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The past few years have highlighted the importance of the mental health of our people more than ever before. However, there’s so much more work to be done in creating psychologically safe workplaces that empower our employees to better maintain their wellbeing, while also driving strong business performance.

Our leaders play a pivotal role in setting the tone for the organisation, and in this exclusive Keynote, we’ll hear from Prudence Pitter, Global Head of HR, for Automotive & Manufacturing and HCLS, at Amazon Web Services (US) as she shares the work she’s done and continue to do with leaders, to normalise the role and importance of employee wellbeing.

Prudence will share how she helps leaders to role model behaviours that make a real difference to their people, lead and navigate difficult conversations, and create a culture that empowers its people to prioritise their wellbeing, while improving organisational success.

In today’s rapidly evolving workplace landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become imperative for HR leaders seeking to optimise their operations and drive strategic organisational outcomes. Spanning talent attraction to workforce planning and employee sentiment analysis, the implications of AI could be enormous. But as HR leaders, most of us are not yet touching the sides.

In this session, we’ll hear from one seasoned HR leader as they share how they’re experimenting with the use of AI to drive greater efficiency and productivity throughout their function, and the impact that’s having on their contribution to the wider organisation.

We’ll explore how we can streamline the recruitment process from writing job descriptions, reviewing applications and identifying what the ideal candidate looks like for specific roles, to automating rostering and workforce planning and garnering insights from the voice of the employee.

The session also sheds light on the essential skill sets HR leaders must cultivate, including prompt writing, to harness the full potential of Gen-AI, and some of the critical challenges and pitfalls we need to be aware of, such a mitigating potential biases embedded in algorithms and the barriers around data security, as we navigate the ethical considerations and strategies to ensure fairness and inclusivity in AI-powered HR practices.

It’s an interesting time for the people and culture function – there’s more variety than ever before in how, when and where people choose to work; we’re experiencing a more diverse, multi-generational workforce with an aging population coupled with an increase in Gen Z employees; and prioritising the mental health and wellbeing of our people has never been more important. But it’s easy to get lost in all the noise, so what do we need to do to rediscover who we are as an organisation, define our voice as an employer, and determine what’s right for our people?

In this panel discussion, we’ll be joined by seasoned HR leaders who will come together to share and explore how they’re working to effectively engage and communicate with an increasingly diverse workforce in order to get the best out of its people. We’ll explore how we should create a people strategy that aligns with what our people and our organisation need, and how we can balance creating an engaging employee experience that speaks to everyone in the business.

There’s no denying that the rapid developments in AI will have an enormous impact, both in how we operate as a HR function, and on the broader organisation and workforce. For forward-thinking businesses that get ahead of the game, there is enormous potential to capitalise on the opportunities presented by the AI era.

In this Think Tank, we’ll have the opportunity to explore and discuss how we as HR leaders should be thinking about in developing a workforce strategy that sets us up for success amid rapid developments in AI, from identifying the new and evolving roles in our organisations, the capability mix to support our goals as an AI-driven organisation, and the reskilling and talent attraction efforts required to meet those needs.

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There’s no denying that the rapid developments in AI will have an enormous impact, both in how we operate as a HR function, and on the broader organisation and workforce. For forward-thinking businesses that get ahead of the game, there is enormous potential to capitalise on the opportunities presented by the AI era.

In this Think Tank, we’ll have the opportunity to explore and discuss how we as HR leaders should be thinking about in developing a workforce strategy that sets us up for success amid rapid developments in AI, from identifying the new and evolving roles in our organisations, the capability mix to support our goals as an AI-driven organisation, and the reskilling and talent attraction efforts required to meet those needs.

With the gender pay gap data being made publicly available for the first time in Australia in February 2024, there is a greater focus than ever before on ensuring that all employees are fairly represented, and on identifying and addressing inequalities in our workforce. The increased transparency has given both individuals and organisations the information they need to take action and drive accountability in gender equality. But it has also sparked a discussion around how we can better measure gaps across specific roles and within industries.

This panel discussion will bring together the WGEA (Workplace Gender Equality Agency) with several HR leaders in the region to explore what this data actually means, and with a magnifying glass on the progress made over the next few years, how organisatons can double down on their efforts to ensure that all employees are equally valued and rewarded in their workplace.

In today’s world, as many of us navigate tighter budgets and scrutiny on ROI and our impact on business success, it’s more important than ever for HR leaders to drive increased productivity, performance and efficiency, while also being able to effectively measure and report that back to the business. But first we need to define what that productivity and measurement looks like, both within our HR functions themselves and across the wider organisation.

In this presentation, we’ll hear from one HR leader re-thinking what it means to unlock high performance within their organisation. They’ll share how they champion the mindset of HR being a suite of products or experiences that allow our customers, people and leaders to engage with in order to perform better in a holistic sense; in terms of wellbeing, actual on-the-job performance, and how they innovate and collaborate.

They’ll also touch on their approach to performance impact, and the framework they’ve put into place to set KPIs and measure organisation-wide performance.