Samantha Woods

VP, HR Innovation, Employee Experience & Employer Attractiveness
Orange Business Services

Samantha Woods, British national living in France since her teens, has been working for prestigious entertainment companies such as Reebok, Virgin, CBS Paramount, the international start-up Sports.com, and for Orange since 2004, where she was in charge of the strategy and innovation for sports content. She successfully created and launched new formats and several sports channel and was primed with the best innovation of the year by Sporsora.

She is a strong believer in that the great customer experience is not possible without a great employee experience. In her current role for Orange Business as VP of HR Innovation Lab, Employee Experience and Employee Brand, she is in charge of HR innovation, anticipating and capturing new tech trends and new ways of working, redesigning a great employee experience, and making sure that the company’s attractiveness is at its best.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Samantha.

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Conference Day One

Wednesday, May 22nd, 0019

9:45 [PANEL DISCUSSION]: Technology is radically disrupting HR. How does the function need to change in order to embrace this?

It’s never been a more exciting or challenging time to be an HR professional. Technology is bringing about seismic change within organisations and rapidly creating opportunities to engage with the workforce in new ways. How we collaborate and contribute, communicate, and learn is leading to new networked structures, ways of working and job fulfillment. However, when deployed without due consideration, technology can harm

work culture, breeding dissatisfaction and denting productivity.

This panel discussion will explore what changes will be key and how to carry out the transition to embrace the rapidly evolving technologies, business models, demographics, and workplace attitudes. We will look at questions such as:

· How should you frame your technology decisions?

· What are some of the business and human benefits to getting this right?

· What other factors must be considered if technology is going to truly enable positive change?

· How can co-creation be used as a lever to change?

· Who does HR need to collaborate with differently across the business?

· What new roles or skills are needed in HR?

Conference Day Two

Thursday, May 23rd, 2019

11:45 Case study: Orange Business Services Employee Experience Journey

This session will talk you through Orange Business Services journey on becoming truly employee centric, in order to live up top their success on the customer experience side, catch up to their employee’s needs and look into the future to attract the top talent in a highly competitive market. You’ll hear about:

· The journey from the start to the present day, including specific hurdles and action points

· A digitalised social hub, which brought the workforce closer together and built a stronger sense of belonging across the world

· Looking into the future – What is the HR role in innovation and how do you engage your employees in being co-innovation partners?