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June 23-24, 2026 | Germany

Future Workforce
Summit

Beyond the Playbook

When the old playbooks fail, how do you lead?

Productivity pressure is rising. AI is accelerating. Transformation never stops. And leaders are expected to deliver performance, build capability, develop their people, and keep their organizations viable — all at the same time. 

Join senior HR, People & Culture, and Organizational Development leaders for a two day working summit to work through real leadership and organizational dilemmas. 

DATE
Tuesday, June 23 &
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

TIME
9:00-5:00 PM CET

LOCATION
SAP Data Space

For Whom?
Business & Transformation Leaders, HR-Leaders, Managers & Coaches

This is not your regular HR conference.

Designed by experienced coaches, the summit combines strategic perspectives with structured peer exchange, business simulations, case-based decision labs, and collaborative working formats — so you don’t just listen. You think, test, debate, and build clarity together.

  • Only 150 seats enabling real dialogue – not passive listening
  • Executive working lab with simulations, expert sessions and mastermind groups on shared challenges
  • Team tickets with a bonus team coaching to maximize impact.

Who It’s For & What You’ll Gain

Who Is This For

Senior HR, People & Culture and Organizational Development leaders responsible for performance, capability, and transformation.

What You Will Gain

Sharpened judgment in complex, high-stakes decisions. Work through real trade-offs with peers who understand the weight of leadership responsibility.

A broader strategic perspective on your current challenges. Test your thinking against diverse experiences, tensions, and organizational realities.

Constructive sparring with leaders facing similar dilemmas. Move beyond polite networking into collaborative working labs.

A clarified next move for your organization. Leave with a deliberate, self-developed course of action — shaped, challenged, and strengthened during the summit.

Not just a conference: An Executive Working Lab

Most conferences are built around content delivery.
The Future Workforce Summit is built around real strategic work.

Across two days, you enter a structured executive learning environment designed for leaders navigating complex organizational realities.

You won’t spend your time passively listening.

You will think, decide, debate, and test.

Through realistic board-level scenarios, facilitated group work, business simulations, and case-based reflection, you engage directly with the tensions shaping today’s workplace.

Topic experts, researchers, leaders from the industry and experienced coaches guide the process — not to provide ready-made answers, but to create the conditions for sharper thinking and more deliberate choices.

We work with real trade-offs, including:

  • Remote flexibility vs. in-office culture and cohesion
  • Reskilling and capability building vs. external hiring
  • Restructuring for performance vs. preserving trust and dignity
  • AI-driven efficiency vs. human judgment
  • Speed of transformation vs. execution fatigue

These questions rarely have clean solutions.
They require context-sensitive judgment.

Over the course of the summit, you refine your own position, challenge your assumptions through peer exchange, and develop a course of action grounded in your organisational reality.

You leave with clarity — not templates.
With direction — not borrowed slides.
With decisions that are yours.

Main Stage Agenda

Day 1

From Macro to Execution

Day 2

Co-Creation and Experimentation

Day one moves from the broader forces shaping work into the concrete organisational and leadership decisions they require.

We begin with the macro realities redefining business — then translate those pressures into organisational design, leadership responsibility, capability architecture, and digital trade-offs.

Throughout the day, a dynamic business simulation evolves in parallel. Insights from each session feed into the simulation, making tensions visible and decisions tangible. Rather than discussing concepts in isolation, participants see how strategic choices interact and compound.

Instead of traditional panels, structured debates bring opposing perspectives into the room — surfacing assumptions, exposing trade-offs, and strengthening judgment.

Workshops and facilitated group sessions create space to test thinking, apply insights, and challenge positions in peer exchange.

 

Key Discussion Threads on Day 1

Macro Perspective

  • Beyond the VUCA World — Leading Without a Playbook
  • Organizational Reality
  • Productivity, Restructuring, and Human-Centered Performance
  • Leadership Responsibility
  • Leading in an Era of Self-Leadership
  • Capability Architecture
  • Translating Business Strategy into Human Architecture
  • Digital & AI Tensions
  • AI Efficiency and Human Trust — Where Is the Line?

Day two begins with applying the learnings from Day 1.

Building on the tensions, debates, and simulations of Day 1, participants move into deeper peer exchange and collaborative work. Structured co-creation formats allow leaders to compare realities, challenge assumptions, and explore how others are navigating similar pressures.

This is where patterns become visible.

Where different approaches collide.
Where thinking sharpens through dialogue.

Selected start-ups working at the forefront of HR-tech, AI, and organizational innovation will give 3-min pitches to explain their unique solutions and ways of thinking to give more inspiration on solution building. From there, the focus shifts to your own organization.

The second half of the day is dedicated to translating insights into your own organizational context.

Participants who attend with their teams have access to facilitated team coaching sessions. These sessions create structured space to reflect together, align on applications, and define how emerging insights connect to strategy, leadership development, or organizational design. This is protected working time.

The intention is not to leave with abstract inspiration, but with clarity grounded in your reality.

By the end of Day 2, you will have:

  • Tested your thinking in honest peer exchange
  • Clarified what the current tensions mean for your organization
  • Defined concrete next steps shaped by your context

The summit closes with deliberate integration — ensuring that dialogue turns into direction, and reflection into action.

The Agenda is not final and subject to change.

About

Launched in 2024 and fully organized by ICF Germany since 2025, the Future Workforce Summit is a growing platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue on leadership, technology, and human development.

The summit brings together business, HR, innovation, and coaching perspectives to co-create practical responses to today’s most pressing workplace challenges.

  • 2025 theme: Leading People & AI
  • Hosted at SAP Dataspace
  • 85%+ satisfaction rate

Ticket Options

Individual Ticket

1. 🐦 Early Bird Ticket – Sold Out
14 January – 28 February 2026 (or until sold-out)
Non-Member: € 297.18
ICF Germany Member: €197.18

2. ⚡ Momentum Pass
01 March – 15 April 2026 (or until sold-out)
Non-Member: € 355.55
ICF Germany Member: € 255.55

3. 🔔 Last Call Ticket
16 April – 31 May 2026 (or until sold-out)
Non-Member: € 410.25
ICF Germany Member: € 310.25

4. 🎫 Standard Ticket
01 June – 24 June 2026 (or until sold-out)
Non-Member: € 547.00
ICF Germany Member: € 447.00

Team Advantage

Bring your colleagues. Work on shared challenges together.

For teams of 2 or more:
10% discount on the current ticket price
15% discount for teams of 4+
90-minute facilitated team coaching session
(Day 2 onsite or online after the summit)

Designed for HR, People & Culture, and transformation teams who want to turn insights into coordinated action.

Team pricing applies to the active ticket phase (Momentum, Last Call, or Standard).

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