8th of November 2018
Weclcome to the seventh edition of Croatia's most innovative HR event!
The Global HR Summit Zagreb 7 will provide you with the opportunity to get deeper understanding of today's ever changing HR trends and will provide you with a natural support structure that will help you stretch your HR knowledge beyond your normal limits.
Brilliant speakers: Learn directly from HR experts from Facebook, NBA, GSK, Netflix and Criteo
Amazing content: In-depth sessions & workshops that will not only help you stay ahead of the latest HR trends but also provide you with tons practical, game-changing takeaways you can immediately apply to your HR strategy.
Productive networking: You never know what inspiration, partnerships, or business deals you'll leave with after attending the Global HR Summit Zagreb 7
Be the hero of the office: You'll leave with access to our speakers' presentation decks and tons of great HR ideas.
Book your ticket before October 12th to SAVE EUR 50.-
For group discounts contact Irena Petar here.
Serdzan Şimşek Arnautović Facebook
Martin Lexa
Jermaine Daw National Basketball Association (NBA)
Sean Penistone with BT, GSK and Xerox
Oana Iordachescu WAYFAIR
Michelle Falco ING
Virginia Colurcio
Cultural Transformation & How To Integrate It Into Brand Strategy
Martin Lexa, Executive Vice President Human Resources & Corporate Communications, Mölnlycke Health Care
Building An Organizational Job & Career Infrastructure
Jermaine Daw, Senior HR Business Partner - EMEA, Latin America & Canada, NBA
Continuous Conversations: From Myth To Reality!
Michelle Falco, Performance Manager, ING
Panel Discussion With Speakers & Delegates
Supporting GSK's Digital Transformation: Experiments, failures and successes in Talent & Capability
Sean Penistone, Talent & Capability Enabler Lead Digital, Data & Data Analytics, GSK
Building Netflix Culture
Virginia Colurcio, HR Director EMEA, Netflix
Reversing the Brain Drain – Bringing Top Talent Back Home
Serdzan Şimşek Arnautović, Recruiter – MENA & CEE, Facebook
Diversity Hiring Through Data
Oana Iordachescu, TA Manager - AI Research LAB, Criteo
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Kaptol Boutique Cinema by CineStar Cinemas, Zagreb, Croatia
With the joint investment of the largest German film producer, Kieft & Kieft and Blitz Film and Video Distribution, Croatia's leading film distributor, in 2003, the company Blitz-CineStar founded the first and largest multiplex cinema in Croatia - CineStar Zagreb. Today, CineStar is the largest croupier in Croatia in 10 cities (Zagreb, Rijeka, Zadar, Sibenik, Split, Osijek, Varaždin, Dubrovnik, Slavonski Brod and Vukovar) and 13 locations.
Serdzan Şimşek Arnautović
Recruiter - Middle East, Turkey, Africa & Central Eastern Europe
Serdzan is an international recruiter based out of Dublin, Ireland. He has worked on cross-border recruitment projects with some of the largest financial & tech institutions and is now working for Facebook as a recruiter for their various positions across the MENA and CEE regions. Fluent in several languages and with a solid knowledge of the global recruitment market, Serdzan is a recruiter with exposure and experience in various fields (private banking, finance, funds, e-commerce, IT, gaming.)
former Alcon, Medtronic, Novartis HR executive
Martin Lexa is the former Chief People & Communications Officer at the world-leading medical solutions company Mölnlycke. He has a long track record of HR leadership in growth companies in the healthcare and medical devices industries in both mature and emerging markets.
A German national, Martin joined Mölnlycke in 2016. Before that, he spent three years within the Novartis Group, first as head of HR Over-The-Counter for Europe at Novartis Consumer Health and then as Head of HR for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Alcon. He also worked at Medtronic for five years, including as VP for Human Resources, Europe, Middle East & Africa and Canada – and at Bristol-Myers Squibb for eight years in different national and international HR leadership roles.
Jermaine Daw
Director, HR Business Partner
Jermaine Daw brings close to 15 years of experience as a Human Resources professional. He's worked across multiple industries (Tech, Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Media, and Sports). Currently Jermaine is a Senior HR Business Partner at the National Basketball Association; where he's charged with being the principal HR Consultant for EMEA, Latin America & Canada, based in London, UK. Prior to relocating to the UK, Jermaine also consulted the League Operations business function, which includes Basketball Operations, Referee Operations, Basketball Strategy & Analysis. Jermaine also has HR management oversight for the NBA G League. Before moving into his current role, Jermaine played an integral leadership role in the NBA's Talent Acquisition discipline, where he managed a team of Recruiters and helped design and execute the league's overall talent acquisition strategy.
