Gary Hamel Announced as Opening Keynote Speaker for UNLEASH America


Las Vegas, NV - April 11, 2018 - UNLEASH America (formerly HR Tech World), the fastest-growing international show on the Future of Work & Technology, announced that Gary Hamel, one of the world's most influential business thinkers, author and Professor at the London Business School will be the opening keynote speaker at its second U.S. conference taking place on May 15-16 at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

One of the world's leading experts on business strategy according to Fortune and the Co-founder of The Management Lab and the Management Information eXchange, Hamel will address attendees with his keynote entitled: 'Humanocracy', where he will explain the how of unleashing the latent entrepreneurial energy that exists deep within large, established organizations.


Hamel's keynote will warn the audience that overly grand, top-down programs will almost surely fail.  Despite the fascination of policy-makers and pundits with the Valley's unique capacity for "disruption," the real challenge, as he will highlight, isn't creating more entrepreneurial enclaves, but infusing the spirit of innovation in organizations.

"We are delighted having Gary again at an UNLEASH show. His insights and advice to organizations are always very insightful and extremely motivating.I am excited for our attendees who will return to their offices full of practical inspiration after his keynote," says China Gorman, Managing Director, UNLEASH America.

"Tomorrow's winners, as Gary will explain, are not those doing just one more re-organization. What's needed is an approach that's emergent, collaborative, iterative, and inescapable; one that is more open to innovation and less cultural revolution; revolutionary goals, evolutionary steps."


Other keynotes in the UNLEASH America agenda include

  • Mo Gawdat, Former Chief Business Officer, Google X
  • Rachel Botsman, author, trust expert, visiting lecturer & researcher, Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford
  • Josh Bersin, Founder and Principal, Bersin by Deloitte
  • Kathleen Hogan, Chief People Officer, Microsoft
  • Jennifer Waldo, Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, GE Digital
  • Shakti Jauhar, SVP, Global HR Operations and Shared Services, PepsiCo
  • Neil Irwin, Author, Senior Economics Correspondent, The New York Times
  • PANEL: Empowering women in TECH
    • Katelin Holloway, VP of People, Reddit
    • Kristen Robinson, CHRO, Pandora Music
    • Katarina Berg, Chief People Officer, Spotify

UNLEASH America is proud to be working with the biggest global market leaders who are sponsors of this year's show including SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, IBM, LinkedIn, WalkMe, AppLearn, Ceridian, SumTotal, Ultimate Software, Avature, Infor, Workplace by Facebook, Cornerstone, Crossknowledge, CultureAmp, Smartrecruiters, O.C.Tanner, iCIMS, CareerBuilder and many more.

See full agenda here: http://www.unleashgroup.io/america/agenda
See more information about UNLEASH America: http://www.unleashgroup.io/america/index

About UNLEASH
Unleash Your People! UNLEASH (previously HR Tech World) is much more than just business events; we are in the change-the-world-for-the-greater-good business. We are passionate creative people on a mission to inspire and transform the world of work & technology. Our shared vision is that by 2020, UNLEASH will be the platform of choice on the Future of Work across the globe. More than half of our community includes CEO's, CHRO/CPOs, EVPs, and SVPs from the most exciting brands and leading organizations, located in 120+ countries worldwide.

The world's fastest growing community on the Future of Work, UNLEASH is ranked as the largest Corporate Network focused on the interface between people, technology, organizations and the future. Our events attract the world's leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, disrupters and doers, including Sir Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Sir Ken Robinson, Rachel Botsman, Gary Vaynerchuk and many more. Past and future show locations include Amsterdam, London, San Francisco, Paris and Las Vegas and have welcomed over 9,000 attendees in 2017.

In 2018, UNLEASH will scale significantly to become the world's leading marketplace and community on the future of the workplace and technology. Join the community and find out more at www.unleashgroup.io
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UNLEASH America, The Aria Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, 15-16 May 2018
UNLEASH World Conference & Expo, Amsterdam RAI, 23-24 October 2018

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