Talent Management Asia, Hong Kong 2015 - delegate book

28 - 29 April The Mira Hong Kong

DELEGATE BOOK

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CONTENTS

EDITOR’S NOTE

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CONFERENCE AGENDA

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EXHIBITION LAYOUT

10

SPEAKERS

12

SPONSORS & PARTNERS

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EDITOR’S NOTE A tribute to talent For years, HR professionals have been trying to break down the walls separating them from the rest of the business.

The ones who have successfully done so have one thing in common – they have been able to seamlessly integrate each of their talent management functions in a way that makes the process relevant across business units.

After all, managing talent is an imperative that requires both HR and business leaders to collaborate on matters beyond routine policy decisions.

Strategic issues such as talent attraction, engagement, development and retention are all owned by the HR team, yet the stakeholders of these lie throughout the organisation in the form of line managers, divisional heads and employees themselves.

Each of you may be at different stages of the talent management journey. You may be working to build foundational HR support for your organisation or working towards launching a revised learning framework.

Some of the smartest minds in Asia, and the world, will serve up practical advice on talent management strategy – making for a rare opportunity for the HR community to hear from both global talent management gurus and APAC senior industry leaders on one platform.

This is where you, and your fellow conference delegates, can share tips and tricks about what works and what doesn’t, as you unearth valuable intelligence that you can apply to your organisation right away.

Companies in Hong Kong have come far in their journey across the talent management spectrum, but there is a way ahead in developing best practices that can be scaled globally and replicated with context.

This conference is your opportunity to work with global management experts and your peers to address today’s most compelling HR issues, and shape the future of talent management.

We hope you enjoy the event and we look forward to hearing your feedback.

Others may be working on garnering company wide buy-in for a new leadership development programme or rolling up their sleeves to identify the next big agenda to exponentially increase HR’s contribution to the business.

Wherever you stand, this is the conference that will get you thinking about ideas to better manage talent in the region.

For the past two years, Talent Management Asia, Human Resources’ premier conference on human capital strategy, has offered solutions to the issues that keep HR directors awake at night.

In its third year, we are proud to bring Talent Management Asia to Hong Kong to offer the region’s HR leaders a platform to share their insights and case study experiences with fellow HR professionals.

The theme of the annual conference this year is, “Aligning HR objectives with business goals”, and we have a power-packed agenda lined up for our delegates, bringing together heads of HR and talent management from the region’s leading organisations.

In these two days, you can look forward to more than 20 sessions in the form of keynote presentations and real life pan-Asian case studies.

Aditi Sharma Kalra Regional editor Human Resources aditis@humanresourcesonline.net

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AGENDA Tuesday, 28 April 2015 I Conference day 1 8.00am

Registration

8.50am

Welcome address and speed networking Akankasha Dewan, senior journalist, Human Resources magazine

9.00am

Keynote: The clash of culture as a means of developing talent: The special cases of Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong • Leveraging on the clash of cultures common in managing global talent • How to translate strongly contrasting values to a competitive advantage Charles Hampden-Turner, author and management philosopher, KPMG Trompenaars Hampden-Turner

Global talent management

9.40am

Keynote: Find purpose and make a dent in the talent universe • Begin the process of forming a connected and engaged talent community • Learn the neuroscience behind safe collaboration, appreciation, and feed-forward • Get the Purpose Model – which includes how understanding and applying purpose, process, and practice helps in sharing and creating your talent management story Louis Carter, author and CEO, Best Practice Institute 10.20am Morning coffee and networking 10.50am Panel Discussion: The future direction of talent management in Asia • Evolution of talent management – from war for talent to war for fit • Identifying new talent management challenges and their implications for the future • Future-proofing your talent management strategy to gear up for this uncertain world Panellists: Aaron Hardy, solutions engineer, PageUp; Jaspreet Kakar, regional manager, talent management, AXA; Louis Carter, author and CEO, Best Practice Institute; Maya Hu-Chan, author, executive coach and president, Global Leadership Associates; Riges Younan, vice president of sales, Asia Pacific, Avature 11.50am Presentation: A new era of human capital management Facebook is revolutionising mass communication one post at a time. Airbnb gives total strangers a chance to experience each other’s cultures and lifestyles. Apple invented the platform that reinforces the notion of ‘one tool for one job’ with the App Store. All these companies took a timeless idea, and put a new spin on it.

