MOBILE FRIENDLY AGENDA
Dubai, 3 - 4 October 2017
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Oct 308:59
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Oct 309:00
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Keynote: Becoming the world’s best company to work for
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- Fostering a culture of freedom and flexibility in the workplace to prioritise worker happiness and productivity
- Understanding the expectations and desires of a reconstructed and diverse workforce
- Supporting flexible working spaces, working hours and organisational stucture
- Reacting to the gig economy and working autonomy
Oct 309:30
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Keynote: Sustaining workforces and human capital: responsibilities and rewards
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- Identifying the trends driving interest in wellness in the workplace
- Integrating the systems for HR departments to support worker happiness and productivity
- Collecting and analysing workforce data
- Evaluating the popular shift from Chief Talent Executive to Chief Employee Experience Officer
- Discovering the short and long term rewards for organisations
- Attracting and retaining talent
- Continuing and furthering employee engagement and ROI
Oct 310:00
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Keynote: The importance of building a learning organization rooted in the growth mindset 1/2
Keynotes
- Defining the leadership principles in the era of Digital Transformation
- Looking at culture and people performance
- Evolving to embrace the growth mindset (from know it all to learn it all)
- Transforming internal processes to drive a learning organisation
Oct 310:01
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Keynote: The importance of building a learning organization rooted in the growth mindset 2/2
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- Reviewing digital transformation at work for an empowered workforce
- Enable teams to think, work and learn together
- Improve engagement, happiness and retention in the modern workplace
- Technology as an enabler for people and organization growth
Oct 311:02
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Oct 311:02
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Oct 311:02
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Oct 311:20
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Panel: Global workplace innovation – the smart building
Stream 1
- Creating an experiential working environment designed to support organisational redesign and encourage collaboration
- Accommodating new technology
- Integrating working, recreation and wellness related amenities
- Catering for startups and freelancers -boutique work places
Oct 311:20
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Panel: Evolution of learning – mastering tomorrow’s learning platforms
Stream 2
- Understanding how a new generation of workers learn
- Discovering the breakthrough digital methodologies transforming how learners engage with L&D
- Benefits for businesses – aligning the learning functions with business goals to achieve results
Oct 311:20
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Panel: Tailored wellness and corporate benefits
Stream 3
- Determining how adopting wellness initiatives can boost productivity
- Considering the new norm of work-life integration
- Promoting corporate wellness to fight absenteeism, attract talent and save on healthcare costs
Ashok Gopal, Head of Talent Management, Mashreq Bank
Oct 311:50
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Creating a collaborative working environment
Stream 1
- Discovering the benefits of collaborative working
- Sourcing the facilities required for workspaces and methods
- Encouraging collaborative culture with hot desking, no set office space, open plan spaces
Andrew MacDonald, Regional Design Manager, Standard Chartered Bank
Oct 311:50
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Mindful leadership: creating leaders with intention
Stream 2
- Exploring the benefits to adopting mindful leadership awareness
- Training innate human capabilities to remain focused and present for maximum productivity and professional and personal success
- Utilising mindful leadership training to enhance overall employee engagement and workplace satisfaction
- Nurturing influential, motivational leaders through promoting positive mindsets
Noëlle El Saadany, Chief Happiness Officer, Change with Noelle
Oct 312:00
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Healthy food makes for healthy minds
Stream 3
- Examining the effect of diet on cognitive performance and productivity
- Exploring what companies can do to support and promote these strategies in the workplace
- Strategies for offering healthy snacks and promoting ‘clean eating’ in the workplace
Oct 312:10
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Time to make HR a digital workplace
Stream 1
- Leveraging technology to attract and retain talent
- Onboarding, connect and learn on the go
- Igniting career development and performance management
with advanced analytics - Protecting business and employees' data
Oct 312:22
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• How to engage multigenerational workforces
Keynotes
Oct 312:25
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• How to deal with global, cultural differences in L&D programmes
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Oct 312:26
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• Exploring the digital learning enterprise
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Oct 312:27
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• How culture supports wellbeing strategies to engage workforces
Keynotes
Rashmi Ravindran, Human Resources / Training And Development Manager, Grandeur Hotel Dubai
Oct 312:28
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• How feeling good at work drives business performance – the six dimensions of wellbeing in the workplace
Keynotes
Oct 312:29
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• The value of emotions in the workplace
Keynotes
Oct 314:20
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Blurring the physical and digital world: strategic technology for the future workplace
Stream 1
- Transforming the working environment to support enhanced automation and enable seamless connected work environment
- Performance Management culture – enable and empower employees
- Working anywhere, any time and from any device
- Digitally savvy capabilities working – learn anywhere anytime with virtual apps
Therese Sevaldsen, Head of HR - Middle East & Turkey, Philips
Oct 314:20
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How do you train your Time & Attention-starved workforce
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Oct 314:20
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The digital age and future of HR: how is HR leading change?
