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Topics @ HRM Summit 2023

October 9 - 10, 2023 · Bahrain

Middle East's leading HR festival
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Middle East's leading HR festival

HRM Summit Conference, Awards and Workshops is a 2-day HR event in the Kingdom of Bahrain for the Middle East, where industry leaders and tech enthusiasts alike come together, to explore how HR will shape the world of tomorrow.

  • We've invited speakers who are industry leaders to share fresh and unique insights that our audience can bring back to the office
  • There will be an Awards ceremony, an Exhibition of HR Products and services, Panel discussions and HR Deep Dive
  • Our Awards Program helps recognise Best Practice and Celebrate Talent, and it seeks to honour the region’s exemplary employers and individuals who have played a major role in shaping the country’s success story.
  • Our Awards Night will showcase the Winners in 20+ Award Categories

Our flagship HR event presents all the benefits of a conference with the energy of a festival – do business, get inspired, meet industry peers, and enjoy every minute of it.

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The 2023 Topics

HRM Summit is going to be daring, bold, inspirational, and aspirational. Our expert speakers bring fresh new insights from the industry that can help transform the Future of Work.

Covering a wide range of topics, our thought-provoking sessions can be categorized into these topics:



  • Leadership and Culture


    An organization's shared beliefs, attitudes and behaviors dictate how people within it interact and complete their responsibilities. Having a strong company culture builds employee loyalty and lasting success. However, this process doesn't happen accidentally—leadership, particularly within HR, must put in the work and build that culture from the top down. Speakers at the HRM Summit will share their top strategies for HR professionals looking to use their position to help build a sustainable company culture.


    • Transforming Culture
    • Cultural Transformation & How To Integrate It Into Brand Strategy
    • Organizational design and change management
    • Current and future leadership bench
    • How do People leaders and HR Professionals operate in a slow economy

    We will be publishing our Agenda soon. You can now sign up for early discounts to our Summit.

  • AI is here!


    Articial Intelligence and Machine Learning have been buzz-words for many years. But recently AI has taken the world by storm. The emergence and proliferation of AI is bound to have significant impact on the work and workplace. The HR function and HR Tech has already started using artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms to automate and improve various HR processes and tasks. It is important to ensure the ethical use of AI in HR, addressing concerns related to bias, privacy, and transparency. Human oversight and consideration of legal and ethical implications are crucial in implementing AI solutions effectively. This track will examine challenges and opportunities for AI in HR:


    • The use of AI in Recruitment, candidate screening and Employee onboarding
    • Employee engagement and sentiment analysis: monitored and driven by AI systems
    • AI-driven Employee self-service and HR support
    • How to manage unconcious bias in selection, training and employee development?
    • Ethical use of AI in HR: bias, privacy, and transparency
  • Meet me in the Metaverse


    Web 3, Metaverse and digital technologies have nade significant advances over the last few years. The metaverse workplace is on a quick path to becoming an everyday reality, so say some tech leaders. Experts also say that in hindsight, the Metaverse will seem obvious and ineviable. But how does that work? The metaverse workplace offers virtual reality environments that let you work in a customized immersive space from anywhere in the world. Our Panel of Speakers will share their top strategies to create a workplace fit-for-the-future


    • Will the Metaverse workplace become a reality?
    • How will Metaverse impact the Future of work
    • What are the key benefits and challenges in the Metaverse workplace
    • How will Metaverse change the way people learn?
  • Experience & Engagement


    Along with customer experience, employee experience has risen to the top of business minds — and such concern is more than justified. Keep in mind this formula: Happy employees = Happy customers (and) Unhappy employees = Happy competitors. In light of the push toward better employee experience, the emphasis has shifted to digital employee experience — providing employees with the tools and support needed to do their jobs better. This track will examine how this technological intervention is being perceived by employees


    • Employee Experience Vs. Engagement, And 3 Things You Should Start Thinking About Now
    • Creating Employee Experiences: Three Keys To Engaging Current And Future Hires
    • Here’s How To Create More Impactful Moments At Work
    • Measuring Workforce Experience
    • What can you do as a Leader to increase Employee Engagement
    • Workplace Flexibility Is Essential For A Frontline-First Employee Experience
  • Sustainable HRM


    The novel approach to managing people with a focus on long term Human Resource development, renewal and regeneration is known as sustainable HRM. It is an extension of strategic HRM and works on a different approach to managing people. The quality of life on our planet needs to be managed. This can be achieved by making decisions that will help sustain our immediate surroundings and environment and also by managing our emotional and physical well- being. It also refers to the social and human outcomes interrelated with the environment which contributes to the sustenance of the organization This track will identify the most important sustainable goals managers can use to better understand and undertake sustainable activities that affect their business.


    • What is Sustainable HRM?
    • How does Sustainability initiative impact organisational growth and performance
    • Understand the various Sustainable HRM Practices: Socially Responsible HRM, Green HRM, Triple Bottom Line HRM, Coomon Good HRM
    • How does the Sustainable HRM practices affect the various functions of HR such as: Recruitment and Selection, Learning and Development, Transparency in Performance MAnagement, Progression and separation
  • Building a Healthy Organisation


    A Healthy Organisation is a holistic and more inclusive enterprise-wide approach to well-being. This concept goes beyond the physical health and safety of the employees and aims at providing more flexibility and opportunities for their training and empowerment. The Healthy Organization framework includes a lot more than just mental and physical well-being of your employees. A Healthy Organisation would lead to better productivity and greater employee satisfaction, thereby better employee retention. This track will discuss some of the most important steps Companies are taking, or need to take, to advance their Corporate Workplace Wellness Programs


    • How to build a Healthy Organisation?
    • The New Paradigm Of Work And Well-Being
    • Employee Well-Being: A New Perspective On ROI
    • Workplace Wellness Programs Track Your Health, But How Far Should They Go?
    • Toxic work culture, Work Stress And Burnout: How are they correlated
  • Develop your Coaching Skills


    Work is changing, people are chaning and the world of work is also changing. Now more than ever, following the shifts that the workplace has seen, the importance of an effective leader and manager has grown by leaps and bounds. The current scenario demands empathetic, adaptive and authentic leaders for their employees. Great teams are often times the product of a great leader. Leadership is the process of influencing and guiding others towards a common goal. It is a critical component of effective management, and it is particularly important for leaders who have a significant impact on the direction and success of their organization. In this Track we look at Leadership through Coaching, a powerful way to develop your leadership skills.


    • Developing The Most In-Demand Skills in Coaching
    • How to effectively coach your team members to create more engaged, motivated, and high-performing teams
    • Reflect on their own leadership styles
    • Are you standing in your own way?
    • How to apply coaching principles and tools to your leadership role
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