Keynote speaker: Åsa Skogström
Åsa Skogström is the CEO of The Hunger Project in Sweden. She has a business background with 18 years of experience in marketing, sales and management, both in Sweden and internationally. Before joining The Hunger Project in 2004, she was the Marketing Director at Sony Ericsson in Germany. Åsa Skogström is also the co-founder of a women's organisation called Nätverket Göran (the Göran Network). There is a story behind this name. Göran is a Swedish first name for a man and at the time the network was founded, there were more CEO’s named Göran in the top 500 corporations in Sweden than there were women CEO’s at all. In fact, seven years later, this is still the case! Read more…

Sub theme: Coaching and personal development
One of the key support roles for implementing a comprehensive HRD strategy is that of mentoring and coaching. The words ‘mentor’ and ‘coach’ have been imported into organisational practice to refer to experienced and often senior employees who support and advise less experienced and often younger colleagues throughout their personal and career development. Read more…

Main sponsor: ING     
ING recognizes the importance of personal development, whether within a present position or towards another position. In this respect, employees are themselves responsible for (taking initiatives to support) their own development.
As a professional HRD organisation, we stimulate and support this learning and development of managers and employees at ING. We help them to perform in a more effective way, both now and in the future. We do this by offering advice and support in learning and development issues. For instance, by selecting appropriate training courses which makes it easier for an individual employee to make a choice. Or by supporting managers with tailored advice before and during large-scale changes. We constantly search for the most effective and efficient combination of learning activities.
Some of the basic principles which we apply are:
- Learning activities are work related and reflect issues encountered in daily work
- Learning is aimed at improving performance
- Learning is aimed at development and employability
- People learn in different ways

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Facts and figures:
• The final conference programme offers more that 75 presentations (keynotes, academic papers and good practices), workshops and round table discussions. Look at the provisional programme.
• More than 300 participants have registered for the conference! Join us and register now!