CHRO Series INDONESIA

Beyond Jakarta:

Unlocking the Workforce Engine of an Archipelagic Economy

29 Sept – 1 Oct 2026

Park Hyatt Jakarta

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Beyond Jakarta: Unlocking the Workforce Engine of an Archipelagic Economy

Right now, across Indonesia, every CHRO is facing the same quiet question: are we truly ready for what’s coming next? The pressure to move faster, build new skills, and make sense of AI isn’t theoretical anymore—it’s showing up in every hiring decision, every leadership conversation, every missed opportunity. CHRO Indonesia 2026 is where those questions are brought into the open—where leaders step out of the day-to-day to rethink, challenge, and redesign how their workforce really works.

Experience thought-provoking sessions led by industry pioneers, fireside chat sessions, and networking opportunities that connect you with like-minded professionals. Together, we will explore cutting-edge tools and actionable insights to drive employee engagement, enhance leadership, and shape the future of work in Indonesia.


DAY 1: CHRO WORKSHOP AGENDA


Date: 29th September 2026
Time: 9.00am-5.00pm
Trainer: Reserved for SMU

WORKSHOP DELIVERABLES

Workshop Overview:

CHRO Series Indonesia

Join our comprehensive training program, specifically designed for HR leaders like you, to stay ahead of the curve in talent management. This interactive four-session workshop will equip you with cutting-edge strategies, best practices and expert insights to optimise your organisation's talent landscape.
CHRO AGENDA
AGENDA SUBJECTED TO CHANGES

CHRO CONFERENCE AGENDA | 30th September 2026

08.00am
Registration & Networking
09.15am
Organiser’s Welcome Address
09.20am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09.30am
[KEYNOTE]
The Intelligent Enterprise: Winning Indonesia’s Next Growth Chapter Through Workforce Strategy
  • Why Indonesia’s demographic dividend must translate into capability, not just capacity
  • The CHRO’s role in accelerating digital economy growth (projected >USD 300B) through talent
  • Embracing change, innovation and adaptability to thrive and stay ahead of the curve

10.00am
[HR LEADERS PANEL]
The New Power Triangle in Indonesia: CEO, CFO & CHRO Aligning Growth, Cost & Capability
  • Balancing cost discipline vs. talent investment amid economic uncertainty
  • Tackling Indonesia’s productivity gap vs. regional peers
  • Workforce planning across multi-generational and geographically dispersed talent pools
Moderator:


Panelists:

10.30am
Reserved for Coursera

11.00am
MORNING TEA BREAK
11.30am
Reserved for Cornerstone Ondemand

12.00pm
Case Study: Partner Showcase

12.30pm
LUNCH & NETWORKING
14.00pm
[INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION GROUPS]

Ask the experts and have your say! Structured to maximise interaction and in-depth focus on a topical subject matter, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a roundtable of their choice, which has close relevance to their area of expertise and/or scope of responsibility. We will conclude with a 15mins sharing session, where each Roundtable Leader will present key highlights and takeaways from the group discussion.


ROUNDTABLE A

HR Tech Stack in Indonesia: What CHROs Are Investing in?

Roundtable Leader:
ROUNDTABLE B

From Conglomerate to Connected Enterprise: HR’s Role in Unifying Complex Business Ecosystems

Roundtable Leader:
ROUNDTABLE C

Workforce Costs vs. Workforce ROI: Where to Invest, Where to Cut

Roundtable Leader:
ROUNDTABLE D

AI at Scale: Transforming Legacy Workforces in Telco, Banking & Industrial

Roundtable Leader:
ROUNDTABLE E

Reskilling at Scale: Turning Learning Data into Business Growth

Roundtable Leader:

Christine Josephine
Head of People, Culture & Engagement
Samsung Indonesia
ROUNDTABLE F

Smart Rewards, Real Returns: Using Data to Drive Pay-for-Performance

Roundtable Leader:
15.00pm
Case Study: Partner Showcase

15.30pm
AFTERNOON TEA BREAK
16.00pm
[FIRESIDE CHAT]
From Jobs to Skills: Rewiring Talent Architecture in Large-Scale Indonesian Organisations
  • Transitioning from rigid job frameworks in SOEs and conglomerates
  • Building internal talent marketplaces across thousands of roles and functions
  • Making skills-based models work within regulated and hierarchical environments
Panelists:

Alfa Haga Rachmady , Executive Vice President (EVP) of Human Capital - PT Hutama Karya (Persero)

16.30pm
[PANEL]
The Next 12 Months: The CHRO Agenda for Indonesia
  • Turn AI from pilot to real productivity in your teams
  • Close the skills gaps holding your business back
  • Get more value—not just cost—from your workforce
Moderator:

Panelists:

Ilvan Yahdi, Chief People Officer – WPP Media

17.15pm
Closing Remarks & End of Conference

DAY 3: CHRO WORKSHOP AGENDA

DISTRIBUTED RESILIENCE: HR’s Role When Volatility Meets the Archipelago

Date: 1st October 2026
Time: 9.00am-5.00pm
Trainer: Joanne Flinn
Thinkers50 Radar 2026 | Former PwC Country Head | Author, Greensight | Chairperson, ESG Institute (B Corp)

