Ready to Write the Future of Payroll?

For decades, payroll operated as the essential, precise, and largely invisible engine room of every organization.

Today, AI is transforming what payroll can achieve, while a new generation of leaders elevates its role at the top of the org chart. The practitioners who shape what comes next will be the ones who can tell this story compellingly enough to make others believe it, too.

Payroll Forward® is built for the leaders driving that change. Featuring three curated sessions, candid conversation, and practical frameworks you can use immediately, this is where the payroll community gathers to author the future. Join us and write it.

Payroll Forward 2026

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.

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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.

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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.

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