2019 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 1: THURSDAY APRIL 4th
Registration opens, Broad St. Lobby, Bellevue Hotel
Breakfast
PEOPLE ANALYTICS COMPETITIONS
Case Competition
White Paper Competition
Startup Pitch Competition
Research Paper Competition
Startup Expo
Lunch
MAIN STAGE PROGRAM
Opening Remarks
Cade Massey, Practice Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at Wharton, Co-host of Wharton Moneyball, Faculty Co-Director at Wharton People Analytics
Welcome to Wharton
Geoff Garrett, Dean at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
KEYNOTE DISCUSSION:
Nine Lies About Work
Marcus Buckingham, Bestselling Author, Researcher, and Talent Expert, in conversation with Adam Grant, The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at Wharton, Author, and Faculty Co-Director of Wharton People Analytics
How to Drive Behavior Change with People Science
Stefanie Tignor, People Scientist and Analytics Lead at Humu
Break
Voice Forensics
Rita Singh, Research Faculty at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Startup Pitch Competition Winner Presentation
Diversity Hiring & Blendoor
Stephanie Lampkin, CEO of Blendoor, in conversation with Samir Nurmohamed, Assistant Professor of Management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Break
Research Paper Competition Winner Presentation
Analytics of TED Talks
Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist at ONE LOGIC
KEYNOTE DISCUSSION: High Performance in Multiple Fields
Allyson Felix, Olympic Gold Medalist, Track and Field, in conversation with Daniel Pink, New York Times Best-selling Author of When and Drive
Closing Remarks
Laura Zarrow, Executive Director, Wharton People Analytics
Cocktail Reception
DAY 2: FRIDAY APRIL 5th
Registration opens, Broad St. Lobby, Bellevue Hotel
Breakfast
MAIN STAGE PROGRAM
Opening Remarks
Tyler Caldwell, Wharton People Analytics Conference Chair
Using Virtual Reality for Employee Training
Ayreann Luedders, Senior Director, Academy Operations at Walmart
Case Competition Winner Presentation
Data + Dialogue: Tackling Questions of Equity
Shuba Gopal, Senior Scientist at the Broad Institute and Andy Porter, Chief People Officer at the Broad Institute
White Paper Competition Winner Presentation
Break
Panel Discussion: Ethics of People Analytics
Arvind Narayanan, Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and Meg Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist at Google Research and Machine Intelligence, in conversation with Lyle Ungar, Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania
How Internal Analytics Communities Can Empower Your People
Eva Murray, Data Community Leader, CyclePlot Ltd
KEYNOTE DISCUSSION:
Moving the Needle on D&I using Data Science and Behavioral Science
Cathy Engelbert, CEO of Deloitte, in conversation with Angela Duckworth, The Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Author, and Faculty Co-Director of Wharton People Analytics
Lunch
Driving Business Results Through Network Analytics
Manish Goel, Co-founder and CEO of Trustsphere; RJ Milnor, Vice President of Workforce Planning & Analytics, McKesson
Fostering High Performance
Ceci Clark, Major League Mental Performance Coach of the Cleveland Indians and Meg Popovic, Director of Player Well-Being of the Toronto Maple Leafs, in conversation with Daniel Coyle, New York Times Best-selling Author of The Culture Code, The Talent Code, and The Secret Race, and contributing editor for Outside magazine.
KEYNOTE DISCUSSION:
Behavioral Economics and Improving Decision-Making
Richard Thaler, 2017 Nobel Prize Winner, in conversation with Cade Massey, Practice Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at Wharton, Co-host of Wharton Moneyball, Faculty Co-Director at Wharton People Analytics
Closing Remarks
Adam Grant, The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at Wharton, Author, and Faculty Co-Director of Wharton People Analytics