___ Agenda
DAY 1
TUESDAY 15th JUNE 2021
Compensation
Innovation
Technology
Analytics
Variable Pay
Pay for Peformance (P4P)
Employee Engagement

8:45 CET
Opening of the Conference by the Chairs: Peter Newhouse, EVP, Global Reward Counselor, Unilever &
Xavier Baeten, Head of Vlerick Reward Center, Vlerick Business School
9:00 Reinventing Reward for the Future
Constantina Tribou, Global Head of Reward, Unilever
9:30
How a Dutch Telco Company Connects Sellers and Partners with Answers
Boyd Sijbrandij, Compensation Manager, Major Telco. &
Matt Blanchard, VP Sales, EMEA, Varicent
10:00
Rewards challenges of a niche industry and how we overcame them Karolina Szczepanska,Global Head of Total Rewards and Mobility, KWS Group
10:30
Panel Discussion with Piergiuseppe Ragone, HR Director C&B EMEA, American Express &
Matt Blanchard, VP Sales, EMEA, Varicent &
Konstantinos Karavidas, Global Rewards Leader, IKEA &
Peter Newhouse, Unilever
11:00 CET
Coffee & Networking
11:20
Creating a High Performance Culture
Markus Enzner,
Executive Director Total Rewards, Johnson Controls
11:50
HR Trends and implications for Reward
Tom Haak,
Director, HR Trend Institute
12:20
Re-think Reward for Agile working teams
Davide Picerni,
VP Global Reward Consultant, Swiss Re
12:50 CET Lunch & Networking
13:40
Merit pay in a new Performance Management era -
Xavier Baeten, Head of Reward Center, Vlerick Business School
14:10
Employee Rewards Redefined Aleksandra Arhipova, Head of EMEA North, beqom
14:40
Flexible Reward options as a trend in C&B
Carsten Gebhardt, Head of C&B, Novartis
15:10 CET
Coffee & Networking
15:30
Panel Discussion with
Mark Goodyer, Head of Reward & Recognition, Sodexo &
Karolina Szczepanska, Global Head of TR and Mobility, KWS Group &
Davide Picerni, VP Global Reward Consultant, Swiss Re
16:30 CET - 16:40 CET
Wrap-up & End of Day 1
DAY 2
WEDNESDAY 16th JUNE
8:45 CET
Opening of the Conference by the Chairs: Peter Newhouse, EVP, Global Reward Counselor, Unilever &
Xavier Baeten, Head of Vlerick Reward Center, Vlerick Business School
9:00
Redefining our Total Rewards Framework
Konstantinos Karavidas, Global Rewards Leader, IKEA
9:30
A New approach to Short-Term Incentives (STI)
John Beadle, Global Head of Performance and Reward, ABB
10:00
Competing on Reward Differentiation rather than Pay Benchmarking Jon Ingham, Director, Strategic HR Academy &
Author of ‘The Social Organization’
10:30
Panel Discussion with Piergiuseppe Ragone, HR Director C&B EMEA, American Express &
Aleksandra Arhipova, Head of EMEA North, beqom &
Matt Blanchard, VP Sales, EMEA, Varicent &
Xavier Baeten, Head of Vlerick Reward Center, Vlerick Business School
11:00 CET
Coffee & Networking
11:20
Job grading 3 times over 8 years - Why & How we did it
Lex Hoogstad,
Global Head of C&B, D&I and Intl. Mobility, Vibracoustic
11:50
Moving C&B into Global Services
Anna Dotrelova,
EMEA Compensation Leader, Johnson & Johnson
12:20
Our journey towards a purpose-led proposition in Total Reward Christopher Collet, VP-HR Innovations -
global Rewards & Crossborder Workforce Strategy Lead, Bayer
12:50 CET
Lunch & Networking
13:40
Retain Top Talents and drive the Business forward though Total Reward Sonia Neffati,VP C&B, OD and Intl. Mobility, ArcelorMittal
14:10
Re-shaping our Total Rewards Strategy -
Shereen Alaa, Global Head of Total Rewards, Henkel
14:40 CET
Coffee & Networking
15:00
Panel Discussion with
Stefano Pittiglio, Head of Global Expatriates and Benefits, Ferrero &
Yvonne Prang, Sr. Global Reward Dir. CoE, McDonald’s &
Shereen Alaa, Global Head of TR, Henkel & the Chairs
16:00 CET - 16:10 CET
Wrap-up & End of the HRcoreREWARD seminar
