Gartner ReimagineHR Conference 2019 18 - 19 September / London, UK

Attending an Orientation Session is a great way to start your experience at ReimagineHR London. Whether you’re attending for the first time, or you’re a seasoned veteran, these sessions highlight the key features and activities we have incorporated into the conference.

Attending an Orientation Session is a great way to start your experience at ReimagineHR London. Whether you’re attending for the first time, or you’re a seasoned veteran, these sessions highlight the key features and activities we have incorporated into the conference.

Welcome to ReimagineHR.

While important，things like artificial intelligence and automation are only part of the future of work story. Along with these conspicuous shifts comes a number of underlying trends -- like rising transparency，or new work habits -- with the potential to fundamentally change how work gets done. Most HR executives，and their broader organizations，remain unaware of the opportunities these shifts present. This keynote session will explore in detail this broader set of hidden critical issues and how they will impact the future of work.

HR and People strategies are always evolving. We’re far from the days of traditional annual surveys, and more companies are starting to embrace the idea of a continuous listening strategy. Similar to building a culture of feedback, continuous listening means gathering feedback more often across the employee life cycle. Always listening to your employees often results in people feeling ignored. Here, we’ll explore the definition of continuous listening strategy, how it’s enabled by technology and in-person feedback, how companies have found success with frequent feedback and how you can get started.

SAP continues to evolve its SuccessFactors human capital management subscription offerings to drive growth in its cloud services business. This interactive clinic will help HR leaders build expertise in the SuccessFactors pricing and selling models and develop a successful negotiation strategy to mitigate risk and maximize deal value.

The recent increase of wellness and mental health programs has improved the health and productivity of employees. However, many of these programs are designed with in-house employees in mind, so how are organizations tackling these issues with a large remote workforce? Furthermore, with the evolving future of work, many programs will have to evolve as well to support employees anywhere, anytime. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to share projects and brainstorm ideas.

As the head of HR，are you looking to elevate your role in the business and redefine your value to the enterprise? Join this peer discussion facilitated by the CHRO Global Leadership Board to understand what a world-class CHRO looks like in today’s business environment and how you can gain the skills and experiences needed to excel in your role.

The famous quote, “culture eats strategy for breakfast” tells only half the story. Yes, culture is often cited as the primary barrier to strategic transformations but, from an employee standpoint, transformations disrupt company culture making it hard for employees to get anything done. Gartner’s latest research reveals how culture can support or impede transformations and what companies can do to drive employee performance during transformations.

AI may not yet be critical to effective rewards and performance management service delivery, but it’s closer than many HR leaders think. We’ll expose the myths and realities of AI and highlight promising use cases for compensation, benefits and performance management functions.

New automation tools are changing how work gets done in companies. And the cutting edge of what is being automated is continuing to be pushed out. Join this meetup to discuss what HR activities companies have automated and what might be automated next. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Understanding how work gets done is a fundamental part of our job and understanding where it gets done is a big part of that equation. Gartner research shows that greater insight into how employees interact with the office – where they tend to collaborate versus focus versus meet socially – tell us something about their engagement, and more important, how work patterns are changing. Learn the answers to frequently asked questions on this topic and more in this session with a Gartner expert.

We’ll cover the top four HR technology predictions for 2020 and beyond, including insight into the technology itself and how to make the most of it. We’ll have a look at conversational UX and NLP for talent acquisition; automation of the manager experience; deployment of multiple HCM suites; and the use of PaaS to extend HCM suites.

Despite efforts to make internal opportunities accessible to employees, 73% of employees say their company does not make job opportunities that match interests easy to find. In sharp contrast, employees receive tailored job recommendations all the time from the external labor market — all without lifting a finger. Explore how organizations can move from passively facilitating internal mobility to actively pushing the right opportunities to employees, and learn what this means for the recruiting function.

As more generations move into the workplace and the gig economy expands, HR executives are asking more and more questions about what the future of the career path could look like in their organization. Join this meetup to discuss what future career paths might look like. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Companies keep investing more and more in people analytics functions, but obtaining success is a lot easier said than done. Learn about the journey that Anglo American, one of the world’s largest and most dispersed companies, has been on to enable the business to make critical decisions through the use of people analytics. You’ll hear about the successes, the hard lessons learned, and practical advice for others on the journey.

