Conference Agenda

After the Contracts are Signed: Keys to Successful HR Technology Implementation

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Transforming from HR Business Partner to Strategic Leader

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

"Blurred Lines": The Perils of Workplace Romance

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Effective Habits of Successful HR Professionals

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Intelligent Unemployment Claims Response: A Southwest Airlines Case Study

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

My Employees Can Miss HOW MUCH Work?!? Managing Leave Challenges Under the FMLA and ADA

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

SPEAKER CANCELLED - Secrets of a Plaintiffs' Attorney

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Followership: The Four Secret Skills of Multi-Generational Leadership Success

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

MEGA SESSION: Professional Communication: Leading with Your Assertive Voice

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

MEGA SESSION: Courageous Conversations: Four Keys to Reducing Employee Complaints

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

MEGA SESSION: Cultures that ROCK!! Five Proven Ways to Develop and Sustain a Phenomenal Workplace

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

STOP Doing Exit Interviews & START Doing Stay Interviews

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Workplace Woes: Contemporary Methods for Violence Prevention and Response

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Benefits for Domestic Partners and Same-Sex Spouses in a Post-DOMA World: What's New and What's Next

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Health Care Reform: Has the Dust Settled?

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Pension De-Risking: From Traditional Asset Allocation to Liability Driven Investing for DB Plans

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Attendee Registration

6:30 AM - 5:30 PM

GLOBAL SESSION: “Think Global, Act Local”: ATC’s HR Strategy to Entering New Markets

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

MEGA SESSION: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about Employment Law (But Didn’t Want to Pay a Lawyer to Ask)

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

The Difference between Knowing and Doing—Why It Matters for SHRM Certification

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

MEGA SESSION: Changes to Overtime Regulations: Next Steps for HR

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

ADA Jeopardy: The 2015 Version

7:30 AM - 7:48 AM

The Key to a Successful Technology Implementation

7:50 AM - 8:08 AM

Keynote Session featuring Mika Brzezinski

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

MEGA SESSION: Optimizing HR Strategy for Organizational Effectiveness

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Breakthrough Business Acumen for HR Professionals

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

California: The Golden State for Big HR Mistakes

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

MEGA SESSION: Leading the Virtuous Cycle: Five Steps for Linking Your Company's People & Profit Strategies

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Work 4.0: The Future of Work

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Bullying in the Workplace: Is It Really an HR Issue?

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Driving Forward While Looking in the Rear View Mirror: The NLRB After Noel Canning

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

GLOBAL SESSION: Global Employment Compliance Nightmares: Common, Best and Worst Practices

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

MEGA SESSION: Detecting Lies and Deception: Practical Skills for HR Professionals

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

MEGA SESSION: Making a Difference™: A Matter of Purpose, Passion and Pride

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

MEGA SESSION: Making an Impact: Demonstrating Leadership as an HR Department of One

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Disability = Diversity: Create an Inclusive Culture that Engages a Workforce with Diverse Abilities

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Engagement Is Not the Goal: How to Move Beyond Surveys to Cultural Success

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Recruiting ROCKS! Talent Acquisition: Taking it Up a Notch

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

The Future of Diversity and Inclusion: Five Next Practices

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Top 10 Reasons Employee Wellness Should Be a Corporate Strategy

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

GLOBAL SESSION: Developing and Being More Effective Internationally

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Refreshment Break in the SHRM Exposition

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

SHRM Exposition

9:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Welcome to Tuesday at the Smart Stage!

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM

Performance Management for the 21st Century Organization

10:00 AM - 10:18 AM

Reduce Your Legal Risk with Employment Eligibility Before It’s Too Late

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Understanding the Relationship between Employee Satisfaction, Engagement and Future Behaviors to Improve the Employee Experience

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Attract and Engage the Next Gen Workforce: How to Hire Millennials & Gen Z and Why It Matters

10:20 AM - 10:38 AM

Engagement is Broken!

10:40 AM - 10:58 AM

SPONSORED SESSION: Driving Talent Acquisition Transformation: Evolution of an RPO Partnership

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

EXECUTIVE EXCHANGE: The Inner Workings of Cirque du Soleil

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

MEGA SESSION: The Art of Work: Discovering What You Were Meant To Do

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Mad Men Era: Is It Really Over?

11:10 AM - 11:28 AM

The Anatomy of Communicating Culture Change

11:30 AM - 11:48 PM

“You’re No Shrinking Violent” and Other Micro-Aggressions

11:50 AM - 12:08 PM

Lunch in the SHRM Exposition

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Automating HCM: A Real-Life Love Story

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Why HR Metrics?

