The national roadmap towards more resilient recovery and growth serves as reference point for government agencies to realign their respective sectoral development plans that will ensure policy and program coherence.  Following a whole-of-government approach in defining national and sectoral goals, this session will present strategies to unlock and drive the productivity of the Filipino workforce as the country moves into the better normal.  These will guide and enable workers, business communities and other private stakeholders to better navigate the challenges in a new and better normal.

This session will walk us through the rise of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in the country and how it will affect industries amid and post COVID-19 pandemic and through the better normal.  It will present government’s strategic plan, key initiatives and milestones needed to realize the country’s goal for adopting AI.  Business communities, the training and education sectors, labor organizations and other stakeholders will benefit from this session which will articulate the strategic thinking and direction of this plan.

This session will walk the participants through a number of information technology-based solutions for mitigating disasters, specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasingly, businesses are driven towards technologies that would drive production or service delivery targets amid the prevailing quarantines and other health protocols across workplaces in the country.  Moving forward, more enterprises will innovate, automate processes and adopt breakthrough technologies, not only to meet health and safety requirements of a new normal but more importantly bounce back with greater resilience and efficiency to realize productivity growth.

The COVID pandemic has not only compromised public health and safety, it has also created socioeconomic disruption to businesses, livelihoods, employment and the lives of people around the world.  Amid the fight against COVID, more people continue to suffer from poverty, inequality and vulnerability.   This session will discuss the impact of the pandemic on the world of work, the continuing challenges amid the battle to contain it and country responses to ensure that the future of work is decent, safer, healthier and more resilient to unlock and enable productivity of workers and enterprises.

Accelerated by the pandemic, labor markets are increasingly into automation, part-time and remote work,  and shift to new work arrangements and new business models.  These will have effects on some of the fundamental challenges of labor markets such as unequal access to employment opportunities, high unemployment rates especially among the youth and persistently high underemployment rates.  This session provides a global picture of the full impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s employment condition, how countries are coping to save and preserve jobs, and the landscape of jobs and skills that would drive a better, healthier, and more resilient new order.

This session on actionable intelligence will focus on the importance of accurate and timely information to making strategic business decisions that will improve organizational performance.  It will also discuss how organizations can build a data-driven culture and mindset, and more importantly, the capability set to transform and intelligently use mass of big data into actionable intelligence that will propel organizations to realize their ultimate vision and goals.   In this time of pandemic, businesses need to make intelligent decisions that will enable them to improve overall performance and productivity, moving past COVID.

This session is about scalable practices for helping businesses recover and reboot post COVID19.  The adoption of growth-accelerating technologies and innovation, automation, shift to new business models and work arrangements are some of the more common responses seen across labor markets.   These responses have seen businesses bounce back with greater agility, resilience and sustainability and an even greater potential to accelerate productivity growth.

The challenge to employee engagement cannot be over emphasized at a time when uncertainties toward job security and incomes and business continuity are high.  Businesses are suffering losses and are taking drastic measures to ensure continuity while ensuring the health and safety of their workers, suppliers and customers.  Workers are in new work arrangements, mostly doing remote work/telecommuting, totally disrupting employee engagement.  This session will provide fresh and innovative ways to keeping employees engaged and productive despite the limits and challenges imposed by this pandemic.

HR Director,
J&J Philippines and Global Services Asia Pacific

This session will walk us through business models of farm-to-table service that directly connects farmers and consumers with the use of technology.  While manufacturing leads the automation race,  bringing automation in a traditionally labor-intensive sector like agriculture is a cut above the rest.  The webinar participants, especially the micro, small and medium enterprises, would learn from Session Groceries’ experience in using automation to drive productivity in agriculture.