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ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Frankfurt – February 29 – March 2, 2012

Key Human Resources Issues for the Next Decade

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Welcome Drinks and Finger Food Hosted and Sponsored by CMS Hasche Sigle

Barckhausstraße 12-16, 60325 Frankfurt am Main,

Tel: +49 (0) 69 71701 - 0

Thursday, March 1, 2012

8:00 am Registration Opens/Continental Breakfast:

Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof

Am Kaiserplatz

60311 Frankfurt, Germany

+49 (0) 69 215 02

9:00 am Welcome by Allen Powley, GlaxoSmithKline, Chair of XBHR and

Gerlind Wisskirchen, CMS Hasche Sigle, 2012 Conference Chair

9:15 am Workforce Planning

Optimal allocation of personnel resources around the globe to maximize organisational performance. The imbalance between vacancies and the availability of the right competences (talent shortage; skill mismatches etc)

Talent Mobility (i.e. expats): the solution for demographic trend and talent gap?

Moderated by: Caroline Dhir, Ernst & Young

Allen Powley, GlaxoSmithKline

Ulrich Bormann, Evonik

10:45 am Break

11:00 am Talent Management

Managing top talent and low talent; addressing the gap between business expectations and HR achievements (low talent management and management of competences versus acknowledgment of low performance); protecting the investment in top talent (through most effective use of restrictive covenants etc)

Moderated by: Gary Siniscalco, Orrick

Beatrice von Brauchitsch, Hertz

Michael Burd, Lewis Silkin

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Post-Merger Integration – HR Challenges

Moderated by: Günter Frei, Avaya

Gerlind Wisskirchen, CMS Hasche Sigle

Martina Blümling, PerkinElmer

Heike Müller-Simon, Unisys Outsourcing

3:00 pm Break

3:15 pm Demise of Unions and Collective Bargaining?

Unions strive to achieve International Framework Agreements and target MNC at their weakest spot

Moderated by: Ajay Raghavan, Trilegal

Johan Lubbe, Littler Mendelson

Gunda Niehaus, Procter & Gamble

Michael Wöhler, Terex

Patricia Burke, The ServiceMaster Company

4:45 pm Closing Remarks

6:30 pm Reception and Gala Dinner

Hosted and Sponsored by Epstein Becker Green, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Sherrard Kuzz LLP and Thouvenin Rechtsanwälte at Holbein’s Restaurant im Städl, Holbeinstr. 1, 60596 Frankfurt

Keynote Speaker: Michael Beyer VP Europe, Avaya

Friday, March 2, 2012

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 am Human Resources and Employment in Changing Times

Are working relationships fundamentally changing – away from employment with a single employer, and perhaps away from employment at all? What does this mean for human resource professionals?

Is the workplace changing to meet the needs of older workers and the ´millennials´? Does it need to?

Moderated by: Bettina Bender, CM Murray

Erin Kuzz, Sherrard Kuzz

David Garland, Epstein Becker Green

10:15 am Break

10:30am Annual General Meeting

10:45 am Open Forum to Discuss Hot Topics

Moderated by: Mike Delikat, Orrick

Baba M. Zipkin, IBM

12:15 pm Lunch

1:15 pm Changes in Company Culture and Organisation (e.g. expansion of operations in new markets)

Moderated by: Filip Saelens, Loyens & Loeff

Ramona Bauer, Ruia Global Fasteners

2:45 pm How to Develop a Global Leadership Team?

Improvement of leadership development: internal-development programmes and corporate universities

Moderated by: Roselyn Sands, Ernst & Young

D. Jan Duffy, Management Practices Group

4:15 pm Closing Remarks

4:30 pm Business Meeting of Executive Board

6:30 pm Optional Dinner