Join us, as we take a trip through the progression of Human Capital Management, to see how new paradigms like Mobile First Development and Human Centred Design will build a new era of HCM. Erik Schmit, senior vice president, Asia Pacific, Lumesse 12.20pm Lunch

Recruiting and talent acquisition 1.40pm

Case Study: Challenges faced by professionals joining humanitarian aid work - the MSF perspective • The business of saving lives & alleviating suffering - types of interventions and the demanding contexts of engagement • Hurdles and high jumps for professionals joining humanitarian aid work • Coping with challenges faced in attracting, recruiting, managing and retaining professionals Jagmohan Singh, human resources director, Medecins Sans Frontieres

2.20pm

Panel Discussion: Overcoming talent acquisition challenges in Hong Kong and the rest of Asia • Finding the right talent with a future focus and a growth mindset to challenge the status quo • Developing an employee-focused vs. business-focused interview process • Successful marketing of your brand to go after passive candidates • Seeking partnerships with schools and colleges Panellists: Charissa Chan, area director of human resources and training, Hotel Jen; Charles Hampden-Turner, author and management philosopher, KPMG Trompenaars Hampden-Turner; Christopher Thomas, general manager, talent and innovation, Hong Kong Express Airways; Jagmohan Singh, human resources director, Medecins Sans Frontieres; Kabir Julka, director and head of human resources, American Express; Mathieu Perna, regional head of recruitment, Societe Generale

3.10pm

Afternoon Coffee & Networking

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AGENDA Tuesday, 28 April 2015 I Conference day 1 HR technology 3.40pm

Presentation: The age of HR has arrived: The future of work and the value of unified HR technology In a recent study conducted by Oxford Economics and SAP SuccessFactors, some compelling data show that we are in the midst of a looming talent crisis, which will impact organisations’ ability to meet objectives. Whatever methods you used to build your current workforce are unlikely to be sufficient going forward. In other words, “What got you here, won’t get you to where you want to go next”. One of the biggest challenges of organisations is to get the right people, with the right skills, into the right roles, at the right time. This session will explore some very profound findings from the global study with Oxford Economics and SAP SuccessFactors.

Mark Souter, human resources value engineer: Asia Pacific and Japan, SAP SuccessFactors

4.20pm

5.00pm

Case Study: Learning and development in the new era • Changes in modern learners’ preferences and behaviours in the way they take in information • Trends and challenges facing a successful learning and development setup • Cultural differences in Asia that impact learning and development in MNCs • What some organisations, including Cigna, are doing to meet the learner’s changing needs, company’s global expansion plans, and filling in their leadership pipelines Tania Fan, learning director, Cigna End of Day One

8.00am

Registration

8.50am

Welcome address and speed networking Akankasha Dewan, senior journalist, Human Resources magazine

9.00am

Keynote: Global ambition: Harnessing the talent and potential of Asian leaders • Unique core competencies and strengths that Asian leaders offer global business • What companies can do to maximise development opportunities for the emerging generation of Asian leaders • How Asian leaders can capitalise on their cultural strengths in the global business environment Maya Hu-Chan, author, executive coach and president, Global Leadership Associates

9.40am

Keynote: A ‘Back to the Future’ approach with talent and succession planning at a senior-level - changing dynamics, lessons from the past, and what to do next • Some things never change - Revisiting the inherent challenges in identifying, developing and utilising talent for C-level executives • Some things change fast - Discussing the changes in dynamics and how yesterday’s ‘emerging trends’ are today’s ‘new reality’ • This 'new reality' has made the challenge even harder – Factors to take into consideration when grooming your organisation’s top-level successors Simon Davies, head of talent, Zurich Insurance

Learning and development

Wednesday, 29 April 2015 I Conference day 2

High potential leadership development and succession planning

10.20am Morning coffee and networking 10.50am Presentation: Succession matters: Effective succession management planning • What makes up a good succession plan?

• Are organisations identifying the right people to fill up all critical roles now and in the future?

• What must organisations do to prepare senior executives and equip them to meet critical business challenges?

Anita Wingrove, managing director ASEAN and HK, leadership and talent consulting, Korn Ferry 11.20am Case Study: Developing leaders in Asia in a global organisation – Thomson Reuters’ approach • What makes someone a high potential – Global capabilities vs. local needs • How we are developing high potential in Asia • Our key observations along the way Jessica Zee, head of talent and development, financial and risk, Asia Pacific, Thomson Reuters

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AGENDA Wednesday, 29 April 2015 I Conference day 2 Diversity and inclusion 12.00pm Panel Discussion: A multi-generational workforce • Changing demographics of today’s workforce and appealing to different generations • Benefits and disadvantages of generation gaps • The impact of changes in the digital space – leveraging the various platforms available • Lessons to be learnt from a diverse, multi-generational workforce Panellists: Carrie Thompsett, sales director, Saba; Ooi Lay Peng, group vice president, human resources development, Rosewood Hotel Group; Tania Fan, learning director, Cigna 12.40pm Lunch 1.50pm

