internal communications & connected workplace

Reward, wellbeing & financial health

Employee experience

High-performance workforce

AI, skills & workforce transformation

Join 4,400+ of your peers

What to expect

Don’t just watch the conversation, join it. Register for a roundtable

The Forgotten Benefit: How Workplace Pensions Can Drive Financial Wellbeing and Employee Engagement

From Broadcast to Belonging: Personalising the Employee Experience

AI Built for Outcomes, Not Hype

The Comms Confessional: Breaking the Myths (And Bad Habits) in Employee Engagement

Join 4,400+ of your peers

Five ways to get involved

Book your meetings

Join a roundtable

Catch a live demo

Walk the Partner Hall

Come to the Summit Party

Engage Awards 2027

The partners you’ll meet

Diamond

Platinum

Gold

Silver

Bronze

The leaders shaping the agenda

Jennifer Sproul

Anaïs Nebel

Sarah Hood

Dawn Moore

Cathy Brown

Kaylee Darkins

Joyce Idoniboye

Annisha Taylor

Katie Browne

The Summit in numbers

What attendees say

Join 4,400+ of your peers

The Summit runs for two days. The conversation runs all year, in webinars, podcasts, research and whitepapers

Worth Their Time: Earning A Place For Internal Comms In The Front Line Working Day

Building An Ai-ready Workforce: How To Turn Anxiety Into Adoption

State Of Internal Communications 2026

The 2026 Guide To AI In Internal Communication

Case study presentations

From Insight to Impact: How Lloyds Banking Group Is Transforming Engagement With AI here

Beyond Policy: How Culture Really Shows up for Women

Research Reveal: The Talent Agenda and the Trust Imperative: Why the Workplace Matters More Than Ever

Beyond HR: Stepping from Chief People Officer to CEO

From a Learning Management System to a Learning Experience Platform

Human-Centric Approaches to Digital Employee Engagement

The Untapped Power of Reward Analytics

Tickets options

Single Pass

Supplier Ticket

Join 4,400+ of your peers on the 19–20 May 2027.