The Recruiting Automation Summit brought together the most progressive leaders in talent acquisition at world-class organizations, along with analysts, authors and technology experts to explore how recruiting teams can harness the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics to gain a competitive advantage in the war for talent.
Meet some of the top talent acquisition leaders, authors and technology experts who joined us.
Global Director Solution Consultants
IBM Talent & Engagement
Director of Talent Acquisition & Mobility
Schneider Electric
Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology
Stanford University
VP of Talent Acquisition, Engagement and Retention Research
Bersin by Deloitte
CEO
TATech
Jon Bischke, CEO of Entelo kicks off the customer day with an overview of recruiting automation and a breakdown of what he hopes everyone will walk away with.
Diversity & Inclusion isn’t just a nice to have, it’s a need to have.
This panel will talk about the research indicating companies with diverse teams outperform the rest, and what organizations can do to bring in more diverse talent.
Moderator: Yasmin Zarabi, – VP of Business & Corporate Development at Entelo
Panelists: Daniel Bigbee (Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition at Amazon), Shauna Geraghty (Head of Talent at Talkdesk), Gabe Fett (Talent Lead at Lyft).
Hear from early adopters of recruiting automation on how they changed their recruiting process by leveraging Entelo.
This panel will serve as a series of mini-case studies where we’ll find out how different recruiting teams are structured, what they struggle with, how their processes have evolved and perspectives on AI-powered recruiting technology.
Moderator: Loni Brown, Senior Director of Customer Success at Entelo.
Panelists: Kristen Hayward (Global Vice President of Talent at Flexport), LaDonna Tucker (Global Talent Acquisition Digital Strategy & Transformation Leader at Schneider Electric), Neal Hardin (Global Head of TA at Apttus), Brent Rogers (Sr. Diversity Leadership Sourcer at Raytheon).
Between the launch of Entelo Envoy in the fall and Entelo Insights this spring, the product team has been busy to say the least, but what’s next from the leader in recruiting automation?
Gaurav Kataria, VP of Product and Data Science at Entelo, will give a sneak peak on where the company is headed next in terms of innovation.
Leveraging automation and software to allow teams to focus on building culture to attract and retain talent
With: Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana
Finding the right technology is one thing, implementing it can sometimes be an even greater challenge.
Session I: Glenn Medalle, VP of Global Talent at AppDynamics (15 mins)
Session II: Jake Dombroski, Sr. Recruiter – Specialized Tech, Slack (15 mins)
With the onset of recruiting automation, finding the right candidate isn’t necessarily the biggest challenge but now, it’s engaging with that candidate.
To help recruiters strategize outreach, Entelo recently launched Entelo Insights — a product designed to deliver a complete picture of each candidate, boosting opportunities for employers to access full candidate pools and match the right talent with the right role, removing the unconscious bias. This panel will discuss how technology can help them engage and where technology drops off and human instinct takes over.
Moderator: Mike Trigg, CMO at Entelo
Panelists: Raul Lopez (Recruiting Manager at Weebly/Square), Kylie Gomez (Senior Product Recruiter at Atlassian), Alexys Flores (Technical Recruiter at Cisco Meraki)
Break out sessions to discuss diverse topics of shared interest.
Topics will include D&I, artificial intelligence and the role it plays in recruiting, effective messaging strategies/tactics, and sourcing for hard-to-fill roles.
The Elephant in the Conference Room
Moderator: Lily Jampol, People Scientist and Diversity & Inclusion Strategist
Panelists: Christine Alluise, (Head of Talent at Prosperworks), Eli Hamel (Director of Recruiting at Patreon), Chris Dobbins (Project Manager, People Ops at Uber)
The day will close with surprise product announcement, and the presentation of the Entelo Customer Awards.
Presenters: Gaurav Kataria (VP of product and Data Science), Loni Brown (Head of Customer Success at Entelo), and Jon Bischke (CEO of Entelo)
Jon Bischke, CEO of Entelo kicks off the mainstage day with a brief explanation of his take on recruiting automation and an introduction to keynote speaker, Billy Bean.
Billy Beane, executive VP of baseball operations for the Oakland A’s and subject of the book & feature film, “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” will kick off the day with a presentation about how he changed the way the MLB found and recruited top players.
