EHL HumanX Summit

11-12th May 2027

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Welcome to EHL HumanX Summit

At its core, HumanX stands for Human Experience, Excellence and Experimentation. It’s a space to explore how empathy, creativity, and human-centric thinking can shape the way we lead, work, and live.

HumanX embodies the evolving story of what it means to be human in a rapidly transforming world. The “X” represents the intersections where humanity meets change and technology, where innovation meets emotion, where the past meets the future, and where new forms of connection, both digital and human, are continuously redefined. It also represents the experience itself: how we feel and relate in an increasingly complex environment.

As EHL’s flagship event, the Summit brings together visionary leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, academics, luxury experts, and industry pioneers to explore the forces shaping the future of business and society. Across two inspiring days, participants engage in thought-provoking keynotes, meaningful conversations, transformative experiences, and valuable networking opportunities. On the second day, the journey continues through two distinctive yet complementary tracks: Open Innovation Day, hosted by the EHL Innovation Hub, and Experiential Luxury Forum, hosted by the EHL Institute of Customer Experience Management. Together, they invite us to expand the boundaries of human potential and reimagine a shared future where humanity remains at the center of progress.

One Summit. Two Days. Infinite Possibilities.

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Experience HumanX

HumanX combines thought leadership, innovation, hospitality and community into an experience designed to create meaningful conversations and lasting connections.

Over two days, participants engage in inspiring keynotes, workshops, innovation challenges, curated networking and immersive experiences designed to transform ideas into action.

HumanX 2026 by Numbers

HumanX has quickly become one of EHL's fastest-growing flagship initiatives, attracting a diverse and international community.

821

Participants

Speakers & Moderators

70+

Investors

Sessions & Workshops

Countries Represented

54%

Female Speakers

Voices from HumanX 2026

Pierre Pham

Chief Experience Officer - NYC Helath + Hospitals / Elmuhurst

"It felt different. Refreshing. Caring. Deeply authentic. Something our world feels increasingly hungry for."

Alina Hernandez

Founder - Wellness Innovation Hub

"Felt less like a conference and more like a living experience of what human-centered innovation can feel like."

Jacqui Coward

Founder - Healthy Organizations

"One of the most thoughtful events I have attended in a long time. I left with pages of notes, new relationships and conversations already evolving into potential collaborations."

Past Speakers Representing Leading Organizations

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The 2027 Theme

Designing the Human Experience: Creating the conditions to thrive

Building on 2026’s Leading with Humanity, HumanX 2027 moves from how we lead to the conditions we create for organizations, people and planet to thrive.

There is no single human experience, as how we live, work and move depends on the context around us. Our experiences are influenced by our values and choices, the cultures we come from, the spaces we inhabit and the systems we navigate.

Across travel and tourism, technology, luxury, healthcare, retail and beyond, every organization shapes human experiences. May it be through the workplaces it creates, the products and services it offers, the spaces it designs and the technologies it introduces.

In times of rapid transformation, the more daily transactions get handed to automation, the more consequential a moment of real connection becomes. People notice, and remember, the organizations that choose presence over process. Those organizations have made deliberate choices. They are designing people's experiences intentionally, and it is a field EHL has practiced for over a century.

Through hospitality’s distinctive lens of people and care, HumanX will bring different sectors and cultures together to explore where organizations can make a meaningful difference, for their teams, customers, guests and communities.

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HumanX 2027 Program

Two days at EHL Hospitality Business School in Lausanne !

EHL HumanX 2027 is designed to help participants see differently, experience excellence and turn ideas into action through a combination of thought leadership, luxury and innovation.

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