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Program -
Onboard Amsterdam 2024
Ready to dive into the exciting world of Onboard Amsterdam 2024? We've got an action-packed program lined up just for you. Join us on November 14th for a day filled with insightful talks, thought-provoking discussions, and interactive sessions. The full program, complete with topics and speakers, is right here on this page.
Doors open from 9.00; the opening acts starts at 10.00.
Explore the program
With speakers from Tilburg University, Just On Purpose, Gemeente Utrecht, Gemeente Den Haag, Noaberkracht, Heineken, AON, Velocity, Randstad, Rabobank and Unique Nederland
With speakers from Personio, Yes! We Connect, Colab.EX, AZ Alkmaar, Peple and Fruitful
With workshops and interactive demos from Yes! We Connect, Dialog and Personio
With workshops and interactive demos from Appical and Visma YouServe
Stage 1
Onboarding Success: The Power of Connection
"Onboarding Success: The Power of Connection" delves into the original 4 C's of effective onboarding. This keynote emphasizes how a strategic onboarding process that prioritizes these elements leads to higher engagement, productivity, and retention. This keynote emphasizes how fostering meaningful connections drives engagement, productivity, and retention. Attendees will gain insights on creating a welcoming environment that supports new employees' success.
Navigating tomorrow: Trends shaping the future of onboarding
Curious about the future of onboarding? Join Sweder for a keynote that explores emerging global technology and social trends and how organizations can adapt. Discover the importance of personalization in onboarding, the benefits of a comprehensive, integrated approach, and strategies to empower HR teams and stakeholders with effective tools.
Optimizing Employee Lifetime Value (ELTV) through Onboarding, Performance Calibration and Growth
Everything about how we build, scale and manage teams has quickly changed. Join Barbra Gago to learn about why it's important to think about onboarding as the first step to optimizing employee outcomes. She will explain how to rethink performance calibration and employee development to create lasting business impact through employees over time.
From pains to gains: Implementing research-based insights in your onboarding processes
Onboarding is often the forgotten process, yet it’s crucial to an organization’s success. In this session, Eva Baluchova will explore common pitfalls faced by organizations during onboarding, highlighting challenges for each key stakeholder, from HR to managers and new hires. Drawing on research and leveraging design thinking principles, Eva will demonstrate how to identify these pain points and design solutions that effectively address them. By spotlighting what moves the needle most—such as engagement, retention, and scaling programs globally—this talk will provide practical, research-based solutions. Attendees will leave with actionable insights into designing onboarding processes that drive success, foster collaboration, and align the needs of all stakeholders.
Enabling managers for workplace mental well-being: The why and how
For 69% of people, their manager has as much influence on their mental well-being as their partner. How can HR empower managers to create a supportive environment? During this keynote, you will learn:
- Why it is important to engage your managers in mental well-being?
- How to engage your managers in mental well-being?
- The impact of engaging your managers in mental well-being.
Empowering Personal Growth within Organisations with AI-Driven Learning
This talk will explore how AI can improve onboarding by creating personalized plans based on each new hire’s role, skills, and preferences. Through AI companies can provide new employees with the exact training and resources they need, resulting in a more effective onboarding experience. It will also cover how AI-driven chatbots offer real-time support, guiding new hires by answering common questions and helping them navigate smoothly.
Key topics include personalized learning paths, gamified training, and AI's ability to track performance and offer feedback. The talk will demonstrate how AI makes onboarding more efficient, tailored, and interactive for both new hires and HR teams.
Internships, the secret sauce
What’s the key ingredient behind nailing your employer branding, recruitment, onboarding, and retention? Internships! Learn how to use internships as a powerful tool in today’s competitive job market through Maarten Brand’s “Internship Cycle.” In this talk, Maarten will guide you on how to deliver five-star experiences for interns by evaluating every step of their journey—transforming average placements into unforgettable, impactful experiences.
Stage 2
Crafting optimal onboarding experiences: evidence-based insights
What moments truly matter during onboarding? How do they influence expectations and emotions, and what role do pre-boarding experiences play? These questions guided research into employee onboarding, examining over 500 impactful moments and their effects on work engagement and turnover.
