Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 8H

Room : DAYFORCE

Speaker’s Biography

Jean-Baptiste Audrerie, President and Co-founder of Nexa RH, HR TECH Industry Analyst

Jean-Baptiste advises Human Resources departments on their digital transformation, HR TECH evaluation and selection, and monitoring emerging capabilities among more than 525 solutions analyzed on the market over the past 18 months. He has carried out over 130 business analysis, investment and technology selection mandates in human capital management and talent management in particular, over the past 8 years.

Marie-Eve Hermkens, President and Founder, Groupe Innove Now inc. / InnovIA Académie

Marie-Eve Hermkens has 25 years’ experience in the implementation, training and development of technological solutions, including the Boomrank and Trouve un stage platforms, recognized in the training and employability sectors. Founder of the Sommet de l’innovation en formation and co-founder of the Sommet TECH RH, she now heads Groupe Innove Now and has created InnovIA Académie, a training program designed exclusively for business leaders, enabling them to understand essential concepts in innovation, technology and artificial intelligence. Her motto is to enlighten today’s leaders on the potential and benefits of technological investment.

Conference details

Demographic, technological, geopolitical and socio-economic upheavals are pushing us all to find new answers to stay relevant. With almost 100% innovation in the HR Technology offering, HR is at a turning point to build new capabilities. Among all the AI and many other innovations, which ones should we prioritize in 2025? We’ll draw up a roadmap of the options available to you. We’ll look at how to better predict needs and develop the workforce, accelerate upskilling, foster engaged and healthy teams, or propel a personalized and optimal experience.

Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 9H

Room: DAYFORCE

Speaker’s biography

Amanda Arciero MSc CRIA

Co-founder and Vice-President, Operations

Airudi

Amanda Arciero holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Relations. Throughout her career, she has specialized in business process reengineering and quality control. Her various mandates and professional challenges have led her to take charge of strategic initiatives aimed at optimizing human resources management and transforming recruitment services. Her strategic vision enables her to look beyond immediate problems and develop long-term solutions that promote business growth and success.

In 2018, Amanda co-founded Airudi, a company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence-powered solutions for human resources management. As Airudi’s co-founder and VP of Operations, she leverages her experience and expertise to guide the company’s strategic direction and ensure its continued success.

Amanda is recognized for her ability to innovate, create effective solutions and deliver tangible results. Her commitment to operational excellence and passion for process transformation make her a valuable asset to Airudi.

Conference details

Do you ever feel like you’re solving a complex puzzle by planning your schedule? Every piece has to fit together perfectly, but the unexpected can quickly turn everything upside down. In this context of increasing complexity, where many variables influence the planning and deployment of staff, artificial intelligence becomes a valuable ally. Faced with fluctuations in demand, legal constraints and last-minute absences, it anticipates needs, optimizes adjustments and transforms planning into a powerful lever for agility.

Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 10H

Room: DAYFORCE

Speaker’s biography

Samer Saab- Founder and CEO of Explorance

Samer Saab is founder and CEO of Explorance, a global leader in feedback analytics and AI for student and employee engagement. Under his leadership, Explorance created the AI Center of Excellence, launching MLY, a pioneering sentiment analysis solution that has transformed the way organizations and institutions act on feedback. With a vision to amplify every voice, Samer empowers his team to deliver innovative solutions that drive meaningful change for Fortune 500 companies and universities worldwide.

Conference details

In today’s HR landscape, employee feedback is more vital than ever, as employees have much to share about their experiences, challenges and aspirations. This presentation explores the transformative power of real-time feedback and AI-based sentiment analysis, showing how these tools amplify every voice within the organization. By prioritizing psychological safety and FDI, HR teams can ensure that all employees feel heard and valued, creating inclusive and thriving workplaces. When every voice counts, organizations unlock deeper engagement, stronger retention and the foundations for sustainable growth.

Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 11h

Room: DAYFORCE

Speaker’s biography

Martin Mathe Co-founder – CSO AppyHere

Martin Mathe is co-founder of AppyHere, an integrated recruitment solution for hourly employees. He has over 25 years’ experience in organizational transformation in a variety of sectors. He is passionate about technology, particularly in the field of human resources. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in private and public companies in acquisition mode, in periods of rapid growth and in transitional economic cycles.

