Wednesday, 7 October 2026
8:30 AM
REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENT
9:00 AM
Welcome remarks
9:10 AM
[Opening Keynote]
Hong Kong’s new workforce mandate: Talent scarcity, productivity pressure, and HR’s evolving role
- Clarifying the importance of workforce planning and skills visibility as strategic business priorities for HR leaders.
- Why regional consistency must be balanced with local market agility.
- How HR can prepare for a more data-led, agile and future-ready workforce agenda.
9:40 AM
[Case Study]
From inspiration to impact: Building hope, inclusive teams and healthy performance
- Turning inspiration into meaningful action by building hope, connection, and more inclusive teams
- Creating healthier performance cultures that support employee wellbeing alongside business results
- Using recognition to reinforce progress, belonging, and positive behaviours that can be sustained over time
Russell Flint
Vice President, Asia Pacific
O.C. Tanner
Gina Lee
Lead Advisor, Workplace Culture and EX Asia
O.C. Tanner
10:10 AM
[Case Study]
Benefits by design: Simplifying programmes to help employees understand and maximise what they already have
- Streamlining benefits programmes to help employees better understand available support
- Tailoring benefits communication across employee groups, life stages, and working arrangements
- Improving utilisation by making benefits easier to access, explain, and measure
Victoria Yow
General Manager
Pacific Prime Hong Kong
10:25 AM
MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING
10:45 AM
[Case Study]
Real-time recognition: Modernising how organisations manage value, contribution, and motivation
- Shift rewards and recognition away from static annual cycles towards more responsive, data-informed employee experiences.
- Use recognition patterns, contribution insights, and employee preferences to support smarter reward decisions.
- Balance personalisation, fairness, governance, and cost discipline when modernising rewards and recognition.
11:15 AM
[Case Study]
Wellbeing that works: Moving from reactive support to everyday resilience and healthier ways of working
- Shifting wellbeing from one-off campaigns to daily work practices and manager routines
- Expanding support around stress, burnout, mental health, caregiving, and financial wellbeing
- Evaluating wellbeing investment through absence, engagement, productivity, and employee trust
Samantha Che
Head of People and Culture
Sun Hung Kai & Co.
11:45 AM
[Case Study]
Seeing the workforce clearly: Turning people data into business decisions
- How to connect workforce data with business planning and strategic decision-making.
- The role of HR in anticipating attrition, capability shortages and productivity gaps before they become business risks.
- Opportunity for HR leaders to use evidence-based insights to increase their credibility and influence with the business.
12:15 PM
[Flash Talk]
The APAC expansion blueprint: Hiring and managing remote talent effectively
- Top challenges faced in hiring and managing talent across the region, including examples on the latest legal obligations.
- Insights on closing the gap between a large remote workforce and the lack of technology to manage HR and payroll.
- Gauge how markets are progressing on hiring full-time employees and contractors.
12:30 PM
NETWORKING LUNCH
1:30 PM
[Panel Discussion]
Digital adoption: Improving HR technology uptake by designing around real employee use cases
- Identifying the employee tasks where HR platforms need to feel easier, faster, and more useful
- Guiding adoption through in-flow support, feedback loops, and practical user habits
- Reading adoption signals beyond logins, including completed journeys, fewer workarounds, and better service outcomes
Panellist:
Edward Ng
Regional Human Resources Director
Vita Green
2:00 PM
[Case Study]
Agentic HR: Preparing HR service delivery for AI agents by setting clear service boundaries
- Mapping HR queries where AI agents can safely support employees without creating unnecessary risk
- Setting escalation points for sensitive, unclear, or policy-heavy cases that need human HR judgement
- Monitoring agent performance through accuracy, resolution quality, and employee trust
2:30 PM
[Fireside Chat]
The new HR operating model: What should HR stop, pause, start, and automate?
- Examine new ways of structuring HRBPs, centres of excellence, shared services, and digital delivery teams for sharper business impact.
- Clarify ownership across HR, managers, technology, and regional teams to reduce duplication and decision bottlenecks.
- Discuss what it takes to build an HR function that is lean, consistent, commercially aligned, and responsive to change.
Thierry Kun
Head of Human Resources Business Partner-Asia Pacific
Longchamp
3:00 PM
AFTERNOON BREAK & NETWORKING
3:20 PM
[Global Perspective]
Workforce planning in an uncertain economy: The art of scenario planning for HR leaders
- Ways to balance workforce cost, capability, productivity, and growth readiness in a slower and more uncertain business cycle.
- Approaches to use scenario planning to prepare for shifts in headcount demand, critical skills, redeployment needs, and role redesign.
- How HR can support more confident workforce decisions when market conditions, talent supply, and business priorities keep changing.
Speakers:
Cheri Hurtubise
Director of Early Careers
Hasbro
Charlotte Chan
People and Culture Director
Klook
3:50 PM
[Panel Discussion]
C-suite conversation: Strengthening leadership effectiveness by equipping managers to deliver business priorities
- Aligning C-suite leaders on how managers can carry change, communication, and business priorities more effectively
- Equipping managers with the tools, data, and decision rights needed to act with confidence
- Measuring leadership effectiveness through execution quality, employee trust, and consistency of organisational messaging
Panellist:
Cindy Chiu
Human Resources Director, Asia
AtkinsRéalis
Sarena Lin
Member of the Supervisory Board
Siemens Healthineers
4:20 PM
Closing remarks by Human Resources Online
4:30 PM