2024 Schedule
All Times Pacific Standard Time
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Get to know other attendees over a light delicious breakfast featuring fresh juice, bagels with cream cheese and jams, pastries, and seasonal fruit.
Welcome Remarks
Welcome + Opening Remarks
Wahab Owolabi
Navigating the AI Revolution: Strategies for Adapting in Recruiting Operations
Join Jose Cong, Chief People Officer at Humane and a veteran recruiting leader from Apple, Nest, and Google, for an insightful talk on how recruiting operations professionals can effectively adapt to the challenges and opportunities of the AI revolution. Jose will share actionable strategies for embracing change and innovation in talent acquisition, emphasizing the importance of resilience and agility in today’s fast-paced environment. Discover how recruiting teams can leverage AI to enhance their processes and drive efficiency. He will also provide examples of tools that have emerged when talent acquisition teams embrace and adapt to new technologies.
Jose Cong
Nerding Out on Tech with Power Users
In this session, we’ll get real about how to choose the right tools for your team, ones that actually make a difference. We’ll discuss how to measure the ROI of your tech and, more importantly, how to align it with your company’s bigger goals and OKRs. You’ll hear creative ways others are tackling roadblocks and making sure their tools work for them—not the other way around. Expect real talk, practical tips, and some lightbulb moments!
Max Butler
The Art and Science of Communication in Recruiting Operations
The Art and Science of Communication in Recruiting Operations" explores critical communication concepts in talent acquisition. We'll blend psychology and communication theory with real-world recruiting challenges. Through hands-on exercises, you'll experience how information flows in recruiting operations and learn practical strategies to enhance your message delivery.
Stephanie Baysinger
Lunch
Enjoy a hot lunch and great conversations thanks to our friends at Ashby!
How AI Unlocks the Power of the Data in Your Hiring Conversations
Metaview co-founder & CEO, Siadhal Magos, demonstrates how to turn your company’s interviews and hiring conversations into sources of highly-specific and actionable insights that will blow your hiring teams’ minds. Learn how to leverage tech to tap into this conversational data in order to understand and optimize your hiring process in ways that were never previously possible.
Siadhal Magos
Networking Break
Get to know fellow attendees via a fun and engaging icebreaker + an afternoon treat and energy pick me up sponsored by Reimbi! We are community first after all!
Partnering with the Business: Becoming a Trusted Advisor
This session will transform your recruiting ops team from tactical contributors to strategic and trusted advisors to the business. Great recruiting operations professionals are not just notetakers, generating reports and clicking configuration options in an ATS—they are trusted advisors to recruiting and across many stakeholders. Being a trusted advisor means that you are seen as a valuable resource and a strategic partner who provides sound guidance and advice. Yet earning that trust requires a set of many skills. This session is designed to highlight those skills.
Mike Joyner
Amy Wood
Lessons From Working With World-Class RecOps Teams
At Ashby, RecOps teams have been at the core of our product development philosophy from day one. As we’ve grown to over 1,600 customers, we’ve observed a number of learnings and traits that make RecOps teams stand out. We’re excited to share these practical insights!
Benjamin Encz
Day 1 Recap & Reflection
Cocktail Reception
Join us for a delightful cocktail reception made possible by our friends at Reimbi and Scalis. Enjoy refreshing drinks, tasty hors d'oeuvres, and great company.
Talent Leaders Dinner
Join the OneReq team, ModernLoop, & TeamOhana for a complimentary sit down dinner to cap a phenomenal first day of the conference! Unwind with Talent Leaders from fellow attendees, speakers, & community members local to Chicago in a relaxed private setting at one of Chicagos premier restaurants! Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP as soon as possible to secure your spot.
Continental Breakfast
Day 2 Welcome
Cutting Through the Noise: Strategies for Tech Stack Simplification
The number of TA technology vendors has 10x-ed in the past five years. Tack on the proliferation of AI solutions and it’s a hot mess. While the growth of innovation has ignited a new buzz – how do we cut through the noise? As the capabilities of early point solutions have expanded, the overlap and bloat have made it hard to keep teams and processes connected. Meanwhile, most TA leaders say their budgets and teams are shrinking. Now’s the time to get back to basics and consolidate.
Leigh Miller
Headcount/Capacity Planning, Forecasting, and Metrics
Data and analytics make up a huge portion of RecOps. As you grow your career, you move from simple reports (e.g., number of hires, time to fill) to more complex (e.g., headcount/capacity planning, forecasts). During this time, we'll focus on more than just the how but also the why and the when to help you understand the cycles.
Viet Nguyen
Tushar Makhija
Luke Eaton
How Teams are Using AI in Their Process
We need to stay up on the hottest trends in technology, and nothing is hotter than AI. For this Q&A, our panelists will not only cover how they are already using it to creatively improve their processes but also how they are using it to build better relationships with stakeholders and change the perception of TA to the wider business.
Maksym Dziarmaga
Lizzy Mann
Kari Robison
Alyson Doering
Your RecOps Career Journey
To succeed in our space, you gain a lot of different skills. While exciting, it can also leave you with questions like "What skill do I need to grow to get to the next level?", "What is that next level?", and "What are my options beyond the RecOps fence?" We'll these questions and more will be answered in this Q&A with RecOps folks who have stayed, left, or returned to RecOps after stints in other departments.
Lizzy Mann
Geva Whyte
Emily Sung-Simon
Amy Wood
LUNCH
Hello from the Other Side: Direct Feedback with Stakeholders & Partners
Have you ever wondered what the different stakeholders and partners think about RecOps teams or what RecOps teams can do to be better partners? Well, here is your chance. For this interactive Q&A, we've invited several representatives to help answer some of those burning questions.
Smaran Mandala
Justin Taylor
Asha Beirne
Ali Yousaf
Recruiter/Recruiting Ops Enablement
Enablement is increasingly becoming the responsibility of RecOps teams everywhere, with some teams even having a dedicated enablement specialist. But what is enablement, and how do you do it right? In this Q&A session, we'll discuss some of the ins and outs of enablement, including what separates it from training, how to track it for effectiveness, and more.
Viet Nguyen
Tommy Barth
Molly Sly
Starting the Conversation on RecOps Standardization
As a newer function, RecOps is still searching for industry-wide standards. Without standardization, it can be hard to know the skills/opportunities you need to grow your career, who to talk to about that growth, or even where to advocate for RecOps to sit within your company. We'll start the conversation in this interactive workshop and brainstorm ideas for our field's future.
