People and Talent Acquisition Leaders Alex Thomson, Vicki Emmerson and Deepak Singh are our closing panel for ATC2026

Alex leads the TA team at Australia Post and brings 15 years of experience leading teams and recruiting across enterprise environments and agencies. His focus is on modernising recruitment through technology, data, and practical AI adoption. He is dedicated to improving recruiter effectiveness, enhancing candidate experiences, empowering leaders to hire great talent, and driving workforce decision-making at scale..

Vicki Emmerson is a Senior Director People Experience and has spent much of her career at in People, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Culture at Thales. Bold in thinking, she champions development, inclusion and impact at every stage of the journey.

Deepak Singh is a People & Culture leader, founder and advisor who helps organisations build and fix workplace cultures to actually deliver the strategy, not just decorate the values wall.

As Founder of Mission + Rhythm, Deepak works across startups, scale-ups and changing businesses to solve problems through people. His career has taken him through global organisations including REA Group, Uber and GBG, through to building his own portfolio of businesses and advisory work.

Deepak is particularly interested in what happens when we stop treating Talent, P&C and workforce strategy as separate conversations. He believes the future of work requires us to think less about filling jobs and more about how work gets done, where capability comes from, and how we create workplaces where great people can join, grow and stay.

Known for bringing a practical, people-first perspective and being willing to challenge the way we’ve always done things, Deepak’s philosophy is pretty simple: better culture doesn’t happen by chance. We have to build it.