Toronto 2020
SocialHRCamp Toronto 2020 will be taking place on Wednesday, February 12 at the beautiful STACK office in the historic Distillery District. In typical SocialHRCamp fashion, we will be running a variety of interesting and highly engaging sessions, that will be led by some of the most impressive HR practitioners and thought-leaders in Toronto. This event will showcase our first-ever theme; diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DIBs). As the most diverse country in the world, Canadian workplaces are leading the way in attracting, engaging and retaining highly diverse and inclusive workplaces. Technology is playing a major role in this work, and we will explore this at this event.
Grab your ticket today — great networking, hands-on learning and insights into the world of HR and social technology.
Hourly Schedule
CAMP
- 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
- Registration & Networking
- 5:15 pm - 5:25 pm
- opening & Welcome
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Speakers:
Jeff Waldman
- 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
- Kick-Off: The Rise of the Rebels - Why Rule Breakers Belong at Work
- There is a black market of talent in every organization. They are made up of rebels -- rule breakers who have immunized themselves from the disease of the corporate world - blind consensus. The workplace has become comfortable with execution bias & sameness, and complacent with the familiar. Those who dare to say No, to say "yes, and" or "what if ...?" are seen as outliers threatening the status quo. Without the inclusion and empowerment of these rule-breakers, it is innovation and the future of work that is truly being threatened. This kick-off session will highlight how to get out of your own way to recognize rebel talent and meaningfully engage them. And if you are one, how to show up and raise the game.
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Speakers:
Salima Nathoo
- 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm
- Dinner Break
- 6:30 pm - 7:05 pm
- Concurrent #1: Transparent Recruiting: How to Communicate Your Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Programs (or lack thereof) to Candidates
- In our roles as Recruiters, we need to care deeply about the candidate experience. We’re often the first point of contact and a candidate’s go-to when they have questions. A question we often get asked is, “what’s your company doing to cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace?” To authentically answer this question requires preparation. In this session, you will learn ways to discuss inclusion with candidates, whether your company hasn’t built out any programs yet or has a mature offering.
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Speakers:
Yiorgos Boudouris
- 6:30 pm - 7:05 pm
- Concurrent #2: Systemic Changes to Address Biases in Performance Management
- 9 in 10 Human Resources leaders believe performance reviews do not provide accurate information. This statistic is as worrying as the minority of men and women – 24% and 15% respectively – who had confidence in the performance review process. The very construct of performance reviews leaves great room for biases to be activated that have a detrimental effect on Black employees and women – it limits their opportunities for advancement. In this session, I will share systemic changes that make the process fairer and hopefully restore the confidence being lost by human resources practitioners and employees.
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Speakers:
Dave D’Oyen
- 7:10 pm - 7:45 pm
- Mega Session - The Human Element of AI within the DIBs Space
- There have been many innovations over time that have changed how we globally operate, and none has been more impactful than Artificial Intelligence (AI). The HR industry has not gone untouched by AI, which has brought significant improvements in hiring processes and streamlined many workflows that have made workplaces function more efficiently. However, this has not come without a cost. A big challenge for the HR industry today is eliminating bias within the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) space to maintain the integrity of the workforce and HR practices. AI poses a threat to the progress of DIB, but through this challenge let's uncover how we can leverage the benefits of AI and mitigate the risk to ensure we continue to create diverse and inclusive workspaces for all.
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Speakers:
Alysha M. Campbell
- 7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
- Break
- 8:00 pm - 8:35 pm
- Concurrent #3: The Link Between Diversity in Leadership and Economics
- Improving Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (D,I,&B) in leadership and people management roles is an important need that leaders must address. This session proposes creating a strategy to increase the number of marginalized candidates for leadership roles and evaluates the economic outcome of employing this strategy. Outcomes of this session include creating and building a strategy for increasing diversity in leadership positions, understanding the power of wealth creation and economics in the DIB discussion, and acquiring a list of research and practitioner resources.
