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Recruitment, retention, and career progression of talent no longer follows the rules of the past. HR is evolving as a strategic function and impacts the entire organization’s competitiveness and value proposition especially in a world where talent is becoming a critical issue.The new employee also has different expectations compared to those of his his/her parents. Jobs are less about security and more about personal fulfilment, as millennials look for new and exciting experiences and want to enjoy their work, not just log in the hours.Meanwhile, the move to the gig economy is disrupting the traditional workplace model. Companies and employees are far more focused on tasks, projects and results. Contract and remote work are becoming the norm in many fields as barriers from geography, time and language collapse.These trends are creating unique questions for HR:What are the disruptive technologies and new models of work that HR needs to be aware of? What can a company do to attract talent in an employee-driven market, with millennials demanding entirely new experiences at the workplace?

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And what can HR teams do to improve onboarding in the new digital era? THE NEW WORLD OF WORKThe inaugural HR & Digital Asia Summit aims to answer these questions and more by bringing together HR & Digital Business Leaders from Asia’s most influential brands. They will share insights into their digital and business enablement journey, discuss actual data-driven HR use cases and highlight new trends in digital workplace, onboarding and teambuilding, workforce and talent management that HR teams need to know.HR and business leaders in attendance will have access to exclusive content that focuses on improving your capabilities, honing your skills, and gaining the right expertise. The knowledge shared will help you to effectively manage technology-led disruption and Digital change from a Business, talent and HR perspective.For info on our Sister Event CDO Asia Summit on Apr 25. WHO WILL ATTEND?This summit is designed for anyone involved in Human Resources Management, including Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief People Officers, Chief Talent Officers, Chief Learning Officers, Chief Knowledge Officers, Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Administrative Officers and CEOs / MDs / COOs and CDOs.

KEY INDUSTRIES WHERE CHROS MAKE AN IMPACT. Insurance, Banking & Finance. Healthcare & Pharma. Automobile & Transportation.

Retail & Distribution. FMCG & Consumer Good. Governments & Public Sector. Real Estate & Infrastructure.

Media & Entertainment. Telecom. Short-term contracts, part-time staff, freelance workers are all a reality; “job security” is a thing of the past. Companies hire and fire frequently; equally, talented staff give their all to a company for a couple of years (or less) and move on.

Online portals and a change in approach to work have thrown open the gates to the digital economy. Yet, HR is often slow to adjust and unwilling to rethink the very definition of what a “job” is, sometimes turning away talented staff in the process. This keynote will look at how HR can adapt to this new world of work, which is more global, more fragmented, and less 9-to-6 than ever before. Talent is a huge part of digital transformation initiatives in enterprises. As a result, many HR functions are becoming more tightly integrated with lines of business (LOBs) and the HR department is taking on a more strategic role within the organisation. This case study session will look at the following questions:. How does HR help in the digital transformation process and work closely with the C-suite in effecting large-scale changes within organisations?.

How does HR help in crafting the intangible (but very valuable) company culture that impact a brand and revenue in the long term? Winston brings over 20 years of journalistic experience to CDOTrends.com. As the previous editor at Computerworld Hong Kong, CIO Asia and PCWeek Asia, he followed, edited and wrote how the Internet and the rise of the digital economy impacted businesses across various industries. Most recently, Winston served as N. Asia editor of CMOInnovation. As the Editor-in-Chief of CDOTrends.com, he is bringing together intriguing articles, insights from leading thinkers, in-depth lessons from practitioners, and various thought leadership materials to develop a new resource for CDOs and other digital practitioners. Fascinated by new technology trends, he is constantly looking at how digital is reshaping our future lives.Besides his communication skills, he is well-versed in building conference and marketing programmes externally and internally.

Recently, he produced Total Security Conference 2016, Big Data and Business Analytics Forum 2016 and Future Workplace Forum 2016. Previously, he also launched CIO Asia Awards and helped to create the Computerworld Hong Kong Readers’ Choice Awards (today Computerworld Hong Kong Awards under Questex Asia).As a copywriter, Winston has contributed to South China Morning Post (for finance and IT sections), Asia Week and IT Malaysia. He has also contributed technology-based articles for inflight magazines, including Cathay Pacific’s The Club and Gulf Air magazine, and recently to Benchmark Magazine.Previous to his career in the media industry, he was a commodities broker and an abattoir manager in Singapore. He currently holds a B Sc. (Biology) with Merit, loves playing the piano and running marathon events. Varun Bhatia is Chief People & Culture Officer at AirAsia.

In his role, he is responsible for AirAsia Group's People and Culture function, working with about 23,000 Allstars and building one of the best digital airlines in the world. Varun has worked in senior HR roles in various blue chip MNC’s like, Gillette, Proctor & Gamble, Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss. For the last 20+ years, he has lived and worked in various locations- Delhi, London, Singapore, Boston San Francisco, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok gaining extensive international experience in different companies, cultures and countries.

He has deep experience in managing transformative changes and has helped shaped multi cultural environments building strong internal brands aligned with the overall company brand and values. Varun has an undergraduate degree in Economics from SRCC, India and a masters in Human Resources from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. He studied Organizational Behavior at Harvard University and Corporate Finance at the London Business School. Yoke Fei is Senior Director of Human Resource & Corporate Administration at Gardens by the Bay (GB). In his role, he’s responsible for developing and leading strategic people initiatives to keep GB in the forefront among similar niche employers.

