The Future - Ready Organisation
 

22/01/2013
20:00 - 20:30Registration and Champagne Reception
20:30 - 20:55Networking Buffet Dinner
20:55 - 21:00Chair's welcome and introduction
Gillian Tett, Markets and Finance Commentator & an Assistant Editor of the Financial Times, Financial Times
21:00 - 21:50Panel debate
T K Kurien, CEO, IT Business & Executive Director, Wipro Limited
Dick Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems
Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive, WPP
Discussion topics to include:
  • Can big data really provide compelling answers about the future?
  • Is there too much data and too little intelligence?
  • How do you extract the competitive value hidden in the data you've gathered?
  • How much does it cost, and how risky is it?
  • Do people just get in the way of the data, or do people need to get in the way of the data?
  • What are the workforce innovations driving organisations forwards?
  • What can companies do to win the future talent war?
  • New era employees are bringing with them a new set of expectations to the workplace. How - and should? - these expectations be accommodated?
  • How are shifting global workforce demographics impacting on business?


21:50 - 22:00Closing remarks
Gillian Tett, Markets and Finance Commentator & an Assistant Editor of the Financial Times, Financial Times