HR Build Up, followed by a Sunset Party
You know the drill. You show up to an HR event, you sit, you listen. Keynotes. Panels. Slides. At their best, they inspire you to do better. At their worst, they make you sleepy and question why you came.
And here's the irony: a room full of speakers telling you to build with AI, to practice new skills, to transform how you work... while you sit there, taking notes on repackaged advice, building nothing.
The HR Build Up is not that event.
This is five hours of building. You bring the thing you've been meaning to work on. We give you the structure, the tools, the people, and the time.
What it feels like: a few short framing talks (minutes, not keynotes), then you work. Solo writing on a printed worksheet, honest conversations in pairs, hands-on building on your laptop. Expect two curveballs: a light improv warm-up (no talent required, nobody performs alone) and a few minutes of guided stillness to reset between sprints. You'll be up, moving, and talking to people you met an hour ago. You choose your level on everything; spectating is the only thing not on the agenda.
By sunset you will have:
Made 5 new friends
Achieved greater clarity on what matters to you
Practiced 5 new meta skills
Built 2 things that matter to you
How the afternoon runs
Act 1 · Your organization, and you in it. Map your company's change story, find the gaps, and name the mindsets that block change.
Act 2 · How you are trusted. Your goals, the four cores of trust, and your LinkedIn upgraded on the spot: new line, new photo, professional photographer in the room.
Act 3 · What you ship today. Pick a real problem, build a working AI tool around it, break it, rebuild it, and leave with an adoption plan and an accountability partner.
Then we go up. It's in the name. Golden hour, Kuala Lumpur laid out below you, and a room of people who just spent the afternoon actually doing the work.
Logistics:
Dress code? Whatever you'd want in your new LinkedIn photo: a professional photographer is in the room. Comfortable shoes help, you'll be on your feet. Same outfit carries into the Sunset Party.
What to bring? Laptop charged (charger in the bag anyway), logged into Google/Gmail or your favorite AI tools, plus LinkedIn. And one task you're tired of doing manually: that's your raw material for Act 3.
Food? Food and drinks flow at the Sunset Party. Also lunch has been ordered for the people who arrive early (served at 12:30pm)
Price? Free for HR Leaders. Not sure you qualify? Ask Mattie: mattie@briohr.com or WhatsApp 017-466 0487.
Where? UOB Plaza 1, Event Space, 1 to 6pm. Then the 18th floor at 6:15 to watch the sunset together.
By attending, you agree that photos and videos taken at the event, by us or by fellow guests, may be published online and used in promotional material without compensation. Prefer not to appear? Tell us at check-in.
Only approved guests can enter: register early and watch for your approval. We will reach out on to ask for your confirmation. Without it, we will need to release your seat for others.
Who's in the room
100 HR leaders and 9 facilitators:
Each facilitator was picked for a specific move, not a slot on a stage. They frame for minutes, then work at the tables with you.
Mun Wah Chee · AVP, Workplace Banking, UOB Malaysia (Host) Opens and closes the day. Mun Wah runs Workplace Banking business development at UOB Malaysia, which puts her exactly where the company meets the employee. She works with HR and finance leaders to turn a payroll arrangement into something the workforce actually benefits from: better rates, protection and access, often for the people in a company who are usually offered the least. Before UOB she worked on the merchant side at ShopeePay, so she thinks of employees as customers who choose, not accounts that receive. Ask her what your payroll bank does for your people today. Most HR leaders cannot answer.
Benjamin Croc · Co-founder & CEO, brioHR Strategy and the levers of change. Ben co-founded brioHR in 2018 after fifteen years in leadership roles at CMA CGM, PwC, McKinsey and Lazada, including managing teams of over 200 people while building a global finance shared services function. He arrived in Malaysia eighteen years ago and never left. He lives by two principles: everything is people driven, and keep it simple enough that you can take the first step. He is openly impatient with frameworks that inspire without being actionable, and will usually redirect a grand vision into a single question: what can you do tomorrow morning?