In addition, he is also responsible for legal and corporate services. Sheela Parakkal was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of PrudentialSingapore in September 2015.In her role, Sheela champions the human capital value chain and leads the HR function to develop and drive people strategies in line with the business goals. This includes building best-in-class HR practices in recruitment, talent and succession planning, reward and recognition programmes.She started her 17-year career with PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore (PwC Singapore) as an auditor before moving into a human capital role focusing on business partnership, talent and development, and mobility of its large professional workforce. Prior to joining Prudential, Sheela was the Human Capital Leader for PwC Singapore Consulting and the Group Human Resources Director overseeing regional operations at Sindicatum Sustainable Resources. Vivek Kumar is an Assistant Director-General (ADG) with the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).Under his leadership, his team grows the Labour Movement and builds relationships with 3-Generation NTUC members & networks, together with NTUC-affiliated unions and associations, NTUC Social Enterprises, NTUC U Associates & professional groups such as startups & technopreneurs.Vivek is presently a board member of NTUC Link Pte Ltd, and NTUC Club. He is also a Board Member of Enterprise Singapore (Ministry of Trade and Industry) and Assurity Trusted Solutions (a wholly owned subsidiary of GovTech).

He is the honorary Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Advisory Board of Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, a keynote speaker at regional conferences, and writes in selected business publications. Rajesh Narasimhan currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of TVS Motor Company headquartered in Singapore that is being leveraged to operationalise a digital technology start up focused on the Automotive and Fintech industries with portfolios and offerings that will deliver high quality solutions to help address real life business challenges by harnessing the power of Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) and Virtual reality (VR). Mr Narasimhan also serves as a non-executive and non-independent Director on the Board of TVS Motor Company Limited as well as an independent Director on the Board of Parrot Solutions Pte Limited, a digital start up incorporated in Singapore. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad and also holds a Masters in Computer Applications and a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics. Vince Kasten has implemented transformational AI solutions on three continents. He currently heads Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence for Operations at Prudential Corporation AsiaHe joined Prudential from IBM, where he was Executive Partner and Cognitive Solutions Leader, advising Insurance and Wealth Management companies on the transformational application of cognitive computing and advanced analytics. He has been a leader in applying Cognitive Computing and evidence-based decisioning to improve customer experience, increase revenue, improve efficiency, and control risk.Former affiliations include KPMG Consulting / BearingPoint where he was a Partner and global lead of Insurance and Banking Transformation, and Unisys where he was Managing Partner for Global Transformation.Vince has co-authored two books – Get It Done!

A Blueprint for Business Execution and The Jericho Principle – derived from his global work creating comprehensive transformation programs for private and public sector clients. He holds three U.S.

Patents, is a frequent speaker and panelist, has authored or co-authored numerous papers and articles on wide ranging business and technology topics, is a Certified Information Systems Auditor, and holds an M.S. In Computer Science from Columbia University in New York. Dilys has worked with a myriad of clients ranging from public sector organisations, professional services, retail, financial services and manufacturing.

She works with clients when their businesses restructure, during mergers and acquisitions, or in the implementation of digital, technology and robotics. She works with her clients to build organization capability and competencies, manage change, in workforce optimization initiatives, talent strategies, business process improvements and operating model design. She also works with clients to develop and build workforce capability as companies grow or seek to improve business output and productivity.Within Ernst & Young, Dilys is also actively involved in building the capability of the team through identifying new talent, developing and retaining talent within the Firm. She enjoys leading and supporting initiatives within the Firm, particularly in various diversity programs, work-life balance initiatives and in efforts to continually innovate the way we work and interact at Ernst & Young. Mukund Rajagopalan is the Head of BCG's Leadership and Talent Enablement Centre in Asia Pacific.

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He works at the intersection of business and leadership to ensure that capability building translates into clear business outcomes. He has worked with leading global corporations and governments in the US, Europe and across Asia Pacific on capability development as well as various organization and HR issues.

Mukund has co-authored a report on BCG's Global Leadership and Talent Index and has developed and deployed innovative technology solutions for leadership development. Benjamin Roberts is Vice President, Talent Management, APAC at Essence, a global data and measurement-driven media agency which is part of GroupM. In his current role, he is responsible for the agency’s human resource and talent acquisition functions across the region.Benjamin has over 15 years of experience in business partnership, recruitment strategy, strategic workforce planning and human resource management.

He has a proven track record of working across geographies, leading top-level hiring, succession planning and end-to-end talent management. Alex has 16+ years of international experience as a talent, people and culture leader. He is originally from Germany, raised in France and followed a British education, which gives him pretty good odds at every Football World Cup.This might be why he has chosen to work and live internationally (mostly China and across Asia) having helped large corporates and now fast growing start-ups, within various industries, with their people and talent challenges in this new era of disruptive innovation.Alex joined Circles.Life from Grab, Singapore where he helped build and scale the talent platform for Grab's FinTech business globally. As the Head of People & Culture he will lead Circles.Life international expansion efforts to further attract, retain and develop top talent to help scale the business further and make Circles Life the most sought after employer to work and grow at.Outside work Alex has been married for more than 12 years and they have two girls aged 10 and 8. When he is not doing all things people and talent related he is busy taking his children to various activities ranging from cross-country to horse riding.

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Aside from that, when he gets the time he enjoys ultra-marathon running and tries (unsuccessfully) to get back to his younger Tennis days. Jacinta Quah is a high performance & well-being leadership coach. Her firm specializes in transformational leadership in globalizing, highly matrixed organizations.

Blending coaching, change management & wellness, Jacinta provides a holistic approach to helping high achievers move from fatigue & burnout to peak productivity & energy. Jacinta draws on her over 20 years of experience, leading international teams inside some of the world’s biggest & most successful tech companies, to empower the modern leaders – to maximize their performance AND potential.