UNLEASH Startup Award

Discover the best and brightest HR tech startups on the UNLEASH Expo Floor. The finalists from five digital competitions run by UNLEASH 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.

11:40-11:50 Gradar, Philipp Schuch: Reinventing Job Architectures: How gradar Is Changing The Compensation Profession

In a sector where outdated, Excel-based consulting projects dominate the market (and cost far more than they should!), we say it’s time to embrace a modern, product-based approach to building and maintaining job architectures.

By bringing job point-factor based job evaluation, compensation benchmarking and structuring, competency management, equal pay analysis and more into a single platform, gradar is doing things very differently.

We’re here to explain how our accessible, affordable software is changing the way organisations handle compensation projects in a way that optimises pay, productivity and performance.

11:50-12:00 Blink, Chris Conn: Engaged, empowered and understood turning the tide for frontline organisations 

In a post-COVID world that promises flexible work and conditions for the desk-based worker, millions of ‘deskless’ roles are standing empty.

This puts frontline organizations at a crossroads: the most valuable business asset for a frontline organization is its people, and so thousands of businesses are at risk of their foundations crumbling.

Time-worn solutions of pay rises are failing to solve the problem – but the reason for this unveils the true solution. Frontline workers will only jump ship for a dollar extra an hour when their current role means little else to them: but what if we could create a frontline experience that made every team member feel engaged, empowered and understood?

This is where many have tried, and many have failed. How do you connect and engage thousands of people for whom paper-based processes are still the norm, and the day job is hard enough?

In this presentation, we’ll show that the answer lies in earned engagement – and how Blink makes that happen to create stronger, happier, more successful organisations.

12:00-12:10 Roleshare, Dave Smallwood: Work is better when done together

In the not too distant future, almost every report you read points towards a world where companies are facing sharp knowledge worker / skills shortages, especially in developed markets. For example – Korn Ferry’s latest report is estimating this will equate to 85m jobs not being filled by 2030 (or $8.5tn in unrealized revenues).

What if your organization could keep employees that may otherwise opt out of the traditional workforce or even entice them to come back by giving them one of the most important things there is … time.

94% of all employees surveyed by Future Forum (#Slack’s research into the future of work) – stated they care more about the “when” they work than they do about the “where” they work.

Roleshare is building a platform to do just that in a really unique way.  Come listen to Roleshare’s startup pitch & find out more.

12:10-12:20 Oneteam, Ruben Wieman: The New Way To Connect With Your Frontline Workforce

The way companies currently connect with their frontline workers is broken, causing significant problems like high employee turnover and low productivity. Oneteam realized, from the perspective of the frontline employee, that to fix the broken communication, there should be one app that connects the employee with the company. One place for all internal communication, onboarding, eLearning, surveys, forms, checklists, documents, events, and integrations with WFM and HR systems. That initial idea formed the foundation to build Oneteam, the all-in-one employee app for frontline workers.

12:20-12:30 Mentessa, Tina Ruseva: Where the future works

Work is really not about checking boxes, running processes, or climbing the hierarchy ladder. The purpose of organizations is to bring people together so they can solve meaningful problems, better and faster, learn from each other, grow, innovate, and create new opportunities.
In her pitch Tina shows how the social learning platform by Mentessa can help connect employees so they can learn from each other and change the way we work.