Training and Development Africa 2016
Conference agenda
VIP conference agenda
Day one – Tuesday 18 October 2016
08:00 Registration & welcome refreshments
08:50 Chairpersons opening address
Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa
KEYNOTE PLENARY
THE BIG PICTURE
09:00 How to revive the “working dead” with a digital learning culture
 Employee motivation and mentoring
 Deepen their existing competencies
 Discover career pathways that both fulfill their goals and meet the needs of your business
 Make the learning experience as engaging as possible
Shane McCauley, Director: People Systems and Analytics, Twitter, USA
09:30 Get ready for work in 2030
 What to do as the boundaries of work, human capital and learning blur
 Learning technologies that are changing how we change
 What will the future talent pool look like?
 Are you changing fast enough?
 Looking after staff and the bottom line
Glen Clancy, Head of Global Instructional Design, eBay, United Kingdom
10:00 Artificial intelligence (AI): how it will improve your HR functionality
 How can AI identify challenges
 Predicting and providing insight into turnover
 Improving social and organisational reconfiguration using AI technology
 Will AI empower frontline managers?
 Using real time data to improve your leaders
Dikeledi Dlwati, HR Executive, Tigerbrands, South Africa
10:30 Speed Networking
10:40 Exhibition opening, morning refreshments & networking

STREAM ROOM 1
LEADERSHIP
STREAM ROOM 2
CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT
CHAIR: Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa CHAIR: Dominic Gaobepe, Director, Empower Voice International, South
Africa
11:30 The Leadershift – developing and engaging the next generation of leaders
 Leading in a volatile and complex economy
 Creating a next gen leadership program
 Challenge with the unfamiliar
 The role of learning technologies
 What really motivates millennials
Charl Coetzer, Head of Training and Organisational Development, Basil
Read, South Africa
Promoting an engaged culture through leadership accountability
 Employee engagement: Dealing with this CEO pain point
 Dealing with culture, engagement and retention all at once
 Making engagement a top down effort
 “Living” the organisations engagement values
 Holding leaders accountable for retention
Lydia Mdluli, Head: Talent Development and Organisational Effectiveness,
African Bank, South Africa
11:50 Women in leadership: The competitive edge of future
 Female leadership as a corporate performance driver
 Where we are, where we are going and how we will get there
 Building versatile leaders early in their careers
 Creating a healthy and competitive internal leadership environment
 Investing in leadership diversity and behaviors
Vinolia Singh, General Manager: Human Resources, Multichoice, South
Africa
How to build a culture of innovation: It’s not rocket science
 How real engagement drives innovation
 Leaders as coaches
 Fearless HR Managers
 The problem with work? Not enough play
 The role of emotional intelligence
Kirtida Bhana, Training Executive, Plastics SA, South Africa
12:10 Leadership development: Are leaders ready to lead in a complex economy?
 New global leadership criteria – managing change and an adaptive
skill set
 Really developing new and current leaders: all new initiatives
 Coaching and connecting
 Technology and knowledge transfer: Creating a culture of learning
 Don’t forget your succession plan – trends and best practices
Michael Nel, Group: Human Resources Developer, Spar, South Africa
How to manage and measure employee engagement
 Surveys, metrics and analysis – are there more exciting methods?
 It’s all about consistency
 Engaged leaders lead engagement
 Having sustainable career conversations
 Holding front line managers accountable
Angela de Longchamps, Executive Leadership Development, IBM, South
Africa
12:30 Beyond the innovation buzzword – how leaders can stay relevant and agile
in a changing world
 Global trends that will change the way society functions
 What this means for the future of work
 What the future of work means for the future of organisations
 How companies can evolve to remain relevant
 What leaders need to do, and be, to make this happen
Davis Cook, CEO, Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability,
South Africa
BBBEE: From minimum requirements to making a difference
 Revisions to the codes: dropping some levels
 AFRICANISATION through skills development
 Spending on the right interventions - know your ABC’s
 Workforce planning aligned to talent development equals BONUS
points
 Transformation: business imperative or moral obligation?
Nomaxabiso Teyise, Group HR Executive, Oceana, South Africa

