Top Talent SummitEst. 2016
Talent Acquisitionis being rebuilt.
The question is what we build next.
Both summits run 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM ET.
You give us an afternoon. You get back a rebuilt function.
Tell us who you are and why you want to join. If there's a place for you, we'll send your invitation within 20 to 30 minutes.
AI can already do moreof the recruiting work.
- Source.
- Screen.
- Research.
- Schedule.
- Write.
- Summarize.
- Interview.
If AI can do more of therecruiting work, what shouldTalent Acquisition become?
Who this is for
A room curated, not filled.
Four kinds of people shape what Talent Acquisition becomes. Each one is here for a different reason, and each reason is deliberate.
- I
Talent Acquisition leaders
Accountable for what the function becomes, not only what it delivers this quarter.
- II
Recruiters
Carrying the requisitions while the work itself is being rewritten underneath them.
- III
Sourcers
Closest to the search, and first to feel where automation ends and judgment begins.
- IV
Recruiting operations
Holding the systems, the data, and the decisions everyone else depends on.
If you recognise yourself above, the summit was designed with you in the room.
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Most talent acquisition conferences ask you to listen.
Top Talent Summit asks you to build.
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Inside TA
Start with the profession itself. What is changing in Talent Acquisition, what is already possible, and what the function is being forced to reconsider.
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Outside TA
Step outside the recruiting world. Hear from leaders redesigning work, technology, and operating models elsewhere in the enterprise.
2:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET
Break
Step away before the working labs begin.
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM ET
Choose Your Lab
Three concurrent 90-minute working labs. Choose the problem most useful to you.
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM ET
Come Back Together
Return to the main room for a short closing session.
December 3, 2026
What Changes Now
See what is already changing, then choose the problem most useful to you and build something practical.
INSIDE TA
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Upskilling Every Member of Your TA Team to Be an AI Builder
With Tracy St.Dic
Hear why Zapier made every TA team member an AI builder, how they approached it, and what changed because of it.
OUTSIDE TA
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
AI Isn’t the Transformation
With Alyssa Cox
Learn why AI initiatives stall, what leaders often get wrong, and the management disciplines that turn pilots into measurable results.
Break
2:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM ET
Three Problems Worth Solving
Three rooms. Choose the one most useful to you.
No tracks. Pick the work you want to redesign.
A two-summit recruiting agent journey.
December: Design it. March: Build it.
Lab 1
Design Your First Recruiting Agent
With Shahid Wazed
See how a real Candidate Experience Agent was designed, learn the framework behind it, and leave with a blueprint for an agent you can build yourself.
What recruiting problem is actually worth solving with an agent?
AI agents are beginning to change what recruiting teams can automate, delegate, and redesign. But the first question is not which tool to use.
In this working lab, you will learn how to identify the right use case, map the workflow, and decide where human judgment still needs to remain.
A real Candidate Experience Agent will be unpacked step by step to show how a recruiting problem can move from idea to working agent.
You Will Leave With
A Recruiting Agent Blueprint for a real TA problem you want to solve.
Lab 2
Automate 60% of Your Sourcing Process
With Shally Steckerl
See how Shally automated roughly 60% of his own sourcing workflow, then start building a version you can use yourself.
In this 90-minute working lab, recruiters and sourcers will learn how to automate repetitive tasks that consume sourcing time, while keeping the judgment that actually matters in human hands.
The goal is simple: leave with an AI-powered sourcing workflow you can continue building and using after the summit.
The Same Core Workflow Shally Uses To
- Discover candidates from web sources while you are away
- Aggregate contact information without jumping between tabs
- Evaluate profiles consistently against defined evidence
- Reduce manual ATS and CRM updates
You Will Leave With
An AI-powered sourcing workflow you can continue building and using after the summit.
Lab 3
The Multiplier Lab: Designing Your Team's High-Impact AI Future
With Alyssa Cox
Designed as a collaborative, forward-looking working session immediately following the keynote, this 60-minute intensive brings senior leaders together to map out exactly what winning looks like.
