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ABOUT SHRMMENA23

The limitless potential of people came to the fore in the wake of recent disruptions in the world of work. As workplaces adopted technology to tide over calamity, we also learnt to embrace diversity and put the lens on the need for inclusion. It is time now, to co-create revolutionary strategies to help work, workers and the workplace level up and stand firm with organisational ethos.

The SHRM Annual MENA Conference 2023 will help emphasize the need to build long-standing partnerships at work, while celebrating victories, learning from the adversities and building on our collective efforts towards creating better workplaces. Now is the time to move Together Towards Tomorrow.

50
speakers
15
Learning Hours
1650
HR & Tech Leaders
30
Sessions
150
CXOs
50
Nationalities
What You Can do at #SHRMMENA23
Get A Head Start Into The World Of Work & Be Future-Fit
Gain access to actionable insights and strategies to propel towards a business world that is progressive, empathetic, and novel, all at once!
Join The Most Influential Global Leaders & Subject Matter Experts
Be inspired by the unique insights shared by world-renowned influencers on tried-and-tested, yet innovative HR practices that will change the world of work
Make The Most Of A Plethora Of Mega Sessions To Maximize Learnings & Takeaways
Opportunity to attend and get certificates at world-class Masterclasses from SHRM and SHRM’s Global partners
Get Up Close With Thought Leaders & Network With Peers
Unique opportunity network with peers & experts to get abreast on the latest trends to stay ahead of the Best People Practices and Strategies for growth through group chats to grow your network
Stay On Top Of Your Hr Game: Gain Shrm Re-Certification Credits
Stay current with your SHRM CP® or SHRM SCP® certification - earn up to 15 re-certification credits (PDCs) with unique opportunities to learn over two days of intense, thought-provoking sessions
Invest Your Time Wisely
Over the past 75 years, SHRM has been elevating HR and SHRMMENA23 will equip you to navigate the future with knowledge and confidence
#SHRMMENA23 SPEAKERS

Ron Kaufman

Global Keynote Speaker
Best Selling Author & World's No. 1 Customer Experience Guru

Marc Effron

President
The Talent Strategy Group

Achal Khanna

Chief Executive Officer
SHRM East

Jonathan Holmes

Managing Director, Middle East, Turkey & Africa (META) & Managing Director Professional Search & Interim EMEA, Korn Ferry

Abdullah Alzahrani

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Tharwah

Roberto Croci

Director - Value Creation & Transformation
AbdulrahmanAlsheail

Abdulrahman Alsheail

Director, KPMG Saudi Arabia & MISK 2030 Leader

Hilal Al Jadidi

Chief People and Change Officer, Omran Group

Susan Armstrong

Certified Global Talent Development Professional/International Speaker

Dr. Sid Ahmed Benraouane

Dubai Government Advisory, US ISO Delegate, Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Sarlem Digital Transformation & SHRM SME & Master Facilitator

Oshba Mubarak

Head of Training & Development & People Performance Management, Abu Dhabi Housing Authority

Pallav Popli

CRO & Employee Engagement Evangelist, Vantage Circle

Vivek Arora

Managing Director, SHRM MENA

Emma Brain

Presenter, Voiceover Artist, Events Host & Coach

Yamen Zein

Senior Knowledge Advisor, SHRM MENA

Nida Shahid

Director, Knowledge & Advisory SHRM MENA

Leanne Caret

Former President & CEO, Boeing Defense

H.E. Dr. Eesa Bastaki

President, University of Dubai

Major General Dr. Saleh Abdullah Murad

Director of the General Department of Human Resources, Dubai Police

David Fairhurst

Founder, OrgShakers

Scott Osman

Founder & CEO, 100 Coaches

Dr. Mohammed Alwaibari

Board Member, Former Deputy Minister - Ministry of Commerce, CEO Advisor, Leejam Sports Company

