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10 September 2026 | Protein Studios, Shoreditch | Free to attend | 750 curated places
Free to attend · Pre-show assessment required · Limited to 750
At a glance
Staff shortages. Rising employment costs. High Employee Turnover. The Employment Rights Bill reshaping your contracts, rotas, and obligations overnight. The pressure to do more with less, while keeping your frontline engaged and your business compliant.
Retail and hospitality don't need generic solutions. They need solutions built for them. That's why Workforce Innovation Expo exists.
What it means for your operation, your rota design, your zero-hours contracts, and your frontline obligations. Delivered by practitioners who have already done the work.
Hands-on time with 50 exhibitors selected for relevance to retail and hospitality workforce challenges. Every vendor on the floor has been assessed before being invited.
Practical approaches from HR leaders at comparable businesses on sourcing, onboarding, and retaining frontline candidates right now.
Insight into what leading retail and hospitality chains are doing on scheduling, pay structure, wellbeing, and career progression. And where the gaps typically are.
Relationships with HR Directors, Operations Directors, and People leads at UK retail and hospitality chains facing identical challenges. Not business cards. Working relationships.
Where AI-assisted scheduling, automated compliance, and frontline engagement tools are heading over the next two to three years, and what to prioritise now.
9:30am to 4:30pm. Four focused sessions. An expo floor open throughout. A fully catered grab-and-go lunch designed to keep the day moving and the conversations flowing. A closing session that ends the day with something to think about on the way home.
See the full programmeFull speaker line-ups and session details to be confirmed. See the programme page for updates.
Every registration is screened before it is confirmed. You will not spend the day fending off irrelevant conversations.
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The difference between Workforce Innovation Expo and a 15,000-person industry exhibition is not size. It is intent.
750 places. Pre-vetted. 100% retail and hospitality. Every exhibitor relevant. Every speaker practitioner-level. Every session shaped around the challenges in this room.
Because access to the best thinking in your sector should not come with a ticket price.
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A five-minute walk from Old Street station. An intimate, modern space that is nothing like a convention centre, and everything like a room where good conversations happen.
Venue information and travel
Free to attend. Pre-vetted places. Protein Studios, Shoreditch, London.
Free to attend for qualified professionals · Pre-show assessment required · Places strictly limited to 750