PROGRAMME

Intensive roundtable discussions will take place at each stage in the process, and delegates will be able to carefully construct a project plan suited to their own particular circumstances. In addition, Alan will welcome delegates’ questions and concerns in advance, so that these may form a focal point for discussions throughout the day.

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9.00: REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

SHOWCASE

Join us for breakfast whilst visiting our exhibitors.

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10.00: INTRODUCTION – A GUIDE TO THE OBJECTIVES OF TODAY'S EVENT

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10.05: PREPARATION IS EVERYTHING – USING SIMPLE TOOLS AND GUIDELINES FOR YOU TO STREAMLINE AND SIMPLIFY YOUR REWARD STRUCTURES PRIOR TO SOFTWARE SELECTION

Let’s face it – our existing pay arrangements are rarely textbook perfect – issues about internal grading relativity and fit with the external pay market exist even in the world’s top companies. However, some simple housekeeping can transform your current practices and make them ‘fit for purpose’ in terms of being able to choose and implement new systems at least cost and minimum disruption.

So, before selecting the right software, it’s vital to create effective pay and grade structures ready for transition into the most suitable compensation planning systems. This session introduces delegates to an easy-to-use ‘Rewards Toolbox’, designed in 2016 for one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. It was used to streamline its reward practices across 60 countries. This exciting methodology has never before been publicly showcased.

It will enable delegates to understand the task ahead of them, and to ensure that their compensation practices are properly aligned prior to any software selection initiatives. Using this toolkit approach, companies can quietly put their house in order and be assured that their internal and external rewards strategies match the best in the business and are ready to integrate with the right compensation software.

Alan Gibbons, Managing Director, The Reward Practice

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10.40: CASE STUDY: TRAVELEX

SELECTING SOFTWARE IS EASY. SELECTING THE RIGHT SOFTWARE IS HARD

A recent study of approximately 600 business and IT executives revealed that 75% of respondents admit that their software projects are either always or usually 'doomed right from the start'. This illustrates the complexity of selecting software that meets the unique needs of your organisation.

This session will guide you through the journey Travelex took from identifying software need at last year’s E-reward Compensation Software Showcase to sales compensation technology purchase in December 2016. Travelex and OpenSymmetry will share what it takes to go from need, to a recognised project, to selection, and finally to purchase. Our co-presenters will walk you through four key components, along with best practices, for a successful technology selection:

• the case for automation
• key requirements and considerations
• vendor evaluation
• purchase justification.

Robyn Brack, Global Head HR Operations, Travelex, and James Mulligan, Regional Sales Director, EMEA, OpenSymmetry

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11.20: SHOWCASE

A chance for refreshment whilst visiting our exhibitors.

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11.40: DECIDING ON THE FUNCTIONALITY YOU NEED: WHAT COULD THE RIGHT SOFTWARE DO FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

There is no single template of functionality – all compensation planning systems are different. But then, so are you – let’s examine what’s on offer, what can be customised, and how to create your ideal system specification. Great vendors know that your company is in a unique position, and will do all they can to accommodate your needs and make the system work for you from Day 1.

Alan Gibbons, Managing Director, The Reward Practice

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12.15: TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED . . .

HWC's presentation will look at a typical day in the life of a reward professional and what that means for us as reward software providers. We will explore some of the more frequently asked questions; some of the challenges that we have faced and we will show why sometimes 'it’s just a simple change' never quite ends up like that in reality. For us at HWC, a successful implementation and ongoing use of compensation software can only be guaranteed when you have the right partnership between client and provider: both working towards shared aims and objectives; both with clear expectations of the roles each party will play. This presentation will help to show you how you can achieve this.

Featuring a mini case study: WPP.

John Thrower – Managing Director, and Claire Bedwell – Client Services Director, HWC

Jake Bowyer, Reward Analyst, WPP

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12.45: JOIN US FOR LUNCH

SHOWCASE

A chance for refreshment whilst visiting our exhibitors.

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1.35: FROM ADMINISTRATORS TO MODELLERS – MAKING EVERY BIT OF FUNCTIONALITY COUNT

Well-chosen software will streamline reward functionality and activities – but more awaits. You need to demand tailored user experiences and embrace advanced modelling applications which will turn you from a reward professional into an influential business partner and master of talent management. We explore how you can take full advantage of what’s on offer and ensure it’s included in the packages you invest in.

Alan Gibbons, Managing Director, The Reward Practice

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2.10: CASE STUDY: DHL SUPPLY CHAIN

OUR COMPENSATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNEY

Having recently started a project to implement a global compensation management system for 30,000 employees in 50 countries, Andrea will present an overview of:

• The background and business case for the system
• The compensation software selection process
• Key learnings and practical recommendations to select the best vendor and get business backing for your investment

Andrea Rae, Senior Director Global Compensation & Benefits, DHL Supply Chain

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2.40: SHOWCASE

A chance for refreshment whilst visiting our exhibitors.

