The CXO Summit: 500+ Leaders Head to London in October

This October, we're bringing the C-suite to London. BizClik's CXO Summit takes over Convene 155 Bishopsgate on 7 and 8 October, uniting more than 500 C-suite leaders across HR, finance, marketing and business strategy, with a zone reserved for CHROs among four executive spaces.

For HR leaders, the draw is a programme built around the question every people leader is living: How to bring AI into the business without pushing people out of it.

"Our universal challenge remains how to truly embed AI while keeping humans, the heart of our businesses, at the forefront," says Lisette Danesi, WPP's Global Chief People Officer, who joins our AI-Ready Workforce panel.

Seats in the CHRO zone are limited, and this is the room where the year's defining people decisions get made.

Secure your tickets to the CXO Summit now.

A people-first agenda

The HR line-up is stacked. Alex Snelling, Chief People Officer at McDonald's, opens day one with the keynote on our Enterprise Theatre stage.

A CHRO Summit and a Future of People & Skills panel follow, the latter featuring Tom Simons, Chief HR and OD Officer at NHS England, alongside Harry Abrams, a Partner at law firm Shoosmiths.

Among the other star guests, Matt Phelan, Co-founder of The Happiness Index, takes on leadership through economic uncertainty and AI disruption, while SUEZ Chief Business Services Officer Tracey Leghorn delivers a day-two keynote.

Lisette's own session presses on reskilling, empowering people to "learn, unlearn and relearn" so firms can harness AI responsibly.

It is the kind of line-up you cannot assemble on a video call, and once these two days are gone, they are gone.

Why HR belongs in the room

The summit is designed for cross-functional dialogue. Culture, capital and brand now move together, and the CHRO who grasps the pressures on the CFO and CMO leads change more credibly.

The agenda reflects that, from a Leadership & Strategy Summit that opens on the ThinkTank stage to Siemens finance leader James Murnieks on financing a sustainable future.

Bizzabo's 2026 event benchmarks show 70% of professionals call relationship-building in person the outcome hardest to replicate online, and networking now sits among the top reasons executives attend at all.

Two days of dedicated CHRO, CFO, CMO and CEO zones are built for exactly that.

What is on offer at CXO

Across the two days, the summit brings together more than 50 speakers, four content zones and four executive workshops, plus the dedicated CEO, CFO, CHRO and CMO areas meant to get the C-suite talking to each other.

Alongside the people sessions sit The Future of AI in Marketing, The CEO Summit, The CFO Summit and The CMO Summit, giving HR leaders a rare chance to hear how their peers across the C-suite are wrestling with the same forces.

Beyond the sessions, the format leans on peer exchange, closed-door workshops and the kind of corridor conversations a webinar cannot replicate.

For people leaders still asked to prove that culture and skills belong at the top table, the CXO Summit makes the case.

Registration is open now.