Technology has made lifelong and continuous learning easier by allowing access to knowledge beyond the traditional classrooms. Today's learners can learn at their own pace and benefit from a variety for technology-based approaches. While this is a growing reality, there are questions that need to be answered: Is Asia adopting tech based learning fast enough to meet present learning challenges? How much of people's potential can be realised through tech based learning? Can expenditure on learning be reduced? Can we achieve a better Return on Investments (ROI) through tech based learning?

By showcasing a variety of technology led initiatives such as Blended Learning, Pod Casting, Blogs, Animating Content, Online Games, Online Worlds, Learning Management Systems, E-Books, Tele-seminars, and Virtual Classrooms among others, this track will show how they can work for your organisation.

Human Capital Management provides a strategic approach to an organisation's most valued assets - its employees or talents. It is because globalisation and knowledge intensive work have tremendously raised numerous challenges in attracting, developing, motivating and retaining talent. Sound human capital management has increasingly become key to organisational success.

This track will not only explore Human Capital Management strategies but also offer practical tips to effectively make a positive impact on handling talents in your organisation.

Job seekers have shown strong inclination to work with corporations where the organisational culture and employer brand management offer a great working environment. Passion and commitment are enhanced when organisational values are strongly aligned with their own. There has been a growing support for effective employer branding as part of building an unique organisational culture among members of the HR community as this attracts passionate and committed talents.

This track will offer a framework and practical insights into all areas of effective employer branding. This includes an understanding of the branding process and on learning how to create a branding framework so as to communicate a company's values effectively.

Talent management is increasingly a growing influence in determining the success of an organisation. The inability to attract, engage and retain enough or the right talent will result in non-execution of any organisation's growth strategy. Whatever your setting i.e. human resource manager in a corporate organisation, government agency or a non-profit organisation, you are faced with the imminent need to identify access and develop talent to ensure continuity of leadership at all levels in your organisation.

This track will reveal how successful organisations plan their talent needs, and how they develop recruitment and retention cultures and processes that ensure a healthy talent pipeline for sustained organisational growth.

Competencies provide the foundation for organisational performance. They clarify performance standards and highlight the types and levels of competencies an organisation requires. Despite the benefits, organisations fail to make full use of the competencies. Fortunately, there are frameworks available today that can simplify the process of introducing competencies into Human Capital Development applications such as Talent Management, Succession Planning, Deployment, etc.

This track will explore what organisations have done successfully so that we can learn from them. It includes best practices in competency profiling, assessments as well as application and implementation strategies. The Return on Investment (ROI) of these initiatives will also be addressed.

In today's world, the nature of work has changed dramatically due to the impact of technology and the pace of change. Work and the learning place have converged. Rapid content development and flexible delivery modes are here to stay. The separation between work and learning no longer exists. Therefore, any learning and development has to make a difference to job performance. This situation requires that we maximise learner engagement and retention. This only happens when the organisational climate supports inquiry and dialogue, often possible, in an experiential learning atmosphere.

This track will explore learning and development tools that accelerate learning. FUN ideas, games that involve and instruct formal and informal models to gain the attention of learners and skills building sessions will be covered.

The massive social changes and the changing ways of work have caused much upheaval in the world of work. Such upheavals cover issues of ageing, succession planning, migrant workforce, drive for efficiency to reduce cost, continuous quality improvement, performance based wage system, job creation to maintain the social equilibrium, skills upgrading to move into high value jobs, flexible work arrangements to enable alternate employment, positive employer - employee relationships and shifting of talent across borders. These changes throw many management challenges for HR practioners.

This track will feature world-class speakers, thought leaders and trend analysts who will address the emerging issues in HRD. And offer insights on how to manage the changes and handle issues.