Adelina Iftime-Blăgean is a Counsel in the Bucharest office of Wolf Theiss and is the coordinator of the Employment team. Throughout her more than 17 years of legal career, she has been involved in a wide range of transactions and projects on labor law, compliance, corporate investigations and personal data protection, often in a transactional and / or cross-border context. Adelina has coordinated various multi-jurisdictional and national labor law projects, such as complete range of restructurings, including collective dismissals or automatic transfers of employees, special work arrangements, cross-border retention arrangements, compliance checks at company or group level, vendor or seller due diligence processes, whistleblowing assessments, group level corporate governance unification projects, corporate investigations, cross-border transfers of personal data, implementation of stock options and similar plans, etc. While since more or less 10 years Adelina's work is exclusively focused on employment matters, her background in corporate-M&A and financial regulatory matters, including capital markets projects, are key to her exceptional understanding of complexities and pitfalls that one may meet in international projects such as transfers of businesses or international restructurings. Additionally, Adelina's strong experience in data protection and compliance/corporate investigations projects enable her to have a complete overview of the issues and risks that may be relevant in HR context. Adelina and Wolf Theiss Romania are the Romanian members with INPLP, the International Network of Privacy Law Professionals and are constant members and participants to ITech Law Conference. Adelina holds an LL.M. degree issued by Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
An Coppens is the Chief Game Changer at Gamification Nation with offices in London (UK) and Stockholm (Sweden), from where we offer gamification design solutions to clients worldwide. The company is actively working on a suite of apps, games and their own software platform to address the problem of empathy and the lack of feeling like employees belong in a virtual or hybrid work environment. The company won the “outstanding gamification design Agency” award at Gamification Europe in Brighton in 2017 and the Gamification Design Excellence award for non-digital gamification at GamiCon in Chicago in 2018. Projects have been shortlisted several times at the TIGA games awards amongst big name game studios. Clients include Adidas, Chubb, Google, Thomson Reuters, Qinetiq, RB, Cenlive, Millicom, 5app, Gradprentice, YouEQ, Nightingales, EIT digital, EIT Climate-KIC, Robeco, and a few more. The types of projects she has worked on include gamification of onboarding, learning, recruitment, sales all with the view of increasing engagement and finding the right fit of people and results. Serious games the company created have helped raise awareness in cyber security, teach game design, address major world challenges, etc. An is the podcast host of ‘A question of gamification” and the author of several books and blogs regularly on the company website. Books: “To game or not to game, that is a learning question” – currently in production “Tapping into the crowd” – published with Pencraft Publishing Feb 2017 “ Gamification in business” - available for download from http://bookboon.com/en/gamification-in-business-ebook. In her career An has worked in learning and development and change management roles for Modern Times Group, Xigma Management Consultants, Philips Electronics and Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. She was a guest expert on the TV show “How long will you live” for RTE in Ireland. For 10 years An ran a successful business coaching practice in Cork, Ireland with B/Right Business Coaching. She holds a BA (Hon) in International Marketing and languages from Dublin City University and an MBA from the Open University Business School in the UK. She holds a gamification master qualification from the Engagement Alliance, a game design certificate and she continues to upskill through online and offline courses. www.gamificationnation.com @GamificationNat
Temporary work agency owner. 10y experience in international hiring. Founder of 3minutesjob.com, he is willing to revolution the HR world connecting worldwilde recruiers to international job seekers. He loves to learn about employer branding and belives that understanding our candidates needs such as the lack of trust and transparency is the key to succeed in HR.
Andrei is the co-founder of Pluria, the first international service founded in Romania that improves the retention and attraction of talents by giving companies access to a network of flexible workspaces for employees. With coverage on two continents, Pluria can be accessed by employers in Spain, Colombia, Portugal and Romania, and supports companies' efforts to transform them into flexible organizations, adapted to the needs of the current labor market. Andrei is also the co-founder of 7card, the leader in the Romanian sports benefits market, and has extensive experience in management consulting and venture capital investments.
Licensed in Managerial Informatics at Romanian American University in 2006. Business development Manager with 11 years’ experience in trust services market and promoter of digital transformation concepts and projects using electronic signature and electronic identification. Along with his BD team has implemented e-Citizen projects within the Public Sector for citizen electronic interaction with public administration. On Private sectors constantly contributes to increase the trust services adoption rate within the Romanian market either by being invited as speaker in order to share expertize and best practices or directly involved in projects subject to onboarding and lending processes in the financial sector or HR, supply chain, clients and contractors digitalization processes.
Brian James Flores is a Talent & Organizational Development Consultant at Zoom Video Communications and former Senior Training Manager, Learning and Development at Performics, where he led the creation and implementation of onboarding and ongoing training initiatives. Brian discovered his love for talent development in his early career during his tenure with Apple Inc., where he contributed to the design and facilitation of global learning experiences within Apple Retail. He completed his Master in Education in Human Resource Development from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has shared his experience as a thought leader in various public speaking engagements. In addition to learning design, Brian is passionate about visual design and is intent on creating beautiful and intuitive learning assets to maximize the learner experience.
