Speakers
Future Work Scenarios brings together top HR and transformation leaders across a diverse set of industries to push the boundaries of what is possible in a people-centred future workplace.
VÉRONIQUE VUILLOD
CHIEF PEOPLE & CULTURE
OFFICER, CCEP
Panellist
Véronique heads Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' People and Culture function. Having joined the Coca-Cola bottling system more than 20 years ago, she has worked in many HR positions across business units, commercial and supply chain functions overseeing HR strategy and partnering with business leaders. She began her career as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
HELEN WEBB
CHIEF PEOPLE & SERVICES
OFFICER, CO-OP
Panellist
Helen is Chief People and Services Officer for Co-op Group and a member of the Group Executive, who are responsible for delivering on the Co-op’s vision ‘Co-operating for a Fairer World’ for its 4 million members, 18 million customers, 60,000 colleagues and the communities they operate in. She has over 30 years’ experience in retailing and financial services, holding senior positions at Morrisons, ASDA, Aviva, Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury’s.
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HANNAH ATACK
CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER
REZATEC
Panellist
Hannah Attack is currently Chief People Officer at Rezatec. She is also a Start Up and Scale Up Mentor. She has 15 years' experience in large financial services, telecoms, and investor-led tech businesses. Hannah is passionate about culture and how creative and commercial HR and progressive operational business models can have a transformative impact on the success of an organisation.
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BEN BUCKTON
CHIEF MARKETING & PEOPLE OFFICER, AMPA LLP
Panellist
Ben is a Board Member at Shakespeare Martineau, CIM Fellow, and Leadership Fellow. He has held previous senior positions at Experian, Axa and RSA. Ben is a passionate leader, creating high-performance cultures with a strong results orientation and a heart. Ben loves driving growth and creating value through strategic marketing and people transformation – he delivers business performance and human-centred strategy, with a solid record across multiple industries.
DR. CHRISTIAN SCHMEICHEL
CHIEF FUTURE OF WORK
OFFICER, SAP
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Christian Schmeichel leads SAP's new global Future of Work Organization focusing on leading-edge people practices and end-to-end workplace concepts for SAP's workforce of more than 100,000 employees across the globe. Dr. Schmeichel is a widely recognized Thought Leader when it comes to transforming Global HR organizations and shaping the Future of Work.
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CHRIS NORBURY
CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER
E.ON UK
Panellist
After spending more than 20 years in HR roles for major blue-chip organisations, Chris joined E.ON in 2014 and undertook a number of roles before being appointed HR Director E.ON UK at the start of 2018.
E.ON wants its customers to have the best possible, personalised, experience it can offer. Chris believes that the best way to achieve this is to create an environment where people feel valued, included and empowered to improve customers’ lives.
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MARC HOWELLS, VP &
HEAD OF GLOBAL TALENT &
DEVELOPMENT, ASTRAZENECA
Panellist
Marc joined AstraZeneca in 2004 and has worked across several business areas both in HR and business leadership roles and is currently HRVP for Talent and Development. Prior to this, Marc held various positions that included leading the North America Commercial HR agenda, HRVP for Global Operations, VP Supply & Manufacturing for Australia and NZ in Asia Pacific, and latterly as the VP Supply & Manufacturing for China.
MATTHEW HIGHAM
CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER
COSTAIN
Keynote Speaker
Matthew Higham was appointed CDO in 2021. Before joining Costain he was Chief Digital Officer & Sustainability lead for Microsoft UK. Prior to this Matthew worked across a range of markets including financial services, manufacturing, automotive, critical national infrastructure, travel, transport, local and national services. He has a deep background in design led thinking and has worked for McLaren Technology Group, Gatwick Airport and Equiniti.
AMBROS SCOPE
HEAD OF LEADERSHIP &
FoW, ZURICH INSURANCE
Session Speaker
Ambros has a strong track record as a passionate leader in implementing and running people development initiatives in an international corporate environment. He is experienced as an HR business partner and management consultant for global corporate clients. His current team “Leadership and Future of Work” builds a direct connection between the strategy of Zurich Switzerland, leadership training and every employee’s individual development plan.
GRANTLEY MORGAN
GLOBAL PRACTICE LEAD & VP
TSC, MANPOWERGROUP
Conference Chair
Grantley is the Global Practice Leader and VP of Talent Solutions Consulting at ManpowerGroup, partnering with global clients to align their growth and talent strategies. He also co-leads ManpowerGroup’s Green Energy Talent Alliance. He is committed to enhancing global economic empowerment through education, work, skilling, and social mobility.
DR. NICOLA MILLARD
PRINCIPAL INNOVATION PARTNER, BT
Session Speaker
Once described as “human caffeine” on Twitter, Dr. Nicola Millard injects a positive, people-centered expresso shot to innovation and future strategy. Half social scientist, half technologist, all academic, she uses data to shape provocations and stories to engage and create conversations from the board room, to the front line. No frothy coffee; just solid research. Nicola was involved with BT’s first application of AI into call centres and initial experiments with homeworking.
RICHARD TAYLOR
VP TALENT ACQUISITION
& ONBOARDING, FREYR
Session Speaker
Richard has held many global CXO roles including HR, Marketing, Quality, Sustainability and IT on top of 15 years as a management consultant and 5 years working with drug abusers. He is now responsible for recruiting and moving 1500 people to the arctic circle, and then onboarding them, as well as driving the development of an HR-tech start-up.
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