Attracting and Retaining Talent in Tech

The second edition to our Talent Events series is coming to Melbourne!

The local tech industry is booming and as exciting opportunities open new doors, they also bring new challenges. So how do you find and keep the best talent? With growth now hiding more sins and economics more important than before, how are organisations thinking about new ways of working?

To help you navigate this precarious people market, join Think & Grow & Hi-bob on Tuesday June 7th, 8am at Alto Event Space in Melbourne for a panel and networking breakfast.

You will learn fresh market insights on everything from remuneration to retention strategies, from the country's top people leaders.

Key Takeaways:

You'll take away insights to help you make decisions on cash burn and talent strategies with the presumed economic slowdown which is predicted to have an impact on the startup community - plus how you can rethink hybrid and remote working, company culture, EVP and employee experience.

Session Times

• 8:00am - Networking & breakfast

• 8:30am - Welcome from Damien Andreasen, Country Manager of Hi-bob

• 8:45am - Tom McMahon, Chief of Staff of Tech Council Australia. Tom will give an overview of Tech Councils strategic priorities and policy goals as a result from the election and TCA’s joint venture with digital employment forum and its alliances to alleviate the talent shortage and grow the talent pool in Australia.

• 9:00am - Panel Discussion with Dan Spencer, partner of Think & Grow & Chief People Officers, with an interactive Q&A.

Panelists:

Katherine Rau - Chief People Officer of Immutable

Justin Angsuwat - Chief People Officer of Blackbird Capital

Shanyn Payne - Chief People Officer of Finder

• 10:00am - Networking & light refreshments

• 10:30am - Event closes

Speakers and Panelists:

Justin Angsuwat, Chief People Officer of Blackbird Capital

Justin is the Chief People Officer at Blackbird Ventures. He's on a mission to make work better, and is dedicated to helping startups across Australia and NZ build, grow and scale.

He recently returned from Silicon Valley where he was the Chief People Officer at Thumbtack. He led the 100-strong People Team and helped scale the US$3.2B company from 400 to 1,000 employees. Thumbtack also debuted on Fortune Best Places to work, as well as FastCompany’s World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Prior to this, Justin was the Head of HR at Google for an organisation with 10,000 employees globally, and was part of the Google People Operations leadership team. He was also an advisor to Google Capital. Before Google, he led consulting teams at PwC in NYC, and was the HR Chief of Staff at Telstra.

Shanyn Payne, Chief People Officer of Finder

Shanyn is currently Chief People Office at Finder, a global Fintech company based in Sydney, which has a global footprint across 70 countries and offices in the US, UK, Poland and Singapore.

Prior to starting at Finder, Shanyn held the position of Global Human Resources Director of Afterpay Limited, where she was responsible for leading a team of talented HR professionals to create and implement all people related strategies across Australia, China, the U.S, Canada, and the UK. During her time at Afterpay, as well as navigating the company and its employees through the COVID pandemic, the company also experienced rapid growth, and grew from 400 employees in 4 countries to over 900 employees in 7 countries.

Prior to Afterpay, Shanyn was a member of the start-up Executive team at Online Education Services (OES), where she created and scaled all HR strategies throughout fast growth (BRW's fastest growing business in Australia in 2014) to achieve and maintain Aon Hewitt Best Employer accreditation in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017 OES was not only accredited for a fourth time, but were also named "Best of the Best".

Kate Pounder, CEO of Tech Council Australia:

Kate is an experienced tech policy expert and senior executive who has worked across the public, private and non-profit sectors. She is the CEO of the Tech Council of Australia, the peak body representing the Australian tech sector. Before her time in consulting, she spent 15 years working in technology policy roles with the Australian Industry Group, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Network Ten, and the Federal Government. Kate is passionate about growing Australia's tech sector, creating new jobs and businesses, and helping all Australian businesses make the most of tech adoption.

For more information, contact info@thinkandgrowinc.com.

We look forward to seeing you at Alto Event Space in Melbourne!