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Agenda

08.00 - 08.50

Registration & Networking

08.50 - 09:00 

Mark Rix, Group Managing Director, Wellbeing at Work 

Scott Armstrong, Founder, MENTL

09:00 – 09:25

Keynote Address: Implementing Effective Wellbeing Interventions at Work 

• What are the most effective resources organizations can utilize to help employees?
• What strategies can employers implement to determine what really works?
• What are the workplace factors that can undermine resilience?
• What help is available to front line managers who have team members experiencing mental ill-health?

Katy Holmes, CEO, British Chamber of Commerce Dubai 

09:25 – 9:50

The Case for Human Sustainability in the Middle East

• How can employers live by the mantra: when people thrive, Businesses thrive?
• How can organizations create true sustainability?
• Ensuring human sustainability is central to better outcomes for organizations and humanity

Kunal Wadhwani, Chief Human Resources Officer, Choithrams Group

09:50 – 10:25

Leadership Panel: Wellbeing at the Heart of Workplace Transformation  

• How can compassionate leaders ensure wellbeing is a long-term, strategic and outcome-driven priority and not a compliance or process driven role?
• What can employers do to ensure all aspects of an organization are human-centric?
• How do leaders model behaviors in managers that promote wellbeing and high performance?
• What can employers do to empower work-life alignment?
• How can employers support people to make choices on where they work and how. And what is the role of the office today and tomorrow? 

Anja Pertrovski, Chief People Officer, Al Nabooda Automobiles 

Mira Zakharia, Senior Director, HR, Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority 

Özden Yigit, Head of Human Resources, Bayer Middle East 

Dr. Mona Mustafa, Director, MSc, Human Resource Management Programme, University of Birmingham, Dubai

10:25 – 10:55

Connection Time Networking Break

10:55 – 11:30

Understanding the Value of Mental Health at Wellbeing Interventions at Work

• What are the most effective resources organizations can utilize to help employees?
• What strategies can employers implement to determine what really works?
• What are the workplace factors that can undermine resilience?
• What help is available to front line managers who have team members experiencing mental ill-health?

Fatima Mirza, Head of Human Resources – EMEA, Evonik 

Dr. Khulood Mohamed Alsayegh, Head of Clinical Standards and Guidelines Section, Dubai Health Authority

11:30 – 11:55

Implementing Effective Wellbeing Programmes at Work

• What are the most effective resources organizations can utilize to help employees?
• What strategies can employers implement to determine what really works?
• What are the workplace factors that can undermine resilience?
• What help is available to front line managers who have team members experiencing mental ill-health?

Awadh Almur, Chief Happiness Officer, Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation 

11:55 – 12:55

Leadership Workshop Discussions

(Registered attendees choose their preferred Workshop. Approx 4 individual sponsored sessions in private rooms)

12:55 – 13.55 

Lunch, Meetings and Connections

13.15 – 13.45 – MENTL Podcast ‘Live.’

13:55 – 14:00

Post-Lunch Audience Energiser 

14:00 – 14:40

Panel:  Wellbeing for All – Ensuring DEI and Belonging is at the Heart of the People Strategy

• Where does wellbeing intersect with diversity, inclusion or equity?   
• How do organisations achieve wellbeing for all employees?
• What are some examples that show why wellbeing needs to be addressed from an equity standpoint?
• How do organisations transcend DEI from the leadership to all employees?

Sameer Nagarajan, Former HR Director, Global Supply Chain, Unilever 

Sheriza Bazari, DEI Manager, Etihad Airways 

Rebecca McGuane, Head of Corporate Wellbeing, Lockton 

14:40 – 15:05

Fireside Chat: Communicating Wellbeing Initiatives Effectively

• What part does trust play in employee’s expectations of their organization’s wellbeing efforts?
• How does wellbeing intersect with diversity, inclusion or equity?  Is it necessary to put a diversity lens on wellbeing?
• Communications as the key to effective wellbeing initiatives?
• How do organisations achieve wellbeing for all employees and their families and to use this as a competitive advantage?

Donna Benton, CEO, The Entertainer Group 

15:05 – 15:30

Networking Break

15:30 – 15:55

How Great Employers are Ensuring a Healthier Future for the UAE Workplace

• How UAE employers ensure wellbeing at work equates to high performance and improved productivity?
• What more can be done to increase positive outcomes that ensure reduced burnout numbers; high performing teams and increased productivity in KSA?

Julia Miller, Senior Director of Compensation & Benefits, MENA, Hilton 

15:55 – 16:20

Uniting Inclusion and Wellbeing Through the Power of AI

• How can employers use AI to ensure wellbeing at work equates to high performance and improved productivity?
• What more can be done to increase positive outcomes that ensure reduced burnout numbers, high performing teams and increased inclusion through AI?
• How does AI identify where groups are being left out and create wellbeing programs where all can thrive?

Shirin Bamboat, Head – Human Resources & Wellbeing CoE Lead, VFS Global 

16:20 – 16:30

Closing Remarks

Mark Rix, Group Managing Director, Wellbeing at Work

Scott Armstrong, Founder, MENTL

16:30 – 17:30

Networking Reception

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