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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Welcome to HR Tech Festival Asia Online 2020, the largest virtual conference for the professional HR and workplace technology communities across Asia-Pacific. Besides gaining valuable insights from the lineup of speaker presentations from some of the most prominent HR thought leaders, be sure to take the opportunity to network with fellow HR and business leaders from the region, and experience some of the latest HR technology on offer!
Guest of Honour: Singapore Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Home Affairs Josephine Teo, Singapore’s Minister for Manpower, and concurrently the Second Minister for Home Affairs, will be HR Tech Festival Asia Online 2020’s Guest of Honour. Minister Teo will open the event with her keynote address, which will usher in three days of discussion on the future of work in South-East Asia.
Manpower policies unpacked In collaboration with Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, HR Tech Festival Asia Online 2020 will examine the future of work in ASEAN by bringing together senior government representatives, heads of unions and employer organisations, as well as the International Labour Organisation. Collectively, these key stakeholders will discuss skills studies, employment facilitation and HR capability building across the region as they prepare to shape their workforces beyond the global pandemic.
HR Fest Awards 2020 celebrates the best of HR in Asia Besides showcasing the latest technology and bringing the HR community together, HR Tech Festival Asia 2020 Online will be recognising the outstanding achievements of the region’s top HR leaders, companies and teams.
Over 33 finalists are vying for the top award in six exciting categories, including Employer of Choice, HR Team of The
Year, Best HR Leader (Individual Award), Best Use of Technology, Best Workplace Culture and Engagement (<500 Employees), and Best Workplace Culture and Engagement (>500 Employees).
The winners of the awards will be announced at the close of the first day’s proceedings, and will be selected by an esteemed panel of judges that include: • Sriven Naidu, Leadership & Talent Development Consultant • Rachele Focardi, Founder, XYZ@Work • Sharmeel Kaur, Head of Human Resources, DHL Asia Pacific
Shared Services • Josephine Chua, Director of Human Resources and Quality,
Ramada and Days Hotels Singapore at Zhongshan Park • Elisa Mallis, APAC Managing Director, Centre for Creative
Leadership • Pip Penfold, CEO and C-Founder, People Collider
Take a tour around the virtual expo Looking for the right technology for your organisation now and into the future? The expo floor offers you the opportunity to interact with some of the most innovative companies offering solutions in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), benefits administration, compensation, employee experience, HRMS, learning management systems, machine learning, people analytics, recruitment, succession planning, talent management, wellness, as well as workforce planning and analytics.
The expo will also feature a dedicated Startup Zone featuring eleven of the most exciting new HR technology developers in the Asia-Pacific region, who will be highlighting their cuttingedge technology and solutions to address HR challenges.
Showcasing the latest innovations in HR Tech After a successful debut last year, the HR Tech PitchFest is returning as a highly anticipated part of HR Tech Festival Asia Online 2020.
It is also a platform for tech start-ups in the HR scene to showcase their solutions to the HR community. In the initial qualifying round, 16 qualifiers submitted a three-minute video recording pitch for evaluation by the judging panel.
The field will then be reduced to five qualifiers, who will participate in a final round pitch, where they will be afforded five minutes to convince the judges of their product’s ability to solve a key HR problem, as well as overall viability of their business model. The winners of HR Tech PitchFest 2020 will be announced at the award ceremony reception held online during HR Tech Festival Asia Online 2020.
Mobility
Driving decisions with data
The disruptions in the last few months have forced many companies to confront their people strategy and think about how they can improve talent agility. As hiring slows, tapping into internal talent, or internal mobility, in turn is emerging as a critical but lacking area in HR's workforce planning capabilities.
Why is Internal Mobility important?
Internal hires are on average 18% less expensive than new hires
External hires require an average of two years to catch up to the level of competency that an internal hire would exhibit day one
Internal moves are good for company performance: “the fastest-growing organisations… are twice as likely to have excellent talent mobility programs than organisations that are not growing at all” (Deloitte 201 9)
And, it’s the right thing to do: why lay off employees if they could be re-skilled and retained in the business in other roles?
We know however, that internal mobility is difficult to implement in practice for a reason:
Talent leaders don’t have the right data to make Internal Mobility decisions.
HRIS systems often host skills information on employees that is far out of date with the fastpaced change of jobs, and the data is often siloed across behemoth people management systems, making it difficult to access by leaders looking to make strategic workforce decisions.
Introducing pymetrics’ Mobility Insights:
We use an evergreen dataset based on years of neuroscience research. Instead of lagging indicators like surveys and job experience, we collect real-time behavioural data using engaging gamified exercises.
It’s designed for fairness –our matching algorithms are tested for bias, meaning clients are tackling internal mobility while ensuring workforce inclusion at the same time.
It’s easy –we break down the silos between different talent functions, and allow you to see data in one central place.
Mobility Insights can help you uncover:
Where you can source for internal talent:
Where to focus L&D by surfacing the biggest skills and abilities gaps to close when making a move
As you continue to restructure your workforce, pymetrics’ Mobility Insights can enable you to optimise reskilling and improve retention, increase ROI on external recruitment by focusing on areas for which there is no internal talent supply, and optimise succession planning in view of your longer term business agenda.
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