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- Registration at Beijing Marriott Hotel Northeast
Tea & coffee
- Opening remarks
Colm Rafferty•Charise Le•Charles ShaoOverview of the Conference and Story of the Day
Colm Rafferty
Vice Chairman of AmCham China and Vice President, Asia Pacific/Chairman, China at Vermeer Corporation
Charise Le
Executive Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer at Schneider Electric
Charles Shao
Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry
- Keynote: Challenges for Sino-U.S. Relations in the Biden-era and Its Impact on China Economy & Human Capital
Sean SteinIn the Biden-era, corporate leaders have been paying close attention to the direction of the new White House administration’s policy towards China, as well as how US-China relations shift, as it will have greatly impact on how US companies doing business in China. Sean Stein will address his perspectives on current challenges of Sino-U.S. Relations in the Biden-era and focus on how economic and political environments that influence business practices and human capital in China.
Sean Stein
Senior Advisor at Covington & Burling LLP; Former U.S. Consul General in Shanghai
- Keynote: Briefing on Shifting Labor Landscape after 7th National Population Census
Prof. Zhang Qinghua
Prof. Zhang Qinghua
Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
- Panel I. Lessons from 2020: Prepare for the “Next Normal”
Charles Shao•Teresa Shi•Gloria Xu•Charles Yan2020 has been an exceptionally challenging year for everyone, especially corporate leaders. As problems keep coming one after the other, they have been forced to make tough decisions, take immediate and decisive actions, and set organizational direction through crisis and disruption. In some cases, they are facing were unprecedented situations where there were no known solutions' or if they did, there were far too many choices and few clear ones. With good judgment and great foresight, the transformation of organizations, people, and leaderships made last year were expected to bring profound and deeper impact to future business operation in the long term.
In this session, we invite several C-suite leaders and other senior executives to share their biggest takeaways on how he/she was coping with the unexpected challenges from the past year and their insights on how to prepare for the “new normal” to succeed in uncertainties.Charles Shao
Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry
Teresa Shi
Chief Financial Officer at Chayora
Gloria Xu
Vice President, Greater China at Dow Inc
Charles Yan
Managing Director | North China of Colliers International Property Services (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
- Tea break & Networking
- Panel II. HR perspectives: Make Agile Transformation in a Resilient Organization
Michelle Zhang•Steven Song•Melody Xu•Edward GuoResearch by McKinsey and the Harvard Business School found that companies that had launched agile transformations pre-COVID-19 performed better and moved faster post-COVID-19 than those that had not. Agile transformation requires team and organization operating in rapid learning and decision-making cycles and it touches every facet of the organization, including people, process, strategy, structure, and technology. In facts, many MNCs have been working on agile transformation over the last few years; however, the pandemic has vastly intensified speed and needs of agile transformation.
This discussion is meant to be a dialogue amongst business and functional leaders across different parts of organizations to discuss the top priorities and collaboration strategies of undertaking enterprise-wide agile transformation, especially the key to build agility with resilient to react to the crisis in fast-moving and technology-driven world.
Michelle Zhang
Head of HR at Pfizer Investment
Steven Song
Beijing Office Managing Director & Senior Client Partner of Korn Ferry Hay Group
Melody Xu
Head of Human Resources, Greater China at HP Inc.
Edward Guo
Head of HR, China at S&P Global
- Lunch Buffet
- Keynote: Deconstructing Digital Transformation in HR
Wei Wei
Wei Wei
Former Founder & CEO of McKinsey Academy at McKinsey & Company /Author/ Former Vice President of SAP
- Panel III. HR’s Role in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Annie Wang•Dr. Zhang Dongmei•Sylvia Pan•Johnny Choi•Cici WangHR is always taking the lead of establishing DEI strategy and advance staff diversity, equity, and inclusion in workplace. DEI includes many aspects, race, ethnicity, gender, generational diversity, disability inclusion, and LGBT Diversity etc.and it’s critical to create satisfying employee experience and build trust across every business function.
We invite HR leaders to share how they enhance DEI awareness and take actions on creating culture and environment that people can thrive and bring their unique backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas to the work.
Annie Wang
HRVP, Bayer Greater China & Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division for China and APAC
Dr. Zhang Dongmei
Distinguished Scientist, Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia
Sylvia Pan
Vice President United Family Healthcare; General Manager and CEO of Beijing United Family Hospital
Johnny Choi
Partner & Head of Employment, China at DLA Piper
Cici Wang
Executive Vice President & China Head of HR at Edelman
- Break and Mingle
- Workshop：New Ways of Working and Leading Organizations into the Future
Lin Gao•Malcolm Nerva•Natasha Miller NaderiBreakout Session A at Ballroom A&B, facilitated by Gao Lin:
This workshop is for leaders who needs to motivate their team into high performance, but find that using the traditional incentive system and directing telling communication can be lacking.
This 45-minute Keynote Training will show them how to use the Coaching approach to engage their team's intrinsic motivation, which can result in more consistent, sustaining, and self-driven results.
Breakout Session B at Ballroom C, facilitated by Natasha and Macolm:
We are living in times of exponential change. The world is rapidly re-organizing before our eyes and re-orienting itself to new set of patterns and requirements. Remote and hybrid ways of working are becoming the norm, traditional hierarchical structures are losing their relevance, networks and entrepreneurial teams are gaining strength.
Within this workshop, we'll explore new ways of working, experience new patterns of relationships through an interactive exercise, and engage in meaningful discussions to support and inspire you to chart your own evolutionary work journey
Lin Gao
Executive Coach/ Trainer/ Writer/CEO of Message Coach
Malcolm Nerva
Co-founder & Partner of Emerge Global LLC
Natasha Miller Naderi
Founder of Emerge Global LLC
- Lucky Draws
- Closing Remarks