WORKSHOP AGENDA

08.30am
Registration & Networking
09.00am
Session 1: The Convergence You’re Already Managing
Your workforce didn’t wait for a strategy. They’re already using AI. This session names what’s actually converging — and why frameworks built elsewhere break here.
  • Why frameworks built for contracted, centralised workforces fail in Indonesia’s reality
  • The volatility stack: Hormuz shock + energy dependence + rupiah pressure — your people feel it first
  • What your workforce’s AI adoption tells you about where trust and capability actually live
10.30am
Morning Tea Break
10.45am
Session 2: The Three Resilience Layers
Resilience isn’t one thing. It operates at three levels — and HR owns different parts of each. This session introduces a framework calibrated for consensus cultures and archipelago realities.
  • Operational continuity: what keeps running when context shifts — and what breaks first across distance
  • Workforce adaptability: building capability that travels across infrastructure gaps and employment structures
  • Strategic optionality: how HR creates choices for leadership when the economy removes them
12.30pm
Networking Lunch
1.30pm
Session 3: Building Connection at Scale
You cannot be in every room. Your managers cannot be on every island. Connection doesn’t require presence — it requires architecture.
  • The signals that travel: what actually reaches your distributed workforce — and what gets lost
  • Building capability across distance: what works without reliable connectivity or formal employment structures
  • AI as connector or fragmenter: how deployment choices either bridge the archipelago or widen gaps
3.00pm
Afternoon Tea Break
3.30pm
Session 4: Your Distributed Resilience Plan
Resilience in Indonesia isn’t about weathering storms from a strong centre. It’s about strength that’s distributed by design. This session makes that actionable.
  • Five distributed resilience indicators: visibility, connectivity, adaptability, trust, and leadership reach
  • The governance gap: what Indonesia’s evolving AI regulation means for decisions you’re making now
  • Your 100-day plan: one resilience layer to strengthen, one connection to build, one CEO conversation about what HR sees
    • You leave with: a distributed resilience scorecard, a connection architecture, and a 100-day plan built on your reality — not a framework designed for somewhere else
5.00pm
Summary & Closure

2026 CHRO SPEAKERS

Christine Josephine

Head of People, Culture & Engagement
Samsung Indonesia

Alfa Haga Ragmady

EVP - Human Capital
PT Hutama Karya

Ilvan Yahdi

Chief People Officer
WPP Media

Joanne Flinn

Chairperson
The ESG Institute

ESG MASTERCLASS SPEAKERS

Joanne Flinn

Kris Wadia

Jonathan Cheung

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ticket prices and information for CHRO Indonesia

CHRO Indonesia 20251-4 ticket(s) (SGD)5 tickets and above (per ticket) (SGD)

Early Bird (1 January - 28 February 2025)

S$299S$279

Advanced Saver (1 March - 30 April 2025)

S$399S$379

Regular Price (1 May 2025 - 10 June 2025)

S$499S$439
Delegate Pass
*For in-house HR professionals and end-user organisations
29 September 2026: Workshop 1 S$ 299 per delegate
30 September 2026: CHRO Conference S$ 249 per delegate
1 October 2026: Workshop 2 S$ 299 per delegate
[Bundle A] 2-Day Event (CHRO Conference and Workshop 1) S$ 499 per delegate
[Bundle B] 2-Day Event (CHRO Conference and Workshop 2) S$ 499 per delegate
[Bundle C] 3-Day Event (CHRO Conference and Two Workshops) S$ 649 per delegate
Vendor Pass
*For HR technology, solutions, and service provides
29 September 2026: Workshop 1 S$ 299 per delegate
30 September 2026: CHRO Conference S$ 899 per delegate
1 October 2026: Workshop 2 S$ 299 per delegate
[Bundle A] 2-Day Event (CHRO Conference and Workshop 1) S$ 1,199 per delegate
[Bundle B] 2-Day Event (CHRO Conference and Workshop 2) S$ 1,199 per delegate
[Bundle C] 3-Day Event (CHRO Conference and Two Workshops) S$ 1,349 per delegate

Take advantage of our Early Bird pricing up to July 31, 2026.

Note: Prices will increase after this period.

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Advanced Saver (1 Jan to 31 Jan 2024)S$399S$379
Regular Price (1 Feb to 21 Feb 2024)S$499S$439

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Christine Josephine

Head of People, Culture & Engagement – Samsung Indonesia
Bio

Christine is a seasoned HR leader with over 20 years of experience across a uniquely diverse range of industries, including oil & gas, FMCG, and technology. Her cross-sector journey reflects a strong passion for continuous learning, adaptability, and bringing fresh perspectives to complex business challenges.

