Welcome to the AHRI National Convention and Exhibition live blog. Today we will be covering all of the keynote speeches as well as a selection of interesting concurrent sessions.
There are some workshops taking place tomorrow, but the main program is now drawing to a close. It’s been a mammoth few days! We’ve heard from some amazing experts on why they think the future of work is human. We hope you've gleaned some interesting insights. Thanks for reading along with us. See you next year!
Future thinking in 2020 – Dave Ulrich returns to Australia to discuss the latest in HR trends and topics. Visit ahri.com.au/convention to express your interest in this incredible event.
We were lucky to catch up with Stew Friedman after his keynote today. Here's what he had to say.
We followed up with Stewart Friedman about his talk. We wanted to know two things.
1: What's the main barrier preventing people from achieving work/life harmony?
2: If you could change one thing about how all the big businesses in the world are run, what would it be? pic.twitter.com/0xXcXUKdOT— HRM (@HRMeditor) September 18, 2019
The day is drawing to a close now. You all seem to have really enjoyed yourself over the last few days.
Thanks @AHRItweets for a great National Convention! Inspiring speaker lineup and an excellent experience for delegates and speakers #AHRINC
— Rose Bryant-Smith (@rosebryantsmith) September 18, 2019
#AHRINC Thanks for a great conference … so nice touching base with so many great people in the HR space … bring on 2020
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— Stacey Jenkins (@sjenkins20) September 18, 2019
#AHRINC Thank you @AHRItweets Filled with content. A wonderful conference. Here with Stephen Scheeler. It’s been a great few days. Congratulations and thank you. pic.twitter.com/TcsYb5nWH4
— Pam Macdonald (@broadspringpam) September 18, 2019
We're in the Q&A section. A lot of the questions are about the fear we have of tech giants – from being listened to by our devices to whether they have too much political power. Stephen understands and shares these worries.
But he also believes that digital disruption is a benefit to the world. There might be negatives, but technology is changing all our lives for the better.
He gives one final piece of advice to everyone worried about their own careers. It's to go beyond fear and learn everything you can.
“Get curious.”
“What does all this digital disruption mean? It means what got us to the top of the 19th century mountain won’t get us to the top of the 21st century mountain.”