Workforce Ecosystems
Only one in six employees feels strongly associated with their company and colleagues. So how can we create an environment where people feel safe to talk about their challenges and know they will be treated equally? Additionally, can technology be used to evaluate employee skills and identify opportunities for colleagues to help each other grow? How can organisations balance the power of technology with the human element to create a supportive and collaborative workplace? In essence, how can employer branding enable companies to become more aligned with their employees and encourage an atmosphere of trust, engagement, and growth?
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Nicolene Hogg
From Pilot to Impact: The Swift skills journey with Workday
Senior HR Specialist with 15+ years of experience in global HR Centers of Excellence within large IT organizations.
Expert in organizational design, job architecture, skills and career frameworks, and talent development programs. Proven track record in policy design, end-to-end process enablement (Workday), change management, and global implementation. Recognized with Bersin What Works and Brandon Hall Bronze Awards. Known for strong executive communication skills, analytical mindset, and delivering scalable HR solutions aligned with business priorities.
This session focuses on Swift’s long-term skills strategy and its implementation. The discussion covers the initial spark for their skills journey, including the business needs and challenges it aimed to solve. It delves into the key phases of their journey, from the initial pilot to full rollout, and how they approached foundational work like building a skills taxonomy and aligning it with HR architecture (role families, compensation). The session also explores the impact of this strategy, specifically how it has led to better, more data-driven conversations between employees and managers, and whether this was the main value proposition. Finally, it looks at Swift’s future plans for their skills journey, including activating the Career Hub and continuing to drive value.
Nicolene Hogg
From Pilot to Impact: The Swift skills journey with Workday
This session focuses on Swift’s long-term skills strategy and its implementation. The discussion covers the initial spark for their skills journey, including the business needs and challenges it aimed to solve. It delves into the key phases of their journey, from the initial pilot to full rollout, and how they approached foundational work like building a skills taxonomy and aligning it with HR architecture (role families, compensation).
The session also explores the impact of this strategy, specifically how it has led to better, more data-driven conversations between employees and managers, and whether this was the main value proposition. Finally, it looks at Swift’s future plans for their skills journey, including activating the Career Hub and continuing to drive value.
Maarten Verschuere
AI Will Replace You: A Framework for Leaders in Times of Agentic AI
Maarten Verschuere is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author of AI Will Replace You: A Framework for Leaders in Times of Agentic AI . With two decades of experience in data science and AI, he helps organizations cut through the hype and turn AI anxiety into AI opportunity.
AI will not just change how we work. It will replace many of today’s practices in hiring, learning and engagement. The real question for HR is: will you be the driver of that change or the passenger?
This session gives HR Tech attendees an exclusive preview of AI Will Replace You : A Framework for Leaders in Times of Agentic AI, the new book by Maarten Verschuere, AI researcher and keynote speaker.
He introduces the AI Navigator Framework, a practical framework for HR leaders to build trust in AI, identify the right starting points, and move from pilots to real impact.
This session offers a clear and actionable roadmap to turn AI anxiety into AI opportunity and to ensure HR remains at the center of the AI-powered workplace.
Maarten Verschuere
AI Will Replace You: A Framework for Leaders in Times of Agentic AI
AI will not just change how we work. It will replace many of today’s practices in hiring, learning and engagement. The real question for HR is: will you be the driver of that change or the passenger?
This session gives HR Tech attendees an exclusive preview of AI Will Replace You : A Framework for Leaders in Times of Agentic AI, the new book by Maarten Verschuere, AI researcher and keynote speaker. He introduces the AI Navigator Framework, a practical framework for HR leaders to build trust in AI, identify the right starting points, and move from pilots to real impact. This session offers a clear and actionable roadmap to turn AI anxiety into AI opportunity and to ensure HR remains at the center of the AI-powered workplace.
André Catrou
Strada: Navigating Pay Transparency: What Leaders Need to Know
André Catrou is a senior HR transformation manager with over 15 years of experience in HR, change, and the art of skiing while holding a business meeting. He specializes in helping organizations streamline pay processes and enhance the employee experience. Not a fan of chocolate— unfortunately—but passionate about people and technology, he brings a pragmatic and engaging approach to HR transformation.
André Catrou
Navigating Pay Transparency: What Leaders Need to Know
- Beyond compliance: Understand how the Pay Transparency Act impacts organizations and why it matters for leadership today.
- Data First: Identify which data have to be collected and how to analyze them
- Driving value: Learn how to turn regulatory requirements into strategic advantages for attraction, retention, and performance.
Bibi-Karlijn van de Zande
Our pitch demonstrates how predictive people analytics can transform employee retention. With EXIRE, organizations unlock the hidden value of their HR data to forecast turnover risks and identify success drivers. This enables companies to act before regretted losses occur, reducing costs, keeping top talent, and safeguarding business continuity.
Bibi-Karlijn van de Zande
Exire
Our pitch demonstrates how predictive people analytics can transform employee retention. With EXIRE, organizations unlock the hidden value of their HR data to forecast turnover risks and identify success drivers. This enables companies to act before regretted losses occur, reducing costs, keeping top talent, and safeguarding business continuity.
Jules Van Reempts
As AI helps generate a flood of applications, the challenge for every recruiter is cutting through the noise to find candidates they can truly trust. The only way to win is to fall back on the one signal that can’t be faked: the social proof of a trusted referral. In this session, discover how Wintro turns this principle into your ultimate competitive advantage with a platform built for a seamless employee experience and powerful recruiting.
Jules Van Reempts
Wintro
As AI helps generate a flood of applications, the challenge for every recruiter is cutting through the noise to find candidates they can truly trust. The only way to win is to fall back on the one signal that can’t be faked: the social proof of a trusted referral. In this session, discover how Wintro turns this principle into your ultimate competitive advantage with a platform built for a seamless employee experience and powerful recruiting.
Richard Doherty
Transformation with AI Agents: From Recruiting to Policy – An End-to-End Approach with Real-World Examples
Richard Doherty is senior director HCM product marketing at Workday. Prior to joining Workday, Richard was part of a team that pioneered cloud based recruiting and talent management solutions in Europe with Jobpartners. In 2011 Jobpartners was acquired by Taleo, the cloud recruiting and talent management leader at the time. Richard subsequently spent time at Taleo and Oracle as HCM Strategy Director before joining Workday in 2015. Richard is a frequent conference speaker and spokesperson for Workday in Europe.Richard holds a degree in Economics from the LSE.
Richard Doherty
Transformation with AI Agents: From Recruiting to Policy – An End-to-End Approach with Real-World Examples
Transformation with AI Agents: From Recruiting to Policy – An End-to-End Approach with Real-World Examples, highlights how Workday’s integrated platform is central to leveraging AI agents across the entire employee lifecycle. The session demonstrates how intelligent automation and machine learning can revolutionize HR operations. Workday’s Agentic AI is designed to transform business processes by focusing on value centricity, quality data, extensibility, human in the loop, and responsible AI. It aims to increase productivity, capacity, and achieve demonstrable outcomes, such as faster completion of tasks and reduced talent turnover. The AI strategy encompasses accelerating work with generative AI (e.g., content generation, automation), assisting users with AI Copilots (e.g., conversational search, task automation), and transforming complex tasks through agentic AI and orchestration.
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