Thursday 8 October 2026

Building HR While the Plane is Flying – Inside HR's Role in a Global Carve-out

Few transformations challenge HR as profoundly as a global carve-out. Creating a standalone organization while ensuring uninterrupted business operations requires HR to redesign structures, leadership, culture, systems, and ways of working—all at the same time. This session offers an inside look at the realities behind such a transformation. Based on first-hand experience from a global carve-out involving more than 4,300 employees across 50+ legal entities, it goes beyond the success stories to explore the critical decisions, unexpected obstacles, competing priorities, and defining moments that shaped the journey. Rather than presenting another transformation framework, this session offers a candid perspective on HR's role in building a new company—revealing not only what worked, but also where assumptions were challenged, priorities shifted, and difficult trade-offs had to be made.

Thursday 8 October 2026

Thursday 8 October 2026

Agile HR: Driving Flexibility and Performance Through Agile Talent Acquisition

As organizations face increasing uncertainty and rapidly changing talent demands, HR functions must become more agile, responsive, and business-oriented. In this session, I will share how BSH has adopted agile ways of working within Talent Acquisition operations and strategic HR initiatives. Drawing on practical experiences from recruiting operations, process redesign, and employer branding transformation projects, the session will highlight how agile methodologies can improve service stability, increase organizational flexibility, optimize team utilization, and accelerate the delivery of business value. Participants will gain practical insights into successfully embedding agile principles in HR environments and the lessons learned along the journey.