Kim Scott is the author of the NYT & WSJ bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity and the co-founder of Radical Candor LLC. Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google and then joined Apple to develop and teach a leadership seminar. Kim has been a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other tech companies.

Previously, Kim was the co-founder and CEO of Juice Software, a collaboration start-up, and led business development at Delta Three and Capital Thinking. Earlier in her career, she worked as a senior policy advisor at the FCC, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, started a diamond cutting factory in Moscow, and was an analyst on the Soviet Companies Fund. Kim received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Princeton University. She is the author of three novels; she and her husband Andy Scott are parents of twins and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Through the power of storytelling, Soledad O’Brien brings a fresh perspective on diverse and contemporary issues to foster change in your own community or organization.

As the host of the Sunday morning syndicated political show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, Soledad has established herself as one of the most recognized names in broadcasting by telling the stories behind the most important issues, people and events of the day. A champion of diversity, she gives voice to the underserved and disenfranchised through her Emmy-winning reporting and acclaimed documentary series, “Black in America” and “Latino in America.” While also the contributing editor, reporting in-depth news magazine pieces for PBS NewsHour and correspondent for HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. A prominent philanthropist, Soledad is the founder of PowHERful, a foundation that mentors and funds college tuition and expenses for young women.

With eloquence and a measured ability to make often-divisive issues such as race relations, social inequality and mass incarceration accessible to all, she moves audiences to delve deeper into the headlines that shape our lives, outlooks and daily interactions.

On stage, Soledad draws from her life and career to stimulate thoughtful conversation on the roles we each play within our communities and organizations, leaving audiences with memorable takeaways on the power of individuals and companies to make meaningful and lasting change.

Aman Brar has an extensive background in leading technology companies through periods of high growth and has also held key corporate strategy and finance roles at Fortune 500 companies. As former president of Apparatus, Aman led the company through a $34.2 million acquisition by publicly traded and global consultancy, Virtusa, in 2015.

Recognizing the need for a method to boost recruiting productivity, Aman and his teammates launched Canvas, the first enterprise-grade text-based interviewing platform that enables recruiters to screen more job candidates and market employment brands.

Prior to Apparatus, Aman was vice president of business development for ChaCha Search, leading its corporate strategic partnership activities. Before returning to Indiana for graduate school, Aman lived in Mountain View, Calif., and led a team responsible for the nation’s first consumer DSL broadband service.

Aman sits on the board of Teach for America Indianapolis, Orr Fellowship, EmployIndy, and is on the Board of Trustees for Wabash College. Aman earned his undergraduate degree from Wabash College and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University – Bloomington.

Amber Ferrari is a product marketing and business development professional at Jobvite with a love for theatrical and musical performance. At Jobvite, Ferrari works with sales and marketing to shape the text communication and automation story within talent acquisition for current and prospective clients along with the Jobvite field. Throughout her undergrad, Ferrari competed within The National Forensic Association, an American intercollegiate organization designed to promote excellence in individual speaking events, where she specialized in comedic writing, oral interpretation, and impromptu speaking. Most recently, she led a live case-study session with a Jobvite client at 2019 RecFest London and is thrilled to be the Emcee for her first RNL.

CEO and founder of Talent Function, Elaine Orler has been developing and implementing HR solutions since 1993. Passionate about the candidate experience and its impact on both workforces and employers, Elaine is also chairman co-founder of the Talent Board, founding organization of the Candidate Experience Awards.

One of the talent acquisition industry’s most sought-after thought leaders, Elaine has helped global organizations transform their recruiting processes with actionable strategies and technology implementations that optimize talent acquisition for HR professionals, hiring managers, job candidates and the company overall. Elaine is always tuned into the latest trends, works with practitioners and serves an analyst to the solution provider community to shape the way talent management and recruiting solutions are delivered.

Often quoted in leading HR and business publications, including Wall Street Journal, Human Resource Executive, and Talent Management, Elaine is well-respected as a talent acquisition and talent management expert and takes an active role in industry events and associations. She has presented one-of-a-kind recruiting and candidate experience thought leadership at some of the industry’s most innovative and popular events, including the HR Technology Conference, the SHRM Annual Conference, ERE, and HRO Today Forum among others.

Kris Dunn is a Partner and CHRO at Kinetix, a national RPO firm for growth companies headquartered in Atlanta.  He’s also the founder of two industry-leading blogs – Fistful of Talent and The HR Capitalist – and has written over 70 feature columns at Workforce Management magazine. Prior to his investment at Kinetix, Kris served in HR leadership roles at DAXKO, Charter and Cingular. He’s also the author of The 9 Faces of HR, set to be released in July 2019.

