We’re counting down the days until we can welcome InHouse Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals to the 2026 InHouse Recruitment Expo at the Excel London on February 24th!
With both In-House Recruitment and TA teams feeling more pressure than ever amidst rising expectations and tightening resources, our recruiters are being pulled in multiple directions at once. Recruiters are being asked to hire faster, fairer and smarter, improve candidate experience, advise hiring managers more confidently, adopt AI responsibly, and deliver measurable business impact – often with smaller teams and less room for error. For many, the challenge isn’t motivation or capability, it’s capacity, clarity and support.
That’s exactly why the InHouse Recruitment Expo 2026 matters. This isn’t just about shiny tools or abstract theories – it’s about helping In-House recruiters and TA leaders make sense of what’s changing, what actually works, and where to focus next. From navigating hiring manager relationships and improving intake quality, to using technology and data more effectively, building a credible TA strategy, and protecting the human experience in hiring, the conversations at this year’s Expo will be rooted in the real-world challenges recruiters are facing right now.
Top of many minds will be the impact of AI so it will probably be standing room only for our opening session ‘Hiring in the Age of AI: The AI CV Crisis’ delivered by Max Coleman, founder and CEO of Mindorah in which he will talk about how AI is changing the way candidates create and optimise their CVs, meaning that what was once a reliable indicator of real experience becomes a noisy flood of polished but generic applications – creating more challenges for in-house HR and recruitment teams.
This theme will continue for Emi Beredugo’s session “When Your Perfect Candidate is Fake: Fighting AI Fraud in Hiring” as AI doesn’t just help recruiters but outsmarts them. Vijay Swaminathan from Drape will talk about why recruiters must lead the shape of work in an AI economy, and we will have an experienced panel comprising Martin Dangerfield, Sam Fletcher, Varun Chachan and Eli Beredugo to discuss how TA and recruitment teams should respond to automation and AI Agents replacing many recruitment activities, and what new skills and capabilities they will need to develop.
This is one of several panel sessions that all promise to bring insights and learnings in a fast paced and informative style. Whilst the world of recruitment and TA is far from a jungle, there will be an action-packed debate in the session ‘I’m a TA Professional, Get Me Out of Here!’ as experienced recruiters Colin Minto, Martyn Wright, Hannah Rolph and Paul Maxin talk about budget and headcount cuts, new technology and AI. Debbie Johnson and Jess Smith from Septic will analyse why inconsistent manager-led hiring often fails, whilst Mel Kelly (MK Talent Advisory) will draw on her experience of in-house and transformation environments to showcase how TA can become a strategic partner, offering clear, actionable insights that can boost long-term hiring outcomes.
We’ve also got the legal angles covered too as the new Employment Rights Bill comes under the microscope with Colin Minto, employment lawyer Alix Beese, and talent analyst Mervyn Dinnen debating how the bill might impact Talent and HR leaders. And with AI screening tools now embedded in 67% of organisations’ recruitment processes, Paul Rudd cuts through the hype to review where algorithmic bias hides – and how AI screening can quietly amplify bias through proxies, inaccessible design, or unseen drift – and what you can do about it. This session – with real examples – is created for Internal HR and Talent Acquisition professionals looking to de-risk AI deployment.
We’ll have some science too! Matthew Webb of Omnicor will guide us through the science behind high-quality interviews, assessments, and evidence-based decision-making, and Niels Geominy, co-founder of Fiks, introduces a new way for students to access much-needed internships through WhatsApp.
If you’re working in in-house recruitment and feeling the strain – or you’re a recruiter looking to sharpen your thinking, learn from peers, and leave with ideas you can act on immediately – then the InHouse Recruitment Expo 2026 at Excel London is the place to be, bringing together practitioners, leaders and experts who understand the pressures of modern TA and are ready to share what’s working, what’s changing, and what’s coming next.
This is your opportunity to step out of delivery mode, reset your perspective, and return to your role better equipped for the year ahead!
We look forward to seeing you there!
