This session explores where AI is genuinely changing Rewards practice today and where the promise of AI has yet to translate into meaningful results. Drawing on practical examples from across the region, attendees will examine how organizations are using AI to support compensation benchmarking, personalize benefits, improve workforce planning, and rethink rewards for increasingly complex human and AI enabled workforces.
Through candid success stories, lessons learned, and examples of initiatives that failed to deliver expected value, participants will gain a realistic view of the opportunities and limitations of AI in Total Rewards. The session will also introduce a practical framework for evaluating AI driven Rewards solutions within the unique regulatory, cultural, and business contexts of APAC markets.
Attendees will leave with:
- A clear understanding of where AI is creating measurable value in APAC Total Rewards today and where caution is warranted.
- A practical framework for assessing AI powered Rewards tools against organizational needs, market realities, and investment priorities.
- Real world examples of how organizations are redesigning rewards strategies for multi generational, multicultural, and increasingly hybrid human and AI workforces.
- Actionable insights that can be applied whether managing rewards as a team of one or leading a regional function.
Please note: This session occours at 2-3 am ET and 2-3 pm SGT
Baljit is a forward-looking Total Rewards Manager who designs rewards ecosystems that power both business growth and people wellbeing. With a deep interest in the future of work, she is especially passionate about AI in HR, pay transparency, pay equity, and holistic wellbeing. She builds rewards programmes that are flexible, globally scalable and resilient to change supporting remote-work models to multi-year workforce strategies. At the heart of her approach is a simple belief that rewards should not just recognize what people do, but help unlock what they can become.
