Sonali Sharma [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalichhabra/] is a business
professional with 12+ years of experience with McKinsey & Company, Deloitte
Consulting and Uber in the US, UAE, SE Asia, ANZ and North Asia.
She is currently heading Product and People Science at EngageRocket
[https://www.engagerocket.co/] - an Employee Experience platform provider.
In her previous role at Uber, she set up and was leading the global Continuous
Listening program as Sr Product Owner within People Analytics.
Prior to her global role, she was the People Analytics lead in APAC.
She has been solving talent and business problems using cross-functional
expertise in consulting, data science and people development.
What I discussed with Sonali:
* Why are some HR paralysed by data analytics
* How to get started on people analytics
* Connecting the dots between analytics and bottom line
* And many more...

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Kartik Krishnamurthy [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartikkrishnamurthy/] leads
the overall growth & business strategy for Paradox [https://www.paradox.ai/]
APAC.
Prior to Paradox, he led the Cornerstone OnDemand business in Asia across Hong
Kong, ASEAN, South Korea, and India markets.
Kartik has over 17years of experience in HRTech, of which he has spent 11 years
across APAC managing all aspects of the business for global firms like
Cornerstone OnDemand, ADP and LinkedIn.
What I discussed with Kartik:
* Never-ending rounds of job interviews.
* Difference between a conversational assistant and a chatbot
* His personal job application journey before Paradox (it wasn't ideal)
* Opportunity costs on poor job applicant experience
* And many more...

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Former Head of L&D at IKEA Singapore and APAC Director of Instructional Design &
Facilitation in a leading training company, Oussama Labib
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/oussama-labib-43b92722/] experienced first hands
the challenges of delivering ROI from learning interventions, engaging learners
and teams in a remote and virtual environment with Covid-19 as well as
empowering teams and their leaders to take responsibility for their own
development process.
Plus, he quickly realized that while a slew of digital learning solutions exists
in the market for individuals to improve their performance, very few were
tailored to the team as a whole.
Built on this ambition to enable teams to accelerate their performance and
become High Performing, he founded aeqlia [https://www.aeqlia.com/], a digital
learning company at the intersection of experiential learning and gaming,
technology and data as well as behavioural science and research.
Its digital team development journeys are personalized based on teams' needs and
diagnostic, highly engaging and fun using a game-based learning program Miki
Island and ROI-driven, using a team assessment to track and measure team
effectiveness.
What I discussed with Oussama:
* the missing ingredient in many L&D initiatives
* Team learning versus individual learning
* How gamification can accelerate learning
* Do culture and nuances impact learning?
* And many more...

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Paul Keijzer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkeijzer/] is the CEO of The Talent
Games [https://thetalentgames.com/] – an HR Technology company that pioneers in
gamified virtual hiring solutions.
With over 40+ years of experience in talent management and recruitment
strategies, Paul is a highly sought-after speaker on topics such as HRTech,
Gamification, Leadership and Talent Management
Paul also writes for a number of websites, including his personal blog –
www.paulkeijzer.com [https://paulkeijzer.com/]
What I discussed with Paul:
* Gamification in recruitment assessments
* The demographics that this is best suited for
* Whether gamified assessments turn off non-gamers
* The ridiculously little amount of time that a recruiter scans through a new
resume
* And many more…

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Gary Gan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/garygan/] is an experienced entrepreneur
and marketer, involved in the startup of several successful companies across a
broad spectrum of industries.
He is currently co-founder of JobKred [https://www.jobkred.com/], a skills
intelligence platform that uses AI and data science to understand the evolving
industry skills demand, and guides people to close their skills gaps and
navigate the future of work. JobKred is used by Fortune 50 enterprises,
top-ranked universities, government agencies and international aid agencies like
the World Bank.
Gary has been invited to speak at conferences such as Asian Development Bank's
Skills Forum, World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 and PASET Forum 2019, UNESCO AI and
Education Forum, NTUC's Shaping Careers and Channel NewsAsia SingaporeTonight,
on entrepreneurship, AI and the future of work.
What I discussed with Gary:
* Skills inventory
* How to embark on a skills journey for a newbie
* What if companies train their people and they leave?
* And many more...

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Charles Hamilton Ferguson [https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesferguson/] is the
General Manager and head of Globalization Partners
[https://www.globalization-partners.com/] business in Asia, where he is
responsible for establishing scale and efficiency for the company's business
expansion in one of the most dynamic markets in the world.
Charles has worked with private equity and leading brands in the business
enterprise and technology space. He was most recently the group chief commercial
officer for Tricor Group, a Hong Kong-headquartered business expansion
specialist.
The Permira investee company brought Charles in to design and execute global
sales, marketing, and product innovation strategy.
Prior to Tricor, Charles was president and general manager for the Asia Pacific
at ADP, a payroll giant. Before ADP, Charles co-founded ReedHamilton, which
focused on talent acquisition to go-to-market strategy across industries.
During his corporate career, Charles held senior roles at SAP, salesforce.com
[http://salesforce.com/], Microsoft, and Intel.
Outside of his corporate life, the US-born Singapore citizen started and
managed "Number Five" a jazz club and bistro on the Bund in Shanghai for almost
a decade up to 2011.
Charles holds a master's degree in innovation management from the Helsinki
School of Economics at Aalto University and did his undergraduate studies at
Bard College in the United States.
What I discussed with Charles:
* The process of using an Employer of Record (EOR) provider to hire employees
in a new country
* The employee experience under EOR
* The percentage of companies in Singapore jumping into EOR over Covid19
* His take on the Singapore government's current direction in work passes
restriction
* And many more...

