AI is reshaping how organizations operate, how work gets done, how talent is developed, and how leaders build culture, capability and performance.
For HR leaders, the challenge is no longer simply how to adopt new technology. It is how to transform the organization around it.
That is why Horizon Summit is evolving in 2026.
The new Collaborative Leadership Edition is built around peer exchange, participation and strategic dialogue – not passive consumption.
This is not another conference defined by presentations and crowded exhibition floors.
It is a high-engagement environment where senior leaders compare experiences, challenge assumptions, explore what is working, and work through the questions shaping the next generation of organizations.
Horizon Summit 2026 brings practitioners around the issues that matter most – from AI and augmentation to productivity, organizational design, skills, leadership and the future of work.
Because transformation does not happen from the audience.
It happens through conversation.
Horizon Summit brings you structured peer discussion among senior HR leaders. 30 tables. 10 strategic themes. 280 practitioners. One room. The insight generated stays in the room - and with you.
Each discussion is centered on a key HR theme, allowing participants to explore issues in greater depth.
Facilitated peer exchange that moves from framing to insight to documented conclusions — in one session.
Key insights from every table are presented from the main stage. You receive the intelligence from all 30 discussions.
Hear from past attendees what makes the HR World Summit a must attend event.
Horizon Summit is an invite-only, CHRO-level peer exchange conference held annually in Amsterdam. The 2026 edition — "The Collaborative Leadership Edition" — brings together senior HR leaders, technology innovators, and strategic partners for two days of structured peer discussion rather than passive presentations.
Horizon Summit is designed for CHROs and C-1 level HR leaders (roughly 280 senior practitioners), alongside a curated group of HR technology and solutions partners.
Horizon Summit 2026 takes place November 10–11, 2026, at the Hilton Amsterdam Schiphol in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Instead of a traditional stage-and-audience format, Horizon Summit centers on Table-Top Peer Discussions — 30 tables, 10 strategic themes, 90-minute facilitated sessions that move from framing to insight to documented conclusions, with key takeaways shared with the full room.
Tickets can be booked directly at horizon-summit.com/get-tickets.
“The HR World Summit offered incredible inspiration—from job purposing to AI and leadership. Launching the HR Manifesto for Flourishing at Work was a true highlight.”
Otti Vogt
Co-Founder, Global Society for Good Leadership