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Being the Best: Lessons from America’s Best Places to Work

12:20 PM - 12:38 PM

21 Ideas to Create a More Positive, Productive and FUN Workplace!

12:40 PM - 12:58 PM

Understanding Metrics: How to Connect HR's Goals to Your Business' Strategy

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

10 Tickets for HR Professionals: Get on the Technology Clue Bus

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Grow Your Team, Not Your Budget: Equipping Managers with an HR Skillset

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

What CEOs Think About 2015's Top Workforce Issues

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

CANCELLED -Knock. Knock. Who's There? The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission!

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Wage & Hour Compliance: Avoiding Lawsuits and Liability in an Aggressive Enforcement Arena

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

GLOBAL SESSION: Becoming a Globally Competent Leader

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

MEGA SESSION: Better than Average: How to Stand Out from the Crowd

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

MEGA SESSION: Movin' Up to the C-Suite

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

MEGA SESSION: People-Centered Leadership Through HR

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Translating Change into Sustainable Actions: Developing (and Becoming) Change Leaders

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

MEGA SESSION: Employee Engagement is Broken: Unlocking the True Driver of Employee Performance

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

MEGA SESSION: What Women Want: Recruiting, Developing and Keeping 21st Century Women Leaders

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Designing Successful Variable Pay Programs For Your Organization: An Effective Step-By-Step Approach

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

State of Benefits in the Workplace: An Update on Best Practices and Trends for 2015

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Let’s Slay the Performance Management Dragon

1:00 PM - 1:18 PM

Demystifying Millennials: How to Become a Powerhouse Workplace for the Next Generation

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

New Ways to Address Behavioral Health in Your Workforce

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

MASTERS SERIES: Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel and Want

2:15 PM - 4:15 PM

SPONSORED SESSION: ACCO Brands & Ceridian: Two Tales of Deploying HCM in the Cloud

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

10 Things Non-Californians Need to Know About Doing Business in the Golden State

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

GLOBAL SESSION: How You Can Use LinkedIn Data to Hire Better, Faster

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

EXECUTIVE EXCHANGE: MGM Resorts: What Is It Worth to You to Keep Your Top Performers?

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Life After HR: Lessons from a Recovering HR Practitioner

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Seminar: SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP Certification Preparation*

1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Leading Your Business Forward: Creating and Sustaining High Performance Organizations

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Trust-ol-o-gy: The Art and Science of Leading High Trust Teams

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

What are the Potential Waves for California Employers in 2016? New Laws, Agency Audit Trends and Cases

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

MEGA SESSION: Scandals & Screw-Ups: Learning HR Best Practices from Today's Headlines

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Systemic Approach for Stamping Out Harassment

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

The House Always Wins: Seven Strategies for Beating the Odds of I-9 and E-Verify Noncompliance

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

MEGA SESSION: Can't We All Just Get Along?: Relationship Management at Work & Why the Golden Rule is Wrong

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

MEGA SESSION: Every Day Negotiation Strategies

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

MEGA SESSION: Radically Re-Thinking Performance Management for the 21st Century

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Reality-Based Inclusion

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

SPEAKER CANCELLED - 180 Days of ACA: A Look Behind and the Road Ahead with Caesars Entertainment

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

CANCELLED - Advanced CFO Wisdom: The Art and Science of Communicating HR and Benefits with Finance

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Top 10 Employee Benefits Mistakes and Misconceptions

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Getting the C-Suite's Attention: Seven Strategies to Transform from HR Leader to Business Leader

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

GLOBAL SESSION: Adidas: NWOW (New Way of Working) – THE EVOLUTION

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

SPEAKER CANCELLATION - China: The People Challenge

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

The SHRM Competency Model: Nine Critical Competencies for HR Success

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

MEGA SESSION: We are Hired to Do a Job But Paid to Achieve Results: Transforming the Way to Strategically Drive HR

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Red and Watery Eyes, Slurred Speech, Dorito Crumbs and Other Red Flags: New Legal Challenges to Drug and Alcohol Testing

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

EXECUTIVE EXCHANGE: 1,000 Days of Change: How HR Is Helping Build Values and Transforming a Company

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Is Your Wellness Program in Line With All of the New Regulations?

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

What’s the Recipe? Creating a Successful Public Sector Retirement Plan for Retirees

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Tuesday Night Show

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM