Welcome to the Employee Healthcare Interactive 2016, Singapore, Asia's largest discussion on corporate healthcare and wellness is back! The conference will see speakers from Cigna, CXA Group, DHL, Fullerton Health and more sharing their insights and expertise on the latest in healthcare and wellness trends in HR.

On this page, catch live updates from the conference brought to you straight from InterContinental, Singapore - from all the tweets on #EHI2016 to the top advice dished out by our speakers, along with photos through the day.

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The last speaker of the conference, Roshni Wadhwa, HR director of L'Oreal takes the stage to share her expertise on its share and care programme.She is a strong believer that organisations are not made of walls and machines, but “people, people and people”.

Learn more about contemporary flex-benefits and wellness programmes as well as potentially disruptive HR models for modern healthcare in her presentation today.

Our fifth and last interactive session is now on. One of the topics being discussed is integrated healthcare and wellness strategy, moderated by Lynette Ng, head of talent management, Asia JPAC at Sanofi Pasteur; and Dr Ng Wee Tong, senior consultant of occupational and aviation medicine medical director at ST Healthcare.

We take a quick coffee break to thank our silver sponsors: Cigna, Lockton, Sanofi Pasteur. Also, don't forget to visit our exhibitor, PerformancePro International, before you leave today!

 

Dr Ng Wee Tong, senior consultant of occupational and aviation medicine medical director at ST Healthcare takes the stage with his keynote presentation on fitness to work programmes. Trained both in the UK (University of Leicester and King’s College London) and Singapore, he has been a practitioner of industrial and aviation safety, health and human factors for 15 years.

Today he will talk on how HR personnel can manage injured workers, as well as the key components on such "return to work" programmes.

It's now time for the fourth intetractice session with one of the topics being data analytics in healthcare. This topic is moderated by Neil Narale, employee health and benefits leaders, Singapore, Mercer Marsh Benefits; and Ted Minkinow, group chief information officer at Fullerton Health.

Rachael Tay, chief of benefits strategy and sales of CXA Groups now takes centre stage to present an in-depth introduction into the process of implementation. Part of CXA's pioneering team, she is responsible for business development and building out CXA’s Flex Wellness Marketplace offering across Asia. She was previously the Singapore director of business development at Mercer Marsh Benefits.

Today, she will share her expertise on understanding the details of flexible benefits, along with identifying notable checkpoints when restructuring from a traditional benefits programme to a flexible one.

Delegates take a lunch break, and thank our gold sponsors: CXA Group, Mercer Marsh Benefits and ST Healthcare.

Before we go for a break, delegates are now participating in our third interactive session. One of the topics is healthcare governance with moderators - Itmam Choudhury, regional compensation and benefits leader of General Electric and Lucy Tan, chief human resources officer of Natsteel.

After the lively discussions, we continue with a panel disccusion on corporate healthcare and wellness as part of your employee experience.

Moderated by Liana Attard, Asia consulting leader, employee health benefits, Mercer Marsh Benefits; the panel shares insights from Teofilus Ponniah, HR director, DHL; Butch Clas, director of human resources, Dow Chemical; Dr. Daniel Chan, co-founder and group deputy chief executive officer, Fullerton Health; and Tarun Gulrajani, head of human resources, Rehau.

Gear up for the second interactive session with one of the topics being healthcare trends and cost - moderated by Jocelyn Chan, HR director of Dairy Farm Singapore and Lena Tsia, chief executive officer, Cigna

As we take a quick break to freshen up and network, we'd like to thank Fullerton Health for being a platinum sponsor.

It's time for our first interactive session! Delegates will be engaged in a lively discussion with a HR expert.

One of the five topics discussed is assessing ROI - moderated by Amy Leung, managing director, Human Resources services, South Pacific region, Fedex Express and Mark Kelly, senior vice president of employee benefits (APAC) of Lockton

Today, he will share his tips on managing healthcare inflation and improving employee health based on different case studies, along with his tips on implementing the best corporate healthcare practices.

 

 

Employee Healthcare Interactive sees Human Resources' regional editor Aditi Sharma Kalra taking the stage to welcome all delegates, sponsors and speakers.

She says: "Globally however, stress remains the number one biggest employee health risk for two consecutive years."

 

 

We’re starting it early today at InterContinental, Singapore for this year's Employee Healthcare Interactive 2016. Stay with us for live updates.