What is the Purpose of your Purpose?

Purpose is often presented as the vaccine against the many economic and social ailments impacting business today. Can simply defining and declaring your purpose be the silver bullet to drive consumer demand, build employee engagement, develop brand equity and drive growth across all companies and all industries?

Alison James Executive Director , Bic Foundation

Hannah Grove Previous CMO and now Special Advisor, State Street

Jonathan Knowles Consultant , Type 2 Consulting

Driving continuous - Performance and Rewards In The Future of Work

One takeaway from the past year we all can agree on is that HR Professionals are truly essential workers. How have you seen your influence grow in HR and in the wider organization?

David Schwarz Head Of Corporate Communications , DailyPay

Reyna Sanchez VP of Compensation and Benefits, Six Flags

Commentary & Key Insights from Senior HR Delegate

Minh Hua Chief Talent Officer, Stanley Black & Decker

Track 1: Employee Experience - Driving trust and inclusivity in the new virtual world of work

Employee experience and wellbeing are becoming of greater focus to HR leaders. The 2020 HR Sentiment Survey found that employee experience was top of mind for 50% of the HR professionals surveyed.

Anthony Smith Chief HR, Global Mobility and Administration Officer, Elements

Raji Ramanan Senior Director, United Health Services Hospitals

Track 2: Transforming through curiosity - Creating a culture of continuous learning to develop critical skills

Half of employees will need to change their skills in the next 3 years to ensure the organization has access to scarce and critical capabilities. Yet HR sits at the center of two problematic issues.

Gerard Camacho Assistant Vice President , Atrium Health

Track 3: Discovering diamonds in data- Strategies to ensure harnessing people data solves real business challenges.

There is no shortage of data for HR professionals. There’s recruitment data, career progression data, training data, absenteeism figures, productivity data, to name a few. HR data is more valuable than ever before yet finding intelligence within it is still the real challenge!

Trace Johannesen Senior Enterprise Client Partner, Toptal

Sissy Abraham VP HR Technology, Comcast

Hybrid By Design - Enhancing employee experience and performance through rapidly changing workplaces

The pandemic pushed many people and organizations into the massive workplace transformation that we now almost take for granted. The repetitive zoom calls seem to be the biggest complaint that one hears but when weighed against increased time with kids, no commutes and better quality of life, one appreciates the power of virtual ways of working.

Michelle Hay Global Chief People Officer, Sedgwick

Trina Hoefling Adjunct Professor of Southern California, Founder of the Smart Workplace & Author of "Working Virtually": Transforming the Mobile Workplace, University of Southern California

Michael Arena Author of "Adaptive Space" and VP Talent at Amazon, Amazon

Unlock Workforce Potential at Scale with AI

Learn how Bayer is accelerating a culture of innovation and empowering employees to have significant impact across the organization. Artificial intelligence provides Bayer with insights into talent potential both inside and outside the organization- It’s no longer who you know, but what you know - to successfully democratize access to growth opportunities for both employees and candidates.

Bernd Schmitz Director Early Talent Acquisition , Bayer

Mihir Ghandi VP Marketing, Eightfold.ai

Making learning the ultimate reward - Giving employees more agency to drive engagement, performance and reskilling

The key question facing HR is how do you attract the best talent and how do you keep them engaged? Rewards and incentives remain a powerful tool and companies are always exploring new ways to bring out the best performance and retention scores from their workforce.

Christopher Lind Chief Learning Officer of Chen Med and host of Learning Tech Talks , Chen Med

Carrie Duarte Human Capital Practice Leader and Partner, PWC

Track 1: Employee Experience - Driving trust and inclusivity in the new virtual world of work

Employee experience and wellbeing are becoming of greater focus to HR leaders. The 2020 HR Sentiment Survey found that employee experience was top of mind for 50% of the HR professionals surveyed.

Anthony Smith Chief HR, Global Mobility and Administration Officer, Elements

Raji Ramanan Senior Director, United Health Services Hospitals

Track 2: Transforming through curiosity - Creating a culture of continuous learning to develop critical skills

Half of employees will need to change their skills in the next 3 years to ensure the organization has access to scarce and critical capabilities. Yet HR sits at the center of two problematic issues.

Gerard Camacho Assistant Vice President , Atrium Health

Track 3: Discovering diamonds in data- Strategies to ensure harnessing people data solves real business challenges.

There is no shortage of data for HR professionals. There’s recruitment data, career progression data, training data, absenteeism figures, productivity data, to name a few. HR data is more valuable than ever before yet finding intelligence within it is still the real challenge!

Trace Johannesen Senior Enterprise Client Partner, Toptal

Sissy Abraham VP HR Technology, Comcast

The War For Tech Talent 2.0 - Creating an employee value proposition in a post pandemic world

The ability to shape this value proposition is becoming increasingly complex due to COVID-19 because of the flux in workplace transformation, peoples work from home preferences, employee inclusion and its link to vaccines

Chloe Rada Global director for recruitment marketing and employer branding, Syneos Health

Alex Smith CHRO, The City Of Memphis

Allison Dunsmore Talent Programs Manager, Petco