DAY 2 | THURSDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2025
Registration
Opening address

Aditi Sharma Kalra
Editor-in-Chief
[Opening keynote]
The evolution of L&D: Letting go, rebuilding, and reimagining what's next
With the shifting generational values, and technology disruption, organisations can no longer rely on one-size-fits-all learning strategies. Each generation today comes with unique needs, mindsets, and learning styles. It’s time for L&D to move beyond compliance and upskilling to create human-centric, responsive, and forward-looking learning environments.
This session challenges L&D leaders to rethink their assumptions and embrace a new paradigm of development, one rooted in psychology, digital realities, and generational wisdom.
In this session, we will dive into:
- The generational lens: How the evolution of workplace learning reflects generational shifts, from command-and-control to co-creation and continuous feedback.
- Meeting learners in real life: Why effective learning in 2025 means embedding development into moments of work on social platforms, in micro-content, and through human mentoring.
- What’s next for L&D? How to prepare for a world where Gen Alpha and Beta will learn differently, demand differently, and redefine what growth means at work.

Daniel Ng
Head, People
Future-ready leadership & workforce agility
[Case study]
Transforming culture through change: Haier's strategic approach to talent development and retention
In this session, we come together to learn about:
- Organisational restructuring – Realigning core leadership roles with seasoned professionals to strengthen operational excellence and strategic direction.
- Driving change through people – Empowering leaders and employees to champion transformation from within.
- Employee experience transformation – Reinventing key moments that matter in the employee journey through small impactful shifts.
- Building a change ready organisation – Fostering adaptability, measuring success of change initiatives, and gauging the impact of change as a lever for employee retention.

Ng Eng Chia, Angie
HR Director cum Regional L&D
Morning break
[Panel discussion]
Unlocking potential within: Rethinking internal talent development & mobility
Let’s come together to learn how to:
- How to surface hidden skills and connect them to high-impact opportunities across the organisation.
- Enabling talent mobility by shifting focus from roles and titles to capabilities and potential.
- Make mobility work: Building a culture and infrastructure that supports cross-functional moves and reduces talent hoarding.
- From reactive to proactive: Using data and people analytics insights to identify mobility opportunities and future-ready talent from within.

Adrita Datta
Human Resources Director

Rina Chanco Estolano
People Vice President

Kamaldin Nordin
Vice President Human Resources - APAC Region

May Teoh
General Manager, OSK Academy
[Keynote presentation]
Reinventing leadership: Leading with clarity, empathy, and tech fluency for a disrupted world
Many executives are still building their understanding of new technologies, while employees feel leadership communication on transformation is falling short. Meeting today’s expectations means evolving leadership to blend digital fluency with emotional intelligence, inclusivity, and cross-generational collaboration.
In this session, the following key points will be addressed:
- Building digital fluency to lead confidently through transformation and communicate technology’s impact on work, teams, and skills.
- Embracing inclusive leadership that supports wellbeing, DEI, and generational diversity, especially as Gen Z takes centre stage.
- Developing leadership skills for the modern era: combining emotional intelligence, tech-savviness, and agile collaboration across hybrid, multigenerational teams.

Natalia Navin
Group Chief People Officer
Networking lunch
[Case study]
Boosting talent density: Rebuilding core capabilities to strengthen organisational performance
This session explores how strengthening the basics today can lay the groundwork for more ambitious, innovation-led strategies tomorrow.
Let’s come together to learn:
- Redefining the baseline – What core competencies and behaviours are non-negotiable in a high-talent-density organisation?
- From fragmented to focused – Building a unified L&D strategy that reinforces critical capabilities across all levels.
- Readying leaders from within – How reinforcing the basics improves succession pipelines and builds leadership readiness.

Saurabh (Pixie) Jaggi
Head of Culture, Learning and Talent Development
Transformative tech in learning
[Panel discussion]
Accelerated but at risk? Preserving critical thinking in an AI-driven learning environment
This session will examine how L&D leaders can harness the power of AI without compromising essential human skills, and how to ensure that speed doesn’t replace substance.
Key discussion points include:
- Exploring the impact of AI on critical thinking and how passive learning may weaken problem-solving over time.
- Preserving essential human skills, reasoning, judgement, and analysis in tech-driven learning environments.
- Designing learning experiences that blend instant access with deeper reflection and inquiry.
- Reinforcing mentorship, peer learning, and dialogue as key tools to cultivate independent thinking.

Nyanaselvi Krishnan
Head of Learning & Development, Human Resources

Hasif Noorhafiz Bin Damahuri
Head of Digital Learning

Rodzal Had
Vice President Human Resource & Administration

Sunny Sharma
HR Head
Afternoon break
[Case study]
Unlimited potential: Developing enterprise-ready, dynamic, inclusive, and solution-oriented leaders
In support of Maybank’s strategic direction, a curated leadership development programme was introduced and tailored to accelerate leadership capability across digital and sustainability domains. This initiative has become a key enabler in transforming good to great leaders, ready to navigate complexity and champion change.
Let’s explore how this journey has helped to:
- Unlock the potential of leaders by developing agile, forward-looking “lighthouses” that illuminate the path to organisational growth.
- Enable deep self-discovery and leadership growth through immersive learning grounded in the 3Es: education, exposure, and experience.
- Instil enterprise-wide thinking and break silos by fostering cross-functional collaboration and shared leadership behaviours.

Wan Mohamad Fathi Wan Nordin
Head of Group Organisational Learning
[Mini keynote presentation]
Performance reimagined: Measuring real employee impact in an AI-augmented workforce
In this session, let’s hear about:
- Redefining performance – How to measure value-added contributions in an AI-enabled workforce.
- Beyond the tool – Identifying creativity, problem-solving, and judgment that go beyond AI capabilities.
- Building AI fluency – Setting clear expectations for effective and responsible AI use across roles.

Leslie Mathew Abraham
Head of Learning & Development
Closing remarks

Aditi Sharma Kalra
Editor-in-Chief