Agenda: Day 1

Tentative as of February 19, 2015

Thursday, April 9, 2015
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm   

Private Cocktail Reception

Speakers and Invited Guests

Friday, April 10, 2015
7:30 am – 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:15 am

Welcome to Wharton's People Analytics Conference

Wharton PAC Team
Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

9:15 am – 9:45 am

Keynote Presentation: The Paradox of Skill

Michael Mauboussin, Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse and author of multiple books, including "The Success Equation: Untangling Skill" and "Luck in Business"

A 20-minute keynote presentation followed by 10-minutes of Q&A with the audience.

9:45 am – 10:10 am

Conversations from the Frontier

Interviewee: Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President, People Operations, Google
Interviewer: Michael O'Hare, Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources, The Estée Lauder Companies

Structured as an interview, with the conversation alternating between a dialogue between speakers and the audience.

10:10 am – 10:30 am

The Analytics of People Analytics

Lorenzo Canlas, Head of Talent Analytics, LinkedIn
Will Gaker, Manager, Business Operations & Analytics, LinkedIn

10-minute presentation followed by 10-minutes of Q&A.

10:30 am – 10:50 am Break
10:50 am – 11:35 am

Predicting Employee Performance

Ryan Dullaghan, Manager, People Assessment & Analytics, JetBlue
Andrew Biga, Director, Talent Acquisition and Assessment at JetBlue
Angela Duckworth, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Amy Wrzesniewski, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
Moderator: Maryellen Reilly Lamb, Deputy Vice Dean for MBA Admissions, Fin. Aid and Career Mgmt, The Wharton School

Three back-to-back case studies/deep-dives (one presentation from each of our speakers), followed by a 15-minute moderated discussion between the presenters and the audience.

11:35 am – 12:10 pm

Year Up's Student Case Competition, Presented by Facebook

Winning Student Team (TBD)

An overview of the competition, Year Up and the goal of our partnership, followed by an announcement of the winners of the competition. The winners will then a 15-minute presentation of their proposed solution, and the audience will have 10 minutes to ask questions.

12:10 pm – 1:35 pm Lunch, in breakout rooms themed around discussion topics
1:35 pm – 2:05 pm

Keynote Conversation: An Interview with a People Analytics Champion

Interviewee: Shane Battier, Retired NBA Player and Former Member of the U.S. National Team
Interviewer: Adam Grant, Professor of Management and Psychology, The Wharton School and/or Cade Massey, Practice Professor of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School

The 30-minute session will be structured as an interview, with the conversation alternating between a dialogue between speakers and the audience.

2:05 pm – 2:50 pm

An Improvisation Exercise in People Analytics

The Second City
Tom Yorton, Chief Executive Officer, Second City Works

Demonstrations of key ideas in people analytics through improvisation exercises and audience interaction.

2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Break
3:10 pm – 3:55 pm

Getting Started in People Analytics

Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens, Solution Head of People Insights, a McKinsey Solution
Afsheen Afshar, Managing Director, Global Head of the Operations Strats Team and Chair of the Firmwide Machine Learning Working Group, Goldman Sachs
Karyn Marciniak, People Analytics, Two Sigma
Amy Wrzesniewski, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
Moderator: Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management, Director of the Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School

Three back-to-back 10-minute case studies/deep-dives (one presentation from each of our three speakers), followed by a 15-minute moderated discussion between the presenters and the audience.

3:55 pm – 4:15 pm Break
4:15 pm – 4:45 pm

"The Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made in People Analytics"

Moderator: Michael Useem, Professor of Management, The Wharton School

An interactive discussion by panelists drawn from throughout the program.

4:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Machine Learning and HR

Interviewee: Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard
Interviewer: Dan Pink, Author of "To Sell is Human," "Drive" and "A Whole New Mind"

Structured as an interview, with the conversation alternating between a dialogue between speakers and the audience.

5:15 pm – 5:20 pm

Closing Remarks

Adam Grant, Professor of Management and Psychology, The Wharton School

5:20 pm – 7:30 pm

Cocktail Reception

All Attendees

Join us for cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres at the 10 Arts Lounge in the lobby of The Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia.