Turn AI from experiment into impact. Get practical strategies, tools, and workflows you can bring to your HR team.
Alexandra Gyetvai
Head of Operations | Superlinked
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.
Suzanne Lucas
Founder | Evil HR Lady
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.
John Leh
CEO and Lead Analyst at Talented Learning
Over 25 years helping organizations select and implement learning technology. Advised hundreds on $100+ million in LMS investments.
Will show how to make learning products essential to the ecosystems buyers are building.
James Baker
Head of Growth | Evolve
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
Hadeel Al-Tashi
Head of SHRM Labs
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.
Hadeel will share what L&D tech enterprises actually adopt in 2026
Deborah Castillo
L&D Manager | Oliva Gibbs, PLLC
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
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.
Join our networking break during the conference and spend 15 minutes with HR and L&D people who understand your role and find out what they actually have running with AI.
3 rooms to discuss your own cases and questions: share your AI horror and success stories, recommend AI tools you use every day, and just share human HR stories without all this AI thing
Discuss all your questions with the speakers who will join the networking as well
Meet people in similar roles and keep sharing ideas after the conference
Use the break to discuss and reflect on what you’ve just heard while it’s still fresh
Compare notes with other HR and L&D teams
Workflows you can bring to your team this quarter
A checklist with first steps in implementing AI into processes
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Prompts, skills and MCP setups shared by speakers
AI tools for HR and L&D and the tasks they cover
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3 rooms to talk through your own cases and questions:
Share your AI horror and success stories
Recommend the AI tools you use every day
Just share human HR stories, without all this AI stuff
11:55 AM ET
11:55 AM ET
AI Horror Stories
Suzanne Lucas, Founder, Evil HR Lady
12:25 PM ET
12:25 PM ET
New Terrain: What AI Is Actually Teaching Us in L&D
Deborah Castillo, Learning & Development Manager, Oliva Gibbs PLLC
12:55 PM ET
12:55 PM ET
Topic To Be Announced
Hadeel Al-Tashi, Head of SHRM Labs
1:25 PM ET
1:25 PM ET
From platforms to ecosystems
John Leh, CEO and Lead Analyst, Talented Learning
1:55 PM ET
1:55 PM ET
Closing
Live online September 24
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Join us on September 24 for practical sessions on how HR teams are using AI, which tools are worth adopting, and how to move from experiments to real impact.