Conference Day Two
23 May 2019
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08:30 Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 Opening remarks from the Chair
Maja Paleka, Director & Co-Founder, Juggle Strategies
STARTING WITH FLEXIBLE AND AGILE WORKING - PRACTICAL TIPS FROM MANAGERS TO MANAGERS
09:00 Opening keynote speaker – Building community, curating experience and the future of work
- Understanding the importance of creating a flexible and agile workplace
- The key to building community and collaboration
- How design, technology and programming can help build a team culture
- The importance of culture as a way to attract and retain talent
Georgia Foley, Director of Community, WeWork
09:30 Managing teams with different flexible working arrangements
- How to be a successful manager while working flexibly
- Understanding the challenges of managing a flexible working team
- Emphasizing the need to be open and transparent in managing different flexible working arrangements
- Managing multiple arrangements with planning
Michelle Elvy, Head of Integrated Operations, BHP
10:00 Making breaks truly refreshing
Hayley Windsor, Business Transformation and Optimisation Lead
10:20 Morning tea break
10:50 Building trust and communication to manage a remote team
- Shaping a communication routine using technology
- Establishing clear deadlines and monitoring progress
- Assessing what strategy will work within the team and individuals
Emma Heuston, Principal, The Remote Expert
11:20 Case study – Five-year perspective on Telstra’s All Roles Flex programme
- How to implement and maintain a flexible and agile programme
- Highlighting the effect of the programme on staff engagement and motivation
- Creating a culture of trust between managers and employees
- How technology can be used to support flexible and agile working
Alicia Mathews, Senior Specialist, Talent and Organisational Effectiveness,Telstra
11:50 Thinking outside cities – geographical diversity in business
- Defining geography diversity
- How remote work is mobilising skills and experience from an untapped resource of talent in the regions
- Highlighting the importance and advantages that come with geographical diversity in businesses
12:20 Networking Lunch
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIVE THINKING THAT SUPPORT FLEXIBLE & AGILE WORKING
13:00 Understanding which emerging technologies will impact flexible and agile working
- How technology will change the way we work by making us more flexible and agile
- Identifying the technologies that will impact the current work structure the most
- Blockchain, sensors, IoT, AI, AR and VR – their role in supporting flexible and agile working
Carolyn Trickett, Head of Business Technology, JLL
13:30 Adopting flexible working in the health industry
- How to bring health to people in remote areas using emerging technologies
- Transforming health services using 5G, augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence
- Understanding how a remote and flexible working doctor works
Dian Tjondronegoro, Professor, Southern Cross University
14:00 Afternoon Tea
DIY AGENDA
Choose 3 sessions from 10 facilitated by experts in the flexible and agile working arena
1st round – 14:30 – 15:00
Choice 1 - Open Discussion – How do we need to think and act differently to bring about a future where flexible and agile working is a strategy not a response?
David Schmidtchen, Executive Director, People and Organisational Development, Synergy
15:00 - Power break
2nd round – 15:15 – 15:45
Dian Tjondronegoro, Professor, Southern Cross University
Choice 2 - Open discussion - What are the different ways of building connectivity and creating a positive organizational culture within an agile and flexible team?
James Dellow, Director, Digital Workplace Company
15:45 - Power break
3rd Round - 16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Closing remarks from the Chair
16:35 End of Day Two and close of conference