In this talk, Sanne will illustrate the key findings and offer practical insights, covering (1) the most significant moments for new employees, (2) how these moments and pre-boarding shape expectations, and (3) how emotions and expectations together predict key outcomes like employee engagement and organizational pride.
Purpose Unleashed: Bringing Meaning to Work from Day One
This hands-on keynote is a condensed version of Alberto’s work with companies like KPMG, Heineken, and IKEA, helping employees find meaning in their roles, stay in their roles longer, and deliver exceptional work. He introduces “Just on Purpose's” proven tool for aligning personal purpose with your organization and new role, which is particularly effective during onboarding.
Whether for yourself, your team, or your organization's onboarding process, you’ll leave with practical tools to make an immediate impact. You’ll know how to bring more purpose and meaning to your work from day one, enhancing both your fulfillment and your contribution to the organization’s success.
(In Dutch) Gemeenten paneldiscussie: Effectieve Onboarding: Best Practices en Uitdagingen binnen Gemeenten
In deze interactieve paneldiscussie zullen Gemeente Den Haag, Gemeente Utrecht en Noaberkracht hun ervaringen delen over het onboardingproces van nieuwe medewerkers. De sessie richt zich op de best practices en uitdagingen die deze gemeenten tegenkomen bij het integreren van nieuwe medewerkers in hun organisaties. De panelleden zullen ingaan op diverse onderwerpen, zoals de rol van technologie, het belang van cultuur, en de impact van persoonlijke versus digitale onboarding. Deze discussies bieden waardevolle inzichten voor iedereen die betrokken is bij het verbeteren van onboardingprocessen binnen de publieke sector.
How HEINEKEN created an engaging and effective onboarding experience at a global scale
HEINEKEN has developed a global, engaging and effective onboarding journey deploying it across all their operating companies worldwide. In this session, Leonie Bor & Alexander Joosten will share their vision for onboarding, the principles that guided its development and how it has transformed the way HEINEKEN connects with new talent across the globe.Join us as we explore how HEINEKEN is setting a new standard in onboarding, ensuring every new joiner feels connected, informed, and empowered from day one—no matter where they are.
Panel Discussion: From Verification to Employment: How Technology is Enhancing Talent Screening and Onboarding?
This panel discussion explores how the shift to a skills-based economy impacts hiring, onboarding, and employee development. Despite advances in HR tech, verifying employment, education, and credentials is still often slow and manual. We’ll use real-case examples from Randstad, AON, and Rabobank to show how trusted frameworks for sharing career records are solving these issues.
Our panelists will share their experiences using verifiable digital credentials to accelerate hiring, enhance compliance, and empower candidates to manage their career data. And we’ll examine how this tech is transforming reskilling efforts and workforce re-entry programs.
Stage 3
Moments that matter: How to drive employee engagement from the get-go
What are the key "moments that matter" in an employee's journey? Those crucial points that shape engagement and drive success for your organization? Personio's trend-expert Max will show why it’s so important to focus on engagement right from day one. You'll walk away with practical tips on how to make the most of every stage, from attracting talent to onboarding and beyond. Let’s explore how to create an employee experience that truly makes an impact, every step of the way.
Confessions from 100 new joiners - actionable insights for your onboarding
You think you know what your new joiners really need? Do you believe your high scores mean you're doing great? Are you sure they’re following the onboarding journey you designed? Think again…
Get ready to be surprised by the insights Frank Philips gathered from over 100 new joiners across various organizations. Not only will he share eye-opening findings, but he will also provide easy-to-execute actions for any organization.
This talk will offer you:
- A fresh perspective on the new joiner experience
- Actionable insights
- A format to collect confessions on your own
The ultimate Employee Experience Playbook
In this presentation, Inez will share how she helped JustEat Takeaway build their Employee Experience (EX) capability, create a consistent Way of Working, and develop an EX Playbook to apply the Employee Experience Design Method across the company. Drawing from Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile, she guided the team in enhancing key moments in the employee journey.
This session covers aligning and training HR, building the EX playbook, and making it scalable for diverse teams. You’ll also see how JustEat Takeaway actively uses these tools to gather feedback, address employee pain points, and create a smoother, more engaging experience.
