Agenda

TIME AGENDA  
09:00 Summit Introduction by Chairperson
Highlights on Summit Day 1 Key Sessions
BENJAMIN TEA
APAC Talent Acquisition Lead
Motorola Solutions
Employee Experience Journey Mapping:

Your Guide To Crafting & Mapping A Transformational Employee Experience Journey

09:15

Opening Keynote Address :

The Future of Work: Redefining Employee Experience and Why It Matters

  • Evolving role of the Employer and HR in the Future of Work
  • Why Employee Experience matters in the Future of Work
  • What constitutes meaningful Employee Experience
PATRICK TAY TECK GUAN (MP)
Assistant Secretary-General
NTUC
10:00

How Design Thinking Can Create an Integrated and Compelling Employee Experience Journey

  • Share some of the latest thinking and practices of “experience transformation” and discuss the current challenges and issues
  • Harnessing employee feedback to listen, learn and respond to employee experience friction points
PHILIP GREEN
 FORMER CFO
Deliveroo UK
10:45 Morning Refreshments & Networking Session
11:00

The 6 Aspects of Culture Every Organisation Should Be Focusing On

  • Organisations that have a great workplace culture are more likely to have a highly engaged workforce, and more likely to have highly productive and innovative employees. So, what makes a great workplace culture?
  • In a worldwide survey, the O.C. Tanner Institute asked thousands of employees about their workplace culture: why do they work where they do, what makes them stay, and what motivates them to do great work?
  • Learn more about the six key cultural aspects that every organisation should be focusing on to increase employee engagement, retention and overall job satisfaction as we share research-based insights.
DANIEL SHERRINGTON
Regional Director APAC
O.C. Tanner
11:20

Panel Discussion: Designing and Executing the Employee Experience Journey Mapping

GARY LEE
Global Head of Leadership & Organisational Development
Sivantos
12:00 The State of Employee Experience (EX) – How Sephora and Other Organisations Are Closing the Employee Experience Gap
DYLAN CHOONG
Vice President, HR Director
Sephora 
MAO GEN FOO
Head of SEA
Qualtrics
12:30 Networking Luncheon
13:45 Ice-Breaking Interactive Session: Test Your Knowledge with a Quiz Based on Employee Engagement Trends in South-East Asia and Win Exciting Prizes
RAJAT JAIN
Sales Director
Rewardz (Interactive Engagement Sponsor)
SUDHANSHU TEWARI
CEO
Rewardz

Improving the Employee Experience Implementation: Actionable Insights & Case Studies

14:00

Designing Your Organisation’s Employee Experience

  • Seven Essential Stages of the Employee Life Cycle
  • Employee Experience & Employee Engagement
  • Employees have become “Consumers of the workplace”
  • Employee Experience and the Competition for Talent

PURVA HASSOMAL
Head of Learning and Development APAC
GALLUP

14:30

Building a Strong and Differentiated Employee
Experience Brand and Learning Culture

  • How to foster a culture of trust, robust feedback, true collaboration and coaching
  • Listen to the journey of ditching the performance rating and the bell curve, adopting a new approach to performance, development and reward for all our staff
KARL MAK
Co-Founder & CEO
Hepmill Media Group – SGAG, MGAG
15:15 Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Session
15:30

Bringing the Employee Along a Journey of Cultural Transformation

FIONA CARNEY
Senior Director of Business Operations, JAPAC
Microsoft
16:15

Panel Discussion: How Better Employee Experience Can Secure and Retain Top Talents for Succession Planning

PHAN YOKE FEI
Senior Director HR and Corporate Administration
Gardens by the Bay
MARCO VILLA
Partner
Training Factor
KARL MAK
Co-Founder & CEO
Hepmill Media Group – SGAG, MGAG
17:30 Closing Remark by Summit Chairperson
17:50 End of Day One Cocktail Reception
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After a long day of learning, benchmarking, and planning, unwind and mingle with your HRMA peers.

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09:00 Highlights on Summit Day 2 Key Sessions by Chairperson  
NEETHA NAIR
VP, Head of HR Centre of Excellence
Prudential
 Employee Experience Implementation, Considerations and Enablers
09:10 Keynote Address: How Corporate Culture and Values Can Enhance Employee Experience

  • Discover how successful companies create deeper connection to their organization’s success,
  • Instead of forcing people into outdated workplace practices, how do they redesign work around their people by focusing on three environments: culture, technology and physical workspace
 
FRANK KOO
Head of Southeast Asia, Korea and Japan, Talent and Learning Solutions
LinkedIn
09:45 How Technology is an Enabler for Improving Employee Experience: HR Chatbots, Advanced Analytics, and Automation

