How to Engage Your Workforce Using AI

AI is rapidly changing the workplace and creating new possibilities for how organizations communicate, connect with employees and shape the employee experience. But using AI effectively requires more than simply adopting new tools. This interactive session invites HR professionals to explore the relationship between AI and employee engagement—where AI can add meaningful value, where its limitations lie, and what organizations need to consider before putting it to work. Through practical examples, discussion and shared experiences, participants will consider how AI can support more thoughtful and effective approaches to engaging employees while keeping the human elements of leadership, culture and connection at the centre. Rather than focusing on technology for technology’s sake, the conversation will encourage participants to think critically about where AI can genuinely improve the employee experience and where strong organizational foundations still matter most. This reflects the core distinction in the presentation between what AI can enable and what it cannot solve. Participants will leave with new ideas, practical considerations and a clearer perspective on how AI might fit into their own organization’s approach to employee engagement. Who should attend: • HR professionals in all career stages • HR students • Leadership & Management • Operations & Office Managers Agenda: 6:00 pm: doors open, networking & refreshments 6:30 pm: Indigenous Land Acknowledgement and introduction 6:35 pm: Gwen starts her presentation 7:35 pm: Q&A 7:50 pm: networking & wrap up 8:00 pm: event concludes About our speaker: Gwen Halchuk is a Learning and Organizational Development leader with 15+ years of experience in employee engagement, leadership development, organizational change and workforce strategy with national and mulitnational companies such at SKIP, Sobeys, and Maple Leaf. She has built global L&D and engagement strategies, coached more than 200 leaders, and led people initiatives that have delivered measurable improvements in engagement, adoption and business performance. Gwen is particularly interested in how AI can reshape the employee experience by creating new ways for employees to learn, communicate, contribute and connect. She brings a practical people-first perspective to AI, exploring how organizations can use emerging technology to create more personalized and responsive employee experiences while maintaining the trust, connection and human judgment that make people practices effective.