Agenda

8:00
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00
Hiring Success 9:00 - 9:30 Hiring IS Success

Organizations are collections of people. Those that employ top talent, celebrate diversity, and direct them towards a common goal, win. Having created 3 organizations and dedicated his life to this purpose, Jerome will share his vision for Hiring Success.

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Hiring Success 9:00 - 9:30 Hiring IS Success

Organizations are collections of people. Those that employ top talent, celebrate diversity, and direct them towards a common goal, win. Having created 3 organizations and dedicated his life to this purpose, Jerome will share his vision for Hiring Success.

Jerome Ternynck
Jerome Ternynck CEO SmartRecruiters
10:00
Innovation 10:00 - 10:30 Welcome to the Hackathon

Welcome to the journey on how Facebook build it’s AR/VR teams in Zurich. We will dive into a thrilling hiring process by gamifying it. We’ll electro-magically get €100k of play money to send the top three hackers to the final interview round on day 2.

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Innovation 10:00 - 10:30 Welcome to the Hackathon

Welcome to the journey on how Facebook build it’s AR/VR teams in Zurich. We will dive into a thrilling hiring process by gamifying it. We’ll electro-magically get €100k of play money to send the top three hackers to the final interview round on day 2.

Leslie Kivit
Leslie Kivit Talent Acquisition Lead Oculus
10:30
Innovation 10:30 - 11:00 Networking Break
Innovation 10:30 - 11:00 Networking Break
11:00
Hiring Success 11:00 - 11:30 How to Supercharge Your Employer Brand

Heineken created a brand that resonates with consumers and job applicants in every corner of the globe. It’s easy to attribute their success to budget, but that’s just half the story. This session will reveal the inner mechanics of a campaign that took their brand to another level. We’ll learn how to create an authentic story, how to launch an internal marketing campaign that empowers every employee to share the story, and how to tie it to the business model to hit the bull’s eye.

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Hiring Success 11:00 - 11:30 How to Supercharge Your Employer Brand

Heineken created a brand that resonates with consumers and job applicants in every corner of the globe. It’s easy to attribute their success to budget, but that’s just half the story. This session will reveal the inner mechanics of a campaign that took their brand to another level. We’ll learn how to create an authentic story, how to launch an internal marketing campaign that empowers every employee to share the story, and how to tie it to the business model to hit the bull’s eye.

Ben Clark
Ben Clark Global Head of Talent Acquisition Heineken

Prachi Gore
Prachi Gore VP Marketing SmartRecruiters

Hiring Success 11:00 - 11:30 How to Inspire a Remote Workforce

Globalization is great! It levels the playing field and it brings talent from all over the world towards a common goal. But do the employees in country #57 still feel included and connected to the company HQ? Probably not. This session will reveal best practices from 50 enterprises to help you gain the tools to inspire your remote workforce.

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Hiring Success 11:00 - 11:30 How to Inspire a Remote Workforce

Globalization is great! It levels the playing field and it brings talent from all over the world towards a common goal. But do the employees in country #57 still feel included and connected to the company HQ? Probably not. This session will reveal best practices from 50 enterprises to help you gain the tools to inspire your remote workforce.

Tommy Thomassen
Tommy Thomassen Lead Recruitment Operations and Analytics bol.com
Hiring Success 11:00 - 11:30 10 Principles Behind A Great Candidate Experience

The average hiring process has more than 80 steps. 80 ways for you to mess up or 80 ways for you to craft an amazing experience for candidates and hiring managers alike. With the 10 principles, you and your team will be able to make simple changes to your process that will delight your stakeholders and transform your hiring process. Bring a note pad and an open mind and prepare to be inspired!

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Hiring Success 11:00 - 11:30 10 Principles Behind A Great Candidate Experience

The average hiring process has more than 80 steps. 80 ways for you to mess up or 80 ways for you to craft an amazing experience for candidates and hiring managers alike. With the 10 principles, you and your team will be able to make simple changes to your process that will delight your stakeholders and transform your hiring process. Bring a note pad and an open mind and prepare to be inspired!

Johnny Campbell
11:30
Inclusion 11:30 - 12:00 Achieving Meritocracy

Ever had the opportunity to hire someone great only to realize that your office is not even accessible to them? Jolie tried to hire candidates who where physically disabled, a brilliant hire who happened to have had a gender change, and autistic QA testers. But at each turn, she faced a different roadblock block that killed the hire. We will relive these scenes this time with experts from each community who will share what to do in order to open our offices and enable meritocracy.