Constantin Burdun graduated from the Military Technical Academy in Bucharest. He obtained the PhD in Computer Science within this faculty, where he pursued a teaching career. He further completed his studies at the University of Bucharest, graduating the MBA – Business Administration, Management and Operations studies. He is a renowned specialist involved in dozens of large projects, in Romania, but also in other countries, for the implementation of infrastructures with public keys and the digitization of workflows for various organizations. He has also participated in over 10 research projects, publishing over 15 papers on information security. His areas of expertise include advanced electronic signature schemes, PKI interoperability and legal aspects of electronic signatures.
.Heiko Fischer has been working at the frontlines of that question for years—first inside a range of organizations and now as the “Chief Resourceful Human” leading a movement to create “100% Democratic Entrepreneurship, 0% Bureaucracy” in every kind of organization. After studying in Geneva, Los Angeles, Paris and Cairo, Heiko Fischer began his career in 2001 at Hewlett Packard. This was followed by various HR challenges at Bayer, Jack Russell Consulting, General Motors and eBay. In 2008, he became Global Head of HR at Crytek, Europe's most successful video game company. Here he and his team implemented the concept of 'Resourceful Humans' - an organization without an HR department. Resourceful Humans GmbH was founded in fall 2011 to bring the concept of Resourceful Humans to new companies and industries and is headquartered in Berlin.
Irina Firstova is the People & Culture Director of Coca-Cola HBC Romania since May, 2021. Together with her team, she leads the people agenda for the 1.500 employees of the company. She has joined Coca-Cola HBC in 2004 in Novosibirsk, Siberia as Sales coordinator and started her journey as HR professional in 2005. Over the 17 years she has spent with the company, Irina has held different roles such as Training Manager, Talent Development Manager and HR Business Partner for the Supply Chain & Commercial teams. Irina led several key people initiatives, boosting succession at all levels and visibility of young talents. She also led projects such as Line Managers capabilities development program, programs to support field sales activities with non-sales teams and co-led the Business Developer Onboarding stream at the Group level, which was piloted successfully in several countries of the CCHBC group, such as Romania, Russia and Poland. Irina’s People & Culture team plays an important role in shaping the organizational culture which is centered around growth mindset, empowerment and the power of coaching. She is a firm believer in continuous learning and invests time in her development: she holds a CIPD qualification and she is a certified coach, ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation. Proud mother of three children, Irina is based in Bucharest.
Irmgard is EY’s Director for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) Talent attraction and Acquisition, as well as the Global Assurance TA2 Leader. Her role is to drive strategic improvements and consistent implementation of EY's recruiting ethos and recruitment brand throughout the 10 EMEIA regions. She is also a member of the Global Recruiting Center of Excellence leadership team and the EMEIA Talent Executive. Irmgard firmly believes that “Our people are the heart of our organization. They deliver exceptional results for our clients and help us deliver on our purpose of building a better working world every day. With all the technological advances - AI, robotics and automation - we are creating new complexities for our clients and changing how we work. “In our evolving recruitment strategy we need to attract and win the diverse talent we need today, and anticipate the type of talent and skills that will be needed to solve complex problems in the future. I am very excited to be at the heart of this incredible period of change - EY operates in a collaborative environment, and I am passionate about building a better working world by providing opportunities to the best and brightest talent and leveraging their considerable skills. I really value that EY offers cultural diversity and inclusiveness as well as presenting me with career enhancing challenges.” Based in the Netherlands, married to Denis and proud mother of three, Irmgard graduated with a Masters in Law from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Following her degree, she decided to embark on a career where finding future talent for organizations has been “…her driving force and personal passion”. Providing the best in class candidate experience for all the Talent we engage with at EY.
Years of Experience: 35 Summary of Experience: Extensive senior level experience in workforce management, talent and skilling project with a learning & technology background over many international projects, leading complex programs. global role helping major clients with large transformation and reskilling programs. Expertise: AI, Cloud, Skills Inference, micro-services architecture, business strategy, innovation, change management and financial management.
Jeff Mike, Ed.D., is Human Resources Development faculty and program coordinator at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Prior to joining Al Akhawayn University, Dr. Mike was Vice President and Head of Research for Human Capital Research & Sensing at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Dr. Mike brings over 20 years of practical experience to his courses, transmitting and generating actionable knowledge gained through his leadership, research and advisory roles in the for-profit and non-profit sectors globally. Dr. Mike’s commercial research has included leading Deloitte’s High-Impact HR research program and integrating evidence-based approaches to product and service development. Dr. Mike’s current efforts focus on incorporating new technologies and people analytics into Human Resources theory and practice. He is also working to address the most pressing questions facing the people side of business and to advance meaningful culture change in organizations, including diversity, equity and inclusion; hybrid workplaces; performance; and team leadership. Dr. Mike holds an Ed.D. in Human and Organizational Learning from the George Washington University, an MS in Organizational Development and Strategic Human Resources from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
Employer Branding enthusiast, active communicator and listener, very passionate about anthropology.
Summary of experience: Senior Learning and HR Technology Architect with extensive experience both technology and business operations using industry best practice tools, technologies and standards. Expertise:Learning and HR Technology, System Integration, Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure, AI and Machine Learning.
