Lorenzo Canlas, Head, Talent Analytics, LinkedIn People analytics helps businesses make evidence-based talent decisions for all phases of the employee lifecycle. The field is new and everyone is getting into it: approximately 5,000 companies have people analytics departments, with more than 50% having been created in the past five years. In this session, Lorenzo will share LinkedIn’s journey with building their own people analytics function, including the evolution of their infrastructure and technology, organization design, and their leapfrog strategy of focusing on delivering business value while building out a data infrastructure. Attendees will learn the values of people analytics to business problems, how to build out a people analytics team and a maturity model for the team. Check out the best of Talent Connect: http://bit.ly/1MBqz6m