OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION
8:30 am to 9:45 am

Rethinking HR Strategy: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

Chairman of nGenera Insight and Adjunct professor of management at the Joseph L.Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto)
Toronto, Canada

The Internet is rapidly becoming a platform for enabling self-organization and communities. At the same time, the Net Generation has come of age, with its eldest members now turning 30. Together, these two shifts are forcing companies to rethink human resources strategies.

An enthralling and inspiring orator and an authority on the new world of enterprise, collaboration, innovation and value creation, Don Tapscott will share with us the fascinating findings of a $4 million landmark private research study that surveyed more than 11 000 young people and resulted in his most recent book, Grown Up Digital.

The Net Generation is the first generation to have literally grown up digital. They are using technology in ways you could never imagine. For the first time in history, youth are an authority on something really important. And they’re changing every aspect of our society, form the marketplace to workplace. If you understand the Net Generation, you will understand the future!

Even with the economic downturn, we’re on the brink of a major War for Talent as baby-boomers retire. To win this war, smart companies need new HR strategies.

• Rethink recruitment; initiate relationships. Don’t waste money on advertising for talent. Use social networks based on trust to influence young people about your company.
  
  
• Rethink training; engage for lifelong learning. Rather than traditional training programs that are separate from work, look to strengthen the learning component of all jobs.
  
  
• Re-think management. New collaborative platforms enable a new modus operandi of work, resulting in dramatic improvements in performance.

Learn why the ability to integrate the talents of dispersed individuals and organizations is the defining competency for managers and firms.

Join us for this captivating, challenging and provocative opening keynote speech that promises to go beyond limits!

Note: The presentation will be in English (simultaneous translation available to French and Spanish).

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