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WELCOME TO LEAP HR: LIFE SCIENCES WEST 2025
This conference isn't just unique in offering an industry-specific platform for the most progressive HR leaders to maximise their own business value; it's also unique in that it rips up the rulebook of traditional conferences.
We believe the traditional conference format is no longer fit for purpose, so we started from scratch.
How it Works
When you look at the agenda, you will see three main types of session:
DISCOVER SESSIONS
DEVELOP SESSIONS
ACTION SESSIONS
offer you the chance to hear the HR leaders in life sciences sharing the stories of what they're doing to maximize the impact of their team and function on the business
provide you with the unique opportunity to have your burning questions answered and move beyond the 'what' and the 'why' to get to the 'how'
divide the audience by company size and are designed to help you explore challenges with peers, and decide what you are going to change in order to add greater value to the business
Want to Know Why You Should Attend in 2025?
This is your best opportunity to uncover how established and scaling biopharma organizations are adapting to continued industry volatility and looking ahead to plan for the workforce of tomorrow needed to meet business demand and scale as the industry recovers from a period of funding restrictions and workforce reductions.
Join 200+ other HR leaders who are looking to redesign their HR strategy to meet the new needs of their business in 2025 in beyond. Find out how the most agile organizations are developing new total rewards strategies to give them a competitive edge in a traditionally fierce talent market, how they’re re-thinking conventional employee engagement to boost retention, and how their building flexible workforce planning strategies to prepare for fast-paced industry change.
Experience the most valuable HR Life Science meeting. Learn from the success stories of your peers, uncover their solutions and unexpected challenges. Take achievable, practical and strategic plans back with you to your organisation.
Create long lasting partnerships with your HR peers in the Life Science landscape from our esteemed LEAP community to share ideas and tackle challenges together.
The Most Influential HR Event in Life Sciences
The Most Innovative Names in the Industry
With organizations from Great Place to Work, Built Ins: Top Biotech Companies 2024, Forbes Best Places to Work in Life Sciences we’re bringing together an elite community of Life Science HR leaders in San Francisco, April 2025. Organizations' like Biomarin, Cytokinetics, Calico Life Sciences and more have already secured their place at the event to gain valuable insights and elevate their own HR strategies.
This 3-day event includes a separately bookable Organizational Structuring Pre-Conference Focus Day with two tracks on workforce planning and change management that will keep you ahead of the curve, delve into topics such as:
- Implementing Succession Planning for a Stable Future of Work
- Developing an Organization Design to Keep Balance During Hyper Growth
- Building Out the HR Team to Cope with Business Hyper Growth
- Strategic Alignment in Action: Building a Future-Focused HR Roadmap for Organizational Success