Stop by our registration desk and pick up your conference badge, ask any questions you have about the day, and just say hello – we’ll be here all day to help!

Conference Chair Jenny DeVaughn starts off the day with a brief welcome and overview of what to expect from the day’s sessions.

Steve Cadigan has spent the last 18 years leading HR and recruiting for globally renowned tech brands, but he’s never been closer to the heart of recruiting innovation than during his time at LinkedIn. And the environment is fast and furious: LinkedIn quadrupled its employee count in the last two years and opened 14 new offices around the world. Steve’s team has driven that expansion. How do you continue to innovate while you’re moving at light speed?

Steve’s solution, you’ll find, is a no-nonsense approach that delivers real business value. He’ll share how his team is finding fresh solutions to familiar problems as well as leveraging never-before available Big Data to continue elevating Talent Acquisition as a strategic partner to the business.

Externally, the recruiting community remains one of LinkedIn’s most important audiences. Steve will share what it’s like to be ‘beta customer #1’ for all new LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions products, from sourcing to talent analytics to employment branding.

How do you drive operational excellence and process improvement throughout your recruitment organization globally without engendering resistance from business leaders?

The transformational journey to bring your recruitment ecosystem into a cohesively integrated operational strategy begins with familiar territories you’d rather have in your rear view mirror, but culminates in a framework that is adoptable across boundaries, globally.

Join Brad Cook, Global Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Informatica, as he reveals in this instructive session:

• How massive volumes of openly available data can be customized to enhance strategic decision making in your recruitment ecosystem.


• Project objectives that engage key stakeholders in critical operations.


• How to apply technology in new, innovative and yet, unintended ways like his unique, award-winning, strategic architecture combining competitive intelligence mapping with knowledge management systems.


• How to relate data in a meaningful way – like number of leads generated to real candidate conversion rates.


• Understanding process mapping and its impact in enabling your end goal of a truly efficient and effective global organization


• Practical realities SEO, social media and employment branding’s role in finding and attracting talent

Grab a coffee or tea while sharing your takeaways from the earlier sessions with fellow attendees.

Three panelists from recruiting technology providers join chairperson Jenny DeVaughn to talk about how they gather input or inspiration for new products, where they are taking existing products, how they fall short and what’s next in the world of higher demands and faster change.

A perfect chance to meet new friends and learn what challenges are facing your fellow attendees – all while grabbing a quick bite to eat and enjoying the break.

NPR is a thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation. In this presentation, Lars Schmidt will discuss how he’s re-imagining NPR’s talent acquisition model by building a strong employment brand leveraging social media, brand advocates, and a rapid experimentation approach. He’ll be sharing examples and metrics about what’s worked, what hasn’t, and how to build internal champions and support within your organization with limited budget and resources.

Grab a coffee or tea while sharing your takeaways from the earlier sessions with fellow attendees.

The first ever Startup Competition at the Recruiting Innovation Summit is being moderated by Master Burnett, Director of Strategy at BraveNewTalent, and will feature 4-6 startups demonstrating the next generation of recruiting products for the chance to win the $10,000 grand prize.

Startup Competition moderator Master Burnett announces the winner of the Recruiting Innovation Summit Startup Competition and Conference Chair Jenny DeVaughn wraps up our first day.

The fun doesn’t stop just because the conference chair has adjourned the event for the day – Join us for beer, wine and lots of appetizers at a location nearby right after the event. It promises to be the perfect way to cap off a tremendous day of learning and look forward to the next day’s sessions!

Stop by our registration desk and pick up your conference badge, ask any questions you have about the day, and just say hello – we’ll be here all day to help!

Conference Chair Jenny DeVaughn starts off the second day of RIS with a brief welcome and overview of what to expect from the day’s sessions.

We live in the information age – a time of search engines, social networks, and an endless supply of digital distractions. For those of us in the recruiting game, it’s also a time of impractical clients, constantly moving targets, and an impossibly complex talent landscape. When every search is ridiculously difficult and each day brings new challenges, there’s one thing that will set you apart from the competition and ensure you consistently find a way to deliver. What? Join us for this session and find out for yourself.

Last chance to share and learn from fellow attendees while grabbing a coffee or tea before the last sessions of the day.

Employers are more dogmatic than ever about wanting to hire nothing but “A” players. So the hunt is constantly on for candidates with great pedigrees and unbroken records of success in prior jobs. Yet as many as 40% of these all-stars end up failing in their new assignments. What’s missing? It’s time to take a fresh look at “soft skills” such as resilience, ingenuity, growth potential, creativity and the ability to accomplish a lot with skimpy resources. Drawing on examples from his new book, “The Rare Find,” George will show how world-class organizations have mastered ways to size up candidates along these dimensions. He will talk about how to evaluate jagged resumes and talent that whispers, in any job search. He also will share tactics that work in non-business settings – and show how they can be grafted into the corporate world.

Conference Chair Jenny DeVaughn recaps the learnings and best takeaways from today’s session before sending us all back to our desks to implement, implement, implement!