OER summit to highlight shifting dynamics in finance and HR
MUSCAT: CEOs, CFOs, senior HR executives and international and GCC-based industry experts will discuss the new imperatives on the interface between finance and HR at OER Finance and HR summit at InterContinental Muscat, on Wednesday, May 2.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Ghalib Al Hinai, the adviser to the Minister of Manpower for human resources planning will be the guest of honour at the second edition of the summit.
Organised by Oman Economic Review, the Sultanate’s premium business magazine, the summit comprises two thoughtprovoking panel discussions interspersed with various paper presentation by industry experts who will delve into the multiple aspects of the topics.
The summit will be followed by a workshop on the use of Psychometrics in learning and development by N Martis, Director, KornFerry Hay Group. Another highlight of the event will be the presentation of OER’s Awards of Excellence in Finance and HR for the year 2018.
Bank of Beirut and Oman Arab Bank are the strategic partners of OER Finance & HR Summit while BMW is the automobile partner and Takatuf Oman, the HR knowledge partner. Other partners include United Securities and Taageer Finance (support partners), Takaful Oman Insurance (Islamic insurance partner), Arabia Falcon Insurance (insurance partner), RAB and Zobble Solutions (knowledge partners). Times of Oman and Al Shabiba are the media partners. Oman Printers and Stationers is the print partner while YallaWa’offer is the digital advertising partner.
The topics of presentations on Finance include ‘UAE’s experience in implementing VAT and learnings for Oman’ by Deepak Agarwal, director, PwC, UAE; ‘New Economic Realities – one year later’ by Khalid Ansari of KPMG and ‘The Changing Insurance landscape’ by A. R. Srinivasan, CEO, Arabian Falcon Insurance.
The finance panel discussion will bring together CFOs and finance experts from the various sectors to discuss ‘Financial preparedness for harnessing growth’. The panelists in this session include Mohammed Sadek Sulaiman, general manager Corporate Planning, Orpic; Vishal Goenka, Group CFO, Renaissance Services; Loai Batainah, CEO, UCapital; Flavio Simonutti, CFO, Omran; Sanjay Kawatra, Partner, Assurance, EY; Rajesh Khanna and CFO, Voltamp Group, and Nat Vora, CFO, Gulf Energy, who will moderate the session.
Exciting areas of focus on HR will include how to create a supportive environment for continuous learning, modern trends in learning, how to use machine learning and artificial intelligence in learning and the use of psychometrics.
The topics of presentation include ‘HR on Building a Learning Organisation’ by Venkatesh Palakkad, Principal Consultant and Business Head, RAB; ‘The role of The Takatuf Scholars Programme in promoting Omani talent’ by Dr Ammar Al Ojaili, Associate Director – The Takatuf Scholars Programme; ‘How Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the learning landscape’ by Steven Atkins, Alliances Manager, UK, Nordics & APJ at Saba Software, UK; and ‘How are organisations engaging their Z generation work force through game based learning’ by Gunjan Gupta, founder & director, Zobble Solutions.
This will be followed by a panel discussion under the topic ‘Managing the Skill Gap - What organisations need to do?’, which will explore the rise and responsibility of talent development in the days ahead. The panellists attending this session are Prof. Kathryn Bindon, director, The Takatuf Scholars Programme; Adil A Al. Rahbi, head of Human Resources, Oman Arab Bank; Khaled Al Turki, principal consultant and managing director – Marifa Digital, Saudi Arabia; Dr Khalid Al Hamadani, Head of Performance Academy, Bank Dhofar; A. R. Srinivasan, CEO, Arabian Falcon Insurance; Nuno Neeves, cluster general manager, Radisson Hotels Group and Venkatesh Palakkad, principal consultant and business head, RAB HR who will moderate the session.