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Inclusion 11:30 - 12:00 Achieving Meritocracy

Ever had the opportunity to hire someone great only to realize that your office is not even accessible to them? Jolie tried to hire candidates who where physically disabled, a brilliant hire who happened to have had a gender change, and autistic QA testers. But at each turn, she faced a different roadblock block that killed the hire. We will relive these scenes this time with experts from each community who will share what to do in order to open our offices and enable meritocracy.

Jolie den Boer
Jolie den Boer AVP Recruitment CE & Africa Cognizant

Sara-Jane Harvey

Joanne Lockwood

Josh Klipp

Inclusion 11:30 - 12:00 The Open Hiring Revolution

Who’s in the best position to know if they can do the job? The job seeker. Here’s a radical idea: What if you flipped the model and let candidates self-qualify in to a job? This approach is taken by the Open Hiring Model with €130m in backing from The Start Foundation. There is a world of knowledge to be learned and financial backing to be gained by this radical approach to hiring.

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Inclusion 11:30 - 12:00 The Open Hiring Revolution

Who’s in the best position to know if they can do the job? The job seeker. Here’s a radical idea: What if you flipped the model and let candidates self-qualify in to a job? This approach is taken by the Open Hiring Model with €130m in backing from The Start Foundation. There is a world of knowledge to be learned and financial backing to be gained by this radical approach to hiring.

Ingeborg Zwolsman
12:00
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00
Innovation 13:00 - 13:30 Lets Debate the Future of Work

They ran global TA and HR orgs, are entrepreneurs, and may have crystal balls that read into the future. Hung Lee will kick off a debate of heavyweights on the gig economy, the automation of recruiting, and on workforce planning. This Oxford Union debate style leaves no room for middle ground, because debaters have to pick a side, even if it doesn’t represent the entirety of their opinion, and fight for it.

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Innovation 13:00 - 13:30 Lets Debate the Future of Work

They ran global TA and HR orgs, are entrepreneurs, and may have crystal balls that read into the future. Hung Lee will kick off a debate of heavyweights on the gig economy, the automation of recruiting, and on workforce planning. This Oxford Union debate style leaves no room for middle ground, because debaters have to pick a side, even if it doesn’t represent the entirety of their opinion, and fight for it.

Karen Rivoire
Karen Rivoire Competence Flow Leader IKEA

Kevin Wheeler
Kevin Wheeler President Global Learning Resources

Hung Lee
Hung Lee Co-founder & CEO Workshape.io

Innovation 13:00 - 13:30 Intelligence Group, Cubiks, Codility – Partner Sessions

Intelligence Group Pop Quiz: Test Your TA Intelligence
Had I known then what I know now, I’d have done things differently””, said almost everyone at some point in their lives. This TA quiz compiles top 10 questions that bring the eye popping insights from the Intelligence Group. From managing candidate experience based on country and culture to SMART and fully automating jobs, this entertaining session will inspire and test your knowledge.

Cubiks – Future of talent assessments in 2020 and beyond
By joining this session, find out about the 3 pillars of future talent assessment: future of work, the user experience and the candidate experience. With the expertise and insights from one of our experts, you will get a clearer view of what to expect in 2020 and beyond.

Codility – Tech hiring in 2020: 4 months left to prepare
Join an interactive workshop with Codility where we will dig into the key changes coming to tech hiring in 2020, and help you prioritize what you need to do in the next 90 days to help you hit your technical hiring goals for next year.

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Innovation 13:00 - 13:30 Intelligence Group, Cubiks, Codility – Partner Sessions

Intelligence Group Pop Quiz: Test Your TA Intelligence
Had I known then what I know now, I’d have done things differently””, said almost everyone at some point in their lives. This TA quiz compiles top 10 questions that bring the eye popping insights from the Intelligence Group. From managing candidate experience based on country and culture to SMART and fully automating jobs, this entertaining session will inspire and test your knowledge.

Cubiks – Future of talent assessments in 2020 and beyond
By joining this session, find out about the 3 pillars of future talent assessment: future of work, the user experience and the candidate experience. With the expertise and insights from one of our experts, you will get a clearer view of what to expect in 2020 and beyond.

Codility – Tech hiring in 2020: 4 months left to prepare
Join an interactive workshop with Codility where we will dig into the key changes coming to tech hiring in 2020, and help you prioritize what you need to do in the next 90 days to help you hit your technical hiring goals for next year.