Dr. Lina Abu Baker

Executive Director, Arab Women Authority

Rami Busbait

Head HR in Sales, Trading & Supply Planning, Saudi Aramco

Dr. Butti AlMarar

Human Resources Manger, Dubai Police

Jacquelyn Lane

President, 100 Coaches

Ali AbuHaliqa

SVP, Human Capital & Corporate Services, Mubadala Energy

Lina EL Assaad

Executive, Leadership & Team Coach President International Coaching Federation (ICF) UAE Chapter

Khalid A. Aloraij

Vice Chairman & CEO, KABi

Abdulla Al Hamed

Managing Partner, Intermid & IDP Global

Hind Ahmed Nasser

Data Analyst, Dubai Police

Turki AlNagaidan

Chief Human Capital Officer, Saudi Credit Bureau

Omar Al-Ammary

Chief Shared Services Officer, Medgulf Saudi Arabia

Noora Jassim

HR Assistant Expert, Fahr

David Jones

Founder & CEO, The Talent Enterprise

Mona Fekri

Chief Human Capital Officer, Ducab

Nihal Hammad

Chief Human Resources Officer, Americana Foods

Waseem Husami

Sr. OD and Talent Management Consultant, Tharwah

Fatima Alloghani

Emiratisation Director, Majid Al Futtaim

Iktimal Daneshvar

Vice President, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) - MEA, Korn Ferry

Dr. Ahmad Khamis

Board Member & Deputy CEO, KABi

Mira Zakharia

Senior Director, Human Resources, Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority

Jason Radisson

Founder & CEO, Movo

Dr. Muhanned Al Asfoor

Head - Mashora (EAP) program, Omantel

Najib Makarem

Group Chief Human Capital Officer, BEEAH Group

Rohit Manucha

Human Resources Director, Core42

Vijay Gandhi

Regional Director, Korn Ferry Digital - EMEA

Arpi Karapetyan

Founder & General Manager, Cascade People & Business

Abdulrahman Saud Algharbi

VP - Business Development & Account Management Division, Emdad Al Khebrat

Rahul Bharti

Executive Vice President & Head of HR, Zee Entertainment

Pavan Bhatia

Founder, GenWE Inc, & Co-Founder CareerGPS.me

Rebeca Fernandez

CEO & Co-founder, AwAre

Todd Holzman

Founder, Holzman Leadership

Dr. Arun Prasad

Founder & CEO, Bullseye Experts

Yasmine Dessouky

Talent Management, DE&I and Leadership Development Senior Manager, Vodafone

Vipul Mathur

Country Leader, PeopleStrong

Marc Abdo

Managing partner, Digital Revamp

Mohamed Sami

Associate CIPD/Managing Director, North Star Management Consultancy

Chandrasekar S

Chief Operation Officer & Business Head - EMEA, ZingHR

Radhika Punshi

Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Talent Enterprise

Shaheen Lakdawalla

Business Head Talent Management - MENA, Weace

Amit Jain

Chief People Officer, PeopleStrong

Nada Khalid Alhassan

Senior Director of Business Development Department, Emdad Al Khebrat

Deepika P Burman

Head of Asia Pacific Operations, The Talent Enterprise

Ehsan Fahmi

Client Success Director, The Talent Enterprise

Lyanne Nathaniel

Head Retail & Customer Experience, SHRM India & MENA

Rania Adnan

Associate Director – Business Development, SHRM Mena
Conference Topics At A Glance
The Great Power Shift
Exploring New Possibilities

Talent Strategies to Win the Great Reshuffle

Making Flexi-work Succeed

The Age of the Talent Ninja

Building Agile Businesses
Making Insight-led Decisions
the Centre of your Talent Strategy

Tomorrow’s Talent

Mastering a Changing Environment

Data Intelligence

The Key to Unlocking HR's Strategic Potential
Boundless, Fluid & Interdisciplinary
Reimagining the Future of L&D

Pivot from Inclusion to Belonging

Culture as Fulcrum

Financial Inclusion & Mental Wellbeing

Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Recruitment Done Right
Why Hiring Better & Faster is All Important

