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As society ages, how do we evolve organizational culture, careers, and benefits to adapt to an aging working population, and promote financial resilience?  By 2035 in the United States, there will be more adults over age 65 than children. This aging shift in demographics impacts how tech companies attract, retain, and retire talent. With the World Economic Forum, Mercer is developing Longevity Economy Principles to redefine retirement and enable longer careers. How can companies thrive as workforce demographics change, while also helping employees financially thrive in their longer lives?

Key takeaways:
•    Understanding of key global trends surrounding retirement and employee financial health
•    Ability to apply innovative approaches to adapt to an aging eligible workforce
•    Case study of how an organization can support financial resilience across generations

Creating parity in plans worldwide is one of the hardest projects a multinational company can undertake. Finding a balance in plan design comes with legal, financial, and employee perception challenges. In this session we will discuss the obstacles and review a measurable approach to offering equitable benefits to a global workforce, and potential actions you can take to implement equitable programs. 

Globally, general inflation is sweeping into medical costs after a predictable time lag, with important downstream consequences for employers, brokers/consultants and (most importantly) consumers. This session will outline employers' challenges in simultaneously addressing U.S. total plan cost and member affordability in an inflationary environment. 

Key takeaways: 

• View of how cost trend drivers are unfolding in the Healthcare market for the coming years
• How employees are faring after more than a decade of escalating point-of-care cost-shifting in the name of “consumerism”
• Practical steps the CVS Health HR team has taken to understand and address the special health needs of low-wage workers

Benefits programs at LinkedIn make life even better. Their programs are focused on their employees' health, families, passions, must-haves and awesome extras. LinkedIn also recognizes that families are formed in many different ways. Their Family First programs are designed to help employees along their parental journey, delivering them the right information and resources when they need it.

During moments that matter, Atlassian and NVIDIA offer ways to provide support to those looking to form a family and ensure that they invest in women's health.

Infertility has become more common worldwide, impacting an estimated 1 in 6 people. But fertility is not only a global healthcare concern- it's also an important workplace issue. Join us for a conversation on the global impact of infertility, how employers can navigate regional differences in regulations and cultural perspectives, what today's employees expect from employer support, and how providing access to comprehensive fertility benefits can create a more productive workforce.  

Key takeaways:
●    Understand the global financial burden of fertility care — and how employers can offer support without raising healthcare costs 
●    Get an overview of differences in fertility and family-forming access across Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the U.S.
●    Ensure employees have access to high-quality care wherever they are located

Be inspired by what lies ahead. Join the discussion with the benefits leader at Google and explore where employee benefits trend may go, the potential drivers, and how we may need to change our approach and mindset: moderated by Erik Kapelke, Global Advisor at Silicon Valley Employers Forum.

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Integrated virtual and in-person primary care can increase access to healthcare, create better experiences for employees, and provide a competitive advantage for employers. Explore what employers should consider in the next generation of telehealth, including: 
•    How to successfully integrate virtual primary and in-person care, including mental health
•    Best practices to manage the plethora of point solutions
•    Controlling healthcare costs while improving employee outcomes

Learn how Fortune 500 employers are addressing the growing chronic pain epidemic to narrow health equity gaps and improve access to care for all. People of color and lower income groups with chronic pain and mental health conditions are more likely to experience higher pain levels and a greater impact on their health. Hinge Health's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jeffrey Kraus will discuss how personalized, digital care solutions are one way to address these disparities.

Key Takeaways: 
● The impact of income, mental health, and race and ethnicity on musculoskeletal care
● Why addressing the chronic pain epidemic requires holistic and personalized care
● How digital care solutions can help to improve access and narrow health equity gaps

Tune in to hear the success of OpenText, a large Canadian company, that develops and sells enterprise information management software, and their approach to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Take away key learnings on how the benefits leader partners with the Head of ED&I, and the critical feedback gained through discussions with the Employee Resource Groups to inform their strategy and offerings. 

Looking to address health inequity? Change starts with measuring where we are now.  Learn what that looks like and how organizations use Social Determinants of Health to reveal opportunities.

HDMS shares how employers use analytics to evaluate how social and environmental factors influence a population. We show projects that leverage SDoH data to expose health inequities. Lastly, we connect measured health inequities and thinking differently about new solution designs. 

Key takeaways:

• Learn how to use existing data differently to measure health inequities
• Explore where to see measured inequities (good places to look!)
• Hear examples of how other organizations connected insights to new solution designs to directly address measured inequities

Mental health is personal. That's why care needs to be personalized, too. Join this session to learn how companies are delivering comprehensive mental health care that's evidence-based, deeply compassionate, and proven to deliver meaningful outcomes. Join Spring Health alongside one of the country's leading software companies to hear how they built mental wellness programs centered around what matters most - their people. Join us to learn:

• How they assessed various mental health solutions in the market and why they ultimately chose Spring Health
• How they worked with Spring Health to build custom mental health programming to provide care for nearly 190,000 members in 10 countries
• The impressive engagement and results achieved since launching Spring Health

Hear how Airbnb refreshed its benefits programs to support employees beyond traditional ways, by evolving their time off, expanding their wellbeing allowance, adding tax prep services, business travel support, and more. 

Discover and learn about the comprehensive, holistic process undertaken by Intuit to design a global time away framework (e.g., covering its policies all the way through how time away is administered) that was centered on maximizing the overall employee benefits experience. Hear the path related to their global benefit design and the technical components involved with Intuit charting a course for successful implementation of their global time away initiative.