The individuals who comprise a modern business are the hearts and souls that define its unique personality and culture. Yet all too often 'Human Resources (HR)' is thought of merely in terms of departmental, bureaucratic people processing.
Recruiting, compensation and payroll, benefits, incentives/governance and training/learning/communication are the lifeblood of managing the people in a modern company, whatever its scale. The challenges of invoking and then harnessing the power of improved participant interactivity and cross pollination is a key differentiator to competitive performance and speed to market.
The People, Culture and Internal Communications track will follow the job lifecycle of the individual in an organization, from their recruitment, onboarding and inclusion, through to their exit, taking note of their personal, social and societal needs. We will focus on this path from four principle angles: leadership, management, community and provisioning vendor perspectives.
| Tuesday, November 15 | |
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An interactive panel discussion with representatives from leading vendors in the enterprise space on the rapidly evolving changes around talent management, training and what the future holds. Moderator - Oliver Marks, Founding Partner, Sovos Group  brings seasoned consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of collaboration strategy, tactics, technology decisions, change management and roll out. Panelist - Andrew McCarthy, Vice President, Product Strategy, Ultimate Software Panelist - Mark Bennett, Director, Collaborative Product Strategy, Oracle Panelist - Chris Grams, President and Partner, New Kind  Chris Grams is President and Partner at New Kind, where he builds sustainable brands, cultures, and communities in and around organizations. He is the author of the recently published book The Ad-Free Brand: Secrets to Building Successful Brands in a Digital World and the Community Guide at the Management Innovation Exchange. Prior to New Kind, Chris spent 10 years at Red Hat, the world’s leading supplier of open source solutions, where he played a key role in building the Red Hat brand and culture. | |
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Within the last seven years Facebook has changed the way the world communicates. But has it changed how companies manage and motivate employees? Founded by a Millennial, the now-famous Mark Zuckerberg, and around half the staff Millennials, Molly will discuss Facebook uses technology (social and otherwise) to manage their 3000 person culture. Speaker - Molly Graham, Mobile, facebook Speaker - Nick Stein, Director, Content and Media, Rypple  Nick Stein is the Director of Content & Media at Rypple. A former staff writer at FORTUNE and current affairs producer at CBC News, Stein's work has received three Business Journalist of the Year awards, a CAJ award, and has been anthologized in the Best Business Stories of the Year. He holds a BA from McGill University and a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. | |
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Representatives from enterprise class firms discuss their successes, challenges and goals in blending enterprise 2.0 thinking and technologies into their business requirements. Moderator - Oliver Marks, Founding Partner, Sovos Group brings seasoned consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of collaboration strategy, tactics, technology decisions, change management and roll out. Panelist - Michele Zanini, Managing Director, Management Innovation eXchange  Michele Zanini is Managing director at the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) Management Lab. Michele has a passion for discovering new and better ways of getting work done in organizations. His work has taken him from analyzing terrorist networks all the way to orchestrating transformations at Fortune 100 companies. Michele has previously been at McKinsey and Co. and the RAND Corporation, and holds a degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Panelist - David Lahey, VP of Customer Success, Jobvite David Lahey is VP of Customer Success at Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web. He is an accomplished executive in business software with extensive experience building and scaling global service teams. He previously held executive positions in Sales and Partner Services for the mid-market ERP division of Sage and was Vice President of the Professional Services at ACCPAC. In 1984, David founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Lahey Software, a provider of integrated ERP modules for the mid-market which were purchased by Computer Associates in 2002. David holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Panelist - Brad Bailey, Director of Technology Alliances, Accellion  Brad Bailey is responsible for the development of technology partnerships that drive product innovation for Accellion. Brad has more than 20 years of experience with innovative information management solutions for a broad range of regulated and security-sensitive industries, including: financial services, pharmaceuticals /life sciences, technology, and professional services and consulting. Brad is experienced with the requirements of companies from various industries, as well as technology and resource availability, to manage risks related to data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance. In addition to Accellion, Brad has worked for IntraLinks, developing solutions for managing and providing access to sensitive corporate financial, legal and HR information. At CheckFree and Box.net, Brad focused on personal financial data and transactions, and generalized cloud-based file sharing. | |
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A discussion of the rapidly changing role of learning in the drive for greater enterprise productivity. New approaches to contextual business needs are being heavily influenced by social networking against a foundation of traditional learning resources. Moderator - Oliver Marks, Founding Partner, Sovos Group brings seasoned consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of collaboration strategy, tactics, technology decisions, change management and roll out. Panelist - Nick Stein, Director, Content and Media, Rypple Nick Stein is the Director of Content & Media at Rypple. A former staff writer at FORTUNE and current affairs producer at CBC News, Stein's work has received three Business Journalist of the Year awards, a CAJ award, and has been anthologized in the Best Business Stories of the Year. He holds a BA from McGill University and a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Panelist - Michael Rose, General Manager, Knoodle  Michael brings over 20 years of domestic and international management experience successfully leading, growing, and advising companies in the technology and services sectors. Panelist - Milind Pansare, Senior Director for Social Collaboration Software, Saba  Milind Pansare is Senior Director for Social Collaboration software at Saba. He has over 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley, and has led product marketing, product management, partner programs and large engineering teams at silicon valley startups and larger silicon valley companies like Sun Microsystems and HP. He has also served as an advisor to startups at a prominent silicon valley startup incubator. He holds a degree in Computer Science. | |
Get in-depth education in full day workshops on Monday before the conference. Full Event or Workshop pass is required to attend the Workshops.
