Scaled a deep tech startup from 5 to 80 people. With no developer background, she taught herself to build AI tools for hiring and people ops that her team uses daily.
Alexandra will show 3 AI tools she built herself for HR work.
With more than 20 years of HR experience, writes about the world of work for Inc. and CBS News, leads the 33,000-member Improve Your HR community, and hosts the Spring Forward HR Conference.
Will share AI horror stories and what can go wrong with AI.
HR transformation expert, works with teams at Experian, BT Group, Netflix and JTI. Agile HR Community has trained and certified more than 2,000 HR professionals globally.
Riina will give 10 practical principles for moving AI from pilots into everyday HR.
15+ years rethinking how work and training get done, including 6 years at SHRM leading partnerships. Helps HR leaders turn AI from concept into measurable business value.
James will show cases on rolling out AI in HR without failures
Works across HR strategy, emerging tech, and venture investment. Has evaluated 2,000+ HR tech startups, invested in 23 companies and 7 funds, and seen 4 portfolio exits.
Will uncover why HR is behind in AI adoption and how to close the gap
Over 25 years of L&D experience across construction, real estate, legal, and financial services. Built 3 learning functions from scratch and led global learning strategy for 4,500 employees.
Will share practical lessons from AI experiments and missteps in L&D
With 20 years in L&D and organizational change, Paul now designs AI adoption programs and builds the software behind them, and he has made most of the mistakes along the way.
Automate onboarding, meetings, and the daily routine, and wire your tools together. Get the templates and a rule for where the model stops. You can build it even if MCP means nothing to you today.
Get the practices and workflows that have already made course production several times faster and reduced the workload across other L&D processes by putting AI tools where they fit.
See what to do before the project starts, how to define success and demonstrate it to leadership, how long the project will take to pay for itself, and what to ask when choosing a vendor for the job.
See the mistakes that cause AI to leak applicant data, delete your work, or mislead employees, and the safeguards that keep any of it from reaching you.
Workflows you can bring to your team this quarter
A checklist with first steps in implementing AI into processes
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HR leader, author of The Power of HR and host of Joey’s HR Lounge podcast. Supports companies without in-house HR teams and publishes independent HR tech research. Named one of HR Executive’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencers in 2025.
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