Past Agenda

For 12 years, ADAPT have hosted local heads of technology, finance, data and digital. We know in depth their challenges, aims, pain points and barriers. Almost universally they see roadblocks to success in conflicting business priorities, legacy mindsets, productivity and culture problems.

HR is now undergoing a huge transformation – with companies keen to do their best to attract, retain, empower, and engage today’s multi-generational and distributed workforce. More than ever, our people are core to success, with positive and purposeful employee experiences the foundation for digital maturity and future growth.

ADAPT’s research and advisory team reveal the latest local fact-based insights, based upon 20,000 conversations and over 1,000 detailed surveys of our region’s executive finance, digital, security, HR and IT leaders. Gabby will compare the resource allocation, investment priorities, EX strategies and unique challenges of the Australian CHRO – helping you to benchmark and validate your priorities and thinking. Also revealing the core findings distilled from your aggregated pre-event surveys and those of your executive peers on their drivers, aims and opinions on your People, Culture and EX strategy.

Macro economic conditions mean we’re being asked to do more with less, and yet we look around and see a post-pandemic frazzled workforce. But when we come up for air and look at the culprits holding back our businesses from the nimbleness and efficiency we dream of, we see that our people just aren’t collaborating effectively across our organisation.

In this session, Dom will share some insights around how to build Shared Understanding, Flow and Learning Velocity across your organisation. Can you imagine a world with delighted customers, fast time to value, and senior executives who can see what we’re doing and why we’re doing it? Now let’s make that dream a reality.

It’s now widely acknowledged that emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) will have a profound impact on how we work, and the jobs we do. The World Economic Forum has released data suggesting 14 million jobs will disappear globally in the next 5 years. But what does this mean for Australia, and Australian business leaders? What industries and roles will be impacted? And how can you create a workforce fit for the future?

Hear from ServiceNow, sharing new research conducted in partnership with Faethm, a Pearson company, with insights and data that predict and map how automation and AI will affect organisations across Australia. Discover what jobs will change, the impact on a range of industries, and what skills will be in demand in future. Learn the trends shaping the way we work, and how you can understand and prepare for the significant changes on the horizon. This session will equip you with the data and tools to plan your workforce strategy, so you can invest in your people, manage change, and ensure your employees are fit for the future.

New MIT Board research for Australian firms on people, data and cyber being presented for the first time at People Edge.

Kristine’s current research explores what it takes for large companies to transform their workforce to be relevant in a digital world. Together with colleagues at MIT CISR, newly published data will help firms understand the degree to which their workforce is future-ready – and show practically how and why future-ready people are the foundation to successful data, cyber and digital transformations.

Kristine’s work explores the employee experience in the context of Agile Ways of Working, Virtual Connectivity, and what it takes to attract and retain the Talent with the digital skills to successfully deliver on the challenges of new digital business models. She works closely with research colleagues both at MIT CISR and Macquarie Business School to ensure that her research is integrated into the broader context of digital transformation in Australia and New Zealand.

Amidst a tight labour market with skills shortages, inflation, and challenging business conditions, employee experience has become increasingly crucial. ADAPT’s survey suggests that 73% of CHROs are prioritising employee experience and well-being initiatives for 2023-2024.

Less than 35% of HR teams consider their transformational projects successful. Often, the return on value from technology investments are set over a long period of time, with long implementation and training periods. In this fast-paced world, this is no longer a viable strategy. You need to extract the value of these investments as quickly as possible. That starts with driving adoption at the point of inception, long before implementation, roll-out, and training.

What approaches can you take to overcome these challenges to ensure that your technology investments deliver optimum value? How can HR leaders build strategic partnerships with other business units to drive future readiness, agility, and exponential growth.

Recent research from Slack reveals that companies worldwide are underutilising technologies like AI and automation, hindering employee productivity.

• Only 23% of companies invest in productivity-improving technology, and 27% use AI tools.
• Outdated work practices and tools prevent employees from reaching their full potential.
• Embracing AI is associated with an increase in productivity, but 60% of employees report no AI implementation.

AI and automation can sound like complicated concepts for most people. However, Slack puts automation in every person’s hands to transform how work happens in your business. Slack is your productivity platform that empowers anyone to use automation easily and effortlessly.

In this session, you’ll see how Slack helps to reduce the barriers to technology adoption, redefine productivity metrics, enable effective collaboration and improve employee engagement and well-being all the way through the employee lifecycle.