Agenda8.00 – 9.00
Registration
9.00 – 9.15
Welcome Address
Khaled Al Aboodi — CEO, Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector 9.15 – 9.30
Keynote Address
Sayed Aqa — Vice President, Cooperation and Capacity Development, IDB Group 9.30 – 10.15
Panel Session: Developing Leadership in the Islamic Banking Sector
The Islamic finance industry faces a unique dilemma – familiar faces. The industry’s top talent tend to be poached by the competition in a landscape where growth is far outpacing the availability of talent to match the requirements of C-level positions. How will we, as an industry, overcome the current dearth in strong leadership? What is needed to nurture and grow mid-level managers to become industry leaders? And more importantly, can the industry stay on growth trajectory without fresh chiefs?
10.15 – 10.45
Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.05
Presentation: Hiring Trends, Human Capital Initiatives
Dr Hatim El-Tahir — Director, Islamic Finance Group & Islamic Finance Knowledge Center Leader, Deloitte & Touche, Bahrain 11.05 – 11.50
Panel Session: Onstage Discourse between HR Practitioners and Academia
Many of today’s successful Islamic bankers embarked on a route far removed from their fields of study. Islamic investment bankers, for example, often have a background in law but no real grounding in the area of Islamic finance. We ask HR practitioners and academic providers how this disconnect can be addressed:
11.50– 12.20
IFTDP Graduation Ceremony
The Islamic Finance Talent Development Program (IFTDP) is a two-year program designed for mid-career professionals and the only human capital development program for Islamic finance so far in the industry that offers on-the-job assignments and academic qualifications. The graduation ceremony is to commemorate the completion of the two-year program for IFTDP Cohort III. 12.20 – 14.00
Networking Luncheon
14.00 – 16.00
The ICD Human Capital Roundtable: Current State, Issues and Challenges to Islamic Finance Human Capital Development
This two-hour closed-door session will be attended by representatives of Islamic banks, government bodies, academics and HR managers of leading companies. Participants will look at the key issues on how to unlock the human capital potential for competent capacity-building in Islamic finance, with aim of providing open and free-flowing discussions exploring the core ideas in a wider context of human capital development, identifying potential stumbling blocks and challenges, while examining how best to garner opportunities and create collaborations across the industry.
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