Core Values: Long-term onboarding in a short-term business
Johan Cruyff once said, "I've never seen a bag of money score a goal." Yet, money seems to increasingly determine our choices—like choosing a study, profession, or employer. Does money really make us as happy with an employer as a player scoring a goal? To understand this question, we go back to basics: what is the definition of work? And what do the number of self-employed individuals and the global productivity rankings have in common with results on the football field? You’ll get the answers to these questions in Jasper Rutger’s session at Onboard Amsterdam.
Genzpiration
Never before has a generation been the focus of so much attention as Generation Z. They are not only the youngest entering the workforce, but also a scarce group in Europe. With an aging population and labor shortages on the rise, attracting and retaining Gen Z can be a real challenge. But is Generation Z truly that different from other generations? How can you reach and understand them? And how do you adapt your onboarding process to meet their needs? In her keynote, Laura will dive into all of these questions. Genzpiration guaranteed!
From busy to productive: Reclaim your focus today!
With the continuous influx of notifications, emails, and other distractions, maintaining focus has become increasingly challenging, particularly in open office spaces or busy home environments. It is therefore unsurprising that 18% of employees are experiencing burnout symptoms, with excessive workloads- and stress being the primary contributors.
By working more efficiently; productivity will increase, errors be reduced and stress levels significantly diminished.
During his presentation, Peter will share how to regain control over your focus, making you more resilient to stress and enabling you to consistently achieve more in less time.
Stage 4
Creating a family-centric story: A unique approach to recruitment and onboarding
Steven and Anil share how the ministry is working on further developing the employee journey. Their ambition is to focus on the target group for which the ministry works. They want to link each expression to the story of an average Dutch family. Why do we do what we do…for this family? How do our values matter…to this family? How does the way we are organized help support this family? Ultimately, the goal of this is for employees to understand even better how they make an impact with the work they do. This creates involvement, a strong culture and ambassadorship. SZW is already noticing this!
The interactive part consists of you sitting at the table looking for good examples of this. You discuss them with each other and also inspire the Ministry of SZW with these ideas. This session will provide you with concrete ideas to further focus on the customer, patient, consumer, client, citizen or student in your employee journey.
The balance between workload and relaxation is hanging by a thread…
Stress is one of the leading causes of employee illness. While we're all familiar with the term 'burnout,' Torsten will explore the concept of 'burn-on' and how it impacts the younger generation in the workforce.
The value of your total reward package beyond onboarding
Today, companies excel at showcasing their appealing work culture, benefits, and competitive pay to the labor market. Up until the onboarding stage, everything goes smoothly. But what happens after that? Once onboarded, employees often need more clarity and engagement with their total rewards package.
In this talk, Florian, CEO and Founder of Alleo (the compensation & benefits platform), will guide you through strategies to keep your workforce engaged with an impactful, visible, and personalized rewards package. Discover how to foster a continuous connection between employees and their benefits, ensuring a lasting and meaningful employer-employee relationship.
National Coördinator Groningen – Ground breaking insights on onboarding
The production of gas in Groningen has brought great wealth to the Netherlands, but it has also left people with damaged houses from constant earthquakes. The Nationaal Coördinator Groningen is a government body dedicated to rebuilding trust and helping people find a home again.
Working for this organization is not like any other job; it demands a deep level of empathy from its employees. Ernst Blom will give you a glimpse into the situation faced by the victims and explain how the onboarding process is structured to bring new joiners up to speed as quickly as possible, with the right amount of empathy to be effective in their work.
This learning experience will leave a lasting impression on you. You'll gain ideas to make your own onboarding story much more compelling.
Higher engagement, lower turnover: The secret of values-based onboarding
Many onboarding processes focus on the skills and tasks of new employees. But what if you paid more attention to your organization's mission and core values, so that both applicants and new employees quickly feel connected to your organization and you reduce the likelihood of turnover?
In this inspiration session on values-based recruiting and onboarding, you will take the first steps to align your onboarding process with your organization's core values, in order to build a lasting connection with new employees.
(In Dutch) Brainstorm voor de zorg - Hoe verlagen we de uitstroom?
