Event category: Breakout

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, identifying, cultivating, and retaining key skills is more crucial than ever. This masterclass offers strategies to harness technology to spot emerging skills and foster ongoing development. You’ll learn how to build essential capabilities, use advanced tools to pinpoint future skills, and sustain skill development, ensuring your organization remains agile and competitive.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the role of skills-first hiring and mining your own talent
• Learn how technology assists in identifying and developing critical skills
• Discover strategies for fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation

HR may have a seat at the table, but let’s face it—we’re still juggling the latest buzzword trends, compensating for underperforming managers, and maintaining legacy programs that keep us spinning our wheels. We’re often left out of the critical business decisions that drive commercialization. But here’s the thing: if we want to change that, it’s on us. Forget waiting around the edges; it’s time to think big—like 10x big. This talk is all about getting our house in order and making you indispensable to the business. We’re covering a lot of ground in this talk, so wear comfortable shoes.

Key Takeaways:

• Outline the problem to be solved
• Identify the opportunities
• Pull inspiration from other functions, including Product
• Share my plan to 10x my career

This session will start with a short overview of best practices for private company equity compensation, and then dive into a discussion with practical tips and insights – including how to get people to value equity in a down economy. Our speaker will share practical strategies to communicate the value, potential risks, key issues and implications of private company equity incentives to your employees.  Enhance your understanding and optimize your approach to equity compensation in the tech industry as a valuable part of your recruitment and retention plans.

Key Takeaways:

• Quick overview on the types and trends of private equity compensation
• Learn how to communicate the value of equity compensation as part of your total compensation package
• Best practices and practical trends of the ‘who, what, and when’ of equity plan implementation
• Considerations for designing equity value guidelines

Unlock the power of People Analytics to measure HR’s impact and demonstrate a return on people investment. Learn how to position employees as valuable assets and adopt an investor mindset in HR. This session will provide practical tools and metrics to track, analyze, and optimize your workforce’s performance and value.

Key Takeaways:

• People Analytics Fundamentals: Essential metrics and frameworks for measuring HR’s impact.
• Return on People Investment: Strategies to quantify and communicate the value of your workforce.
• Tools and Technologies: Effective solutions for tracking and visualizing HR data.
• Investor Mindset: How to think like an investor and make data-driven decisions in HR.

We are living through some of the greatest disruption in history, and Human Resource leaders in the tech sector face increasing pressure. To make the best decisions, you need the best knowledge.

Join HUB at Tech Talent North for an in-depth look at the latest trends in employee benefits from the tech sector. This presentation will provide valuable data-driven insight from the previous two years and bring you up to date on the emerging priorities.

Key Takeaways:

• Benefits insight gained from the last two years, and forecasts for the imminent future.
• Gain actionable insight into current and future benefits trends in the Canadian tech sector so that you can plan for today and tomorrow.
• Explore strategies to address the dynamic landscape of benefits and balance your recruiting and retention efforts with economic realities.

Gone are the days when it was taboo for organizations to comment on social or political issues. Modern HR is facing a fundamental shift to manage activism and value expectations in the workplace. Taking a public stance on ESG and embracing activism is expected from employees, candidates and customers alike.  With all the chaos in the world this can be a sandpit if not managed effectively. People want to know if your corporate social responsibility, commitments and values on issues such as climate change, the war in Ukraine, reconciliation, BLM, LGBTQIA2S+ rights … and more. Learn how and where to take a stand in a polarized world.

Takeaways:

• What is HR’s responsibility around addressing hot political and social topics?
• How to set a framework for activism in the workplace, and the risk for not doing it
• Tips for getting C-suite buy in for ESG and making a public stance on social issues
• How to start managing activism, and the pit falls to avoid