Panel Discussion: The influence of China as an emerging giant • China market fragmentation – the micro-economy reality of Emerging China • Current and future trends of China’s market and talent development • Strengths and opportunities of Chinese talents to become global leaders • Towards an attractive fusion culture – making Mainland culture digestible Panellists:Charles Hampden-Turner, author and management philosopher, KPMG Trompenaars Hampden-Turner; Christopher Thomas, general manager, talent and innovation, Hong Kong Express Airways; Kris Lui, global head of human resources, C&A Sourcing; Smilla Yuan, managing director, china, Towers Watson

2.30pm

Panel Discussion: Smart strategies to keep employees motivated and engaged at work • The effect of attractive compensation and benefits packages • Giving staff morale a boost through employee empowerment • Making the workplace a conducive environment to work and play in • Employee engagement and motivation in relation to employer branding Panellists: Chinmay Sharma, head of human resources, Philip Morris; Louis Carter, author and CEO, Best Practice Institute; Richard Wentworth-Ping, CEO and founder, Wentworth People; Theresa Chong, group human resources director, Amoy Food

3.10pm

Afternoon Coffee & Networking

3.40pm

Case Study: Kimberly-Clark’s global people strategy: Empowering local growth in APAC • Launched in 2010 to establish the systems and cultural framework for managing people • Designed to ensure countries are empowered to make decisions needed for the local market • Provided freedom for country HR to innovate around the unique needs of their markets while leveraging the resources of regional and global teams Naomi Monteiro, vice president human resources, Asia Pacific, Kimberly-Clark

4.20pm

Panel Discussion: Weaving current trends into a holistic talent management strategy • Meeting and exceeding organisational goals • Managing various forms of risks • Reinventing the wheel or sticking with the norm?

Panellists: Jacqueline Cheung, senior vice president human resources, Li & Fung; Naomi Monteiro, vice president human resources, Asia Pacific, Kimberly-Clark; Ooi Lay Peng, group vice president, human resources development, Rosewood Hotel Group; Simon Davies, head of talent, Zurich Insurance

5.00pm

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Employee engagement and motivation

Holistic talent management

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SPEAKERS Kabir Julka Director and head of human resources American Express Kabir Julka is a seasoned HR leader with experience across multiple disciplines in HR. He has a reputation of enabling businesses to drive results through strategic partnership and thought leadership. His experience spans three markets having worked in financial services, business process outsourcing and telecoms.

He has been with American Express for more than six years and in his current role he heads human resources for Hong Kong. Before relocating to Hong Kong, he was with American Express India supporting a large global services centre and was responsible for driving various talent and people initiatives for the business. In the past he has worked with companies such as AIG, Genpact and Airtel. He holds a bachelor of arts with a specialisation in economics and an MBA in human resources.

Theresa Chong Group human resources director Amoy Food Theresa Chong is the group human resources director of Amoy Food Ltd, a member of the Ajinomoto Group, a Japanbased global company, and the world’s largest producer of aspartame, with overseas food products ranging from flavour seasonings to other processed foods. Amoy focuses on the manufacturing of soy sauce, Chinese condiments and frozen foods with global distributions.

She is the senior HR leader in Amoy Group and a member of the executive team that supports growth strategies and global business plans. She leads a group organisation in Hong Kong and Shanghai covering the functions of human resources, administration and corporate communications.

She has worked extensively to drive talent management programmes focusing on leadership development and organisation culture enhancement.

In the past couple of years, she has focused on revamping Amoy’s vision, mission and values, redeveloped its talent management, and reviewed leadership programmes for senior leaders and managers, including executive coaching, team personality profiling, 360-degree broad-base assessment, and to strengthen leadership competencies in driving Amoy’s core values.

Riges Younan Vice president of sales Avature Riges Younan has been involved with five fast-growth businesses in HR technology and recruiting in the United States, UK and Asia Pacific.

His skills and experience in sales leadership, sales and marketing strategy development and operational execution revolve around the application of technology solutions to solve business problems in the human capital management market. He possesses an acute grasp of the big picture with a strong focus on leveraging technology and the social web to achieve talent acquisition, talent attraction and talent management objectives.

