TA’s Next Chapter: Where Do We Go From Here?

Over the past two days, we’ve explored how organisations are redesigning work through skills-based approaches, workforce intelligence, AI, automation, internal mobility, and new operating models. But one question remains: Where does Talent Acquisition fit in the future workforce strategy? As organisations shift from managing jobs and hiring people to orchestrating work across human and artificial…

Pavi Iyer, Simon Hedt & Steve Nield

Pavi Iyer, Simon Hedt and Steve Nield are the Talent Acquisition Leaders hosting our ATC2026 Breakout Stages.   Pavi Iyer started her career in medicinal chemistry, which taught her early that the most interesting problems sit where science, people and experimental thinking all meet. She found her way into People and Talent, took a detour…

Peer to Peer Discussion Groups

Peer Discussion Groups bring Talent Leaders together in small, facilitated roundtables to explore the challenges they are working through right now. Each group focuses on a specific topic, creating space to compare approaches, share practical advice and learn from the experience of peers. These are candid, participant-led conversations, not presentations or panels. Come ready to…

From Support Function to EBITDA Driver: The Commercial Uplift for Talent

For years, many Talent teams were measured on hiring activity: time-to-fill, agency reduction, stakeholder satisfaction, and recruitment delivery. Executive teams, however, assess Talent through a very different lens: revenue impact, productivity, workforce risk, scalability, operating leverage, and margin performance. This session explores the Commercial Uplift required for Talent leaders to operate credibly in financially driven…

TA’s Next Chapter: Where Do We Go From Here?

Over the past two days, we’ve explored how organisations are redesigning work through skills-based approaches, workforce intelligence, AI, automation, internal mobility, and new operating models. But one question remains: Where does Talent Acquisition fit in the future workforce strategy? As organisations shift from managing jobs and hiring people to orchestrating work across human and artificial…

Peer to Peer Discussion Groups

Peer Discussion Groups bring Talent Leaders together in small, facilitated roundtables to explore the challenges they are working through right now. Each group focuses on a specific topic, creating space to compare approaches, share practical advice and learn from the experience of peers. These are candid, participant-led conversations, not presentations or panels. Come ready to…

High Performance Prompting for Recruiters

Most Recruiters are already using a variety of Large Language Models (LLMs) but get inconsistent results because they rely on generic questioning, incomplete prompts, use the wrong tools for the task, or struggle to verify output quality. In this practical session, we’ll cover: Understanding how different AI models work and why they produce different outputs…

How EY Redesigned Background Screening Across Five Service Lines and Three Countries

Enterprise hiring isn’t one process. It’s dozens of different hiring journeys. Executive roles, experienced hires, early careers, contractors and internal promotions all require different hiring journeys, yet many organisations are still trying to force them through a single background screening process. The result is unnecessary complexity, misaligned candidate experience, manual workarounds and avoidable risk. In…