Presentations
Agenda (with hyperlinks to speaker biographies)
Innovations in Employee Engagement in Health
IBM's Commitment to a Culture of Health and Watson Health
Over its 105-year history, IBM has demonstrated a commitment to a culture of health to assure that the "healthiest and safest choices are the easiest choices." In the past year, IBM has also made a commitment towards transforming health/healthcare with the creation of Watson Health, whose mission is to serve as a catalyst to improve lives and reduce costs through partnerships and the power of cognitive insights through the many different stakeholders in the health/healthcare ecosystem, including employers.
Dr. Kyu Rhee, IBM's Chief Health, will talk about IBM's commitment to a culture of health and its efforts in Watson Health with a focus on the perspective of employers and employer-based health benefits.
Behavioral Economics and Employee Engagement - Carrots, Sticks or Something Else?
J. David Johnson,
Vice President and Senior Consultant for Segal Consulting / Sibson
Consulting, will discuss the growing body of research in Behavioral
Economics that provides important insights to benefits professionals
concerned with driving employee engagement in health improvement
programs, highlighting where incentives can be most effective, how to
increase their impact and what other strategies can be used to drive
long-term behavior change in employees.
Alan Momeyer, Vice President of Human Resources Emeritus, The Loews
Corporation, will discuss how Loews used Behavioral Economics to engage
workers in their health.
Moderator: Murray N. Ross, Ph.D., Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Director, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
Innovation to Improve Health, Well-Being and Value
Michael Thompson, Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and and President and CEO Elect of the National Business Coalition on Health, will discuss how innovation in technology and incentives can be used to improve health, well-being, and value.
Peter Goldbach, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Health Dialog, will (i) present information on a new clinical analytic that tracks a population’s state of health and disease over time and (ii) share insights on how this enhances the understanding of population management opportunities, the ability to provide service, and how it can improve outcomes.
Moderator: Tami Simon, Managing Director, Knowledge Resource Center, Buck Consultants LLC.
Retirement Challenges and Reforms
Bipartisan Policy Center Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings
G. William Hoagland,
Senior Vice President, Bipartisan Policy Center, will describe the two
years of work of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on
Retirement Security and Personal Savings and provide an overview of six
challenges to retirement security addressed by the Commission. BPC Commission webpage.
Who’s In, Who’s Out - A Look at Access to Employer-Based Retirement Plans and Participation in the States
John Scott, Director, Retirement Savings, The Pew Charitable
Trusts, will discuss how access to and participation in
employer-sponsored retirement plans varies a great deal around the
country, how federal and state policymakers are trying to address this
challenge in a variety of ways, and how these different policy
approaches present their own challenges and tradeoffs that policymakers
must consider. Report. Data visualization.
Research and Perspectives on Turning Savings Plans into Retirement Plans
Fredrik Axsater, Global Head of Defined Contribution, State Street Global Advisors, will lead an interactive discussion outlining an actionable path for how we can help participants by transitioning today’s defined contribution savings plans into retirement plans.
Reducing Leakage & Incubating Savings
J. Spencer Williams, President and CEO, Retirement Clearinghouse, will discuss Retirement Clearinghouse's use of a dynamic simulation built on a foundation of research and practical experience to illustrate the beneficial outcomes of improved plan-to-plan portability for America’s mobile workforce, with a specific focus on reducing leakage and incubating accounts for small balance savers via Auto Portability