Geert-Jan Waasdorp

Thomas Eymond-Daru

Mostafa Nasr

13:30
Innovation 13:30 - 14:00 Diversity Sourcing Strategies

Few TA organizations are savvy enough to source diverse talent. When we surveyed SmartRecruiters’ customers, improving diversity sourcing ranked was the no. 1 ask. In this session moderated by Joanne Lockwood, two world class sourcers, Johnny Campbell and Marcel van der Meer will live demo how to source diverse C-level execs and diverse tech talent. Beyond learning about new channels and avenues, our sourcing ninjas will share key steps to take your diversity sourcing to the next level.

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Innovation 13:30 - 14:00 Diversity Sourcing Strategies

Few TA organizations are savvy enough to source diverse talent. When we surveyed SmartRecruiters’ customers, improving diversity sourcing ranked was the no. 1 ask. In this session moderated by Joanne Lockwood, two world class sourcers, Johnny Campbell and Marcel van der Meer will live demo how to source diverse C-level execs and diverse tech talent. Beyond learning about new channels and avenues, our sourcing ninjas will share key steps to take your diversity sourcing to the next level.

Johnny Campbell
Innovation 13:30 - 14:00 Storytelling: Lessons from Stand Up

Branding is all about telling real stories in a way that connects with the audience. Bill Boorman has been entertaining folks in pubs around the UK for the last 12 months. Known by the locals as the Recruitment Racconteur, he will share the lessons he learned in storytelling and live presentation.

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Innovation 13:30 - 14:00 Storytelling: Lessons from Stand Up

Branding is all about telling real stories in a way that connects with the audience. Bill Boorman has been entertaining folks in pubs around the UK for the last 12 months. Known by the locals as the Recruitment Racconteur, he will share the lessons he learned in storytelling and live presentation.

Bill Boorman
Bill Boorman Founder #TRU
Innovation 13:30 - 14:00 Intelligence Group, Cubiks, Codility – Partner Sessions (cont.)

Intelligence Group Pop Quiz: Test Your TA Intelligence
Had I known then what I know now, I’d have done things differently””, said almost everyone at some point in their lives. This TA quiz compiles top 10 questions that bring the eye popping insights from the Intelligence Group. From managing candidate experience based on country and culture to SMART and fully automating jobs, this entertaining session will inspire and test your knowledge.

Cubiks – Future of talent assessments in 2020 and beyond
By joining this session, find out about the 3 pillars of future talent assessment: future of work, the user experience and the candidate experience. With the expertise and insights from one of our experts, you will get a clearer view of what to expect in 2020 and beyond.

Codility – Tech hiring in 2020: 4 months left to prepare
Join an interactive workshop with Codility where we will dig into the key changes coming to tech hiring in 2020, and help you prioritize what you need to do in the next 90 days to help you hit your technical hiring goals for next year.

Read more >
Innovation 13:30 - 14:00 Intelligence Group, Cubiks, Codility – Partner Sessions (cont.)

Intelligence Group Pop Quiz: Test Your TA Intelligence
Had I known then what I know now, I’d have done things differently””, said almost everyone at some point in their lives. This TA quiz compiles top 10 questions that bring the eye popping insights from the Intelligence Group. From managing candidate experience based on country and culture to SMART and fully automating jobs, this entertaining session will inspire and test your knowledge.

Cubiks – Future of talent assessments in 2020 and beyond
By joining this session, find out about the 3 pillars of future talent assessment: future of work, the user experience and the candidate experience. With the expertise and insights from one of our experts, you will get a clearer view of what to expect in 2020 and beyond.

Codility – Tech hiring in 2020: 4 months left to prepare
Join an interactive workshop with Codility where we will dig into the key changes coming to tech hiring in 2020, and help you prioritize what you need to do in the next 90 days to help you hit your technical hiring goals for next year.

Geert-Jan Waasdorp

Thomas Eymond-Daru

Mostafa Nasr

14:00
Innovation 14:00 - 14:30 Networking Break
Innovation 14:00 - 14:30 Networking Break
14:30
Hiring Success 14:30 - 15:00 Getting Smarter About Your Contingent Workforce

How do you balance employment flexibility with stability? Why do companies still have a different hiring teams that are responsible for full-time vs contract hires? What will your hiring mix look like in 10 years? Get these questions right and you’ll see your stock soar. Get them wrong, and you’ll spend your time playing catch up. This session will bring much needed perspective from a company that transformed itself inside out and figured out this hiring mix.

