TechHR is a deep & inclusive holding space where learning, innovation, engagement & connection happen. With our agenda, we will invite you to look at the challenges as opportunities with #FreshEyes.
#FreshEyes to reframe and focus on the problem you are truly solving.
#FreshEyes to sense and “see” not only with our heads but also with our hearts and intentions.
#FreshEyes to be bold, try new things and test new perspectives.
#FreshEyes to envision and aspire to co-create a sustainable & prosperous future.
07:45 am - 09:00 am
09:00 am - 09:30 am
CEO & Editor-In-Chief, People Matters
09:30 am - 09:50 am
Explore the new paradigm of work as innovative technologies emerge and nudge organisations to rethink the synergies among HR, technology, and business. Explore the latest applications shaping the world of work. Learn how you can create value for both talent and business by leveraging the new generation applications.
VP & Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
09:50 am - 10:10 am
When it comes to finding the right talent, the world is the limit. Remote and Hybrid Work models can give organisations an opportunity to tap into talent pools across geographies. Learn how you can hire, onboard and engage diverse talent from different parts of the world and assimilate them into a shared culture and vision.
Founder and CEO, Atlas
10:10 am - 10:30 am
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Anyone who plays cards well will tell you how important it is to ‘read’ the other players. These masters of observation look for tells, tics and more to figure out what the other players have and will likely do. HR leaders need to get better at ‘reading’ their workforces. Spoiler alert: An annual survey won’t cut it! Join industry analyst Brian Sommer as he describes what a great listening and observation capability should be and how it can change your business outcomes, policies, retention and more.
Founder/President, TechVentive
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Peak into the journeys of CEOs of top companies as they lead and innovate their companies to greater heights. What emerging technologies are on their radar for the coming decade? How do they see the "war of talent" shaping up in a world fraught with rapid changes? How can innovation enable companies to create more socially and environmentally aware practices? Get answers to these burning questions and more from top business leaders.
CEO, Terrascope
Chief Executive Officer, Mercer Singapore
11:10 am - 11:30 am
The rapid transformation of the financial services industry and the great reshuffle in the workforce have accentuated the need for organisations to nimbly reshape initiatives to attract, retain as well as mobilise talent to achieve their fullest potential. Learn about UOB's future of work journey as we hear from Mr Dean Tong, Head of Group Human Resources, on the Bank’s gig employment model – a first of its kind in the industry which leverages career mobility, reskilling and HR technology to transform and deliver the employee experience.
Managing Director, Head of Group HR, United Overseas Bank Ltd
11:30 am - 11:40 am
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
In order to attract and retain talent today, employers need to have one key element - Trasparency. Today's candidates, like consumers, have shifted their priorities to be more conscious of where they spend their time and are demanding more from their employers. We explore how your candidate experience, employee experience, EVP and branding are all linked and must accurately reflect one another in order to succeed in your talent attraction and retention efforts.
Senior Director - Sales, Indeed SEA
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
The rise of flexible work arrangements, hybrid work models, and access to global remote talent are some of the major trends shaping the world of work. Are businesses ready to respond to these ongoing changes? How are organizations rethinking their talent management strategies to navigate through these big shifts? What skills will leaders need as employee expectations and economic circumstances continue to evolve?
Talent acquisition reimagined.
General Manager, Asia Pacific, Globalization Partners
12:50 pm - 01:40 pm
01:40 pm - 02:00 pm
02:00 pm - 02:20 pm
In today's highly digitalized environment, the first step is to generate data on your talent pool's skills, abilities, capacity, and potential.The next step, however, is much more complicated: turning this data into intelligence on your talent, so that you can make use of it to meet fast evolving business needs.
CEO and Founder, Accendo Technologies
02:20 pm - 02:40 pm
Lack of career development and advancement potential is one of the top reasons why employees are quitting and slowing down business growth. To win the talent game, prioritise investing in each employees’ personal career journey. Learn how a data-driven approach to learning with the right combination of immersive learning technologies can help you inspire your people’s career.
02:40 pm - 02:50 pm
02:50 pm - 03:20 pm
Today's disruptions should not make you take your eyes off tomorrow's problems. Looking at upskilling with #FreshEyes today means having the right strategies that leverage internal opportunities and allow employees to grow in the right areas. Join us as we brainstorm on how companies can keep stepping up their skilling initiatives to create scalable and sustainable impact.
