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JOIN US AT THE CWS SUMMIT EUROPE 2020
We’re delighted to announce our participation at the CWS Summit Europe 2020.When: 21st and 22nd April 2020
Where: Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, London W2 2TY
This year we want to give experts the voice to challenge the status-quo of a world of work. Contact us if you’re looking to reach more talent, increase your brand consistency, raise your level of engagement, implement a new service programme or refresh your technology.
Agenda
Tuesday, 21 April 2020:
08:30 – 18:00 | Registration Open | Nine Kings Suite
08:30 – 09:45 | Networking Breakfast & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
09:00 – 09:40 | PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION | Making the Most of the CWS Summit | Beech | The world of contingent work is incredibly complex and sometimes making sense of it all can be daunting for all but the most experienced practitioner. During this introductory session, hear an overview of the CWS Summit, benefit from tips for getting the most out of the conference, and gain insight to SIA and the CWS Council membership.
09:40 – 09:45 | Transition Break
09:45 – 10:00 | CWS Summit Welcome & Introduction | Westbourne 1-4
10:00 – 11:00 | OPENING KEYNOTE | Tomorrow Has Arrived. Workforce Solutions for a New Decade | Westbourne 1-4 | There is much talk about the future of work and how it will impact not only the workforce of tomorrow, but the way the work itself gets done, and by whom, or indeed what. But what practical steps to future-proof a workforce programme can organisations take today? Where should you be investing your time and budget to ensure your entire workforce becomes and remains a source of competitive advantage both now and in the future? The latest trends and challenges in workforce solutions will be revealed, and insights into the strategies deployed by some of the world’s leading workforce programmes will be provided. Hear SIA’s predictions for 2020 and beyond, and explore how the industry is rising to the emerging challenge of an external workforce that has choices and gain insight to help both you and your organisation navigate a new era in workforce solutions. | Speaker: Jo Matkin, Global Workforce Solutions Research Director, Staffing Industry Analysts
11:00 – 11:30 | Networking Break & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
11:30 – 12:45 | Facilitated Roundtable Discussions | Westbourne 1-4 | Our popular roundtables enable you to choose those topics that are most relevant for your business, ranging from market trends, sector specialisation, service categories and a number of important business issues. Join your peers in choosing three table topics during this fast-paced 75-minute session. | Moderator: Ursula Williams, Chief Operating Officer, Staffing Industry Analysts
12:45 – 13:45 | Networking Lunch & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
13:45 – 14:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
| Technology & Operations Track | The Gig Economy and the Human Cloud Landscape | Beech | With skilled talent in short supply and an increasingly competitive global talent market, companies can’t afford to ignore the variety of alternative talent sources available through the Gig Economy and the Human Cloud. The “Human Cloud” is comprised of an emerging group of technology players that connect workers to work through a website or some other digital platform. In order for an organisation to be competitive, they must be able to engage the right candidate at the right time at the right cost and now through the right platform. In this session, we will explore the landscape of players available, the most important trends and provide a framework for you to use in considering how to take advantage of these new technologies within your programme. Discover how the Gig Economy and Human Cloud can really impact your programme delivery.
| Talent Track | Shining a Light on Non-Permanent Talent – A RBS Case Study | Westbourne 1-2 | In this session, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) discusses the importance of heightening visibility of the non-permanent workforce. Experts will share the drivers, journey and approach taken to do this, as well as the key challenges faced along the way. They will share the role of technology in this project, compliance and the considerations of IR35 on the non-permanent workforce.
| Workforce Challenges & Research Track | Gaining Sponsorship and Adoption for Statement of Work Inclusion in Your Contingent Workforce Programme | Westbourne 3-4 | It is widely accepted that there is more SOW procurement spend out there than staff augmentation, however, the volume of SOW spend that is effectively procured within a structured programme is still somewhat of a rarity. Why is that? During this session, we will hear from experts who have both successfully deployed services procurement programmes, as well as those who are in the process of overcoming the challenges of deploying this solution. We will explore the differences posed in getting SOW under control, starting with what SOW ‘is’ and more importantly, ‘what it is not’. During this highly interactive session, the panel will present their best practices to assist in helping you on the road to success.
|IDEAS IN ACTION | Ideas in Action sessions showcase leading suppliers and their solutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges. | What’s Your Digital Strategy to Harness the Multi-Channel Workforce | Oak 3 | Presented by SAP Fieldglass. | The talent supply chain is evolving. There are a multitude of options from which to source talent. From traditional staffing agencies to freelancer markets, online staffing providers, private talent pools, and services providers, much of this evolution is driven by digital – removing barriers to entry and creating different options to engage talent. | There are new companies emerging impacting your end-to-end external workforce management and services procurement processes some of which include payroll and compliance solutions; onboarding and offboarding tools; candidate vetting applications; workforce planning and analytics solutions. | In this session, hear how the multi-channel workforce is impacting business and when and how to factor digital solutions into your external workforce management programme to simplify and streamline processes.