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3.00: TAKING THE GUESSWORK OUT OF VENDOR SELECTION – CHOOSING YOUR PARTNERS WITH CONFIDENCE

Having assessed your specific needs and done some internal housekeeping, you can open your heart to a range of suitable vendors. We will look at the best-structured approach to doing this quickly and with authority, and especially how to make difficult decisions which are best for you and your company.

Alan Gibbons, Managing Director, The Reward Practice

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3.35 CASE STUDY: PITNEY BOWES

THE PITNEY BOWES STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION THROUGH PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN THE CLOUD. HOW DO YOU GET EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE?

How and why Pitney Bowes selected and implemented IBM SPM to align their global compensation strategy.

Andrew Small, Director of European Commissions & Payroll, Pitney Bowes, and Matthew Blanchard, European Leader, IBM Sales Performance Management

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4.05: A FINAL REVIEW OF THE PROCESS – HOW YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE AND THEN MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS

A concise round-up of what we have learned today, including the key decisions and activities which will ensure that your software selection process is a complete success.

Alan Gibbons, Managing Director, The Reward Practice

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4.15: PANEL SESSION – PUT YOUR QUESTIONS TO OUR PANEL OF EXPERTS

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4.45: DRINKS RECEPTION

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5.30: CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

SEMINAR LEADER

ALAN GIBBONS

Alan is Managing Director of The Reward Practice and is one of Europe's best-known rewards professionals. He had been a Rewards Consulting Partner with both KPMG and PwC, and was also the Global Heads of Reward and Performance Management at Accenture until founding the Reward Practice with a number of former colleagues.

Over the last 25 years, Alan has worked with a large number of Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies and has specific rewards experience in banking, retail, brewing, manufacturing, communications and hi-tech companies. He has helped a range of companies with mergers and acquisitions, and has a reputation for getting things done. In the public sector, he has worked extensively in the health service, the police and prison services, and in the education sector. His interests are varied, and currently include the design of more effective incentives, the reduction in HR costs, value-based rewards programmes and the link between risk and rewards in banking.

HEADLINE SPONSOR

OpenSymmetry (OS) provides end-to-end sales performance management (SPM) consulting services, from strategy work and data services to implementation and post-implementation services, in partnership with the leading SPM technology vendors in the industry. With over two million payees enabled by OS solutions, OpenSymmetry is committed to creating the best possible user experience for sales technology solutions and enabling clients to have sustainable SPM environments, whether through operational self-sufficiency or through OS managed services. Since 2004, OS has completed over 1,500 successful SPM projects for more than 500 clients ranging from SMEs to enterprise-level companies across four continents.

Web: www.opensymmetry.com

Email: os_info@opensymmetry.com

Tel: +44 (0) 800 756 6736

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OTHER SPONSORS

'Delivering co-created, bespoke software solutions for planning, modelling and implementing comprehensive reward programmes'

We make managing compensation simple, so you can design and implement reward programmes that have the biggest impact. Whether you have an elite global talent pool of 100 executives or need to look after 100,000+ employees, a small dedicated team provides the same bespoke and intimate service. We build our solutions to fit our client’s remuneration plans and processes, both now and in the future – each client we work with is different in their needs, approach and solution to implement. We believe you should never have to adapt your processes or ambitions to the limitations of standardised software. It’s your solution, built without compromise.

A few of our clients who enjoy this intimate service include:

> The world leader in marketing communications services – 175,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide.

> The world’s leading telecommunications company – 90,000 employees in over 30 countries worldwide.

> The world’s third largest private oil and metals trader – 9,000 employees in 58 countries worldwide.

Web: www.hwcltd.com

Email: clairebedwell@hwcltd.co.uk

Tel: +44 1392 445 995

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Our mission is to make the workforce of our customers happy. beqom drives happiness by allowing business managers to lead, align and motivate employees and partners. The beqom Total Compensation platform is used globally across all industry sectors by over 100 large companies such as Microsoft and Vodafone. It addresses all performance and compensation aspects such as salary review, bonus, long-term incentives, commissions, benefits, non-cash rewards and all key drivers for employee performance and sales performance. HR, Sales and Finance leverage our platform to drive performance, retention, cost optimization, efficiency, compliance and … happiness among their people.

Web: www.beqom.com

Email: info@beqom.com

Tel: +44 (0) 20 3808 8945

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IBM

Leading companies choose IBM’s highly flexible and scalable Incentive Compensation Management solution to automate incentive calculations and provide online compensation statements and reporting for employees. A leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Incentive Compensation Management, the IBM solution drives the right employee behavior as you increase operational efficiency, accuracy and auditability.

IBM Incentive Compensation Management provides:

• Reports, dashboards, analytics and modelling
• Automated processes, scheduling and task management
• Work flow management and audit tracking
• On-premise or cloud-based deployment

Web: www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/business/sales-performance-management

Email: matthew.blanchard@uk.ibm.com

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Peoplefluent provides enterprise-grade, best of breed compensation and talent management software, designed to support the entire workforce that is built around people and not HR processes. PeopleFluent’s customers benefit from solutions with configurability without compromise, supported by a concierge-level of implementation and support service. This allows compensation planning on whatever terms your organisation needs, no matter how large or complex the requirements, in the most efficient and transparent way. Our solutions have helped over 5,100 organisations globally, helping to equip leaders with the meaningful talent data and strategic analytics necessary to make better business decisions.

