The SLASSCOM People Summit currently taking place from 25th – 27th January features the challenges that organizations face when adapting to a hybrid workplace model that revolves around the maintenance of employee morale and productivity and the increased need for organizations to increase and maintain employee engagement in a manner that promotes increased participation and minimizes frustration and inefficiencies.
This Annual flag ship event is held this year under the theme of Engaging, Coaching and Leading People in a Hybrid World. The Summit consists of 12 speakers who are at the very top of their professional fields conducting several educational and informational panel discussions on some of the most pressing matters for those adopting hybrid workplace models in the IT /BPM industry.
These include David King, CEO of Tribal Habits presenting the topic “What is your organization’s ‘knowledge culture’?”, Ole Bent Rye, Founder & Principal OBR Coaching on “The Hybrid Workplace Experts Leadership Skill Sets in the Era of Hybrid Teams”, Dr. Birjendu Gupta, Founder/ CEO – Birjendu Gupta & Associates, on “The confluence of Individual and Team Coaching in a virtual world” and Pia Lauritzen, Philosopher & Founder of Qvest.io on “The four leadership hacks on how to use questions to ensure impact”.
This is followed by Alex Draper , CEO & Founder on “how to rapidly build psychological safety with a dispersed and diverse team”, Nikhil Raval Author of Target Gen Z Leadership & Learning Advisor Org Culture & Strategy Expert, on “the Leadership Challenges and Opportunities of a Hybrid Working Model”, and Sureish Nathan, Managing Director at DDI Singapore, Vice President Asia-Pacific, Leadership Consultant, Executive Coach, on “a Data-Centric Approach to Planning Leadership Succession”.
Other salient topics discussed comprise of “How to Drive Engagement, Wellbeing & Productivity in the New Normally” by Isabell Dittmar and on “Driving High Performance and Engagement through Workplace Learning” by Charles Jennings.
The rest of the distinguished speakers comprise of Dr. Michael Mol, Global Speaker and Medical Doctor, Sarah Bolton Howard, Change Leader, Global Strategist and Business Innovator, Kavitha Iyer, Founder – Cresca Consulting Pte Ltd, and Rasika Karunatilake, Vice President and General Manager at Sysco LABS.
The summit also comprise of a panel discussion “View on Workforce by Leaders” joined by Thanuja Jayawardene, General Manager – Sustainability at MAS Holdings, Sunder Ramachandran, Country Head – GSK Pharmaceuticals for Sri Lanka & Maldives, Anna Kalm, Founder and CEO of Ascentic moderated by Shanelle De Almeida, Clinical Psychologist and Group Wellness Manager of Hemas Holdings PLC where they will discuss on key aspects of next generation talent pool focusing CEO expectation.
Simultaneously, the summit expects to flip the conversation from top down discussions where CXO’s , Senior Managers share their view points whilst Gen Z and Millennials will also express expectations in the hybrid world. Sabry Moulana, Technical Architect at 99x, Pawani Perera, Associate – Executive Operations at Sysco LABS, Malindra Perera, Associate Consultant at Attune, Ishara Kaluthanthri, Manager Global IT support Centre at IFS R&D International Pvt Ltd will take the stage of the panel discussion “Chat with Next Gen” moderated by Satchin Semage, Senior Executive Pre-Sales and HR Analytics at hSenid Business Solutions.
Overall, the SLASSCOM People Summit seeks to provide organizations with a comprehensive education on the maintenance and adoption of the new workplace models, along with current trends and best practices.
The event is organized by SLASSCOM HR Forum and will be held in partnership with Sysco LABS as their Exclusive Strategic Sponsor, and Dialog as the Corporate Sponsor. IFS will be the Gold Partner for the event with 99x as the Silver Sponsor, hSenid as the Technology Partner, NDB as the Banking Partner, IIT as the – Education Partner along with HRP, ACCA, CIMA and CFA as the Event Partners.