14:30 – 14:45 | Transition Break
14:45 – 15:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
| Technology & Operations Track | Contingent Workforce Programme Optimisation through Automation | Beech | Contingent workforce programmes that have embraced automation are elevating their roles and their contingent workforce programme. VMS technology has already automated much of our process, and with an accelerated rate of technology change happening across the staffing industry, contingent workforce programmes need to know where to start. With the right investment, automation like chatbots and AI help to close process gaps and help to deliver full programme optimisation. Come and hear how these bleeding-edge technology adopters have utilised technology to create game-changing programmes.
| Talent Track | See People, Not Resources: Ready to Open the Door on a Room Full of What’s Next? | Westbourne 1-2 | It’s becoming tougher for business leaders to find the people they need to build their tomorrow. And the competition has never been fiercer for scarce skills. So, is it time to transform the way we think about engagement? We believe it is. | In this session, our panel will explore the value that HR and Procurement leaders can bring beyond the bottom line, offering insight into the skills needed to stay vital. We will examine the impact of culture on every part of engagement and attraction of the flexible workforce, offering practical advice as to how organisations can better respond to workforce needs and the changing values of a new generation of flexible workers. | Join our panel as they peek into a room full of What’s Next and discover if you have what it takes to connect with the people who are creating the future.
| Workforce Challenges & Research Track | MSP RFP Workshop – How to Get the Best Partner for Your Programme | Westbourne 3-4 | You have the green light to go to market for an MSP. You've been in the industry a while and have a pretty good understanding of both your organisation and your contingent workforce programme need when it comes to selecting and working with an MSP partner. Times are changing, MSP providers are evolving with the times and thus choosing to be more selective when issued an RFP. In this workshop session, hear feedback from the MSP providers and understand the steps you need to take to create an RFP that is both enticing to potential partners and achieves your programme goals.
| IDEAS IN ACTION | Ideas in Action sessions showcase leading suppliers and their solutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges. | Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Using Regulatory Change to Breathe New Life into Your Contingent Workforce Programme | Oak 3 | Presented by MBO Partners | In this exclusive workshop-style session, participants will leverage their learnings from recent legislation such as IR35 to find opportunities to drive organisational change. Whether you're looking to cut costs by creating or improving a direct sourcing initiative or looking for ways to improve contractor satisfaction, this session promises to be both interactive and informative.
15:30 – 16:00 | Networking Break & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
16:00 – 16:45 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
| Technology & Operations Track | IR35 Off-Payroll Rules – The Future for Contracting in the UK | Beech | From 6 April 2020, affected client organisations engaging Personal Service Company (PSC) contractors will be liable for income tax and both employees’ and employer’s National Insurance Contributions (NICs) due on payments of deemed employment income to a PSC contractor, until they have fulfilled their obligations under the rules. Businesses have spent the last several months assessing their contractor population to ensure they are genuinely self-employed, and some have even decided to avoid engaging PSCs altogether in the future. Will the rules halt the rise of independent contracting in the UK or will SOW become the new norm? Our panellists will share their organisation’s experience of implementing the IR35 off-payroll rules and what their workforce mix might look like in the future.
| Talent Track | The Evolving Role of the Programme Owner | Westbourne 1-2 | The field of contingent labour is at a turning point. The rise of 21st-century staffing has given birth to a new breed of executive. Today’s programme leader often has a non-linear career path and a broad skill set to help their organisations navigate increasingly complex global challenges. They’re reinventing programmes as a strategic function essential to an organisation’s success and paving the way for the next generation of leaders. In this live-recorded podcast, hear the current host of Talent Economy, together with his guests, expose what it really means to respond to change in today’s world. You will also get the chance to ask questions through your phone and become part of the show.
| Workforce Challenges & Research Track | Direct Sourcing – What is it and When and How do you Do it? | Westbourne 3-4 | Contingent workforce programmes are constantly challenged with reducing cost while maintaining/improving quality. Direct sourcing has become a go-to strategy for mature programmes to take control over their known talent pipeline and add talent sourcing value to their business. This concept isn’t a one size fits all solution. Before crafting a direct sourcing strategy, you will need to understand the technology, the service models and talent populations worth targeting. Learn which direct sourcing strategy best aligns with your programme and organisation.
| IDEAS IN ACTION | Ideas in Action sessions showcase leading suppliers and their solutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges. | Technologies to Enable Workforce Transformation | Oak 3 Presented by Beeline | What do you get when you combine workforce optimisation and digital transformation? You get an agile workforce that delivers a powerful competitive advantage for your business. In this session, see a demonstration of emerging technologies that are poised to unleash the power of your internal and external talent resources.
