The document is a conference agenda for the Training and Development Africa 2016 conference. The two-day conference will feature keynote addresses and breakout sessions on topics related to training, development, leadership, culture and people analytics. Day one will include sessions on reviving employee motivation, preparing for future changes in work, using artificial intelligence in HR, developing leaders, building an innovative culture and more. Day two will cover reinventing HR, engaging employees, leading in the new world of work, simplifying work processes, designing learning programs and organizational design.
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1. Training and Development Africa 2016
Conference agenda
VIP conference agenda
Day one – Tuesday 18 October 2016
08:00 Registration & welcome refreshments
08:50 Chairpersons opening address
Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa
KEYNOTE PLENARY
THE BIG PICTURE
09:00 How to revive the “working dead” with a digital learning culture
Employee motivation and mentoring
Deepen their existing competencies
Discover career pathways that both fulfill their goals and meet the needs of your business
Make the learning experience as engaging as possible
Shane McCauley, Director: People Systems and Analytics, Twitter, USA
09:30 Get ready for work in 2030
What to do as the boundaries of work, human capital and learning blur
Learning technologies that are changing how we change
What will the future talent pool look like?
Are you changing fast enough?
Looking after staff and the bottom line
Glen Clancy, Head of Global Instructional Design, eBay, United Kingdom
10:00 Artificial intelligence (AI): how it will improve your HR functionality
How can AI identify challenges
Predicting and providing insight into turnover
Improving social and organisational reconfiguration using AI technology
Will AI empower frontline managers?
Using real time data to improve your leaders
Dikeledi Dlwati, HR Executive, Tigerbrands, South Africa
10:30 Speed Networking
10:40 Exhibition opening, morning refreshments & networking
2. STREAM ROOM 1
LEADERSHIP
STREAM ROOM 2
CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT
CHAIR: Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa CHAIR: Dominic Gaobepe, Director, Empower Voice International, South
Africa
11:30 The Leadershift – developing and engaging the next generation of leaders
Leading in a volatile and complex economy
Creating a next gen leadership program
Challenge with the unfamiliar
The role of learning technologies
What really motivates millennials
Charl Coetzer, Head of Training and Organisational Development, Basil
Read, South Africa
Promoting an engaged culture through leadership accountability
Employee engagement: Dealing with this CEO pain point
Dealing with culture, engagement and retention all at once
Making engagement a top down effort
“Living” the organisations engagement values
Holding leaders accountable for retention
Lydia Mdluli, Head: Talent Development and Organisational Effectiveness,
African Bank, South Africa
11:50 Women in leadership: The competitive edge of future
Female leadership as a corporate performance driver
Where we are, where we are going and how we will get there
Building versatile leaders early in their careers
Creating a healthy and competitive internal leadership environment
Investing in leadership diversity and behaviors
Vinolia Singh, General Manager: Human Resources, Multichoice, South
Africa
How to build a culture of innovation: It’s not rocket science
How real engagement drives innovation
Leaders as coaches
Fearless HR Managers
The problem with work? Not enough play
The role of emotional intelligence
Kirtida Bhana, Training Executive, Plastics SA, South Africa
12:10 Leadership development: Are leaders ready to lead in a complex economy?
New global leadership criteria – managing change and an adaptive
skill set
Really developing new and current leaders: all new initiatives
Coaching and connecting
Technology and knowledge transfer: Creating a culture of learning
Don’t forget your succession plan – trends and best practices
Michael Nel, Group: Human Resources Developer, Spar, South Africa
How to manage and measure employee engagement
Surveys, metrics and analysis – are there more exciting methods?
It’s all about consistency
Engaged leaders lead engagement
Having sustainable career conversations
Holding front line managers accountable
Angela de Longchamps, Executive Leadership Development, IBM, South
Africa
12:30 Beyond the innovation buzzword – how leaders can stay relevant and agile
in a changing world
Global trends that will change the way society functions
What this means for the future of work
What the future of work means for the future of organisations
How companies can evolve to remain relevant
What leaders need to do, and be, to make this happen
Davis Cook, CEO, Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability,
South Africa
BBBEE: From minimum requirements to making a difference
Revisions to the codes: dropping some levels
AFRICANISATION through skills development
Spending on the right interventions - know your ABC’s
Workforce planning aligned to talent development equals BONUS
points
Transformation: business imperative or moral obligation?
