Our Recommendations
For People & Culture Professionals
Selected Events and Resources Related to the People Business
Inspiring Events, Workshops, and Webinars
Events & Gatherings
Our event overview keeps the most important dates ready for you – specifically tailored to HR experts and founders. We highlight current trends and best practices around company culture, recruiting, and HR management. Whether hands-on workshops, informative webinars, or inspiring conferences: Here you'll find all relevant events to expand your knowledge.
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Upcoming Events
HR Barcamp
The HR Barcamp is an open unconference for HR professionals, people teams, and anyone who wants to make work more human. In sessions designed by participants, practical impulses, honest discussions, and immediately actionable ideas emerge. Here, collegial networking meets experimental learning — from concrete tool tips to strategic perspectives. Bring your questions, help shape the event, and take home solutions that actually work.
Gravity Conference - The Conference for Employer Branding & Talent Attraction
Gravity is the perfect place to make your employer brand shine. In three themed tracks (Create, Share, Connect), you'll learn from over 45 speakers how to strategically build your employer brand, communicate authentically, and retain employees long-term – from brand core and social media to internal culture. With keynotes, hands-on workshops, best cases, and honest discussions, you'll gain concrete tools and fresh insights you can implement directly. Plus: networking with around 200 peers and the Cosmic Night for relaxed exchange on the first evening.
SHRS x Coffee Circle: Breakfast, Books & Brainfood – L&D for Modern Organizations
A relaxed morning in Berlin offers an opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange. Over coffee and breakfast, an L&D discussion round takes place where people leaders talk about planning and redesigning L&D initiatives. The focus is on what really works in L&D today, such as learning in the flow of work and fostering a genuine learning culture. A book swap, where you bring an inspiring book and take home a new one, adds a playful element.
Zukunft Personal NORD
ZP Nord brings HR people and providers from the north together — casual and practical. On stages, in workshops, and at booths, you'll get tips on recruiting, digitalization, and people topics that are actually useful in everyday life. Grab concrete solutions, try out new things, and chat with colleagues and experts. Ideal if you want to move HR forward pragmatically — brief, clear, and useful.
Schicht im Schacht - Recruiting-Konferenz im Ruhrgebiet
"Schicht im Schacht" is a recruiting conference in the Ruhr region. It brings together up to 500 people interested in topics like talent acquisition and employer branding, all in a really cool location: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. On the stages, there are relaxed keynotes and discussions – a great opportunity to exchange ideas and gather new inspiration for the HR work of tomorrow.
Learntec
Die LEARNTEC in Karlsruhe ist Europas größte Fachmesse und Kongress für digitale Bildung – von Schule über Hochschule bis zur beruflichen Weiterbildung. Es treffen sich E-Learning-Profis, um die neuesten Tools, Trends wie KI und Metaverse live auszuprobieren und sich mit der Community auszutauschen. Der begleitende Fachkongress liefert Zukunftsperspektiven und verbindet Theorie mit dem, was auf der Messe direkt erlebbar ist. Ob Einsteiger:in oder Expert:in – hier bekommst du einen umfassenden Überblick über den digitalen Bildungsmarkt und konkrete Lösungen für deine L&D-Praxis.
EMBRACE Festival
The EMBRACE Festival in Berlin combines the depth of a professional conference with the energy of a modern festival – for HR leads, recruiting managers, and everyone who wants to advance people & culture. Across seven stages, over 200 speakers await you with hands-on workshops, live demos, and best practices on HR tech, AI, people analytics, and professional development – all directly applicable in your practice. With over 1,000 participants, a genuine learning network emerges where exchange and innovation take center stage, including great food, music, and plenty of inspiration. A reunion of the HR industry where learning is the foundation, exchange is the driver, and getting things done is the goal.
TALENTpro Expofestival Recruiting Tech Summit
The TALENTpro Recruiting Tech Summit in Munich offers Heads of Recruiting and TA Leads the opportunity to make processes more efficient and future-proof. Participants can expect practical insights, inspiring sessions, and in-depth discussions around the latest recruiting technologies, automation, and AI. The event provides best practices and legal guardrails to elevate recruiting strategies to the leadership level.
HRpepper Hoffest
The HRpepper Hoffest combines expert presentations and panel discussions with a supporting program. Each year focuses on a current social or political topic that demonstrates how companies can address the corresponding challenges. Under the heading "Made in Germany?!" the 2026 focus is on the core organizational capabilities necessary for successfully shaping the future.
