Inspecht HR Futures Conference

HR Futures Presentations

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:38:23 +0000

Below are all of the presentations from the Inspecht HR Futures event, audio portions are also in the works.

Stephen Collins - Keynote - Thoughts from TED 2009

Sean Lew - Implementation of Enterprise 2.0 and its Value in Organisations

Joris Luijke - HR at Atlassian

Thomas Shaw - Web 2.0 in recruitment

Jasmin Targas - Case study on informal learning

Michael Park - Legal issues to consider for Web 2.0

Anne Bartlett-Bragg -Reframing Professional Development with Enterprise 2.0

Wrap up

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:23:21 +0000

Thank you to all the attendees and speakers. We are in the process of arranging for the presentations to be posted online and where possible the audio as well.

In the meantime you can review the thoughts on Twitter and some of the images on Flickr.

Program Overview

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:47:01 +0000

A quick overview of the program for February 26th.

Time	Session	Speaker
8:30 AM	Arrival & Registration with Tea and Coffee
9:00 AM	Welcome and Introduction	Michael Specht
9:10 AM	Keynote - Thoughts from TED 2009	Stephen Collins
10:10 AM	Implementation of Enterprise 2.0 and its Value in Organisations	Sean Lew
10:50 AM	Morning tea
11:10 AM	HR at Atlassian	Joris Luijke
11:50 AM	Web 2.0 in recruitment	Thomas Shaw
12:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Case study on informal learning	Jasmin Tragas
2:15 PM	Legal issues to consider for Web 2.0	Michael Park
3:00 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:15 PM	Reframing Professional Development with Enterprise 2.0	Anne Bartlett-Bragg
4:00 PM	Panel: Branding & Social Media and its impact on HR	Stephen Collins, Sean Lew, Jasmin Tragas, Anne Bartlett-Bragg
4:30 PM	Panel: Future of Recruiting	Thomas Shaw, Riges Younan, David Talamelli, Geoff Jennings
5:15 PM	A few closing remarks	Michael Specht
5:30 PM	Informal networking & drinks with a cash bar

Need an offline summary to hand out, try the Program Overview PDF.

Keynote speaker update

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:48:47 +0000

As previously announced Stephen Collins from acidlabs will be our keynote speaker in the morning, giving us first hand insight into the internationally renowned invitation only event TED 2009. Stephen will stretch our thinking about business in knowledge economy covering HR, Recruiting, Knowledge Management, Enterprise 2.0 and technology.

In its 25th year TED brings together the world’s greatest thinkers and doers for 50+ fast paced talks over the course of four incredible days. Some of this year’s speakers at TED include:

Bill Gates
Time Berners-Lee
Seth Godin
Barry Schartz
Shai Agassi

Stephen left Australia two days ago on his trip to attend this amazing event. You can following his trip on his blog or via his Twitter feed. If you can’t follow along while he is there do not worry, he will be giving us all an update at the conference.

Being an HR Manager in a Web 2.0 company

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:42:12 +0000

Many people have commented that there is still a session without a speaker, could they fill the slot. The issue has not been there was no speaker, more that I had too many speakers to choose from! Over the last month I have been working with several people to finalise who will speak and what they will speak about. I wanted a case study so that attendees could get an “in the trenches” view of HR , Social Media and Web 2.0.

I am very happy and excited to announce that Joris Luijke HR Manager from Atlassian will be speaking.

If you don’t know Atlassian you really should.

Atlassian is an Australian software company specialising in collaboration and development tools. An amazing success story, founded in 2002, they have 14,500+ customers, 195 employees worldwide, offices in Sydney, San Francisco and Amsterdam with FY08 revenues ~$35 million. Altlassian’s wiki product Confluence was listed 2nd in the 2008 Top 100 Australia Web 2.0 Applications, top in Gartners Magic Quadrant for Social Software report, and the founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have been listed multiple times as some of top Australia’s entrepreneurs.

Now the talk.

I have asked Joris to cover what it is like leading the HR team in a fast growing Web 2.0 organisation, where all employees are encouraged to blog, policies are stored in a wiki and generally culture is Web 2.0 in nature.

More details to come.

Social media and Web 2.0 benefits

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:33:59 +0000

Did you know that social media and web 2.0 have proven benefits for business? Some of these benefits include:

Measurably increase in knowledge retention
Reduced employee turnover
Increased employee engagement
Enhanced communication internally & externally
Saving time and money on travel
Fostering innovation and collaboration
Growth through changes in employee/candidate relationships
Transformation business operations and management
Cost reductions through higher levels of productivity

If you want to learn more then make sure you register your place today!

Registration & Session updates

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:31:13 +0000

Early bird registration closed yesterday, if you missed out sorry it is now $400 for the day. Still great value if you compare with many of the other events where you can spend $400 for half a day or even a few hours!

I have had a TBD session on the agenda as I have been playing with ideas on what and who to fill the session. While I can’t announce yet who the session will be I am very excited and hope to have things finalised in the next few days.

6 days to register as an early bird

admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:59:31 +0000

There are 6 days to go to register with the Early Bird rate of AUD$350 to attend the Inspecht HR Futures Conference on 26th February 2009. From 15th January registration will be AUD$400.

Remember you can register online or using the offline registration form.

Registration details

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:48:32 +0000

Remember attendance to Inspecht HR Futures Conference is strictly limited, make sure you register before we sell out!

If you register before January 15 2009 you get access to the special price of A$350 for the day.

REGISTRATION TYPE	DATES	PRICE
Early Bird	Before January 15	A$350
Regular	After January 15	A$400

The marketing begins

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:39:07 +0000

This morning we launched the start of the formal marketing program of the event, some minor activities have already been done.

First up was the distribution of a press release to a group of journalists and bloggers in Australia and New Zealand.
A single page overview PDF is also available for download, think of it as a executive summary/marketing flyer.
Later today will be the distribution of the first ever Inspecht Newsletter which amongst other things will promote the conference.

The event will be limited to about 50 participants so if you are interested in attending do not delay as it is expected to sell out early.