Web: www.peoplefluent.com

Email: joe.slater@peoplefluent.com

Tel: 0207 832 3440

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Don't spend a fortune exhibiting at trade shows only to keep missing your target. Avoid the 'rent-a-crowd'. Our niche showcase events let you target an elite reward audience with a bullseye first timeWe’ve clearly identified the market segment and researched a 'Showcase’ event giving you full accessibility to this hard-to-reach audience. And we have invited selected delegates, all with proven interest and a desire to find our more about each specific topic.The bigger exhibitions have their market. Your product is different and it requires access to decision-makers. Our niche events provide you with access to your target market. A senior-level audience with proven interest in exactly your product.

The key to selling your solution is to be able to define and subdivide the large homogeneous HR market into clearly identifiable segments with similar needs and wants. Your objective is to market precisely to these people and present your product and services which precisely matches their expectations and needs.

Few companies are big enough to supply the needs of an entire market; most must breakdown the total demand into segments and choose those that the company is best equipped to handle. E-reward’s niche showcase events do exactly this for you.

>>> No crowds of time wasters, no wasted budget – just the precise market you need to sell to and network with.

>>> High-calibre audience of 75 senior reward managers from leading UK companies.

>>> No more than four 'sponsor' speaker slots plus a small number of exhibitors – guarantees you maximum exposure to your target audience and ensures your message is not diluted.

Get in touch for a delegate list and information about the senior reward practitioners and decision-makers who attend our events. We deliver brilliant reward events. The quality and seniority of our audience is hard to beat – all potential customers standing right in front of you. A smaller crowd, but no time wasters.

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SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES

E-reward Showcase events have a menu of sponsorship products that will help you connect with the right audience. Whether your interest is demonstrating your solutions or service or simply to gain visibility and brand awareness with a special message we have various products available. We can also custom build a sponsorship bundle to address your specific needs.

A unique opportunity to demonstrate your products, services and solutions to an audience of mid- and senior-level decision makers who are responsible for sales compensation in leading UK-based and European businesses. Make an impact on your audience by taking out one of our sponsorship and exhibitor packages or we can create a customised package just for you.

Call our sponsorship team on +44 (0)161 432 2584 or email: paul@e-reward.co.uk

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THE AUDIENCE

• Senior reward practitioners (in-house only) and their IT support staff who are considering the acquisition of new or updated compensation software tools will attend this event.
• Each of our Showcase events attracts an audience of around 50-75 senior practitioners from E-reward's 5,000-strong membership. (Please get in touch for a recent delegate list.)
• All of our delegates will have been personally invited, pre-qualified and will mainly be from blue-chip companies.
• They are senior-level decision makers in leading UK-based and European businesses.

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ON OFFER WE HAVE . . .

• Comprehensive marketing campaign targeting key individuals within your target market.
• A powerful combination of online promotions and social media campaigns to enhance your interaction with your target market.
• Each element is designed to raise your profile, build brand awareness and allow access to E-reward’s highly engaged and active database of senior reward practitioners.
• Accompanied by an extensive promotional campaign using our web site; e-newsletter (5,000 subscribers); reward magazine (5,000 subscribers); postings on our LinkedIn E-reward Group (1,000 members); shared amongst our LinkedIn connections (2,300+ in total); and twitter posts.

VENUE AND ADMIN. DETAILS

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The schedule

Registration starts from 9am. The conference will close at about 6pm (our drinks reception takes place from 5pm). The full conference programme can be found on our web site.

Documentation

All of the available speaker presentations for the conference will be added (in PDF format) to a special page on the E-reward web site, accessible to delegates only. We will email you details about how to download them as soon as we receive the presentations from the speakers.

If any speakers are unable to get their notes to us on time we aim to email them to you the day after the conference.

No hard copies of the documentation will be available on the day of the conference. We will, of course, be providing plenty of notepaper and pens for note taking during the day.

Special requirements

Please let us know if you have any special requirements as soon as possible so we can plan accordingly.

The venue

Copthorne Tara Hotel, Scarsdale Place, Kensington, London, United Kingdom W8 5SR (GPS W8 5SY). T +44 (0) 20 7937 7211

Getting there

The Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington is a four-star hotel in prestigious Kensington, located just a two-minute walk from High Street Kensington underground station. The station is on the Circle line between Gloucester Road and Notting Hill Gate, and the District line between Earl's Court and Notting Hill Gate.

London airports

London is served by five main airports, from the UK's main gateway at London Heathrow to London City Airport in the Docklands. For information on getting to and from London airports to Holborn in central London, visit Transport for London at www.tfl.gov.uk

Hotel accommodation

Delegates are responsible for their own accommodation.

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Last updated: 25^th January 2017.