Mi., 27. Nov.
|ifo Institute for Economic Research
PPA Industry - Academia Summit 2019
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)
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy
Chief HR Officer (CHRO) Group Human Resources
Professor of Economics, the Academic Director of the INSEAD Randomized Control Trials Lab
Sahil Tesfu (McKinsey & Company)
Associate Partner
Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics, CEPR and CEP)
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy
Country Manager for Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Christoph Zeiss (Heads! Executive Consultancy)
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Conference Details
Workshop organizers: Florian Englmaier, Thomas Fackler, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva
Conference venue: ifo Institute, Poschingerstrasse 5, 81679 Munich, Germany
Preliminary Agenda
10:30 – Registration desk opens
10:45 – 11:00 Welcome and PPA Launch
11:00 – 12:30 Keynote lectures I
11:00 Dietmar Eidens (Merck AG): “Replacing gut feeling with people analytics”
11:30 Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD): “Tracking team performance in agile organizations”
12:00 Carsten Bertling (Henkel AG): “Data quality as prerequisite for value-adding predictive analytics”
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:15 Keynote lectures II
13:30 Jordi Blanes-I-Vidal (London School of Economics, CEPR and CEP): “Communication and workplace information flows”
14:00 Barbara Wittmann (LinkedIn): "People success - Measure, evaluate, predict"
14:30 Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics, CEPR and CEP): “How to encourage firm-specific and more general skill-building”
15:00 Sahil Tesfu (McKinsey & Company) “Development of an HR Performance Index”
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee-break
15:30 – 17:00 Interactive discussion sessions on "The future of the firm - challenges for modern HR " in three breakout groups:
*HR management in an agile world
*Digitization and workplace information flows
*Diagnostics – identifying and developing talent
17:00 – 18:00 Plenary discussion. Introduction and lead by Christoph Zeiss (Heads! Executive Consultancy)
18:00 - Buffet Dinner & Drinks
About Workshop Organizers
This Summit is organized by Predictive People Analytics - a platform for knowledge exchange between academia and firms on state-of-the-art HR practices, issues, and opportunities. PPA brings together academic researchers and HR professionals to generate new insights and develop tools by leveraging the latest technological advances and cutting-edge economic research methods.