Rather than debating technical specs, Alyssa guides the executive team through an energetic, strengths-first alignment sprint that turns the keynote's core concepts into immediate leader momentum.
Building on the readiness framework introduced on stage, leaders deep-dive into two pivotal exercises.
In one focused hour, the room audits the low-value mechanical drag currently draining workforce capacity, defines the step-change business outcomes the team can now unlock, and drafts crisp, aligned performance goals that ensure leaders and frontline teams are actively incentivized to make the transformation an operational reality.
Two Pivotal Exercises
The Strength-Multiplier Audit Outcome-Based Goal Alignment
Two Pivotal Exercises
- The Strength-Multiplier Audit
- Outcome-Based Goal Alignment
You Will Leave With
Aligned performance goals that turn the keynote's concepts into immediate leader momentum.
Don't leave with notes. Leave with something you built.
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM ET
Come Back Together
At 4:00 PM, everyone returns to the main room to share what changed, what was built, and what comes next.
March 11, 2027
Building the New TA Operating Model
A working afternoon. Turn the shift you understood in December into a function and a workflow you can run.
INSIDE TA
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Panel Discussion: The Next TA Leader: Builder, Operator or Strategist?
As AI takes on more recruiting work, what will organizations actually need from TA leaders next?
OUTSIDE TA
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
TA Research Panel Discussion (Will be revealed soon)
Break
2:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM ET
Three Problems Worth Solving
Three rooms. Choose the one most useful to you.
No tracks. Pick the work you want to redesign.
A two-summit recruiting agent journey.
December: Design it. March: Build it.
Lab 1
Build Your First Recruiting Agent
With Shahid Wazed and Vinitra Swamy
This is a working lab, not a presentation.
Bring your idea. Watch two recruiting agents get built. Start building yours.
Attendees will submit recruiting-agent ideas in advance. We’ll select two and build them live, showing how to move from a recruiting problem to an agent workflow.
Then you’ll begin building your own.
First 30 minutes Watch two recruiting-agent ideas get built live.
Next 30 minutes Start building your own agent, individually or in small groups.
Final 30 minutes Share what you built, troubleshoot challenges, and get help moving forward.
You’ll learn how to think through: Problem → Trigger → Inputs → Agent actions → Human decision → Output
Leave with your first recruiting agent started and a clear path to keep building it.
Workshop Format
30 minutes
Watch two submitted recruiting agents get built live.
30 minutes
Start building your own.
30 minutes
Share, troubleshoot, and pressure-test the design.
You Will Leave With
An agent you have started building, plus a clear path to continue developing it after the summit.
Lab 2
The Workforce Modernization Lab: Rethinking the Talent Operating Model
With Anna Cochemé
AI alone will not shape the future of work. How organizations redesign work will. In this collaborative lab, senior talent leaders will explore what that means for Talent Acquisition, including which capabilities to build, buy, borrow, or redeploy.
Through practical scenarios, you’ll examine how TA needs to work differently with business leaders, workforce planning, HR, learning, internal mobility, and technology.
Leave with a clearer view of what TA should own, how collaboration needs to change, and what capabilities matter next.
You Will Leave With
A reworked talent operating model for your function, with the capabilities and roles it needs to work.
Lab 3
Redesign the Recruiting Engine
With Robert Liedtka
Bring one real recruiting workflow, redesign it through the lens of data, automation, AI, human judgment, and measurement, and leave with a practical Recruiting Engine Blueprint you can take back to your organization.
90-Minute Lab
See how Gong is rethinking recruiting, then use the same approach on one of your own workflows.
Robert will share how Gong is building a more modern recruiting engine, including why the Talent Engineer role was created and how systems, data, automation, AI agents, and human judgment work together.
Then you’ll pick one recruiting workflow from your own organization and work through it using a simple framework:
Map the Workflow → Connect the Data → Automate the Work → Deploy the Agent → Apply Human Judgment → Measure the Impact
You’ll look at where the friction is, what work can disappear, where automation or an agent could help, what still needs a human, and what needs to be in place for the workflow to actually work better.
