Wednesday, March 11 6.30am - 7.30am 7.00am - 8.30am 8.30am - 09.00am 9.00am - 10.00am Morning Run with the A team Boost your energy while you enjoy the stunning views from Brickell Key s running trail. Breakfast Opening Remarks Dimitri Boylan, Founder & CEO, Avature. Remount and Recruit Transforming Avature for Express Scripts Robert Lowrey, Corporate Talent Acquisition, and Wendell Sherrell, Director, Talent Management, Express Scripts. When Robert and Wendell returned from the Avature User Conference in 2014, they had big ideas about how to rejuvenate Express Scripts use of Avature. And when big ideas are introduced at a Fortune 20 company with more than 29,000 employees, the results can change the industry. that boosts recruiters use of Avature, streamlines processes and increases engagement with Avature at one of the most innovative companies in America. 10.00am - 10.45am 10.45am - 11.15am Avature Reporting and Analytics Florencia Maurizi, VP Consulting, and Gonzalo Sainz-Trápaga, Product Management Director, Avature. 11.15am - 12.15pm Taking Talent Review and Succession Planning to the Next Level Jeremy Wilson, Lead Talent Operations Analyst, REI. REI is launching the Avature Platform into the Talent Management space - Using Avature technology, REI is conducting Talent Review and Succession Planning sessions. During his presentation, Jeremy will show us how REI moved from a SharePoint solution to an automated Avature solution to handle these vital processes. He will also take us through: Workflow Optimization & Best Practices Denise Dresler, Agustín Calabró, Scott Allan and Daniela Andersson, Solutions Consultants, Avature. Join Avature s Solutions Consultants in this highly interactive session and share your experience on how you are using Avature workflows. The team will guide workshop participants through a journey of discovery in defining workflow best practices. To get the most from this session, be prepared to share Page 1
Wednesday, March 11 Why talent reviews & succession are important at REI REI talent review & succession process Newly developed Avature portal optimized for talent reviews & succession How to configure the Avature platform for this process How to maintain data through multiple cycles Data migration process your knowledge and experience. This session will help you learn how to optimise your workflows. 12.15pm - 1.15pm 1.15pm - 2.15pm Lunch Overhauling Talent Management Strategies at Belk Using Avature ATS Owen Williams, Director of Talent Acquisition, and Laurent Longin, VP Diversity, Talent Acquisition and Associate Engagement, Belk. Belk s new leadership will be presenting the outcome of a bold decision to stop the implementation course of a new ATS system and implement Avature instead, in a short period of time. Insights into the decision process, implementation approach, and focus on adoption will be discussed. Owen and Laurent will also share their objectives and the successes they had so far in extending solutions on the Avature platform to include proactively pipelining talent for new store openings, managing onsite campus talent scouting, in-store application management, internal talent mobility, and employee referrals 2.15pm - 3.15pm The CSO Solution - Black & Veatch s Journey Nathan Van De Voorde, Manager, Global Talent Acquisition Operations, Black & Veatch. Black & Veatch, who initially began using Avature in a CRM pilot, determined that exploring an SEO and mobile-optimized careers page(s) would benefit their candidate experience. Their journey involved developing a custom integration with their existing ATS, along with exploring various means to maximize the usability for their talent acquisition function. Avature Full Platform Overview Ezequiel Vázquez, SVP Product Development and Agustin Donati, Sr. Product Marketing Specialist, Avature. In this session Ezequiel and Agustín will walk us through how the Avature platform expands over a series of solutions for a wide range of business needs in the Talent Acquisition space and beyond. 3.15pm - 3.45pm Page 2
Wednesday, March 11 3.45pm - 4.30pm Experience Your Brand Laurie Padua, Partner, Talent Collective, and Thomas Leeper, Head of Client Services, Alexander Mann Solutions. Join this session to learn how AMS has made Avature a powerful enabler for its sourcing teams: how sourcers capability, motivation and performance management can be ignited when they have a goal in mind. Laurie and Thomas will talk us through how they have thought about capability, structure and role types, performance management, development, sourcing communities, and candidate experience. They will also share the highlights of the AMS global Sourcing Survey Skills results and reflect on what those results indicate looking at the future. Avature Campus & Events Management Kelsey Sampson, Campus & Events Solution Specialist, and Agustin Donati, Sr. Product Marketing Specialist, Avature. 4.30pm - 5.30pm The Importance of Employer Branding and How to Measure Success Bill Fowles, Talent Acquisition Manager, ABB. Bill has 20 years of Talent Acquisition experience in creating, implementing and leading corporate recruitment. His experience in developing innovative sourcing strategies and key channels to drive the employer brand at an enterprise level has been leveraged with many Fortune 500 companies and makes him an industry leading expert. During this session, Bill will share his expertise and take us through: Employer branding (and why it s relevant) Effective recruiting - the brand matters How to measure? Metrics used for ROI Impact on business ABB s success 6.00 pm - 10.00pm Cocktails at MO Bar & Lounge Please note the Conference agenda is subject to change without notice. Page 3
