If you’re looking for a conference that’s going to give you the tools and the confidence to be an effective, forward-thinking HR leader, then Tech Talent North is one for you. And that learning becomes even more impactful because you’re surrounded by a community that understands the challenges you’re facing.
November 17, 2026 • Vancouver Convention Centre West
Where People Leaders Find Their People
Tech Talent North brings together the people and culture leaders shaping Canadian tech, and gives them what the job now demands: business acumen, a real plan for AI, and a community to re-ignite the cultures they hold together.
Why Tech Talent North
Join Canada’s forward-thinking People & Culture community for practical insights and honest conversations about AI adoption, organizational transformation and the changing role of People & Culture leadership.
You’ll leave inspired, challenged and equipped with ideas you can put into practice.
Key Outcomes
Apply practical approaches to AI adoption and workforce transformation
Lead change while maintaining trust, engagement and momentum
Align people strategy more closely with business priorities
Learn from senior leaders navigating complex organizational decisions
Build relationships with peers facing similar challenges
The Conversations Shaping People Leadership
Everyone owns the AI mandate. Almost no one has scaled it.
- Working use cases across hiring, learning and performance, including what broke
- Where AI saves you time, and where it quietly adds risk
- Getting from scattered pilots to something that holds
- 92% of HR leaders are rolling out AI. 21% are in the room where the strategy is set. (SHRM, 2026)
A year that swung from layoffs to hyper-growth, and a team that stopped believing the next reorg is the last.
- Keeping people steady and honest when you cannot promise stability
- Re-igniting momentum after cuts, through acquisitions and expansion
- Rebuilding the manager layer after the flattening, with wider spans and thinner support
- 73% of HR leaders report change fatigue. 64% of CHROs say their leaders are not ready to guide people through it.
The tools are the easy part. Readiness is skills, structure and trust.
- Reading your own AI readiness honestly, instead of guessing
- Reskilling faster than the roles change
- Redesigning roles for the human-and-AI handshake without gutting the junior pipeline
- 39% of the core skills your teams run on will change by 2030. (WEF)
You are a business leader who specializes in HR. The board is watching, and it wants the numbers.
- The business acumen and data literacy to talk about people in the numbers your board acts on
- Connecting profitability to people strategy, and the growth trade-offs behind every headcount decision
- Leading like the disruption is yours to own, because now it is
- Making the people case now that 60% of CHROs face CEO-level disruption, and the old “seat at the table” ask is behind you
The calls that had no clean answer, told without the gloss.
- Senior leaders on the restructures, difficult exits and growth bets they got right, and the ones they did not
- Navigating burnout, C-suite turnover and shrinking budgets from the most senior seats in the room
- What real strategic ownership looks like once you stop asking for a seat
Everyone is heads-down and busy. The honest version of this conversation does not happen on LinkedIn.
- A community that understands the challenges you’re facing, the kind you leave with, not just meet
- The people you will actually call when it gets hard, long after the day ends
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From The 2026 Chair
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Mark Grimwood Salesforce
NOVEMBER 17, 2026 • VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE WEST
Be Part Of The Conversation
The future of work will not be built by technology alone. It will be built by the people who lead it.
Join Western Canada’s senior People & Culture community at Tech Talent North.