Less Spend, More Impact

To remain cost-effective while still delivering meaningful social value and strengthening your brand, focus on initiatives that align closely with your business goals, values, and areas of expertise. By supporting local communities, building strategic partnerships, and creating opportunities that contribute to a sustainable talent pipeline, businesses can generate long-term social impact while addressing future workforce needs. This targeted approach maximises value, enhances brand reputation, and demonstrates a genuine commitment to both social responsibility and talent development.

The Future of Hiring: Balancing AI Efficiency with Human Connection

The Human Advantage: Candidate Experience in an Age of Efficiency

As organisations become more efficient and scalable in how they attract and engage talent, the challenge is no longer just about finding candidates faster, but creating experiences that feel personal, authentic and human. This session will explore how Microsoft EMEA is thinking about the future of Talent Acquisition, balancing efficiency with meaningful candidate engagement, and why candidate experience may become one of the few remaining differentiators in an increasingly competitive talent market.

Raising the Standard: Why Great Recruitment Is Still About People

Recruitment has never had more technology, data or automation available to it… and yet, candidates often experience the same poor processes and communication. In this thought-provoking keynote, David McGrane explores how in-house recruiters can raise professional standards by combining critical thinking, human judgement and AI to create better hiring experiences. Rather than asking what technology can do, this session challenges us to ask what great recruitment should be.

Why Internal Mobility Is Becoming the Talent Strategy of Choice

As organisations face ongoing skills shortages and changing workforce demands, many are shifting their focus from external hiring to developing talent from within. This session explores how businesses are using upskilling, reskilling and internal mobility to build capability, improve retention and create more agile workforces, while highlighting the key role Talent Acquisition plays in driving this strategic shift

Don't Wait for AI - Make Changes Now to Save You Admin Tax

Jed Shaw is Talent Acquisition & People Ops Manager at CDL, a FinTech/InsurTech software house, where he's spent the last few years repositioning TA from a cost centre into a data-driven, commercially accountable function - as a department of one. By building automation infrastructure before chasing AI hype, Jed has managed over 2,500 interviews solo, cut time-to-hire well below the market average, and recovered upwards of £400k in business value over the past two years without adding headcount.

In this session, Jed will unpack the "Admin Tax" - the hidden cost every TA function pays in manual, repetitive work - and make the case that you don't need to wait for AI to "arrive" to start clawing it back. He'll share the real workflows and numbers behind how automation, not AI hype, has driven measurable savings and efficiency gains within his own TA function, and how other TA leaders can start applying the same thinking today.

AI In Recruitment Panel Debate

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