The lab ends by pressure-testing a few participant workflows together and identifying practical next steps.
You Will Leave With
A practical Recruiting Engine Blueprint for one of your own recruiting workflows, pressure-tested in the room.
Don't leave with notes. Leave with something you built.
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM ET
Come Back Together
At 4:00 PM, everyone returns to the main room to share what changed, what was built, and what comes next.
Speakers
A short list of people worth listening to.
Open a topic to see who holds it, why they were chosen, and what you take away.
Chapter One
December 3, 2026
Global Head of Talent, Zapier
Why this voice
Chosen for leading global Talent Acquisition and AI fluency at Zapier as the company prepares its workforce for an AI-native future.
Why attend
Hear why Zapier made every TA team member an AI builder, how they approached it, and what changed because of it.
Vice President Global Business Services Transformation, Cardinal Health
Why this voice
Chosen for leading multi-million-dollar AI and digital transformations inside a Fortune 15 organization.
Why attend
Learn why AI initiatives stall, what leaders often get wrong, and the management disciplines that turn pilots into measurable results. ALSO LEADING The Multiplier Lab: Designing Your Team’s High-Impact AI Future Turn the keynote into action. In this working session, CHROs and talent leaders will identify the low-value work draining team capacity, define the higher-value outcomes AI can help unlock, and align performance goals so the transformation actually sticks.
Sourcing Pioneer, Author, and Practitioner. Founder of the first dedicated sourcing team.
Why this voice
Chosen for building and leading sourcing teams at Motorola, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, Fiserv and ORNL, helping shape LinkedIn Recruiter, and still carrying hard-to-fill reqs himself.
Why attend
See how Shally automated roughly 60% of his own sourcing workflow, then start building a version you can use yourself.
Agentic AI Workflow Strategist, Talent Acquisition, Redesigned
Why this voice
Chosen for pioneering Hiring Manager Podcasts, earning a National HR Award for Innovation, writing about AI’s impact on Talent Acquisition as a Forbes contributor in 2019, and building a Candidate Experience Agent inside a public-sector organization. His training and work on agentic AI began at MIT and continues today at Harvard, all in service of one question: what happens to recruiting when agents do the work?
Why attend
See how a real Candidate Experience Agent was designed, learn the framework behind it, and leave with a blueprint for an agent you can build yourself.
Vice President Global Business Services Transformation, Cardinal Health
Why this voice
Why attend
Designed as a collaborative, forward-looking working session immediately following the keynote, this 60-minute intensive brings senior leaders together to map out exactly what winning looks like. Rather than debating technical specs, Alyssa guides the executive team through an energetic, strengths-first alignment sprint that turns the keynote's core concepts into immediate leader momentum. Building on the readiness framework introduced on stage, leaders deep-dive into two pivotal exercises. In one focused hour, the room audits the low-value mechanical drag currently draining workforce capacity, defines the step-change business outcomes the team can now unlock, and drafts crisp, aligned performance goals that ensure leaders and frontline teams are actively incentivized to make the transformation an operational reality. Two Pivotal Exercises The Strength-Multiplier Audit Outcome-Based Goal Alignment
Chapter Two
March 11, 2027
Why these voices
Why attend
As AI takes on more recruiting work, what will organizations actually need from TA leaders next?
Agentic AI Workflow Strategist, Talent Acquisition, Redesigned
CEO, Scholé AI
Why these voices
Shahid Wazed brings the Talent Acquisition lens, including recruiting workflow design, human judgment, and hands-on experience building recruiting agents. Vinitra Swamy brings the agentic AI depth, as CEO and co-founder of Scholé AI and an instructor in Harvard’s Agentic AI and AI Leadership Intensives. Together, they connect the recruiting problem with the technical path to help you build your first recruiting agent.