Arthur Woo · Founder & CEO, ATAG Malaysia Beliefs, and acting them out. Arthur founded ATAG in 2016 and spent the next decade turning corporate team building into experiences people remember. ATAG has since served more than 300 companies and 50,000 participants across Malaysia. His work now extends into employee engagement technology, drone light shows and agritech, and he has spoken on BFM 89.9 about innovation and industry transformation. Outside business, he is an IRONMAN finisher and swimming coach: disciplined, curious, resilient and always willing to rethink the conventional.
Anisha Sasheendran · Founder & Managing Partner, One People Team Your goal, and your kind of HR. A biotechnology graduate who found her calling in HR, Anisha was the first Malaysian selected for AIESEC International's global team in Rotterdam. She started her HR career at PwC, became Chief Talent Officer at Groupon Malaysia, led Young Talent Programmes at Maxis and was Regional Head of People at Fave across Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Today she runs One People Team, advising leaders across Southeast Asia. TEDx speaker, Endeavor mentor. She has sat in the startup seat, the corporate seat and the regional seat.
Avinash Kumar Manoharan · Managing Director, Monroe Consulting Group Malaysia The four cores of trust, and your LinkedIn upgrade. A chemical engineer turned headhunter, Avinash has spent more than 10 years in executive search, leadership advisory and talent strategy across Malaysia and Southeast Asia. He works closely with CEOs, boards and senior leaders to find talent in engineering, manufacturing, technology, healthcare and financial services, for MNCs, GLCs, Fortune 500 companies, SMEs and high-growth start-ups. His views on talent, leadership and workplace trends have been featured by BFM 89.9, The Star, HRD Corp and MIDA.
Tham See See · Business Development Director, Verity Intelligence The change dynamo, and your LinkedIn read four ways. See See leads business development and operations at Verity Intelligence across Malaysia and Singapore. She joined in 2011 and has worked across most of the company: rebranding, client acquisition, operational strategy, governance and data security. She championed Verity's Genesis platform, which modernised background screening in Malaysia, and strengthened the ISMS and PDPA controls behind it. She is also Verity's certified Data Protection Officer, so she knows the regulatory side as well as the service side.
Nabil Oudghiri · Co-founder & CTO, brioHR Defining done, and the business case. Nabil co-founded brioHR in 2018 and wrote the first version of the platform himself. Today it is used by more than 1,000 companies, with the highest retention in the region. Before brioHR he spent five years at Murex in Paris shaping capital markets software for investment banks, then led fintech projects for banks across Southeast Asia. He now trains teams across the region on AI, which he treats like a promising junior hire: fast, useful, and never unsupervised.
Davent Low · Co-founder & CEO, Mandrill Tech Brief it, break it, rebuild it. Davent co-founded Mandrill Tech in 2016 and has run it for ten years, building custom software for Malaysian companies whose processes do not fit anything off the shelf. Before that he spent eight years at NCR managing the fraud solutions team for banks. He started out teaching Java and Oracle for Maybank, Digi and MIMOS, and Sun Microsystems Malaysia named him Best Instructor of the Year. He now runs hands-on AI workshops for teams.
Mattie Pujol · HR Partnerships & Community, brioHR Your facilitator: transitions and activations. Mattie spent fifteen years being introduced the wrong way: tech enthusiast, ex-Googler, marketer. The real thread was Kaizen: education and change management, helping organisations become what they already knew they should be. It culminated in driving over US$500 million a year in revenue through AI-driven algorithmic bidding. One question stayed with him: what stops the knowing from becoming the doing? His answer, arrived at through failure rather than research, is presence. At brioHR he builds the rooms where HR leaders connect, practise and go further together.
With our partners
UOB Malaysia (Host): We bank your company and everyone who works for it. brioHR: All-in-one HR platform, built by people managers for people managers. ATAG Malaysia: We produce the day your team actually remembers, every time. Monroe Consulting Group: Industry recruitment specialists finding the talent your competitors can't reach. One People Team: We make business everybody's business, not just the leadership team's. Verity Intelligence: We check who you are hiring, before the bad hire. Mandrill Tech: We build the software your business needs and cannot buy.
Partner booths are open at both breaks and on the way up to the 18th floor.