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Derick Teo [https://www.linkedin.com/in/derickteo/] is the Director of
Enterprise Go-Digital Solutions at BIPO [https://www.biposervice.com/], a
one-stop, global Human Resource service provider.
A graduate of the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Computing,
including a PMP certificate from PMI, Derick has spent the last ten years of his
career leading HR transformational initiatives, specifically in spearheading the
implementation of large-scale PeopleSoft projects for leading companies such as
Keppel, Singapore University of Technology and Design, ParkwayHealth, Singapore
Tourism Board and Starhub.
Derick's unique combination of software applications and broad knowledge of
technology and software concepts, principles, and processes has seen him
champion large-scale projects over the years from lifecycle development to
regional responsibilities with Hewlett Packard covering Singapore, Malaysia,
Japan, China, Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
What I discussed with Derick:
* Difference between tier 1 and tier 2 HR software
* Important things to look out for in HRIS implementations
* A common cause of HRIS implementation delays
* How to measure a reasonable implementation cycle
* And many more

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Manu Khetan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/manukhetan/] is the Founder and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Rolling Arrays [https://www.rollingarrays.com/] Group
of Companies, which includes Reimbur$e
[https://rollingarrays.com/reimburse-travel-and-expense/] and CICO
[https://rollingarrays.com/cico-intelligent-time-capture-solution/].
A recognised HR Transformation Leader, Manu has more than 15 years of rich
experience in HR Processes, HR Functions and HR Software.
With a reputation for adopting futuristic HR Automation techniques and investing
in young Talent, Manu's work has been instrumental in establishing Rolling
Arrays as one of the most trusted HR Transformation Solution Provider in the
Asia Pacific with offices in 6 geographical locations, 'SEA's Cloud Champion' of
the year award for FY-2015, Singapore's top 100 fastest growing companies in
2020.
Prior to Rolling Arrays, Manu has worked for SAP Labs in Germany, Bulgaria,
Israel and India and there-after consulted for various blue-chip clients
worldwide.
What I discussed with Manu:
* Key differences in SME and Enterprises' HR software requirements.
* The importance of security and repercussions when neglected.
* What are current AI use cases in HR
* Upcoming exciting development in AI
* And many more...

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Leong CheeTung [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheetung/] is the CEO of
EngageRocket [https://www.engagerocket.co/], the fastest-growing Asian people
analytics tech company that helps businesses improve talent retention and
productivity.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was Regional Director of Gallup in Southeast
Asia. He read Economics at the University of Cambridge and has an MA in
Political Science from Columbia University under the Singapore Armed Forces
Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS).
CheeTung is a Generation T honoree for Asia Tatler, awarded to young leaders
shaping the future of Asia, and was listed by Prestige Magazine as one of their
'40 under 40' business leaders.
EngageRocket has been named one of 20 Hottest Startups by the Singapore Business
Review and has been featured in multiple outlets like Forbes, Bloomberg,
Business Insider, Channel NewsAsia, Tech In Asia, The Straits Times, The
Business Times, NewsRadio 93.8, Money FM, Berita Harian, e27, DealStreet Asia,
and others.
What I discussed with CheeTung:
* the National Employee Experience Transformation (NEXT) Programme
[https://www.engagerocket.co/next-singapore]
* Current employees' wellbeing and engagement levels
* Millenials burnout being > than less digital-savvy boomers
* Common WFH challenges
* And many more...

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Rolf van der Pol [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolfvanderpol/] started his career
in information technology and moved to the financial services industry in 1990.
He has a broad experience in line and project management roles across Europe,
Latin America and the Asia Pacific working for international banks.
Since 2006 he is working with Cadena [https://www.cadena.com.sg/] – an HRM and
Payroll solutions company with its service and development centre in Vietnam -
and is the director for Cadena in Singapore since its inception in 2015. He has
worked with a large number of regional companies, ranging from SMEs, local and
regional corporates to MNCs in the field of HRM system implementation and
consultation.
Rolf has a Masters degree in Economics and Organisational behaviour from the
Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
What I discussed with Rolf
* Applying his KYC experience into HRMS
* Efficiency tends to be overlooked during digitalisation
* Why do companies struggle to digitalise
* Digging deeper to uncover the problems beneath the symptoms
* And many more...

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