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Oct 314:40
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Digital employment brand evangelism – standing out from the crowd
Stream 3
- Remembering business transparency is available for external applicants
- Ensuring employee value proposition corresponds with what candidates want most
- Improving the candidate experience
- Looking good from the outside - incorporating social media and other online strategies
Jack Naidoo, HR Leader, Cisco
Oct 314:40
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Oct 314:40
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Ten steps to consider when building institutional learning academies
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- Reviewing organisational levels in learning
- Explaining how to establish a culture of learning
- Promoting management buy-in and lining business engagement
- Adopting push and pull strategies
- Looking to learning curriculums & gates
Oct 315:00
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Learning assistive wearables: interactivity and connectivity
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- Harnessing the capabilities of smart wearables
- Looking to VR applications for real time simulation
- Instant access to learning resources
- Allowing for seamless collaborative working
- What will follow smart watches and smart glasses?
Oct 315:00
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Onboarding – how to get it right
Stream 3
- Understanding how structured and innovative onboarding impacts retention
- Immersing new recruits in company culture,
- Setting transparent expectations
- Offering an innovative, interactive training programme
Oct 315:00
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The networked organisation
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Oct 315:20
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Panel: The role of leadership: fostering development in an experiential fashion
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- Addressing key leadership responsibilities and the effects on 2017 workforces
- Evaluating effective methods of leadership development
- Adapting to today’s challenges for individuals, teams, the organisation and present leaders
- Exploring contemporary experiential methods to support and train leaders of the future
Hassan Amin Abdulhaq, Associate Vice President, Leadership Development, HR, Emirates NBD
Laura Laugier, Regional Director People Training, Middle East and Africa, Kempinski Hotels
Oct 315:20
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Panel: The HR upgrade
Stream 3
- Considering the necessary skills of HR teams for 2017 and beyond
- Employing digitally and socially savvy workers to the profession
- Implementing new and innovative ideas
Nicole Richardson, Senior Manager – Talent Excellence, CBI
Yaser Ahmed, IT Manager, Louzqan Group
Abhas Sood, Manager of Group Human Resources, Trinity Holdings
Oct 315:20
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Consumer Driven HR at Mastercard: introduction to 'The Whole You'
Stream 1
- Evolution of the workforce – difference between a baby boomer and a gen X (gen Z)
- Treating employees as consumers
- Reviewing The Whole You at Mastercard and the changes being implemented across the globe
- Communicating and implementing changes
Oct 315:40
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Managing millennials
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- Fostering talent most effectively
- Exploring their innovative and creative approach to working and learning
- How to engage this generation
- Identifying, developing and exposing potential and talent
Oct 315:40
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Case study: learning at the FIVE Hotels and Resorts – outside the classroom
Stream 2
- Adopting an experiential, improvised and theatrical approach to learning at work
- Considering emotional intelligence and correlations to productivity boosts and forming positive relationships
- Adapting to instant gratification necessities of millennials
- Fostering an all-encompassing culture of learning, brand awareness and effective management through learning in 2017
Oct 315:40
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Omantel case study: evolving engagement
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- Positioning HR Strategy at the heart of business
- Engaging culture towards delighting customers
- Reviewing Omantel’s cultural transformation to improve customer experience
- Evaluating Omantel’s employee engagement initiatives and impact on business bottom line and overall HR transformation
Oct 316:00
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Considering wellness: securing overwhelming buy-in and captivating middle management
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Oct 316:00
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All work and all play - experiencing gamification
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- Exploring how gamification will impact L&D strategies
- Applying gamification concepts to non-gaming environments
- Offering an engaging learning experience; instant sense of achievement
- Creating a rewards structure
- Filling the learning needs of a company
- Considering where the benefits lie and impact on the bottom line
Oct 316:45
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Keynote: A ‘best in class initiative’: learning from Al Naboodah
Keynotes
- Becoming THE employer of choice
- Adapting to a younger, older, diverse and national and global workforce
- Employee engagement
- Offering constant, accessible L&D opportunities and the prospect of dynamic career progression
- Sustainability and corporate responsibility
- Delivering happiness: considering wellness, benefits and rewards to attract top talent and retain loyal employees
Oct 316:49
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Oct 408:59
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Oct 409:30
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Keynote panel: Corporate happiness: views and reviews from the experts
Keynotes
- Exploring the benefits of workplace: happier workforces, productive teams and healthier business
- Sustaining happiness and wellness through interactive programmes
- Reviewing strategies and assessing the outcomes
- Adopting agile processes towards happiness, wellness and culture
- Uniting workplace communities through structured happiness programmes
- Creating working environments where employees freely express themselves bringing high levels of creativity and energy
- Aligning workforce happiness with the UAE's 'Year of Giving' and the global One Million Acts of Kindness missions
Saad Malalla Al Wedami, Cheif Happiness & Positivity officer, First Gulf Properties
Oct 411:18
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Oct 411:18
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Oct 411:20
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Organisational redesign in the GCC
Stream 1
- Deciphering what organisational redesign truly is
- Highlighting the difference between OD and OD
- Examining the external and internal triggers