Drawing from our most recent 2019 global research on workplace culture, Robert will share trends and insights into how forward-thinking leaders co-create thriving workplace cultures through powerful and meaningful micro-experiences. Specific areas of focus will include identifying experiences that matter most to employees, designing effective manager one-to-ones and understanding linkages between culture and business outcomes.

Anne will present research on how organisations can transform the employee career pathing experience to ensure they have the people to meet the skills for a future-ready workforce. Hear about the transformations that are being achieved in some of the worlds’ leading global businesses.

With digital enablement now accounting for nearly 40% of the work that HR professionals have done historically, HR is leading the way in enabling the digital workplace. Join EY to hear about the HR transformation journey EY is undergoing to unlock the potential of 280,000 people worldwide.

As organizations shift work to teams, performance management practices that only optimize individual performance are losing relevance. We’ll examine how HR can manage and encourage the behaviors that drive team and organizational success.

Many organizations beginning their journeys to a more diverse and inclusive workforce, prioritize tone at the top and leadership training - and for good reason. But employees, more broadly, can have a significant and lasting impact, driving change and inclusion from the ground up. Join this session to hear how organizations can measure inclusion and harness the power of employees to drive their inclusion strategies.

Business leaders know they must deliver a compelling experience to consumers to stay competitive, and most HR leaders have been investing in improving the employee experience with that goal in mind. But those investments are yielding a negligible, sometimes even negative, impact on employee outcomes, and the gap between the expected and the actual experience isn’t closing. But are we taking the right, and the fastest, approach to closing that gap? Our research shows that we’re missing a key element with our current strategy. We’ll reveal Gartner’s latest findings on how to create a modern employee experience that maximizes our returns from our employee experience investments.

The average organization tackled five major change initiatives last year, and the pace needed to remain competitive shows no signs of slowing. So it’s no surprise that managing change fatigue is the No. 1 change-related concern among global and regional/unit CHROs. At the same time, it’s unclear what change fatigue is and how to mitigate it. We’ll surface and explore key myths regarding change fatigue, how it impacts change success, and what HR leaders should do about it.

Join members of the CHRO Global Leadership Board as they share successes and lessons learned through working with their Boards of Directors. In doing so, they will address topics such as how to best prepare for Board meetings, how to accelerate trust in a CHRO/Board relationship, and how to best channel organizational culture in Board interactions.

What new operating model can help HR functions meet the fast pace of business and adjust to the increasing use of technology, changing employee expectations and increasing cost pressures? Join this theatre session for a look at Gartner’s take on the HR operating model of the future — driven by five imperatives — to illustrate critical changes HR leaders should consider today.

Want to know what the best managers are doing to drive employee engagement and productivity in today’s work environment? And how to build more of them in your organization?
Join this session to learn about the three connections these managers make that matter most, and how Gartner can help you create a company of connectors.

To reimagine learning, we need curious minds and the right tools. How do businesses drive talent innovation for true impact? Join Anthony Tattersall, Senior Director of Coursera EMEA, and Nina Bressler Murphy, Global Competency & Learning Integration Leader at Novartis, in discussion on driving learning and skill development in the workforce. Those who are driven to learn make happier, more successful employees. How do we set them up for success?

Learn about Workday’s key pricing and contracting differentiators, negotiation behaviors and instrumental commercial terms that need evaluation and negotiation. This interactive clinic will provide HR leaders with the foundation needed to develop an effective negotiation strategy, enabling them to mitigate risk and optimize deal value.

With the growing importance of soft skills in every level of employees within an organization，Heads of L&D are leveraging various strategies to develop these essential skills. However， due to the sometime broad and ambiguous nature of soft skills，the development and measurement can be complicated. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to share various challenges and solutions faced when developing soft skills for your employees.