Beane’s approach, based on a data analytics methodology, led the Oakland A’s to six American League West Division Titles. That strategic methodology has come to be known as the “Moneyball” philosophy, named for the best-selling book and Oscar-nominated film and making Beane one of the most progressive and talented baseball executives in the game today.
Keynote Speaker: Billy Beane, executive VP of baseball operations for the Oakland A’s and subject of the book & feature film, “Moneyball.
Presentation (35 min), followed by a fireside chat with Jon Bischke, CEO of Entelo (20 min)
As machine learning is used more and more to make our lives easier, what’s the risk of implementing such technologies?
Will we lose skill sets that built our careers in the early days? Will we notice? And further, how will the next generation be affected by such shifts? What’s the cost/benefit analysis when it comes to employing automation.
Moderator: Gaurav Kataria, VP of Product and Data Science at Entelo.
Panelists: Martin Ford (futurist & NY Times bestselling author of Rise of the Robots), Mohsen Bayati (Associate Professor of Information and Technology at Stanford University).
The recruiting industry has seen massive shifts in just the last 20 years as classified ads have turned into job boards, social recruiting has turned into recruitment marketing and so many more trends have shaped and reshaped the world of talent acquisition.
Presentation I – 11:05 AM – 11:35 AM
The recruiting industry has seen massive shifts in just the last 20 years as classified ads have turned into job boards, social recruiting has turned into recruitment marketing and so many more trends have shaped and reshaped the world of talent acquisition. Hear from Josh Bersin, industry veteran and pragmatic expert on best-practices in all areas of leadership, recruiting and HR on what’s next.
Presentation II – 11:35 AM – 12:05 PM
The U.S. job market is the tightest it has been in decades, and despite risks to the outlook, there is no sign of a slowdown. iCIMS Chief Economist Josh Wright will provide an overview of recent trends in U.S. hiring and provide an economist’s perspective on not only the job market as a whole, but also the challenges of recruiting and HR data analytics.
Presenters: Josh Bersin (Principal and Founder Bersin by Deloitte), Josh Wright (iCIMS Chief Economist).
Big or small, young or old, all organizations go through changes.
As talent acquisition professionals look for ways to manage change, whether it be the adoption of new technologies or adaptations to leadership shifts, hear from leaders at different organizations about how they’ve navigated change, where they got support and how they made it manageable.
Moderator: Jim D’Amico, Global Talent Acquisition Leader at Celanese
Speakers: Neal Narayani (Head of Workforce Strategy & Planning at Uber), and LaDonna Tucker (Director of Talent Acquisition & Mobility, Schneider Electric), Srinivas “NN” Nandagiri (Sr. Director, Head of Management Recruiting for the Americas at Cognizant).
Track 1 | Hands-on track | Discovering the Real Drivers of Candidate Fit
Any good recruiter can attest that the information contained in a candidate’s resume or online profile is just a piece of what will determine their potential fit. Beyond their work experience, recruiters must assess if candidates have the right skills, behavioral traits, and culture fit — not to mention if the candidate is “get-able.” Join this session to learn insider tips for answering these questions that don’t appear on a candidate’s profile.
Moderator: Mike Trigg, CMO of Entelo.
Panelists: Jason Nazar (CEO of Comparably), Vinita Venkatesh (VP of Product Marketing at Mya Systems), Maia Josebachvili (VP of Strategy, Marketing and People at Greenhouse), Aline Lerner (Founder & CEO of interviewing.io), Juan Luis Betancourt (CEO of Humantelligence).
Track 2 |Leadership track | The changing nature of skill in America
Worker skills are central to the American economy and skill requirements are changing by location, industry and over time. This session will call on comprehensive research based on millions of open roles to educate the audience about how the evolution of required skills is changing the way various industries and locations acquire new talent. The presentation will also reveal strategies for recruiting talent from places you may not expect.
Speaker: Sharique Hasan, Associate Professor of Strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Track 1 | Hands-on track | Hiring for Diversity in the Age of AI
Many companies have gotten in hot water for their lack of effort to make career advancement more accessible to women and people of color. Join this panel to learn from diversity & inclusion experts about their approach to D&I and what AI can (and can’t) do to help those efforts.
