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As AI agents and humanoid robotics move from science fiction to the boardroom, the traditional boundaries of HR and IT are beginning to blur. Stuart Evans, Director of Future of Work & Digital Employee Experience at Rolls-Royce, suggests we are witnessing a collision course that may eventually merge the CIO and CHRO into a single, unified role: The Chief Work Officer.

Moving beyond the "what" and into the "how”, Stuart will share some of the practicalities of the Rolls-Royce transformation, a journey that saw the organization shift from separate empowered business units to a ‘one-enterprise’ operating model, the opportunities this provided to re-imagine ways of working – leading to an exploration of a future of work that treats people, AI agents, and robots as complementary value-generating assets.

Areas of discussion will include:
• Board Buy-in & ROI: How do you build a business case for a model that views automation and people as a singular resource pool?
• Managing Resistance: How do you navigate the internal friction caused by operating model transformation alongside increasing pace of change & expectations of higher performance?
• Strategy vs. IT: What does a digital strategy look like when it is led by business owners rather than the IT department?