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Choose digital and become the CEO of your own career
Not every employee knows what they want to do with their career or what their talents are. But how can you help them? Together with CoachHub, Cegeka chooses digital coaching to support its "CEO of your own career" program.
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Learning experience platform? (LXP), learning together at your own pace
Talent attraction, employee retention and lifelong learning. How can you tackle these successfully? By implementing an online learning environment that provides all development opportunities in one place, makes learning more accessible, and helps people become more engaged.
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AI: Human After All?
According to the 2022 IBM Global AI Adoption Index, 35% of companies worldwide are now using AI. 42% is on the verge. It will become ubiquitous. Computer scientist Kriti Sarma warns of the consequences when human biases slip into algorithms that ultimately decide if you get a loan, insurance or that new job. But it’s not Cassandra, the mythical figure who only predicted bad things. As the founder of AI for Good, Kriti is optimistic: “This is our chance to remake a more equal society.”
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Performance based winning: the data behind Kevin De Bruyne
A touch of genius or the hand of God: a question for those of us old enough to recall the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Isn’t sport all about that thin line between winning and losing? As it turns out, the sports industries have been absolute frontrunners in crunching data to boost performance.
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Working alongside a robot
HR is not only about white collar-workers, and tech is more than AI. Engineer, researcher and robot expert Bram Vanderborght and his team at the BruBotics lab (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec) design robots that are intended to cooperate with human factory workers and make their job easier: “Not everything can or should be automated.”
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Digital anthropologist
Mrs Rahaf Harfouch was part of the epic campaign team that got Barack Obama in The White House. She’s been named as Global Young Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Emmanuel Macron asked her to participate in a presidential commission on Enlightenment in a Digital Age. Her dog Pixel has his own Instapage. But this digital anthropologist is above all an authority on transformations in our workplace culture.
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Engaging virtual worlds. Will you soon work from the meta jungle?
Pieter Van Leugenhagen is one of the founders of yondr, an immersive media agency focused on VR content production. They have been in business since 2014, which is an eternity in the VR landscape: "We were pioneers and grew quickly. The service offering has broadened to a more immersive medium, but always with a storytelling-driven approach in mind where brand experience is at the forefront." Today, yondr is the reference for metaverse and digital experience in general. Hologram, anyone?
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The Future of Work and the Metaverse: a Recon with Mark Curtis (Fjord, Accenture)
When Mark Curtis started his first digital marketing agency as early as 1993, he quickly understood that technology would have an ever more profound influence on how we live and work. Today, Mark is a thought leader, working on the intersection of design, technology and humans. He coleads the Metaverse & Business group at consultancy firm Accenture. Clients knock on his door a lot these days: “I’ve never seen so much interest in one single word.”
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Bouncing Back
From YouTube to Google and then VP at Twitter, Bruce Daisley has a thing for social media but also for work culture. He’s a true workplace culture enthusiast who talks about hybrid working and resilience. Above all, Bruce is a #1 bestselling author. Not bad! However, that hyped word resilience evokes many questions. What is resilience and how can we be resilient?
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Digital First in the Search for Employees
We have all heard of the Flemish public employment service VDAB, but do you really know what the organisation can mean to you? A lot, that is for sure. VDAB helps you and employers find the right match, offers courses when you want to (re)train your skills and inspires you with job opportunities in other sectors. They do so by using all things digital. Not only for you, but for no less than 4 million citizens. However, due to the current labour shortage it’s not always that easy. Time for a chat!
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Belgium’s Talent League
How to find talent these days? We all know that the traditional way of recruiting is passé composé. This is why STIB and Stepstone joined forces and also started working with gamification and storytelling. One thing is certain: as a company you have to play all the cards nowadays. Christelle Habimana from StepStone and Johan Claes from STIB give us the lowdown.
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Training management platforms: the highway to success?
Lifelong learning has become indispensable in these rapidly changing times. Do you want to be a future-proof company? Then you should be constantly investing in the personal development of your people. Today, training and education is a key element in serving your customer to perfection.
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