Why attend
This is a working lab, not a presentation. Bring your idea. Watch two recruiting agents get built. Start building yours. Attendees will submit recruiting-agent ideas in advance. We’ll select two and build them live, showing how to move from a recruiting problem to an agent workflow. Then you’ll begin building your own. First 30 minutes Watch two recruiting-agent ideas get built live. Next 30 minutes Start building your own agent, individually or in small groups. Final 30 minutes Share what you built, troubleshoot challenges, and get help moving forward. You’ll learn how to think through: Problem → Trigger → Inputs → Agent actions → Human decision → Output Leave with your first recruiting agent started and a clear path to keep building it.
Why this voice
Why attend
Partner, Bain & Company
Why this voice
Anna brings a perspective rarely available at Talent Acquisition events: a global Bain advisor helping major organizations rethink workforce strategy, operating models, and talent in the age of AI.
Why attend
AI alone will not shape the future of work. How organizations redesign work will. In this collaborative lab, senior talent leaders will explore what that means for Talent Acquisition, including which capabilities to build, buy, borrow, or redeploy. Through practical scenarios, you’ll examine how TA needs to work differently with business leaders, workforce planning, HR, learning, internal mobility, and technology. Leave with a clearer view of what TA should own, how collaboration needs to change, and what capabilities matter next.
Senior Director of Talent Operations and AI Strategy, Gong
Why this voice
Chosen for building and transforming Talent Operations across Google, Meta, Bloomberg, MongoDB, and Gong, and for his practical work redesigning recruiting around technology, data, automation, and AI.
Why attend
Bring one real recruiting workflow, redesign it through the lens of data, automation, AI, human judgment, and measurement, and leave with a practical Recruiting Engine Blueprint you can take back to your organization. 90-Minute Lab See how Gong is rethinking recruiting, then use the same approach on one of your own workflows. Robert will share how Gong is building a more modern recruiting engine, including why the Talent Engineer role was created and how systems, data, automation, AI agents, and human judgment work together. Then you’ll pick one recruiting workflow from your own organization and work through it using a simple framework: Map the Workflow → Connect the Data → Automate the Work → Deploy the Agent → Apply Human Judgment → Measure the Impact You’ll look at where the friction is, what work can disappear, where automation or an agent could help, what still needs a human, and what needs to be in place for the workflow to actually work better. The lab ends by pressure-testing a few participant workflows together and identifying practical next steps.
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Pricing if your invitation is confirmed. No payment is required to request a place. Tell us who you are and why you want to join. If there's a place for you, we'll send your invitation within 20 to 30 minutes.
Registration
Price
December only
Price
$99/person
March only
Price
$299/person
Both summits
For individuals and teams of up to 4.
Price
$299/person
Team of 5, both summits
Bring 5 people to both summits for under $1,000.
Price
$995total
Included
Shared sessions, your chosen lab, and the working materials produced on the day.
Places
Invitations are sent in the order requests are reviewed. Once the room is full, the registration closes right away.
Team pass
One pass for five people from one organisation, covering both summits for $995 total.
Request an invitation
When the room is full, the registration closes right away.
It takes about 60 seconds. No obligation until your place is confirmed.
Before you request your place
Frequently askedquestions.
Talent Acquisition leaders, recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting operations professionals who are rethinking how the work should change as AI takes on more of the process.
Something you built. The summits are designed around working sessions, not passive presentations. Depending on the lab you choose, you may leave with an AI workflow, recruiting-agent blueprint, team transformation plan, or another practical output you can continue using after the summit.
No. The sessions are designed for Talent Acquisition professionals, not engineers. You’ll be guided through the work step by step, with a focus on the recruiting problem first and the technology second.
December focuses on what changes now. March focuses on building the new TA operating model. They stand alone, but together they form a progression from understanding the shift to actually building what comes next.
Yes. Teams can split across different labs and bring what they build back to the group. A five-person pass for both summits is $995 total.
The sessions run live because the work happens in the room, and recordings are not provided with your registration. If your plans change, you can swap your delegate up to two weeks before the summit.
You'll hear from us within 20 to 30 minutes. If there's a place for you, your invitation arrives with a link to confirm it. If the room is full, we'll tell you that too.
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Talent Acquisition will change.
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