Program of OPEN Conference

8:30-9:15 Registration & warming up: coffee and tea to start the day

9:25-9:30 Opening remarks by the organizers: Melinda Miklos, WeAreOpen, CEO

• Alexandre Froment-Curtil CEO of Vodafone Hungary;
• Edina Heal Google Country Director;
• Kevin A. Murray CEO for Central-Europe and Country Head for Hungary; Member of the Board of Directors, WeAreOpen
• Melanie Seymour, Head of BlackRock Budapest
• Richard Jacobs, EMEA President, Eaton

• Jonathan McBride, Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity, BlackRock;
• Chuck Stephens, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, EMEA, Google;
• Maria Bogdan, Media Theorist
• Csaba Pleh, Cognitive Psychologist, Linguist; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Central European University, fellow to Stanford, and Collegium de Lyon

LEARN from best practices and DISCUSS in unconference style

At DISCUSS sessions we invite the members of the audience too to take a seat onstage and actively participate.

9:40-10:30 DISCUSS: How are you? A learning by sharing session for Employee Resource Groups and their supporters.

• Agnes Kerek, Women's Network Leader, GE
• Peter Sarkozi, Co-Chair BP Pride Hungary
• You, as the audience, will have two seats on the stage to take whenever you want to join the conversation with our panelists. Come prepared with your own insights or questions!

Facilitator: Andras Szabadi, Marketing Coordinator, The Boston Consulting Group

10:30-11:15 DISCUSS: Are current HR processes truly inclusive?

• Klara Tatar-Kiss, CE5 Cluster HR Head (CHRO, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria), Citi
• Judit Hannak, HR Project Manager, Leader of the Accessibility Group, BP
• You, as the audience, will have two seats on the stage to take whenever you want to join the conversation with our panelists. Come prepared with your own insights or questions!

Facilitator: Liz Grant, Diversity expert

11:15-11:30 Break (coffee, tea, snacks) - Immerse yourself in the work of contemporary artists with OPEN pop-up exhibition!

11:30-11:55 LEARN: Challenging the best practices

by Klara Tatar-Kiss, CE5 Cluster HR Head (CHRO, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria), Citi

11:55-12:20 LEARN: The Inclusion Imperative: building diversity through role models, by global initiative, OUTStanding

by Ori Chandler, Managing Director, OUTStanding -- learn more about OUTStanding

12:20-12:45 LEARN: Hiring women in Pakistan - and how it can be relevant in Central Eastern Europe too.

by Zdravka Demeter Bubalo, Human Resources Vice President, MOL Group and Minahil Qasim, Corporate Affairs at Mol Pakistan

12:45-13:10 LEARN: Best practices on how to build leadership accountability on Diversity and Inclusion

by Gabriella Babel, Enterprise Lead, Microsoft

13:10-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 DISCUSS: Good mother, good father, good employee?

• Eva Marton, Europe Travel Operations Manager, GE, Leader of GE Working Parents Program
• Katalin Miskolci, Senior Implementation Leader, McKinsey & Company
• You, as the audience, will have two seats on the stage to take whenever you want to join the conversation with our panelists. Come prepared with your own insights or questions!

Facilitator: Anna Rez, Üvegplafon (Glass Ceiling) Founder, Researcher

15:10-16:00 DISCUSS: How to hire and retain more Roma people?​

• Maria Bogdan, Media Theorist
• Bela Varadi, Budapest Bank, HR Manager
• You, as the audience, will have two seats on the stage to take whenever you want to join the conversation with our panelists. Come prepared with your own insights or questions!

Facilitator: Csaba Faix, co-founder of Prompt Media communications agency, former PR manager for Prezi

11:30-12:00 Arrival, registration

12:00-14:00 What comes after physical accessibility? Real inclusion for people with disabilities.

by Claire Harvey, Paralympian, CEO of Diversity Role Models; former Senior Consultant on Inclusive Leadership at KPMG

14:00-14:15 Break

14:15-17:15 Learn to handle difficult discussion: Improvisational actors will be there to help you try and understand.

by Andrew Hefler, Chief Trainer, Dramatrix