Recruiting is at a breaking point. Budgets are flat, hiring demands keep swinging, and critical roles still take months to fill. Yet a quiet revolution is underway. Agentic AI, systems that don't just assist but act, are reshaping what's possible in talent acquisition. This shift from AI copilots to AI coworkers changes everything.

When AI agents can autonomously source, screen, and engage candidates, understand preferences of hiring managers deeply, recruiters and hiring leaders can finally move upstream, focusing on strategy, storytelling, and human connection. The humans go from being recruiters to being Talent Advisors and Strategists. Early adopters are seeing time-to-fill cut in half and candidate pipelines 10X deeper.

Discussion points

How do you keep the "Human Edge" that defines great hiring?
What happens to recruiter roles and org design when AI takes the wheel?
What should be done inhouse and what should be outsourced to AI partners?
How do you ensure fairness, transparency, compliance, and trust as automation accelerates?

Panelists

Blair Bennett, SVP Global Talent Acquisition, PepsiCo
Tracy St. Dic, Global Head of Talent, Zapier
Mindy Fineout, Head of Recruiting, Discord
Anoop Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, SeekOut
Tim Wesson, SVP, Global Talent Acquisition, IQVIA
[Moderated by]: Chris Rainey, CEO & Co-Founder at HR Leaders

This panel is part of the 2nd Annual Global AI HR Summit 2025. It brought together 100+ world-class speakers across 16 different panels who shared actionable insights, practical takeaways and how they are using AI in HR. View all Sessions:

Panel #1 Watch here: Workforce Innovation in the Age of AI: The CHRO’s New Role
Panel #2 Watch here: Work Re-Architected: Redesigning Jobs, Roles, and Skills in the Age of AI
Panel #3 Watch here: How to Turn Skills into Strategy: Orchestrating Talent, Tech & Marketplaces for Enterprise Impact
Panel #4 Watch here: Reimagining the HR Tech Stack to Power People, Performance, and AI at Scale
Panel #5 Watch here: The Workforce Intelligence Advantage: How to Predict, Plan, and Perform Using People Analytics
Panel #6 Watch here: How Future of Work Executives are Connecting the Dots: Data, Technology and People
Panel #7 Watch here: Re‑Imagining, Re‑Building, Re‑Doing: How to Design Work for Human and AI
Panel #8 Watch here: The Perfect Pair: How Chief HR Officers and Chief AI Officers are Shaping the Future of Work
Panel #9 Watch here: From Transactional to Transformational: The Future of Employee Experience in the AI Era
Panel #10 Watch here: Reimagining Workforce Design: Aligning Human Strengths with AI at Scale
Panel #11 Watch here: Human + Machine: Inside the C-Suite Alliance Re-Architecting Work for the AI Age
Panel #12 Watch here: Intuition vs Intelligence: Preserving Culture and the Human Touch in an Algorithmic & Agentic AI World
Panel #13 Watch here: Driving AI Adoption Cross-Functionally Across the Workforce: The AI-Coached Enterprise
Panel #14 Watch here: Humans + AI Agents: The Strategic Transformation of Talent Acquisition
Panel #15 Watch here: Re-Architecting Work at Scale: Redesigning Jobs, Skills, and Organizations for the AI Age
Panel #16 Watch here: The Chief People Officer's Role in Enterprise AI Transformation