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Hiring Success 14:30 - 15:00 Getting Smarter About Your Contingent Workforce

How do you balance employment flexibility with stability? Why do companies still have a different hiring teams that are responsible for full-time vs contract hires? What will your hiring mix look like in 10 years? Get these questions right and you’ll see your stock soar. Get them wrong, and you’ll spend your time playing catch up. This session will bring much needed perspective from a company that transformed itself inside out and figured out this hiring mix.

Thomas Waldman
Thomas Waldman Global Head of Talent Acquisition TomTom
Hiring Success 14:30 - 15:00 Hiring Success Roundtables

Roundtable discussions on recruiting strategies, sourcing strategies, in-house executive search, and the power of video.

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Hiring Success 14:30 - 15:00 Hiring Success Roundtables

Roundtable discussions on recruiting strategies, sourcing strategies, in-house executive search, and the power of video.

Rob Van Elburg
Rob Van Elburg Global Executive Search GrandVision

Véronique Bourée
Véronique Bourée Senior Lead Benelux Talent Solutions LinkedIn

Gordon Lokenberg
Gordon Lokenberg Talent Sourcing Specialist Boolean Results

Kim Lokenberg
Kim Lokenberg Founder Boolean Results

Rogier Wolff
Rogier Wolff Tech Recruiter Forescout Technologies

Mohammed Chaaibi
Mohammed Chaaibi Sr. Recruiter: Finance, Product, Data Science Gemeente Amsterdam

Matt Charney
Matt Charney Chief Content Officer Allegis Global Solutions

Greg Barber
Greg Barber Managing Director, RPO EMEA Allegis Global Solutions

Sondra Dryer
Sondra Dryer Global Head of Brand & Experience Alexander Mann Solutions

Keira Pintao
Keira Pintao Senior Employer Brand Strategist Alexander Mann Solutions

Hiring Success 14:30 - 15:00 The Impressions We Leave on Candidates

Some stores feel welcoming when you walk into them, others make you feel eerie and uncomfortable. It’s the exact same for candidates when they encounter your brand and your employees. This participatory session will surface the keys to success learned from major global enterprises to make your candidate exprience more welcoming. You will walk away with insights for adjustments that can have a huge impact on your candidate pipeline and attitude towards your organization.

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Hiring Success 14:30 - 15:00 The Impressions We Leave on Candidates

Some stores feel welcoming when you walk into them, others make you feel eerie and uncomfortable. It’s the exact same for candidates when they encounter your brand and your employees. This participatory session will surface the keys to success learned from major global enterprises to make your candidate exprience more welcoming. You will walk away with insights for adjustments that can have a huge impact on your candidate pipeline and attitude towards your organization.

Michael Falkner
Michael Falkner Global Head of Talent Acquisition Ramboll
15:00
Inclusion 15:00 - 15:30 OMG! Our CEO wants to hire a refugee!?

If you want to boost your company culture, productivity, and seriously impact lives and your society, this session is for you. Welcome to a practical guide on how to hire refugees. Enjoy success stories that show the inspirational impact it has on your company. This unique combination of speakers created programs at multinationals, work in the government, and have collectively hired hundreds of refugees in high skilled jobs.

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Inclusion 15:00 - 15:30 OMG! Our CEO wants to hire a refugee!?

If you want to boost your company culture, productivity, and seriously impact lives and your society, this session is for you. Welcome to a practical guide on how to hire refugees. Enjoy success stories that show the inspirational impact it has on your company. This unique combination of speakers created programs at multinationals, work in the government, and have collectively hired hundreds of refugees in high skilled jobs.

Pieter Eyck
Pieter Eyck Head of Talent Acquisition Benelux Cap Gemini

Anne Adé Lopulissa
Anne Adé Lopulissa Advisor and Mediator Randstad

Eugene van den Hemel
Eugene van den Hemel Owner Heavenly Thoughts

Hiring Success 15:00 - 15:30 Making Space for Miracles to Happen

20% of our population has a disability, and this group is only growing. Whether it’s an accident, illness, or old age, sooner or later, everyone will have to deal with it. So lets be pro-active. Growing up in an orphanage in Jakarta and transitioning from hearing to becoming deaf, Eva learned to navigate our ‘normal’ world while operating from one with silent walls. This session will share Eva’s experience in analyzing, strategizing, implementing, and monitoring accessibility programs so you can make your organization more inclusive to those who’ve worked 10x harder to get there.