Moderator: DK Bartley, Vice President, Head of Talent Acquisition at Dentsu Aegis Network
Panelists: Margie Cadet, (D&I at DonorsChoose.org), Lily Jampol, (People Scientist and Diversity & Inclusion Strategist), John Redmond (Diversity Talent Strategy Senior Advisor, Dell), Danielle Weinblatt (CEO, ConveyIQ, Inc).
Track 2 | Leadership track | Cultivating a Talent Acquisition Team from Scratch
In a recruiting environment where talent & skills are scarce and recruiting is fiercely competitive, often the hardest role to fill is talent acquisition itself. As this industry becomes more specialized, the talent only gets harder to find. Hear from innovators who have built talent teams from scratch and what they did to get there.
Moderator: David Nason, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Infor.
Panelists: Kenny Mendes, (Founding Talent Team at Box), Jennifer Kaufman (Director of TA at Twilio), Hilary Harrison (Head of Corporate Recruiting at Slack), Luan Lam (VP of Talent at Harness)
Track 1 | Hands-on Track | Adventures in Extreme Hiring: Building Great Teams in the Most Demanding Recruiting Environments.
It may not be an Olympic sport yet, but the hiring demands at the world’s fastest-growing companies highlight the feats of endurance, perseverance, and determination that Talent Acquisition leaders at these companies demonstrate. Hear how leaders in the most radical hiring circumstances have successfully scaled their teams and technology to hire hundreds, or even thousands, of people while making it look easy.
Moderator: Chris Hoyt, CareerXroads
Panelists: Ray Tavares (SVP, Talent Acquisition at Bank of America), Frank Speer (Global Director Solution Design, IBM), Andrew Trout (Managing Director, Human Capital Management at Goldman Sachs).
Track 2 | Leadership Track | Take a Sneak Peek into the Mind of Your Boss: Understanding C-Level Expectations When it Comes to Technology-Enabled Recruiting
As the war for talent continues to escalate, executives are working more closely with their talent acquisition teams than ever before to ensure this function is armed with the tools and technology needed to win. In this candid discussion, executive leaders will share their expectations of TA teams in leading organizational change across people, process, and technology.
Panelists: Anna Binder (Head of People Operations at Asana), Sarah Wilson (Head of People at SmartRecruiters), Rachel Bitte (Chief People Officer at Jobvite)
Deciphering the Hype around What AI Will Mean for Recruiters.
Much has been promised by vendors about how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies will make human recruiters obsolete. Are these technologies harbingers of a dystopian future, or empowering tools that will turn us into recruiting superhumans? Join this discussion to hear how the recruiting landscape will be transformed by these new technologies and what you can do to prepare for it.
Moderator: Peter Weddle, CEO at TAtech.org: The Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions
Panelists: Erik Kostelnik (CEO of TextRecruit), Thom Kenney (CEO of Smashfly Technologies), Steve Parker (Director, Global Technology Practice at Allegis Global Solutions), Maran Nelson (CEO of Clara Labs).
As recruiting automation frees up a talent team’s time to focus on strategy, what are the most impactful initiatives to take on?
Hear key insights driving business strategy based on Bersin by Deloitte’s 2018 High Impact Talent Acquisition Report. Analyst Robin Erickson will share research-backed insights on what strategic talent teams are having the most success with and share practical applications for bringing these strategies back to your own organization.
Presenter: Robin Erickson, Vice President, Talent Acquisition, Engagement & Retention Research at Bersin by Deloitte.
Duo Presentation with Cara Brennan Allamano (Co-founder of PeopleTech Partners) and Robby Peters (Co-Founder of PeopleTech Partners)
Cara Allamano is the SVP, People at Planet Inc and the co-founder of PeopleTech Partners, a group of innovative leaders enabling the next wave of new HR/Recruiting technologies.
Robby Peters works with early-stage HR technology founders and matches them with early customers for product feedback and pilots of the technology they are building.
They both have a front-row seat to what’s to come in HR Tech and are here to share emerging trends that will define the next decade of talent acquisition.
Presenters: Cara Brennan Allamano (Co-founder of PeopleTech Partners) and Robby Peters (Co-Founder of PeopleTech Partners).
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