Fair Cultures

24 hours to go. And tomorrow, this programme becomes a room full of people. 💚 People who have spent months preparing something worth sharing. People bringing questions they haven’t quite found answers to. People who might meet over coffee and end up building something together. For our third edition, we’re bringing together two stages, four practice labs and a community ready to get into the real questions shaping work: AI, inclusion, leadership, skills, rewards and the organisations we’re becoming. To everyone taking the stage, holding a conversation or helping us put ideas into practice: thank you for the thought, care and experience you’re bringing. Manjuri Sinha, Edson Barreto, Paul Else, Lotus Smits, Lisa Smyth, Sam Ellis, Rareș Voicu, Mirna Bley, Mirko D'Arcangelo, Erica Lauretta, Emily Firth, Fiona Garvey, Ernest Abella, Rhiannon Stroud, Martina Ercoli, Lee Elliot-Major OBE, Soeren Winter, Shirley Baumer, Christine Jakobson, PhD Dr Nilima Gandhi, Mirja Myllykangas, María Soler España, Nicolo Mazzocchi, Catalina S., Ivan Nosov, Nauman Janjua, Kseniia Slobodskaia, Salem Mansuri, Marina Carrillo Girona, Anna Bertoldini, Luis Morago, Garret Kilmer Mahmoud Assy, Víctor Lemus Font, Maxine Buttigieg. Barcelona, we’ll see you tomorrow. Bring your curiosity. Pick someone whose ideas you want to explore. Introduce yourself. There’s a whole day, and a rooftop evening, to keep the conversation going. 📍 TBS Education Barcelona 🗓 1 October | Registration from 09:00 The future of work, designed fairly. #FAIRBarcelona #FutureOfWork #InclusiveLeadership

A great conference conversation needs more than a microphone and a good question. It needs someone who can make a room feel welcome, bring different voices into the discussion and know when an idea deserves a little more challenge. Meet the two people helping make that happen at FAIR Barcelona this Thursday: 🎤 Charleen Parkes will guide the Future of Work stage. 🎤 Mitchell Davis will guide the Tech and Talent stage. Char and Mitch bring warmth, curiosity and the confidence to go beyond the prepared question. They’ll help our speakers get to the heart of their ideas and give the audience room to be part of the conversation too. That’s the kind of conference we’re building: human in scale, generous with ideas and full of conversations that continue after the session ends. We’re very happy to have them with us for FAIR’s third edition. See you on 1 October at TBS Education Barcelona. 💚

It’s FAIR week.💡🤝 💚 This Thursday, 1st of October, we’ll bring a brilliant group of speakers and community members- all curious minds together back in Barcelona to ask some big questions about the future of work, built fairly. How do we hire when roles keep changing? What should we reward? Where does AI help, and where do people need to make the call? What does inclusive leadership look like in practice? Check out for yourself who's coming to share their insights, case studies, The good part happens when you're all in the moment, present, and the conversation opens up to you. https://lnkd.in/dzsE5Vzj 🎟️ Final passes available; take advantage of the 50% last-minute discount - use code: #ESLastMinute50 #FAIRBARCELONA2026

Leadership gets tested when there is no obvious playbook. That is the territory Rhiannon Stroud, Co-Founder of TruthWorks, will bring to FAIR Barcelona. With more than a decade working across People & Culture, consulting, global brands and scale-ups, Rhiannon brings an adaptive leadership lens to the conversation: how leaders respond when organisations are moving quickly, perspectives collide and the answer cannot simply be delegated to a policy or framework. Her role at FAIR is to help us push past comfortable answers and examine what leadership accountability really looks like in practice. And because the best part often happens around the sessions, expect a full experience: 📚 Back to TBS Barcelona for the day 🌍 Leaders and practitioners coming from across Europe 🔬 Practice Labs alongside the stage conversations 💬 Time to debate, compare notes and actually meet the speakers 😎 A rooftop after-party to finish it together 📍 1 October | Barcelona LAST SEATS -https://lnkd.in/e8T4igs6 #FAIRBarcelona #AdaptiveLeadership #Leadership #PeopleAndCulture #FutureOfWork

What does a neuroinclusive workplace look like when you design for it from the start? At FAIR Barcelona, Lisa Smyth, Everway will join the fireside chat: “The Neuroinclusive Workplace: How Employers Are Using Technology to Remove Barriers.” This session moves the conversation from awareness into practice: how employers can use technology, workplace design and leadership behaviours to remove barriers and create environments where more people can do their best work. FAIR is designed to make space for exactly these conversations: 📚 Back to TBS Barcelona for the day 🌍 A European room of People and Talent leaders 🔬 Practice Labs and practical sessions 💬 Time to actually meet speakers and continue the discussion 😎 A rooftop after-party to close the day together 📍 1 October | Barcelona https://lnkd.in/e8T4igs6 #FAIRBarcelona #Neuroinclusion #Accessibility #WorkplaceDesign #FutureOfWork

