In a rapidly changing world, embracing disruptive leadership is key to fostering innovation and defying the status quo. Learn how dynamic leadership style can empower teams, drive creativity, and fuel growth in entrepreneurial settings. Learn how to turn disruption into an advantage by promoting a culture of adaptability, decentralization, and bold decision-making. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to lead with impact and inspire continuous innovation.

Key Takeaways:

• Embrace Change: Leverage disruption to build a resilient, adaptable workplace.
• Empower and Decentralize: Enable autonomy and entrepreneurial thinking by decentralizing decision-making.
• Foster Innovation: Create an environment that encourages experimentation and risk-taking.
• Make Bold Decisions: Learn to balance risk and reward with decisions that challenge conventional norms.

Hear actual AI adoption trends to the HR function, how it’s reshaping job roles, and gain insights into HR strategies that can support AI-driven strategic initiatives from the top of some of Canada’s most innovative tech companies In addition to learning how Generative AI is enhancing the HR function today, we’ll explore how our tech businesses will be using AI in the future and how HR can support these strategic initiatives for our organizations and deal with issues including addressing fears amongst employees. 

 Key Takeaways:

• Practical Application of AI in HR: Understand how AI is enabling work in tech companies, learn where in HR there are already opportunities to enhance work through ‘no code/low code’ tools.
• Building an AI-Ready Organization: Hear about actual examples of leader and employee learning, adoption, and reinforcement methods to upskill and reskill for an AI-supported environment, including personalized learning paths and mentorship programs.
• Ethical Considerations and AI Governance: Gain insights into ethical considerations and best practices for AI governance and learn how HR can play a pivotal role in ensuring employee perspectives are included in design.

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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. 

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.

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

Sharing my detailed plan on how to 10x my HR career using product methodology; a working theory

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

In today’s high-pressure work environments, the ability to thrive under stress is crucial for success. Ann Gomez of Clear Concept Inc. will highlight strategies to build your resilience and mitigate stressful situations so you can effectively navigate even the most challenging situations. This session will explore practical tools and techniques to mitigate stress and help you stay focused and calm. We’ll also discuss how you can leverage the power of mindset to tap into your immense potential and bring your best when it matters most.

Key Takeaways:

• Develop strategies to manage and reduce stress in high-pressure environments.
• Learn techniques to maintain focus and clarity during challenging situations.
• Explore methods for building resilience to handle ongoing workplace demands.
• Discover how to harness stress as a tool to drive higher performance.

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:

• Learn how to build essential skills within your organization
• Leverage AI to pinpoint critical future skills
• Discover how to sustain skills development and training initiatives

The traditional employee-employer relationship is being challenged like never before, particularly in the tech sector. Layoffs, economic uncertainty, and the rapid shift in market dynamics have left many HR leaders grappling with a disengaged workforce. Employees are increasingly pursuing side hustles, resisting overtime, and redefining their career priorities. In this session, we’ll explore the new ‘employee deal’ and provide practical strategies to re-engage your team and adapt to these evolving challenges.

Key Takeaways:

• Re-engagement Strategies: Learn how to reconnect with employees in a post-layoff, uncertain economic environment.
• Side Hustles and Attrition: Understand the impact of side businesses and how to mitigate their effects on your organization.
• Overtime Resistance: Discover approaches to manage and motivate a workforce less willing to work beyond the clock.
• Adapting to the New Deal: Get actionable insights on navigating the shifting employee-employer relationship in today’s tech market.

Transforming your organization’s good intentions into measurable impact is essential for sustainable success in today’s tech landscape. This session will guide senior HR leaders through practical strategies to drive performance, reduce risk, and create value by integrating purpose-led initiatives, DEI, and ESG with business priorities.  This is the missing link for strategic and business-oriented HR leaders to drive impact. Hear how to apply a proven strategy framework and solutions to help you avoid common pitfalls, gain buy-in, and get results. And walk away with actionable insights to partner with your CEO to build a better business inside and out.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to inspire engagement and innovation that benefit employees and customers.  Adopt tools to optimize decision-making and collaboration to drive better business outcomes.
• Gain tactical guidance on how to conduct a company diagnostic to identify opportunity and risks.
• Learn how to assess when the time is right for this work in your business lifecycle and how to make the case for resources.
• Understand common measures of impact and how to communicate to stakeholders.
• Methods to anticipate and circumvent common pitfalls, thus avoiding backlash and initiative fatigue.

As the role of the CHRO expands, HR leaders must navigate a career path that now includes responsibilities far beyond traditional HR functions. Today’s People and Culture leaders act as crisis managers, reputational stewards, and navigators of global and social change, all while balancing strategic leadership with operational excellence. This session will explore how senior HR leaders can manage these growing demands, shape the next generation of CHROs, and tackle challenges such as crisis management, ESG/EDI reporting, and reputational risk. Gain insight into what’s essential for success in this evolving role and discover the next steps in advancing your career.

Key Takeaways:

• Map out your career path to the CHRO role with practical advice from experienced leaders.
• Navigate the expansion of responsibilities and determine what should be in or out of your focus.
• Gain insights on managing your role on the executive team and working effectively with investors/boards.
• Explore future career opportunities for CHROs, including pathways to CEO or board roles.