FREE VIRTUAL EVENT • SEPTEMBER 14–15

Build Your HR Future with Confidence

Today's HR teams are navigating constant change—from AI to evolving employee expectations. Join BambooHR Connect for expert insights, real-world stories, and practical strategies to help you lead with confidence and prepare for what's next.

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What makes Connect different?

Practical learning

Every session is designed to help you solve real HR challenges—not just discuss them.

Real-world perspectives

Hear real stories, lessons learned, and best practices from HR teams using BambooHR every day.

Product innovation

See how BambooHR helps organizations simplify HR and better support their teams.

Actionable insights

Leave with ideas, tools, and strategies you can start using immediately.

What you’ll experience

Discover practical ideas, fresh perspectives, and tools to help your HR team thrive.

Learn how AI can work for HR

Explore practical ways to apply AI across hiring, performance, compliance, compensation, and employee experience—without sacrificing trust or the human side of HR.

Hear from real HR teams

Hear how organizations are navigating change, adapting to new workplace challenges, and finding smarter ways to support their people.

Leave with practical next steps

Gain practical strategies, clear next steps, and new ideas you can bring back to your team right away.

Get an early look at what's new in BambooHR

See how BambooHR helps HR teams simplify everyday work, improve the employee experience, and spend more time focusing on people.

Agenda

All times listed in Mountain Time

Day 1

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Event
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9:00 - 9:20 AM

Opening Keynote: What's New and What's Next in BambooHR

Brad Rencher

AI has already changed how work gets done — most organizations just haven't caught up yet. In this opening keynote, Brad Rencher shares what's new across BambooHR and unveils two major investments built to help close that gap: Bamboo AI and BambooHR Expert Services.
9:20 - 9:35 AM
Product Demo
Come see what's new in BambooHR. Get an early, hands-on look at the latest product updates straight from the teams building them.
9:35 - 10:20 AM

Customer Panel: Facing the AI Shift in HR, Learning Labs

Micah Key | AxisCare
Heather Saxon | Rycon Construction

Renata Grantham | Derivco

Three HR leaders get candid about what it's really been like to bring Bamboo AI into their day-to-day work. Hear what changed, what surprised them, and their advice for HR leaders just getting started with AI.
10:20 - 11:05 AM

Workshop: Build Your AI Philosophy

Nicole Csiszár

Erica Wallace

Vicky Mickey

  • Build Your AI Philosophy
  • Long before your company finalizes an AI strategy, your team is already making dozens of personal calls about how to use it. This interactive workshop helps you turn scattered opinions into a clear, personal AI philosophy you can actually stand behind.
11:05 - 11:20 AM

Break

Consulting, Account Review, Partner, and Product Booths

11:20 AM - 12:05 PM

Keynote

Hebba Youssef

AI didn't create the cracks in how we treat people at work — it just made them impossible to ignore. Hebba Youssef makes the case for why HR is the function best equipped to lead through it.
12:05 - 12:50 PM
Discussion Breakouts
Break into small groups by topic and get real answers to the HR questions attendees submitted before and during the event.

Day 2

Time
Event
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9:05 - 9:05 AM
Opening
9:05 - 9:50 AM
Workshop: How to Build Context-Aware AI Workflows

How to Build and Deploy Context-Aware AI Workflows

A real-world look at how BambooHR builds context-aware, compliant AI workflows for hiring — and how to apply the same approach to your own AI strategy.

9:50 - 10:05 AM
Product Demo
Come see what's new in BambooHR. Get an early, hands-on look at the latest product updates straight from the team building them.
10:05 - 10:50 AM

Customer Panel: Real HR Challenges, Real Consulting Impact, Learning Labs

Wendy Gauvry | Point Foundation

Neil Lucente | AEIS

Two HR leaders share what it's really like to work with a dedicated BambooHR HR Consultant — from spreadsheet chaos to a fully operational, scalable system.
10:50 - 11:05 AM

Break

Consulting Demo, Account Review Demo, Partner Booths

11:05 - 11:50 AM

Workshop: Compliant AI: When to Prioritize Human Oversight and Accountability

With Colleen Rynne

Alex Bertin

Compliant AI: When to Prioritize Human Oversight and Accountability

As AI raises the stakes on getting things wrong, Colleen and Alex help you identify the moments that still need a human call — and how to defend that judgment when it's challenged.

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Product Demo
Come see what's new in BambooHR. Get an early, hands-on look at the latest product updates straight from the team building them.
12:05 - 1:05 PM

Keynote

Adam Grant

Tara Martell

Adam Grant closes out Connect with a live conversation on psychological safety, generosity, and resilience — the human throughline beneath everything you've learned about AI over the last two days.

Speakers

Adam M. Grant

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, Wharton's top-rated professor for seven years, and a leading expert on work, leadership, and organizational culture. A No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of six books, his latest, Vibe, releases this October.

His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, his podcasts have surpassed 100 million downloads, and he hosts Re:Thinking. Adam has advised organizations including Google, Pixar, and the NBA, and was named the world's No. 2 most influential management thinker. He earned degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan and lives in Philadelphia with his family.

Hebba Yousseff

Hebba Youssef is the Chief People Officer at Workweek and Founder of I Hate it Here, the HR newsletter read by 200,000+ people on how HR/People teams can build and cultivate great work cultures. Having scaled People Ops teams in tech, fintech, and media, Hebba brings both expertise and strong opinions to the future of work. You can catch her in her community of over 10,000 HR leaders, Safe Space or posting her hot takes on LinkedIn.

Made for modern HR teams

Hear from BambooHR customers about using BambooHR in daily HR workflows, sharing lessons, and finding smarter ways to support their people. Explore innovations, connect with peers, and gain practical ideas for your organization.

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