For more than a decade, Damien has founded and held executive leadership roles at some of Australia's leading B2B and HR tech companies, including Lawpath, Spreets and Ento.

He is currently VP, APJ at HiBob, one of the world's fastest-growing HR platforms, helping organisations modernise HR for the way people work today. As regional leader, Damien is responsible for driving HiBob's growth across APJ, expanding its market presence, and partnering with organisations to transform the employee experience through modern HR.

The people function has been rebuilt twice in a decade, from back-office HR to people operations, and AI is now rewriting the workflow again. The tools and the expectations have raced ahead of what most people leaders were trained for.

Georgia Kelaher hosts five leaders who each see a different part of the modern people stack: pay, the core HR platform, performance, hiring, and global talent. They'll name what has changed in their patch, where people leaders are getting caught out, and what to build now to lead through the future of the role they're all seeing come to life in front of them.

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What you'll leave with:

1. A clear read on where the people function has actually landed, and which parts of the workflow have genuinely shifted rather than just been re-badged.
2. An honest account of where the role has outgrown the people leading it, including mistakes the panel has watched play out first hand.
3. A short list of what to build, learn or let go of over the next two years, practical enough to act on the week after the summit.