Write What's Next

Thursday, September 10, 2026

NYC and Live Virtual Stream

Doors: 11:30 AM ET

Program: 12:00–3:30 PM ET

Networking Reception: 3:30-4:30PM ET (NYC)

Payroll Forward 2026

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Ready to Write the Future of Payroll?

The payroll function is at an inflection point. For decades it operated as the essential, precise, and largely invisible engine room of every organization. That's changing.

AI is rewriting what payroll can do. A new generation of leaders is rewriting what payroll looks like at the top of the org chart. And the practitioners who shape what comes next will be the ones who can tell that story compellingly enough to make others believe it too.

Payroll Forward® is Chime Workplace's hybrid summit for the payroll leaders driving that change. Three curated sessions, candid conversation, and frameworks you can use the day you're back at your desk. The people in this room get to author the future. Join us and write it.

Session 1 — The AI-Enabled Payroll Function

We'll look honestly at where AI is delivering real value today, what the path forward looks like for functions at different stages of adoption, and what you need to do in the next 90 days to make sure your organization isn't writing this chapter without you.

Session 2 — The Rise of the Chief Payroll Officer

The CPO panel makes the case that the function's growing complexity — AI, real-time pay, multi-jurisdictional compliance, workforce transformation — demands a seat at the leadership table it has never formally held.

Session 3 — The Art of Storytelling

You can have the vision, the data, and the credentials, but none of it moves people without a story. This session gives attendees the craft to actually write the future: to walk into a conversation with their CEO, their board, or their team and make the case in a way that lands. The future of payroll will be written by the people who can tell its story.

Credit where (Payroll.Org) credit is due.

Payroll Forward helps you get smarter about where payroll is headed, and earn credit while you’re at it. Each session qualifies for 1 PayrollOrg Recertification Credit Hour through our relationship with Payroll.org.