Talent Agenda Series- Nairobi, 8-9 September 2016, Radisson Blu Hotel Nairobi
Thursday 8 September
Day 1
08:30
Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:55
Chair’s Opening Address
09.00
Keynote Address
The Road Ahead For East African Businesses & Human Capital Management Strategies
Receive the CEO’s perspective on the major trends, drivers, opportunities and challenges shaping
East African businesses and the strategies surrounding human capital management. Hear a candid
assessment of the impact shifting demographics and regional and international drivers will have on
the key HR issue of developing a value proposition tailored to attracting, retaining and compensating
the mix of skills your business will need to succeed in the marketplace of the future.
Admassu Tadesse, President & CEO, PTA BANK
09.20
Regional View
East African Employer Of Choice – Exclusive Insight For Recruitment
Capitalise on unique data insight to understand candidate motivation, align your employer value
proposition and optimise recruitment to attract the best talent in East Africa.
Alex Mugan, Marketing Director, GLOBAL CAREER COMPANY
09.50
Engaging, Attracting & Retaining Talent: Emerging Trends In East Africa
Matthew McDonnell, Senior Consultant, WILLIS TOWERS WATSON
Crispin Marriott, WILLIS TOWERS WATSON
10.30
Networking Break
11.00
Keynote Address
Investing In People - Incubation For Future Innovation
Explore how to foster a culture of creativity and internal innovation, use training to increase levels of
expertise and take advantage of technological advancements to drive sustainable growth in your
business and in the local economy.
Manu Chandaria, Chairman, SAFAL GROUP
11.20
Regional View
Embracing Cognitive Era – Making Every Employee An Innovator
Review the value of innovation in the cognitive systems era and how to overcome the time, capital
and talent constraints to innovation in your business.
Explore how you can augment human skills and scale expertise across your enterprise to generate
new ideas that create a competitive advantage, drive economic growth and lead to market success.
David Leahy, Partner, KPMG AFRICA
11.50
Panel Discussion
Recruitment In Balance – Creating A Cost Effective & Valuable Process
Hear different perspective on how to maximise return from your recruitment activity.
Evaluate talent sourcing, attraction and assessment strategies for local and diaspora talent pools and
the cost and time-saving measures you can adopt to ensure the process is cost efficient and valuable.
Moderator: Carol Hondonga, Global Talent Acquisition CoE Leader, Sub Saharan Africa, GE AFRICA
Talent Agenda Series- Nairobi, 8-9 September 2016, Radisson Blu Hotel Nairobi
Mbuvi Ngunze, CEO & Group Managing Director, KENYA AIRWAYS
Susan Maingi, Corporate Communications Director, LAFARGE HOLCIM
Charles Kazuka, Chief Human Resources Officer, NMB
Bancy Gakuru, Head of Talent Management, Africa & Middle East (AME), SYNGENTA
12.40
13.00
Keynote Address
Inspiring & Extracting Value From Your Team
Examine how your organisation structure, flow of communication and value proposition can create a
culture that encourages employees to add value to the business and receive value in return.
James Mworia, Group CEO, CENTUM INVESTMENT
Lunch
14.00
Capitalising On Engagement As A Powerful Source Of Improved Performance
Understand how engagement can be improved to and used as a powerful source of performance.
Razeeah B Belath, Area Head Human Resources East & Central Africa, BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO
(BAT)
14.30
Panel Discussion
Evolving Engaging Performance Practices – Is Your Engagement Process Still Fit For Purpose?
Evaluate the different ways to maximise and measure engagement and demonstrate the benefits of
engaged employees to the business
Moderator: Alban Mwendar, HR Consultant
Benson Wangalwa, Human Resources and Organisation Director, BAMBURI CEMENT LIMITED
Rosalind Gichuri, Marketing, Communications & Citizenship Director, NIC BANK
Yida Kemoli, Senior Partner – East Africa, PHATISA
WILLIS TOWERS WATSON
15.15
Networking Break
15.45
Chat Show
Developing Leaders - Creating, Growing, Motivating & Retaining The Leaders Of Tomorrow
Review and reconsider how you define leadership and align leadership development with
organisational and individuals’ growth objectives.
Benefit from the experience of a variety of thought leaders and learn the types of changes you can
make to achieve growth and contribute to regional capacity development.
Host: Darren Cross, VP of People, BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIES
Christopher Kirigua, Executive Director & Regional Head of Public Sector, STANDARD CHARTERED
BANK
Josephine Mwaniki, HR Director East & West Africa (SSA) Cluster, NIELSEN (AC NIELSEN) - KENYA
Virginie Fernandez, Human Resources Director, LVMH
Freddy West, Investment Consultant- Human Capital, CDC GROUP
16.40
Keynote Address
Suleiman I. Kiggundu, Regional Director for Africa, CDC GROUP
17.00
Chair’s Remarks & Close of Day 1
Talent Agenda Series- Nairobi, 8-9 September 2016, Radisson Blu Hotel Nairobi
Friday 9 September
Day 2
Stream 1
08.55
Chairman’s Welcome:
09.00
Re-imagining Talent For Africa
Presentation followed by
interactive workshop
A deep exploration into
developing talent development
programmes that effectively
contextualise your approach to
talent and allow you to redesign
the talent landscape.
Stream 2
Stream 3
Evidence-based HR: Leveraging
Data & Analytics For Better HR
Decisions
Joao Vaz, Partner & Regional Head
of People & Change, KPMG AFRICA
Gender & Diversity In Business
Presentation followed by
interactive workshop
Jimmy Masinde, Associate
Director, Management Consulting,
KPMG EAST AFRICA
Understand how you can use
and implement the right tools
to embed talent development
into the values and culture of
your organisation.
Sarah Richson, Global HR
Director, TECHNO BRAIN
LIMITED
11.00
Networking Break
11.30
Re-imagining Talent For Africa
Sarah Richson, Global HR
Director, TECHNO BRAIN
LIMITED
12.30
Close of Conference
A deep exploration into how you
can define and drive key goals of
equality that go beyond
legislation and are embedded n
your organisation’s values and
EVP.
Assess how you can integrate
gender progression and talent
diversity into strategy to achieve
key goals and capitalise on
untapped talent.
Mary Waceke Thongoh-Muia, HR
Consultant
Leveraging Millennial Talent For
Future Leadership: An FMCG
Perspective
Evans Mutai, HR Director, KENYA
BREWERIES LTD – EABL
Gender & Diversity In Business
Mary Waceke Thongoh-Muia, HR
Consultant