The Leadership Panel - Attracting & Retaining Tech Talent

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The Leadership Panel

Panel Theme: "Attracting & Retaining Tech Talent"

In this edition of "The Leadership Panel" we will hear from a range of Industry leaders who will be discussing their current strategies on attracting and retaining tech talent, how it has evolved and the future landscape of what this looks like beyond COVID.

Want to be a panelist? Email: gerhard.schweinitz@contino.io

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Panelists

Nicholas Tan

Head of Architecture, Macquarie Group

BIO coming soon.....

Alice Roberts,

Executive Manager, Developer Experience, IAG

BIO coming soon...

Rozario Chivers

Head of Digital Technology, QBE

Rozario has dedicated 20+ years in developing engineering cultures which create unique digital solutions that deliver customer value at scale.

As an advocate of Systems Thinking and experimentation Rozario applies holistic approaches to create organisational cultures of empathy, curiosity, passion and technical excellence.

James Tragear,

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, AWS Professional Services - APJC

As a Talent Acquisition professional, James has worked with some of Australia and the globe’s largest enterprises on solving their recruitment challenges. Commencing in agency recruitment in 1997, James has worked in Recruitment Process Outsourcing [RPO] assisting with the establishment of recruitment centers for Australia banks ANZ, Suncorp and Westpac as well as commercial real estate firms Knight Frank and Colliers International. James joined General Electric [GE] running talent acquisition for A&NZ culminating in a role with GE Digital in San Francisco supporting the growth of their digital teams across US and Europe.

James joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) in June 2016 to build and lead the ANZ TA team. In 2019 he moved into an APJC wide role whereby he leads AWS Professional Services hiring across the region. James works with AWS business leaders on ensuring talent acquisition activities scale at pace with customers, partners and delivers overall business growth.

Ruth Hope-Jones

Head of People & Culture, HUB 24

Ruth began her career as a trainee recruiter in London, and foolishly believed that being an English recruiter would be a distinguishing factor when she relocated to Sydney four years later. She joined a small recruitment business focused on the financial services sector, which was later acquired by Hamilton James & Bruce where Ruth ultimately became a General Manager.

Ruth moved to IBM in 2006 looking to focus on creating tangible business value through excellent talent acquisition, initially leading a recruitment team supporting IBM’s consulting business and later becoming Head of Recruitment for IBM across Australia and New Zealand. Two years later, Ruth accepted an opportunity to move into an HR Partner role with IBM, shifting her focus from attracting and engaging external talent to retaining and maximising the potential of internal talent. After nearly ten years with IBM, Ruth spent 2½ years with NAB, again focused on engaging and retaining employees across a range of roles as an HR Partner.

In January 2019 Ruth jumped at the opportunity to join HUB24 as Head of People & Culture, leveraging all of her previous experience in an exciting whitespace role for a fast-growing and dynamic fintech business. For the past 18 months she has built out the People & Culture function for HUB24, which has required some nimble juggling of strategic and tactical priorities across recruitment and HR topics. It has not been a boring journey!