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 ensure people analytics programs comply with GDPR or other relevant data protection laws?
• What measures should be taken to anonymize employee data in people analytics while still deriving meaningful insights?
• How to restrict and control access to sensitive data in people analytics while maintaining compliance with privacy and data protection regulations?
• What role do data governance policies play in ensuring people analytics adheres to privacy and compliance requirements?
• How to balance the need for valuable insights from people analytics with the ethical and legal considerations of data privacy?

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.