About the Panel Discussion

AI was meant to make hiring at scale faster, smarter and easier to manage. Instead, many organisations are dealing with more disconnected tools, more handovers and less visibility across the hiring journey. As hiring volumes fluctuate and workforce needs shift faster, the ability to connect attraction, engagement, screening, scheduling and decision-making is becoming a much more pressing talent acquisition priority.

The opportunity is significant for organisations that invest in a more connected hiring model. When AI, automation and hiring workflows work together, organisations gain better speed, stronger quality, clearer performance insight, tighter cost control and a more consistent candidate experience. Those that fail to modernise risk slower hiring, duplicated effort, weaker data, rising complexity and a talent acquisition strategy that becomes harder to scale just as business demands become more unpredictable.

Learn from senior HR and Talent Acquisition leaders where you will learn how leading organisations are making AI more useful across the full hiring journey. They’ll discuss how to connect candidate engagement, screening, scheduling and hiring workflows into one more effective system, reduce friction across high-volume hiring, improve speed and quality without adding more complexity, and build a more measurable, scalable and predictable talent acquisition strategy.

Discussion points

Connect the full hiring journey: Learn how to link attraction, engagement, screening, scheduling and hiring workflows into one more connected process.
Make AI more useful: Understand where AI creates real value in talent acquisition and how to apply it more effectively at scale.
Improve speed without losing quality: See how leading organisations reduce hiring friction, strengthen candidate experience and make faster decisions.
Build a more predictable model: Discover how to improve visibility, control cost and create a hiring strategy that scales with greater confidence.

Speakers

Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst, CEO and Founder at The Josh Bersin Company
Wanda Cole-Frieman, SVP, Talent Acquisition at CommonSpirit Health
Jahkedda Akbar, SVP Strategy, Insights & Innovation | Head of Radancy Labs at Radancy
[Moderator] Chris Rainey, CEO & Co-Founder at HR Leaders