Online | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
Welcome and opening remarks from the chairperson

Rebecca Fuchs
Director, Tomorrow Is Now & Hugo Alexander Property Group
Tech Talk 1: Winning HR Tech Strategies and Actionable Insights For a New Workplace Era
As organizations rethink the needs of the “new normal” workforce, HR leaders have a unique opportunity to impact business P&L with people-first strategies that foster human connections. In this session, you will learn how a Digital Adoption Platform and a value framework that works for you can link and maintain human connections and improve employee experiences while building a continuous transformation culture. | ![]() |

Raj Sundarason
RVP Digital Transformation, WalkMe
Tech Talk 2: How to leverage HR process automation
HR teams are shifting to a more strategic role rather than transactional to align and support business goals. This can be a challenge with outdated workflows and manual paper processes. In this session, hear how you can automate your paper frustrations to increase operational efficiency. | ![]() |

Dave Wallensky
Head of Sales and Marketing, ConnX
Tech Talk 3: How to improve your candidate sourcing and screening in a candidate-short market
While Australia and New Zealand have weathered the coronavirus crisis better than other countries, closed borders and strict quarantine measures have caused a talent shortage across the two countries. This tech talk will reveal how your Talent Acquisition team can leverage the power of recruitment technology to unearth hard-to-find candidates for your business effectively. | ![]() |

Mark McGreal
Senior Account Executive, JobAdder
Tech Talk 4: Hire the world with a full stack global employment platform
When building a global remote team or expanding to one country, generating compliant employment contracts can be tricky. Companies must determine what's legally required in each country, manage global benefits to attract talent, and oversee pay, absence management, expenses, and HR support. What are most companies offering in any market? And how do you manage payroll and salary adjustments across borders while remaining competitive? This session will discuss how technology can:
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Craig Goldblatt
VP Partners & Alliances, Globalization Partners
Tech Talk 5: How to get your HR team AI-ready
Artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay, yet many HR professionals are unsure how to prepare their teams for a future that utilises AI to its fullest potential. How can HR leaders take proactive steps now to build an AI-enabled HR team?
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Joel Smith
Head of Sales, ELMO Software
Tech Talk 6: Dayforce – Intelligence at work
The world has changed, and it's going to keep changing, with workforce models evolving to respond to new workplace realities. Discover how, with a single Human Capital Management application, you can gain accuracy, agility and visibility across workforce management, time, attendance, and payroll processing. In this session, you'll learn how modern HCM technology is transforming the way people work and see a demonstration of the award-winning Dayforce platform in action. | ![]() |

Matthew Kane
Director, Solutions Consulting, Asia Pacific and Japan, Ceridian
Tech Talk 7: Addressing mental health and wellbeing in your workplace
Mental health and wellbeing continues to be a priority in the workplace today. How can organisations empower and support employees to be their best selves at work, especially during times of uncertainty? In this session, we will explore:
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Matt Meffan
Commercial Director, Unmind
Tech Talk 8: A pay revolution: what are the consequences?
While we know pay is an essential part of our employees financial lives and overall wellbeing, what’s not often considered is how the way we pay impacts people. For decades fortnightly and monthly pay have helped drive efficiencies in payroll, but these efficiencies may have come at the cost of employee productivity and wellbeing. In fact, AMP estimates that financial stress costs Australian businesses $31bn a year. It doesn’t have to be like this. New research shows that tech solutions like earned wage access and automated pre-pay savings can significantly reduce financial stress and the associated business costs, while also reducing the load on stretched payroll teams. | ![]() |

Brad Joffe
General Manager APAC, Earnd
Tech Talk 9: 5 Ways to Keep Your Entire Workforce Connected
Working from anywhere is becoming the status quo for many companies and HR leaders are at the forefront of evolving their company’s strategies to focus on their greatest asset - their people - to sustain business growth. Join this Tech Talk session to learn how you can easily implement better ways to:
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Ashley Hotta
Large Enterprise Client Partner, ANZ, Workplace from Facebook
Tech Talk 10: Transforming L&D with a platform that delivers Data Driven, Mobile-First, AI enabled & Personalised Learning.
It has been a turbulent time. The unprecedented impact of COVID- 19 across industries has forced business leaders to navigate uncharted waters, emphasising the importance of identifying the key skills imperative for success, addressing managers’ mindsets around owning talent, and synergising skills-based talent practices that drive agility. Please join this showcase as we demonstrate how EdCast LXP is powering L&D transformation with Data Driven, Mobile-First, AI enabled & Personalised Learning - In the flow of work. |
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David Maddison
Director AU & NZ, EdCast
Tech Talk 11: The Secret Sauce
Enabling tomorrow’s success in today’s constantly evolving environment requires a flexible approach; an innovative take on current HR and business management systems to break free from the competition. Businesses have one choice: Adapt or fail. This tech talk will explore the technology changes that are required to establish a sustainable competitive advantage for your business. How? By making the most of your workforce. Now is the time to raise your expectations of your systems; expect automation to streamline your processes, flexibility to match the unique requirements of your business, and mathematical optimisation to minimise wasted resources and maximise performance. | ![]() |

Donald Hastie
Founder and CEO, BlueSky Creations
Tech Talk 12: Change management strategy for HR transformations
Digital transformation has played a vital role in all HR organisations to combat the unforeseen challenges of the past year. In this session, learn how to successfully incorporate this digital shift in your organisation, keeping your teams front and center.
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Sripathi Chakkravarthi
Regional Director for APAC, Whatfix
Tech Talk 13: The Future of Work: how work and life will change in the next decade
Millions of Aussie workers took part in the great Work from Home (WFH) experiment since the pandemic started, triggering the biggest social shift in the nature of work since World War II. And while we initially saw the home office as temporary, it didn’t take long to realise we were on the cusp of a work revolution and monumental shift to hybrid working. Join Elisha Harrington, Evangelist for the Chief Innovation Office at ServiceNow as she talks on future of work, with three trends driving new ways for Australians to live and work:
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Elisha Harrington
Chief Innovation Office, Evangelist, ServiceNow