Thursday, March 12 6.30am - 7.30am Oceanfront Yoga Session Recharge your batteries at the beautiful Mandarin Lawn. This class will be led by a certified instructor. 7.00am - 8.30am 8.30am - 09.30am Breakfast Avature Sourcing Moneyball Using Avature to Harness the Full Power of Your Existing Talent Pool Jim Schnyder, Senior Manager & Sourcing Lead, PepsiCo. Jim is a two-time winner of the SourceCon Grandmaster title (Global Sourcing competition). He will be sharing strategies on how PepsiCo has leveraged Avature for unique candidate engagement, predictive historical analytics, talent mapping and lead generation. For free. Learn a low cost but powerful strategy on how to let the data and the stats help predict your targeted outreach and sourcing for the future. Bring high potential candidates to the finish line, reducing agency spend and overall time to fill. Game on! 9.30am - 10.30am 10.30am - 11.00am Standard Chartered Bank and Their Avature Journey Simon Valentine, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Standard Chartered Bank, and Riges Younan, VP Sales APAC, Avature. An Avature customer since 2010, Standard Chartered Bank has grown and evolved their platform use over the years. Join this session to learn how their initial model worked, how it has evolved over the years and their plans for the future. Simon will share his business case development, how he managed internal stakeholders, and what he would have done differently. He will also offer some advice to companies that are considering a CRM-ATS integration. Staying Ahead of Recruiting Needs with Avature CRM Brooke Glennon, Recruitment Project Manager, HealthSouth. HealthSouth is the largest provider of inpatient rehabilitation services in the US, with 107 hospitals nationwide and growing. Join Brooke Glennon to learn how HealthSouth is using Avature CRM to stay ahead of their recruiting growth curve with the De Novo project, and how they ve succeeded in their unique physician recruiting process. Also, discover how HealthSouth is using Avature together with video interviewing technology for high volume nursing recruitment success. Page 4
Thursday, March 12 11.00am - 12.00pm 12.00pm - 1.00pm 1.00pm - 1.45pm 1.45pm - 2.45pm Harnessing the Global Avature Platform to Get from Big Data to My Data Annie Hammer, Technology and Sourcing Leader and Lydia Wilson, Senior Vice President, Business Development Solutions, Pontoon Solutions. Lydia Wilson and Annie Hammer will share how Pontoon leverages Avature CRM and ATS globally to capture data in a way that facilitates a real-time personal candidate experience while simultaneously honoring and enriching the client brand. They will present a candidate s journey from the initial communication through the decision to hire using the candidate s real-time preferences as the catalyst for this experience. Recognized as the #1 RPO provider by Outsourcing Institute, Pontoon is the global leader in workforce solutions delivering recruitment services in over 80 countries for some of the most recognizable global brands. Lunch Avature DNA Using Avature to Reduce Waste in the Recruiting Process Jason Berkowitz, Vice President, Client Services, and Greg Karr, Executive Vice President, Seven Step RPO. Seven Step RPO uses Avature across their global Fortune 500 client base to support a LEAN methodology that identifies, measures, and eliminates waste in the recruitment process. In this session, you will learn about the seven unique areas of waste applicable to a recruitment function. Then, you will learn how to use Avature to identify, measure, and control these wastes to increase quality and speed while reducing overall cost. The session includes detailed case studies and a live Q&A, so come prepared with your questions and your biggest challenges. Dimitri Boylan, Founder & CEO, and Carolina Lewitan, Product Marketing Analyst, Avature. Transitioning From a Traditional Recruiting Model to a CRM-Based Solution Carlyne Quirino Ringle, Talent Process Owner - HR Cloud Technology, PNC. When it comes to recruiting new talent, every company wants to stand out. Learn how PNC Financial Services used Avature CRM and Avature Campus & Events Solution to design a custom suite of tools to manage hiring and engage candidates while shifting away from the traditional recruiting model. Hear about how Avature s Adoption & Training programs helped PNC s recruitment professionals navigate the platform and build the most appropriate solutions. And see how a combination of custom portals, workflows and a whimsical design created the foundation for an effective and sustainable CRM and recruiting strategy. 2.45pm - 3.15pm Page 5
