7:30 am
Conference Registration & Networking
8:10 am Chair’s Welcome & Recap of Day One
Driving DE&I in 2022 & Beyond
8:15 am Rethinking DE&I Strategies in Life Sciences Organizations to Deliver on Inclusiveness for Patients as Well As Employees
Synopsis
Questions will include:
- How are you currently incorporating data in your DE&I efforts? How can you better empower your employees to bring their whole selves to work and ensure feel safe to do so?
- What advice would you give to other practitioners who believe their DE&I efforts aren’t yet making the impact they’d like?
- To what extent do you believe it is important for companies to be results focused and have transparency?
- Can you give some examples of how you have incorporated DE&I into your daily people practices and explain the impact this has had?
9:00 am Comfort Break
9:20 am Discover: Utilizing Flexibility on the Journey to Successfully Implement a Global DE&I Strategy in Life Sciences Organizations in the US
Synopsis
- How can we better tailor DE&I training to reflect what is happening culturally and in different regions of the US?
- Being flexible and course correcting to increase employee engagement with L&D programs
- Leveraging lessons learned from UCB’s journey to implement a global DE&I strategy in the US
9:40 am HR: The Strategic Solution to the Inclusion Revolution
Synopsis
- What is the inclusion revolution?
- Discussing how today’s workforce requires inclusive HR leaders capable of addressing a myriad of changing workplace needs
- AccelPeople reveal the key actions HR leaders can take to align DEIB with organizational strategy and adapt to the ever-changing demands of 2022 and beyond
10:00 am Develop: What More Can We Learn About How to Create Genuine Change in Hybrid Working Life Sciences Organizations?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
10:20 am Action: Rethinking How You Can Now Create Genuine Change in Hybrid Working Life Sciences Organizations
Synopsis
Output-Focused Discussion Session
10:40 am
Networking Break
TRACK A – REDEFINING THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
11:10 am Discover: Setting New Hires Up for Success: New Approaches to Orientation in a Rapid-Growth Remote-Work Environment
Synopsis
- What new HR thinking is required to take a new group of employees, many of whom are remote, and get them engaged and connected as a whole
- Building a way to rapidly “upload” institutional knowledge to new hires so they can become productive faster
- How Ginkgo BioWorks’ new orientation has helped strengthen (not dilute), company culture and vision in the face of rapid growth and remote work
11:30 am Discover: Striking The Balance: Agile Approaches to Performance Management in Hybrid Working Life Sciences Organizations
Synopsis
- Discover how to strategically reinvent traditional performance management to drive performance at all levels
- Reimagining goals and metrics to track and evolve employee management and increase productivity
- Learn how Synlogic is evolving the way it manages performance in a hybrid working world to drive high performance
11:50 am Develop: What More Can We Learn From Experienced HR Change Makers on How to Redefine the Employee Experience in 2022?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:10 pm Action: What Can We Now Do Differently to Redefine the Employee Experience in 2022?
TRACK B – Best Practices for Providing Radical Flexibility & Building an Entrepreneurial Culture
11:10 am Discover: Rethinking How to Deliver on the Unmet Needs of In-Demand Biopharma Workforces in 2022 & Beyond
Synopsis
- As life science organization are no longer just competing in their own geographic hub, how can we better accommodate employees as they adapt to a lifestyle of flexibility?
- Focusing on psychological safety to bring people back into the office and ensuring all employees needs are met where the desires of the life sciences workforce have dramatically changed
- How Relay Therapeutics have examined the cross section between people strategy and employee experience to entice people back to work and attract top talent to drive innovation
11:30 am Discover: Developing Environments That Empower Your Life Sciences Workforce to Identify & Capture New Opportunities & Areas to Transform HR’s Impact on The Bottom Line of The Business
Synopsis
- What brand new HR thinking is required to inspire your workforce and connect them with both the mission and future of your life sciences company because they have a say in how it unfolds?
- Best practices to install the entrepreneurial spirit that is essential for a successful workforce of the future in your employees
- Revealing BVI Medical’s insights into the benefits of building an entrepreneurial culture to drive commercial success as featured in Forbes and Business Insider
11:50 am Develop: What More Can We Learn About How to Provide Radical Flexibility & Build an Entrepreneurial Culture?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:10 pm Action: What Else Will You Do Differently to Provide Radical Flexibility & Empowering All Your Life Sciences Employees?
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Action: Speed Learning
Synopsis
- Accelerating The NextGen of Biopharma Talent’s Readiness to Contribute to The Life Sciences Industry
- How Can Biopharma HR Leaders Help Prioritize Employee Wellbeing in a Future Hybrid Working Life Sciences Environment?
- How to Create a Strong Community in an Increasingly Remote Working Environment
- Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Pandemic to Reimagine Employer Branding & Establish Your Life Sciences Organization as an Employer of Choice in 2022 & Beyond
- How Can We Address the War for Talent in a Sustainable Manner to Quell Compensation Inflation?
In this quick-fire session, each table will be hosted by an HR leader who will share the secrets of their most high-impact leap; you then get the opportunity to question the host before moving on to your next table.Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair