Agenda at a Glance

From new regional insight to practical action, explore the challenges shaping today’s workforce and the strategies organisations can use to build resilience and strengthen performance.

Morning Sessions
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
    Registration, Coffee & Networking
    Arrive, connect with fellow attendees and explore the Experience Zone ahead of the opening session.
  • 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
    Welcome & Introduction: The Story Behind Workforce Resilience
    Opening the Forum and setting the scene for the conversations ahead
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
    Opening Keynote: Chasing Possibility – The Human Side of Resilience Featuring Team AngelWolf
    Through an extraordinary story of family, inclusion and sporting achievement, Team AngelWolf challenges conventional thinking about resilience and human potential. Explore how belonging, psychological safety and genuine inclusion can create the conditions for people to flourish and what that means for leaders building resilient, high-performing workforces.
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
    The Workforce Resilience Gap: What the Data Tells Us
    Be among the first to discover the findings of Lockton’s Workforce Resilience Research across MENA, exploring where organisations stand today and the critical gaps between ambition and action.
  • 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
    Break / Networking
    Connect with fellow attendees and explore the Forum experience.
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
    From Risk to Organisational Resilience
    Disruption can take many forms. Explore how organisations can move from reactive crisis management to building resilience across people, operations, finance and governance and why collaboration across the business matters.
  • 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
    Wellbeing as a Strategic Business Priority
    How can wellbeing become a measurable contributor to business performance? Explore how organisations are embedding wellbeing into leadership, culture and strategy while strengthening engagement, performance and workforce resilience.
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
    Lunch & Wellbeing Activation Zone
    Connect with peers, meet our Forum partners and explore interactive wellbeing experiences and live demonstrations.
Afternoon Sessions
  • 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
    From Insight to Action
    Bringing together the morning’s key themes before moving into an afternoon of practical discussion and deeper exploration.
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
    Closing the Talent Gap: Rethinking Talent Strategy
    As skills shortages, changing workforce expectations and AI reshape the employment landscape, explore how organisations are rethinking recruitment, retention, succession and workforce planning to build the capabilities they need for the future.
  • 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
    Afternoon Breakout Sessions – Round One
    Choose the conversation most relevant to you and explore practical challenges and solutions through interactive breakout sessions.
  • Benefits That Drive Workforce Resilience
    Explore how smarter benefits design, innovative funding approaches and targeted interventions can improve employee outcomes while delivering measurable business value.
  • Cyber & Human Risk
    People can be both an organisation’s greatest cyber vulnerability and its strongest defence. Explore how leadership, culture and employee behaviour can reduce human risk and strengthen organisational resilience.
  • Protecting Your People: Executive Travel & Key Person Risk
    From geopolitical uncertainty to health and security threats, explore how proactive travel risk management, executive protection and crisis preparedness can strengthen duty of care and business continuity.
  • 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
    Break & Networking
    Take a break, connect with fellow attendees and prepare for the second round of afternoon sessions.
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
    Afternoon Breakout Sessions – Round Two
    A second opportunity to join one of the afternoon breakout conversations and explore another perspective.
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
    Solutions Showcase & Live Demos
    Explore practical tools, solutions and experiences from Lockton and our Forum partners.
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
    Closing Keynote: Building Tomorrow’s Workforce
    A forward looking perspective on the forces shaping tomorrow’s workforce and the leadership, organisational and people strategies needed to build resilient, high-performing organisations for the future.
  • 5:00 PM – 5:10 PM
    Event Closing
    Bringing together the day’s conversations and key takeaways.
  • 5:10 PM – Onwards
    Networking Reception
    Continue the conversation over food, drinks and entertainment as the Forum moves into the evening.

Beyond the Main Stage

The conversation doesn’t stop when a session ends.

Throughout the day, discover curated networking, wellbeing activations, Speaker’s Corner conversations and interactive experiences designed to create new connections and keep ideas moving - from morning coffee through to the evening reception.

Further agenda updates, speakers and Forum experiences will be announced in the lead-up to the event.