Thursday, March 12 3.15pm - 4.15pm Innovating with Avature ATS at a Global Scale Guillaume Pitoiset, International Recruitment Project Manager, Talent Acquisition, L Oréal. L Oréal, as many large scale organizations, is now at a turning point of its +100 year history. Digital is everywhere and impacts the entire organization, including HR. Big data, presence on social and professional networks, candidate experience, candidate relationship management and tons of other challenges are now the main topics for the Talent Acquisition team. Guillaume will take us to L Oréal s last year journey, starting the day they decided to kill their previous ATS and move on to Avature. He will share how Avature is helping them make their recruitment strategy more innovative and closer to the new generation of candidates. 4.15pm - 5.15pm 6.00pm - 11.00pm Avature Hiring Manager Solution Riges Younan, VP Sales APAC, Avature. Hiring Managers are looking for visibility over the recruiting process, while recruiters are screaming for Hiring Managers to have direct access tools to enable collaboration and agility. The concept of self-service doesn t resonate on Hiring Managers, who are strongly reliant on the Talent Acquisition teams to solve their problems. This presentation will demonstrate the solutions Avature has developed to address these challenges. Beach Party Reception Sourcing Workshop - Avature CRM Candidate Engagement Heather Thomas, Strategic Sourcer/Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition, Sodexo. Sourcing today is more than just locating new prospects. Sourcing is also generating targeted recruitment research by engaging candidates. Avature CRM is the ideal tool to maximize passive candidate engagement and organize the research for future recruitment sourcing. Join Heather for a Sourcing workshop demonstrating the tactical application of Avature CRM focused on collection of realtime recruitment data for current and future recruitment. In this workshop, you will see a Sourcing Recruiting process using Avature CRM custom fields, forms, and lists. Please note the Conference agenda is subject to change without notice. Page 6
Friday, March 13 7.00am - 8.30am 8.30am - 09.00am 9.00am - 9.45am Breakfast Avature Roadmap Dimitri Boylan, Founder & CEO, and Ezequiel Vázquez, SVP Product Development, Avature. Configuring Avature to Meet the Dynamic Needs of Altisource Labs Jamie Troiano, Vice President, HR Technology Consulting, Semantic Clarity. Altisource Labs, a global financial services company, required a robust platform as the core of its integrated talent strategy. Join this session to learn how the implementation of a fully customized Avature CRM was the launching point of the re-engineering of their recruiting process, and how it delivered immediate impact in the areas of workflow and vendor management, automation, and reporting. Discover how the Avature technology provided the opportunity to launch a corporate branding program unveiling Labs as an employment destination in the competitive Boston talent market. 9.45am - 10.30am Leveraging Avature for Multiple User Groups with Blended CRM and ATS Capabilities Charlotte Jackson, Manager, Candidate Development and Recruitment Operations, and Annie Messmer-Kurdziel, Director of Talent and Recruitment, Building Excellent Schools. Annie Kurdziel and Charlotte Jackson will discuss the complexities behind Building Excellent School s Avature platform, including its use of a blended ATS/CRM model for recruiting and applicant tracking, a Hiring Manager portal for external party applicant review, and the implementation of multiple user groups inside and across the organization. The presentation will focus on the evolution of the platform over the past two years, and how the multiple functionalities interact with each other across various user groups. 10.30am - 11.00am Page 7
Friday, March 13 11.00am - 11.45am Using Avature to Wow Your Candidates and Empower Recruiters Matt Grove, Principal Consultant, Recruiting Toolbox. Recruiting today is tough. Candidates are looking for an individual, high-touch experience from us while we re being measured on efficiency, compliance, and consistency. A great candidate experience is a business imperative, and we need our recruiting process and systems to help us deliver. In this session, Matt Grove, Principal Consultant with Recruiting Toolbox, will share real, practical ways to use Avature to deliver a hightouch candidate experience while empowering recruiters to be more efficient, more strategic, and more successful for your organization. Ask Me Anything - Q&A Session Ezequiel Vázquez, SVP Product Development and Agustin Donati, Sr. Product Marketing Specialist, Avature. Please submit your questions in advance to ama@avature.net. 11.45am - 12.30pm Multiple Solutions in One Platform Maria Warnken, Managing Director & Head of Global Talent Acquisition, Fortress. Fortress Investment Group is a leading, highly diversified global investment management firm headquartered in New York City. An early adopter of Avature ATS and Avature Agency Management Solution, Fortress has recently implemented Avature Hiring Manager Solution. As a firm managing investments worth over $50B and about 1,000 total employees, they compete with major financial services companies in an aggressive labor market. See how Maria Warnken, Managing Director and Head of Global Talent Acquisition, has executed her strategy of managing a white glove approach to service delivery, while operating like an in-house executive search agency - all on the Avature platform. Maria will share insights into her experiences in implementing Avature ATS, designing a tailored Hiring Manager engagement solution, and putting together a business case and ROI for the Avature Agency Management Solution. 12.30pm - 1.00pm Closing Remarks Dimitri Boylan, Founder & CEO, Avature. Page 8
Friday, March 13 Optionals 1.30pm - 5.00pm 1.30pm - 3.30pm Avature & Friends Golf Outing (Lunch Included) Join the Avature team for a 9-hole tournament at Crandon Golf, while you enjoy the fabulous views of Biscayne Bay and the famous Miami Skyline. User Admin Master Class (Lunch Included) Avature experts will take you through the iterative process of discovering and refining agile and lean business practices. Please note the Conference agenda is subject to change without notice. Page 9