She is widely recognized for building high-performing workplace cultures and designing people strategies that drive employee engagement, align with organizational values, and deliver measurable business outcomes. With a track record of leading award-winning initiatives and creating impact across multiple industries, Christine brings a distinctive combination of strategic leadership, coaching expertise, and hands-on execution — helping organizations unlock the full potential of their people while driving sustainable growth.

Alfa Haga Ragmady

EVP – Human Capital Strategy – PT Hutama Karya
Bio

Alfa Haga Rachmady serves as Executive Vice President (EVP) of Human Capital at PT Hutama Karya (Persero), one of Indonesia’s largest state-owned infrastructure enterprises. He leads a comprehensive transformation of Hutama Karya’s talent architecture, spanning from people analytics infrastructure, skills-based career design, Human Capital business acumen development, and strategic workforce planning. Alfa also played a central role in the Human Capital governance and administration of high-complexity corporate transactions, including leading the people carve-out process during the company’s divestment of two toll road concessions valued at approximately USD 1.3 billion. He is currently spearheading Human Capital transformation and workforce streamlining to support PT Hutama Karya’s alignment with the Danantara ecosystem agenda.

With over 15 years of industry experience, Alfa brings a rare combination of operational depth, legal fluency, and strategic perspective to conversations about the future of talent architecture in Indonesia’s state-owned sector. He holds a degree in Communication Management from Padjadjaran University, an MBA from University of Sunderland, and a Master of Laws from Gadjah Mada University.

Ilvan Yahdi

Chief People Officer – WPP Media
Bio

Ilvan Yahdi is a Chief People Officer and transformation-focused HR leader with 15+ years of experience across Indonesia, Singapore, and the UK, including four years at Unilever’s London headquarters. He currently serves as Chief People Officer at WPP Media Indonesia, where he leads the full people agenda across talent, succession, organisation design, culture, reward, HR analytics, and business transformation.

His career highlights include leading enterprise operating model transformation at WPP Media Indonesia, re-architecting Unilever Indonesia’s Beauty & Wellbeing organisation into a social-first model, leading large-scale workforce planning and organisation design at Unilever globally, and managing complex industrial relations and restructuring across major manufacturing sites.

Ilvan has been recognised with the GM Award – Best People & Capability from Unilever in 2024 and the Chairman’s Award from Unilever in 2022. He holds a Master of Public Policy & Management from Monash University and a Bachelor of Accounting from the University of Indonesia.

Joanne Flinn

Chairperson – The ESG Institute
Bio

Most AI-and-workforce conversations are led by people who’ve never sat at an executive committee table nor on the board of directors.

Joanne has. As Country Head of Financial Services Consulting at PwC Thailand, as Head of Change on the IT ExCo at DBS and now as a Senior Accredited Director, she’s spent 35 years in the room where transformation budgets get approved, talent strategies get challenged, and boards ask “what’s this actually going to cost us?” and “what will we get for this investment?”

Her ClearSight research across 20 Asian exchanges tracks the gap between what organisations report and what they’re actually ready to deliver. And the human dimension — discretionary effort, adaptability, institutional judgment — is the piece no dashboard captures and no AI replaces.

Her sense of humor spices up her masterclasses… A day with Joanne connects what your board, your CFO, and your people strategy need — together, not in silos.

Author of Greensight. Currently writing ClearSight: The Director’s Guide to Long-Term Value.

Joanne Flinn

Chairwoman of the ESG Institute
Bio

Thought leader, award-winning author and respected international keynote speaker, Joanne Flinn has brought inspiration, insight, and action to audiences across countries and industries. Her deep experience enables her to share true insights about digital disruption, change and leadership. Her empathy and realism help people succeed in business and life. As the Chair of the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Institute, Joanne works with Chairman and CEOs of global entities to develop, scale and deploy sustainability strategies.

Kris Wadia

CEO of Humanized Leadership
Bio

Kris Wadia is the CEO of Humanized Leadership. He focuses on putting human beings, not processes or technology, at the core of any business that wishes to be successful. A former Partner at Accenture, with global experience across multiple industry verticals, his career journey has spanned over 70 countries. Most recently, Kris was a keynote speaker on ‘Habitual Hybrid Leadership’ for the UK’s Centre for Army Leadership, with a world-wide audience of over 6,000 attendees.

Jonathan Cheung

CEO of the ESG Institute and ASEAN Development Advisor Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)
Bio

Jonathan Cheung comes to the helm of the ESG Institute with over 37 years of leadership experience in 20 countries across the Asia Pacific region, North America, and Europe. His deep expertise in business, procurement and supply chain are uniquely situated to help organisations successfully tackle scope 3 emissions and improve value chains.

Jonathan brings invaluable expertise, collaborative muscle and big-picture vision to the ESG Institute through his external role as the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) ASEAN Development Advisor and his commercial acumen developed while the Executive Director/Regional Head of Citibank Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Services as well as his years at EDS, American Express, PwC Consulting, CAPCO, HP, and KPMG.

He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS); a licensed CIPS Procurement Excellence Programme assessor for Asia, and a Chartered IT Professional (CITP). He is also an Exco member of The Supply Chain Asia (SCA) Procurement Council.