Staying Ahead of the Skills Gap

with Transformative Learning Experiences

Credentials vs. Competencies

Building a Future-Ready Team
Business Acumen for HR
Building your Credibility, Career, and Organization

Skilling for Tomorrow

Going Local for Scalable Impact

The Future of Wellness at Work

Using Technology to Invest in Employee Mental Health
From Mental Health Awareness to Action
Time for a Shift in Focus

DEI

From a Gender Perspective

HR Leadership

Servicing Both Employees and Business
AGENDA
  • DAY I: WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2022
  • DAY II: THURSDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2022
 
 

Johnny C. Taylor

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP

President & CEO, SHRM
Achal Khanna

Achal Khanna

CEO – SHRM India, MENA and APAC

Betty Thompson

Betty Thompson

Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton & Board Chair, SHRM

As we examine the future of work, the potential impression that HR's leadership can make in ensuring business success is immense. In keeping with our belief that HR has the power and the responsibility to advance the very nature of business to create better workplaces and ultimately, a better world, SHRM’s new brand initiative: Cause the Effect focuses on the new horizon of the world of work, and seeks to actively influence the landscape of business.

We are living an earned life when the choices, risks, and effort we make in each moment align with an overarching purpose in our lives, regardless of the eventual outcome. Know more about discovering the steps to earning your path to fulfillment and living without regrets - from the world-renowned executive coach and New York Times bestselling author himself.

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith

Executive Leadership Coach and Author

Cultivating a strong company culture is more important than ever, especially with more teams working remotely and organizations are on a mission to reduce the stress of today's workforce and help them find a work life balance to improve their overall wellbeing. Beyond this, the need to ensure financial wellbeing of employees has gained popularity in recent times. In this session, know more about the benefits Financial Inclusion, Earned Wage Access (EWA), and how technology can help implement such benefits.

The workforce, and the workplace, are changing at a pace faster than ever before, and to deliver maximum impact on results and effectively align teams and talent with the organization's strategic plans, leaders must deeply understand the business, focus strategically, understand how to influence change, and play a key role in solving business problems. Join this session to be able to thrive in the business environment of the future by exploring progressive ways to evolve and disrupt traditional business practices, while building the relationships and influence necessary to gain approval and executive support.

Jim Link

Jim Link

CHRO, SHRM

Stories resonate and stick with the audience in ways that data alone does not. When it comes to presenting data effectively, the use of pictures and story-telling cannot be emphasized enough. Know more about eliminating clutter, building credibility and ultimately driving audiences to understand and act, as part of this session.

If there were any boundaries between work and life remaining, those were shattered as our work entered our homes on a more full-time (or over-time!) basis. And weren't we saying we were too busy before all of this? Professionals are being stretched to the limit, and burnout is just around the corner if we can't find and maintain balance in our lives. This session is a fresh breath of air for you to set boundaries, preserve your energy, and banish burnout once and for all, to reengage with meaningful work.

Samer M. Bokharee

Samer M. Bokharee

CHRO, Nahdi Medical Company
Nawaf Kably, Chartered FCIPD

Nawaf Kably, Chartered FCIPD

Chief Human Resources Officer – Saudi Arabia, Gulf International Bank – Saudi Arabia

The hybrid workplace has brought in the realization that blended learning is a common-sense concept that results in great learning success. The blended learning approach is a lot more than simply acknowledging that one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to training. Blended learning can be a big advantage since more than one training method to train on one subject is utilized. Hear from experts on how the upskilling and reskilling requirements can be met aided by technology.

There is a direct and measurable relationship between employee engagement and an organization's success. Employees who know that they are working towards goals that drive business outcomes, as well as their own goals for professional growth and learning, develop ownership in the organization's success that boosts employee engagement. Join this session to connect the dots from organization goals to job descriptions to individual goals, learn the different goal types and measures, and see how ongoing coaching and feedback leads to a more effective performance review process.

