Table-Top Peer Discussions

The summit where HR leaders don't just listen — they lead.
Table-Top Peer Discussions are the defining experience of Horizon Summit. Structured, facilitated, and built entirely around the quality of the people in the room.

Summit at a Glance

Senior HR Leaders

Discussion Tables

Strategic Themes

Strategic
Themes

Minutes of
Structured Insight

The Power of Peer Exchange.

The knowledge of fellow attendees is the rarest currency in HR

“The most valuable learning I’ve had in a decade didn’t come from a keynote. It came from the person sitting next to me who’d already solved the problem I was stuck on.”
Traditional conferences are built on broadcast models. A handful of speakers transmit ideas to a passive audience. You absorb, you take notes, you go home. And you wonder why so little of it actually changed anything.

The table-top discussion rounds are designed around a different premise entirely. The most important expertise in the room isn’t on the stage — it’s distributed across the all the senior HR leaders sitting around you.

Structured enough to produce real outcomes. Open enough to let the real conversation happen. Led by an experienced facilitator. Attended by peers who face the same challenges you do.
This is not a workshop. Not a breakout. Not a panel. It is a deliberate, facilitated thinking environment — and it is unlike anything else in the world of HR conferences.

Five reasons this format is
better than typical HR conferences

Every attendee is a practitioner with hard-won experience. Peer discussion surfaces that knowledge and makes it available to everyone at the table.

The session structure moves from framing to peer exchange to documented conclusions. You leave with specific, actionable outputs — not a slide deck.

Being in an intimate group setting encourages the exchange of diverse experiences and ideas beyond your organisation - across industries, functions, and geographies.

Headline insights from all discussions are presented from the main stage, so your 90 minutes returns collective intelligence from across the entire summit.

Solving a hard problem together with a peer creates a different kind of professional relationship than exchanging business cards after a keynote.

Ninety Minutes. Four Phases.

Minutes 0 – 10

Framing &
Context

Your facilitator frames the challenge, introduces the key question, and sets the conditions for a high-quality conversation.

Minutes 10 – 60

Guided Peer Discussion

Fifty minutes of structured peer exchange, guided by a consistent framework that keeps the discussion focused, inclusive, and moving toward real conclusions.

Minutes 60 – 70

Documentation & Synthesis

The final ten minutes of the discussion are dedicated to documenting what was generated. Key conclusions, recommendations, and unresolved questions are recorded.

Minutes 70 – 90

Whole-Room
Plenary

Selected facilitators take to the main stage to deliver crisp three-minute summaries of their table's key findings.

Ten Themes.
Ten Critical HR Conversations: