Is R&D HR Future Ready?

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1 Rue de la Loi 81A 1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 (0) Fax: +32 (0) guidlines for open office export to pdf with letterhead guidlines for open office export to pdf with letterhead EIRMA Is R&D HR Future Ready? Round-Table Meeting, 9 November 2012 Hotelbloom! in Brussels, Belgium Summary This Round Table will focus on the contextual environment the boundaries - which plays a crucial role in creating the right organisation for the future. Diversity and inclusion in R&D is one important aspect that every company needs to take into account if it wants to remain attractive in the workplace. Ensuring continued supply of competent people in science is an on-going challenge for industry. But where will R&D staff and talent come from and how will they be retained in the future? How to make industrial R&D attractive for careers in the future? How is HR in R&D going to change in the future? How can European R&D find a way to reduce the exodus of key skills? Issues addressed < When we find properly skilled people, how can we best integrate them into the workplace? Going beyond integration, how do people adapt with the global world in the future? < How to attract and keep people from different parts of the world? The increasingly global environment requires a different perspective on the way of working, with the ability to accommodate people from different cultures (eg. integration of the family, etc.) < Gender diversity in science-based industries: promoting women into R&D management < Generational different attitudes to work: how does an organisation need to adapt? What can we learn from intergenerational partnering schemes? < How does HR support an organisation which is working increasingly with external partners (universities, SMEs, etc.), therefore requiring different ways of working? < How does HR deal with the increasing part-time of employees or people based in different part of the organisation? Target Audience HR Managers, R&D Managers, External Relations Managers, Public Affairs & Strategy Managers Chairman Dr Andrew Waller, HR Director, R&D HR, Unilever Innovation Management 8 Online registration until 29 October 2012 On EIRMA Website: Key themes Business strategy Research Asset Management People and Knowledge Public frameworks

2 PROGRAMME 19:30 Get-together Dinner at a nearby restaurant Thursday 8 November :30 Registration Friday 9 November :00 09:05 Welcome Ms. Camille Roy, Programme & Members Relations, EIRMA 09:05 09:35 Introduction by Chairman: R&D in a Changing World Implications for the HR Organisation (and R&D Leaders!) Our approach to Talent, Skills, Organisation and Culture must change, if R&D is going to meet the requirements of our businesses and employees, in a future world. In this introduction, a perspective will be shared on this and implications for the HR function and R&D Leaders. Dr Andrew Waller, HR Director, R&D, Unilever 09:35 10:20 Talent Management of PhDs in industrial R&D In this presentation, three main issues will be addressed: How to attract & select the best candidates How to manage and retain the best candidates How to develop their potentials and fuel their enthusiasm. Some tips to develop and implement Talent Management Strategies dedicated for PhDs in your own organization based on Adoc Talent Management expertise will be given. Key prospective figures and data will be presented to allow participants to apply specific right HR policies for PhDs. Dr. Matthieu Lafon, Director, Adoc Talent Management 10:20 11:05 From multi-local to global a case study on how AkzoNobel is creating a global R&D function and the resulting challenges for HR 11:05 11:25 Coffee Break Creating and using scale advantage Building an R&D culture Talent attraction and development External partnerships and open behaviour Diversity beyond gender and ethnicity Colin Mumme-Young, HR Director RD&I, Akzo Nobel

