Pre-Convention Workshop

• Connecting people to business strategy: Practical tools for creating a Business focused People Plan
• From Ordinary to Memorable: Secrets for successfully planning and executing your next Corporate Business event
• Under the Law: Things you wanted to know about local Labour Laws and International Labour Conventiopms but were afraid to ask.
• Getting more with less: Innovative ways to dramatically improve productivity through technology and new forms of work organization.

• Measuring and evaluating HR: How to effectively demostrate that people issues really matter to the bottom line
• The business of Industrial Relations: What NEW and fledgling practitioners need to know about working effectively with Trade Unions.
• Managing compensation and benefits: Getting the FUNDAMENTALS right first the time.

Opening of Expo

• Speaker: Hon. Pearnel Charles
  Minister of Labour & Social Security

• Ochi Rios: Fun / Run Walk

Opening of Expo

• Speaker: Cheif Professional & Business Development Officer - Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Concurrent Sesssions

• Customer service which ROCKS: Strategies for transforming the customer service culture of your organiztion.
• The Transformational Coach: Leadership strategies for building high-trust working relationship.
• The next generation of employee competencies: How to build competency models which will enhance your business
• Getting the right FIT the First time: Hiring strategies to get and keep the best talent for your organization

SIDEBAR 1

• Lifestyle Transformation

Concurrent Sesssions

• The Teamwork Solution: Magic Bullet or Myth
• "Preparing the next generation of employees": Things hiring managers should know about what today's graduate brings to the table.
• From Conflicting to Collaboration": The transformation of worker management relations at First Caribbean International Bank.
• Destination global competitiveness: gettting there through collaboration, innovation and information

• Closing Keynote Presentation:
• The emerging international trade environment: Challenging for retaining markets and jobs and how your orgainzation should respond.
• Speaker: Sandra Husbands, President - Caribbean Association of Small & Medium Enterprise (CASME)

• NETWORKING LYME @ Laughing Waters

CEO Saturday

• Rise & Shine - Reggae Aerobics
• ETHICS and your organization's DNA: How to translate ethical principal codes of behaviour.
• Getting ready for the global game: How to compete successful by radically rethinking your organizations business and marketing strategies
• Managing your retirement benefits arrangements: How your organization should respond to the changing regulatory landscape.
• EIGHT compensation trends to motivate your senior executives in ways which make sense.
• Employment contracts: Why are we still confused and the consequences when we get it wrong.

• Self differentiated leadership: Leading from within and without
• The Jamaican sub-culture and the workplace: what does DANCE HALL and Bling have to do with employee performance.
• Successful Succession Planning: How Grace Kennedy sustains the flow in its leadership pipline
• The Jamaican Industrial Relations climate: Trends and Developments to watch in 2008 and beyond

THE INTERNATTONAL BUSINESS MINI CONFERENCE

• Repositioning Jamaica as an International Financial Centre: Implications & challenges for economic growth and employment.

• The people side of project maanagement: Why a servant leadership approach can mean the difference between the success or failure of your next project
• The ROI of Internal communications: How winning companies engage their employees to get the best results from their internal communication.
• Corporate Social Responsibility in Jamaica: JEF State of the Industry Report
• Big Bad wolf or communication partner: How to work consstructively with the media.

CEO Luncheon

• Speaker: Daniel Funes De Rioja, Executive Vice President - International Organiztion of Employers (IOE)

SIDEBAR 2

• Life beyond retirement: How to turn your know-how and experience into a viable business venture.

• Connecting the dots: How to make sure that people do really matters to your corporate objectives.
• CEO Hard Talk: The people, performance & productivity issues which leeps your CEO up at night.

CEO Saturday

• The new occupational health and safety legislation: What orgainzations need to do to meet the emerging standards and requiremnts
• Managing the MIX: Strategies for getting the best out of a diverse workforce.

• Closing General Session
• Speaker: K. Barrington Thomas

• Closing General Session
• "Old School Meets New School"

• Praise and worship
  Closing keynote presentation
  
  Speaker: Seth Mohorn