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Registration and coffee on the floor.
Day one puts AI in HR on trial. A real hire happens on stage while you vote against the algorithm. Competing platforms take the same live brief and the room votes on what would actually work. The dilemmas nobody says out loud get answered honestly. And every poll you answer builds the Gulf's first live picture of how AI is really being used across hiring, retention and employee management.
Registration and coffee on the floor.
Host introduction

James Taylor
Creativity, Innovation and AI Speaker
The day starts with one headline speaker on stage for fifteen minutes. No slides, no script, just the big question every leader in the room is facing, and the challenge to answer it together across the day.

Natalia Sycheva
Chief Data & AI Strategist, Regional Group
Watch a real job interview happen live on stage. A real candidate faces senior leaders while AI screening tools assess them in real time. You vote through the app: hire or no hire. Then the AI reveals its own verdict, and we see whether the room and the machine agree.
Coffee break on the exhibition floor
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One leader who has implemented competing AI platforms gives the room an honest comparison. What each one actually delivered, where each fell short, and what they would recommend. Twenty minutes on the verdict, then forty minutes answering the questions you voted to the top. No vendor in sight, and no question they saw coming.
Lunch on the exhibition floor
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Got a workplace dilemma you'd never raise with your name attached? Submit it anonymously through the app. The audience votes the best ones to the top, and experienced CHROs solve them live on stage. Honest problems, honest answers, no presentations.
Coffee break on the exhibition floor
TBC
One moment each day is never announced in advance, presided over by an expert nobody knows is coming. A launch, a reveal, a name you did not expect. You will know it when it happens.
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Throughout the day, everyone in the room answers quick live polls through the app. Together, your answers build something no report can offer: a real-time picture of how AI is actually being used across workplaces in the Gulf, displayed on screen as it grows. After the event, the findings are published as the CODE DXB Pulse Report, and you helped write it.
CHRO, Chief People Officer, VP of HR at enterprises and large regional groups
Recruitment director, head of TA, talent acquisition manager
Head of people analytics, HR data lead, workforce insights manager
CIO, CTO, Head of AI, HR systems and transformation leads
Head of employee experience, engagement, retention or internal comms
Independent consultant, agency partner, advisory or Big Four HR practice
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