| Monday, November 14 | |
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Social, economic, environmental, and technological forces continuously transform the relationship between organizations and employees. The traditional "workplace" is disappearing, courtesy of globalization, communications, the consumerization of IT, and recent market upheavals. In its place is a "workspace" that is more social, more virtual and more mobile. This new workspace is also more transitory, as employees skeptical of lifetime employment find themselves increasingly joined by contingent staff and outsourcing partners. Given the ascent of a new generation of workers raised in this connected, global reality, we can no longer rely on old assumptions about how work best gets done. Such transformational trends create a world where relationships are managed not by sight, but by trust and commitment. To survive, organizations must be more agile than ever before. This workshop will help attendees understand the emerging workspace issues they face by engaging new perspectives offered by provocative thought leaders, and by using scenario planning as a tool to ponder the implications of those issues via the lens of different social, economic, environmental and technological possibilities. Instructor - Sara Roberts, President/CEO, Roberts Golden Consulting, Inc.  Sara Roberts is President & CEO of Roberts Golden and a recognized thought leader in the Enterprise 2.0 space. She and her team have lead large-scale change management, employee engagement, culture transformation and innovation efforts for Fortune 500 companies including AAA, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, FedEx, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Safeway, Sprint and Virgin Media and consults and presents workshops on collaboration in the workplace. Prior to founding Roberts Golden, she held senior consulting positions within companies including Sprint, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ketchum. Instructor - Daniel Rasmus, Principal, Daniel W. Rasmus & Author, Management by Design  Daniel W. Rasmus, the author of Listening to the Future, is a strategist who helps clients put their future in context. Rasmus uses scenarios to analyze trends in society, technology, economics, the environment, and politics in order to discover implications used to develop and refine products, services and experiences. Prior to starting his own consulting practice, Rasmus was the Director of Business Insights at Microsoft Corporation, where he helped the company envision how people will work in the future. Rasmus coordinated the Microsoft® Office Information Worker Board of the Future, an advisory panel composed of college-aged students who share ideas on how to better serve the Millennial Generation as they join the workforce. Rasmus also managed the Center for Information Work, an immersive experience that helped Microsoft's customers experience the future of work first hand. Moderator - Mike Gotta, Senior Technical Solution Marketing Manager for Enterprise Social Software, Cisco  Mike Gotta is a senior technology solution manager at Cisco responsible for Enterprise Social Software. Prior to joining Cisco, Mike held the position of Research VP at Gartner. Prior to Gartner, he was an industry analyst at Burton Group and Meta Group. Mr. Gotta has 30 years of experience in the IT industry and was an industry analyst for 14 years covering the architectural, application, and organizational aspects of collaboration and social computing. While at Burton Group, Mike lead a 2008 groundbreaking field research study on enterprise social networking. He has published hundreds of articles on collaboration and social computing. At Cisco, he maintains an active research agenda on a variety of topics related to social networks. Mike is a recognized subject-matter expert and a frequent speaker at industry events. Mr. Gotta began his career at Aetna. He has a B.A. in economics from Western New England College and is currently pursuing an MA in New Media Studies at The New School. Panelist - Nathan Bricklin, SVP, Head of Social Strategy, Wells Fargo Panelist - Harbrinder Kang, Senior Director, Collaboration Technologies, Cisco Systems, Inc. Panelist - Julie Lemoine, CEO, 3D ICC | |