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Hiring Success 15:00 - 15:30 Making Space for Miracles to Happen

20% of our population has a disability, and this group is only growing. Whether it’s an accident, illness, or old age, sooner or later, everyone will have to deal with it. So lets be pro-active. Growing up in an orphanage in Jakarta and transitioning from hearing to becoming deaf, Eva learned to navigate our ‘normal’ world while operating from one with silent walls. This session will share Eva’s experience in analyzing, strategizing, implementing, and monitoring accessibility programs so you can make your organization more inclusive to those who’ve worked 10x harder to get there.

Eva Westerhoff
Eva Westerhoff Corporate Social Responsibility Lead ING Bank
Inclusion 15:00 - 15:30 Inclusion Roundtables

Roundtable discussions on Re-entry of Parents Back to Work, Empowering Effective Trans Allies, and Building an Inclusive Company Culture.

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Inclusion 15:00 - 15:30 Inclusion Roundtables

Roundtable discussions on Re-entry of Parents Back to Work, Empowering Effective Trans Allies, and Building an Inclusive Company Culture.

Ella Frankland
Ella Frankland Senior Manager, Recruiting EMEA Optimizely

Joanne Lockwood

Sarah Cordivano
Sarah Cordivano Diversity and Inclusion Lead Zalando

Riku Malkki
Riku Malkki CEO RecRight

Chris Murphy

15:30
Innovation 15:30 - 16:00 Networking Break
Innovation 15:30 - 16:00 Networking Break
16:00
Hiring Success 16:00 - 16:30 Attaining Hiring Success

Hiring Success is a methodology that elevates recruiting from a reactive cost center to a function that continuously improves quality of hire, speed of hire, and forecasting accuracy. Deploy it correctly, and you’ll not only improve the culture of your organization but also gain a strategic seat with the board. This session breaks down this methodology into its component pieces so it can become applicable to any organization.

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Hiring Success 16:00 - 16:30 Attaining Hiring Success

Hiring Success is a methodology that elevates recruiting from a reactive cost center to a function that continuously improves quality of hire, speed of hire, and forecasting accuracy. Deploy it correctly, and you’ll not only improve the culture of your organization but also gain a strategic seat with the board. This session breaks down this methodology into its component pieces so it can become applicable to any organization.

Rebecca Carr
Rebecca Carr SVP, Hiring Success SmartRecruiters
Innovation 16:00 - 16:30 Wow-factor Boosters of Hiring Success

How do startups do it?! Welcome to the world of cool and quirky benefits that instantly make your company more attractive. To many, it’s the secret of smiles, hires, and retention. This is an interactive workshop where we’ll gain the collective wisdom of 60 peers (seat capacity) on the most effective wows that they’ve ever seen.

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Innovation 16:00 - 16:30 Wow-factor Boosters of Hiring Success

How do startups do it?! Welcome to the world of cool and quirky benefits that instantly make your company more attractive. To many, it’s the secret of smiles, hires, and retention. This is an interactive workshop where we’ll gain the collective wisdom of 60 peers (seat capacity) on the most effective wows that they’ve ever seen.

Ingeborg van Harten
Ingeborg van Harten Head of HR Mollie
16:30
Hiring Success 16:30 - 17:00 Make Your Organization a Microcosm of the World

One of the best kept secrets in recruiting is the extra-ordinary output of neurodiverse people. Many of us are neuro-diverse but we just don’t know it. Agony Autie, a world class activist for neurodiversity rocked the stage at Hiring Success Americas and is back to expose truths about how making our offices accessible for autistic people will hugely benefit everybody at your company and transform the world economy.

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Hiring Success 16:30 - 17:00 Make Your Organization a Microcosm of the World

One of the best kept secrets in recruiting is the extra-ordinary output of neurodiverse people. Many of us are neuro-diverse but we just don’t know it. Agony Autie, a world class activist for neurodiversity rocked the stage at Hiring Success Americas and is back to expose truths about how making our offices accessible for autistic people will hugely benefit everybody at your company and transform the world economy.

Sara-Jane Harvey
18:00
18:00 - 22:00 Party – Sponsored by Xref
18:00 - 22:00 Party – Sponsored by Xref