Registration & Continental Breakfast

Talent is Capital

AI has raised both the return on a great hire and the cost of a miss, which makes talent the asset companies are actually underwritten on: how you attract it, where it's deployed, and how it compounds. Followed by a fireside with a special guest.

Building and Scaling World-Class Engineering & Product Orgs in the AI Era

Engineering headcount stopped being the measure of an engineering organization. The teams pulling ahead are smaller, more senior, and structured around work that agents now share. A sitting CTO on what changed in the last eighteen months: the bar for hiring, the shape of the org chart, what a strong senior engineer looks like when the leverage is different, and which parts of the old playbook still hold.

The Exchange

Meet the operators, explore partner activations, and connect with the leaders shaping the future of talent.

The Future of Talent Leadership: Craft, Credibility, and Culture

The Future of Talent Leadership: Craft, Credibility, and Culture The work of talent leadership runs across the whole arc now: how people are hired, how they grow, how they're enabled to do the work. The partnership between heads of people and recruiting leaders is getting deeper. What craft still matters as the tooling changes, how the function earns standing with Founders, CEOs and boards, and what culture talent leaders are responsible for driving as AI reshapes the roles underneath them.

Recruiting Talent Dense Teams in the AI Era

Small teams are outperforming large ones, and the gap is widening. The constraint is no longer how many people you can hire but how high a bar you can hold (or raise) while still moving. What that bar looks like in practice, how assessment changes when every hire carries more weight, and what it takes to keep density from eroding as the company grows.

Lunch

The New Talent Playbook for AI Companies

What changes when a company is AI-native from the first hire. Which roles arrive earlier, which functions compress, how to spot the people carrying disproportionate leverage, and where founders are still over-hiring against a playbook written for a different era.

The Exchange

Meet the operators, explore partner activations, and connect with the leaders shaping the future of talent.

From Zero to One: Designing Your Founding Team for Scale

How do great companies get their first hires right? This session unpacks how top founders and recruiting leaders think about founding team composition, including the balance between product, engineering, and GTM leadership. Learn how to evaluate founder-market fit, identify “franchise” early hires, and structure incentives to align for long-term scale. Great recruiting operations professionals are not just notetakers, generating reports and clicking configuration options in an ATS—they are trusted advisors to recruiting and across many stakeholders. Being a trusted advisor means that you are seen as a valuable resource and a strategic partner who provides sound guidance and advice. Yet earning that trust requires a set of many skills. This session is designed to highlight those skills.

Building the AI-Native Organization

How leaders are redesigning teams, roles, and operating models as AI changes the way companies work.

Closing Keynote

Cocktail Reception

Talent Leaders Dinner

Talent Leaders Dinner Connect with fellow attendees, featured speakers, and SF-area talent leaders over dinner and conversation. Sponsored by our friends at Juicebox RSVP Required