HR HACKATHON - Powered by DisruptHR Chicago

NOTE: This event is intended primarily for internal HR and business practitioners. We have a LIMITED number of vendor tickets available. We kindly ask vendor partners (consultants, staffing agencies, HR tech providers, etc.) to purchase a vendor donation ticket. Or please contact us at disrupthrchi@gmail.com to inquire about additional sponsorship opportunities.

Overview

DisruptHR Chicago is an information exchange designed to energize, inform and empower executives, business leaders, and professionals in the vast and important fields of Human Resources. We are about blowing up the norms to which we've fallen prey, innovating, and creating a more meaningful, rewarding, and engaging experience from this thing called work.

The Event

HR Hackathon - Powered by DisruptHR Chicago is our newest event format that we conceived based on feedback from our awesome community. We are super excited for our second event in November. The idea is to provide a forum for HR innovators to collaborate with a smaller number of peers by tackling a specific HR challenge in a design-thinking inspired “DisruptHR-style” way. Check out this DisruptHR Chicago video for a glimpse of how this all came together for our first challenge winner, Allie Temkin of Common Threads.

And this is how it works: We asked the DisruptHR Chicago community to submit a challenge they want to have “hacked” by the community. We then selected the winning submission based on a few simple criteria. And the lucky winner is…Shayna Harris, Chief Operating Officer, Farmer's Fridge. The challenge she submitted is: How might we increase the diversity of our candidate pool to more closely mirror the diversity in Chicago while maintaining our focus on being quick, nimble and rapidly growing our business?”

At the event, we will gain more insights on the topic from Shayna and a panel of former DisruptHR Chicago speakers. We will then roll up our sleeves and start ideating solutions - not just for Farmer's Fridge, but also for your own organizations. And, yes, we will have fun while we do this!

The ticket price includes breakfast, incredible content, and awesome networking opportunities interspersed throughout the event. And all of it in a very creative place – the American Marketing Association (AMA) has graciously offered up one their space for our event!

The Agenda

8:30 – 9:00 am: Doors Open, Registration, Networking & Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10 am: Welcome by DisruptHR Chicago Board

9:10 – 9:30 am: Insights Panel (moderated by DisruptHR Chicago Co-Founder Nancy Harris)

• Shayna Harris, Chief Operating Officer at Farmer's Fridge
• Sangita Kasturi, CEO at Action Inclusion [Watch Sangita's DisruptHR Talk Here]
• Jess Giudici, Manager Talent & Culture at Smalley [Watch Jess' DisruptHR Talk Here]
• Stella Ashaolu, Founder & CEO at WeSolv [Watch Stella's DisruptHR Talk Here]

9:30 – 10:10 am: Table Break-out Ideation (facilitated by DisruptHR Chicago President Nicole Dessain)

10:10 – 10:20 am: Table Groups Present Their Posters

10:20 – 10:30 am: Reflection, Next Steps, Closing

Thank you for being a supporter of the DisruptHR Chicago initiative - it's an important one, and it's more powerful now that you're part of it. We look forward to seeing you on November 15, 2017!

Thanks to our Platinum Sponsor, Culture Amp, our Host, American Marketing Association and our Education Partner, Northwestern Master of Science in Learning & Organizational Change.

We hope you can make it!

The DisruptHR Chicago Team