Human Advantage Week 2026.

When technology is everywhere, what creates sustainable advantage?

The Forty1 Human Advantage Week 2026 – five days of ideas, evidence and conversation on how organisations turn change and technology into better performance through people.

AI is changing work fast. But access to the technology is only part of the story.

The bigger question is human: how do organisations turn AI and transformation into better performance through people?

At Forty1, we call that Human Advantage: the edge organisations create when their people are equipped to turn change and technology into better performance.

The Forty1 Human Advantage Week brings together senior leaders, client voices and experts from Forty1 and across Inizio to explore what that takes in practice.

We’ll open the week by asking what creates sustainable advantage when intelligent technology is available to everyone. Then, across three live collective sessions, we’ll bring together expert perspectives and the experience of leaders in the room to explore the question from different angles, before bringing the strongest insights together in a final wrap-up.

Human Advantage Week is designed to dip in and out of. Join the conversations most relevant to your role and priorities – one session or several – and receive the opening and closing conversations on demand.

The week at a glance

Monday 9 November

• Time: On Demand
• Focus: The Provocation
• Question: When intelligent technology is available to everyone, what creates sustainable advantage?
• What to expect: Senior client and expert voices sharing what they are seeing in practice, where the human challenge is proving harder than the technology challenge, and what they believe will create advantage next.

Tuesday 10 November

• Time: 3pm GMT / 10am ET
• Focus: Transformation
• Question: Why do some organisations turn transformation into performance while others fail to realise the value?
• What to expect: Expect external experts and client perspectives, provocative stimulus, interactive sharing of your own experience, and live exploration of where transformation loses value between ambition and performance. Best for leaders focused on transformation, change, adoption and organisational performance.

Wednesday 11 November

• Time: 3pm GMT / 10am ET
• Focus: Behaviour Change
• Question: How can art and science combine to change behaviour at scale?
• What to expect: Work through a real-world AI adoption challenge, share your views, explore what behavioural science tells us, and see examples of how insight and creativity can be combined to shift behaviour in practice. Best for leaders focused on behaviour change, AI adoption, communications, engagement and culture.

Thursday 12 November

• Time: 3pm GMT / 10am ET
• Focus: Human Capability
• Question: Which human capabilities become more valuable as technology reshapes the work we do?
• What to expect: Hear expert and client perspectives, compare views with peers, prioritise the human capabilities that matter most, and explore what organisations need to do to help those capabilities flourish. Best for leaders focused on people, learning, leadership, future skills and organisational performance.

Friday 13 November

• Time: On Demand
• Focus: The Wrap-up
• Question: What did leaders tell us – and what does it mean?
• What to expect: A concise playback of the strongest patterns, tensions and implications from across the week, bringing the collective conversation together and highlighting what leaders may need to do next.