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Speakers:
Dean Delpeache
- 8:00 pm - 8:35 pm
- Concurrent #4: Using AI to Empower Your People
- This session will focus on the key applications of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources and how AI is used to empower teams and business.
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Speakers:
Katherine Duffy
- 8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
- Closing Session
- This closing session will consolidate some of the key take aways from the evening and look at some practical next steps for participants to keep this conversation alive.
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Speakers:
Karen Craggs-Milne
Date
- Feb 12 2020
- Expired!
Time
- 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
- 36 Distillery Lane, suite 420
Other Organizers
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First 30
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Website
https://first30ready.com/
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bob
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Website
https://www.hibob.com/
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sourcinc
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Website
https://sourcinc.com/en
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Stack
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Website
https://www.getstack.ca/
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VacationFund
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Website
https://www.vacationfund.io/
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Diversity Factor
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Website
https://diversityfactor.org/
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Ibelong
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Website
https://ibelong.work/
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Benji
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Website
https://www.mybenji.com/
Speakers
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Alysha M. CampbellAlysha M. Campbell is an accomplished and respected Strategic HR Leader with a decade of experience that encompasses all facets of Human Resource Management. From executing successful multi-million dollar workforce recruitment and optimization projects to spearheading employee culture initiatives, Alysha has truly seen and done it all in the HR space.
Through her experience and foresight in the international talent space, Alysha has developed an eye for talent engagement patterns and the resulting effects on culture. As a speaker and entrepreneur, Alysha partners with and teaches organizations her proven process on how to align their talent with corporate objectives to achieve more and increase profitability. She enjoys sharing the secrets of the trade to help businesses discover the benefits of a high-performance culture, the increasing value of employee engagement, in addition to the ins and outs of talent acquisition.
Within Alysha’s business practices, she encourages companies to embrace the “Employee First” philosophy that focuses on shifting the culture dynamics and encouraging recognition of positive results and behaviours. Ultimately this leads to greater employee engagement, customer service and recurring revenue allowing clients to stay competitive in their respective industry and labour market.
Among her various business ventures, Alysha is currently an HR Business Partner with Index Exchange, a Global Ad Tech Organization. She is a graduate of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and is pursuing further studies as a Change Management Practitioner (CMP).
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Dave D’OyenDIVERSITY & INCLUSION LEADDave is a diversity and inclusion consultant and sits on the advisory board of Marigold Capital, a venture capital which uses a gender lens to inform impact investing. He was an Equity and Diversity Consultant with the City of Toronto providing subject matter expertise on projects related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Prior to that, Dave was the Inclusion and Innovation Builder at Shopify where he contributed to the development of the diversity and inclusion strategy, and concurrently the Community Outreach and Consultation Advisor for the Independent Street Checks Review, which examined Ontario’s regulation on police street checks or “carding” as it is sometimes called.
Dave serves as a member of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Screening Committee for the Black Innovation Fellowship at Ryerson University’s DMZ. He is also a member of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto’s Community Advisory Committee, addressing the overrepresentation of Black children and youth in care and the disparity in treatment towards Black families, and a member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s MD Admissions Patient Engagement Committee. Dave was a member of Toronto Police Service’s Police and Community Engagement Review Advisory Committee to deliver bias-free policing and served on the Board of Directors of Black Health Alliance where he organized forums on mental health in the Black community.
