{"id":18410,"date":"2019-12-15T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2019-12-15T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T08:08:30","slug":"the-hr-tech-saudi-summit-2019-highlights-disruptive-new-hr-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/the-hr-tech-saudi-summit-2019-highlights-disruptive-new-hr-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"The HR Tech Saudi Summit 2019 Highlights Disruptive New HR Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading Government and private sector organizations, global technology leaders and cutting edge global HR solution providers gathered on November 11-12, 2019 in Riyadh, KSA, for the <strong>3<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual HR Tech Saudi Summit<\/strong>, supported by <strong>Ministry of Civil Service \u2013 KSA &amp; Human Resource Development Fund<\/strong> to explore the latest trends and emerging technologies transforming the future of work in the Kingdom. Global speaker and renowned futurist and thought leader, <strong>Bill Jensen<\/strong> delivered the keynote speech on the Future of the Enterprises: Embracing the future of work in the digital world. HR leaders also further discussed how HR processes and technology can be blended in order to make the Kingdom\u2019s workforce future ready and further pave the way to achieve the Kingdom\u2019s Vision 2030.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Center of Artificial Intelligence, it has been proven that by the end of 2030, AI will change 100% of job opportunities in the region. <strong>Hussain Shaikh, HCM Strategy Leader \u2013 ECEMEA <\/strong>from<strong> Oracle <\/strong>highlighted the role of AI in HR and how AI is transforming human resources, during his key note presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Employee engagement and experience were other interesting topics the conference touched upon where the Human Resource Development Fund emphasized on the shift from manual to digital operations where 84% of the Kingdom\u2019s workforce believe to digitize their corporations in line with the vision 2030. HRDF further explored how companies in the Middle East have developed people strategy in order to cultivate future skills.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on company\u2019s participation in the summit, <strong>Kanari Kurayim, VP HR, Schneider Electric<\/strong> says <em>\u201cThe 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual HR Tech Saudi Summit is a great platform to meet with HR officials from different industries like banking, construction and manufacturing. We liked the format of the event such as the breakout sessions, team building activities and how the overall conference was designed and executed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This exclusive event covered panel discussions on various topics including \u2013 AI in HR, The Future of Learning, the role of AI in transforming recruitment, rethinking employee experience, organization transformation in the age of change and many more. Some of the speakers who were part of this event were <strong>Mohammed Almukhalfi, Assistant Deputy Minister for Systems &amp; Development, Ministry of Civil Services \u2013 KSA; Mohannad Samhan, Operations Director, Zone; Ahmad Zamzam, Product Manager, Zone; Ahmad Khamis, Co-founder &amp; CEO, BLOOVO; Fouzi Bubshait, VP Human Capital Programs, Maaden; Nasser Alhumaid, Chief HR Officer, Quality of Life Program \u2013 Vision 2030; Rani Abu-Shaar, General Manager, AppsPro; Lamees Siddiqui, Human Resources Director &amp; Country Administration Leader, Philips Healthcare Saudi Arabia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ahmad Khamis, Co-Founder, Bloovo <\/strong>claims <em>\u201cIt was an excellent experience to be a part of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual HR Tech Saudi Summit. There were HR decision-makers from different companies from across Saudi Arabia that gave us great exposure and the networking opportunities added value to our brand where delegates were understanding our identity. If we have to sum up the entire event in one word, it is \u2018Quality\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the overall success of the event, <strong>Sidh N.C, Director, QNA International<\/strong> says <em>\u201cThis edition of the HR Tech Saudi Summit has been an incredible conference where HR executives, corporations and IT leaders had engaging conversations on the latest trends, ideas and challenges that the industry faces to implementing technology as a major aspect in the Kingdom\u2019s human resource functions. We hope to continue planning, designing and executing such events that make a difference and shape the HR and technology industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HR-Tech-Saudi-Summit-2019-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HR-Tech-Saudi-Summit-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HR-Tech-Saudi-Summit-2019-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HR-Tech-Saudi-Summit-2019.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading Government and private sector organizations, global technology leaders and cutting edge global HR solution providers gathered on November 11-12, 2019 in Riyadh, KSA, for the 3rd Annual HR Tech Saudi Summit, supported by Ministry of Civil Service \u2013 KSA &amp; Human Resource Development Fund to explore the latest trends and emerging technologies transforming the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18412,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions\/18412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}