ATC2024 MCs

Lauren & Craig are TaPod – We talk Talent Acquisition!

The King and Queen of Talent Podcasting will be bringing their humour, warmth and tell it like it is commentary as your official ATC2024 MCs!

About Lauren & Craig

With over 40 years of combined industry experience, Lauren and Craig are recruitment and TA experts, widely known as the hosts of the TaPod podcast and the organisers of the largest TA awards in Australia and New Zealand, the ITAs. Renowned for their keynote speaking and published content, they are viewed as experts in the ever-changing talent landscape. Together, they delve into the critical issues facing the TA community. Lauren and Craig understand the seriousness of the issues facing the talent industry, but they also blend storytelling, humour, and a touch of self-deprecation into TaPod, which ranks number one in HR & Recruitment podcasts within Australia.

Allen believed that Talent had a greater role to play in the Organisation beyond hiring great people. By introducing Talent Intelligence in four key areas – Reskill, Redesign, Recruit and Retain, he’s been able to provide Talent Advisory services. It lit a spark across the Organisation and Talent now sits with great credibility, at the heart of better business decisions.

The deeper the intelligence, the deeper the partnership. Allen will share:

• Where and how his Talent Intelligence is gained;
• Practical examples across the four areas of Reskill, Redesign, Recruit and Retain;
• How this is helping to shape the function and careers of the Talent Team.

Developing a Talent Board; Uniting People and Business Functions for Strategic Input and Collaboration

For many organisations, the line between Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning, Mobility and Talent Management are increasingly blurring, meaning that we must shift from siloed cooperation to harmonised collaboration. To accomplish this, Downer Group have developed an internal ‘Talent Board’ made up of people from across the organisation all focused and pointing the same direction. Maisie will share how it was developed, their remit, cadence, challenges, and outcomes.

How often have you started a role and found a 5-year-old Talent Strategy sitting in a file somewhere gathering metaphorical dust?

“Not bad” you nod, I could use 70% of this!  Yet only its creator remembers its existence.

Developing a robust Talent Strategy that deeply aligns to the Organisation’s Strategy, that is successfully embraced and embedded into the business, yet agile enough to rise to bend to the demand of the future – it’s no mean feat.

Craig and Martha will share how Worley’s Talent Strategy approach and the elements that have made it so successful.

From Search Master to Talent Architect: The Evolution of Sourcing

Sourcing has changed a lot from when it first burst onto the TA scene over 20 years ago.

Boolean Search changed to Ai Search and when that became easier, the focus moved to creative outreach comms.

Cal will lay out his view on the career paths and unique value propositions that current Talent Sourcers have in front of them in an ever-changing talent landscape.

Nina Pollard, Head of People & Culture, Retail & Corporate, Coles Group and David Bell, Talent Director

In this panel discussion, we will speak with two senior Talent Leaders about their career journeys, the leaps they took and the skills beyond recruiting that they needed to develop to get there. We’ll learn how they spend their time, the most important skills to master and how to make the leap into senior leadership.

We have a great candidate experience!  Really, compared to who? When we measure the candidate experience we provide, it’s a foot race with no competitors, or at least no competitor data. Or it’s an collective number not considering the experience of women versus the experience of men. This year, we will be announcing the BenchmarCX 2024 Excellence in Candidate Experience Award finalists and winner, live on stage and share how’s its measured and who its measured against.

Get ready to re-examine the established recruiting norms. Some sessions will delve deep into one topic with a specific case study or analysis, and in others you’ll experience our 5+5 format, where several people will take turns challenging a hiring norm in 5 minutes using 5 slides. It’s going to be thought-provoking and fun.

We can’t tell you the topics in advance, that would be cheating.

ATC’s annual Talent Tech Pitch Off is one of the most exciting elements of the event. The audience all become judges and investors.  We’ll arm you with $100,000 (fake) dollars to invest and give you a chance to question the finalists pitching on stage so you can help decide who wins and is crowned the ATC2024 Innovation Lab Winner!

Do you have a new Talent Tech Product you’re interested in showcasing, click here to read more.

Former Winner – Natalie Flynn, Founder & CEO, equidi

“I’ve taken part in several different pitch competitions in Australia and abroad, and the ATC was one of the best. They put the pitch comp front and centre of the conference, which is an incredible opportunity for those pitching, and for the attendees so they learn of the great tech innovations coming out of Australia – and that’s a win for all of us.”

Turnaround Story: Reviving TA’s brand when trust is gone

To achieve TA outcomes, there must be trust in the Talent Team but how do you achieve this from a starting point where trust is not only low, but gone entirely? Before Aurelio developed his Talent Strategy, he set off on a path of business discovery, relationship building and an epic internal rebranding of what the Talent function is and could be in the organisation. Aurelio will share his ‘We are Team Talent and we Care’ turnaround program, it’s success and how the team have been able to move from strength to strength.

ATC2024 is the event for Talent Teams, where we meet, learn, exchange ideas and get introduced to Talent Technology and Services.

• Do you have a Talent story to share?
• Interested in being part of our exciting Expo Hall?

Contact Jo Vohland on +61 417 188 697, jo@atcevents.com.au