PPA Industry - Academia Summit 2019
Wed, 27 Nov
|ifo Institute for Economic Research
This summit, featuring lectures from experts as well as open discussions between HR professionals and academics, was the first of a prospective series of events to establish a community and strengthen the exchange between cutting edge research and HR practice.


Time & Location
27 Nov 2019, 10:45 – 18:00
ifo Institute for Economic Research, Poschingerstraße 5, 81679 München, Germany
About the event
This summit brought together HR professionals from various industries and leading academic researchers to foster exchange of knowledge and experiences. Participants had the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the field and ‘frontier’ HR practices, they entered the debate on trends and challenges in HR and discussed use-cases of applying big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to workforce analytics.
The summit was the first in a prospective series of events to establish a community and to strengthen the cooperation between HR practice and academic research. Download the flyer
Keynote Speakers
Global Head Compensation & Benefits, Processes & Systems, Org Mgmt & Analytics
Jordi Blanes-i-Vidal (London School of Economics, CEPR and CEP)