Iași Business Mixer is the third conference organized by ABSL in Iași, dedicated to the local business services community and the northern region of Romania.
Together as a community, the purpose of the event is to facilitate best practice sharing between companies of our industries, to acknowledge the challenges and the opportunities ahead, develop a clearer vision about the strategies and a set of solutions that could find their implementation.
People practices nowadays undergo changes to deliver the HR solutions needed to create a human centred, personalized and memorable employee experience, by using the latest digital technologies. This event will also tackle the challenges brought by the new generation, allowing us to share resourceful approaches to Recruit and Develop and Retain our employees.
Strategic partners of ABSL will share their expertise, member companies will present their case studies during a panel discussion, and a workshop will engage participants in meaningful discussions on the theme: How People Practices can thrive in an age of Disruption: Recruitment, Talent Development & Retention.
ABSL Member companies having interest in joining us with case study presentation and thus to share their experience, should contact us at absl@absl.ro.
AGENDA | Iași Business Mixer, May 24th 2018
How People Practices can thrive in an age of Disruption: Recruitment, Talent Development & Retention
Ramada Hotel, Napoli Conference Room
9:30 – 10:00
Welcome coffee and greeting the participants
Welcome message from ABSL Team
10:00 – 11:15
Knowledge Sharing Session | Experts’ insights
Moderator: Colin Lovering, Chairman of the BRCC & Senior Vice-President | Avison Young
Confirmed speakers:
Generation Next | Mihaela Robu, Business Development Manager | ACCA
Success in the new era of work – The Five Lands Journey to Success | Claudiu Stan, Manager, People Services | KPMG Romania
The Value of Data Analytics| Răzvan Radu, Founder & Consultant | Humano
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break & networking
11:45 – 13:00
Panel discussion | How technology adoption creates disruption and impacts People Practices
Moderator: Colin Lovering, Chairman of the BRCC & Senior Vice-President | Avison Young
Speakers: Daniel Adumitrachioaiei – HR Director | Capgemini
Daniel Dragoș Panaite – HR Consultant | BDO Romania
Daniel Mereuță – Managing Director | Optima Solutions Services
13:00 – 14:00
Workshop | Reinventing people practices: Taking advantage of generational changes
Moderator: Liliana Bizău, Senior Account Manager | ABSL
14:00 – 15:00
Networking Lunch
The event is free of charge, please reserve your seat by clicking on the button:
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Speakers
Cătălin ConstantinHead of HR @ SCC
Cătălin Constantin
Head of HR @ SCC
Catalin Constantin, Head of HR @ SCC, has over 10 years of experience in HRM for companies in industries such as telecom, automotive, IT, BPO/SSC and consultancy.
Catalin strives to create sustainable and clean HR processes aiming at stimulating organizational growth and people development. Believing in ‘0 bureaucracy’, Catalin has set a personal purpose in automatizing and digitalizing the HR processes for all the organizations he has worked for so far.
Colin LoveringSenior Vice-President of Enterprise Solutions & Advisory | Chairman - Avison Young Romania | The British Romanian Chamber of Commerce
Colin Lovering
Senior Vice-President of Enterprise Solutions & Advisory | Chairman - Avison Young Romania | The British Romanian Chamber of Commerce
From a manufacturing and sales background, Colin spent 18 years of his career with The Sealed Air Corporation where he built a strong reputation for Sales success including 2 prestigious European awards for Sales performance. From this, his career moved into Organisational & People Performance taking him for 3 years in Paris and then a further 3 years in the USA where he travelled across North America, South Africa, China and the length of Europe developing and training literally hundreds of Sales and management professionals and organizations.
