Jury
Wendy van Ierschot
Wendy van Ierschot founded several companies, is an HR Tech Business Angel investor, makes podcasts for the Dutch Business National Radio, is a public speaker and writes, mostly as a columnist. Wendy initiated Europe’s largest HRtech Meetup with > 2,600 members. She has a visual impairment and always wears filter glasses.
Ambrosia Vertesi
Ambrosia Vertesi is a talent and operations executive, co-founder, advisor, and industry speaker. Currently Operating Partner at Operator Collective, she spent the past 10 years growing early stage tech organizations to global scale and top employer recognition. She was previously VP of People at Duo Security and VP of Talent Ops at Hootsuite; an early exec in both organizations which each reached 1,000+ employees globally and Unicorn status in under five years. Co-founder of the HR Open Source community and an Advisor at People Tech Partners, Ambrosia is a frequent industry speaker on fostering emerging HR practices and the future of work.
Cinzia Ricciardone
Cinzia’s “previous lives” include: operational management in hospitality, HR and L&D, agency recruiter, CIPD graduate. The past 10 years have been in product management and product leadership for SaaS (recruitment software; lead gen; outbound). She co-founded in March the tech volunteering initiative code4covid.org / covidtechsupport.com – a community of digital professionals offering pro-bono services for digital projects in the non-profit and charity sector.
Michael Wilczak
Michael Wilczak is Chief Strategy Officer at iCIMS responsible for defining and managing the company’s investments in new growth initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, financial investments and strategic partnerships. He has completed dozens of investments globally in the software and technology sector totaling more than $3bln.
HR Hackathon: The HR Tech Investor Panel hosted by Chad Sowash
07th October, 5 PM CEST on Youtube
In preparation of the next HR Hackathon online, podcaster and HR Tech critic Chad Sowash will host the international HR Tech investor live panel.
Speakers
Kerstin Plehwe
Kerstin Plehwe is a best-selling author, award winning entrepreneur, TED speaker and senior advisor to executives and global corporations. Her talks inspire people to change perspectives, establish new rituals for 360 degree success and reach higher levels of personal excellence. Kerstin is a sought-after expert on new leadership, corporate wellbeing and succesful change. She has written eight books and is a founding board member of the ASTRAIA Female Leadership Foundation.
HR Hackathon: The Corporate HR Panel on work from home strategies during and post-covid
05th November, 5PM CEST, on Youtube
In this international Corporate HR Live Panel, Kerstin Plehwe, Germany’s top communication expert, will discuss with the panelists, what their companies did to set up the Corona remote work strategy, what they learned and what they are planning to do in the future to make remote and distributed teams work.
Ute Neher
Ute Neher is leading the Recruiting area as Head of Global Talent Aquisition of Deutsche Telekom AG. What connects us! Passion for technology. Sharing ideas. Her goal is Data Driven recruiting, using technologies to make the hiring experience as best we can.
HR Hackathon: The Corporate HR Panel on work from home strategies during and post-covid
05th November, 5 PM CEST on Youtube
In this international Corporate HR Live Panel, Kerstin Plehwe, Germany’s top communication expert, will discuss with the panelists, what their companies did to set up the Corona remote work strategy, what they learned and what they are planning to do in the future to make remote and distributed teams work.
Kerstin Wagner
Kerstin is leading the Talent Acquisition Team at Deutsche Bahn with nearly 800 employees. Her responsibility includes the global employer branding and recruiting strategy, all talent acquisition activities in Germany as well as the management of the group’s temporary employment division to hire over 20.000 employees per year.
HR Hackathon: The Corporate HR Panel on work from home strategies during and post-covid
05th November, 5 PM CEST on Youtube
In this international Corporate HR Live Panel, Kerstin Plehwe, Germany’s top communication expert, will discuss with the panelists, what their companies did to set up the Corona remote work strategy, what they learned and what they are planning to do in the future to make remote and distributed teams work. Our Panelists: – Kerstin Wagner, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Deutsche Bahn – Ute Neher, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Deutsche Telekom – Jennifer O’Lear, Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Engagement & Inclusion at Merck – Nick Eaton, Director of Recruitment and L&D, Northern Europe.
Francesca Sanfilippo
I’m an Art Director / UX-UI Designer based in Zurich. I’m passionate about technologies and visual arts, during all my career I used interact design to merge senses with a synaesthetic point of view. I have 15 years of experience with an artistic roles since 2001. I love my job: being a creative means being passionate in everything I do.
Balancever – the way we face remote working
28th October, 5 PM CEST on Youtube
In this video session, Francesca Sanfilippo, the product designer of Balancever, will talk about the genesis of Balancever, the team, the area of expertise and the challenges faced during several Hackathons the team has attended. She will then address three researches of mental well-being and remote working. The studies have exposed the risks associated with remote working and its impact on health. Finally, she will talk about the experience of Balancever as well as tools, ideas and tips to face challenges during the hackathon.