Managing employee travel and expenses remains a complex challenge for HR and finance teams, especially as organizations scale and adopt hybrid work models. This panel will explore the critical pain points in travel and spend management, including policy compliance, fraud prevention, and reimbursement efficiency. Experts will also discuss how modern HR technology can integrate expense management solutions to enhance employee experience, drive cost savings, and ensure compliance with company policies and global regulations. In this session, we will discuss:

• How can organizations leverage HR technology to automate and simplify employee expense management?
• What strategies can HR teams use to balance cost control with a seamless employee experience in travel and spend policies?
• How can data-driven insights improve compliance, reduce fraud, and enhance financial forecasting in expense management?

• How to integrate employee feedback, performance, and turnover data to provide actionable insights while ensuring data consistency?
• What strategies can democratize access to people data and empower leaders, especially when building a centralized data warehouse?
• How to leverage technology to improve performance management and reduce noise in data interpretation for better insights?
• How to align Learning & Development with people analytics to address manager effectiveness and align with business goals?
• How to build scalable data infrastructure that supports growth and integrates diverse data sources while overcoming availability challenges?

At the end of the last World Café round, moderators wil give a short summary of each world café in front of the audience to showcase all key takeaways.  

All results, pictures, and key takeaways of the World Cafés will be photographed after the event and made available in the event app hubs101.