HRRH congres 2019

Humans in the Day after Tomorrow

10:15

Julie’s scene setting keynote will kickstart your thinking during this conference. Join her on a trip into the Day After Tomorrow and explore which technologies and trends are defining our future canvas. A world, featured by both uncertainties and opportunities. We’ll look at its basic consequences for society, business and of course HR. In essence, it will give you both a sense of urgency, as a comforting reflection that you can start today. Hence, her invitation: kickstarting innovation today.

Julie is CEO at nexxworks, a company founded by Peter Hinssen, Steven Van Belleghem and Rik Vera. Nexxworks inspires and connects innovators all of the world by creating thought provoking experiences and meaningful connections.

After 5 years experiencing the corporate world, Julie shifted gears. Driven by entrepreneurship, curiosity and a passion for innovation, she took the lead in organizing and moderating nexxworks’ innovation programs all of the world. Since 2018, she is leading the nexxworks team and network into its own Day After Tomorrow.

Julie is a natural communicator who strongly believes in the power of people to succeed in the Day After Tomorrow. She combines a macro-level worldview with the pragmatic insights of what’s needed to shift people’s perspectives and routines. She is convinced that both are essential to succeed both in life as at work.

From a mammoth into a dolphin

11:00

Christien Van Vaerenberg is the Chief HR Officer for the Port of Antwerp.

Two years ago, the Port of Antwerp evolved from an autonomous municipal port into a public limited liability company. This shift has been quite consequential for the personnel structure. And together with the arrival of CEO Jacques Vandermeiren, it has been an important driver of the transformation.

The Port of Antwerp aims to evolve from a mammoth into a dolphin, with manoeuvrability and flexibility as its guiding principles. At the same time, the company strives to be a warm and caring organisation for its employees. HR is a strategic partner in making the company a home port, or haven, if you will, which is our link to a sustainable future.

The healthcare sector has undergone many changes following internal strategic decision-making, not to mention political decision-making at a federal level.

In the light of this complexity and in order to minimise the risk of overloading the various people driving these projects, Cliniques de l'Europe (Europe Hospitals) have implemented a certain number of tools to facilitate the continuous change via collaborative work based on four elements. It is this programme that he will talk about during our congress.

Arnaud Kamp has a basic training in industrial psychology, an additional masters in management and finance, and an executive master in the management of heath and care institutions. For nine years he has worked within an academic hospital in Brussels, where he has managed the strategic area of HR for the past six years.

Davio is the CEO and co-founder of Radix, an Artificial Intelligence agency. It's his goal to enable Radix to achieve maximum impact and improve as many lives as possible. An important area of expertise for Radix is the combination of HR and AI.

Door de snelle digitalisering en toename van nieuwe technologieën verandert de vraag naar de nieuwe vaardigheden steeds sneller. Hoe kan je je daar op voorbereiden?

What when management becomes automated?

14u00

What if your Boss was an Algorithm? What if automation won’t replace workers - but managers? Building on his highly influential work on the impact of the gig economy across the world, Jeremias will explore the rise of algorithmic management and ‘people analytics’: AI-driven tools designed to record and evaluate the performance of your workforce. Their potential cannot be understated: sophisticated algorithms improve decision making, and remove bias from key decisions, protecting employers and workers alike. At the same time, however, our increasing reliance on machine learning poses a number of fundamental challenges, from data collection and privacy to decision transparency. Drawing on extensive experience in advising companies, governments, and international organisations on tech policy and the future of work, this keynote will provide a clear and innovative roadmap for avoiding the pitfalls – and reaping the rewards – of adopting algorithmic management.

Jeremias is the award-winning author of numerous books in employment law, including most recently "Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy” (OUP 2018). His research on innovation policy and labour market regulation is frequently drawn on by governments and international organisations, and has been cited by courts, policy documents, and news organisations in multiple jurisdictions.

