Come by at your leisure to register and collect your delegate pack along with room check-in details from us at the hotel lobby.

Free and easy networking session at the Merchant Lounge in the resort. Utilise this time to get to know your peers from across Asia and bond over great food and drinks. You can expect an agenda infused with great fun, networking and interactive elements.

Please proceed to Merchant Kitchen and enjoy the delicious spread prepared for you at your leisure. Thereafter make your way to Merlin ballroom C for the conference sessions by 9.20am.

• Redesigning jobs to keep your workforce relevant.
• How can you raise HR professionalism in your organisation through mindset shift and up skilling?
• What is your call to action to the future of work and workplace disruption?

Speaker:Jitender Panihar, Chief People Officer, MoEngage Inc

• Transforming the HR function from administration to one that is able to create impact and actively support the business.
• Orchestrating change management in partnership with the business to drive broad-reaching organisation change and outcomes.
• Measuring success, return on investment, creating and unlocking value of human capital.

Speaker: Merle Chen, Chief Talent Officer, The Lo & Behold Group

• What sort of impact will AI and automation have in SEAsian jobs?
• With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, what are the skills of the future that are going to be important for your organisation?
• How do you recruit for skills that are non-traditional or emerging?

Speaker: Paul Rivera, Chief Executive Officer, Kalibrr

Sponsored by Aetna – One of the largest providers of international health benefits and services, Aetna International serves more than 700,000 members worldwide, including expatriates, local nationals, and business travellers.

• What is a leader’s relationship to fear?
• How does the VUCA environment invoke different fears within a leader that trigger emotional derailers?
• What is the psychological antidote for VUCA 3.0?

Speaker: Kevin Tan, International Business Director, Harrison Assessments International

• What are the leadership obstacles in the VUCA world?
• Do your leaders have the appropriate traits to manage, sustain and drive the business in VUCA?
• What are some key disruptive actions that are taking place in your organisation today and how is that being supported and driven successfully by your human capital?

Moderator: Kevin Tan, International Business Director, Harrison Assessments International

Panelists: Amit Das, Director-HR & CHRO, Bennett, Coleman

• What it means to unlock a sense of purpose. In times of uncertainty, how to strengthen the connection between individual and organisational purpose.
• How to align purpose, strategy, organisation and culture to drive a business transformation.
• Grooming contemporary leaders in order to develop trust and accountability in a collaborative ecosystem.

Speaker: Karine Scelles, Global & APAC Human Resource Director, General Electric

In this session, we would like to invite five audience members to pitch their top of mind HR agenda topic to the audience. As an attendee, feel free to join in any of the five outline topics and go into a deep dive of your chosen executive table topic sessions.

As this is on a first-come, first-served basis, be quick to decide as each topic is only limited to ten seats!

Once reinvigorated, please join us at the resort’s Beach Lawn for a scrumptious alfresco dinning BBQ buffer dinner where we discuss work and continue to have some more fun.

Please proceed to Merchant Kitchen and enjoy the delicious spread prepared for you at your leisure. Thereafter make your way to Merlin ballroom C for the conference sessions by 9.20am.

• Maintaining a forward focus view by grooming a workforce with high adaptability quotient.
• How can HR look beyond inherited structures and systems to thrive in a decentralised organisation while delivering on business prospects?
• Collaborating alongside various HR functions to close the gap between action and feedback to increase motivation and improve operations in the new workplace reality.

Speakers: Sajjad Parmar, Head of Rewards, APAC, eBay co-presenting with
Lynette Ng, Founder & CEO, Talent Code

• How can we ensure the next generation leadership is resourceful and open to enabling the generation Y to make the organisation more adaptive and innovative?
• Bridging the different expertise levels in different generations and connecting the various start points to the organisational goals through mentoring and coaching.
• How do you integrate inclusive leadership in cross cultures and find the different intersections of inclusion?

In this session, feel free to join the “hot” seat and share your thoughts.

Moderator: Mukta Arya, Head of Human Resources, South East Asia and Head of Talent Development and Inclusion, Asia-Pacific, Societe Generale APAC
Panelists:
Luckana, General Manager Human Resources, Daimler
Raamann Ahuja, Senior Director HR, SEA & Taiwan, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Angelina Chua, First Vice President and Group Head HR, Yeo Hiap Seng (Yeo’s)

In this interactive round table discussion, please share with your peers seated on the same table a quick summary of some key takeaways after attending the conference.

There will be five chosen presenters who will then share their learnings and solutions with the rest of the room.