Managing HR IT Consultant
It’s been exactly 1 week since I traveled with some colleagues and some guests to Paris, France for UNLEASH World. Time to look back at this event and tell you about my experiences this year. Oui oui, Paris!
UNLEASH World is the most interesting, international event in the field of HR and HR Tech for us. Thousands of visitors come from many countries in search of new knowledge, meetings, and opportunities. They come to learn more about trends, developments, and above all; for interesting conversations about issues they work on every day. And in fact, it’s why I come as well.
It’s a lot of introductions during an event of this size, which fits Team Consultday especially well this year. A few weeks ago, we launched this new website, told the world about our own ConsultDNA: mission, vision and core values. Our colleague Jeroen Methorst interviewed Ton and me about it. UNLEASH 2024 was an extra opportunity for us to (re)introduce Consultday. Remco then talked about this during the Startup Tour, where visitors register for a tour of the fair with stops at some interesting organizations that introduce themselves and answer questions. This, in turn, ties in with our core value of ‘knowledge sharing’ and so it’s full circle.
New this year were our collaborations and attention to those at our stand. With QuandaGo, we developed your new virtual HR agent Alex, supporting service desks by having repetitive work done by this digital college.
Our booth was located next to myMeta. With myMeta, we started a collaboration to integrate digital adoption into HR work, developing an exceptional employee journey.
Not only were there the necessary flyers for both services, but also experts for both services on and around our stand. That makes such an event fun and interesting, but it also makes it possible to answer many questions from visitors properly.
I was able to have great conversations with existing and new relations. Both at our stand and while walking around the venue, but also at the interesting workshops and our own Consultdrinks on Wednesday evening.
In addition, such a two-day trade fair abroad is really great fun! You spend time with colleagues you don’t always speak or see as much, precisely because as consultants we work a lot at our client’s premises.
I want to thank everyone who made UNLEASH so great for us, for me. Our team in Paris, the guests who made time in their schedules to come along, our partners, and the fair organizers. But also, all the Consultday’ers who made sure our projects just kept going, echt top!