Staffing Industry Analysts, the global advisor on staffing and workforce solutions, has announced the full agenda and keynote speakers for its 12th annual CWS Summit Europe, taking place on 20-21 April as a state-of-the-art Virtual Conference.

CWS Summit Europe is the premier annual event for enterprise human resources, procurement and workforce solutions management professionals providing key insights, highly-relevant learnings and real-world solutions to workforce programme challenges through riveting conversations and transformative ideas

SIA’s ground-breaking and highly interactive 2021 CWS Summit Europe: Workforce Strategies for a New Tomorrow kicks off with a conference-opening keynote from SIA’s Peter Reagan, Senior Director, CWS & Research. In the keynote, Reagan explores how people, organisations, economies, and the entire talent supply ecosystem, have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Leading global futurist Anne Lise Kjaer presents Fostering a Culture of Connectedness in a Divided World in a special guest keynote which bears witness to a new digital landscape and readies businesses for the inclusive thinking, fast-cycle learning and agility that will enable them to respond and adapt effectively to ongoing disruptive technologies.

With over 500 participants, 55 speakers, 28 sessions and 15 exhibitors, the Summit is packed with new research, new thinking, new data, new experiences and new lessons gleaned over the course of recent and current events; and brings the professional community together in real-time via the CWS Summit virtual Exhibit Hall, live video-enabled Q&A and post panel discussions, the conference Networking Lounge, 1:1 chats and the platform’s advanced functionality and opportunities for interaction, peer-to-peer networking and engagement.

“As we confront widespread disruption across countries, economies, lives and global talent communities, the world at large is transforming rapidly,” said Ursula Williams, COO at SIA. “The inspiring roster of speakers, sponsors and attendees at this year’s CWS Summit Europe reflects the tremendous innovation, creativity and capacity of the workforce solutions ecosystem to rise to opportunity and usher in a new future.”