Nomaxabiso Teyise, Group HR Executive, Oceana, South Africa
3. 12:50 Lunch, exhibition viewing & networking
STREAM ROOM 1
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
STREAM ROOM 2
HR AND PEOPLE ANALYTICS
14:10 Priorities: Overcoming the business critical gap in talent and skills
Recruit, engage smartly, retain
New technologies and consolidated offerings
Reimagining what the learner experience can be
Putting learning and development first
Luyolo Geza, Advisory Board Member: Talent, University of South Africa
(UNISA), South Africa
Why people analytics is HRs no1 priority
Delivering value through workforce analytics
Effectively implementing analytics
Using data for insights and decision making
Working with the analytics team
Linking data, HR and business outcomes
Ansa Liebenberg, Programme Head: Innovation, Research and Development,
merSeta, South Africa
14:30 The looming productivity crisis: The need to future-skill your workforce
now
The current talent landscape and its effect on productivity
Talent and business objectives that match
Outcomes-targeted talent strategies
Moving away from traditional models
Create learning programs tied to learner experience and business
strategy
Changing mindsets – connect, communicate, collaborate
Shaleenah Marie, Learning and Development Manager for Southern and
Eastern Africa, Siemens, South Africa
People data everywhere: social data and analytics to strengthen and expand
HR capabilities
How to effectively use social data
Monitoring workforce patterns to plan for retention risks
Tailoring training and development too
Considering the privacy, security and confidentiality that comes with
social data
Elize Keulder, Senior HRBP and Talent Manager, Bayer, South Africa
14:50 Learning, productivity and results in a multi-generational workplace
Make sure you’re different: Embracing millennials
How tailored T&D can leverage the strengths of each generation
Having real partnerships with senior leaders
A focus on skills development and driving competitive advantage
Joan Peters, Leadership Development at the Leadership Academy,
Volkswagen, South Africa
Succession and global people planning made easy with people analytics
Linking succession planning and data
Analysing performance data
Leveraging assessments and data driven insights for successor
development
Using a data driven approach to predicting skill gaps, and readiness
for global rotations
Elanie Kruger, Africa: Regional Human Resources Director, G4S, South Africa
15:10 ROUNDTABLES
Blended learning best practice for effective corporate training
Rajesh Kamath, Co-Founder & Core Member, More Than HR Global (MTHRG), India
Learning Chameleons: How to Develop Multicultural Talent
Bhavesh Chandaria, Head: Learning, Training and Development, SAFAL Group, Tanzania
Quantifying and Connecting the ROI and Financial Impact of an Engaged Workforce
4. Christo Els, Director, Bombardier Transportation, South Africa
How multiple generations can learn and work effectively together
Thato Mehlape, HR Operations and Systems Advisor, Shell, South Africa
How to quickly launch an affordable LMS across an enterprise
Alistair Johanson, Deputy Director: IT Services and eLearning, Gauteng City Region Academy, South Africa
Are meetings becoming time wasting
Ashleigh Christie, Human Resources Development Manager, Hospitality Property Fund, South Africa
Why are personalised learning experiences important
Billy van der Merwe, Group eLearning and Content Specialist, FirstRand Bank Limited, South Africa
Discover what enables learning to linger beyond a training session
Keneiloe Selamolela, Head of Learning and Development, Outsurance, South Africa
15:50 Afternoon refreshments, exhibition viewing & networking
KEYNOTE SESSIONS
16:30 The open talent economy – talent and jobs of the future
People and work in a border-less world
Collaborative, transparent and technology enabled
Decoupling talent from physical geography – is this the answer to retention
Where we are, where we are going and how we will get there
Unimagined talent opportunities
Olivia Hosie, Head of Talent, Organisational Development and Change Management, Nando’s, South Africa
16:50 Out with Old – In with the new?
Moving Learning and Development Strategy to design thinking, learning analytics and business impact
The impact of the BBBEE skills development codes and opportunities
Reinventing Learning and Development capability
Designing for complexity - learning architecture, systems and solutions
Driving a sustainable learning culture
Portia Heynes, Group Head Learning and Development, Sun International, South Africa
17:10 Chairpersons closing address and close of day one
17:20 PARTY PARTY PARTY!
5. VIP conference agenda
Day two – Wednesday 19 October 2016
08:00 Registration & welcome refreshments
08:50 Chairpersons opening address
Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa
KEYNOTE PLENARY
THE BIG PICTURE
09:00 Reinventing HR: An extreme makeover
Self-assessing your HR – is it up to the challenge of today’s world?
Out with the old structures, in with the new
Business-integrated and data-driven
HR universities
Relationships matter, especially internal business partners
Russell Coleman, HR Director, Danone, South Africa
09:30 One size does not fit all – what does this mean for human capital?
Engagement is powerful but complicated
Determine key employee engagement components
Identify other key drivers of performance
HR Analytics – using HR, employee, and organisational data
Madelein Roos, Group Learning and Development, Adcock Ingram, South Africa
10:00 How to lead in the new world of work
The worlds impact on talent management
Incorporating agile HR
Radically different generation challenges
Finding the right bold solution
Building a new, forward thinking HR playbook
A dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent and human capital
Tapaswee Chandele, Human Resources Director, Coca-Cola, South Africa
10:30 Exhibition opening, morning refreshments & networking
6. STREAM ROOM 1
WORK SIMPLIFICATION
STREAM ROOM 2
INSTRUCTION DESIGN & THINKING
CHAIR: Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa CHAIR: Dominic Gaobepe, Director, Empower Voice International, South
Africa
11:30 How to turn L&D into work simplification gold?
