2015 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Time

Description

Attendees

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Cocktail Reception

Speakers and invited guests

Friday, April 10, 2015

Time

Description

Speaker(s)

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dean Geoffrey Garrett (The Wharton School)

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Keynote Presentation

Michael Mauboussin (Credit Suisse, The Success Equation)

9:45 AM - 10:10 AM

Interview

Laszlo Bock (Google) and Michael O’Hare (The Estée Lauder Companies)

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

Presentation:
The Analytics of People Analytics

Presenters from LinkedIn

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Break

10:50 AM - 11:35 AM

Panel:
Predicting Employee Performance

Panelists from JetBlue, UPenn, Yale

11:35 AM - 12:10 PM

Student Case Competition:
Year Up

Presented by Facebook

12:10 PM - 1:35 PM

Lunch, featuring topical discussion rooms

1:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Keynote Conversation

Shane Battier (Duke Univ., Miami Heat)

2:05 PM - 3:50 PM

An Improvisation Exercise
in People Analytics

The Second City

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Break

3:10 PM - 3:55 PM

Panel: Getting Started in People Analytics

Panelists from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Two Sigma

3:55 PM - 4:15 PM

Break

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Panel: The Biggest Mistakes
I’ve Madem in People Analytics

Moderator: Michael Useem

4:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Interview: Machine Learning & HR

Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard) and Dan Pink (To Sell is Human, Drive)

5:15 PM - 5:20 PM

Closing Remarks

5:20 PM - 7:30 PM

Cocktail Reception

All attendees

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Time

Description

Speaker(s)

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM

Opening Remarks

9:05 AM - 9:35 AM

Keynote Presentation

Anne Milgram (Former NJ Attorney General)

9:35 AM - 10:20 AM

Panel: Network Analytics

Panelists from UVA, General Motors, MIT Media Lab / Sociometric Solutions

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Break

10:40 AM - 11:05 AM

Interview

Peter Fasolo (Johnson & Johnson)

11:05 AM - 11:50 AM

Panel: The Limits of Analytics

Panelists from UNC, Northeastern, Univ. of Toronto

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Keynote Conversation

Jeff Ma (tenXer, The House Advantage, 21)

12:20 AM - 1:35 PM

Lunch, featuring topical discussion rooms

1:35 PM - 2:05 PM

Discussion: What Do The Words
We Use Say About Us?

Intel, Rich Talent Group

2:05 PM - 2:50 PM

Panel: Aligning Incentives

Panelists from UNC, Washington Univ.,
Panorama Education

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Break

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

Research Paper Competition

Top 3 research paper submissions

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Closing Remarks

TOP GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS

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