AGENDA 2021

Login & Pre-event Networking

Session 1: Welcome to People Matters Talent Leaders Confluence by Yasmin Taj, Managing Editor, People Matters

Yasmin Taj

Managing Editor, People Matters

Session 2: Keynote: The New Employment Deal and 2021 priorities for HR Leaders, John Kostulas, Senior Director and Analyst, Gartner

HR has been brought into the spotlight due to COVID 19, playing a leading role to keep employees safe, enabling businesses and organizations to continue their operations during these challenging times. Yet as we navigate these uncertain times, HR still needs to define and address business challenges outside of the pandemic. In this session John Kostulas, Senior Director and Analyst at Gartner, will be examining “What’s next for HR?” and sharing their latest research and insights as to what will be the priorities for HR this year.

John Kostoulus

Senior Director, Analyst, Human Capital Management, Gartner

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Session 3: Case Study: Redesigning Work, Redefining Human Touch by Zahira Sughra Zainuddin, Programme Director, Corporate Initiative, Petronas

In this case study Zahira Sughra Zainuddin, Programme Director of Corporate Initiatives as Petronas will be sharing some of their recent insights experiences in redesigning work through automation. We will be hearing about what have been their successes as well as ideas, how you can automate parts of your operations.

Zahira Sughra Zainuddin

Programme Director, Corporate Initiative, Petronas

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Session 4: Case Study: Building a Future-Ready Workforce with Digital Skills

The joke of last year was who led the digitization of your organization? The CEO, CTO or Covid 19? No prizes for guessing for many companies what was the right answer. Yet, as we continue to embark on even-more ambitious digitisation programmes, we need to look at whether we are equipping our employees with the right skills to enable our companies to deliver these projects on time and on budget.

Casey Mee

Head - Transformation & Digital, Standard Chartered Bank

Rosie Cairnes

Regional Vice President, Skillsoft Asia Pacific

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Session 5: CHRO Speak: Enabling Organizations to Adapt an Agile Culture Sainursalwa Sani, Group CHRO, SME Bank Malaysia

We all heard of agile and while it came out of need to be able to develop software quicker, we now increasingly see other areas of the organization implement agile methodologies and processes including in HR.
In this brief case study, Sainursalwan Sani Group CHRO of SME Bank Malaysia will be sharing their experiences of adopting and implementing agile in their own HR organization as well as ideas as to how you can make your HR department more agile

Sainursalwa Sani

Group CHRO, SME Bank Malaysia

* Session introduction & changeover time *

Session 6: Case Study: Reimagining Talent Management by Norlida Azmi, Deputy CHRO, Axiata

One of the first questions when the pandemic kicked in, was how do we do talent management remotely? How do we assess the skills sets of employees, think about training them as well as enable them to grow their careers in a remote working environment?
We are delighted to have Norlida Azmi Group Chief People Officer of Axiata join us to share some of their experiences and insights into remote talent management and learn their best practices.

Norlida Azmi

Group Chief People Officer, Axiata

Session 7: Fireside Chat: The New Workplace HR Policies

In this key fireside chat, we are delighted to have five CHROs from some of Malaysia’s leading companies to discuss and share with us, their insights and experiences from top on how they dealt with the challenges caused by the pandemic. They will also be looking to the future and sharing their thoughts, as to how HR and the policies which we implement into the organization, will change as a result of the pandemic as well as continuing trends such as automation, the use of social media and diversity and inclusion.

Chee Gay Lim

Executive Vice President Human Resources, TDCX

Elisabeth Melander Stene

CHRO, Digi Telecommunications

Nadiah Tan Abdullah

CHRO, S P Setia Berhad

Olivia Chua

CHRO, Jebsen & Jessen Group

Wiwik Wahyuni

CHRO, Home Credit Indonesia

Session introduction & changeover time

Session 8: Adaptable HR is the Future by Shaswat Kumar, Vice President, Asia Head, Alight Solutions

If the pandemic has taught us anything is that we need to embrace adaptability. We couldn't imagine 14 months ago, a world with words where talk about Movement Control Orders, enforced social distancing, where borders have closed and we now leave our houses wearing masks, yet here we are.
As we move forward and continue to be even more adaptable, Shaswat Kumar, Vice President and Asia Head of Alight Solutions will be sharing with us, some of theirs’ as well as their client’s experiences in becoming even more adaptable.

Shaswat Kumar

Asia Leader – Advisory, Payroll & Cloud Solutions, Alight Solutions

Session 9: Closing by Ester Martinez, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, People Matters

Ester Martinez

CEO & Editor-in-Chief, People Matters

12:20 pm Onwards: Know your peers: Open networking time