In 2009 he moved to Romania to continue his work and formed Achieve International SRL to broaden his scope in organizational change and performance working with key company’s such as Petrom, Baker Tilly, Provident, Groupama, BMW, HP, etc. and, for the past 4 years, working with the Corporate Office Solutions (COS) sales team. In October 2017, Colin joined Avison Young Romania as Senior Vice-President of Enterprise Solutions & Advisory. Colin states “I’m really excited this brand new challenge and about bringing a fresh, new approach and perspective to the Real Estate market here in Romania whilst continuing my work in promoting this wonderful country as the ideal location for foreign investors”
Colin is also Chairman of The British Romanian Chamber of Commerce (BRCC) , A senior Tutor with the Institute of Sales Management and an associate lecturer with The University of Bucharest. A father to two sons, Dan & Matt and proud grandfather to little Freddie. Colin also supports 2 charities in Romania (Casa Ioana shelter for abused and homeless women and children and Light into Europe who provide guide dogs for the blind).
Daniel MereutaManaging Director - Optima Solutions Services
Daniel Mereuta
Managing Director - Optima Solutions Services
With more than 14 years of experience, Daniel began his career at EOS KSI Romania, the largest receivables management company in Romania. Since 2004 he held various positions in EOS developing his area of expertise in operations and people management, business development and outsourcing. During his career at EOS he was responsible for regional expansion as well as launching and developing several lines of operations. Starting 2011 Daniel joined Optima assuming company’s management and future development. Daniel is also board member of the Bucharest Community Foundation, a marathon runner, fundraiser for various causes and initiator of several social community projects.
Daniel Dragoș PanaiteHR Consultant at BDO Romania
Daniel Dragoș Panaite
HR Consultant at BDO Romania
Daniel Dragoş Panainte is HR Consultant at BDO Romania.
From 2003 to 2013, he was Senior Consultant of CARP Law Office Iasi – the first business law office in Moldova.During the period 2009-2012 he was actively involved in the local business community, being elected member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Businessmen from Iaşi 2003.
Between 2007 – 2013 he was the coordinator of the Business Collection of the Universul Juridic publishing house – the most important collection dedicated to entrepreneurs in Romania – where Marius Ghenea, Gabriel Biriş, Claudiu Vrânceanu, Alin Popescu, Felix Daniliuc, Mihail Marcu, Felix Patrascanu were published.
Daniel Dragoş Panainte is involved in HR auditing, change management and organizational behavior projects, offering his clients a multidisciplinary experience of over 15 years.
Hobbies: Organizational Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavioral Economics.
Written Books: How to Set Up and Administer a LLC. Legal, Tax and Accounting Solutions for First Steps in Business – Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009, Business Collection.
Răzvan Radu Founder of humano | humans behind numbers
Răzvan Radu
Founder of humano | humans behind numbers
Răzvan has over 7 years of experience as a consultant in Human Resources and Marketing Research.
Răzvan has over 7 years of experience as a consultant in Human Resources and Marketing Research. During his activity he identified Data Analytics as being the constant “metric” which can be identified as a success factor for growing people and companies’ performance. Very important is also keeping in mind the human factor, after all we are all humans not numbers. As founder of humano he is now dedicated to help companies grow by implementing a Holistic Data Driven Approach of Human Resources.
Mihaela RobuBusiness Development Manager ACCA
Mihaela Robu
Business Development Manager ACCA
Mihaela started working nine years ago as Business Development Manager for ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
She is responsible for the ACCA relationship with various employers, business associations and other accounting and auditing professional associations in four countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Albania.
She was involved in the first projects initiated by ACCA for and together with the Outsourcing and Shared Services industry – regional roundtables, workshops and conferences and the launch of the ACCA GBS qualifications – and she is passionate about understanding the trends and developments of this specific industry.
She has 17 years’ experience in sales and marketing and a Bachelor’s degree in Law and International Relationships. She has completed her studies with a Post Graduate degree in PR & Communication at the Bucharest Faculty of Journalism.
Claudia StanManager, People Services, KPMG in Romania
Claudia Stan
Manager, People Services, KPMG in Romania
Claudia is a senior HR professional, with mixed HR practitioner and consulting background, acquired after working for more than 16 years in the HR area.
Her key areas of expertise include Talent Management, Performance Management, Learning & Development, HR transformation and organizational development.
A key area of focus for Claudia is the Future of Work, a KPMG framework aiming to assist clients in navigating throughout the 21st century challenges.
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