💡 HR TECH & INNOVATION CONFERENCE & EXPO 2026 💡
📅 Date: 22–23 September 2026
⏰ Time: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM
💵 Ticket Fee: FREE
📍 Venue: Connexion Conference & Event Centre (Nexus) (Grand Nexus), Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur
📧 Contact:
Sophie – 010 861 1851
sophie@malaysiahrforum.com
ℹ️ More information: Visit malaysiahrtech.com
The Malaysia HR Tech & Innovation Conference & Expo 2026 is set to be a powerful two-day gathering of HR leaders, technology experts, and industry innovators. Centered around the theme:
"Empowering HR in the Digital Age: Innovation, Integration, and Impact,"
this conference is designed to equip HR professionals with the tools, insights, and strategies needed to thrive in a digitally driven workplace.
🚀 The Defining Forces Shaping HR in 2026
This conference is designed around six defining forces that are reshaping the HR landscape as we enter the second half of the 2020s:
• Agentic AI and Workforce Displacement: As AI agents take on both routine and complex cognitive tasks, organisations must make urgent decisions about the nature, shape, and ethics of their workforces — and HR must lead those conversations.
• The Skills-Based Organisation: Traditional job architectures are giving way to dynamic, skills-based models in which talent is matched to work in real time. HR must redesign its people processes — from hiring to development to succession — for this new operating model.
• The Human Premium : As machines become more capable, distinctly human qualities — curiosity, creativity, empathy, ethical reasoning, and the capacity for deep relationship — become more, not less, valuable. HR must define, develop, and celebrate these qualities.
• People Analytics at Scale : The volume and sophistication of workforce data has reached a point where predictive and prescriptive analytics are accessible to organisations of all sizes. HR must develop the capability to use this data responsibly, intelligently, and with genuine respect for employee privacy and dign
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