As organizations have developed agile methodologies across the enterprise, skills such as project management, consultation and change leadership have become increasingly valuable. While HR has helped develop these capabilities for the business, they are often lacking within the function itself. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to understand how your peers are approaching building new HR skills to better serve the needs of the business.

Pay equity remains a top-of-mind conversation in the Board room，among the workforce，and in the media. As organizations take action to ensure gender and other types of pay equity，they grapple with determining how transparent to be about their process and how to communicate to impacted employees. Learn the answers to frequently asked questions on this topic in this session with a Gartner expert and learn how leading organizations frame and deliver pay equity messages that build employee confidence.

Most HR functions try to develop inclusive leaders using unconscious bias training, but it often fails to change leaders’ behaviors. We’ll explore why unconscious bias training alone isn’t enough, and how leading organizations foster leader inclusivity by making inclusion personally relevant, demonstrating how to integrate inclusive behaviors into everyday activities, and embedding bias mitigation efforts into existing processes to sustain behavior change.

New technologies like AI and blockchain enable HR leaders to drive functional cost and productivity, but it’s uncertain which use cases are realistic and demonstrate value. We’ll outline where HR is adopting these technologies, what the impact on cost and productivity is, and the success levers and lessons learned from early adopters.

Members of the CHRO global leadership board will discuss two important resources for addressing disruption: The playbook for the future of work and the playbook for a new talent deal. Hear practical examples of how organizations have leveraged these resources to adapt to a fast-paced environment of changing employee expectations.

Collaboration, partnering, and navigating have become critical skills that define successful employees. But how do you build these capabilities in your workforce? Join this meetup to discuss strategies and approaches on how to develop the new set of skills that define success. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Being the head of analytics in a function that has not historically had reputation for data-based decisions can be tiring. Spend some time with peers to share the work you have been doing, get advice on specific work, and learn from others’ successes. Come prepared to discuss a recent project you have completed or tool you have developed. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Hiring managers have more options, less certainty and no clear decision rules, so they struggle to partner effectively with recruiting to attract and select the right hires at the right time. Heads of talent acquisition understand this partnership is critical, but more than half report that the partnership between recruiting and hiring managers is broken.

Find out why Lloyd’s Register, a leading provider of professional services for engineering and technology, has left the traditional annual survey behind in favour of a more agile approach supported by Glint. In this session, Sam Barlow will discuss the shift from traditional processes toward real-time feedback and the challenges faced by Lloyd’s Register as they moved their workforce to a new way of providing, and acting on, feedback.

L&Ds, we’ve heard you: you need engagement. Through collaboration, a trainer can establish engagement and transform the corporate culture to serve the company's business goals. Your aim now is to transform your company into a learning organisation. You can easily achieve this with a Learning Engagement Platform.

When 1 in 4 CFOs say unwanted turnover accounts for up to 50% of labor costs, retention becomes a business imperative. This session outlines how global enterprises can utilise an "always on" onboarding strategy that engages and retains talent from new hire offer and beyond the first year. Learn how to use this strategy to support and enable change, transitions and prepare your workforce for the future.

If you’re in business today, then disruption is a daily part of your life. Situations change. Companies evolve. People analytics must evolve in line – from reporting for HR to forecasting for the business. In this session, hear real-life case studies of how to get more from your people data to drive the business’s bottom line. Make more of the people you have by rethinking the organisation, removing inefficiency, redeploying talent and automating where it will deliver most value.

Change is hard. Yet if undertaken effectively in the workplace, it can act as a positive force that can reshape the future, improving outcomes for organizations and their employees. Join EY to explore how a better experience of change can unleash the extraordinary in organizations and their people.

How do I decide what to put in front of the Board and when? How do I get the Board to look to me for more than just periodic advice on tactical items? What is the best format for getting the Board's attention? How do I partner with my CEO and their leadership team to build effective Board communications? Learn the answers to these frequent questions and more in this session with a Gartner expert.

