2022 Programme

9.00am

Opening Address

Join us for a series of “Work in Progress” stories from some of the most influential HR leaders in the world. Hear from Lisa Stevens, Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer & Head of Human Capital Solutions, Aon on the evolution of HR, the changes at the HR leadership level, and whether the impact HR has had on business over the last two years is sustainable?

As the option to convene presents itself once more, reclaiming what we’ve lost and retaining what we’ve gained presents a unique opportunity to design meaningful connections as what happens between us is what matters most. Hear from David Casey, Decare’s thought-leader on the future of wellbeing on his pioneering doctoral research.

Cassidy Leventhal is pioneering alternative ways of developing talent. As the talent shortage bites, we are increasingly forced to grow our own and back potential over experience. Hear her thoughts on taking control to cultivate talent supply chains.

The new challenge facing today’s organisations as they compete on a global stage to win and retain talent.

Employers are struggling with skills shortages and filling open positions.  Ceridian’s latest survey, the 2022 Pulse of Talent, has thrown up some valuable insights that can help you confront these challenges.

Join Wendy Muirhead, Managing Director and Regional Leader EMEA at Ceridian, as she explores the report and what it says about the current issues facing HR and recruitment leaders.

Join David O’Reilly, Senior Sales Director, EMEA at Globalization Partners, on how best attract and retain today’s remote global talent.

With a world of opportunity, now literally at the fingertips of all employees, commitment and loyalty to employers has receded. Work is now deeply individualised and social capital has weakened. To attract the best we need to reflect this and move from the EVP to the Experience Value Proposition! Hear from Sigmar Director, Rossa Mullally on how to!

Retention has arguably become the number one challenge to all business across the globe. Building high-touch engagement for low-touch work requires new ways to build emotional connection. Hear from Gidi Pridor, CMO, Workvivo one of the most exciting Engagement platforms to take the HR world by storm over the past two years.

Hear how SAP’s globally-renowned “Pledge to Flex” programme enabled their 100k+ workforce be productive, creative, and inspired to do their best work.  Dr. Christian Schmeichel, Chief Future of Work Officer & SVP, SAP, will share their story of how they showed up for their people when needed most.

With a shift from employee experience to human experience, how we support sustained performance over high performance is fast seen as the sustainable competitive advantage within our organisations. Creating a culture of high trust for low-contact work requires a balance of candor and positive intent. Join HR pioneer Aisling Telliard, CEO, Our Tandem to hear about the How Factor.

Having co-created Zappos’ legendary culture with the late Tony Hsieh, Hollie Delaney, former Zappos CPO, will talk candidly about how they delivered happiness for employees and customers, the impact of holacracy, and Zappos’ renowned customer-centric culture. We’ll hear how she then applied lessons learned from Zappos in a very different sector, as CPO at Power Home Remodelling.

Hear from Jane Datta, Chief Human Capital Officer, NASA on how their People Always culture guided their mission first approach as they made history on Mars, in space and on earth.

As our workforces redistribute once more with offices re-opening, how should we prepare for emerging challenges and opportunities around workplace equity, biases, synchronous/asynchronous work, and burn-out? Hear from Katy Ingle on how they are planning programmes for a hybrid workforce of 9,000+ as the option to return to the office presents itself once more. 

5.30pm

TSX Winner Announcement