Together with Professor Abi Adams of the Oxford Department of Economics, Jeremias also writes on the law and economics of fragmenting labour markets and access to justice. His work has been recognised by a number of prizes for teaching, research, and public impact, including the Wedderburn Prize and the Apgar Prize, an Oxford University Teaching Award, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, an O2RB Excellence in Impact Award, and an ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize. Jeremias is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Social Contract, and tweets about innovation and the future of work @JeremiasPrassl.

The Neuroscience of Leadership

09:15

Dr. Steven Poelmans is professor of Neuroscience and Strategic Leadership at Antwerp Management School (BE) and EADA Business School (SP). He holds a M. Organizational Psychology, M. Marketing Management, Ph.D. Management, and Postgraduate in Neuroscience of Leadership.

He is the founder of the NeuroTrainingLab™, a neuroscience-based leadership development methodology. Dr. Poelmans has twenty years of teaching experience at seven business schools in three continents, teaching Organizational Behavior, Managerial Communication, Cross-Cultural Management, (Neuro)/Leadership, and Coaching.

He is author of several dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals, five academic books, and 28 book chapters.

Originally from Flanders, Belgium, Steven lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Stay Human

10:30

Piet Colruyt is an administrator (at Impact Capital and other organisations) and investor. He is also the co-founder of Impact House. Personal growth training in his family company Colruyt and the book ‘How to Change the World?’ by David Bornstein were decisive milestones in the life and career of Piet Colruyt. He realised that his background and experiences could and should benefit entrepreneurs wanting to combine the best of two worlds: a liveable business model and as great a social impact as possible. Apart from being an entrepreneur, Piet is first and foremost an impact investor who fully believes in the compatibility between the three Ps of People, Planet and Profit.

Job market: future without jobs or jobs without a future?

12:15

We are increasingly inundated nowadays with such notions as robotisation, automation, AI and disruption. There does not seem to be any aspect of the economy that is immune to the increasingly faster and more far-reaching changes. More and more technological evolutions have a significant impact on the job market and how we work. Will there be any jobs at all in the future? What kinds of jobs will humans still be able to do? And what kinds of skills will people need to be sure of work and what will the job market of the future look like? The answers to these and lots of other questions will be provided by economist Peter De Keyzer during his keynote speech. Through historic examples, technological evolutions and best practices, he will explore the future of the job market.

Adviseur Arbeidsrecht en Competitiviteit, Kabinet van Minister Kris Peeters

Inger Verhelst geeft cliënten dagdagelijks advies in individueel en collectief arbeidsrecht en begeleidt cliënten bij ontslagen, reorganisaties, overnames en onderhandelingen met vakbonden. Zij volgt de ontwikkelingen met betrekking tot de einde loopbaan problematiek. Inger pleit ook regelmatig voor de arbeidsrechtbanken.

Een bijzondere belangstelling gaat uit naar discriminatie en psychosociaal welzijn op het werk. Inger adviseert bovendien zeer regelmatig over privacy- en gegevensbeschermingswetgeving, in het bijzonder de Europese Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming (GDPR).

Zij is een regelmatig spreekster op interne en externe seminaries in binnen- en buitenland en publiceerde diverse juridische artikels. Zij is mede-auteur van het jaarlijks boek "Einde loopbaanregelingen" en het "Praktijkboek Ontslag". Inger is lid van de "International Expert Groups on Discrimination and Data Protection" binnen de internationale advocatenalliantie Ius Laboris. In de "Who’s Who Legal 2021" wordt zij aanbevolgen als volgt: “Inger Verhelst ranks highly among peers for her in-depth understanding of collective and individual labour law matters”.

Inger Verhelst is gastdocent voor sociaal recht aan de Antwerp Management School van de Universiteit Antwerpen (bijzonder opleiding Master in Human Resources Management) en aan de Karel de Grote Hogeschool te Antwerpen.

Hij is hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. Ive is verbonden aan het Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck, waar hij onderzoek leidt in de domeinen van inkomens- en vermogensongelijkheid, arbeidsmarkt en migratie.