UNLEASH Startup Award

Discover the best and brightest HR tech startups on the UNLEASH Expo Floor. The finalists will pitch before a panel of expert judges and thought leaders in HR tech, competing for a prize worth $50,000. The competition is a must-see for anybody shopping for cutting-edge tech or simply curious about what the hottest market trends are today and what the HR tech landscape will look like tomorrow.

Competitors will include representatives from finalists in the semi-finals rounds, including:
• Talent & Recruitment
• Learning & Skills
• HR Tech & Transformation
• Employee Experience & Engagement
• The winner of the UNLEASH Lightning Round

Agenda:

14:05 PM, NoahFace: Time Clocks often suck. Yours doesn’t have to.Traditional time clocks are usually slow, dumb, over priced, & often hard to get. They suck. NoahFace is completely disrupting the time clock business forever by transforming the base model Apple iPad (available everywhere) into the world’s fastest, most dynamic, configurable, and dependable time clock.
Nick Bishop, EVP Partnerships, NoahFace

14:15 PM, crooton: Employer Fencing – Drive Quality Applications and Enhance your Employer Brand. Tight labor markets are forcing volume employers to look at new ways to reach potential candidates – whilst still keeping a close eye on recruitment costs. – Stephen will show how their highly targeted employer Fencing tools can be used to deliver engaging digital display advertisements to an audience based on movement in the physical world and how they are helping employers to build their employer brand, whilst also driving direct engagement and applications. By creating digital fences of specific buildings, universities, exhibition centers etc. Stephen will explain how crooton are able to build an audience of people entering these fenced areas through the use of Location Services and GPS. With the application of additional tactics, he will describe how audiences can be refined further to increase the relevancy of the potential candidate pool and how the message can then be delivered to the target audience in an engaging and unobtrusive way. Stephen will finish off the presentation by talking about how crooton are now developing Machine Learning tools to further enhance the optimisation of campaigns and what further benefits this could bring.
Stephen Anderson, Co-Founder & Managing Director, crooton

14:25 PM, Hour One: Personalized and Scalable Training Videos for the Global Organization. Creating Training Videos using Virtual Human Presenters transforms video creation and makes studio-grade video accessible to all L&D professionals with none of the cost, time and production resources traditionally required. Video content can be made on-demand and translated and localized to global markets and materials can be easily edited over time. L&D professionals across the globe have been able to scale and drive engagement, moving the needle on L&D objectives.
Oren Aharon, CEO & Founder, Hour One 

14:35 PM, Mirza: An-end-to-end Childcare Solution. Mirza is on a mission to remove childcare as a barrier (especially for women & communities of color) in the workplace. We ensure frontline employees can access affordable and culturally competent childcare. Our end-to-end solution helps employees find and afford the care they need, while maximizing tax benefits for the company.
Mel Faxon, COO & Co-Founder, Mirza

14:45 PM: Lightning Round Winner