Avature, an innovative SaaS enterprise HCM software platform, was recently awarded the 2012 Talent Management TekTonic Award by HRO Today and cited as a Gartner “Cool Vendor” in 2010. Its flagship product, Avature CRM, is one of the fastest growing Web 2.0 e-recruiting systems currently available. The only enterprise CRM designed specifically for global recruiting, it supports sourcing from more than 200 major web sites throughout the world, and helps customers achieve a new level of collaboration with tagging and tag clouds, built-in e-mail marketing, SMS communication, and other advanced web 2.0 features.

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SPEAKERS Jaspreet Kakar Regional manager, talent management AXA Jaspreet Kakar is the regional manager of talent management for AXA Asia for the life and general insurance businesses based in the regional head office in Hong Kong.

In his role, he supports talent management and development, building and implementing the talent architecture and capability for the region, as well as advising AXA’s local operations in Asia.

Before he joined AXA Asia in 2013, he worked with Prudential plc for several years in country, regional and global roles. He has a broad range of experience in talent management, business partnering, compensation and benefits, culture change, etc.

He is an engineering graduate and holds a Master’s degree in business administration from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, one of the top education institutes in India.

Louis Carter Founder and CEO Best Practice Institute Louis Carter founded Best Practice Institute in 2001.

Since then, he has led the company to become one of the top associations for leadership and human resource development in the world with more than 42,000 subscribers, receiving Leadership Excellence’s Best in Leadership Development Award and Training Industry’s Innovations in Leadership Development Watch List. He has written 11 books on best practices and organisational leadership, including the Best Practice book series and Change Champion’s Field Guide published by John Wiley & Sons.

He became the chairman of the Best Practice Institute’s senior executive board in 2005 after Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Bank of America, Corning, Saudi Aramco, Volvo, Boston Scientific, and The Gap became founding corporate members. He is the creator of the new 360-degree feedback tool based on a new social networking platform www.Skillrater.com and the BPI online learning portal on www.Bestpracticeinstitute.org. He received his undergraduate degree from Connecticut College and Brown University with honours in political science and economics, and his graduate degree in social/organisational psychology from Columbia University with honours.

Kris Lui Global head of human resources C&A Sourcing Kris Lui is a passionate seasoned business-oriented human resources professional with 19 years of experience in international exposure and delivering business results via building sustainable organisation capability in diverse cultures, markets and matrix organisations.

This includes the most admired multi-national company, Procter & Gamble, which is a Fortune top 30 international company and awarded No.1 as “Fortune’s Most Admired For HR Globally” by The Hay Group and Human Resource Executive professional magazine; the big Chinese conglomerate Sino Group which is recognised by Euromoney as the “Best Developer Overall in Hong Kong”; and the European privately owned enterprise, C&A Retail Fashion Sourcing.

Being a strategic engaging business partner, HR head and executive coach, she leads all-round roles of being a strategic partner, change agent, foundation builder and employee champion to meet various business needs. This includes creating new capability, turning around declining trends, stabilising realignments and accelerating success.

She is also committed to building leaders, HR and women capability in the market via professional community work.

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SPEAKERS Tania Fan Learning director Cigna Tania Fan is the learning director for Asia Pacific with Cigna University, the L&D arm of Cigna Corporation. She has been in various learning and talent development roles for more than 12 years, of which she has held L&D leadership roles for the past nine. She has lived in Canada, US, China and Hong Kong, where she has held various country and regional L&D responsibilities at different times.

She started her career in banking as a management trainee. During her 19 years with the financial industry, she worked in three international banks across four countries before joining Cigna. She held leadership roles in private banking and retail banking. With her passion in people development, she moved to L&D and eventually took up a leadership role in L&D with responsibilities that included people management, training design and delivery, vendor management, talent development and strategic planning.

She is passionate about leadership development and believes that having a strong leadership team and a wellmanaged succession pipeline can lead to a solid learning culture which in turn creates real impact in an organisation and its customer experience.

Maya Hu-Chan Author, executive coach and president Global Leadership Associates Maya Hu-Chan is an expert in global leadership, crosscultural business skills and executive coaching. She is rated in the Top 8 Global Solutions Thinkers by Thinkers50, World Top 30 Leadership Gurus, and Top 100 Thought Leaders in management and leadership.

Harvard Business School has chosen her book Global Leadership: The Next Generation to be one of its working knowledge recommended books. This book was translated in multiple languages. She is also the contributing author for 10 books on leadership and management.

Since 1988, she has worked extensively with global Fortune 500 organisations to develop their leaders and bridge the leadership and management challenges that stem from multinational operations.

Born and raised in Taiwan and living in San Diego, California, she received her M.A. from University of Pennsylvania.

