APRIL 2014 – ERA Conference 2014
ERA Annual Conference
Wednesday 30th April 2014
10.30am – 5.30pm (GMT)
Sadler’s Wells Theatre – Rosebery Avenue – London – EC1R 4TN
Registration 10.30am
Opening Address – ERA Chairman
Speaker
Neil Morrison – Group HR Director UK & International Companies at Penguin Random House UK
After starting his working life as a lecturer in Psychology, Neil took his first role in HR management in 1996. For the next 12 years he worked in a variety of specialist and generalist HR roles in FTSE100 companies, including Rentokil Initial and GUS (which latterly became Home Retail Group). Neil joined the Random House Group in September 2008 taking responsibility for strategic people issues across their publishing and distribution offices in the UK, Australia, India and New Zealand. Since 2010 Neil has also sat on the main board. Neil’s latest accolade is winning the award for HR Director of the Year at the prestigious HR Excellence Awards 2013. And more recently still, Neil has been one of the main leads in helping to steer and finalise the merger between Random House and Penguin – the most significant merger in publishing history. Neil is a regular commentator on Human Resources and workplace issues and has written for a number of trade and generalist publications and websites on a range of topics. He writes his own blog, Change-Effect and tweets as @neilmorrison.
Speaker
Simon Thomas – Head of Brands & Insight at Talentworks International
Simon joined Talent Works in March 2013 from Alexander Mann Solutions to set up TWI’s brand and insight practice. He has 17 years’ experience in global employer branding, employer reputation management and insight, gained in recruitment marketing agencies working with blue chip companies. Simon has developed employer brands, value propositions and conducted research projects for Deutsche Bank, Rolls-Royce, Barclays, Bupa, Greggs, Santander and AstraZeneca among others. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School. He lives in Gloucestershire, England, with his wife and two young children
Sponsor Presentations
1.00pm – 2.00pm – Lunch
Panel – Diversity
Sarah Churchman – Head of Diversity & Inclusion PWC
Karina Robinson – Founding Principal Robinson Hambro Ltd
Anne Tynan – Equality & Diversity Consultant
Mandy McBain MBE – Workplace Programmes
Speaker
Karen Blakeman – MD of RBA Information Services
“Building an effective search strategy”
So you know all about Google and Bing’s advanced search commands, and you have a list of alternative search tools under your belt. But how do you put that knowledge into practice? Do you go all out with a complex, nested Boolean search, or do you start with a very simple strategy and adapt and tweak it according to the results? Using real-life examples, this session will look at how to build effective search strategies using advanced commands and different types of search tools. It will include Google and it’s specialist databases, alternatives to Google, social media and professional networks.
Karen Blakeman started her working life with a degree in microbiology from the University of Birmingham and a posting at the Colindale Central Public Health Laboratory for 2 years as a Scientific Officer. In 1978 she joined Wellcome as an information scientist in R&D. Two years later she joined Novo as a medical information officer and then moved to the international management consultancy Strategic Planning Associates. She became a freelance consultant in 1989. She now provides training and consultancy on social and collaborative web tools, how to search more effectively for information, and how to assess and manage resources. Her current workshops include “How to make Google behave” and “Anything but Google: what are the alternatives and are they any good?” Karen edits and publishes an electronic newsletter called Tales from the Terminal Room and her blog can be found at http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress
Presentation of The Researcher of the Year Award 2014 in memory of Stephanie Pratt
Closing address ERA Chairman
Networking event from 4.30pm – 5.30pm
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