Partner & Recruiting Manager (specializing in technical & product recruitment) with @RecruitingSocial – Angela works closely with startups/tech companies, and digital agencies, sourcing/recruiting for Senior to VP level engineering and product roles in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles area. SourceCon Fall 2016, 2017 & 2018 Speaker & ERE 2018 Speaker.

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe was born in New York City to French and Italian parents. Her Father’s
passing caused her family to move to Europe where she became somewhat of a nomad. She has lived in Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Dorothéa is a strategic digital marketing executive who is fluent in 4 languages and specializes in
developing business through digital, influencer and social media marketing for the world’s most
memorable brands. Dorothéa teaches marketers and business leaders how to increase value and
develop strong relationships between brands and fans.

There are 4 distinct areas of her business:

• eCommerce: Deep understanding of taking Big Data to inform and implement UX, CRM, iOT, and AR/VR programs to assist in buyer decision making
• Personal Branding: For c-suite executives, recruiters, legal and medical professionals, entrepreneurs and celebrities
• ESN (Enterprise Social Networking): Creating integrated customer & employee engagement for communities
• Marketing Strategist: Digital Transformation, Social Media, Influencer and Content Marketing Strategy

Additionally, Dorothéa has appeared as a social media strategy subject matter expert on CBS and CNN.

Dorothéa is an avid skateboarder who tweets to relax. Follow Dorothea on Twitter & Instagram @socialespionage

Aubrey Blanche is Global Head of Diversity & Belonging at Atlassian. There, she works with teams across the business to enhance access to technical education, recruiting, retention and career mobility for underrepresented minorities. She believes that leading with empathy is the key to creating highly effective teams. Aubrey also serves as an advisor to the SheStarts accelerator.

Carmen Hudson is currently Principal Consultant, Recruiting Toolbox, and co-founder of the first ever conference focused on tech recruiting, Talent42. Carmen draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on helping organizations attract, source and recruit top talent.  She recently launched recruiterhunt.com to help recruiters discover useful resources.

Carmen’s expertise is in helping clients build the right sourcing and recruiting strategies, and implementing them in the real world of limited budgets, competing priorities, and highly competitive recruiting environments.

Her corporate experience includes Yahoo!, where she was Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition.  At Yahoo!, she led the Strategic Sourcing team, revitalizing the employee referral program and Yahoo’s employer brand.  The team was awarded a coveted Yahoo! Superstar Award, an ERE Excellence award and various recruiting and advertising industry awards.  Prior to joining Yahoo!, she was manager, Global Strategic Sourcing for Starbucks Coffee Corporation, where she developed sourcing strategies and recommended resources and tactics to support U.S. retail management hiring. She has also held senior talent acquisition roles at Microsoft, Amazon.com and Capital One.

Carmen is a frequent speaker at recruiting events, including ERE, SourceCon, the Social Recruiting Summit, LinkedIn Talent Connect and the Candidate Experience Awards. She is a Talent Board advisory board member, and has authored sections of the Candidate Experience Awards summary results. In 2012, Carmen and John Vlastelica launched Talent42, a groundbreaking conference that brings together leaders in engineering and technical recruiting.

True to her passion, she blogs and tweets about the recruiting industry, social media, job search and recruiting technology. Follow her on Twitter.

Communication is the key to a successful candidate experience. Candidates want more transparency from employers. They want to know where they are at in the process, how long before they will hear back about an interview, and what to expect from a potential employer. It is the most basic way that companies can improve recruitment efforts yet, it too often goes ignored. Aptitude Research found that companies that companies are actually getting worse in their efforts to communicate with candidates despite new strategies and tools for engaging with talent. In fact, 1 in 2 companies are relying solely on email to engage with candidates. When communication is consistent, relevant and meaningful, talent acquisition efforts improve significantly. This presentation based on data collected in 2019 will provide clarity on the following questions:

• What are the challenges that companies face with communicating with candidates?
• What are the ways that companies are currently engaging with candidates?
• What are the strategies to improve communication?
• What role can technology/AI and automation play in improving communication?
• What should companies think about for the future?

Many organizations are focused externally on customer experience to impact bottom line. But many forget that job seekers and candidates are important constituents too. Many job seekers admit to sharing bad candidate experiences online, which reflects poorly on your brand. When you delight your candidates like you do your customers, you build a larger base of advocates for your brand. In this session, Gina Papa will explain how talent acquisition executives are brand ambassadors who hold the key to candidate experience.

