Step into the intelligence era of talent.
October 6 – The Drake Hotel – Chicago
Join the leaders co-creating the new era of work.
At Cornerstone Connect Chicago 2026, you'll see workforce readiness in action and learn how to keep pace in a world where AI, skills, and business constantly evolve. Come experience how human potential grows exponentially when AI works in service of people.
Featured speakers

Himanshu Palsule
Chief Executive Officer
Cornerstone

Guna Jayaraman
Chief AI Officer
Cornerstone

Mini Peiris
Chief Marketing Officer
Cornerstone

Carina Cortez
Chief People Officer
Cornerstone
Why attend Connect
At Cornerstone Connect Chicago, you'll join fellow leaders in learning how to turn disruption into your advantage by unlocking continuous workforce readiness, expanding dynamic context, and connecting intelligence to action.
Build actionable workforce strategies
Walk away with practical approaches to workforce intelligence, talent development, and AI readiness that you can apply immediately in your organization.
Exchange ideas with transformation leaders
Meet leaders who are transforming how their organizations plan, develop, and deploy their workforces alongside AI.
Experience products hands-on
Explore the new Cornerstone Workforce AI™, your intelligence platform for workforce readiness, and see how you can turn workforce context into action.
Agenda
This one-day event delivers practical insights across workforce intelligence and AI-driven talent strategy.
Each session provides real-world frameworks and examples you can apply immediately to your workforce strategy.

Make the case to Connect
Show how attending Connect Chicago can help your organization accelerate workforce readiness with our “Make a business case to Connect” template.

Sponsor a Cornerstone Connect
By sponsoring Connect, you can connect to a global community of leaders, thinkers, and teams transforming and co-creating the new intelligence era of talent. Local connections. World-wide impact.
Contact your partnership manager or email sponsorship@csod.com for next steps.

"We really feel like being part of a family, of a community of likewise people that want to implement a very good learning system for their employees."
Win Van Roy
PSA Antwerp
Countdown to Connect
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- Hours18
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