MSI HR SUMMIT 2026
OCT 13–15 · ORANGE, CA
MSI HR Summit 2026 · Orange, CA
HR that runs with the business.
CLOSER TO THE BUSINESS·DRIVING THE FUTURE·STRATEGIC, NOT REACTIVE
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Two and a half days to sharpen how this team thinks, decides, and shows up, so HR isn't just supporting MSI's next chapter, it's writing part of it. HRBPs and HR Directors: a two-day Employment Law Seminar follows right after.
Strategy, leadership, culture, human capital, operations, and technology aren't six departments with six agendas. They're one system, and this year's keynote opens by making that case. Everything programmed after answers to one of the three standards below. Not a slogan, a standard the agenda gets built against.
Same scoreboard as the business, just a different vantage point on it. This team doesn't wait to be invited into the P&L conversation, it's already sitting in it.
Not waiting for the org chart, or the old systems, to catch up to where work is already going, whether a person does it, a platform does it, or both. Building the next workflow before someone else has to force it.
Business partners and TA move from the team that shows up after something's already broken to the team shaping the decision before it's made. Proactive counsel, not reactive cleanup.
Sixteen speakers for 2026. Session topics still being finalized. Tap a speaker to learn more about each.
A high-level look at how the summit unfolds. Tap a day for the full lineup. Full session detail lands in the programming memo as speakers confirm. This year's program combines the traditional HR Summit with MSI's Employee Relations Law Seminar: the full team is here for two and a half days, and a smaller group of HRBPs and HR Directors stays on through Friday and a half day Saturday for the two-day seminar.
The week opens on offense. Business case first, then the operating system running underneath it all gets a name. From there, the day turns toward the workforce already being built, human and digital teammates working side by side, and proves the point live: a real skills taxonomy, built in the room, not talked about in theory. The unsaid thing gets said to both rooms, then the day eases into HR Final Warning on the way to dinner.
Day Two stops managing people and starts redesigning how the work gets done. It opens candid on where Dayforce actually stands, no highlight reel, then the team rebuilds the workflow itself from that honest starting point before the morning turns to the mind of a growth CEO. The afternoon starts under the waterline, with the values that actually steer a leader, then gives culture a scoreboard rather than a slogan. Then the floor opens with nothing off limits, and the elephant in the room gets named out loud. The day closes on the one skill nobody teaches HR: how to sell the room once the idea is built.
Day Three comes down off the stage and out to the branches: an honest, unscripted look at what's actually happening on the ground. From there it goes straight at labor relations in detail, from the people closest to it, and the NLRA moves into the afternoon seminar, in front of the people who carry it. The official summit closes the way it should, with a send-off built to be remembered. Then the room splits. A smaller group of HRBPs and HR Directors stays on, trading the big stage for the fine print, as MSI's Employee Relations Law Seminar opens over lunch.
With the main stage packed away, Day Four belongs to the smaller group still in the room. Mornings close out the fundamentals: pay, performance, termination, safety. Afternoons go somewhere harder: discrimination, harassment, and the accommodations HR has to get right every time.
Day Five closes the book. The hardest material comes last, pay equity, reduction-in-force risk, and the complaints nobody wants to mishandle, put through one final scenario before the laptops close. Wraps by late morning, in time for the smaller group to fly home.
Everything the HR team needs to plan travel is below.
All members of the HR team should coordinate travel with Cynthia Siegler, who will handle flight and hotel bookings. Team members departing after the Summit on the 15th should not book flights departing before 7:00 PM from SNA or 8:00 PM from LAX.
Email CynthiaSizes have been collected and the order has been placed. If anything needs to change at the last minute, contact Chris directly.
