Conference Day Two: Tuesday 23 June 2009

08.50 Chairman’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

Abdulrahman Saqr
UAE Business Adviser & Head of Emiratisation
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP

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09.00 Keynote Presentation: Overcoming The Challenges Associated With Recruiting Graduate Employees Dubai Municipality is the UAE’s largest employer of nationals. Amira and Ahmed will be outlining the main challenges associated with recruiting graduates such as high-expectations, skills and lack of experience. They will reveal the successful strategies used by Dubai Municipality to incorporate national graduates into the workplace. Amira Kamali Training Planning Officer DUBAI MUNICIPALITY Ahmed Al Zarouni Head of Training & Development DUBAI MUNICIPALITY

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09.30 Building An Effective Graduate Program That Meets The Needs Of Your Business And Graduates

How do you design a program that will have positive long-term effects on the business and ensure that each graduate will grow within the company and be a fit for the company’s future management positions? This presentation discusses how to design a sustainable program that attracts candidates and also how to best market the program to students, both locally and internationally

David M Walker UAE National Development Manager NAKHEEL

Jawaher Al Marzooqi Student & Intern Executive NAKEEL

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10.00 The UAE Academy Success Story In Contributing To The Nationalisation Of Abu Dhabi Workforce: Outlining IBDAA Program

Dr Magdi Ahmed Abd El Hafiz
CEO
UAE ACADEMY

11.00 Café Conversations: Overcoming The Challenges Of Recruiting Graduates Café Conversations will tackle the challenges faced in attracting, developing and retaining graduates. Groups will discuss the problem at hand for 20 minutes before delegates swap tables and pick up the conversation with a new group for a further 20 minutes. Delegates will have the opportunity to express their findings after their Café Conversations before a group discussion to finish the session. Key areas that will be discussed include: Managing graduate’s expectations Development for skilled roles Developing them to become leaders of the future Encouraging graduates into the private sector Café Conversation Facilitator : Abdulrahman Al Tuwaijri Human Resource Development Consultant SAUDI ARAMCO

13.30 Afternoon Chairman’s Welcome

David M Walker
UAE National Development Manager
NAKHEEL

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13.40 Shell’s Approach To Managing Local Talent In The Middle East

To create a diverse and inclusive workplace, Shell actively supports the attraction, development, retention and promotion of diverse talent from different regions, and aims to increase the proportion of women and local nationals in leadership positions as well as offering training programmes to promote inclusion. The presentation will cover the following:

• Managing Talent in Shell
• Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Talent in MENA Region
• Challenges, Opportunities and Managing Diverse Talent
• Middle Eastern Talent Council (METC)

Aysha Binbraik
Strategic Resourcing Manager, Human Resources
SHELL E&P INTERNATIONAL LTD

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14.10 Accelerated Learning In Developing Nationals

The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. As the 21st century approaches, the pace of every day life has speeded up–everything from fast food to instant communication across the globe. It's an age when today's National need to face a challenge of not only learning the basics of a job but also grow and keep growing with in his job. That's why learning how to learn is more important than what we learn–especially when what we learn can become so quickly outdated.

Kais Badran
Training Manager
AL TAYER INSIGNIA

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14.40 Successful Strategies For Recruiting And Developing Female Nationals For Optimum Customer Interaction

• Positioning nationalization at a proactive front…
• Recalibrating recruitement and development strategies to target local talent for differentiated market segmentation…
• Maximizing employees retention for sustained organizational performance…
• Enhancing workforce engagement by improved gender equality…
• Participants will learn colorful details on the journey from challenges to business results, in a pragmatic prescription ensuring effective HR strategies that lead to proven realities.

Mohamed S. Mourad
HR Director
BUPA ARABIA

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15.40 Encouraging Nationals To Enter The Private Sector – Dealing With Nationals’ High Expectations

This presentation will outline the reservations and expectations of Nationals to enter the private sector. Ayesha will outline the strategies that ENDP use to tackle the high expectations of Nationals and to successfully incorporate them into private sector businesses.

Ayesha Al Taher
Acting Head of Corporate Relations
EMIRATES NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (ENDP)

16.10 Changing The Mindset Of Young National Entrepreneurs

Ayadh Farooq
Head of National Development, Human Resources, Learning and Development
EMIRATES NBD

16.40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks And End Of Conference

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