09:00 Opening Remarks From The Chair

Nanette Fairley
Managing Director
Innovative HR Solutions, UAE

09:10 Retaining National Employees: Challenges And Opportunities

• Determining the right employment choice for the employee and employer
• Key motivating factors that increase retention
• Ways to assess employee engagement

H. Amin Carter
Senior Retention Advisor
ADCO, UAE

09:50 – Case Study: Al Futtaim’s Strategy For Diversifying The Local Workforce

• Retaining talented local employees – what works and what doesn’t
• How do you measure the effectiveness of your Nationalisation programme?
• How can you achieve ROI on your localization programme?

Zuhair Hameed Al Haj
Senior General Manager, Administration & Emiritisation, Al Futtaim Group of Companies
UAE

10:30 Case Study: The Business Case For Strategic Talent Management – A Core Component Of An Effective Retention Strategy

• How do successful companies manage their human capital?
• Methods to identify your top performers and employees with high potential
• Individual development plans to bridge the gap between potential and performance
• Use of succession planning to drive diversity and Nationalisation programmes
• Impact of current economic challenges on diversity and Nationalisation programmes

Diaa Mohamed
Vice President HR HP – Middle East
Mediterranean and Africa

11:20 Retaining And Developing Talent Through Engagement

• What is employee engagement?
• How do you actually engage employees, both in good and in bad times?
• What motivates employees and how do you stay engaged, in order to retain and develop talent?

Ahmad-Alia Zia
HR Director
Unilever KSA and Gulf

12:00 Assessing Future Potential – Developing Nationals Into Future Leaders

• The art of succession planning and identifying future roles
• Building leadership capabilities
• Talent development for the next decade

Abdulrahman Al Tuwaijri
HR Development Consultant
Saudi Aramco, KSA

12:45 Interactive Solution-Finding Roundtables And Panel Discussion Debate

This session has been designed to work with you to develop practical solutions and tools that you can instantly apply back in the office. Working in small groups you will be asked to come up with relevant crucial issues and key challenges that your organisations are currently facing in relation to National retention programmes, successful career development and succession planning strategies. A spokesperson from each group will then be asked to report back individually with the group’s overall feedback. The moderator will then put your thoughts and questions to the panel of senior HR professionals.

Panel:

14:30 Changing The Mindset Of Young Entrepreneurs - An Innovative Approach To Recruiting, Developing And Retaining Nationals In Your Organisation

• Benchmark recruitment of future talent against current managers both local and expatriates
• A directed reading approach to development
• Retention through a loyalty, accountability and reward compensation programme and a ‘clear pathway to progress’

Ayadh Farooq
Head National Development
Emirates NBD, UAE

15:10 The Turmoil, Power And Promise Of Nationalisation

• Turmoil: Same old disbelief
• Power: The Tawteen talent pipeline 14-26
• Promise: Nationalisation driven by Nationals for sustainability

Mohamed Al Neaimi
Director, Tawteen
UAE

16:15 Roundtable Troubleshooting Facilitated Clinics

This session will highlight successful Nationalisation case studies from around the region and will be moderated by senior HR professionals.

• How to create a National development programme that works and delivers on its ultimate goal
• How do you measure the performance of your National workforce?
• Is it really necessary to Nationalise?