People Summit 2026: How to lead HR through uncertainty

In today’s climate, hospitality HR feels like a constant fire fight. How do you navigate the Employment Rights Act while maintaining costs? How do you manage job cuts in an increasingly difficult economy? How do you integrate AI into the workplace?

Find out the answers to these pressing issues and more at The Caterer’s People Summit 2026 on Thursday 14 May and confront these challenges head-on. Join your peers from across hospitality as we share practical strategies, real-world solutions and actionable takeaways.

Who will be speaking at the People Summit 2026?

Speakers include Sue Walter, chief executive at members’ club the Roof Gardens in Kensington, London, who will share her journey from HR leader to the boardroom and the lessons she learned along the way, including how integral HR is to drive a business’s commercial vision.

Speaking to The Caterer, she said: “The question shouldn’t be whether HR belongs at the top table, but how we show our impact when we’re there. HR directors can be deeply commercial and strategic in driving business strategy forward, but it needs to be articulated and demonstrated by how we treat and position our HR function within the business and how HR directors show up at the top table.”