Conference Day One: Tuesday 1 May 2018
8:30 am - 9:00 am Conference Registration and Networking
9:00 am - 9:10 am Opening Remarks by the Conference Chair
9:10 am - 9:50 am Understanding the Demographic of your Current and Future Workforce as a Starting Point in your Digital Transformation Journey
- Understanding your current workforce demographic through data analytics analysis
- What does digital capability mean for your organisation and how do you build an agile digital culture?
- Transitioning your ageing workforce and knowledge transfer
- What will the new millennial workforce mean for your organisation and how can you integrate a contingent workforce and the gig economy into your futures thinking?
9:50 am - 10:20 am Thought Leadership Session
10:20 am - 10:50 am Understanding the Intersection of People, Space and Technology
Ensuring a culture is fit for the future is a high priority for many organisations and understanding how People, Space and Technology intersect can affect every aspect of how work gets done. Our people, culture and change program was designed to keep employees excited and engaged through-out a large-scale transformation impacting 5,500 employees at our Sydney Head Office. Our quest for sustainable change required a flexible approach to educate, inform and inspire the right behaviours through the change journey and beyond as agile working continues to evolve.
- Taking people on the change journey
- Leveraging design to support an agile workforce
- Utilizing technology to enhance the employee experience and foster collaboration
- Maintaining and upgrading people’s digital skill sets in agile environments
Katherine Ramsden
Head of People, Culture and ChangeTransforming Westpac Group HQ
10:50 am - 11:10 am Speed Networking Session
An effective structured interactive session designed to help expand your network through one-to-one focused conversations. Bring your business cards!
11:10 am - 11:40 am MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
11:40 am - 12:20 pm Shifting a System: Transforming the Health Workforce to Create our Preferred Future
Population ageing, growing prevalence of chronic conditions, higher expectations of consumers and rapidly changing technologies will test the sustainability of our health care system into the future. Substantial innovation is essential if we are to continue to provide access to high quality care. System-wide transformative change to workforce roles, workforce models and ways of working is needed to enable the implementation of new models of care.
- The future horizons of transformative workforce innovation in health and how to prevent them
- How health workforce innovation really happens and how to spread it system wide
- Methods for creating future workforce roles and models
- Projections, forecasting and modelling when you aren’t trying to predict the future workforce.
Helen Finneran
Principal Policy Advisor –Workforce Planning, Workforce Planning & Capability GroupDepartment of Health and Human Services (Victoria)
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm Reshaping your Organisation and Building your Workforce to Excel in an Environment Enhanced by New Technologies
A year on from the overhaul of its Sydney headquarters, PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand has seen significant increases in employee engagement and business performance. PepsiCo’s CIO, Ursula Phillips, will share the transformation journey – the objective, the challenges and how the change continues to impact the company’s culture and productivity.
- The cultural impact of replacing a traditional, hierarchical environment with a digitally-enabled, agile environment
- How a Connected Employee program is opening up career possibilities and enabling flexible working
- How back-office automation is removing non-value added work and freeing up time to drive business results
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
2:30 pm - 3:10 pm Preparing for the Workforce of the Future through Scenario Planning, Risk Management and Workforce Analytics
- Utilising Workforce Planning to Make Strategic Investment Decisions:
- Good Data as a Foundation for Effective Workforce Planning
- Understanding your organisational transformation and the new digital roles of your people
- Scenario planning and risk management for digital talent
Scott Johnston
Assistant Commissioner Performance and Analytics DivisionNSW Public Service Commission
3:10 pm - 3:50 pm Panel: Understanding the Optimal Hybrid Workforce Required to Respond to Digitally Enhanced Transformational Change
- What will your Future Workforce Look Like?
- Understanding the way people work and how their roles and responsibilities will change
- Delivering transformational change – the HR and Digital Teams working collaboratively to achieve organizational goals
- Understanding the psychological impact on workers in an environment of increased automation and robotics
- Building a vision for the future – how do you integrate and human and digital labour?
Panel members:
Scott Johnston
Assistant Commissioner Performance and Analytics DivisionNSW Public Service Commission
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Exploring Agile Response Strategies to Ensure Effective Supply, Demand and Retention of Digital Talent
- Developing agile response strategies in an era when graduates are leaving university without job ready digital skills
- Cross-skilling your workers as one of the most effective ways to gain instant access to talent
- Achieving diversity of approach through the up skilling of workers who offer a different perspective to your traditional tech workforce
- Ensuring you have the soft skills in partnership with tech workers to achieve maximum innovation and growth within your organisation
Champagne Solutions Clinic
Table A
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Aligning your Workforce and HR Strategy with your Digital Business Transformation StrategyTable B
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm How AI will Influence the Core Competencies Required for your Future WorkforceFacilitator:
Joyjit Gorain
Operational Excellence - Enterprise Transformation, Group OperationsZurich Insurance Company Ltd
Table C
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm A Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight - Methods for Future Demand and Supply AnalysisFacilitator:
Helen Finneran
Principal Policy Advisor –Workforce Planning, Workforce Planning & Capability GroupDepartment of Health and Human Services (Victoria)