She has lectured at the Brookings Institution, University of California San Diego, University of Southern California, Pennsylvania State University and University of Chicago.

Christopher Thomas General manager, talent and innovation Hong Kong Express Airways Leading the talent and innovation department, Christopher Thomas directs professionals from human resources and information technology to develop a high-performance company culture using innovative ways.

With a Master’s degree in international finance and Asian studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), he started his career in investment banking corporate finance with Deutsche Bank in New York and Baltimore. In 2003, he moved to Beijing to run business investments and charity decisions for a ultra high net-worth family office.

He joined the aviation industry in 2012 as a special advisor to Hong Kong Airline’s chief financial officer. From 2013 he has worked for HK Express driving its transformation into a LCC (low cost carrier). He enjoys travelling, golf and spicy foods.

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SPEAKERS Charissa Chan Area director of human resources and training Hotel Jen

Akankasha Dewan Senior journalist Human Resources

Naomi Monteiro Vice president, human resources, Asia Pacific Kimberly-Clark

Charissa Chan was appointed area director of human resources and training for Hotel Jen in 2014, in which she oversees all talent-related matters, including recruitment, employer branding and talent development.

As a senior journalist at Human Resources, Akankasha Dewan takes a lead role in producing thought-provoking editorial print and online content across Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Naomi Monteiro is the VP of HR for APAC at Kimberly-Clark.

Her focus is on developing and implementing strategies to attract, engage, retain and develop the talent and leadership needed to support the aggressive growth of the business.

A seasoned HR professional with a strong background in the hospitality industry, she began her career with Shangri-La’s flagship hotel – Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong – supporting the human resources function.

Dewan enjoys leading compelling HR-related conversations with senior industry professionals, and is establishing herself as an insightful columnist who is dedicated towards continuously exploring the wide-ranging secrets of the HR industry.

She started her career with Marks & Spencer and joined K-C in the UK in 1999. She has had various roles across Europe covering industrial relations, restructuring, talent management and recruitment. She then moved to the US, where she led the development and implementation of the global Kimberly-Clark people strategy. She moved to Asia in 2011 as the HR director for China.

Before joining Hotel Jen, she led the learning and development function for Swire Hotels, covering Greater China and winning the 2012 Outstanding New Trainer Award during her time there.

She joined Lighthouse Independent Media as a journalist and content producer towards the end of 2013, and has also produced conferences themed around topics such as training and compensation.

A Master’s graduate in English, Dewan has been in Singapore for more than two decades. She has interned as a reporter in various local media houses, and has worked in Unilever’s HR division.

She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of York, her EMBA from TRIUM (NYU, LSE and HEC) and is a chartered member of the Institute of Personnel & Development.

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SPEAKERS Anita Wingrove Managing director, ASEAN and Hong Kong, leadership and talent consulting Korn Ferry Anita Wingrove draws on 20 years of business and human resources experience across Asia, as well as deep leadership and talent experience to deliver growth for businesses. She has conducted senior leadership reviews, CEO succession planning, and talent development initiatives for clients across various industries, and led numerous business-wide talent and change programmes that have delivered significant positive results.

She has worked with organisations to build change leadership capabilities, and before joining Korn Ferry, she operated her own business working as an executive coach, facilitator and consultant to businesses looking to grow through unlocking the potential of their people.

Previously, she headed human resources for a large division of a big Asian financial institution. There, she also led human resources for a global business and held line, marketing and project roles.

Charles Hampden-Turner Author and management philosopher KPMG Trompenaars HampdenTurner Charles Hampden-Turner is the director of research and development for KPMG Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. He is also a senior research associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society.

He was recently made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He is also an honorary fellow of arts and business, and was the Goh Tjoe Kok distinguished visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

He graduated from Cambridge University and received his master’s and doctorate degrees from Harvard University.

He has taught at Harvard University, Brandeis University and the University of Toronto. A recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundation Fellowships, he is also a past winner of the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award and most recently was appointed the Goh Tjoe Kok distinguished visiting professor at Nanyang Business School, Singapore.

Jacqueline Cheung Senior vice president, human resources Li & Fung Jacqueline Cheung comes with a business/HR hybrid background. Beginning her career as a management consultant with Accenture and Capgemini, she consulted with diversified MNC clients on system integration, process re-engineering, and finance and employee transformation where she gained various overseas exposure and work experience in Asia and Europe.

Following her consulting career, she held various APAC head of HR positions with NETGEAR and Williams Lea, a Deutsche Post DHL company – all with a primary focus to partner with the business with a view to assist and enable the team to achieve corporate goals.