As organizations transform their culture, many focus on generating buy-in for culture among existing employees and recruiting those that align with the culture. However, these people-focused strategies don't always work because they do not focus on improving employee knowledge of their desired culture or changing behaviors. Join this meetup to share your culture transformation strategies and gain insights into the strategies of your peers. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

90% of D&I leaders prioritize setting an organization-wide D&I strategy every year， but still struggle to make demonstrable and lasting impact on D&I goals. We’ll discuss how leading organizations redesign approaches to actualize a sustainable D&I strategy that’s fully integrated across business processes and the talent life cycle.

HR leaders have relentlessly pursued performance management improvements. Many are focusing on improving the quality and frequency of performance feedback, while others are making processes more informal and less time consuming. But most managers continue to be dissatisfied with performance management, and 83% of HR leaders still plan to update performance managements systems in 2019. We’ll explore how progressive HR leaders are disrupting legacy practices to deliver what their employees and businesses need most from performance management today.

Drawing on their groundbreaking data-driven research, as well as in-depth case studies and extensive interviews with managers at leading companies, authors Jaime Roca and Sari Wilde, will share stories and insights from their newest book, The Connector Manager: Why Some Leaders Build Exceptional Talent — And Others Don’t. The authors will discuss the qualities that define a connector manager, and why they are able to build powerhouse teams. They will also share why other types of managers fail to be equally effective, and how they can incorporate behaviors of connector managers in order to be more effective at building teams.

Does your organization need to be more transparent to share information and thrive in a fast-moving business environment? Have you wondered if your employees could handle receiving constant feedback? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Employees generate a lot of data as they use tools provided by their employer， pass through smart workspaces， and interact with colleagues， customers and partners. How much of that should you use to detect employee preferences? Behaviors? Risk? How can you make sure that analyses of worker generated data will improve workers’ experience， rather than detract from it?

The fast pace of business, increasing use of technology, changing employee expectations and increasing cost pressures require HR to become agile， risk-taking experts that drive business growth. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner Executive Partner to learn how others are aligning HR strategy to the needs of the business in rapidly changing environment.

Join this peer discussion facilitated by the CHRO Global Leadership Board to hear candid reflections of how to thrive on change and steer your organization through the complexities of the future of work.

SAP continues to evolve its SuccessFactors human capital management subscription offerings to drive growth in its cloud services business. This interactive clinic will help HR leaders build expertise in the SuccessFactors pricing and selling models and develop a successful negotiation strategy to mitigate risk and maximize deal value.

Companies continue to invest millions in HCM, ATS, and chatbots. Yet the challenge of hiring the right talent persists—candidate experience sucks, recruiter productivity is suffering, and employee engagement and retention is low. Join us to learn how you can reshape the future of every talent experience: candidate, recruiter, employee, and management.

TalentNeuron helps organizations make better talent decisions, supporting key business priorities using global labor market data. These decisions include forecasting for the future workplace, finding hidden talent pools, optimizing location selection by talent supply, demand and cost, and building talent advisor capabilities. Gartner’s TalentNeuron combines big data and statistical insights to provide global talent, location and competitive intelligence for any industry or function.
In this session, learn how talent acquisition leaders support their mission-critical priorities using Gartner’s TalentNeuron.

Imagine the first time we swallow a digital-tracking pill, hand over our life to a self-driving car or let a robot babysit our kids. There’s one thing all these leaps require: trust. But in an era where we are increasingly alarmed about issues like tech addiction and privacy, how can we be persuaded over the chasm of fear and encouraged to take a risk on something new? In this dynamic keynote, Rachel reveals the fascinating relationship between trust, risk and innovation. Bringing together a wide range of research and stories, she explains ways to overcome common trust barriers and how people learn to trust strangers, products and ideas.

This presentation will give you:
- A clear understanding of how trust leaps enable innovation and change.
- A new way of thinking about the trust state of your customers and employees.
- A new lens on efficiency, speed and trust and the importance of the human touch.

Learn why people leave their jobs and how you can improve retention in your business.

Welcome to Day 2 of ReimagineHR.

