2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Registration Opens
Check in, get your badge, then join the Social Hour at Portsmouth’s AC Hotel.
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
OPENING KEYNOTE: The Great Rethink
Cities are done. The office is dead. Delivery is the future. At least two of these statements are wrong – but why? COVID-19 will eventually be tamed, but work-from-anywhere is here to stay. That doesn’t mean the end of the office, but whole new ways of working closer to home – with more fluid organizations to match. And that, in turn, means rethinking who and what cities are for – forget downtowns vs. suburbs and imagine a life more local, with everything you need at home or only a few minutes’ walk, cycle, or drive away. Behind the scenes, technology is turning restaurants and retail inside-out through deliveries, “dark stores” and automation – threatening main streets, mom-and-pops, and real estate as we know it. Drawing on his research and foresight work for NewCities, the Atlantic Council, MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and months of post-pandemic research, Greg Lindsay explodes the myths around COVID-19 and explains why the future isn’t as socially-distanced as you might think.
Approved for SHRM credit and HRCI Business Credit
Program Faculty: Greg Lindsay4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Welcoming Reception
Mingle with attendees & faculty at the Welcoming Reception, hosted at the AC Hotel.
Later – Dinner is on your own this evening. Catch up with colleagues and HR friends while enjoying Portsmouth’s culinary scene.
Sunday, October 23, 2022 | AC HOTEL – PORTSMOUTH Monday, October 24, 2022 | THE MUSIC HALL