She studied electrical and electronic engineering in HKU with an MBA degree from the HKUST. With a strong belief in mentoring and coaching, she also serves as a mentor in schools.

She is a registered psychologist and holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Melbourne, graduate diploma in applied psychology from Monash University, and a Master’s of commerce (honors) from the University of Melbourne.

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SPEAKERS Erik Schmit Senior vice president, Asia Pacific Lumesse Graduating from the Erasmus University Rotterdam with a major in business economics, Erik Schmit brings 20 years of success with enterprise software companies in ERP and HCM. Being based out of Asia over the past seven years he is passionate about attracting, hiring, engaging and retaining the best talent for world-class companies utilising human skills supported through technology.

During his career in HCM, he has successfully worked with some of the leading companies in the world building talent advantages by formulating strategies to attract, hire, engage and retain the best talent.

Another field of expertise is building leadership advantages for organisations by enabling talent to fulfil their potential and meet business goals. He firmly believes agile technology is a critical business enabler for HR to enrich and evolve HR programmes and solutions.

Aaron Hardy Solutions engineer PageUp Aaron Hardy has worked with some of the world’s largest organisations in his many different roles with PageUp. He brings experiences from the coalface having more recently worked with a variety of organisations across Asia. His passion is in technology and how organisations can leverage the latest innovations to get a competitive edge in the war for talent.

Jagmohan Singh Human resources director Médecins Sans Frontières The human resources director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders – Hong Kong, Jagmohan Singh has been with the organisation since 2005. The scope of his responsibilities in managing HR strategies and activities span more than 13 countries, which include Mainland China, Greater China and Southeast Asia.

As part of his role, he represents this region in international HR platforms (Belgian group of 9 and the International Human Resources Director’s group of 24) and contributes to the strategic HR development of the movement world-wide.

His expertise has been regularly sought in various international working groups over the years. Along with the valuable support of his dynamic team, he’s built a solid reputation for MSF – Hong Kong as a section which is known among the global movement to supply high quality human capital from this region, making it a model often sought by other offices in the interest of learning best-practices.

Chinmay Sharma Head, human resources – Hong Kong and Asia HQ Philip Morris International Chinmay Sharma is a result-oriented HR leader with varied experience and the ability to build diverse teams and productive partnerships across geographies to achieve business and organisation objectives.

He has a proven ability of leading and managing change and designing and implementing HR initiatives to align culture with the company’s vision and mission. He is also a trained facilitator with effective influencing, problem-solving and project management skills.

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SPEAKERS Ooi Lay Peng Group vice president – human resources development Rosewood Hotel Group

Carrie Thompsett Sales director Saba Software

Ooi Lay Peng has extensive experience creating human resource structures for new businesses. Previously she headed human resources operations for MGM Grand Paradise Limited in Macau. At Intel, she was responsible for a division covering 20,000 employees in Costa Rica, Philippines, Malaysia and Shanghai and helped build One China HR that supported all Intel businesses in China. She also spent 10 years with Hyatt International, culminating as director of human resources for North Asia.

As a sales director for Saba Software, Carrie Thompsett is responsible for all business development and sales activities for large enterprise and mid-market customers in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Macau. She has 15 years of experience in the technology industry with a strong focus on customer satisfaction. Before joining Saba, she served as a senior client manager at Training Partners HK. Before Training Partners, she held various positions at CA Inc.

Rosewood Hotel Group, one of the world’s fastest growing hotel companies, encompasses 55 hotels in 17 countries across multiple brands. With established locations in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean/Atlantic, Rosewood Hotel Group is pursuing an aggressive expansion strategy with nearly 40 new hotels under development.

She has a degree from Cal Poly Pomona, Los Angeles, US.

Mark Souter HR value engineer: Asia Pacific and Japan SAP SuccessFactors

Mathieu Perna Regional head of recruitment, Asia Pacific Societe Generale

Mark Souter provides consulting services within the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, as part of the business architecture team. He works with senior leadership within both current and prospective customers. He and his team help to identify and provide full business solutions, which address gaps for realising strategic business results.

Mathieu Perna started his career with Societe Generale in 2006 as an HR business partner for the technology department, first in Paris and then in Hong Kong.

He has one of the best-rounded HR backgrounds in the marketplace, delivering in HR roles ranging from HR operations/HRIS through to leading HR shared services, talent management, organisational development, HR consulting and business partnering, as well as recruiting and total rewards.

He was then in charge of HR for Societe Generale’s financing and coverage departments in Asia. He was appointed head of recruitment in September 2014.