Speaker’s biography

Maxime St-Cyr
Human Resources Manager, Dollarama L.P.

Maxime St-Cyr is Human Resources Manager at Dollarama L.P., where he leads a team of HR Partners and Consultants supporting a large network of stores across Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. With over ten years’ experience in Human Resources, Maxime specializes in multi-site management and organizational transformation.

Maxime played a key role in the national roll-out of the AppyHere solution at Dollarama. His expertise spans recruitment, labor relations, talent management and HR technology, with a passion for innovation to optimize operational efficiency and employee experience across large, diverse teams.

Conference details

Dive into the latest innovations in recruiting for front-line employees and explore the opportunities offered by full automation of the hiring process. Learn how Dollarama optimized efficiency, reduced costs, and proactively addressed turnover issues in its stores. Learn how every stage of the recruitment process, from attracting candidates to hiring them, has been digitized, enabling Dollarama not only to save money, but also to reveal and solve hidden issues that were previously difficult to identify without the complete digitization of recruitment.

Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 13h

Room : DAYFORCE

** This conference will be presented in English. Simultaneous French translation based on AI will be offered to our visitors.

Speaker’s biography

John Dawson- Senior Director, Talent Intelligence, Dayforce

John Dawson has spent his career working in all aspects of recruitment – first as a recruiter, then leading corporate recruitment teams and, more recently, creating software that helps recruitment teams work smarter, not harder. John’s experience has given him a deep understanding of talent best practice and how the right technology can help companies keep pace.

Conference details

Today’s organizations are facing a complexity crisis, driving a growing need to invest in AI and ML-powered solutions that help them optimize with real-time insights, empower their people and deliver quantifiable value.

John Dawson, Sr Director Talent Intelligence, explains how HR technology enables organizations to offer more flexible and adaptable working environments, increase the efficiency of recruitment and career development, and ensure simplicity across HR functions.

Covering current trends and challenges in the talent space, discussing how AI and ML can help remedy these challenges, and then giving practical advice and use cases on how you, as an HR leader, can properly leverage AI to deliver better talent outcomes and offer more to your employees.

• How HR technology enables organizations adapting to a more flexible and adaptable work environment to break free from conventional boundaries.

• Use cases for gen-AI, machine learning and co-pilots that help make HR processes for recruitment, career development and job description writing more efficient, data-driven and tailored to individual employee needs.

• The impact of How a single system for HCM with a single data source amplified by AI and ML offers simplicity across HR functions.

Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 14h

Room: DAYFORCE

Speaker’s biography

Jean-Habib Mimassi, Regional Sales Manager, Workday

Jean-Habib has worked with numerous companies in Eastern Canada (mainly in Quebec) in their HR and Finance transformation over the past 15 years. He brings his experience and best practices on how to manage an HR and Finance technology modernization, from gathering requirements, creating a business case, best practices for an evaluation, contract negotiations to project delivery.

Speaker’s biography

Daniel Ouellet- Vice President, Partnership and HR Operations at Beneva

After obtaining a B.A. in industrial relations and a certificate in legal studies, Daniel Ouellet began his career in the human resources team at Beneva (formerly SSQ Assurance), where he has held a number of positions since 1992.

Since 2016, Daniel Ouellet has been Vice-President, responsible for collective bargaining, labor relations and working conditions, in addition to overseeing HR activities ranging from payroll administration to HR systems management.

In 2020, the creation of the country’s largest mutual insurance company called for a rethink in the use of HR systems. Daniel played an important role in the organization’s digital transformation by integrating technology solutions into HR activities. Under his leadership, the implementation of an innovative platform now enables fluid, centralized management of processes within the company.

Speaker’s biography

Philippe Morin, Product Manager Workday, chez Beneva

Philippe is currently Workday Product Manager for the Finance function, where he guides the development and optimization of the company’s financial solution.