12:50 Lunch, exhibition viewing & networking
STREAM ROOM 1
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
STREAM ROOM 2
HR AND PEOPLE ANALYTICS
14:10 Priorities: Overcoming the business critical gap in talent and skills
 Recruit, engage smartly, retain
 New technologies and consolidated offerings
 Reimagining what the learner experience can be
 Putting learning and development first
Luyolo Geza, Advisory Board Member: Talent, University of South Africa
(UNISA), South Africa
Why people analytics is HRs no1 priority
 Delivering value through workforce analytics
 Effectively implementing analytics
 Using data for insights and decision making
 Working with the analytics team
 Linking data, HR and business outcomes
Ansa Liebenberg, Programme Head: Innovation, Research and Development,
merSeta, South Africa
14:30 The looming productivity crisis: The need to future-skill your workforce
now
 The current talent landscape and its effect on productivity
 Talent and business objectives that match
 Outcomes-targeted talent strategies
 Moving away from traditional models
 Create learning programs tied to learner experience and business
strategy
 Changing mindsets – connect, communicate, collaborate
Shaleenah Marie, Learning and Development Manager for Southern and
Eastern Africa, Siemens, South Africa
People data everywhere: social data and analytics to strengthen and expand
HR capabilities
 How to effectively use social data
 Monitoring workforce patterns to plan for retention risks
 Tailoring training and development too
 Considering the privacy, security and confidentiality that comes with
social data
Elize Keulder, Senior HRBP and Talent Manager, Bayer, South Africa
14:50 Learning, productivity and results in a multi-generational workplace
 Make sure you’re different: Embracing millennials
 How tailored T&D can leverage the strengths of each generation
 Having real partnerships with senior leaders
 A focus on skills development and driving competitive advantage
Joan Peters, Leadership Development at the Leadership Academy,
Volkswagen, South Africa
Succession and global people planning made easy with people analytics
 Linking succession planning and data
 Analysing performance data
 Leveraging assessments and data driven insights for successor
development
 Using a data driven approach to predicting skill gaps, and readiness
for global rotations
Elanie Kruger, Africa: Regional Human Resources Director, G4S, South Africa
15:10 ROUNDTABLES
 Blended learning best practice for effective corporate training
Rajesh Kamath, Co-Founder & Core Member, More Than HR Global (MTHRG), India
 Learning Chameleons: How to Develop Multicultural Talent
Bhavesh Chandaria, Head: Learning, Training and Development, SAFAL Group, Tanzania
 Quantifying and Connecting the ROI and Financial Impact of an Engaged Workforce

Christo Els, Director, Bombardier Transportation, South Africa
 How multiple generations can learn and work effectively together
Thato Mehlape, HR Operations and Systems Advisor, Shell, South Africa
 How to quickly launch an affordable LMS across an enterprise
Alistair Johanson, Deputy Director: IT Services and eLearning, Gauteng City Region Academy, South Africa
 Are meetings becoming time wasting
Ashleigh Christie, Human Resources Development Manager, Hospitality Property Fund, South Africa
 Why are personalised learning experiences important
Billy van der Merwe, Group eLearning and Content Specialist, FirstRand Bank Limited, South Africa
 Discover what enables learning to linger beyond a training session
Keneiloe Selamolela, Head of Learning and Development, Outsurance, South Africa
15:50 Afternoon refreshments, exhibition viewing & networking
KEYNOTE SESSIONS
16:30 The open talent economy – talent and jobs of the future
 People and work in a border-less world
 Collaborative, transparent and technology enabled
 Decoupling talent from physical geography – is this the answer to retention
 Where we are, where we are going and how we will get there
 Unimagined talent opportunities
Olivia Hosie, Head of Talent, Organisational Development and Change Management, Nando’s, South Africa
16:50 Out with Old – In with the new?
 Moving Learning and Development Strategy to design thinking, learning analytics and business impact
 The impact of the BBBEE skills development codes and opportunities
 Reinventing Learning and Development capability
 Designing for complexity - learning architecture, systems and solutions
 Driving a sustainable learning culture
Portia Heynes, Group Head Learning and Development, Sun International, South Africa
17:10 Chairpersons closing address and close of day one
17:20 PARTY PARTY PARTY!

VIP conference agenda
Day two – Wednesday 19 October 2016
08:00 Registration & welcome refreshments
08:50 Chairpersons opening address
Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa
KEYNOTE PLENARY
THE BIG PICTURE
09:00 Reinventing HR: An extreme makeover
 Self-assessing your HR – is it up to the challenge of today’s world?
 Out with the old structures, in with the new
 Business-integrated and data-driven
 HR universities
 Relationships matter, especially internal business partners
Russell Coleman, HR Director, Danone, South Africa
09:30 One size does not fit all – what does this mean for human capital?
 Engagement is powerful but complicated
 Determine key employee engagement components
 Identify other key drivers of performance
 HR Analytics – using HR, employee, and organisational data
Madelein Roos, Group Learning and Development, Adcock Ingram, South Africa
10:00 How to lead in the new world of work
 The worlds impact on talent management
 Incorporating agile HR
 Radically different generation challenges
 Finding the right bold solution
 Building a new, forward thinking HR playbook
 A dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent and human capital
Tapaswee Chandele, Human Resources Director, Coca-Cola, South Africa
10:30 Exhibition opening, morning refreshments & networking

