Start your day by connecting with fellow women leaders shaping the future of contingent staffing. This exclusive breakfast is designed to create space for meaningful conversations, knowledge-sharing, and peer-to-peer support. From navigating industry challenges to celebrating successes, join your colleagues for an energizing discussion that fosters connection, collaboration, and inspiration.
Behind every successful contingent workforce program are a handful of difficult decisions that rarely make it into case studies. In this fireside chat, a senior enterprise leader reflects on the moments that fundamentally changed their program, including trade-offs they made, resistance they faced, and lessons learned the hard way. This conversation offers an unfiltered look at leadership, decision-making, and what truly drives progress in mature contingent staffing programs.
Governance structures are designed to protect the business, but over time many contingent workforce programs accumulate layers of approvals, policies, and controls that quietly slow hiring and frustrate stakeholders. In this panel remix, enterprise leaders will share real examples of governance decisions that unintentionally created friction, how they identified the problem, and what they changed. Panelists will then join attendees in small group discussions to explore where governance may be backfiring in their own programs and how to simplify without introducing new risk.
Even the most well-governed contingent workforce programs struggle when hiring managers and suppliers find ways to work around them. In this interactive working group, a supplier will facilitate a candid, peer-driven discussion on why adoption breaks down and how leading enterprises are redesigning processes, technology touchpoints, and partner behaviors to create programs people willingly engage with. Participants will work together to identify practical changes that increase compliance by improving experience rather than enforcement.
Enterprise contingent workforce leaders rarely get the chance to step back and openly reflect on what they would do differently. In this buyer-led think tank, participants will share lessons learned from real programs, including decisions that paid off and those that created unintended complexity. The discussion will focus on how buyers would redesign governance, process, and partnerships if they were starting fresh today.
As contingent workforce programs mature, layers of process, policy, and approvals often accumulate in ways that slow hiring and frustrate stakeholders. In this working group, enterprise buyers will collaborate to identify where complexity has crept in, which controls still add value, and what can be simplified without creating downstream risk. Participants will work together to outline realistic changes they can take back and test in their own programs.
As contingent workforce programs mature, traditional success metrics often fail to capture what actually matters to the business. In this think tank, enterprise buyers will step back to examine how they define success today, which measures still drive the right behavior, and which ones may be reinforcing outdated priorities. The discussion will focus on aligning program goals with business outcomes rather than operational activity.