Event
Join Brightmine at Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™ 2026
As HR leaders navigate unprecedented change, access to reliable insight has never been more important.
Join us at 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 brings together HR decision-makers seeking practical solutions to today’s most pressing workforce challenges. Whether your focus is building workforce resilience, developing future-ready talent strategies or driving organisational performance, Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™ offers an opportunity to learn from industry experts, Gartner analysts and peers leading transformation across their organisations.
Visit Brightmine at booth 214 to discover how trusted HR and employment intelligence can help you:
- 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
Exclusive Registration Discount
Brightmine attendees can receive 10% off conference registration using discount code: CHRUK26EDC
Date: 6–8 October 2026
Location: ExCel London, UK
Booth: 214
Brightmine speaker session: 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.
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.
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
A result-driven, 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, I have 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.
I work closely with senior reward professionals and specialist consultants to address complex challenges in pay strategy, benchmarking and data-driven decision-making, helping them move from uncertainty to confident, evidence-based action.
My 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.
Connect with Will on LinkedIn.
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