In the GCC, the workforce has traditionally been cosmopolitan and mostly made of expats. This trend has been challenged over the past few years where GCC governments have taken a firm stand on nationalization efforts to ensure that the native population is not overlooked. Join this session to see how you can optimize your workplace to attract local talent and shift the mindset in your organization from seeing nationalization as a compliance mandate to seeing it as a socially responsible role to build the local talent and give back to the local communities as well as being a key competitive advantage and a driver for the economy.

Nabil Al Messabi

Nabil Al Messabi

CHRO, Taqa
Fatima Alloghani

Fatima Alloghani

Emiratisation Director, Majid Al Futtaim - Holding

Understandably, managers are the greatest drivers of engagement for their direct reports. People join companies, but leave managers. With the Great Resignation raging on, modern management is all about empowering teams and retaining top performers. Providing for superlative employee experience while ensuring ample avenues for career progression hold the key to long tenures in organizations. In this session, you'll learn how to build a high-performing and engaged team that can tackle any business challenge, any day.

Najib Makarem

Najib Makarem

Group Chief Human Capital Officer, BEEAH Group
Nadeem Baig

Nadeem Baig

CHRO, Aramex International LLC. – Dubai

Diverse, Digital, & Distributed workforces are the future. And in the absence of a culture of ownership, grasping success can be challenging. It is important to bring objectivity to subjective ideas in terms of what an ownership culture entails. Every workplace has Owners, Renters, and Vandals. Owners make big commitments, continually increase value, reach for responsibility, include others, and see the big picture. Shaping an environment, whether in-person or remote, where everyone wants to invest their best daily, transforms culture! This session will equip you with language, understanding, and tactical next steps towards achieving success.

The classic performance appraisal process has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Shifting from a once-a-year review process to make pay decisions and disciplinary actions, the performance management system is now a business driver and an employee retention tool. Some organizations have abolished the performance appraisal but still have a performance management process. This session underscores the shift of the performance management system to a more productive, versatile, value contribution process that pleases employees, their managers, and top executives.

Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D.

Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D.

Chairman, ROI Institute

While technology is undoubtedly among the leading factors impacting business disruption, it often takes a lot more than technology alone to ensure business success. Organizations need to also consider the human side, to make digital transformation succeed. Leaders need to foster the right digital culture and enable the right technological tools and empower people for digital success. This session will explore actionable insights for leaders to improve digital leadership and culture in their organizations.

Most people are inclined to put their energy into dealing with what's right in front of them-that is, what needs to be done today. But when it comes to the future workforce, prioritizing the here and now is not the optimal strategy. To keep pace with the anticipated demands and priority shifts of the next decade, organizations must start actively engaging in developing workforces today, and technology plays a major role in ensuring this transformation. In this session, know how leaders can leverage the best of WorkTech with key leadership skills in order to engage their current workforce and motivate them to up their game.

Mussad Sabah AlDhobei

Mussad Sabah AlDhobei

CHRO, Takamol
Haithem A Albalawi

Haithem A Albalawi

Chief HR Officer, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH)

Hybrid work brought with it a unique set of perks, as well as challenges. With the flexibility and excessive exposure to technology, came the perils of weakened cybersecurity and its devastating after-effects. As the threat of malware attacks loom, organizations are having to ramp up their efforts to secure safe usage of technology and identify trusted devices so as to protect the emotional wellbeing of its people. This session explores how blockchain technology and quantum mechanics can be used to fortify your organization's cybersecurity safety net.

While referring to Technology and the Future of Work, it's only fair that organizations ponder over which path to adopt. Some experts predict a dystopia with high employee dissatisfaction caused by technology overdose, while others foresee a utopia where technology plays the role of a saviour in our lives. The determining factor would be how the world of work and its support system would respond to the ever-changing scenario. This session discusses perspectives associated with the need for WorkTech innovation and its ramifications.

