Skills, Security Clearance & AI: How Do You Plan a Workforce in a Rapidly Evolving Environment?
The HR World are hosting an exclusive panel discussion event to discuss and explore the challenges and solutions around managing and recruiting people within the public sector at a time of significant change and technological development.
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The HR World are hosting an exclusive panel discussion event to discuss and explore the challenges and solutions around managing and recruiting people within the public sector at a time of significant change and technological development.
Skills, Security Clearance and AI: How Do You Plan a Workforce in a Rapidly Evolving Environment?, brings together a panel of experts to identify and discuss the challenges and potential solutions public sector organisations can use to create a maintain an effective workforce.
This discussion comes at a time when organisations – particularly across government and defence – are under increasing pressure to deliver more with less. Demand for skills and pressures on the talent pool means workforce planning is becoming significantly more complex while rapid advances in AI, together with the constraints of security clearance are reshaping how talent can be accessed, deployed, and developed.
Despite the pressures organisations need to effectively plan and build a workforce that is secure, skilled, and adaptable and this event will bring together HR and Talent leaders operating within secure and regulated environments to explore how they can respond to these challenges in a practical and sustainable way.
The discussion is set to address:
- How to anticipate and plan for rapidly evolving skills needs in the age of AI
- Strategies to navigate the impact of security clearance requirements on talent availability and workforce flexibility
- The balance between immediate delivery pressures with long-term capability and workforce development
- How to leverage AI to support workforce planning, productivity, and decision-making
- Building resilient, future-ready workforce models across government, defence, and the wider public sector
The evening will also provide an opportunity for attendees to connect with peers over drinks & canapés in an informal setting.
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Speakers
Kate Spencer - Partner, Workforce Planning, PA Consulting
She leads programmes of work across defence and the wider public sector to shape and deliver the workforce and cultural changes for organisations to secure the talent they need to respond to the changing digital and threat landscape. This includes sourcing non-traditional talent, reshaping career pathways and developing enterprise level approaches to workforce management as well as reducing time to competence through innovative approaches to learning. Kate has a background in experimental psychology and is a qualified coach.
Philip Gill - Lieutenant Colonel, Workforce Planning, MOD
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Gill FCIPD is a strategic HR and workforce transformation leader with 30 years of experience operating at the intersection of skills, security and capability across UK Defence. He has led global HR and strategic workforce planning functions, advised Ministers and Senior Defence leaders, and served as the principal interlocutor with the Armed Forces Pay Review Body.
His recent work has focused on addressing critical capability gaps in highly constrained security environments, including the design of ZigZag Career Pathways to diversify and accelerate access to scarce skills, and the scoping of a Defence Skills Passport to enable trusted skills recognition and mobility across Defence and industry.
His work increasingly explores how AI can be applied responsibly to HR functions, balancing immediate operational delivery with long‑term resilience in complex, fast‑evolving environments.
Ben Gilburt - Data Ethics Lead, Cabinet Office
Data Ethics Lead for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, writing guidance, standards and frameworks for how government uses data and AI. His research interests span the responsible AI space, but focus on algorithmic bias and privacy challenges.
Nick Walrond - CEO, Sanderson Government & Defence
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Mike Beesley: Founder and CEO, The HR World
The HR World was set up to bring like-minded thinking senior HRs together to share ideas and problem solve some of the biggest HR challenges.
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