A gifted communicator and storyteller, portrait photographer Platon shares his experience photographing an eclectic mix of world leaders, celebrities, our men and women in the military, members of the civil rights movement and human rights champions. He takes his audience on a roller coaster of emotions—from laughter to tears—with the most poignant and mesmerizing stories behind the photos. He answers the question, “Who is this person?” His presentation includes highlights from his book, Power, chronicling over 100 Heads of State including Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Hugo Chavez, Robert Mugabe and Silvio Berlusconi. He also shares the stories from his photo essays on the U.S. military, civil rights movement, his work with Human Rights Watch which includes the leaders of the Egyptian revolution, his photo for TIME of Aung San Suu Kyi and, most recently, photographing Edward Snowden in Moscow for his exclusive interview with Wired magazine. His presentation promises to leave your audience wanting more from this master of his craft.

Meet and greet Platon after his inspiring keynote on his experiences photographing an eclectic mix of world leaders, celebrities, military personnel, human rights advocates, and more and what he’s learned about humanity and leadership.

This session will deep dive into why and how Gartner’s talent competitor intelligence enables organizations to win the talent war and achieve enterprise growth.

HR executives have been tasked with creating an employee experience that rivals their organization’s customer experience but are unsure of the strategies they should use. Is experience simply engagement under another name or are there new approaches that HR leaders are using to stand out in the marketplace? Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner Executive Partner focused on improving the employee experience.

What skills will I need in the future? How will AI change our current employees’ work? How do I assess which workers will be impacted by AI? Which roles should we consider offering retraining to? Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to discuss how you think AI will impact your future workforce.

Learning to navigate the key trends, issues and cost risks for Oracle will help HR leaders balance and manage the volume and velocity of change within their organization, and maximize leverage for contract negotiation.

Most companies are trying to hire or retrain staff to support their “digital business” ambitions, but they’re fighting for the best digital talent, making talent competition fierce. Training staff is long and time-consuming, while the shelf life of new digital skills gets shorter every year. If companies’ talent needs are a reflection of their operational and strategic decisions, can companies break talent dependencies by changing their operational decisions? What nontalent levers (e.g., role designs, structures and processes) can organizations use to relieve pressure on their talent gap?

For many employees，the difference between average and high performance comes down to the regular conversations they have with their managers. But the top problem HR leaders face in performance management is that managers are not effective at these conversations. Join this session with a Gartner expert to learn answers to frequently asked questions on this topic and learn the most effective approaches to drive high-quality conversations.

Digital technology is permeating organizations， resulting in a transformation of business and operating models， and we see its positive impact. But is L&D fully embracing digital innovations for higher levels of employee skills preparedness? Excitingly， advances in learning technology and learning methodologies provide new opportunities for L&D to design and deliver needle-moving learning experiences. We’ll help you understand the evolving learning technology landscape， how organizations are capitalizing on digital experiences， and where they’re placing their bets in the near future.

As routine tasks are replaced with AI, the role of leaders will change. Not only will machines be able to make decisions that managers currently make, they will also be able to carry out aspects of performance management, work monitoring, and many other management activities. What will you do with managers when 80% of their tasks can be done by robots? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Despite talent being available, some of your organization’s jobs might be “undesirable” because of some attribute, like compensation, industry or type of work. How can organizations manage “undesirability” and reduce time to fill?

To improve the employee experience, organizations must first understand the current one, but few do. Leading HR organizations are increasingly moving away from traditional large-scale engagement surveys and toward a variety of different emerging employee listening techniques, including pulse surveys, employee sentiment analysis and others. We’ll bring together a cross-section of HR leaders to offer their recommendations and reflections on the changes they’ve introduced within their own organizations.

Employees today expect their organization to offer more innovative and relevant well-being programs. As the market for well-being evolves how should HR identify and prioritize the best programs to invest in to meet the needs of the next generation of employees? Join this meetup to share your well-being strategies and discuss which new well-being programs are worth the investment. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

At home, when tackling any problem, our first instinct is to look to YouTube. But in the workplace, we tend to abandon this ‘point of need learning’ approach.
Martin Pagan shares how Bupa is better supporting learners with easy to access content at the time of need, and how simple to adapt frameworks has enabled them to increase their internal digital learning design resource by enabling localised development and ownership of content.