  • Incorporating the use of methodology in communicating and developing workspace design and employee experience
  • Emerging technologies such as social network, electronic badges and other digital platform that provide new insights about how people interact with each other and use physical space
  • Create a greater openness to the outside world of the company’s wall, including external network and partnership, crowd sourcing and contingent talents
 
MANIK NARAYAN SAHA
CIO, APAC & Japan
SAP
10:15 Morning Refreshments & Networking Session
Digital Employee Experience & Inclusive Diversity
10:30 How to Align Employee Experiences with Talent Acquisition?
RACHEL FITTON
Head of Talent Acquisition APAC
HP
11:00 Keynote: How Employee Experience Can be Measured 

  • What does employee experience consist of? Can we really measure employee experience?
  • What to measure employee experience to drive positive engagement? By quantitative or qualitative measurement?
  • Explore the methodology and model for the future engagement behaviour through outcomes of the employee experience
MOSTAQ SHAKIL AHMED
Head of Global Workforce, General Manager, Microsoft WW Support Engineering
Microsoft
11:35 Panel Discussion: Who Owns the Employee Experience?

  • HR owns it or, on the other end of the spectrum, every single employee?
  • Discover the employee experience structure to understand the specific pain points impacting their customers and employees
  • Using the tried and figured-out specifics of company policies, action and corporate culture that provide a great experience to the employee and more specifically, identify those that lead to unhappy experiences
CHARU MALIK
Vice President – Talent Acquisition Head, Global Technology and Operations, APAC
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
SANJAY SHARMA
Worldwide Support Leader
Microsoft
STEPHAN AMLING
President
SLK Software
12:15 The “Secret Sauce” of Driving End-To-End Employee Engagement and High Performance
  • Learn about BI Worldwide’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP) framework and how to apply it
  • Understand the importance of data insights from recruitment through active employment and onwards to retirement
  • Explore the five “metaphorical days” in the lifecycle of the employee experience
  • Become inspired through visual renderings and video treatments of works developed by BI Worldwide for Global 500 firms
DAVID LITTEKEN
Vice President – APAC Region
BI Worldwide
12:40 Networking Luncheon
13:35

Lucky Draw

13:40

Can we Create a Right Employee Experience and How Do We Do It?

SANJAY SHARMA
Worldwide Support Leader
Microsoft

MOIRA BOULLE
Global Change Management Strategist
Microsoft

14:15

Interactive Roundtable Series:

Session 1: How to Create a Wholistic Employee Experience – Measure the Key Touch Points Across the Employee Lifecycle

MAO GEN FOO
Head of SEA
Qualtrics

Session 2: Millennial Engagement Experience at Workplace

SAM NEO
Founder and Chief People Officer
People Mentality Inc

Session 3: Creating an Engaged Workforce – A Manager’s Responsibility

DARRIN MARSHALL
Principal Consultant
Gallup

Session 4: Can an Effective Reward & Recognition Strategy Increase Employee Engagement in APAC?

DANIEL SHERRINGTON
Regional Director APAC
O.C. Tanner
15:00 Why a Start-Up Should Still Focus on Employee Experience Whilst Making Profit
JONATHAN CHANG
Executive Director
Lien Centre of Social Innovation
15;30 Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Session
15:40 Lucky Draw
15:45 How People Analytics can Enhance the Employee Experience
RIDWAN ISMEER
Data Scientist, People Analytics
The Kraft Heinz Company
16:15 Interactive Expert Speaker Panel:
The Future of Employee Experience, Digital Economy, and the New Realities of Work

  • How leading organizations are preparing for the future of work and responding to digital opportunities and challenges
  • Key focus areas for successfully implementing and managing a modern and truly global employee engagement strategy
  • Practical actions can take today to engage your people in dynamic environments
MARIEKE BOS VAN DEN BERG
Regional HR Director South Asia
AkzoNobel
MANIK NARAYAN SAHA
CIO, APAC & JAPAN
SAP
SAM NEO
Founder and Chief People Officer
People Mentality Inc
17:00

Q&A Session & Closing Remarks by Summit Chairperson

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10:00-16:00 Future Offices and Next Generation Workplace Site Tour

Workplace environments are becoming a significant driver of culture, innovation and effectiveness. Some of the world’s most innovative companies including Google, Facebook and Amazon, are at the forefront when it comes to workspace design.

In this Future Offices and Next Generation Workplace Site Tour, you will have the chance to experience site visits to some of Singapore’s most dynamic, innovation workplace environment adopted by forward-thinking smart organizations such as TripAdvisor and WeWorks. This unique site tour will bring you to experience first-hand the inner workings of these organizations, how physical workspace influence employee experience, cultures, organization structure, system, and processes which have enabled them to achieve their sustainable growth and on-going innovations.

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