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• Partnering with education to influence and drive the teaching of the right skills in future talent.
• Leveraging alternative career paths and personalised career pathways to develop the skills needed.
• Overcoming skills shortages through cross-industry and cross-sector collaborations.

• Accelerating the development of new capabilities in leaders to support and drive business growth.
• Fostering a “growth mindset” to enable leaders to embrace and thrive during change.
• Case study discussion on leading-edge strategies and innovation to drive organisational growth.

JPS Choudhary, Regional HR Head – Asia, Africa, & Middle East,Vodafone

• Looking into the importance of building human skills in the age of technology and automation.
• Designing learning programmes and initiatives that increase emotional intelligence and people skills.
• Discussing the various challenges faced, and solutions, in developing soft skills for employees.

Amanda Oldridge, Head of Human Resources Director, Linfox International Group

• Highlighting the increasing use of contingent and “gig” workers to achieve an optimal and productive workforce.
• Employing people analytics and predictive models to improve and update workforce planning with changing business needs.
• Integrating automation tools in the workplace to increase employee reskilling requirements and create demand for new technical roles.

Mark Whiteley, Director, Talent, EMEA & APAC, Citi

•  Learning success stories and lessons from CHROs through working with Board of Directors.
• Addressing on how to prepare for board meetings and accelerate trust between CHRO-Board relationship.
• Looking into how to best channel organisational culture in Board interactions.

Meena Anand, Managing Director and Head HR, Global Business Services, Standard Chartered Bank

• Highlighting the importance of embedding agile methodologies to develop HR capabilities
• Learning different approaches and practices to build new HR skills to better serve the needs of the business
• Looking into how to manage an environment where employees, bots, and gig workers work in partnerships workers work in partnerships.

Moderator:
Alan Wilson,Assistant Director, Professional Development Centre, British Council

Panelists:
Jordan Pettman, Global Head, People Data, Analytics and Planning, Nestlé
Makarand Tare, Chief Talent Officer – Asia Pacific, McCann Worldgroup

• Could cutting the business week by one day potentially improve productivity by forcing workers to make the most out of their time in the office?
• Does reducing working hours boost worker happiness and motivate employees to get more work done in a shorter time frame?
• Does a shorter workweek mean less time for opportunities that may advance an employee’s career in the long-run?