3 11:25 12:30 Knowledge Café Further exchanges on the presentations from the morning session 12:30 13:45 Lunch (hotel s restaurant) 13:45 14:30 How to have a positive balance between the exodus and in-odus of key skills? 14:30 15:30 Panel discussion All markets are more and more open. Why not the key skill market? Why is it so attractive to go to work in the States and not so attractive to do the same in a European country? Is it true for all European countries? Are there any lessons to be learned from factual experiences? What are the reasons for European industrial R&D to be less appealing for bright, smart, enthusiastic people? Are there any exceptions? Once upon a time, all top 10 universities worldwide were European, almost all of the top ten were Italian. Nowadays the first Italian university is ranked around position 180 plus. What went, and is still going, badly wrong? Should we, Industry, do something to improve the performances of our educational systems? Starting where? University, Secondary school, primary school, Berufschule? What should European industry do in order to motivate talented people? Which are the values and ethics that we should communicate about? This presentation will be given by an EIRMA member who has experienced three different roles: executive, university professor and entrepreneur. Andrea Aparo, Senior Advisor R&D, Ansaldo Energia Spa This session will be dedicated to sharing experiences among participants on the various approaches of diversity and their impact for the HR organisation (generational differences regarding attitude to work, promotion of women in science-based industries, etc.) With possible contributions from Crown Technologies and Solvay. 15:30 16:15 Carroussel for Knowledge Capture 1. What is the most interesting learning for you today? Why? 2. Have you identified a key take away for application? If so which one? 3. What are the pending questions for you on the topic? 16:15 16:30 Wrapping up and conclusions by Chairman Dr Andrew Waller, HR Director, R&D HR, Unilever 16:30 End of the meeting

4 Venue & Hotelbloom! Accommodation Rue Royale Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS EIRMA will book accommodation as required on behalf of participants. The rate for a single room is 139 breakfast and service included, to be paid directly to the hotel. Dinner Transportation Registration In a nearby restaurant Address will be communicated later By Public Transport: Gare du Nord at 500 meters Gare du Midi at 3 kms Direct train connections between the North and South stations Metro line 2 or 6 from Gare du Midi to Botanique metro station Brussels Airport at 12 km or 25 minutes by taxi with normal traffic Direct train connections between Brussels Airport and North Station Please register as soon as possible but certainly before 29 October The online registration form is available on the EIRMA Website. The meeting registration fee of 480 covers the cost of meeting facilities, refreshments, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Special fee for Speakers: 50% off price or possibility to come with one more person for one full price (subject to agreement by Operations Team) Payments Cancellations We prefer payment by bank transfers but can also accept cheques provided this is at no cost to the Association. All delegates will receive confirmation letters and an invoice or receipt as appropriate. Please give as much notice as possible if you are obliged to cancel. We will refund the registration fee for cancellations received 72 hours before the meeting. Unfortunately we have no control over the hotel s cancellation policy and you may be required to make full payment for cancelled rooms that remain unused. Names may be substituted at any time without charge.

5 REGISTRATION FORM Is R&D HR Future Ready? Round-Table Meeting, 9 November 2012, Hotel Blum, Brussels 8 Online registration on EIRMA Website: Please return to EIRMA before 29 October 2012 by to cternest@eirma.org or register on-line. Title: (Prof./ Dr./ Mr./ Mrs.):.... First Name:.... Last Name:.... Position:... Company:..... VAT number:..... Address: ZipCode:. Tel:.. City: Cell: Assistant s . I will q / will not q attend the meeting on 9 November 2012 I will q / will not q attend the welcome dinner on 8 November 2012 I will q / will not q require hotel accommodation for the night of 8 November 2012 (See Practical arrangements ) Event's fee: 480 (VAT excluded) (*) (VAT excluded) for the speakers The meeting registration fee covers the cost of meeting facilities, refreshments, dinner and lunches. To be paid by Cheque or Bank Transfer. Payments by credit cards are currently not possible. Please apologize for the inconvenience. Mode of Payment qcheque qbank Transfer Account N ING Rond Point Robert Schuman Brussels - Belgium IBAN: BE BIC: BBRUBEBB EIRMA, as an international association of Belgian law, is subject to VAT (*) If your company is located in Belgium, or if your organisation is not submitted to VAT, 21% VAT will be added to the event s fee. For any further information please contact Ms. Carine Ternest, EIRMA Operations Team Tel: +32 (0) Fax: + 32 (0) cternest eirma.org Rue de la Loi 81A, 1040 Brussels - Belgium