- Exploring design models and framework: a case study
Oct 411:20
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Panel: Remaining attractive as the war on talent prevails
Stream 2
- Examining the evolving employer/employee contract
- Attracting top global talent – looking the companies who are getting it right
- Finding future employees via digital methods
Nicole Richardson, Senior Manager – Talent Excellence, CBI
Oct 411:40
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Organisational alignment and bottom line profits
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- Creating and managing a company culture in line with business goals
- Making culture a priority for senior leaders
- Establishing core employee competencies designed to embrace and promote company culture
- Integrating collaboration, empowerment and driving cultural change
Imran Ahmad, Head- Group Engagement, Learning & Development, B.M.A. International Red Tag
Oct 411:40
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Identifying and developing exceptional leaders
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- Using data evidence to identify potential leaders
- Developing an inclusive and wide-ranging leadership system
- Considering culture and investment as priorities
- Nurturing the strengths, enthusiasm and potential of millennial leaders
Greg Shuler, Chief People Officer, UAE Exchange
Oct 412:00
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Providing customised perks and benefits for the 2017 workforce and beyond
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- Applying emotional intelligence to create a company culture that attracts and retains talent
- Offering compensation for all age groups, genders and ethnicities
- Harnessing desirable employee benefits: unlimited holiday, flexible working hours, education, health insurance, exercise classes and healthy snacks
Oct 412:00
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Refocussing leadership: transactional to transformational
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- Examining key leadership capabilities: collaboration, recognising the need for new skills and solutions, motivation, distinguishing succession qualities
- Understanding the drawbacks: large investment, availability of leadership positions, retention
- Evaluating the coach vs supervisor management models
Seema Hallon, Vice President HR & Business Services, Eros Group
Oct 412:21
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Using diversity and inclusion to foster innovation and creativity
Keynotes
Oct 412:24
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Identifying and retaining internal leadership talent
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Oct 412:28
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Benefits and rewards: what will attract and entice the next generation of workers
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Oct 412:29
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How relevant is 70:20:10 to 21st century workforces?
Keynotes
Laura Laugier, Regional Director People Training, Middle East and Africa, Kempinski Hotels
Oct 412:30
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Enhancing a culture of innovation in the workplace
Keynotes
Oct 414:20
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Panel: All engaged employees are happy, but not all happy employees are engaged?
Stream 1
- Reviewing the ten essential pillars of employee engagement and how to implement them
- How and why emotional connection affects productivity and performance
- Sustaining engagement processes organisation wide
Oct 414:20
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Panel: The reimagined learning department
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- Ensuring increased learner engagement through mobilised learning opportunities and creative, innovative content
- Remaining competitive as well as producing a stronger workforce
- Promoting a culture of learning
- Exploring integrated, practical and long term learning ideas
- Supporting your human capital needs
Ameya Ghanekar, Corporate Head – Learning and Development, Meydan Group
Vishvakanth Alexander, Manager Learning and Development- Collaborative Learning, du | Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC
Oct 414:40
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The ‘always on’ culture – supporting an employee-centric work environment
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- Exploring the demands and expectations of the 2017 workforce
- Supporting the ‘always on’ culture
- Managing work/life integration and nurturing continuous engagement
- Creating a sense of passion and purpose with a cross-organisational approach
Oct 414:40
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Case study: The continuous learning model
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- Escaping static learning approaches
- Allowing employees to have access to the learning opportunities they desire when they desire
- Highlighting the methods for doing so
- Monitoring engagement, success and ROI
Alok Verma, Head Learning & Development, Max Retail Llc
Oct 415:00
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Design thinking: implementation and integration
Stream 1
- What is design thinking? How does it work? And what does it mean for business goals?
- Reinventing core business structures and processes to meet employee needs and demands
- Fostering an increasingly innovative, happy and valued workforce
Oct 415:00
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Social networking and your L&D strategy: maximising engagement
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- Using social media and social networking platforms to engage employees in learning at work
- Using these methods for global and localised organisations
- Discussing what could be expected in the future
Oct 415:20
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A Reformed and remodelled workforce: enhancing the employee experience
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- Creating a platform of HR services to increase usability and interaction
- Reviewing modern compensation strategy and exploring the demands of 21st century workers
- Methodology for optimum employee engagement
Oct 415:20
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Panel: HR is becoming ‘people science’
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- Equipping companies for the exploitation of people science – employing a data scientist
- Capturing data for smarter decisions and shorter project cycles
- Evaluating data to achieve business results
- Aligning people strategy with business needs
Oct 416:00
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Emiratisation and the national perspective of work and health
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- Evaluating how far governmental initiatives are affecting the workplace in the UAE
- Determining what attracts the nation’s brightest talent
- Debating the importance of building a multicultural workforce in the UAE
last published: 17/Oct/17 11:35 GMT
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