Delegates praised Innovation Day 2016
On Tuesday 22nd November 2016 the industry gathered at the stunning St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel to examine the exponential growth in data analytics and technology that is affecting the way we manage reward and benefits.
Presentation slides are attached to relevant speaker photos - scroll down to view
The conference was well attended by senior HR and reward managers from across the sectors. Delegates benefited from sharing experience with their peers and listening to expert speakers.
Videos filmed at the event
Video (above): REBA Innovation Day 2016 Highlights
View video: Retirement education in the digital age
View video: Work vs play - how gamification can drive engagement
View video: How recognition, feedback and engagement is changing
View video: Why technology is key to improving productivity
View video: Samsung's success story when it comes to financial wellness
View video: Why businesses must look to personalise communications
View video: How companies are using employee engagement platforms
View video: How data analytics is driving innovation in HR
View video: Why you musn't get overwhelmed by the phenomenal rate of change
View video: What innovations in technology would employers like to see?
View video: The academic view of what employers want from innovative reward technology
View video: The journey from pensions dashboard to the personal economy
View video: Lessons learnt from technology implementation
View video: Why you're probably not making the most of your technology
View video: How ScottishPower used data to get members saving for retirement
View video: The thrills and spills of implementing an online benefits platform
Great mix of content and good to see new and old faces. Great short sharp sessions.
This conference examined emerging technology user trends and uncovered a wide range of digital innovations available to reward practitioners. It offered employers a glimpse into what the cutting edge looks like today, and what the future holds.
Speakers & panelists included:
Alex Bunt
Anne Harris
Damien Teisseire
Dipa Mistry Kandola
Dominic Taylor
Fiona Buchanan
Fraser Low
Ian McKenna
Jamie King
Jamie True
Jane Earnshaw
Jo Bean
Ken Lawrie
Kenny Graves
Marcus Thornley
Mark Rowlands
Mark Scanlon
Nadeen MacLean
Patrick Watt
Paul Bissell
Paul Waters
Phil Hollingdale
Professor Stephen Perkins
Rasmus Ankersen
Ry Morgan
Sam Kirk
Tim Simpson
Caroline Adam
Heidi Allan
David Dodd
Jane Fenwick
Matt Macri-Waller
Employee benefits are going digital and mobile. The most forward-thinking companies are increasing employee engagement and efficiency through the adoption of new platforms and tools for healthcare, voluntary, retirement and wellness benefits.
Delegates discussed how the digital era is affecting their profession and heard from some companies who are already taking steps to embrace the technology that is available and use data analytics to a greater extent than ever before in driving HR and reward strategies.
The event will reveal the growth of behavioural performance tracking, social engagement, consumer interfaces, process simplification and automation, global harmonisation and data analysis for greater ease, efficiency and engagement.
Conference programme
08:30 Reward & Employee Benefits Association members mix ’n' mingle breakfast
09:00 Opening remarks from the Chair
09:10 Keynote Address: Hunger in paradise - using data analytics to drive performance in successful businesses
- Using analytics and big data to drive a high performance culture
- Finding talent that everyone overlooks
- Creating a culture where it is more important to get better than to look good
Speaker:
Rasmus Ankersen, Author, Hunger in Paradise; Co-Director of Football, Brentford Football Club
09:30 Scene setting - the big picture
- Being prepared for the reward tech revolution
- Key tech trends affecting benefits and reward
- How digital progress is changing the workforce and what this means for reward
Speaker:
Debi O'Donovan, Director, Reward & Employee Benefits Association
10:05 Panel: What do employers want from truly innovative reward technology?
- How do practitioners class innovations - level of expectation and appetite; innovation must be flexible and adaptable; cheaper quicker better faster
- Latest thinking on platform power for corporates - solving benefits admin workload
- Wish list of what reward practitioners want from a platform
- Cloud-based systems - shifting paper tasks to cloud services
- Global HR people systems
- Mobile based platforms
- Connecting recognition and benefits portals
Panelists:
Damien Teisseire, Global Reward Director, Experian
Paul Bissell, Head of Reward & Policy, Three
Sam Kirk, Reward Director, Talk Talk
Jamie True, CEO, Lifeworks
10:45 Lightning Pitch Demonstrations
Capita: Retirement education in the digital age
- How Capita has been using the digital environment to improve access to retirement education
- Helping employees through the new retirement complexities
Speaker:
Alex Bunt, Business Development Manager, Capita Employee Benefits
Lifeworks: Make employees feel loved in any organisation
- Demo of an industry first - a wellness and engagement platform that makes employees feel loved in any organisation
- Multi point platform provides - employee assistance, wellness, perks, internal comms and recognition all in one place
Speaker:
Jamie True, CEO, Lifeworks
11:05 Morning refreshments
Streamed Sessions: Choice A
11:25 Case Study: Work vs. play - how a games mindset can drive engagement and behaviour change across businesses
- How games are eating the world and why everyone is a gamer
- What businesses can learn from a games mindset
- The building blocks - how to supercharge outcomes
- Examples - from wellness, to performance, to happiness and learning
Speakers:
Marcus Thornley, Founder, Play Consulting
Patrick Watt, Corporate Director, Bupa
11:50 Latest developments in technology and data in wellbeing
- What does the future of wellbeing data and technology look like?
- How can it tie into HR strategies such as talent and productivity?
- The move to bespoke, personalised options
Speaker:
Ry Morgan, Head of Wellbeing Technology, Reward Gateway
Streamed Sessions: Choice B
11:30 Ways to increase productivity at your organisation through the strategic use of technology
- What is the problem with UK productivity?