Discover how Coorpacademy & the Principality of Monaco are using data to fuel an innovative upskilling programme.
Monaco has confirmed e-learning leader Coorpacademy as its new digital training platform to underpin Monaco’s strategic transformation programme, Extended Monaco – a plan to digitise all of its public sector and economy.

The world of HR is changing, as more and more organisations look to HR as a key driver of growth. In this session, Sally Winston will outline how the world's best employers are going beyond engagement to deliver superior experiences at the moments that matter most. And she'll outline the bottom-line returns of this new approach.

CHROs and CEOs are the critical linchpins leading their organizations’ workforce transformations. In this session Gartner’s Research Group Vice President Brian Kropp will share findings from a recent survey of CHROs and CEOs on building the workforce of the future. He will discuss areas of alignment and misalignment, their underlying root causes, and what leading CHROs are doing to better collaborate with their CEOs on this important challenge.

HR score enables organizations to improve functional performance by assessing their function across a broad set of activities. Join this session to learn how Gartner has helped clients to leverage HR score.

The Open University’s Director of Global Business, Viren Patel, will share success stories about working in partnership with employers to address skills gaps through flexible, work-based learning. He will also share findings from the Business Barometer, The OU’s annual report on the skills landscape, which demonstrates The University’s expertise and pedigree as a key partner for employers to future proof their workforce.

Join this session to learn how Gartner helps clients understand and respond to what employees feel about Brexit.

Learn about Workday’s key pricing and contracting differentiators, negotiation behaviors and instrumental commercial terms that need evaluation and negotiation. This interactive clinic will provide HR leaders with the foundation needed to develop an effective negotiation strategy, enabling them to mitigate risk and optimize deal value.

Brexit is a major historical event with implications for the U.K, Europe and the rest of the world. Besides its economic impact, it reveals a number of talent and culture aspects requiring immediate organizational attention. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to discuss talent management, diversity and inclusion and cultural alignment from the pre- and post-Brexit process in order to heighten organizational resilience.

Uncertain economic times are a central part of the economic business cycle. Often，HR leaders are forced to react to a business decline by realizing ad-hoc cost cuttings only. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to explore how HR leaders can overcome a downturn by putting immediate cost saving measures in place while identifying key opportunities that help leading the enterprise back to future growth.

The way that AI "makes decisions" for both internal purposes and in products and services will be significantly impacted by HR actions in areas like diversity and inclusion and organizational culture. How are you leading ethical AI deployment in your organization? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Leaders rely on data to make talent decisions, but the volume of data from different sources at different times makes it so difficult to interpret that leaders revert to gut instinct. Leading HR functions help leaders know which information to access and when, and how to make sense of it by embedding analytics in the talent processes leaders are already using. We’ll delve into some of the process changes you can make, or tools you can create to do the same.

Work has become more complex, global and complicated. This evolution questions the very nature of what good leadership looks like. Join this meetup to discuss what skills, capabilities, and traits will define the best leaders of the future. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Employees expect companies to take a position on contentious social issues, placing you between two bad options: Take a stand and risk alienating half your employees, or stay quiet and risk being viewed as uncaring or, worse, tacitly supporting the opposition. Gartner’s latest research reveals how company statements on social issues impact not just employee attitudes, but also their behaviors. These surprising insights provide the basis for best practices for figuring out when to speak out (or not) on contentious issues.

HR executives have focused heavily on winning the war for tech talent in an effort to accelerate digital transformation. But the companies who will win in the future will invest in Building Digital Dexterity competencies that allow them to seize on emerging capabilities by transforming old business models and creating new ones. In this session, we will share the competency profile of winning companies and successful strategies to build them.

Automation, AI, gig economy and changing employee expectations are redefining the nature of work, as well as the jobs and skills organizations require. How we attract and hire our future workforce is changing, as well. We’ll discuss how emerging technologies and innovations are disrupting the traditional hiring process, posing risk. But talent acquisition functions that embrace these changes will augment recruiting’s ability to compete for critical talent and enhance the candidate experience.

