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Workforce Transformation
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Sep 22, 2026
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11:00 AM ET
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Booth No. 49
Beyond the Spreadsheet Summit
Tuesday, September 22nd & Wednesday, September 23rd
Spreadsheets had a good run. Workforce transformation needs more.
Four 40-minute sessions including Fuel50 in Action Q&A segments on skills, tasks, succession, and workforce agility – built for HR and Talent leaders who need the exec-level view, and practitioners who need a framework they can run this week.
Attend live and take part, and you're in the running for one of 24 Amazon gift cards (up to $100 USD).
Register to attend all of the sessions, or the one of your choice.
Sep 23, 2026 current date Sep 13, 2026
Meet Your Speakers
Anne Fulton is the founder and CEO of Fuel50, pioneers of the skills-powered Talent Marketplace. Passionate about skills enablement and career pathing, Anne and co-founder Jo Mills created Fuel50 to help employers power internal mobility and workforce reskilling initiatives to meet the needs of an evolving future.
At Beyond the Spreadsheet, Anne closes the summit by setting the stakes for workforce transformation, framing why spreadsheets and static org charts can’t keep pace with shifting roles, evolving skills, and new AI-driven work. She connects the four summit frameworks across skills intelligence, tasks, succession, and workforce agility, giving executives a clear lens on how to move from scattered data to decisions and movements that hold up in the boardroom.
Driven by a mission to enable people to fulfill their potential at work and organizations to be future proofed and agile, Jo created Fuel50 with co-founder Anne Fulton. A recognized domain expert in workforce transformation, and co-author of The Career Engagement Game, Jo has delivered skills and talent intelligence initiatives, delivering millions of skills insights and uplifts of 2x mobility (maybe a different proof point) across a wide variety of large enterprise, SMB and government agencies.
Jo opens the summit with a “what’s next” conversation that pulls the entire event together. She translates the four frameworks into a practical roadmap for leaders: how to keep skills data alive, redesign work around tasks, widen succession pipelines, and build real workforce agility inside complex organizations. Jo leaves attendees with concrete next moves for making these ideas stick beyond the event, so they leave with momentum rather than another static spreadsheet.
Christine du Plessis is a registered IO psychologist and organizational scientist with more than 20 years of experience across consulting and private practice. She leads Value and Skills Strategy at Fuel50, working at the intersection of behavioural science, organizational skills strategy, and AI-enabled talent systems.
Her focus extends past the design of skills-based talent environments to a harder question: whether those environments are demonstrably improving outcomes for the workforce, and how to measure that. That focus on validated outcomes, rather than reported activity, shapes how she advises talent and HR leaders on building skills strategies that hold up to executive scrutiny.
In her session, "Skills Intelligence at Full Resolution," Christine will show how to identify the capability risks carrying the most business weight, prioritize where to act first, and convert skills data into decisions that connect workforce capability to bottom-line results
Roel leads Solutions Consulting at Fuel50, where he spends most of his time in the room with enterprise talent organizations — designing skills ontologies, scoping talent marketplace deployments, and pressure-testing what AI-assisted mobility delivers against a real workforce, not a slide. Over six years at Fuel50, he has shaped how the company approaches skills and task intelligence. Before Fuel50, he founded and exited Savantis Solutions and held earlier roles at Ascendify.
His focus is where AI-driven work redesign breaks: the point where automation stops creating capacity and starts eroding the judgment, trust, and accountability that make work reliable. That distinction is what he advises enterprise talent leaders on before they commit to a redesign, not after.
In his session, "Task Intelligence: Designing Work for Human Potential," Roel will show how to separate what AI should own from what's strategically human, and use that split to guide reskilling and career decisions instead of just headcount decisions. Roel will also lead the live "Q&A and Fuel50 in Action" segments at the end of each session and show you how these Fuel50 brings these frameworks to life in a scalable and easy to implement way.
Ashley Levesque is VP of Marketing at Fuel50 and a leading voice on workforce transformation. Each quarter, she gathers insights from more than 250 HR leaders on the issues shaping the future of work – from workforce agility and internal mobility to succession planning. Through the roundtables and symposia she leads, she engages directly with dozens of senior practitioners who share what is, and isn’t, working in their organizations – and how they are addressing these challenges with Fuel50.
This perspective is grounded in recurring patterns across hundreds of conversations – not a single case study or isolated success story. Ashley has seen the same challenges surface across industries and organizations: succession plans that do not translate into action, limited visibility into skills and talent, and workforce strategies that struggle to keep pace with changing business needs.
In her two sessions, “Succession at All Altitudes” and “Workforce Agility, Built to Move,” Ashley shares what's holding organizations back from building more effective succession and mobility strategies. She'll share a practical, IO psychology informed framework developed through years of research, customer dialogue, and a deep understanding of the organizational conditions required to turn talent strategy into measurable workforce agility.
