Event
Brightmine attended Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™ 2026
As HR leaders navigated unprecedented change, access to reliable insight had never been more important.
Brightmine attended Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™ 2026, the leading event for CHROs and senior HR professionals focused on the future of work, AI adoption, workforce transformation and evolving skills strategies.
The event brought together HR decision-makers seeking practical solutions to today’s most pressing workforce challenges. Whether their focus was building workforce resilience, developing future-ready talent strategies or driving organisational performance, Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™ offered an opportunity to learn from industry experts, Gartner analysts and peers leading transformation across their organisations.
Visitors stopped by Brightmine at booth 412 to discover how trusted HR and employment intelligence could help them:
- Navigate workforce and compliance challenges with confidence
- Build people strategies based on reliable, up-to-date insight
- Equip leaders and managers with practical guidance and decision-making support
- Improve employee outcomes through expert-backed HR intelligence
Date attended: 6–8 October 2026
Location: ExCel London, UK
The New Currency of HR — Decision Confidence in the Age of AI
In an environment defined by rapid change and shifting expectations, every HR decision needs to be defensible. Pay, policies and workplace practices are coming under greater scrutiny, raising the bar for consistency and accountability. People see more, compare more, and question more. Through real-world compliance and reward examples, this session explores why decision confidence is becoming a competitive advantage in the age of AI.
When: 3:50 – 4:10PM, Tuesday October 6
Where: Stage 2, Level 0
Duration: 20 minutes
Session code: TH10
Speakers
Emily Mackenzie
AVP Market Planning & Product at Brightmine
Emily Mackenzie leads the Brightmine market planning and product management functions, working with the Senior Leadership Team and technology team to shape product vision and growth strategy. She engages with customers and the market to understand HR leaders’ priorities and guide investment in differentiated data, insights and capabilities. Previously Commercial Director at Contentive, she also held senior roles at Petroleum Economist, Euromoney Institutional Investor and Haymarket Publishing. She holds an MA from Cambridge.
Bar Huberman
Content manager, HR strategy and practice, Brightmine
Bar is a former solicitor with more than 18 years’ experience focused on serving the needs of businesses and HR professionals. She leads the HR strategy and practice team, which focuses on developing content that meets the priorities of HR professionals in strategic roles. Bar’s team works with leading experts in their field to shape practical content that helps organisations become an employer of choice, as well as guidance to train line managers in people skills.
Prior to joining Brightmine, Bar was a solicitor at a leading firm in Brighton, and she has an LLB in Law and French. Bar is also chair of the board of trustees of the charity Embracing Arts.
Meet the Brightmine team
Diane Duberry
Business Development Manager at Brightmine
Diane works closely with HR teams to help them reduce risk, stay compliant, and make confident, data-driven people decisions. She helps organisations empower managers, strengthen reward and compensation planning, and build confidence through trusted HR, employment law, and workforce intelligence solutions.
Will Penn
Senior Business Development Manager at Brightmine
Will is a Senior Business Development professional at Brightmine™ (formerly XpertHR), specialising in reward analytics and workforce intelligence. With over five years of deep expertise partnering with HR and reward functions, Will has a strong track record of enabling organisations across the education, non-profit and private sectors to make more informed, equitable and commercially grounded reward decisions.
Will’s areas of focus include reward analytics, pay benchmarking and the practical application of workforce data to simplify complexity and drive organisational confidence in reward strategy.