How do I engage employees in helping us understand the gap between the current and desired culture? How do I convince my leaders that our culture needs to evolve? What’s the most impactful way leaders can role model culture, and how do we hold them accountable for it? Learn the answers to these frequently asked questions and more in this session with a Gartner expert.

Need advice to improve the effectiveness of your digital campaigns without simply spending more? Do you need to improve online application rates and reduce drop-outs? This highly interactive digital surgery will have an award-winning panel of digital strategy and content directors on hand to answer specific questions on how you can improve the digital talent acquisition in your organisation. You will walk away with practical advice that you can implement in your organisation tomorrow.

Research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT CISR) shows that the top 25% of companies delivering EX excellence double their customer satisfaction scores, halve the time taken to innovate and provide new revenue streams and increase profitability by 26%. Join Avanade to see how you can turn EX into competitive business advantage and use AI powered benchmarking to identify priority initiatives for your organisation.

Due to the speed of change, brought about by automation and digitization, outpacing traditional training methods, a major challenge for organisations is rapid reskilling at scale. To keep pace, means leveraging intelligent technologies to enable a hyper-personalised data driven approach to learning.
Join us in exploring an intelligent, hyper-personal and scalable solution.

The combination of technology, changing job designs, new norms regarding inclusion, and a tight labor market are leading organizations to look toward previously under-emphasized populations as potential employees. How are you identifying new labor markets? What changes are you making to your sourcing, offers, work environment and culture to bring these new groups into your workforce? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Selecting best-fit HCM technology is difficult, as you need to understand and prioritize organizational needs and sort through the bewildering array of providers. We’ll provide practical guidance on how to plan and execute a selection project, including team structure and processes for gathering requirements and comparing vendor offerings.

Total rewards leaders facing increasingly complex rewards packages and limited budgets are always evaluating how to optimize their rewards plans. Our 2019 one-of-a-kind global conjoint survey assesses the preferences of more than 10,000 employees from more than 20 countries to identify the most important total rewards offerings to employees， helping leaders design the most impactful plans.

When technological shifts like AI and automation occur, you’ll need a culture that prizes agility, innovation and, most important, empathy. Leaders will have to demystify these technologies and how they will shift their business strategies. And workers will have to adapt their learning abilities and break down silos to ensure they survive and thrive in the smart machine age.

Amid volatility and uncertainty, we expect leaders to motivate their teams to drive growth through new business capabilities. But leaders are experiencing a crisis of confidence, with just half believing they are well-equipped to lead their organizations into the future. We’ll show you what the best leaders and organizations are doing to accelerate the development of new capabilities.

With every industry facing digitalization, many organizations are looking to rely on their "Digital Talent" to move towards to future. But who in your organization is considered "Digital Talent"? And more importantly, what should you be doing with them? Gather with your peers to define what you mean by "Digital Talent" and then brainstorm and share ideas to utilizing this group now and in the future. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving business problems together. Please make every effort to attend your Meetup as your peers will be looking forward to meeting with you.

Learning to navigate the key trends, issues and cost risks for Oracle will help HR leaders balance and manage the volume and velocity of change within their organization, and maximize leverage for contract negotiation. (REPEAT)

As work shifts from a more traditional environment to work from anywhere and open office space, leaders will play a large role in successful implementation of these practices. Leaders will need to encourage employees to take advantage of this new environment and help employees manage their own work. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to discuss: what is a leader’s role in managing a changing work environment? How can leader’s be more comfortable leading in this environment? and how do leader’s need to lead differently?

As employees increasingly desire this structural shift， and some companies go so far as to pilot it， what are some of the potential benefits and ramifications to your business? Do the increased employee engagement and supposed spike in productivity outweigh the drawbacks? Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to investigate the merits of the four day work week and whether this is a change to better your business or just a way for your employees to normalize a three day weekend.

Executive transitions are a time of risk and opportunity within organizations. CHRO’s are uniquely positioned to enable effective and accelerated executive transitions with the proper planning. Join this peer discussion facilitated by a Gartner expert to learn how HR Leaders across industries are helping new CEOs and other C-Level executives to succeed.