Using leave and development activates
How to decrease pressure and increase maximum return
Using eLearning and mLearning to increase effectiveness
Enhancing the level of engagement
Stephen Roberts, Regional Head: Learning & Development, BancABC, South
Africa
The smaller the better: Bite-sized learning in today’s training world
Changing the norm and why you should be committed to this
Overcoming traditional training challenges
Designing learning that sticks
Practical methods to increase knowledge transfer
Boni Gantile, Executive, Supreme ICT Academy, South Africa
11:50 Implementing a unique international growth plan
Increased efficiency via shared services or local expertise
Balancing between Corporate structure and local needs
The challenges of a highly matrixed organization
Filling the talent pipeline
How to deal with cultural differences
Paul Vermeij, Africa: Director Human Resources, Bosch, South Africa
Designed learning: New ways to affect corporate goals and objectives
Virtual storytelling – having an instructional impact
Taking your e-learning to the next level – slides that engage
How much investment is needed?
Giving the workforce the option to choose and learn
Accelerating learning and transfer of skills
Khathutshelo Mashau, CEO & Co-Founder, Nunnovation Africa Foundation,
South Africa
12:10 Start treating “time capital” with the same seriousness as financial capital
Cut back on the meetings and conference calls
Creating a calmer environment to think and not just do
How to reduce worker stress
Encompassing lean management
Represent a cultural as well as a structural transformation
Abey Kgotle, Executive Vice President: Human Resources, Lonmin, South
Africa
Learning anywhere, anytime: Informal learning at work
Activating intentional informal learning
Collaboration across the organisation is key
Measurement and feedback
Keep business speak simple and understandable
12:30 Simplification is a new company culture: Where companies should start
Make simplification a business and HR priority
Encourage cross team collaboration
Implement design thinking and process simplification within HR
Get leaders involved, change their mindsets
Remove the email insanity
Help employees focus on what really matters
Johan Klein, Group Executive: Human Capital, Altron, South Africa
How to practically design an impactful e-learning programme
Learner actions and engagement
Keeping the workforce motivated
Engaging content
Are the templates really useful?
Seeking feedback, good or bad
Claus HØvelt, Former: Director: Group Learning, SimCorp, Denmark
12:50
Lunch, exhibition viewing & networking
7. STREAM ROOM 1
ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN
STREAM ROOM 2
WORKFORCE ON DEMAND
14:10 Organisational design done right
Corporate self-reflection
How to improve speed to market and customer experience
improvement
Make the most of top performers
Alignment of the organisation to its strategy and business model
Long term effects of cost cutting
Zain Mohomed, Senior HR Lead: Talent Management and HRBP, Samsung,
South Africa
How to manage a new “freelance economy” of valued staff
Recruitment considerations
Managing freelance and outsourced staff
Administration and incorporation into HR systems
Monitoring performance of contingent workers
Sometimes the best training is no training
Hazel Kayiya, Corporate Services Executive, Gold Circle, South Africa
14:30 Is organisation design the right solution for the business?
Having intent: really unpacking why you want to redesign your
organisation
Understanding where value is created and how to enhance it
A clearly articulated strategy and business model
Leadership commitment and communication
Taryn Marcus, Organisation Effectiveness Executive, Imperial Holdings,
South Africa
Personal Branding: Representing yourself and your company positively
Making sure they are well engaged and represent the company well
Performance management
Integrated relationships across HR, procurement and business leaders
Lori Milner, CEO, Beyond the Dress, South Africa
14:50 Moving from paper to real life: implementing ambitious organisational
design plans
Scope, approach, tools
Combining analytical methods with visualisation tools
Potential shifts and disruptions – be prepared
Learning from past attempts
Getting people’s attention, getting them to change
New models of management and career development
Nerisha Baijnath, Chief People Officer, True Blue Investment Holding t/a
KFC, South Africa
Optimisation of the hourly workforce
Proactively planning for a hybrid workforce
How to tap into on-demand talent markets
Integrated management and risk controls
Develop HR and IT systems to support on-demand talent
Thamsanqa Mqubela, CEO, South African Council for Graduates Co-operative
Limited, South Africa
15:10 ROUNDTABLES
How to tailor your coaching to the coachee
Rita Ranchod, Senior Specialist, Sasol, South Africa
How to create a culture of engagement where everyone has a role to play
Frederick Stroebel, Head: Training and Development, Sanlam, South Africa
How to troubleshoot your traditional training challenges and come up with bite-size solutions
Germinah Nyikana, Group learning & Transformation Manager, Clicks, South Africa
Creating a Talent Strategy to Support the Business Transformation Agenda
8. Christina Pona, Technic al Curriculum Design, Sun International, South Africa
Selection and retention of millennials
Mpho Magolego, Programme Training Officer, Investec, South Africa
How to articulate your talents and accomplishments in a way that impresses employers
Cobus Cato, Head of Learning and Development, Macsteel SA, South Africa
What can people do to future proof their careers for tomorrow
Barbara Ayissi, Head of Learning and Development, Saint Gobain, South Africa
How trends around the workforce of the future will completely reframe the talent landscape
Gina Davidson, HR Executive: Talent Management, Nedbank, South Africa
15:50 Chairpersons closing address and close of conference
Afternoon refreshments, exhibition & networking