REBA New Year Lectures: disrupters 2016

REBA members prepared for 2016 disrupters

Over 200 REBA members (reward, benefits and practitioners) attended the REBA New Year Lectures, along with 60 Associate members and representaives of the event's sponsors.

This was the largest of REBA's events since it launched in July 2015.

Videos of presentations from the conference

Video (above): Potential pension taxation changes – the tax exempt exempt model - which could be unveiled in the March 2016 Budget could “fundamentally turn everything upside down”, according to John Chilman, group reward and pensions director at FirstGroup.

View video: How Intercontinental Hotels is driving employee engagement

View video: Panel discussion - the future of benefits and rewards

View video: Employers must deliver financial education that engages

View video: Organisations must rethink how HR tools are delivered to engage

View video: Why wellbeing needs buy-in and sponsorship from the top

View video: Break the taboo around financial wellness or risk losing staff

View video: Why now is the time to rethink your benefits packages

View video: Act now on auto-enrolment or face harsh penalties, warns professor

View video: Get your vision right and prepare for 2020 in 2016

View video: Businesses must "strike out and do things differently" in 2016

View video: Organisations underestimating the cost of the National Living Wage

What will disrupt reward in 2016?

There are a number of disrupters heading our way in 2016 and we used this event to analyse them in-depth.  

Speakers and panelists include:

Damian Stancombe

Partner, head of workplace health & wealth

Debi O'Donovan

Co-founder & Director, REBA

Dipa Mistry Kandola

Head of Flexible Benefits

Greg Thorley

Head of Business Development

Jamie Jenkins

Head of pensions strategy

John Chilman

group reward & pensions director

John L Harding

Partner Employment Tax

Mark Scanlon

Chief executive officer

Monica Kalia

Founder

Nicos Nicolaides

director, compensation & benefits

Patrick Bloomfield

Partner

Robin Ellison

Visiting professor

Rosemary Lemon

Group Head of Reward

Shawn Healy

Principal

Simon Darby

Account Director

Stephen Gambles

Head of performance & reward

Mark Watson

Chief sales & marketing officer

This day addressed the big stuff; the disruptive, sea change issues that are coming down the line, heading for your desk!

Conference programme

08:45 am

Reward & Employee Benefits Association members mix ’n mingle

09:30 am

Opening remarks from the Chair

09:40 am

A rewards roadmap for 2016: In what direction are we heading?

• Reviewing 2015 and the state of rewards and benefits offerings
• Milestones for 2016
• What will rewards and benefits look like in a year’s time?

John Chilman, Group Reward & Pensions Director, FirstGroup

10:05 am

A year of change for staff compensation

• The economy and job market in 2016
• Trends in staff compensation and wage levels
• Introducing the National Living Wage
• Reporting on gender pay equality
• How will this affect your team?

John L Harding, Partner - Employment Tax, PwC

10:30 am

What is the pensions regulator likely to do?

• What The Pensions Regulator is reviewing and how it could affect employers
• The duty of care role employers are expected to play
• Current example: Freedom and choice in trust based schemes

Patrick Bloomfield, Partner, Hymans Robertson

10:50 am   

Why you need to rethink your benefits for 2016

• Ensuring your board gets a transparent view of the outcomes of your employee benefits investment
• Reacting to the disrupters expected to affect your strategies in 2016
• How can you fix things in 2016?

Dipa Mistry Kandola, Head of Flexible Benefits Services, Lane Clark & Peacock

11:10 am

Coffee break

11:35 am

Get your vision right: Be prepared for 2020 in 2016

• Understanding the direction in which the world is heading
• Ensuring you understand your own business environment
• Putting the right analytics around your data
• Joining up your change management, insurances and benefits

Damian Stancombe, partner & head of workplace health and wealth, Barnett Waddingham

11:55 am

Leadership: how to do more with less in 2016

• Identifying what is really going to make a difference
• It's all about the team: alignment and goal setting
• Let them go, let them be brave

Mark Scanlon, CEO of Personal Group

12:15 pm

The future of rewards and benefits in the UK

Your chance to shape the discussion and engage with peers over the future of rewards and benefits in the UK. The panel session will set the scene, provide a framework for discussion, and give you the chance to ask questions.

• Looking to the March 2016 Budget
• What changes will be made to salary sacrifice in 2016?

Stephen Gambles, Head of Performance & Reward, Royal London
Simon Darby, Account Director, Westminster Advisers
Shawn Healy, Principal, BDO
Jamie Jenkins, Head of Pensions Strategy, Standard Life

12:55 pm

Lunch – continue the discussion at themed tables

13:45 pm  

Employee health and wellness

• The importance to your organisation of taking wellness seriously
• Staff healthcare and wellness
• Financial education and wellbeing: moving beyond mental and physical health
• Practical insights and ideas for your team

Rosemary Lemon, Group Head of Reward, Hays

14:10 pm  

The great pensions conundrum of 2016

• Overview of changes to annual and lifetime limits
• What will these changes mean in practice for your team?
• What can be done to minimize the impact to employees and the workload to your benefits team
• The future

Robin Ellison, Visiting Professor in Pensions Law and Economics, Cass Business School, City University London

14:35 pm

Managing the new financial landscape: How to engage employees

• The effect so far: retirement provision concerns, personal debt and changing pension legislation
• An employer’s view: what our survey shows
• The future: how employers can engage their employee more effectively in the workplace

Greg Thorley, Head of Business Development, WEALTH at work

14:55pm

Boosting British productivity in 2016: Tackling financial wellness

• How today’s working lives impact British productivity
• The changing societal influences and how they affect workforces
• New research: How employers can improve the wellbeing of their workforce
• What financial mindfulness really means

Monica Kalia, founder, Neyber
Emran Mian, director, Social Market Foundation

15:15 pm

Afternoon tea break

15:40 pm

Disruptive engagement:

• HR technology trends for 2016
• The role of smartphones
• Its not all about benefits

Jamie True, CEO, WorkAngel

16:00 pm

Communicating with, engaging, and retaining a diverse workforce

• The 21st Century challenge and why ‘one-size-fits-all’ no longer fits
• Making your approach to communications as diverse as your workforce
• Engaging with multiple demographics
• Retaining a happy workforce

Nicos Nicolaides, Director, Compensation & Benefits, Intercontinental Hotels Group

16:25 pm

Feedback and closing remarks from the Chair

16:30 pm

Close of conference

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What are REBA events?

They are learning and networking events. REBA conferences are relaxed participation events so you will be expected to connect, share challenges and explore solutions with your peers.

REBA tries to make all their events as interesting and enjoyable as conferences can be!

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Who should attend?

If you are a forward-thinking compensation, benefits or reward practitioner who wants to stay at the top of your game then this day is for you.

This is a free-to-attend event for the first 100 qualifying human resource, reward or compensation and benefits practitioners.

This REBA event is funded through the generosity of our sponsors. We therefore require all delegates to be active decision makers and budget holders for rewards and employee benefits working within a corporate organisation.

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