The signals are already in your organisation.

A half-day online summit on reading what your people data can't tell you yet: connection, load, and what happens next.

WhenThu 15 Oct 2026, 09:00–13:00 BST
10:00-14:00 CEST
WhereOnline
Format2 streams · 8 sessions · 1 keynote
CostFree to attend

Every people decision faces forwards. Almost all people data looks back.

Engagement scores, exit interviews, performance ratings. Organisations aren't short of people data. The problem is that almost all of it looks backwards.

This event bridges the gap between backward-looking people data and forward-looking people decisions.

You’ll explore what’s changing beneath the surface — where signals appear first, and how they can help organisations act before those changes become engagement scores, performance issues, regrettable exits or risk.

01

The hidden people signals

The patterns beneath engagement scores — connection, load, and how work actually moves through a team.

02

Where they surface first

Which parts of the employee lifecycle show change earliest, and how to spot it before it reaches your dashboard.

03

What a dashboard can't show

Where forward-looking signals help with performance, retention, management and risk — and where they don't.

Thursday 15 October · online

Agenda

Two parallel streams. Pick a lane or move between them — everything is recorded.

Business performance stream
People science stream
09:00
Welcome & keynote

When did 12 months become long term?

Luke Warren Chief Growth Officer, Thomas
09:50
Session 1

The future of work is human: designing the value-creating workforce

Alison Ettridge
Session 1

How do you manage people as individuals?

Alex Clinton, Kim-Leigh Groepes, Kelly Jurkovitsch-Young
10:30
Session 2

AI changes the game. Your people make the difference. What's HR's role?

Sam Buckley, Clementine Heudron, Marc Zao-Sanders, Anurag Sri
Session 2

Seeing the invisible difference: what high performing teams have in common

Stephen Cuppello, Elcke du Plessis, Kira van Niekerk
11:00
Break Visit the Exhibit Hall, the Lounge and the leaderboard
11:20
Session 3

Bad hire: is it them or is it us?

Bradley Powell, Claire Dwight, Kat Billet-Ward
Session 3

Understanding the role of human behaviour in AI adoption

Jasmin Kalar, Kate Young, John Cooper
12:00
Session 4 & close

People data is great, but when do you take action?

Clementine Heudron, Kira van Niekerk, Becky Griffin
Session 4 & close

From offer to exit: putting people data to work at every stage of the employee lifecycle

Maria Febres-Cordero, Samantha Fernandez, Sophie Attenborough
12:40

Open house: browse Thomacon at leisure

Final chance to visit the Exhibit Hall, the Lounge, and the photo booth, and to climb the leaderboard to win great prizes.

19 speakers

Who you'll hear from

Luke Warren

Chief Growth Officer

Alison Ettridge

Founder

Marc Zao-Sanders

Lead Researcher

Kat Billet-Ward

Sales Director – RPO EMEA & B2B Enterprise

Kate Young

Founder and Director

Anurag Sri

Senior Principal

Q5

John Cooper

Chief Connection Officer

Clementine Heudron

Chief Product Officer

Sam Buckley

Vice President of Alliances

Kelly Jurkovitsch-Young

VP of Transformation

Kira van Niekerk

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Bradley Powell

Global Sales Director

Stephen Cuppello

Director of Psychology

Kim-Leigh Groepes

Director – Learning and Professional Services

Samantha Fernandez

Senior Data Scientist - Applied AI

Alex Clinton

Global Learning Partner

Elcke du Plessis

Specialist Research Psychologist

Claire Dwight

Global Learning Partner

Becky Griffin

Head of Market Growth & Expansion

Sophie Attenborough

Product Manager

Jasmin Kalar

Associate Organisational Psychologist

Maria Febres-Cordero

Strategic Customer Success Manager

Our partners

thrive AITW amplitask Hiring Science People SortedWorking Future

Read the signals in your people, before they become results.

Thursday 15 October, 09:00–13:00 BST, 10:00-14:00 CEST. Online and free.

Register free

FAQs

Yes — fill in the registration form with some basic information and you'll get access to the platform.

Yes, Thomacon 26 is completely free to attend.

Yes. The platform works on any computer or mobile device, in any modern browser.

Sessions stay on demand on vFairs for one month after the live event, after which time you can find them on the Thomas website, making it easy to catch anything you missed.