De zorgsector kampt met een grote uitdaging: de hoge uitstroom van personeel. Veel zorgmedewerkers blijven slechts kort bij een organisatie en maken al snel de overstap naar een andere sector. Tegelijkertijd is er een groot tekort aan zorgpersoneel.Tijdens deze sessie delen een aantal zorgorganisaties hun ervaringen en belichten zij deze problematiek. Vervolgens starten we een grote brainstormsessie met 150 deelnemers, waarin we samen krachtige ideeën ontwikkelen om de zorgsector een stevige steun in de rug te geven.
Workshop / Demo Noord
Onboarding? It’s a kind of magic!
Kelly van Hove will take the stage on behalf of Yes! We Connect to reveal how the magic of connection in onboarding works. Yes! We Connect specializes in creating meaningful connections in onboarding programs, and Kelly will give you a sneak peek into their onboarding toolbox.
During this interactive demo session, you will learn how to:
🔦 Shine the spotlight on your new joiners
👋 Help them connect with their new colleagues
🕸 Help them set up a support network
🎯 Engage them with your goals and values
🧩 Let them discover their contributions
(In Dutch) Van klassiek MTO naar sturen op betrokkenheid
Hoe maak je medewerkers betrokken en welke thema’s spelen daarbij een belangrijke rol? Een sessie over het verschil tussen een klassiek en een modern medewerkerstevredenheidsonderzoek.
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Maximizing ‘moments that matter’ throughout the employee lifecycle
Today’s employee’s want to feel recognized, motivated, and appreciated by their organizations. To do that, we need to explore how we can take a new approach and a new mindset across the employee lifecycle – rethinking and refocusing on the ‘moments that matter’ to employees.
Onboarding? It’s a kind of magic!
Kelly van Hove will take the stage on behalf of Yes! We Connect to reveal how the magic of connection in onboarding works. Yes! We Connect specializes in creating meaningful connections in onboarding programs, and Kelly will give you a sneak peek into their onboarding toolbox.
During this interactive demo session, you will learn how to:
🔦 Shine the spotlight on your new joiners
👋 Help them connect with their new colleagues
🕸 Help them set up a support network
🎯 Engage them with your goals and values
🧩 Let them discover their contributions
Maximizing ‘moments that matter’ throughout the employee lifecycle
Today’s employee’s want to feel recognized, motivated, and appreciated by their organizations. To do that, we need to explore how we can take a new approach and a new mindset across the employee lifecycle – rethinking and refocusing on the ‘moments that matter’ to employees.
(In Dutch) Van een klassieke HR-cyclus naar een moderne HR-cyclus
Van een klassieke HR-cyclus, dat voelt als een moetje, naar een moderne HR-cyclus. Een sessie over eigenaarschap, het continue dialoog en het goede gesprek.
Workshop / Demo Zuid
Product tour: How to overcome common onboarding challenges with Appical
Struggling to keep new hires engaged after contract signing? Are you facing challenges with information overload or effectively involving managers in the onboarding process? These are hurdles many organizations face. Discover how Appical can help you solve these problems and transform your onboarding into a more efficient, engaging and supportive experience.
(Registration full) Onboarding workshop: How to involve managers in the onboarding process
Product tour: How to overcome common onboarding challenges with Appical
Struggling to keep new hires engaged after contract signing? Are you facing challenges with information overload or effectively involving managers in the onboarding process? These are hurdles many organizations face. Discover how Appical can help you solve these problems and transform your onboarding into a more efficient, engaging and supportive experience.
(Registration full) Offboarding workshop: Turning departing employees into loyal alumni
(In Dutch) De toekomst van HR begint hier: Versnel je werkdag met de HR Virtual Assistant
Ook binnen het HR-vakgebied biedt nieuwe technologie veel kansen om je HR-processen sneller en slimmer te maken. Visma YouServe omarmt dit. Ontdek de werking en verdere plannen van onze nieuwe HR Assistent, die bijdraagt aan medewerkerstevredenheid en het tot 30% efficiënter werken van de HR-afdeling door te focussen op tactisch en strategisch HR. In deze sessie vertellen specialisten Teuje Tap en Kevin Martens je meer over de ontwikkelingen van de toekomst en laten ze zien wat een HR Assistent jouw organisatie oplevert.