Neuroinclusion is moving beyond awareness. The next question is what we actually change at work. At #FAIRBarcelona, Sam Ellis Atos will join the panel “The Neuroinclusive Workplace: How Employers Are Using Technology to Remove Barriers.” Sam will bring an organisational perspective, from a global, large distributed workforce perspective to a grounded conversation on technology, accessibility and better work for everyone. And around the panel, the wider FAIR experience: 📚 A day back on campus at TBS Barcelona 🌍 A pan-European room of People and Talent leaders 🔬 Practice Labs where you work through the questions, not just listen 🤝 Plenty of time with speakers and peers 😎 And a rooftop after-party in Barcelona to keep the conversations going 📍 1 October | Barcelona 🎟️Last tickets availalble - https://lnkd.in/e8T4igs6 #FAIRBarcelona #Neuroinclusion #Accessibility #FutureOfWork #PeopleAndCulture

What does the next generation of People infrastructure actually look like? At #FAIRBarcelona, Shirley Baumer from Shapes will bring a practical view from inside the emerging world of agentic HR technology. As organisations rethink how work gets done, the systems behind People teams are changing too. AI agents are beginning to take on administrative workflows, reporting, onboarding and employee questions, while People teams gain more freedom to build the tools and workflows they actually need. The interesting question is not whether AI enters HR infrastructure. It is what we choose to redesign once it does. And FAIR is built to explore exactly that kind of shift: 📚 A day back on campus at TBS Barcelona 🌍 A pan-European room of People, Talent and workplace leaders 🔬 Practice Labs where you can actually test and work through ideas 🤝 Time with speakers, founders and practitioners beyond the stage 😎 And a rooftop after-party to keep the conversations going 📍 1 October | Barcelona https://lnkd.in/e8T4igs6 #FAIRBarcelona #HRTech #AIinHR #PeopleOperations #FutureOfWork

Not everyone enters the workplace knowing the unwritten rules. At FAIR Barcelona, Lee Elliot-Major OBE will speak about the hidden codes that shape who gets ahead, who gets noticed and who is left trying to work out the rules as they go. His session, “Navigating the Hidden Rules of the Workplace”, brings social mobility directly into the talent conversation: how class, networks, confidence and access influence careers long after the hiring decision has been made. It is a powerful reminder that talent is not only about capability. It is also about who understands how opportunity works. And FAIR is designed to make space for exactly these kinds of conversations: 📚 A day back on campus at TBS Barcelona 🌍 A genuinely pan-European room of People and Talent leaders 🔬 Practice Labs where you work through the questions, not just listen 🤝 Plenty of time with speakers and peers 😎 And a rooftop after-party in Barcelona to keep the conversations going 📍 1 October | Barcelona JOIN IN - https://lnkd.in/e8T4igs6 #FAIRBarcelona #SocialMobility #Talent #FutureOfWork #InclusiveLeadership

Talent Acquisition is being asked to change at exactly the moment the function is under the most pressure. At FAIR Barcelona, Salem Mansuri , Tribe.xyz will join a conversation with fellow TA leaders about what modern talent teams need to become as AI, changing candidate expectations and new business demands reshape the function. This is not another “future of recruiting” prediction panel. We want to get into the choices TA leaders are making now: 🔎 Where does human judgement still create the most value? 🤖 What should actually be automated? 🎯 How does TA become more strategic without losing delivery? 👥 And what does a genuinely modern inclusive candidate and hiring-manager experience look like? FAIR gives us a full day to keep pulling on those threads. 📚 Back on campus at TBS Barcelona 🌍 Talent and People leaders coming together from across Europe 🔬 Practice Labs to move from discussion into application 🤝 Space to properly meet the people behind the ideas 😎 And a rooftop after-party once the sessions wrap 📍 1 October | Barcelona https://lnkd.in/e8T4igs6 #FAIRBarcelona #TalentAcquisition #Recruiting #HRTech #FutureOfWork Tribe.xyz

The workforce is changing faster than many inclusion strategies are. At #FAIRBarcelona, Paul Else, Head of HR at Stark Future SL, will give the keynote “Scaling Inclusion: Navigating the Changing Demographics of the Workforce.” The focus is practical: how do organisations build more objective, bias-resistant hiring and management systems that can support both psychological safety and high performance? And then there is the FAIR part of FAIR: 📚 A full day back on campus at TBS Education Barcelona 🌍 People and Talent leaders coming in from across Europe 🔬 Practice Labs where the conversation gets hands-on 💬 Plenty of space to meet speakers, challenge ideas and compare notes 😎 A rooftop after-party to finish the day the Barcelona way 📍 1 October | Barcelona | https://lnkd.in/e8T4igs6 #FAIRBarcelona #InclusiveLeadership #FutureOfWork #PeopleStrategy #Leadership