16:45 – 18:00 | Welcome Reception & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
Wednesday, 22 April 2020:
08:30 – 17:00 | Registration Open | Nine Kings Suite
08:30 – 09:30 | Networking Breakfast & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
09:30 – 10:15 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
| Technology & Operations Track | Tackling the Long Tail Spend | Beech | Pareto’s Law generally holds true amongst global organisations where around 20% of spend exists in around 80% of the low volume countries and visibility of this spend is minimal. Whilst the spend levels may be low, the very fact that the procurement of this workforce is ‘uncontrolled’, means that it could pose the greatest risk to the organisation and harbour the deepest inefficiencies. Bringing this spend within a structured programme with VMS, is something that many organisations are keen to achieve. During this highly interactive discussion, our panel of experts, representing category owners, MSP and VMS, will discuss this issue and seek to provide guidance as to how to achieve visibility into this category of spend.
| Talent Track | How has one of the Most Famous British Institutions Tackled Complex Recruitment Challenges to Achieve Record Success? | Westbourne 1-2 | The British Army is tasked to deliver some of the most critical services underpinning our national security. Recruitment has been a well publicised challenge for several years but has been transformed and targets are now being achieved. | This session will explore the transformation of a unique partnership, following the Army’s journey to overcome a series of complex challenges to locate and attract the right talent; develop a strong employer value proposition; and use data and insight to drive better outcomes. It is a compelling story of how effective collaboration between organisations can deliver extraordinary success.
| Workforce Challenges & Research Track | Benchmarking Against the Best | Westbourne 3-4 | Over the past year, SIA research analysts produced over 250 reports. From our VMS and MSP Landscape reports to mergers and acquisitions, we cover almost every aspect of the workforce ecosystem. In this session, we will showcase buyer insights from the various SIA research reports, including unique analysis from our 2019 Workforce Solutions Buyer Survey. The data presented will help contingent workforce programme managers benchmark their programme against some of the most mature Contingent Workforce programmes in the industry.
10:15 – 10:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
| Technology & Operations Track | VMS Global Landscape | Beech | Since the emergence of VMS almost 25 years ago, the role of the technology has evolved from that of a system of record, primarily supporting processes where contingent workers are sourced through staffing agencies (vendors), to supporting workers sourced through services contracts (Statement of Work and Outsourced Services) to, more recently, supporting the direct sourcing of contingent workers though company specific attraction programmes or via freelancer or recruitment marketplaces. | With increasing buyer sophistication, and the expectation of contingent workforce programmes to prove their value beyond cost saving and visibility, there has been a rise in demand for meaningful data analytics, benchmarks and insights to inform sourcing decisions and improve efficiency. | Hear how this critical technology for contingent workforce programme management is evolving and more important how your programme can too.
| Talent Track | How to Approach Sustainability and Diversity of your Workforce Across Europe | Westbourne 1-2 | More than 70 years ago, our business was founded on the principle of Doing Well by Doing Good – delivering a profit to our shareholders while contributing to society. Fast forward to today and this dual purpose still holds true: "We believe meaningful, sustainable employment has the power to change the world." | Our Sustainability Plan is built around learnability and employability: how we help people nurture the desire and ability to develop in-demand skills to be employable for the long-term. | Hear a distinguished panel discuss their current plans and actions to engage the total workforce including the ones with disadvantages from the start. Discussion points will be: - Creating opportunities that help tomorrow’s talent develop the skills they need before they enter the labour market - Providing opportunities for people to acquire new skills and adapt to the fast-changing world of work - Nurturing diversity and providing opportunities for all people to participate in the workplace and achieve their potential
| Workforce Challenges & Research Track | Keeping your Contingent Workers is Hard but Losing your Contingent Workers can be Expensive - What is the Cost of Turnover? | Westbourne 3-4 | In an ever-tightening market for talent, turnover of contingent workers is something all contingent workforce programmes experience. We think and feel that turnover is expensive but, how do we prove it? This session will share the methodology to help you uncover what turnover costs your organisation, what you can do to potentially improve your retention strategies, and how you can drive additional value and bottom-line revenue to your organisation.
