OER Summit 2017 to discuss new HR, finance imperatives on May 24
MUSCAT: OER Finance & HR Summit 2017 and Top 20 Award will be held at Sheraton Oman on May 24, under the auspices of Dr Rasheed bin Al Safi Huraibi, Chairman, Oman Tender Board.
Organised by the Sultanate’s leading business magazine,
and its publisher, United Media Services, the second edition of OER Finance & HR Summit will be an ideal platform for CEOs, CFOs and senior HR executives to learn from industry experts, to network and to discuss with peers facing similar challenges. The summit will provide an enriching experience with keynote address/paper presentations from international and GCC based industry experts, panel discussions, and sharing of current trends and best practices. Dr Huraibi will also present the OER Top 20 Awards for year 2016, based on a survey done by OER of the largest listed companies on the Muscat Securities Market at the event. Modelled on the Fortune 500, the OER Top 20 is
annual ranking of the Sultanate’s Top 20 listed companies. Companies have been evaluated and ranked based on their revenue, as derived from the published accounts submitted to the Muscat Securities Market.
Sponsors
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and Bank of Beirut are the strategic partners of the summit while BMW and Takatuf are the associate partners. Times of Oman & are the media partners. The summit is powered by RAB-MPower HR as the knowledge partner and The Talent Enterprises as the survey partner.
BIG is the light and sound partner and Oman Printers & Stationers is the print partner. Omani Society also supports the summit for Human Resource Management (OSHRM).
The summit will throw up a range of business solutions related to cash flow management, disruptive technology, performance measurement and improving efficiency.
Panel discussions
The panel discussion on - ‘Managing Performance in Oman - Ground Realities’ will bring together senior executives and HR professionals to ideate and arrive at breakthrough solutions on various issues. The participants in the panel discussion include Dr Ghalib Saif Al Hosni, chief people’s officer-HR Unit, Omantel; Hilal Al Jadidi, director of Consulting Services: Takatuf Oman; Nofal Al Saidi, general manager, HR, Orpic; Satish Moorjani, Group CEO, Mustafa Sultan Enterprises and Chetlur S. Prasad, senior manager – Employee Development, Al Madina Takaful and Venkatesh P. V., principal consultant & business head, Reem Al Bawadi, who will moderate the discussion.
The second panel discussion on ‘New financial imperatives in a challenging business environment’ will challenge, discuss and confront the issues facing the CEOs/CFOs today, focussing on themes such as - managing cash flow efficiently and enhancing revenue streams; building business models to thrive in a changing business environment; unlocking value and enabling business and finance transformation and leadership, the CFO and the future workplace.
The panel discussion moderated by Chandrasekr Parameswaran, group general manager, Jawad Sultan Group, will feature an august body of panellists including Ghaniya Al Rashdi, Business Finance manager, PDO; Gerard Hutchinson, CFO, Galfar Engineering & Contracting; Ashok Hariharan, Partner, head of Tax, Lower Gulf, KPMG; Sanjay Ka- watra, Partner, Assurance, EY and Shahid Rasool, chief investment officer, Ominvest.
The key findings from the ‘GCC performance management practices survey & sharing of best practices’, a specially instituted survey in Oman, will be presented by Radhika Punshi, managing director and Organisational Psychologist, The Talent Enterprise, Dubai.
The panel discussions will be interspersed with paper presentations by industry experts on key aspects of HR and finance, which include ‘New Macroeconomic Realities’ by Khalid Ansari, KPMG Oman; ‘Leveraging performance in challenging times’ by Venkatesh PV, Principal Consultant and Business head, Reem Al Bawadi; ‘PDO’s Lean Journey and what the larger business community can learn from these measures’ by Wayne Bryant, Lean Deployment Lead, Petroleum Development Oman; ‘Global HR trends and the implications for Oman’ by Hilal Al Jadidi, director of Consulting Services, Takatuf Oman; ‘The Secrets, signposts and science of assessing potential’ by Inga Pioro, Principal Consultant, Korn Ferry Hay Group, Abu Dhabi; and ‘Technology and Finance’ by Mohamed Nayaz, Partner, Advisory Services, EY Oman.