Age Pioneers 2027
A look back our last Age Pioneers Summit and our plans for the next summit in 2027
What that means
We had an Age Pioneers event planned for November, during Age Pioneers Week. We’re moving it into Age Pioneers 2027.
November turned out to be the wrong month for too much of the group we wanted in the room, and when we looked at it properly, the event we now want to run is bigger than the one we originally wanted to hold. Rather than squeeze a version into the autumn, we want to take the time to get it right.
Age Pioneers has always been a small thing done well. An invite-only room of CPOs, HRDs and heads of DE&I, talent acquisition and L&D, comparing notes on what they’re actually doing about age in their organisations. Past sessions have covered multigenerational teams, re-skilling, hiring practices for the over-50s, and the business case for keeping experienced people longer. What makes it work is who is in the room and how honest they’re willing to be.
In the meantime, here’s March
We ran the most recent summit at BT’s London headquarters in March, and the recordings are all live now to relive or to catch if you missed them.
Age Pioneers in 60 seconds.
If you’ve never been to one, start here.
Lyndsey Simpson opens the summit with the business case for age inclusion.
Our founder and CEO on why this is a commercial argument before it is an inclusion one.
Tesco Ireland on engaging a midlife workforce.
Maurice Kelly, People Director for Tesco Ireland and Northern Ireland, on what a retailer does when it knows a growing share of its workforce will be over 50 within the decade. He gets into retention, EVP and how they tailored employee benefits, and takes questions afterwards.
BT Group on a practical blueprint for midlife talent.
Liz Kingston, Director of Talent Acquisition for Global Digital, Networks and Corporate Units at BT Group, interviews Dr Tania Caporaso and Matthew Howe about the midlife talent strategy running across EE and BT.
A fireside chat on engaging the business in championing the over-50s.
Ginette Kilroy (Chief People Officer, Cornerstone), Rhiannon Senn (Future of Work Manager, Unilever UK), Steve Whear (Link-AGES Network Co Lead, John Lewis Partnership) and Morag Lynagh (Director, Blue Moth Consulting) on ERGs, mobilising champions across a business, employee listening, reskilling at different life stages, and how to rehire your retired alumni.
Why Age Pioneers exists
Age Pioneers is part of how we work on Enterprise Age Intelligence at 55/Redefined: helping organisations understand, predict and positively influence the decisions people make as they age, across their workforce and their customer base. Most organisations know how old their people are. Far fewer know who is planning to leave, who would stay, and what would change their mind. Closing that gap is what these rooms are for.