Time: September 25, 24 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Location: Ask the Experts Theater

Our 'Ask the Expert' sessions feature experts from around the globe who specialize in addressing the pressing issues that keep HR leaders awake at night. Each session is designed to be an intimate and informal setting, lasting for 60 minutes and featuring insights from four experts every hour. Join us to gain valuable knowledge and engage in meaningful discussions with industry professionals.

Time: September 25, 24 | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: Pitchfest Theater

Join us for a focused discussion on reimagining your HR tech stack to elevate employee journeys while cutting down on technical debt. In this session, we'll dive in the importance of not just focusing on technical architecture, but truly most think about solution architecture and experience architecture to truly be digital into the future. Through practical examples and interactive dialogue, discover how to streamline HR processes, make them more efficient and enjoyable for everyone involved, keep an eye on minimizing long-term tech issues and costs, and harness the power of emerging technologies like Generative AI.

Time: September 25, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Location: Pitchfest Theater

This session will explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the HR function itself. As AI technologies evolve, they offer unique opportunities to reshape how HR operates-- from automating and streamlining routine tasks and workflows to enabling more strategic decision-making and insights. Through show-and-tell examples and hands-on experimentation, we will demonstrate how AI can enhance recruitment operations, personalize employee development journeys and predict workforce trends, all while improving operational efficiency to elevate your HR function. Join us to uncover the role of AI in creating a more dynamic, responsive and data-driven HR function in the digital age.

Time: September 25, 2024 | 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM

Location: Pitchfest Theater

As AI continues to reshape the workplace, it becomes imperative to identify the key stakeholders who will guide organizations towards a future where human potential is maximized and lives are enriched. This session will explore the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the HR function itself. As AI technologies evolve, they offer unique opportunities to reshape how HR operates, from automating and streamlining routine tasks and workflows to enabling more strategic decision-making and insights. Through show & tell examples and hands-on experimentation, we will demonstrate how AI can enhance recruitment operations, personalize employee development journeys, and predict workforce trends, all while improving operational efficiency to elevate your HR function.

Time: September 25, 2024 | 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM

Location: Pitchfest area

Focusing on deployment readiness, this session will emphasize critical steps and considerations for successfully introducing HR and workforce technology. It's about ensuring organizations are fully prepared to integrate new solutions, with a keen eye on measures of success and the capacity to embrace change. We'll explore the importance of establishing clear goals against a well-communicated vision of success, understanding organizational needs, and aligning technology solutions with business goals and objectives. Effective deployment readiness also involves fostering a culture of adaptability, preparing teams for change, and setting up robust support structures to ensure we make work better for our people. By tying deployment readiness directly to specific measures of success, organizations can navigate the complexities of technology adoption with confidence.

 Time: September 26, 2024 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

 Location: Mandalay Bay AF Ballroom

As the world navigates the rapid and disruptive effects of AI, climate change, and geopolitical conflicts, the world of work, too, needs to change. Jobs are giving way to skills as the currency of work to ensure a more agile, resilient and flexible enterprise, which cannot just respond but must thrive in the face of these challenges. This pivot from jobs to skills will require us to rethink everything we know about work. Building on his bestselling book Work without Jobs, Ravin Jesuthasan, a recognized futurist and global thought leader, shares critical insights into why the skills-powered organization is here to stay and the HR architecture required to power it.

Time: September 26, 2024 | 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Location: Pitchfest Theater

Data is the secret sauce to driving transformation, leveraging AI and other Digital HR technologies, and enabling cross-functional collaboration for real change in the way work gets done. We used to think we had to have our data house in order before we could produce real value with its extensibility and insights, but the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming this, too. The integration of AI means data can be prepared, cleaned, enhanced, and better leveraged for decision-making, forecasting, personalizing experience, augmenting existing knowledge, and driving efficiency. This session covers the future of data analytics and AI in the future of work.

Time: September 26, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

Location: Pitchfest Theater

We keep investing in new HR Technologies and digital innovation, but these technology investments fail to produce the right measures of success and do little to deploy new capabilities, actually change the way we work, or positively impact workforce experience. We know Transformation is necessary to deliver needed value to the business and the workforce, but it’s imperative we get it right. Mindset is everything; it’s the foundation from which we work to determine who needs what value, at which point we earn the right to consider the right technology solution to deliver that value in a measurable, consistent way at scale.

Time: September 26, 2024 | 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM

Location: Pitchfest Theater

Becoming a digital enterprise requires articulating and aligning around a Digital strategy and measures of success. Getting to a strong vision and strategy requires understanding the Digital HR landscape, including trends shaping the future of work, emerging technologies that will impact HR and the workplace, and opportunities for meaningful transformation. Then you assess your organization’s digital maturity, build a roadmap addressing key areas of priority, and develop a roadmap to incorporate digital HR solutions. The most important part of your Digital HR strategy, and this will happen at every point of your journey, is fostering a digital-first culture. Only when you design for change, build digital muscle and skills within the HR function itself, and measure the real impact of your initiatives can you say you’re on a journey to Being Digital, not just Doing Digital.

Time: September 26, 2024 | 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Location: HR Tech Talk Theater

With nearly half of HR budgets reportedly spent on technology, benefits ecosystems are under more scrutiny than ever. Our research identifies AI as the number one priority investment this financial year, with employers recognizing the opportunities to centralize and consolidate analytics, and transform employee performance and engagement. Join us to find out how Mercer Marsh Benefits' digital ecosystem can help you unlock the potential of HR innovation and drive success in your organization. This will include MMB’s global market-leading employee benefits software, Darwin, as well as its newest health and wellbeing mobile application, Benefits You.