KI.X HR Convention
The KI-X HR Convention is Germany's largest AI congress for HR – practical, solution-oriented, and with over 500 participants from across the DACH region. In four themed tracks (Tech, People, Dreams, Values), you'll learn from more than 50 speakers how to successfully implement AI in recruiting, talent development, and strategic planning – from tool implementation and ethical standards to forward-thinking HR innovations. Special highlights: hands-on labs for testing, KI-X tours to Berlin's AI pioneers, and the KI-X Night for relaxed networking. Here you get not just theory, but concrete strategies and tools you can implement immediately.
Selected HR Tools & Professional Literature
Tools & Literatur
Here you'll find a carefully curated selection of resources to support you in your HR day-to-day work. From well-founded professional books that dive deep into specific people topics, to practice-relevant whitepapers on current challenges, to efficient software solutions and tools. We help you keep track in the jungle of HR information so you can save time and directly access the best resources.
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Tools We Like to Work With
Breezy HR is a user-friendly applicant tracking system that automates the entire recruiting process and helps companies hire better candidates faster.
Miro is a collaborative online whiteboard platform for ideation, workshops, and visual project planning – remote, hybrid, or on-site. Particularly impressive are the extensive template library for HR use cases like onboarding, org charts, or feedback sessions, as well as seamless integration with tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, or Google Workspace.
Seatti is our preferred software for hybrid work, which we happily recommend to all our clients. Seatti enables desk, room, and parking space bookings directly in Microsoft Teams and helps companies not only use office space more efficiently but also manage hybrid work effectively.
SurveyMonkey is a user-friendly platform for creating, conducting, and evaluating professional surveys – without any technical know-how. With numerous HR templates for engagement surveys, onboarding feedback, exit interviews, or pulse checks, SurveyMonkey quickly delivers meaningful insights for data-driven HR decisions.
Confetti is the platform for virtual, hybrid, and in-person team events. A clear recommendation for all companies that want to sustainably strengthen company culture, engagement, and team cohesion. With Confetti, you create unforgettable team-building experiences for any budget.
Tellent is a modern, easily scalable all-in-one HR platform that combines core HR, time tracking, absence management, on-/offboarding, performance management, and employee development in one system – ideal for teams looking to reduce manual processes and professionally centralize HR workflows.
Ausgewählte Fachliteratur und Whitepaper
High-Impact Tools for Teams: 5 Tools to Align Team Members, Build Trust, and Get Results Fast
High-Impact Tools for Teams delivers a concrete, visually supported toolbox to effectively align teams, build trust, and systematically deliver results – especially in complex, uncertain projects. At the center is the Team Alignment Map, which creates clarity about goals, roles, resources, and risks, thereby making alignment and accountability visible. This core is complemented by four additional tools that improve communication, make conflicts constructively usable, and strengthen psychological safety (e.g., Team Contract, Fact Finder, Respect Card).
The book combines practical tools with a clear focus on agility and collaboration – not as abstract theory, but as directly applicable methods for leaders, project managers, and teams who want to deliver real results.
Miteinander Reden
The book series Miteinander reden is one of duple's foundational works on effective collaboration. Friedemann Schulz von Thun makes communication understandable in all its complexity – and above all, shapeable. Models like the Four-Ears Model, the Inner Team, or the Values and Development Square create clarity about why understanding succeeds or fails. The books combine psychological depth with high practical relevance and provide a common language for reflection, feedback, and development.
This series is suitable for People & Culture professionals who want to consciously develop their communication skills – at work, in leadership roles, or in everyday life – and who want to not only observe but actively shape human interaction.
Reinventing Organizations
Frederic Laloux delivers with Reinventing Organizations a foundational work for a new way of organizing. Clearly and thoroughly, he describes how organizations can work in a self-organized, holistic, and purpose-driven manner. Using numerous practical examples, Laloux shows which structures, cultures, and leadership philosophies characterize future-ready organizations – and which internal and external hurdles need to be overcome on the path there.
A groundbreaking book that we recommend to all leaders and entrepreneurs who want to make organizations not only more efficient, but more human and effective.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni shows in this clearly told leadership fable why teams fail – and how they become successful. Using a practical CEO story, he makes the five central dysfunctions of teams tangible: lack of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
The book combines storytelling with an easily applicable model and concrete recommendations for action. A concise read for anyone who wants to effectively shape collaboration and sustainably strengthen teams.