- Real examples of how the productivity gap can be overcome
- What is the technology opportunity to organisations?
- How technology changes employee engagement, communication and discretionary effort
- Why technology means employers are now in a C2C world
Speaker:
Mark Scanlon, CEO, Personal Group
11:45 Stop before you buy: Why you're probably not fully utilising the technology you already have
- Technology trends of the last few decades
- How has innovation changed the employee benefits landscape?
- Technology trends in our every-day lives and how we adopt these into the workplace
- Are we making the most of what’s in front of us today?
Speakers:
Phil Hollingdale, Founder, Staffcare
Tim Simpson, Head of Reward, Callcredit
Streamed Sessions: Choice C
12:10 Consumer Technology in the workplace: how personalisation will change rewards and benefits
- The success of combining behavioural research and pensions
- Solving the problem of engagement in financial wellness
- Why segmentation is dead
- Why employees need you to get personal
Speaker:
Niall O'Callaghan, Consumer Leader UK & Ireland, Mercer
Mark Rowlands, Head of DC Services, Mercer
12:40 How pension dashboards will help employees take better control of their financial lives
- What are pension dashboards?
- How will they help employees?
- When can I provide a pension dashboard and who can help me source one?
- Will all pension schemes have to support pension dashboards, are any types of schemes exempt?
- How will pension dashboards impact wider employee benefits?
Streamed Sessions: Choice D
12:10 How recognition, feedback and engagement is changing due to digital innovation
- Is it all about the metrics of employee engagement or is there another way?
- The pros and cons of treating employees like consumers
- Using 'Moments of truth' to build loyalty to your employer brand
Speaker:
Matt Macri-Waller, CEO, Benefex
12:40 Academic Viewpoint: ROI - innovation in rewarding the performance your organisation is expecting - measuring, assessing matching outcomes for success sharing
- Understanding how performance-reward principles map on to practical considerations
- Putting the alternative choices of approach into context
- Helping ensure innovation and sophistication in performance management is communicated to be understood and acted on to serve corporate intentions
Speaker:
Professor Stephen Perkins, Global Policy Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Lightning Pitch Demonstration: How companies are using employee engagement platforms to pull it all together
- Explore common challenges faced by reward professionals and how employee engagement technology is helping to solve them
- Demonstrate how you can utilise engagement technology to maximise your investment, support your EVP and improve employee experience
- Explain how you can enhance your communications to drive engagement of all the initiatives that matter to you
Speaker:
Dominic Taylor, Head of Enterprise, Reward Gateway
14:05 Round Table Discussions: How would employers like to use technology and data?
- What technology do practitioners currently use?
- What would they like to use in the next few years?
- Inhibitors to reward technology innovations - cost, no budget, diverse workforce, ROI, platforms too corporate, legacy systems
Streamed Sessions: Choice E
14:50 Case Study: Maximising analytics to turn DC on its head and get members saving
- Harnessing data to transform member engagement savings levels through outcomes focused approach
- Using technology to help members stay on track
- Building on initial success to evolve approaches for members
Speakers:
Anne Harris, Head of Pensions, ScottishPower
Paul Waters, Partner, Hymans Robertson
15:10 Samsung's success story: Using technology and analytics to deliver integrated financial wellness
- Creating an innovative financial wellness programme that is central to your people strategy
- Using a technology platform as a central hub to manage and communicate your programme
- Adding value by creating and communicating personalised financial benefits and providing instant access to your employees
- Empowering the reward team to use data insights
Speakers:
Jo Bean, Head of Reward, Samsung
David Dodd, Head of Pensions, Thomsons Online Benefits
Streamed Sessions: Choice F
14:50 Case Study: Ways in which data analytics is driving innovation through the HR community
- The value research data provides to an organisation: workforce insights for HR that led to innovation.
- Examples of how research tools allow employers to truly understand financial wellbeing among staff and its impact on productivity.
- How to maximise the use of that data to ensure its longevity and its ability to drive change for the better.
- Data as an enabler to deliver messages.
Speakers:
Kenny Graves, Head of HR, Police Mutual
Heidi Allan, Head of Insights and Engagement, Neyber
15:10 Case Study: The thrills and spills of implementing an online benefits and pensions platform - year one
- How to get the stakeholder buy-in
- The challenges of getting business leaders on board with online benefits and pensions platforms
- Getting your internal voice to align with your employee value proposition
Speakers:
Fraser Low, Rewards Manager, Aggreko
Dipa Mistry Kandola, Head of Flexible Benefits Services, LCP
15:30 Afternoon tea
15:50 How US-based compensation and benefits could change UK technology
- Use of tech in the US and what will be coming to the UK in the next 2 years
- Personalising your reward offering for employees
- The use of diagnostic tools
Speaker:
Jane Fenwick, former Director & Head of Global Benefits, Shire Pharmaceuticals; Director, Rightspark
16:15 Practitioners’ Top Tips: The biggest learnings and pitfalls when using technology
- Being creative with your reward budget
- What to avoid, check and do well
- Managing your suppliers
Speaker:
Ken Lawrie, Head of Reward, EasyJet
Caroline Adam, Head of Benefits EMEA, Bloomberg
Fiona Buchanan, Executive Vice President HR, Causeway Technologies
Nadeen MacLean, UCI Reward Manager - Shared Services, Computershare
Jamie King, Director of Global Reward, Xexec
16:55 Closing remarks
17.00 Event closes