Group Head- Corporate HR, Apollo Tyres Ltd
Manager, Customer Commercial Success, APAC, Udemy
Head of People, Riot Games
03:20 pm - 03:50 pm
Data is the very currency by which digital systems can be built and modified to better serve talent problems. Yet, making data-driven talent decisions remains one of the toughest challenges. In the new world of hybrid work, how can we better leverage data insights to gain a competitive advantage? Join us as we explore how to embed data insights to tell the right stories and shape change.
Deputy CEO and Group Director, NCSS
Chief Human Resources Officer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Head, Global Innovation Hub, BIPO Service (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Group Chief Human Resources Officer, Columba Asia Group of Companies
03:50 pm - 04:20 pm
The source of human power is neither muscle nor mind but models. Learn from the expert and author of Framers, Francis De Vericourt how you can build mental models that will help you prepare for changes of all kinds, sudden, unexpected, as well as slow and smoldering. Get ideas to build a roadmap to tackle challenges of a world of work driven by rapid technological developments and looming economic crisis.
Professor of Management Science & Director of the Center for Decisions, Models and Data, ESMT Berlin
04:20 pm - 04:30 pm
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm
The pandemic accentuated the urgency for a more agile talent and work model. In this power panel will invite us to rethink what's possible for our function: Has the pandemic permanently shifted the CHRO function from a service to a strategic function? Has the CHRO ambition changed? What is missing to be in the succession pool for the CEO? How can the HR function lead the way to a more dynamic organisation ready to meet the post-crisis future?
05:00 pm - 05:35 pm
HR delivers unique value to all stakeholders a firm by delivering human capability (talent, organisation, and leadership) in a rapidly changing business context which in the post pandemic-milieu has become more uncertain, personalized, and paradoxical. This keynote will show how to reinvent role of HR for this new world of work and learn the ideas and tools for delivering value to employees, organizations, customers, investors, and communities.
Co-Founder & Principal, The RBL Group
05:45 pm - 06:15 pm
06:15 pm - 06:15 pm
10:30 am - 10:50 am
As competitive intensity sharpens in an increasingly interconnected world, building secure, inclusive yet scalable & flexible processes, guidelines & strategy is imperative. Learn how organisations can evolve, to take advantage of the opportunities in the new digital world.
Head of Innovation, Global Strategic Initiatives (APAC, Japan & China), Google
10:50 am - 11:30 am
How can organizations balance their need to grow yet stay true to their values. Understand what makes a high-growth organization and how you can scale mission-driven teams that ensure superior performance.
Founder & CEO, Ascend Now
CEO, Fujifilm Business Innovation
Co-founder, InMobi Group
11:30 am - 11:40 am
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Building a good culture is essential for productivity and overall business growth. How can we leverage technology for digitizing employee benefit lifecycle management? Join this session to delve deeper into revolutionizing employee satisfaction and happiness, by building the right tech-led engagement program for your company.
Co-founder & COO, Advantage Club
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm
Today's need of the hour is to combine all kinds of employment to deliver to the business. As CHROs how do we inspire, retain and align different segment of talent so that the whole is greater than its parts? Join this session, to learn from success & failures.
Group Executive - Transformation, Communications and People, Telstra
Senior Director - People, Strategy & Operations, GovTech Singapore
Global Chief People Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
12:50 pm - 01:40 pm
01:40 pm - 02:00 pm
02:00 pm - 02:20 pm
The fierce talent war has shaken up how HR leaders think about the needs of today’s workforce. Among other things, mental well-being support has become a critical yardstick for becoming an employer of choice. Join Theodoric Chew, CEO of Intellect, as he uncovers the growing expectations from employees beyond standard compensation and benefits. Learn what tools you can use to support your employees’ mental health and build a caring culture in your company.
Co-founder & CEO, Intellect
02:20 pm - 02:40 pm
While people leaders wonder what the next big trend is, organisations that can attract and retain top talent from across the world will win this talent war and outperform the competition decisively. The challenges of Industry 4.0 requires an HR tech 4.0 solution. But, as a people leader, how do you determine the right benchmarking tools and data to succeed? How do you use the data to make critical talent decisions and drive the success of your organisation? Learn how you can win the war for talent by leveraging data.
02:40 pm - 02:50 pm
02:50 pm - 03:20 pm
Building a great company culture and creating a meaningful employee experience has become more challenging for organisations moving to a hybrid/remote work model. But it is also an opportunity for people leaders to understand what truly engages their employees, and what it takes to retain them. How do you create an environment of trust and belonging when your employees are in different locations and time zones? How do you streamline your HR and onboarding processes, keep global teams connected and listen to employee feedback? In this session, we’ll talk about how HR tech fills this gap and empowers you to lead with a people-first approach.
