• What were the challenges facing neurodivergent employees in 2025?
• Understanding the neuroinclusion landscape, neurodiversity narratives, and progress to date
• Priorities for neuroinclusion in 2026

• Neurodivergent-affirming core principles
• Practical universal design examples
• Demonstrating commitment to becoming a neurodivergent-affirming organisation 

• Why average-focused design creates hidden barriers
• How to build systems that reduce reliance on disclosure
• What gets missed when inclusion focuses only on behaviour
• Ways to reframe neuroinclusion as a leadership and infrastructure priority

• The reality of late diagnosis: confusion and frustration at years of being misunderstood
• How to educate your workforce on what works
• Providing standardise toolkit that neurodiverse people can pick

• Creating communication norms that foster equity, trust, and collaboration
• Strategies to make information sharing clear, consistent, and accessible to all employees
• How to adapt processes to reduce cognitive load and support diverse thinking styles

• Why neuroinclusive leadership matters now 
• Neurodiversity in the workplace
• The value of cognitive diversity
• What neuroinclusive leadership looks like
• The double empathy problem
• Supporting colleagues with 5 common challenges
• Acknowledging invisible loads

1. Needs-First Innovation: Designing Technology that Solves Real Human Challenges

How product development thinking helps us move beyond hype and focus on real barriers neurodivergent people face at work.

Why starting with empathy and understanding leads to AI that empowers, not overwhelms.

2. Opportunity Mapping for Inclusion: Where AI Can Make the Biggest Difference
Applying AI Opportunity Mapping through a neurodiversity lens.
 Practical examples of how smart, targeted AI tools turn daily friction points into enablers of talent.

 3. Empowering Every Mind: Lessons from Real-World Success and the Road Ahead

Real use cases showing what happens when inclusion and AI align.

• Exploring how multiple identities (race, gender, disability, sexuality) intersect with neurodiversity to shape unique workplace experiences
• Recognising and dismantling overlapping biases that impact hiring, retention, and advancement
• Strategies for organisations to embed intersectional equity into their neurodiversity initiatives and measure progress effectively

Speakers:

• Hayley Brackley, Neuroinclusion Consultant
• Kate Faxen, Strategic Talent and Leadership Lead at Westminster City Council, Empathetic Leadership and Neurodiversity Coach
• Shireen Ali-Khan, Behaviour Change & Engagement Specialist
• Charlie Hart, Ausome Charlie
• Natalie Brooks, Dyslexia in the Workplace Specialist, Founder of Dyslexia in Adults