The 4th Industrial revolution – the so called ‘digital revolution’ – has arrived. Digital skills will be a prerequisite for success moving forward and those companies that don’t act now will lose out in the long run. 

One of the critical barriers to achieving a company’s Digital Ambitions is attracting and retaining key digital skills within their organizations. Shallow talent pools coupled with and an ever-increasing appetite for these skills means that companies companies need to start with creating a compelling Employee Value Proposition in order to ensure the pipeline of digital skills needed for tomorrow. Business and Technology leaders need to prepare their businesses for digital disruption, or face extinction.

If you as CEO, CIO, Digital Director, CHRO or CCO want to make your organization truly digital, and find out how to create a compelling Employee Value Proposition to do so, please join us on the 25th of September. 

How to ensure you can start delivering on your Digital Agenda
Did you know that 55% of employees will move to another job if they feel their current employer is not doing enough to keep their digital skills current? And 58% say they will gravitate towards companies that offer better digital skills development? Let's find out how you can become one of those organizations that enables tomorrow's digital talent. 

Orchestrating tomorrow's digital workforce: What will we discuss?
Corporations are competing with a mixture of Tech Giants and cool startups for the brightest and best digital talent – and are losing. In this session we will discuss:;

  • Digitization and its impact on the workforce – Understand the drivers behind this shift and why your talent strategy is critical to your success
  • Attracting, Retaining and Developing Digital Talent - Learn what employees with scarce digital skills value most, and least to create a compelling value proposition to compete with Tech Companies
  • Key steps for Digital Leaders – Understand what leading companies are doing and how to partner with HR to close the digital skills gap and create the Workforce for the Future

Who should attend?
CEO's, CIO's (Chief Information Officers), (Chief) Digital Officers, CHRO's.

Speakers

Date
25th of September
11:00 - 13:00
Save the Date

Location
Workspace at Wicked Grounds 
Doctor Jan van Breemenstraat 1 
1056 AB Amsterdam

Speakers
Find out more about the speakers here.

About Patrick Gutmann
Patrick is a Principal of Mercer based in Frankfurt. He is the sector leader for High Tech Industries for Mercers European Career business with a focus on business development including implementing forums and network events to enable knowledge exchange between HR stakeholders. He is also responsible for the implementation of the Mercer | Comptryx workforce metrics solution to the European market.

Patrick is focused on data backed decision making helping HR and the business to leverage workforce metrics data to discuss their impact on labor cost, location strategies, demographic profile and hiring/turnover trends. Furthermore he is passionate about how new technology impacts the talent ecosystem and how companies need to prepare for the digital transformation to be able to attract scarce talent.

Patrick holds a master degree in civil engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt. Prior joining Mercer in June 2015 Patrick held various roles at other HR consultancies. During his 14 years in HR consulting Patrick has performed a wide range of work in the area of benchmarking and reward trends.
About David Osborne
David is a principal consultant at Mercer. He currently holds the joint positions of European Financial Services & Insurance leader and is the co-leader of Mercer’s site selection practice.

David has a deep interest in exploring the future of work and the impact that key trends (such as Robot Process Automation, Artificial Intelligence etc.) will have on company's future business models, location and people strategies. Once these impacts have been defined,

David advises his clients - utilizing Mercer’s leading technology solutions and industry insights – on how best to prepare for the future. David is a strong advocate of evidence based decision making and believes that HR can and should do more to leverage internal and external data sources to support the business and people related challenges that their organizations encounter.

David holds a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) in International Management from the University of London. Throughout his career David has consulted on a number of large scale change management projects with clients across different industries including: Banking, Logistics, FMCG, Tech and International Governments.

About Chris Upjohn
Chris joined Mercer in May 2018 with a responsibility to engage Multinational Clients with the Mercer Netherlands business.
His role is to lead Mercer’s conversation with senior business leaders in The Netherlands around building the workforce for the future, improving employee experience and to drive engagement with Mercer’s Digital and Information Services.
Prior to joining Mercer, Chris worked in the Information and Advisory Services industry for over 10 years, most notably spending 6 years with C-Level Advisory business CEB (now Gartner). Here, he engaged C-Level Executives in both Government and Multinational companies to increase business performance and develop talent strategies.