He and his team work on hiring the best talents for Societe Generale in Asia Pacific, and making Societe Generale an employer of choice in the banking industry in the region. He holds a Master’s degree in business and a Master’s degree in human resources.

He has lived and worked across APJ, the US and Europe with some of the world’s largest technology companies such as Dell, Norton Symantec and SAP. His experience with SuccessFactors spans almost 10 years on all corners of the boardroom table, delivering HR technology solutions to over 100,000 users. He has the know-how as a SuccessFactors customer, decision-maker, user and has also established and led HR services in APJ for the same company over a period of tremendous growth.

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SPEAKERS Jessica Zee Head of talent and development, financial and risk, Asia Pacific Thomson Reuters Jessica Zee leads talent management and organisational development in Asia Pacific for the financial and risk business at Thomson Reuters.

Before joining Thomson Reuters, she led the learning, talent management and OD agenda for multiple business lines in HSBC in Asia. Before that, she was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising multinational and local clients across industries in Greater China on a range of management topics, with a focus on the people/organisational discipline.

She began her career in the investment banking industry having worked for Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase where she led teams across Hong Kong, Singapore and India.

She holds a MBA from INSEAD in France, and a Bachelor of Science degree in operations research from Cornell University in the US. Outside of work, she mentors local school students and is an Alumni ambassador for the Cornell University Alumni Association. She also volunteers to support social enterprises in Hong Kong.

Richard Wentworth-Ping CEO and founder Wentworth People Richard Wentworth-Ping is the owner and founder of Wentworth People, a business whose mission is to create high-performance cultures where people genuinely enjoy their work. His work encompasses consulting with clients on a whole range of talent issues – attraction, engagement, retention – as well as conducting leadership programmes, coaching senior executives and facilitating conferences and off sites.

His career spans FMCG, print media and consulting in sales marketing and management roles. He started Wentworth in 1989 in the UK, a business he transferred to Australia and Asia in 1998. It now has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore.

Smilla Yuan Managing director, China Towers Watson Smilla Yuan is the managing director of Towers Watson China and is based in Shanghai.

She has more than 18 years of consulting experience in China where she has been project director and advisor to many large and fast growing companies. Her work with Chinese clients has led them through successful organisational transformations and HR reforms by means of, but not limited to, building forward-looking HR management systems and structures, and the design and effective implementation of human capital strategies.

She is a foremost expert on talent management matters in China and this has made her an advisor to large organisations such as the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), and the Ministry of Finance in China.

She is frequently invited to give professional talks and provide expert opinions at various conferences and training seminars. She also regularly contributes thought leadership to publications such as the 21st Century Business Herald, China Business News, and Business Management Review. Notably, she is the only HR expert representing the field in the online management expert column of the Harvard Business Review.

Simon Davies Head of talent, Asia Pacific Zurich Insurance Simon Davies is an organisational psychologist with over 10 years of experience helping individuals and organisations build and execute talent strategies. He is head of talent for APAC at Zurich Insurance covering the areas of talent acquisition, internal talent management and succession, and diversity and inclusion.

Before joining Zurich he held roles at HSBC, RBS and in consulting. He is passionate about the role talent strategies play in the success of organisations and the importance of this agenda in Asian markets.

He has worked all over the world and across Asia with almost every type of business. He is a passionate advocate for adaptive organisations that embrace, not just relentless “high performance”, but wellbeing and generosity as a means to success.

His clients have included Cisco, GSK, IKEA, Resorts World Sentosa, Dentsu Aegis, Visa, Unilever, and Reed Elsevier. He has spoken at and moderated numerous conferences and specialises in working with execs and senior teams to help them lead change in their organisations.

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Korn Ferry

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At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent.

Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals.

Lumesse provides talent solutions to more than 2,300 organisations in over 70 countries enabling them to engage and nurture the best talent in an ever-changing and demanding global environment. With our unique and highly adaptable talent solutions, our customers are well prepared to capitalise on the fast evolution of new technologies and disruptive business conditions, making talent management their business advantage.

Avature is a highly flexible enterprise SaaS platform for global talent acquisition and talent management and the leading global provider of CRM for recruiting. Founded by Dimitri Boylan, co-founder and former CEO of HotJobs. com, Avature brings commercial internet technology and innovation to recruiting, internal mobility, and performance challenges. Used in 64 countries and 14 languages, Avature has over 360 customers and delivers its private cloud services from data centres in the US, Europe and Asia.

Avature has offices in Buenos Aires, Charlotte, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Melbourne, New York and Shenzhen.

Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,400 employees, we convert potential into greatness.

Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programmes, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO).

Organisations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.