Make informed decisions backed by data, not by best guesses. Gain practical tips on how to get more out of Jobvite’s reporting capabilities with Dashboard Analytics and Custom Reports. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Optimize dashboard analytics widgets to drive specific action
• Integrate custom report bookmarks for deeper analysis
• Build key reports to promote a data-driven hiring team
• Utilize advanced reporting services and resources

The workforce of the future will look nothing like it does today. With changing demographics, increased automation, and a breakdown of traditional corporate silos, businesses which don’t adapt—and keep adapting–will be at a competitive disadvantage. In the future teams, not individuals will drive innovation, and research shows that diverse and inclusive teams maximize results.

An innovative, iterative, data-informed diversity & inclusion strategy can not only help you attract the right talent but also retain it. Right now, you have the data you need to begin understanding your barriers to building a diverse workforce, and how to invest to create an inclusive culture. Over the past two years, collaboration software maker Atlassian has been able to improve its hiring of women in technical roles by 80% while simultaneously improving the representation of employees over 40 and those from underrepresented cultural groups. Join Aubrey Blanche, Atlassian’s Global Head of Diversity & Belonging, to hear how you can leverage your data to build a balanced team at scale.

Join this interactive session with Tom Ricks to witness the power of integrated people analytics in action. Learn how Qlik uses analytics with data from Jobvite, Workday and other external sources to visualise the recruitment pipeline and answer key talent acquisition questions at a business and functional level. In six easy steps, discover how you could help your company in the same way inform your talent pipeline based and future hiring strategies based on Qlik’s established practices.

Getting more of the right people to apply for the right jobs is one of the biggest challenges facing recruiters. To attract top talent in a competitive market, you must deliver personalized candidate experiences that improve engagement throughout the entire talent journey. Come learn how to drive multi-channel strategies to reach your talent targets and set up the operational processes and systems to optimize applicant flow.

We don’t know how to hire for cultural fit, but we keep trying.

There are recruiting and TA leaders who use the phrase “culture fit” in a thoughtfully applied manner and create sourcing and screening practices to attract talented individuals who reflect their organization’s fundamental values. But at other companies, the hiring process is broken, and hiring managers choose from a talent pool that reflects a company’s subjectivity, biases, and blind spots.

Join Laurie Ruettimann to uncover why hiring for cultural fit is broken, and why you should rethink your sourcing, screening, and hiring processes in 2020 and beyond. She’ll shed light on the best global hiring practices and tell you how leading-edge organizations fixed the “cultural fit” problem and invested in candidates and employees who demonstrate the right mix of competencies, contributions, and values.

BEWARE! Robots are coming to take your job, j/k… In this session, Scott Sendelweck will discuss how implementing Chatbots can vastly improve the candidate experience while reducing recruiting administrative work. Check out how Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the talent acquisition industry and learn how you can utilize Chatbots to customize your recruitment process.

Onboarding is a pivotal moment for making employees feel included from day one. Creating a world class onboarding experience is critical for employee engagement and retention. Come and learn about the challenges of onboarding and how Jobvite can help you create a consistent framework for success for your new hires and internal teams even before their first day. In this session, we’ll provide useful tips on how to streamline your onboarding process, maintain compliance, and make the right first impression with new hires.

When it comes to hiring top talent, it’s a candidates’ market. Your company demands that your selection process is rigorous. You know that in-demand talent won’t jump through unnecessary hoops; but if your process is too easy, you risk damaging your employer brand and hiring under-performing talent. In this session, Carmen Hudson of Recruiting Toolbox will discuss how to build and lead interview process models that help you assess top talent and create an enjoyable candidate experience.

Two billion people are on Instagram every day, with over 50% visiting the platform 2-3 times in a 24 hour period. Engagement with brands on Instagram is higher these days than Twitter and Facebook. Learn how to utilize Instagram for your employer branding along with the tools to create content and measure your effectiveness from Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe, Marketing Strategist and Principal at Social Espionage.

In the age of the, “hyper-hopper” engaging with emerging talents has never been so important. Many University Recruiting programs are now becoming blueprints for early-in-career hiring initiatives. In fact, many forward-thinking companies are planning for future talent years in advance. Whether you’re looking to improve an existing Campus Recruiting program or start from scratch, this informative interactive session will offer multiple takeaways. Leave equipped with best practices on how to attract, hire, and develop a world-class talent pipeline of future leaders for your company.