11:15 – 11:45 | Networking Break & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
11:45 – 12:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
| Technology & Operations Track | Blockchain and Digital Credentialing | Beech | Background checking candidate details is a time-consuming process and frustration ensues when it delays a candidate from being onboarded. There is a strong need for more efficient and reliable identity and credential verification solutions, in order to quickly engage the right candidates, efficiently onboard new workers and reduce risk within your business. The perceived immutable, secure, private, decentralised nature of blockchain technology has inspired technology companies and others to explore blockchain-based solutions that could potentially mitigate these inefficiencies and fraud. This session will explore the benefits blockchain might offer and how it could revolutionise digital credentialing.
| Talent Track | Breaking the Divide between Talent Acquisition and Contingent Workforce Programmes | Westbourne 1-2 | The contingent workforce is very different from an employee workforce. But at the core, many of the practices and responsibilities are consistent. One thing that both these areas have in common is people. To be more competitive in attracting top talent, companies are starting to look at how to leverage these two recently disparate areas to find a unified talent brand and workforce strategy to help them win the war on talent. Join our panel of experts as they share how organisations are removing barriers between these areas and tackling common challenges like sourcing, talent attraction and holistic workforce planning.
| Workforce Challenges & Research Track | Compliance and Risk – Latest Developments Affecting the Contingent Workforce | Westbourne 3-4 | SIA research is globally recognised as the industry source to keep you up to date with legal and regulatory developments impacting the contingent workforce environment internationally. In this session, a panel of experts in contingent workforce compliance and risk will take you through the most topical issues in Europe.
12:30 – 13:45 | Networking Lunch & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
13:45 – 15:00 | GUEST KEYNOTE | Understanding Job Markets & Human Capital During the 4th Industrial Revolution | Westbourne 1-4 | Today we face many challenges, fascinating yet disruptive: perhaps the most relevant, is how to understand, adapt to and shape the new technology revolution – the 4th Industrial Revolution – and how it will impact both the individual and the organisation. This is not business as usual, but a complete transformation of humankind and a new kind of Leadership is needed to drive such transformation. During this keynote presentation, understand powerful themes such as what is different this time around, what is the new job market, the new workforce, how technology – Digital and Artificial Intelligence – will profoundly transform the way we work and why we need to develop adaptive learning and contextual intelligence, and hear examples of organisations that are at the forefront of this revolution. This keynote will leave you with practical insights for your role as a Leader in your organisation and will close with self-reflection, powerful questions and storytelling about developing human-centred Ethical Leadership. | An internationally recognised futurist and humanist, Future of Work and Leadership 4.0 expert, Paolo Gallo has worked in 60+ countries and served as Chief Human Resources Officer at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Chief Learning Officer at The World Bank in Washington DC, Senior Director of Human Resources at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development in London and RVP HR at Citigroup London. Paolo’s internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning book, The Compass & The Radar: The Art of Building a Rewarding Career While Remaining True to Yourself is a mix of coaching, self-improvement, organisational behaviour and business ethics and has been translated in 8 languages. Paolo writes for Forbes, HBR, Tribune de Genève, serves on selected Executive Boards and is Adjunct Professor at Bocconi University & Ashridge-Hult Executive Education. | Join Paolo for a thought-provoking, experience-filled talk that will inspire your personal development and help you tackle the key challenges facing HR and procurement in Europe today. | Speaker: Paolo Gallo, Futurist, Humanist and Future of Work & Leadership 4.0 Expert
15:00 – 15:30 | Networking Break & Exhibits Open | Nine Kings Suite
15:30 – 16:30 | The Role of the CHRO – The Future of HR | Westbourne 1-4 | In 2019, CEOs globally stated their biggest concern internally for their organisation was attracting and retaining talent. This has propelled the role of HR from having a seat at the table to often times placing them at the head of the table. Gone are the days when the HR function’s focus was on the full-time employee. For an organisation to be competitive, they must engage the right talent, at the right time, at the right cost and however the talent wishes to be engaged, whether that is full-time, contingent, onsite or remote. During this session, our panel of CHROs share how their role is expanding and how technology, data and analytics provide them the ability to look at their entire workforce like never before.
16:30 – 17:00 | 30 Ideas in 30 Minutes | Westbourne 1-4 | Hold on to your seats! In this fast-paced session, SIA experts will provide a perfect recap of the last 2 days. Covering the top 30 topics in 30 minutes, we will provide an excellent opportunity for you to create your list of takeaways to bring back to your programme and your organisation.
17:00 | CWS Summit Concludes