Prior to the NBA, Jermaine was a Corporate Recruiter, Talent Acquisition at HBO and led Recruiting and Staffing initiatives within HBO's Consumer Marketing, Domestic Network Distribution, Media Production & Operations and Broadcast Operations client groups, providing clients with superior leadership during critical transition phases, including hiring professional and technical staff, implementing budget reductions and writing business plans.
Prior to HBO, Jermaine was a Manager of Recruitment at Luxottica USA, parent company to Lenscrafters, Sunglass Hut, Oakley, Sears Optical and other eyewear subsidiaries where he managed a team of Recruiters. During his time there Jermaine consulted senior management in areas of Recruiting & Staffing, Employee Relations, Compensation Analysis, Employee Benefits and HR laws, regulations and practices. He developed innovative HR Talent acquisition processes to support the appropriate selection and placement of talent throughout the organization. Jermaine played a key role in evaluation, recommendation, negotiation, and process implementation.
Jermaine is a proud Seawolf, holding a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Master's degree in Human Resources Management, both from Stony Brook University. Jermaine is passionate about developing students and is a Mentor with the TEAK Fellowship https://teakfellowship.org/, a NYC Program aimed at helping academically talented students from low-income families achieve their potential through a rigorous academic curriculum and college preparation. Jermaine was recently named as a 40 Under 40 2017 honoree by The Network Journal.
In his personal time, Jermaine enjoys outdoor sporting activities such as fishing, golf, and pickup basketball with family and friends.
Sean Penistone
with BT, GSK and Xerox
Former Director Leadership, Learning & Talent
Sean is a strategic and innovative Talent, L&D, and OD specialist with a 25-year record of success in the complex, matrix, international settings. He focusses on transforming business capability through pragmatic Talent and Capability strategies and approaches. He is experienced in many industries, such as Life Sciences, Professional Services, Retail Banking, Technology and Telecoms having held senior HR roles in the likes of Glaxo SmithKline, Astellas Pharma, Xerox, and HBOS.
In his previous roles Sean was the director for leadership, learning, and talent at British Telecom BT. Before BT, he was leading GSK's Talent and Capability work in the area of Digital Transformation and is introducing new approaches, practices and procedures to ensure that GSK has the skills to thrive in the digital world.
Oana Iordachescu
Head of Tech TA EU
Oana Iordachescu is a Senior Talent Acquisition Leader with over 10 years experience Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion and Talent Management. She has built her portfolio partnering with leaders across companies such as Booking.com (Amsterdam), Criteo (Paris) and currently Wayfair (Berlin) with the explicit goal to build and nurture inclusive workforces.
She has developed programs and processes that aim at creating access to equal opportunity and advocates for diversity and inclusion policies as a business and societal benefit.
Her mission is to show that changing the ratio is not the problem, changing the ratio is the solution.
Michelle Falco
With a Master in Labour and Company Law and experience in Reward, Talent Management and Leadership, Michelle changed this year to the role of Global Performance Manager at ING. ING has recently rolled out Step Up Performance Management: a new way of working that aims to improve the performance culture of the bank by moving from a retrospective review process to a real-time improvement process. In the roll-out the focus is to not only technically implement the framework, but to really create a new performance culture.
Former HR Director EMEA
Virginia is the Former HR Director EMEA at Netflix. She holds a degree in law from University of Naples (Italy), integrated by studies at University of Gent (Belgium), University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and University of Cambridge (UK). Prior Netflix she has worked for: Anthos Int. as Global Head of HR, as Director of IR/ER & Supply Chain Benelux at Unilever where she was responsible for the relationship with the Unions and for the HR strategy in the factories. Prior Unilever Virginia had worked as Senior HR Director International at Belkin, being strategically responsible for HR in EMEA and APAC. Virginia has started her business career at Transcom where she spent 10 years in different international HR positions. Before joining Transcom she lectured for 4 years at Univercity of Groningen (the Netherlands).