Lumesse’s talent solutions are optimised around customers’ best practices and can be deployed in the cloud, hosted internally or externally. They are designed to meet all their global and local business requirements, giving them the edge in the race for talent, wherever they do business.

Learn more at www.avature.net.

Each year, Lumesse’s talent solutions provide over 3.6 million performance plans, process more than 44 million job applications and fulfil one million vacancies, in addition to having delivered 100 million learning courses.

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

PageUp

Saba Software

Wentworth People

As a 2013 visionary company in Gartner’s Talent Management Magic Quadrant, PageUp People is a leader in providing innovative technology and workforce intelligence to help multinational employers align talent management practices to corporate strategy execution.

Saba delivers a cloud-based intelligent talent management solution used by leading organisations worldwide to hire, develop, engage and inspire their people. With machine learning at its core, intelligent talent management offers proactive, personalised recommendations on candidates, connections and content to help your employees and organisation lead and succeed.

Wentworth People – everyone deserves to enjoy their working life

Saba’s approach and talent management apps – recruiting, learning, performance, compensation, succession and planning – incorporate machine learning technology, social, collaboration and mobile capabilities to help organisations adapt to the future of work.

We have been helping people and their businesses succeed for over 20 years. We can help you create a fulfilling and enjoyable workplace culture, enabling your employees to feel more engaged, improve their performance and ensure the continued success of your company.

Through our award-winning, single-platform talent management solution and predictive analytics dashboard technology, PageUp People simplifies and aligns the management and measurement of human capital deliverables across the talent life cycle.

Enjoying your work can transform your performance.

Imagine loving your work while achieving brilliant results – just think what you could accomplish if your entire company worked this way. We can help you make this change.

We deliver this amazing transformation through our comprehensive range of consulting, training, facilitation and coaching services, to help your employees reach their full potential.

Together we can revolutionise the world of work.

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Center for Creative Leadership The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) is a topranked, global provider of leadership development. By leveraging the power of leadership to drive results that matter most to clients, CCL transforms individual leaders, teams, organisations and society. Our array of cutting-edge solutions is steeped in extensive research and experience gained from working with hundreds of thousands of leaders at all levels.

Ranked among the world’s top 5 providers of executive education by the Financial Times and in the top 10 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CCL has offices in Greensboro, NC; Colorado Springs, CO; San Diego, CA; Brussels, Belgium; Moscow, Russia; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Johannesburg, South Africa; Singapore; Gurgaon, India; and Shanghai, China.

SAP SuccessFactors

Towers Watson

SAP: Run simple – the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software

Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organisations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management.

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organisations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

With 15,000 associates around the world, the company offers consulting, technology and solutions in the areas of benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management. In addition, we provide M&A services to help organisations evaluate and address the people-related costs, risks and challenges, from due diligence through full integration. Although our vision is firmly fixed on the future, our roots go back nearly 150 years.

Contact us at www.towerswatson.com or enquiry.hk@towerswatson.com.

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning partners with global and government organisations to strategise and deliver world-class innovative and technology-enabled leadership development solutions for leaders at all levels.

Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning leverages the business insight and thought leadership of Harvard Business School faculty, Harvard Business Review authors, and other management to create and deliver flexible leadership development solutions in blended learning formats that address the most pressing business challenges within an organisation. Corporate Learning is a market group within Harvard Business Publishing. Harvard Business Publishing is a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University and is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

University of Michigan

The Mira

University of Michigan, Ross School of Business Executive Education in Asia was established with the mission to support executives across the region to develop their leadership capabilities in all levels and functions.

Overlooking the lush Kowloon Park, The Mira Hong Kong is a member of Design Hotels™ and a contemporary urban retreat featuring 492 smoke-free guest rooms, including 56 suites located in the heart of Hong Kong’s shopping, dining and entertainment district, Tsim Sha Tsui.

The programmes offer unique experiences for executives to learn from practical tools and apply them to the challenges at work, and network with fellow participants who share similar challenges. The 20 open enrolment programmes in Asia offer the unique opportunity for companies to address the individuals’ development gaps while custom solutions tackle company-issues. With our experience in Asia Pacific and globally, Michigan Ross has been named an “Elite Executive Education Provider” by the Financial Times in 2014.

Modern interiors, personalised service, and latest tech-friendly features, including complimentary handy smartphones with free international calls and Wi-Fi for use in the city, intuitive on-screen infotainment, and Bose iPod docks, define each luxurious stay. Six chic, unique dining concepts and the award-winning MiraSpa housing 21st century wellness facilities, including a stunning indoor infinity pool, add to the experience.

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