Manish Misra

Manish Misra

Group Head HR Transformation & Special Projects, Emirates National Oil Company

Energy is everything. It is the spark that brings hope, joy and the ability to express who we truly are so that we may share our unique gifts with the world around us. Once we discover what energizes people, we must then create a space for their interests and passions to be nurtured, developed and shared. When this occurs, magic is born - especially when their story is aligned with that of the organization they work for. In this inspiring session, you will learn how to awaken the energetic potential of your workforce as a catalyst for sparking creativity, innovation and extraordinary career stories.

Simon Alexander Ong

Simon Alexander Ong

Life Coach & Business Strategist

In today's and future workplaces, organizations are under pressure to compete and sustain the growth of the business and its continuity. Leaders can no longer afford to rely on 'comfortable' hiring decisions and need to challenge their existing paradigms when it comes to empowering women, youth, and people of determination. Women are at times subconsciously dismissed because 'only a man can do the job', so are youth and people of determination because they either 'don't have enough experience' or 'are not fully capable' respectively. Join this session to see how you can shift this paradigm in your business and leverage these exceptionally capable diverse groups to help support your organization's vision, strategy, and business continuity.

Fara Sidiqi

Fara Sidiqi

Global CHRO, Aster Group

Mental health is overlooked by many people and stigmatized by even more. But attitudes are changing and the pandemic has accelerated that shift. As employees open up, the overall feeling is that they felt worn down, burnt out and irritable at the end of the workday. As organizations scamper to implement innovative EAPs encompassing mandatory, incentivized mental health days, mental health scheduling support, and subscription services for mental wellness, this session discusses how selfcare needs to be made the new norm to deal with the issue before it snowballs into an all-new pandemic.

Marjorie Morrison

Marjorie Morrison

CEO & Co-Founder, Psych Hub

Empathy is a critical HR leadership skill. It helps to build and sustain positive workplace relationships, foster diversity and inclusion, encourage cooperation and collaboration, and facilitate conflict management. Empathy generates an appreciation for others, paving the way to more productive working relationships. As managers realize the need to hone empathic leadership skills, improve leadership effectiveness and increase their organizational culture, this session explores ways to create a culture of empathy to have a pulse on your team and provide insights on how to meet the needs of your employees.

REGISTRATION

Platinum

Conference with 2 Masterclasses (30th of October) + One-day workshop with Ron Kaufman
(31st of October)
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Member

$3,500

Gold Pass

Conference with 2 Masterclasses (30th of October)
Regular
Member

$2,799

Become A Member

$2,999

Silver Pass

Conference Only
(1-2 November)
Regular
Member

$2,099

Become A Member

$2,199


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Conference Venue

Atlantis, The Palm

Address: Crescent Rd – The Palm Jumeirah – Dubai – United Arab Emirates

Accomodation Royal Central Hotel & Resort The palm Hotel Radisson Blu Media City
Hotel Address East Crescent road, palm Jumeriah , Dubai UAE Media City-Dubai
Contact Person Krishna, Aivie, Divian & Aisha Megha Karnik
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Price per night 240$ 175$
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SHRM MENA

To help our learners stay safe and healthy, SHRM has curated a menu of virtual learning options for your professional development. So what if you cannot make it to the physical classroom?

Conference Venue
Hotel Address

East Crescent road, palm Jumeriah , Dubai UAE

Contact Person

Krishna, Aivie, Divian & Aisha

Contact Number

0097148739320

Contact Email

[email protected]

Price per night

240$

Inclusive

Breakfast & Bed

Check In

2PM

Check Out

12PM

Occupancy

Single

Promo Code

“SHR-ORG”

Hotel Address

Media City-Dubai

Contact Person

Megha Karnik

Contact Number

009714366 9111

Contact Email

reservations.dubai@
radissonblu.com

Price per night

136$

Inclusive

Breakfast & Bed

Check In

2PM

Check Out

12PM

Occupancy

Single

Promo Code

“No code”