A CPA since 2013, he holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting. With solid experience in the field, he also held the role of Project Manager for the implementation of Workday at Beneva, where he contributed to the implementation of more efficient financial processes. Today, he is responsible for the solution’s governance and is Workday’s chief financial officer, leading a team dedicated to ensuring its smooth operation, maintenance and evolution in line with the organization’s needs. A true agent of change, passionate about innovation and digital transformation, he is committed to maximizing the impact of technology on the company’s financial processes.

Conference details

Every HR TECH implementation brings its own challenges. Read about Beneva’s experience of implementing Workday HCM and Finance in the context of an organizational merger. With a little hindsight, this is an opportunity for Beneva’s Vice President Talent and Communication to share his assessment with you: What benefits can HR and Finance teams draw from it? What indicators are currently showing the expected improvements? How can we support the acceleration of change in this type of context?

Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 15h

Room: DAYFORCE

Speaker’s biography

Patrice Poirier – President, SIGMA-RH

Patrice Poirier is the founding president of SIGMA-RH, a company that has specialized in HR solutions since 1992. Under his leadership, the organization, which has offices in Montreal, Paris and Chicoutimi, serves hundreds of customers in some twenty countries. Renowned for his innovative vision, Patrice Poirier explored the intersection between HRIS and artificial intelligence long before AI became a hot topic. His talk promises an enriching insight into the impact of AI on current HR practices.

Conference details

This conference shows how generative AI is completely transforming HR management, redefining productivity standards. Initially confined to text extraction tasks, the new capabilities of AI, capable of understanding, synthesizing and generating content, herald a profound transformation of HR service management. Discover how these advances offer HR teams the opportunity to fully embody their role as strategic partners, and even position themselves as AI ambassadors within their companies. An essential event for all those wishing to transform their HR approach and seize the immense opportunities offered by AI in 2025!

Date: February 18, 2025

Time: 16H

Room: DAYFORCE

Speaker’s biography

Lori Dimaria​ –Organizational Change Management Manager, IN-RGY | Groupe HR Path

Lori Dimaria is an expert in change management and organizational transformation, passionate about the human impact of change. With 8 years’ experience in project and change management, including 4 years in consulting specializing in strategic and organizational planning, she has led large-scale transformations, from digital transformation to the optimization of work environments, affecting thousands of stakeholders in 55 countries. ​

Endowed with a strategic vision and a solid understanding of the technical and human aspects of a project, she ensures stakeholder buy-in and compliance with priorities and deadlines to achieve objectives in a sustainable manner.

A committed advisor and ally to management teams, Lori inspires project success through her leadership and ability to lead essential, constructive discussions. She is convinced that effective leadership, a clear vision, strong commitment, adaptive agility and a learning culture are essential to successful transformation.

Speaker’s biography

Steve Hill​-Senior Vice President, Global Services, IN-RGY | Groupe HR Path

​Steve is a seasoned HR IT professional with over 25 years’ experience. He oversees delivery teams for several renowned HR solutions, including UKG, SAP SuccessFactors, Workforce Software, among others, as well as Technical Services and Application Management Services (AMS) teams.

​Thanks to his extensive experience, Steve has acquired a thorough understanding of the success factors involved in solutions, projects and system maintenance. He is recognized as a valuable working partner, thanks to his ability to provide sound advice and effective problem-solving. His reputation rests on his integrity and natural camaraderie, which earn him the trust of colleagues and customers alike.

Conference details

To guarantee the success of your HRIS implementation in 2025, it’s essential to define what success really means, and to understand the new conditions required to achieve it.

Alignment between IT and HR teams plays a crucial role in maximizing the results of your HRIS implementation. What’s more, it’s essential to have hybrid profiles with both technical and HR skills. And yes, there will be pitfalls to overcome! So how can you avoid the most common pitfalls by adopting the right reflexes?

To illustrate these concepts, we’ll share case studies highlighting best and worst case scenarios. We’ll also emphasize the importance of collective balance. After all, your project will only be as strong as its weakest link.

We’ll be there to help you find that essential balance to ensure the success of your project. You’ll leave with a better understanding of the challenges of HRIS implementation, and concrete ideas to support your organization.