Recruiting in an election year isn’t just about change, it’s about the stall that happens with businesses as they wait for the pending change. It has happened every election year, as many organizations slow funding of projects and choose that time to reflect on what they might have to change or brace for with election cycles. Talent Acquisition feels this pause months before the rest of the business, as we see it in changing requisition loads, time to fill and urgency for placements. Not every company has the same challenges. The only thing that is constant for everyone is the fact that there will be changes. Looking ahead to 2020 we can already feel the anxiety approaching over the election. This fear of the unknown can’t control our hunt for candidates. We must provide the best talent that benefits the company and helps the entire entity move forward toward its goals. Therefore, how do we prepare for the disruption? Come hear Elaine Orler bridge the gap and leave feeling confident walking into 2020. Expect to learn some early tips to be ready for any potential changes, how to quickly evaluate your readiness and agility to meet the change, and how to measure recruiting in a fluid year.

In order to have successful connections with candidates, you need to appeal to the personalities you are speaking to. That’s where developing candidate personas come into play. Everything related to candidate engagement – your job descriptions, emails, nurture campaigns, etc. – are more effective when targeted for your candidate persona. Candidate engagement is the one thing recruiters can control and it provides a better experience for both candidates and employers too.

In this session, Angela Rees of Recruiting Social will teach you how to:

• Create candidate personas
• Conduct talent mapping
• Effectively nurture and ultimately convert passive candidates

It’s been a tremendous year of growth for Jobvite as we acquired an innovative set of technologies that enable hiring teams to source, engage, hire, onboard, and retain top talent with one end-to-end platform. Explore what’s on our roadmap for 2020 and how Jobvite’s combined set of solutions and services will set a new bar for the candidate experience — driving engagement from the very first interaction, to the first day on the job, and to the next promotion.

Candidate experience begins with a great first impression. Establishing a meaningful connection from the onset can be the difference between a completed application and losing top talent to a competitor. Ensuring a solid representation of your company’s brand, vision, mission and values is key in the overall talent acquisition process. Candidates invest significant time researching an organization before they even hit apply. What are you doing to ensure what they see in the market is an accurate depiction of your organization? Additionally, proactive management and oversight of external career channels, and employer review sites such as Glassdoor and Indeed are a key component in the overall process. How do you drive positive impact of these channels in today’s digital world? Learn from Premise Health on building a brand that secures a position as an employer of choice and improves the chances of landing highly coveted and sought-after talent.

In our tight labor market, it’s not enough for recruiters to work harder, even faster (though that certainly helps!). The most successful recruiters must work smarter. Using AI, recruiters can now reach new candidates, engage with passive candidates, and make sure the right candidates are hired for the role that suits them best. Join this session to hear and see how recruiters have leveraged bots and automation to do things like:

• Think like a marketer by sending targeted text messages about new job opportunities
• Follow-up with multiple candidates from career fairs via text in just a couple of clicks
• Increase show-up rates to interviews using scheduled text reminders

Why stop at an offer letter when your ATS can provide so much more?! Onboarding can be time consuming, inconsistent and tedious for both employers and new hires. Why make it more complicated than it needs to be when the solution is right in front of you? Come learn how LAZ Parking has used Jobvite Onboard for an improved process visibility, process compliance and efficient API integration with our HRIS. Covering both non-exempt and exempt onboarding processes, Marissa Souza will provide a deep dive into how LAZ Parking has created a seamless process from new hire to new employee.

In today’s job market where the candidates are in control, businesses need their entire organization to be involved in recruiting the best talent. Employees who understand how important recruiting is to their company’s future will prepare more thoroughly for interviews and turn in their feedback faster. Referral rates go up, and employees share job openings on social media, resulting in a higher quality candidate pool. In this session, you’ll get helpful tips and tricks on how to drive internal adoption and collaboration of Jobvite throughout the entire recruiting process to create a winning hiring culture at your organization.

We live in a world where data has the final say – it is our “proof to the pudding” so-to-speak. But we know the most effective way to recruit is being more human, approaching the market with empathy, and using our EQ. The question then becomes: How do we use that data effectively to not just boost our efficacy but also to identify ways to recruit with more EQ? In this animated session, Mike “Batman” Cohen will discuss three ways that we can aggregate, track, and use our data to help us analyze ways to be better sourcers, recruiters, and humans.

$1 Trillion Dollars…That’s the cost every year of voluntary turnover for U.S. businesses according to Gallup. Unemployment Companies are growing vulnerable to not only losing the war for talent, but even more alarming, losing the talent they already have. That’s why recruiting shouldn’t stop after the candidate’s first day. Your existing workforce is the lifeblood of your organization and can be one of the best sources of talent to tap when you have new openings. Employees want you to leverage their skills and expertise, and match them with learning and other types of opportunities that will allow them to move around your company. Come learn how to “go beyond” modern recruiting efforts and add current employees to your candidate pipeline, providing them with an experience that allows for career development and moves laterally and vertically through the organization – helping reduce spend on recruiting and retaining talent.