STREAM ROOM 1
WORK SIMPLIFICATION
STREAM ROOM 2
INSTRUCTION DESIGN & THINKING
CHAIR: Nazrene Mannie, Director, Kediso Advisory Services, South Africa CHAIR: Dominic Gaobepe, Director, Empower Voice International, South
Africa
11:30 How to turn L&D into work simplification gold?
 Using leave and development activates
 How to decrease pressure and increase maximum return
 Using eLearning and mLearning to increase effectiveness
 Enhancing the level of engagement
Stephen Roberts, Regional Head: Learning & Development, BancABC, South
Africa
The smaller the better: Bite-sized learning in today’s training world
 Changing the norm and why you should be committed to this
 Overcoming traditional training challenges
 Designing learning that sticks
 Practical methods to increase knowledge transfer
Boni Gantile, Executive, Supreme ICT Academy, South Africa
11:50 Implementing a unique international growth plan
 Increased efficiency via shared services or local expertise
 Balancing between Corporate structure and local needs
 The challenges of a highly matrixed organization
 Filling the talent pipeline
 How to deal with cultural differences
Paul Vermeij, Africa: Director Human Resources, Bosch, South Africa
Designed learning: New ways to affect corporate goals and objectives
 Virtual storytelling – having an instructional impact
 Taking your e-learning to the next level – slides that engage
 How much investment is needed?
 Giving the workforce the option to choose and learn
 Accelerating learning and transfer of skills
Khathutshelo Mashau, CEO & Co-Founder, Nunnovation Africa Foundation,
South Africa
12:10 Start treating “time capital” with the same seriousness as financial capital
 Cut back on the meetings and conference calls
 Creating a calmer environment to think and not just do
 How to reduce worker stress
 Encompassing lean management
 Represent a cultural as well as a structural transformation
Abey Kgotle, Executive Vice President: Human Resources, Lonmin, South
Africa
Learning anywhere, anytime: Informal learning at work
 Activating intentional informal learning
 Collaboration across the organisation is key
 Measurement and feedback
 Keep business speak simple and understandable
12:30 Simplification is a new company culture: Where companies should start
 Make simplification a business and HR priority
 Encourage cross team collaboration
 Implement design thinking and process simplification within HR
 Get leaders involved, change their mindsets
 Remove the email insanity
 Help employees focus on what really matters
Johan Klein, Group Executive: Human Capital, Altron, South Africa
How to practically design an impactful e-learning programme
 Learner actions and engagement
 Keeping the workforce motivated
 Engaging content
 Are the templates really useful?
 Seeking feedback, good or bad
Claus HØvelt, Former: Director: Group Learning, SimCorp, Denmark
12:50
Lunch, exhibition viewing & networking

STREAM ROOM 1
ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN
STREAM ROOM 2
WORKFORCE ON DEMAND
14:10 Organisational design done right
 Corporate self-reflection
 How to improve speed to market and customer experience
improvement
 Make the most of top performers
 Alignment of the organisation to its strategy and business model
 Long term effects of cost cutting
Zain Mohomed, Senior HR Lead: Talent Management and HRBP, Samsung,
South Africa
How to manage a new “freelance economy” of valued staff
 Recruitment considerations
 Managing freelance and outsourced staff
 Administration and incorporation into HR systems
 Monitoring performance of contingent workers
 Sometimes the best training is no training
Hazel Kayiya, Corporate Services Executive, Gold Circle, South Africa
14:30 Is organisation design the right solution for the business?
 Having intent: really unpacking why you want to redesign your
organisation
 Understanding where value is created and how to enhance it
 A clearly articulated strategy and business model
 Leadership commitment and communication
Taryn Marcus, Organisation Effectiveness Executive, Imperial Holdings,
South Africa
Personal Branding: Representing yourself and your company positively
 Making sure they are well engaged and represent the company well
 Performance management
 Integrated relationships across HR, procurement and business leaders
Lori Milner, CEO, Beyond the Dress, South Africa
14:50 Moving from paper to real life: implementing ambitious organisational
design plans
 Scope, approach, tools
 Combining analytical methods with visualisation tools
 Potential shifts and disruptions – be prepared
 Learning from past attempts
 Getting people’s attention, getting them to change
 New models of management and career development
Nerisha Baijnath, Chief People Officer, True Blue Investment Holding t/a
KFC, South Africa
Optimisation of the hourly workforce
 Proactively planning for a hybrid workforce
 How to tap into on-demand talent markets
 Integrated management and risk controls
 Develop HR and IT systems to support on-demand talent
Thamsanqa Mqubela, CEO, South African Council for Graduates Co-operative
Limited, South Africa
15:10 ROUNDTABLES
 How to tailor your coaching to the coachee
Rita Ranchod, Senior Specialist, Sasol, South Africa
 How to create a culture of engagement where everyone has a role to play
Frederick Stroebel, Head: Training and Development, Sanlam, South Africa
 How to troubleshoot your traditional training challenges and come up with bite-size solutions
Germinah Nyikana, Group learning & Transformation Manager, Clicks, South Africa
 Creating a Talent Strategy to Support the Business Transformation Agenda

Christina Pona, Technic al Curriculum Design, Sun International, South Africa
 Selection and retention of millennials
Mpho Magolego, Programme Training Officer, Investec, South Africa
 How to articulate your talents and accomplishments in a way that impresses employers
Cobus Cato, Head of Learning and Development, Macsteel SA, South Africa
 What can people do to future proof their careers for tomorrow
Barbara Ayissi, Head of Learning and Development, Saint Gobain, South Africa
 How trends around the workforce of the future will completely reframe the talent landscape
Gina Davidson, HR Executive: Talent Management, Nedbank, South Africa
15:50 Chairpersons closing address and close of conference
Afternoon refreshments, exhibition & networking