Driving Organizational Excellence:
The Impact of Cutting-Edge
HR Tech on Business Success
- March 12, 2025
- 8:30 AM - 12:00 NN
- Microsoft Philippines Office, Makati
Overview
The HR landscape in the Philippines is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the rapid adoption of technology in key industries such as manufacturing, retail, and BPO. However, many organizations still face challenges in fully leveraging HR technology to enhance workforce productivity, streamline operations, and align HR strategies with business objectives. Issues such as integrating disparate systems, ensuring data security, and fostering user adoption remain prevalent, limiting the potential impact of HR tech investments.
This seminar, hosted at the Microsoft HQ in the Philippines, is designed to address these challenges head-on. By bringing together HR and IT leaders along with expert insights from leading organizations, this event offers a unique opportunity to explore the latest innovations in HR technology and their application in driving business success.
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to overcome common obstacles in HR tech implementation, learn from real-world case studies, and engage in strategic discussions with industry leaders. The event will provide actionable strategies to unlock the full potential of HR technology, ensuring that organizations can achieve operational excellence and sustain competitive growth in an increasingly digital world.
Key Discussion Points
Current Landscape: Explore the current adoption of HR technology in key sectors like manufacturing, retail, and BPO in the Philippines. Discuss the common challenges such as system integration, user adoption, and data security.
Technological Gaps: Identify the gaps between existing HR systems and the advanced capabilities needed to drive business transformation. Highlight the need for full-suite HR solutions that address end-to-end HR processes.
IT-Centric Integration: Delve into strategies for integrating HR tech solutions within the broader IT infrastructure, ensuring seamless interoperability between HR systems and other enterprise platforms.
Data Security and Compliance: Focus on the critical role of data security in HR tech, particularly in industries dealing with sensitive employee data. Discuss how to manage compliance with local and international regulations through robust IT frameworks, reducing legal risks and ensuring ethical practices.
Maximizing IT ROI: Examine how IT leaders can maximize return on investment (ROI) by strategically aligning HR tech with other business systems, ensuring seamless implementation, and minimizing disruptions across the organization.
Data-Driven HR Transformation: Explore how advanced HR tech, powered by data analytics, can revolutionize key HR functions such as talent acquisition, performance management, and employee engagement, directly impacting the bottom line in manufacturing, retail, and BPO sectors.
Enhancing Employee Experience: Highlight how HR tech platforms designed with user-centric principles can significantly improve employee experiences, boost engagement, and streamline HR processes. Discuss the long-term benefits of empowering employees with tools for self-service, learning, and career development.
Future-Ready Workforce: Analyze how the adoption of cutting-edge HR technologies positions organizations in these industries to better navigate future challenges, ensuring sustained competitiveness and business growth.
Emerging Trends: Explore emerging trends in HR technology, such as AI-powered solutions, automation, and the use of blockchain in HR processes.
Strategic Roadmaps: Provide insights into creating strategic roadmaps for future HR tech investments that align with long-term business goals and industry trends.
Speakers
Darwinbox
As the Global Head – Value Management, Advisory & Solutions at Darwinbox, Vikrant likes to think of his role as that of a Sherpa helping HR Leaders and Organizations navigate the convergence of talent and technology to achieve business outcomes.
Through his 16+ long professional journey, Vikrant has multi-geography experience spanning global and regional transformation, industry development & change management; and has worked across roles spanning business development, program management, and solution development.
Vikrant has been part of various globalization and transformation initiatives with organizations that have spanned the spectrum of HR Reorganization, HR Operating Model Design, Shared Services Execution, Cost Optimization, Payroll Outsourcing and Performance Benchmarking. He has also worked with governments and donor agencies to solve for industry level talent issues spanning geographies like Colombia, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Jordan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uruguay.
He is passionate about subjects like the future of work, macro talent development, change as a critical capability and the convergence of talent and technology.
Prior to Darwinbox, Vikrant was Director – HR Transformation at Deloitte, Value Engineering Lead (APAC) at Alight (where he was the co-author of Alight’s State of HR Transformation Study, possibly the most definitive research on the HR in a digital world spanning insights from 800+ organizations in Asia Pacific), and Lead – Insights and Innovation for Aon Hewitt in APAC, along with others.
Darwinbox
Sasank is currently the Country Head of Philippines at Darwinbox, taking care of revenue, has a bias to action and strongly believes in the adage by Carl Jung that says, “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do”.
Deeply passionate about growth, Sasank specializes in scaling Enterprise SaaS Businesses across geographies (US/LATAM/APAC) and solving complex customer needs with utmost authenticity. Having donned multiple hats ranging from content marketing to Inside Sales to Sales, Sasank brings the best of all worlds when it comes to treating customers like royalty, becoming a trusted advisor and giving them an unfair advantage in terms of value.
JG Summit
Nicasio “Nic” L. Lim, DPM, brings over 46 years of Human Resources experience. He currently serves as an Independent Director at Mega Global Corporation, and on the boards of HR Management Business Solutions, Inc., and HR Team Asia, Inc., while also working as a Consultant and Executive Coach.
Previously, Nic was the Senior Vice President for Corporate Human Resources at JG Summit Holdings, Inc., and held regional roles such as HR Director for Southeast Asia at Kraft Foods International, overseeing operations in 16 countries. He also served as Vice President for Human Resources at San Miguel Brewing Group.
A Diplomate in People Management (DPM), Nic was named People Manager of the Year by PMAP in 2007 and remains a key figure in the HR community through his work on PMAP’s Accreditation Council.
| Time | Duration | Agenda |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:00 AM | 30 mins | Registration with Starbucks Catering |
| 9:00 - 9:10 AM | 10 mins | Event Opening and Ice Breaking |
| 9:10 - 9:20 AM | 10 mins | Event Opening Welcoming the Philippines Future of Work |
| 9:20 - 10:05 AM | 45 mins | Keynote 1 Navigating the Next Wave of Digital Transformation |
| 10:05 - 10:50 AM | 45 mins | Keynote 2 From HR to Business Leadership - The HR Tech Transformation Journey |
| 10:50 - 11:40 AM | 50 mins | Panel Discussion + Q&A Real-World Insights - How HR Tech is Revolutionizing Retail and Manufacturing |
| 11:40 - 12:00 NN | 20 mins | Closing Remarks + Photoshooting |
| 12:00 NN - onwards | Networking with Starbucks Catering |
Darwinbox is the leading provider of cloud-based Human Resources Management Software (HRMS). Our SaaS platform engages and empowers employees across the entire lifecycle (hire-to-retire) with a smarter, simpler & mobile-first HR Tech experience powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Darwinbox is backed by leading investors like TCV, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia, Lightspeed, etc. Rated #1 cloud HCM globally on Gartner Peer Insights and trusted by over 750+ organizations and 2.2M+ employees across 100+ countries including large conglomerates like Gokongwei Group, Filinvest, BPI, Security Bank, East West Bank, Meralco, Maxicare, Toyota, Straive, Shakey’s, SkinStation, Vivant, Radius and more.