Beyond the Spreadsheet
Workforce transformation got stuck in spreadsheets and static org charts — while the work kept moving. Roles fractured into tasks. Skills expired faster than anyone could track them. Talent risk spread faster than any spreadsheet could follow.
Ready to move passed the spreadsheet?
Join us for a virtual event where we turn workforce headaches into frameworks you put in front of your exec team, hand to your HR team, and start running the same week.
Build the frameworks. Watch Fuel50 bring them to life.
Built for the moves HR, Talent, and Workforce Transformation leaders need to make now, these four sessions turn challenging workforce questions into frameworks you can leverage.
Each session is a working session – You walk through a real framework, take part in short activity, then see how Fuel50 puts it into action, live, and leave with something you can put in front of your team by the next afternoon.
Skills Intelligence at Full Resolution
Sept. 22 | 11 AM ET |
8 AM PT | 4 PM BST
Skills Intelligence is often treated as a data or mapping exercise. This session reframes it around a sharper question: how does trusted capability insight change a business decision?
Executives get a way to use skills evidence in workforce planning, hiring, and succession calls. Practitioners get a way to connect fragmented capability data to real action — building capability faster, reducing risk, and directing investment where it counts.
The output isn't a more complete skills map. It's a decision you can defend in front of your exec team.
Task Intelligence: Designing Work Around What People Do Best
Sept. 22 | 12 PM ET |
9 AM PT | 5 PM BST
AI didn't take anyone's job. It took the tasks out of it — quietly, one at a time — and left the job description holding an empty bag. Most job architectures haven't caught up, and that gap is where the real opportunity sits.
The real question isn't "what can we automate" — it's how to redesign work so AI creates capacity and people create more value.
Executives get a way to balance automation with judgment, trust, and accountability. Practitioners get a lens for connecting the shifting shape of work to reskilling and real career moves.
You leave knowing exactly which tasks to hand to AI, which to protect, and why that split matters more than any automation roadmap.
Succession At All Altitudes
Sept. 23 | 12 PM ET |
9 AM PT | 5 PM BST
Your succession plan probably covers ten people. Your actual risk is spread across a thousand. Critical work depends on a small number of people, with no clear plan for what happens if they leave.
This session widens the lens: protecting the critical work the organization can't afford to lose, wherever it sits.
Executives get a way to see risk sitting outside the org chart, in specialist and operational roles. Practitioners get a way to surface overlooked talent and build pipelines that hold up.
You leave with a way to spot your next critical vacancy before it happens — not just a longer list of names.
Workforce Agility, Built to Move
Sept. 23 | 1 PM ET |
10 AM PT | 6 PM BST
Every role you can't fill from inside is a role you're paying six months and a recruiter to fill from outside. This session covers how to connect movement to business outcomes, build the conditions that make mobility work in practice, and create pathways where talent flows toward the work that matters.
Executives get the case for mobility as a way to cut external hiring and retain critical talent. Practitioners get the actual conditions that make movement work — visible pathways, transferable skills, and leaders who develop and export talent instead of hoarding it.
You leave with a case for mobility your CFO will actually accept — not another HR initiative competing for budget.
Fuel50 In Action: From Framework To Workflow
Sept. 22 & 23
At the end of every session, you’ll get a focused 10-minute segment to make it real.
Bring your questions, pressure-test the ideas, and see how Fuel50 turns these frameworks into simple, repeatable workflows inside a large enterprise.
You leave knowing exactly how this could scale inside your own organization, not just on a slide or within a spreadsheet.
Opening Keynote & Final Takeaways
Sept 22 11 AM ET | 8 AM | 4 PM BST
A 5-minute kickoff from Jo Mills opens the summit and sets the stakes. She lays out why spreadsheets and static org charts can’t keep pace with shifting work, then previews how the four sessions on skills, tasks, succession, and workforce agility fit together.
Final Takeaways
Sept. 23 1:50 PM ET | 10:50 AM PT | 6:50 PM BST
At the end of Day 2, Anne Fulton closes the summit with a focused 5-minute wrap. She connects the dots across every session and distills them into a simple “what’s next” so you leave with a clear set of moves, not just another set of notes.
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Bonus: stick around live and you're in the running for one of 24 Amazon gift cards (up to $100 USD).
The Return on Four Working Sessions
Tired of hearing about the problem? This summit is where you solve it.
Break down workforce transformation challenges and see how Fuel50 actions them.
Get a guide to support you through the framework during each workshop.
Connect skills, tasks, succession, and mobility—so you can move talent where it matters.
Leave with frameworks you can run on your own, starting the same week.