Maud Durand

META

Global Change & Learning Manager

About 15 years ago, Maud started the most fascinating journey, working in the Human Resources world! She is a passionate person for whom the greatest career achievement is to bring out the best in talents and being surrounded by the people that encourage her to be a better human being and professional.
As a Global Change & Learning Manager based in London, Maud is operating across the globe with a focus on enabling the potential of teams and talents that surround her. 
Her will is to be a partner, teacher and advocate to the teams she supports; ensure they have the guidance and resources to turn their high-impact work into the talents’ Meta needs now and in the future.
Preceding her time at Meta (Facebook) she worked for LinkedIn and Dell as a Talent Acquisition Partner & before that as a HR Partner in France. 

Irina Pashina

SAP SE

Certified Leadership and Team Coach | Leadership Culture & Development Expert

Irina is a certified coach (PCC, CPCC), a seasoned mentor of individuals and teams, a leadership expert, and a leader specialized in transformation. Her passion for people development, leadership, and public speaking took her to five continents, where she inspired and drove change in various industries such as technology and non-profits. 
Leading a content strategy function at SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, she feels fortunate to shape superior customer experiences with a focus on digital transformation. Irina also builds bridges to people leadership topics such as a transformation to a newly established leadership culture. Her ability to connect with people across cultures and functional areas has been a key factor for meaningful connections and success in all her roles.
A requested speaker on leadership and communication topics, Irina is a transformational leader who inspires and helps people discover more, develop, and bring about a positive change in the world.

Azad Navaz

BMW AG

Head of Qualification, Training & Retail HR

Azad Navaz is the Head of Qualification, Training & Retail HR at BMW AGMW for Africa and the Eastern European Region. His overall responsibilities include employee Attraction, Selection, Development, Retention in the BMW Group Retail Network in 36 countries across the region with a strong focus on Recruitment and People Management Culture. 
In his previous role in BMW Azad was the Training Manager for the Asia Pacific Region responsible for identifying training needs, developing training content and training delivery for the whole region. Azad is also the recipient of The Prince Philip Medal awarded to an engineer of any nationality who has made an exceptional contribution to engineering as a whole through practice, management or education. 
 

Mark Hayton

Nokia

Head of Culture & Leadership

Mark Hayton is the Head of Culture & Leadership at Nokia. In this role, Mark provides proactive and reactive frameworks for executives and HR practitioners that map out employee perceptions across the employee life cycle. Drawing from a knowledge base of behavioral psychology, microeconomics and game theory, Mark is an advocate of rolling up the sleeves and digging deep into the data to find broad impact interventions for those who can’t see the woods for the Decision Trees or define significance in decimals rather than P values. A fan of Stats, Bots, AI, ML, 'nudges' and consultation, his role in Nokia’s most recent transformation is to help HR practitioners understand, focus, support and motivate where it matters most while walking the line between the benefits of people analytics and the uncertain data privacy environment. A firm believer in human-centricity and that people don't think as much as they think they think.

Jérémy Amsallem

Disney

Organization Development Manager

Jeremy is the Organization Development Manager for Disney Parks & Resorts, based in Paris. In his current position, he is supporting business executives in transforming & adapting their operating model to meet the company’s strategy. Specialized in organizational assessment, design & change, Jeremy uses a mix of business acumen, HR technics, organizational sociology & behavioural science to address a variety of concrete business challenges.
Before joining Disney, Jeremy was a management consultant for several years, where he supported various organizational transformations in different industries.
Jeremy holds degrees in Business administration and HR Management. Beyond his job, he loves practicing photography, music and theatre but is also an aspiring private’s pilote.

Raul Perez

Novartis

Global Head Talent, Advanced Therapy Platforms

Raul is currently Global Head of Talent for Advanced Therapy Platforms and works closely with Novartis Business Leaders and with HR colleagues across all relevant business units to drive business success for Platforms and enabling platforms business strategy. Focus includes maximizing talent retention, building even stronger holistic pipelines with internal and external talent and optimizing the work environment in partnership with Org. Development. 

Raul joined Novartis in 2016 to set up our Talent Scouting function in Global Drug Development and later coordinated the function across the enterprise. He also supported the Chief Digital Officer in building a new digital organization for the enterprise – work that was later evolved to the Digital Talent Acquisition organization. Prior to joining Novartis, Raul gained over 15 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and held various senior leadership roles such as Global Head of Talent Management & Talent Acquisition, Global P&O Head roles in both Commercial & R&D, and Country HR Head for the UK & Ireland. Raul started his career in consulting moving to executive search where he hired senior executives on a global basis. 

Raul holds an MSc in Organizational Psychology from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a post-graduate diploma in Human Resource Management from the University of London. 
 

Thomas Møller Jeppesen

The LEGO Group

HR Director

Thomas Jeppesen is an experienced people partner and HR leader with a love for everything digital and is a self-proclaimed “people geek”. Thomas will be sharing his experience from his time at Facebook and what he is doing right now at the LEGO Group – so be ready to learn how to leverage the power of play.