The Implementation Stage, hosted for the first time at LinkedIn's London Experience Centre, is dedicated to the practical work of change. It focuses on the workplace realities that impact women’s ability to stay, progress and thrive, and showcases the organisations already taking meaningful action. Through case studies, lived experience, and applied solutions, it explores what employers can do now to better support women through key life stages, create more inclusive cultures, and turn intention into measurable progress. The event culminates in the launch of the 2026 GEM Report, bringing together the evidence and examples that define what good looks like now.

We’ll be talking about:

• Intersectionality in Practice: Building Cultures That Work for More Women

• Fertility and Work: The Support Employees Still Struggle to Find

• Parental Leave: Equal and Shared Parental Leave: What Real Progress Looks Like

• Returning to Work: How Employers Can Make the Comeback Work

• Menopause at Work: What Good Support Looks Like in Practice

• We Can't Do This Alone: How Men Can Help Achieve Workplace Equality

• Launch of the GEM Report: What Good Looks Like Now

The Inspiration Stage is where the biggest questions shaping women’s experience of work are brought into sharp focus. Across the day, it explores the leadership, economic, cultural and structural shifts needed to make work work better for women and, in turn, better for business. From power and progression to health, pay, policy and the future of leadership, this is a stage for bold ideas, honest conversation, and the voices helping define what the future of work must look like now.

We’ll be talking about:

• Why Keeping Women in Work is Everyone's Business

• Women of Impact: The Leaders Changing Work in Practice

• The CEO Glass Ceiling Tracker: What’s Actually Changing at the Top

• Why the Companies Winning on Gender Will Win on Everything

• The Leaders Who Will Win the Next Decade

• The Marginal Gains Report: The Small Changes Driving Big Impact

• How to Retain Female Talent (and Unlock Generational Wisdom)

• The Generation Game: Beyond Stereotypes to the Age of Inclusion

• Flexibility: BFF or Frenemy?

• Why Healthy Women Means a Thriving Business

• Women’s Health as a Business Strategy, Not a Benefit

• The GEM Report: What Good Looks Like Now

• AI and Opportunity: Who Gets Access, Who Gets Left Behind

• The Employment Rights Bill: What Leaders Need to Know

• Competing for Talent in a Rewritten Workforce

• The First Paycheque Problem - where inequality begins

• Financial Power: The Lifetime Impact of Today’s Decisions

• The Economic Imperative for the Future of Work

• Ministers in the Hot Seat

The Impact Stage is where progress is made visible. It brings together the leaders, employers, and changemakers who are not only talking about change, but delivering it in practice. Through live examples, applied discussion and shared learning, it explores what happens when leadership is turned into action and good intentions become measurable impact. This is a stage for the organisations, ideas and decisions already helping to reshape work for women in real and tangible ways.

We’ll be talking about:

• AI and Equity at Work: What Good Leadership Looks Like

• Returning After Children: What Helps Women Progress, Not Just Come Back

• Strengthening the Leadership Pipeline: What Leading Employers Are Changing

• Flexibility That Works: For Women, Teams and Business