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Dean DelpeacheDirector of Talent & DiversityDean Delpeache is the Director of Talent & Diversity at Fiix Software, where he’s responsible for executing the talent acquisition and DIBE strategy. For a decade, he has been focused on talent management and creating frameworks of equity. He is also a Diversity Consultant and the Program Lead & Professor of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion program at George Brown College. He is a global conference speaker, delivering talks in North America, Russia, Spain, Middle East, and UK just to name a few. Dean possesses a Masters in Human Resources Management from York University and has completed a Certificate program in Leadership and Inclusion from Centennial College
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Jeff WaldmanEntrepreneur & HR Tech EvangelistJeff Waldman is a senior HR leader and technology evangelist. His newest venture is ScaleHR, a growth ops consultancy that helps scaling companies streamline costs to empower revenue growth and employee productivity. Deeply engaged and connected within the SMB and HR technology spaces, Jeff’s influence has helped growing SMB companies strategically scale their People Operations through a combination of strategy and technology. With the world of work constantly changing, Jeff’s unique and creative perspective on business, HR, technology, and strategy has helped many growing organizations achieve extraordinary results. He has led and built HR teams at growing organizations in the technology, financial services, entertainment, broadcasting, government, not-for-profit and consulting industries. Currently, he is Founder & Principal at ScaleHR, an HR consultancy that works with growing SMBs to scale their HR and Talent operations, and HR tech startups to build amazing software. He is also the Founder of SocialHRCamp and HR Leaders Collective – experiential learning events for the HR community. Jeff is an avid speaker, blogger, and volunteer with diverse organizations and initiatives throughout North America. Originally from Vancouver, and currently living in North Toronto with his amazing wife and three awesome young boys with who he spends his personal time. He also coaches his kids’ sports teams and is an avid hockey player and snowboarder.
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Karen Craggs-MilneFounder & CEOKaren Craggs-Milne is a recognized leading global expert with over 20 years of Canadian and international experience promoting gender equality and inclusion. She is an Obama White House recognized Gender Equality Changemaker (2016) and a Global Goodwill Ambassador (2018). She is a leading go-to expert for organizations that are serious about ‘getting equality work right’. As Founder and CEO of Conscious Equality Incorporated, Karen works globally with NGOs, Corporations, and Governments to develop their capacity to deliver on their equality mandates intentionally and with real impact. Her depth and breadth of expertise have allowed Karen to work with an impressive range of clients including Government of Canada, Government of St Lucia, Interac Canada, CIBC bank, Public Inc, Apathy is Boring, Ryerson University, Plan International Canada, World Vision, to name a just few. Karen is a dynamic and engaging speaker on equality issues. She has spoken on this topic at various events hosted by leading organizations including Women of Influence, Adidas and Reebok Canada, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bank of Montreal, among others. Whether it is under a tree in a rural village in Ghana or in a boardroom with C-Suite Executives, Karen’s authentic and engaging approach promises to educate, transform and inspire you into meaningful action.
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Katherine DuffyOptimization & Program DirectorKatherine Duffy is a seasoned leader in the enterprise technology space and has been leading technical teams to provide creative solutions for HR business partners for 10 years. In her role as Optimization and Program Director at Wysdom.AI, Katherine deploys Agile techniques to deliver business results using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. As a CHRP and PMI trained professional, she makes connections between business objectives, emerging technologies, and human needs. She seeks to be your boost of energy and ally in your corner to help achieve all you aim for.
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Salima NathooFUTURE OF WORK & TALENT DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTSalima Nathoo designs modern experiences for wellbeing, empowerment, and joy. Organizations hire her to cultivate the magic that happens when the spirit of entrepreneurship & ideation roar in the open hands of community. At a neuro-engagement level, she alchemizes mindsets by building palpable trust with customers & employees. Her renegade career includes big-brain strategy consulting and leadership roles with goliath corporations focusing on the future of work and learning. Someday she’ll write her memoir in a coffee shop with a pot of tea and a little black book of light bulb moments that capture her adventures as a mindful rebel.
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Yiorgos BoudourisTALENT ATTRACTION MANAGERYiorgos Boudouris is a Toronto-based recruitment manager with over 12 years of experience recruiting in a variety of industries. His mission is to help attract, develop and retain great teams. Currently, Yiorgos works with Jobber, the #2 fastest-growing software company in Canada and #7 overall, according to Canadian Business and Maclean‘s Growth 500. Throughout his career, Yiorgos has had the pleasure of speaking at conferences, organizations and community events across Canada. Topics of expertise include building diverse teams, inclusion in the workplace and the importance of storytelling in recruitment. All in all, Yiorgos feels very lucky that every day he gets to listen to people’s stories and help set them up for success.
