Over the past two days, we’ve explored how organisations are redesigning work through skills-based approaches, workforce intelligence, AI, automation, internal mobility, and new operating models. But one question remains:

Where does Talent Acquisition fit in the future workforce strategy?

As organisations shift from managing jobs and hiring people to orchestrating work across human and artificial capability, TA faces an important inflection point. Does our trigger point remain the same, or do we move further upstream where workforce planning, work design, capability strategy, and decisions about ‘how work gets done’ sit?

This closing panel brings together Internal Talent Leaders to reflect on the biggest lessons from ATC2026 and explore the next chapter for the profession. We’ll consider how Talent Acquisition can UPLIFT the organisation, the function and its people, so we can Rise Together.