ANZ Country Manager, Hibob
03:20 pm - 03:50 pm
We are still in the midst of understanding the millennials, while the newer generation is quietly coming of age shaping the way you communicate and work. Learn the distinguishing characteristics of future generations of consumers, decision makers, and leaders. Redesign your hiring and retention strategies for these digital natives and innovators.
HR Director – Malaysia, Friesland Campina (Dutch Lady Milk Industries)
Chief Operating Officer, Asia, SEEK
03:50 pm - 04:20 pm
Flexibility has become a key employee demand today. Join us as we navigate the uncertainty among companies about the new rules of engagement. Hear from top leaders as they describe how workplace innovations, cultural changes, and behavioral shifts from the leaders to team managers helped them prioritize flexibility as an essential part of their company.
12:10 pm - 12:50 pm
In his last book, Digital With Impact, Brian addresses the best way forward for those embarking on digital transformation initiatives. But not all digitalization efforts are actually transformative and, sadly, not all digitalization efforts succeed either. Attendees will hear insights on structuring successful, material, strategic and competitively advantageous HR transformations and specifically, what counts as transformative in today’s rapidly changing business and technology landscape. Explore the latest innovations and learn how to avoid a transformation 'misfire' while adopting today’s hot HR technologies.
Founder/President, TechVentive
01:00 pm - 01:40 pm
01:40 pm - 02:20 pm
Explore the Wim Hof Method and learn to connect more deeply with yourself. Understand how the body's primal survival instincts sometimes overwork to keep the body unnecessarily stressed and how within a few short minutes anyone can become deeply relaxed. Learn how this technique can ultimately help you rest, enhance creativity and problem solving and put you in a happier mood.
Wim Hof Method Instructor, HyperActiv
02:30 pm - 02:40 pm
02:40 pm - 03:20 pm
HR needs to deliver a frictionless digital workforce experience in a business context that requires agility, flexibility, and speed of change. At the same time, the HR Tech market has exploded after the pandemic, providing much more mature & adaptable offerings. In this exclusive deepdive session, you will get access to tools to evaluate our business needs, assess available market options, and a framework to determine actionable steps to leverage HR tech for accelerating business outcomes. Join us in this masterclass, where we will take a practitioner's view to define what makes a successful HR technology deployment while exploring the journey organisations have taken to balance deployment effectiveness, business priorities, and employee experience.
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
03:20 pm - 03:25 pm
03:25 pm - 04:25 pm
The world of work is growing increasingly complex, a process accelerated by the pandemic, as sophisticated technologies emerge and human behaviour undergoes changes. A march toward such a complex future will inevitably be bumpy and requires preparation at the individual, team, and organisational levels. This masterclass for CHROs & Senior Functional Heads will deep dive to help talent leaders equip themselves with strategies, skills, and tools so they can rise to the opportunity to accelerate the larger business transformation.
Co-Founder & Principal, The RBL Group
11:00 am - 11:40 am
Since People Matters launched the #TechHR startup program in 2015, we have seen a meteoric rise in HR & WorkTech startups. While this has been in response to growing demand, VC's commitment is also improving the talent landscape. As companies look for innovative talent solutions from WorkTech startups, we look at how the global funding environment is slowly gearing up to address such needs. The session will dig deep into the key trends that shape the future of WorkTech startups and how founders are finding the investments to make their dreams a reality.
12:10 pm - 12:50 pm
In the fierce competition for attracting and retaining talents, the winning organisations are the ones able to design and deliver superior experiences. For their candidates, their employees, their partners, and leaders. But how to achieve this? Apply design thinking and human-centred design to your burning talent challenges, better understand your business, people and industry. Through design sprints come up with innovative solutions and most importantly test their effectiveness.
Enterprise Agile Coach & Conscious Leadership Coach, PALO IT
12:50 pm - 01:40 pm
01:40 pm - 02:20 pm
The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Method is a facilitated process that encourages all voices of a team to be present and heard, thereby driving engagement. It facilitates 2-way feedback and conversation by overriding existing communication barriers. LSP enables team conversations where team members get to know one another better which forms the basis for team collaboration and co-operation. Leaders can leverage LSP to share their vision for the team and represent their vision with clarity in a 3D-model.
Founder, Executive Coach, Higher Ground Coaching & Consulting
11:00 am - 11:10 am
11:00 am - 11:10 am
11:20 am - 11:50 am
11:50 am - 12:10 pm
01:30 pm - 01:50 pm
02:20 pm - 02:40 pm
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm
*The sessions are subject to change. Please stay tuned with this page for the latest updates.
