On Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 June 2026, ICF Germany held the Future Workforce Summit at Dataspace Berlin (the chapter also writes Data Space). Hours are published as 9:00–5:00 p.m. CET. The 2026 theme is “Beyond the Playbook.” The chapter invited senior HR, People & Culture, and organisational-development leaders to a two-day working summit on real leadership and organisational dilemmas. ICF Germany’s page is Future Workforce Summit 2026 | Beyond the Playbook. Hanover Executive is not affiliated with the organiser.
The summit
The 2025 edition sat under “Leading People and AI” at SAP Data Space. The 2026 page keeps the Berlin venue family and shifts the banner to playbooks, dilemmas, and workforce language. Published session headings include what happens when theory meets the organisation, how language changes before organisations do, and a claim that workforce transformation is not an HR project. Workshops named include a leadership reflection lab on dilemmas in complex organisations, a session on coaching in organisations in 2026, a session on a new kind of leader emerging from AI, and a session on leading teams into self-organisation.
“Beyond the Playbook” is either a permission to think, or a rebrand of the binder. A playbook that cannot be left on the table is a script. If the summit’s public headings are honest, they rhyme with that: language before structure, transformation that is not an HR project, dilemmas that do not fit a template.
AI sits on the 2026 workshop list as well as it sat on the 2025 banner. A sounding-board hour in Berlin should still refuse to become a prompt-engineering desk. The leader’s sentence remains the product.
Self-organisation on a workshop title is a people-system question. A chief executive who wants to hear themselves before they announce such a thing is closer to the work.
| Published fact | Source |
|---|---|
| 23–24 June 2026, 9:00–5:00 CET | ICF Germany event page |
| Dataspace / Data Space, Berlin | ICF Germany event page |
| Theme: Beyond the Playbook | ICF Germany event page |
| Working summit for senior HR, People & Culture, OD | ICF Germany event page |
Where is the playbook you are hiding behind? Which sentence are you using theory to avoid? If workforce change is not an HR project, whose project is it? Enquire with your seat and the kind of conversation.
Official event page: https://coachingfederation.de/event/future-workforce-summit-2026/