Emerge 2023

 APSCo Australia Managing Director's Welcome

Lesley Horsburgh, Managing Director, APSCo Australia

Economic Outlook - where's it all headed?

The Future of Jobs and Skills - The Government Perspective

David Turvey, First Assistant Secretary, Jobs and Skills Australia 
 

10.20am - 10:50am

Law in Order - The Legal Perspective

Our legal panel will cast an employment law and in-house lens on the changing IR landscape and its impact on the recruitment profession. Facilitated by Martin Richardson, a well known face among recruitment owners and operators, this discussion will cover proposed changes in legislation along with audience Q&A.

Facilitated by Martin Richardson, Founder, Ready Set Recruit Legal

Nicola Martin, Partner, Labour & Employment Practice Group, Squire Patton Boggs

George Haros, Partner - Employment Law, Gadens

Laura Regan, Legal Counsel, Davidson

The Adviser, the Lawyer and the Sale - Due dilligence unpacked

The acquisition of digital and technology recruitment specialist Finite Group in July 2022 came during a buoyant period for the M&A market.

The sale of the business, which was established in 1998, was a special moment for its owners and the sector at large, and highlighted the strength of the brand and its position in the market.

Convened by Lesley Horsburgh, Paul Masters and Tracy Thomson will explore the challenges and pitfalls in pathing a profitable exit; and will also be joined by Squire Patton Boggs Ashley Rose who will cast a legal lens across the discussion, and provide important insights.

Lesley Horsburgh, Managing Director, APSCo Australia

Paul Masters, Managing Partner, Sovereign Private

Ashley Rose, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs

Tracy Thomson, Founder and Managing Director, Finite Group

Let's talk about risk

Cybersecurity and your business

Did you know recruitment is in the top 5 sectors to notify of data breaches? In a year with dozens of high-profile data breaches, this panel will provide insights into the world of cybersecurity and risk, and a roadmap to navigate how to respond if a data breach occurs in your business.

Dudley Kneller, Partner (Technology, Cyber, Privacy), Gadens

Rhys Ryan, CEO, Porter Novelli Australia

Blare Sutton,  Partner, McGrathNicol

Meagan Jeffery, Global Chief Information Officer, Talent International

12:40pm - 1:25pm 

LUNCH Sponsored by SEEK

Tech, Innovation and Robots

We all know that AI and tech will shape the future of the industry, but how far will it go? Where will it stop? And what will it all look like?

 A panel presentation facilitated by Aaron McIntosh, Managing Director APAC, Bullhorn

Vinney Brown, General Manager, Manpower Australia

Thyago Liberalli, Global Director of AI, SEEK

Tariq Shaban, Senior Assessment Consultant (APAC), HireVue

Keynote presentation: The Future of Work

In this one-of-a-kind presentation Emerge delegates will learn the key principles, mindset and frameworks of an academically trained and practising futurist.

• Unlearning the future - challenging the way we think about the future of work so we can think differently about action today
• ’New learning for new times’  - challenging key assumptions and ideas about the future of work, to unlock new ways of exploring action in the present. 

 Reanna Browne, Futurist & Director, Work Futures

3:10pm - 3:30pm 

AFTERNOON TEA Sponsored by SEEK

Session 8

Futures mapping: An interactive workshop

Reanna will walk through a futures framework (and mindset) that will help leaders make sense of the current and emerging futures of work(ers) landscape.

In small groups, our attendees will unpack and map the changing futures of work(ers) landscape, exploring emerging trends and issues, alongside declining systems and beliefs around work.  

Reanna will also walk through an action framework that will help Emerge delegates to explore new ways of thinking about action that help keep the lights on' and ensure viability beyond the now. An approach that helps leaders see first-hand how to manage the critical priorities of today, viable and aspirational visions of tomorrow and the ‘messy-middle’ of transformation in between.

• This is about getting practical - taking the insights from the earlier keynote and applying this practically
• Key outputs - in groups we will collectively develop an ‘outside map’ that we’ll use to identify some of the key changes that are occurring around work/recruitment. 
• Reanna will then walk through the template of an ‘inside map’ - a process that can be used to think about actions for your own organisation in the present 

Reanna Browne, Futurist & Director, Work Futures

Do you think like a marketer? Here's why you should

A panel presentation facilitated by Mike Beeley, CEO, Lightbox Communications

Doug Penman, CMO + Executive Creative Director, The Foreign Office

Garth Quinn, Head of People Experience, Healius

Lee Shorter, Practice Manager,  Aquent Australia

5:00pm - 8:00pm 

NETWORKING DRINKS Sponsored by Xemplo